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basket we hope you enjoy the podcast have a great day my name is burns and i'm an alcoholic

i appreciate uh y'all asking me to come and let me clear up something before I start I'm a little nervous today

now I do I travel and do a lot of speaking I've cut back on it in the last five or six years

for a lot of reasons but I almost never get nervous but I'm a little nervous today and I was asking

myself as I was sitting there listening to y'all talk why I was a little bit nervous

and I realized this is the first time that I've ever spoken before a group that speaks a different language for me.

And so what I've done is I was going to ask Kevin to interpret for me, but I listened to him talk here. I don't

think that'll work. So I'm going to ask Bud to interpret for me because he still speaks my language.

Now, it's bad enough to be from the United States, but I'm from Kentucky. And that makes a huge

difference, even if you're in the United States, if you're from Kentucky.

And the only way I know that I'm close to home is when we say the Lord's Prayer at the end,

we finish at the same time.

And in many places, that's not true.

You've asked me to come and share with you my experience, strength, and hope.

And what I was like, what happened, and what I'm like today. That's an

evolution, as most of you know who are in recovery. If you hear me speak today, and I'm still staying

pure with the program by I call it's anonymous as I know it. You hear me a month from now, or six

months from now, or two years from now, there may be a different story.

The story will be the same about how I got here.

But the story about where I am today, at least in my experience, will evolve and will continue

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