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Sober Cast: An (unofficial) Alcoholics Anonymous Podcast AA

ESH: Charlie C

Sober Cast: An (unofficial) Alcoholics Anonymous Podcast AA

AA Podcast

Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.62.2K Ratings

🗓️ 19 July 2023

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Charlie C is from Camarillo California, he got sober in 1981 and he is telling his story at the Sunday Speakers meeting in Thousand Oaks California in March of 2022. Email: sobercast@gmail.com Support Sober Cast: https://sobercast.com/donate Next AA Event: If you are anywhere near San Luis Obispo California, the weekend of August 25th, the 56th Annual District 22 Convention is going on and it looks like a fun one.  It is a great place to spend a quick vacation weekend less than a 4 hour drive from Los Angeles and the San Francisco Bay Areas https://scast.us/d22 AA Event List: https://scast.us/events If you have an AA roundup, retreat, convention or workshop coming up, we would be happy to give you a shout out here on the podcast and list the event on the Sober Cast website. Visit the link above and look for "Submit Your Event" in the blue box. Sober Cast has 2300+ episodes available, visit SoberCast.com to access all the episodes where you can easily find topics or specific speakers using tags or search. https://sobercast.com

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to SilverCast where we provide AA speak meetings and workshops and podcast

0:11.8

format.

0:12.8

We're an ad free podcast and if you enjoy listening, please help us be self-supporting by visiting

0:17.1

SilverCast.com, look for the donate link and drop a dollar to into our virtual basket.

0:22.4

We hope you enjoyed the podcast, have a great day.

0:24.6

Hi, my name is Charlie, I'm an alcoholic and I want to thank Bob for inviting me here

0:32.5

and it's good to see so many friends and even with masks on.

0:36.4

If you know something really good, you know you know someone will and when you recognize

0:39.8

them with their mask on, then you know you're fine and Bob, I love Bob, I'm very Bob

0:47.1

asking to be.

0:48.1

He's a bright spot in my life and I really appreciate being invited by this, so thank

0:52.1

you.

0:53.1

And anyway, I used to be around the live alcoholics, you know, like really everything alcoholics

1:01.6

is really straight, welcome, George and Dexter, I'm glad you're here and I'll be fine

1:07.9

something here that keeps you here.

1:11.2

I'm so recently 11th of June of 1981, I have a sponsor named Bob Art and a list of

1:17.6

the Oxnard, California, he is 55 years so Burns still active has been all this sobriety

1:24.6

and my life has been, my life is nothing without the influences of sober people and the influences

1:35.0

they've had on and I've met a lot of people in those years and every one of them has had

1:39.9

some impact in my life and this helped me stay on the path one way or another, if you

1:44.6

do a good example or bad example, it doesn't really matter right now, it's just people's

1:49.7

examples of help and I love alcohol, alcohol gave me the satisfaction of a job well done

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