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🗓️ 20 May 2023

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Today we have Charlie R telling his story at the Birmingham Alabama Roundup held in April of 2012. This is very listenable but it starts sounding a little hollow toward the end... fyi. Email: sobercast@gmail.com Support Sober Cast: https://sobercast.com/donate Next Event: AALA Roundup - lgbtQIA+ at the Pacific Design Center in West Hollywood, May 26-28. With the theme of “Don’t take yourself too damn seriously” the AALA Roundup is the perfect opportunity to connect with others who share your experiences and journey towards a fulfilling sober life. https://scast.us/aala 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 2200+ 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.
0:27.5	My name is Charlie and I'm an alcoholic.
0:30.4	Please, and grateful that I was asked by Chrissy to speak at this event today.
0:38.0	As Teresa said, I haven't always been active in AA and I'll talk about that a little
0:42.5	bit later.
0:43.5	I'm just grateful that I'm back in the middle of it instead of out on the periphery.
0:52.1	I do have a sobriety date, November 19th of 1986.
0:57.3	I was 18 years old when I got sober.
0:59.3	I do have a sponsor that has not always been the case and I'll talk about that a little
1:04.8	bit later in importance of sponsorship.
1:07.7	And I do have a home group.
1:09.5	And my home group changed a number of years ago to the fellowship group in Huntsville,
1:13.7	Alabama.
1:14.7	And I'm very pleased and grateful to be a part of that group.
1:18.5	It does a tremendous amount of service and focuses on the primary purpose of AA of carrying
1:25.0	the message to this still suffering alcoholic and I'm really pleased to be a part of that.
1:31.5	You know, what I'm supposed to talk about is what it used to be like, what happened and
1:34.6	what it's like now.
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