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Welcome, welcome, welcome. My name is Chris B. Very grateful recovered alcoholic.

Honored to be here. honored to be here

that sounds like my knees

oh my god

I never

I never intended to get this old

I am honored to be here you know y' y'all hear every speaker. They say the same

thing. This has been a cool thing. We got a chance to come in a little early and got a chance to

spend some time with my brother from the podium, which was always fun for us to do. And I got to tell

you, it used to be back a gazillion years ago when we speak, it was, you could, a couple hundred dollars that'd get you anywhere. You know, you could travel around and the tickets and, of course, the expenses have just gotten so high. And I know anybody in this room that contributed and, you know, spent their hard-earned time and money to get us here. Thank you so much for doing it. It's been the honor who would ever have a chance

to come see this part of the world. What a great chance this was. And to eat that fish. That was

pretty good fish. I don't know. We're going to have a chance to pay you back in international

AA conferences in San Antonio. I live down there next year in July,

in the heat of the summer. And y'all can come down and have heat strokes on us. And this is

true. Whoever arranges the rain this weekend, I want to thank from the bottom of my heart,

because we just stood out there like this and said, God thing, it's just rain. You know,

we don't see it in Texas right now. We're in the middle of a big old drought, so this has just been a hoot to be here. Hospitality is great. Mark picked us up, and somebody else picked up ours. It doesn't matter, but I think he's taking us back to the airport in the morning, so I guess

it does matter. Thank you. Thank you. It's just an honor, guys. I don't know, great hospitality.

Y'all outdid yourself, and that's what this is about, I think. I got to give you my little 10-second

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