ESH: Clyde D

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🗓️ 6 February 2023

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

It felt like a while since we have had a speaker from the past and I started looking through my archives and found this speak by a man named Clyde D. Clyde is from El Monte California and is telling his story at the NCCAA Fall Conference in Fresno California in October of 1969 (for a 1969 recording the audio quality is remarkable). Email: sobercast@gmail.com Support Sober Cast: https://sobercast.com/donate AA Event: The 45th Annual Sacramento Spring Fling is happening February 10-12. You can register at the door. Details: https://www.sacspringfling.org AA Event List: http://cduck.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 our Linktree and click "Submit An AA Event". Linktree: https://linktr.ee/sobercast Sober Cast has 2100+ 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 in podcast format.
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0:22.0	We hope you enjoyed the podcast. Have a great day.
0:27.0	Hi everybody. My name is Clayton and I'm a member of Alcoholics Anonymous.
0:33.0	And it's such a delight to be back with another in California gang again.
0:38.0	I've had the pleasure of pending quite a few of your conversations that I love.
0:43.0	And it's so good to see some old friends here too.
0:46.0	Pleasure to be here. I haven't seen her for ages.
0:50.0	I say I'm a member of Alcoholics Anonymous rather than just an alcoholic.
0:56.0	Or two reasons that I think are important.
1:01.0	Number one, to remind me of the responsibility declaration, I am responsible.
1:09.0	When anyone anywhere reaches out for help, I want the hand of AA always to be there.
1:17.0	And for that, I am responsible.
1:22.0	Also, just to be an alcoholic isn't too difficult.
1:27.0	I'm not very smart and I made it.
1:30.0	In fact, we have to practically prove we're nuts to joining this outfit.
1:37.0	And then we join and get active and do something a little crazy and people are horrified.
1:44.0	However, there are millions of alcoholics out there
1:49.0	that have never heard of alcoholics Anonymous.
1:53.0	I am among many who for first several years around Alcoholics Anonymous had no outside contact.
2:01.0	Almost everyone I knew was a member of Alcoholics Anonymous.
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