ESH: Gary F from San Diego

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🗓️ 13 April 2023

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Gary F is a contractor from from San Diego California telling his story at an unknown group somewhere in Southern California in November of 2018. I also have a little help request today for a bit of "old" tech, I'm looking for a cassette player. I have 100's of AA speakers on cassette that folks have sent me and I need a little assistance in converting them. Rather than fill up this space with the specifics please visit this link if you think you might be able to help. https://scast.us/help Email: sobercast@gmail.com Support Sober Cast: https://sobercast.com/donate AA Event: Friends in Recovery Roundup Rally held in Durban South Africa on April 28-29 Details: This event is live and on Zoom. Our group started on Zoom during Covid and this will be our 1st in person event. So we are very excited. https://scast.us/fir 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 in 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
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0:22.4	We hope you enjoyed the podcast, have a great day.
0:24.6	Well, good evening, my name is Gary and I'm an alcoholic.
0:32.2	My throat's a little raw, my nose is a paid everybody to get here today.
0:38.2	Speak up, this is my voice.
0:42.4	Is that better?
0:43.4	I actually have turned into a little softer voice because being a general contractor and
0:49.1	yelling and screaming at men all day long, my voice gets sore and I don't want to be
0:54.4	that kind of a person when I'm talking to people that are trying to listen to a message
0:58.8	of recovery of some sort.
1:00.3	So if I don't talk loud enough, raise your hand and I'll speak up a little more.
1:07.9	But anyway, I'm just grateful for alcoholics and anonymous to give me a great second chance
1:11.8	on being somebody I should have been a long time ago and I didn't know how.
1:16.3	And you know, it's one of those things, if you're in a very first time or maybe your last
1:22.0	time, I don't know.
1:24.5	I know this, that this was the very first meeting I ever went to and I got co-hurst into
1:28.6	coming here and I did walk around with my hands in my pocket because I thought they wanted
1:32.8	some money or they were going to take something from me, so but I sat and listened to somebody
1:37.0	speak and you know, I related to what that person said and it made a big difference in my
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