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Sober Cast: An (unofficial) Alcoholics Anonymous Podcast AA

ESH: Jim P - He spent a bit of time on a chain gang!

Sober Cast: An (unofficial) Alcoholics Anonymous Podcast AA

AA Podcast

Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.62.2K Ratings

🗓️ 13 November 2020

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Jim P tells his story, that includes being part of a chain gang in the 70's, at the 2nd Annual Jaywalkers Camp out held in Orlando Florida in Feb of 2013. Repost from 2020. Results of the Forum question tomorrow :) If you have any AA or Al-Anon event coming up let me know I am happy to help get the word out. https://scast.us/events Email: sobercast@gmail.com Support Sober Cast: https://sobercast.com/donate 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 2400+ 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 Soebokast, where we provide AA speaker meetings and workshops

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We hope you enjoy the podcast.

0:23.7

Have a great day.

0:24.7

Jay Walker's group have a camp out 110 degrees.

0:32.2

I think your name for your group is pretty good.

0:35.0

Jaywalkers. But those of you know me know that I did a lot of burning in my life anyway.

0:41.0

I'm an alcoholic, my name's Jim Bich. I got sober on February 18th

0:46.2

2002 Central is my home group and it's a real honor to be asked to speak.

0:53.0

I don't care where it is or when it is.

0:56.0

When alcohol synonymous ask me something, I say yes because you all saved my life.

1:01.0

This is kind of cool because I can see the fire and I can't see anybody

1:04.7

out there. So I don't know if there's one or 50 and I got a full moon coming up. I think

1:11.0

this is great. I need more talks like this. I'm going to tell you a little bit about myself.

1:18.0

The book says that we generally talk about what we're like, what happened, what we're like now. I've got kind of a three-part

1:26.4

scenario on what it was like. But the biggest part is that today I've got a God in my life that I never had.

1:37.0

And every day that God gets stronger and gets better and helps me get through more things than I ever dreamed I would ever get through.

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I came from a military family, an Air Force family. My dad was what I consider a hero.

1:52.0

He said he was just doing his job. But he flew the first B17 over Berlin and

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