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🗓️ 26 July 2025
⏱️ 43 minutes
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0:00.0 | Thank you. My name is Joel. |
0:04.0 | I'm sure you can butcher the last name a lot better. |
0:08.0 | I didn't even hear that. |
0:10.0 | When you're named after a doll and a chicken, you get to be kind of call for a child. |
0:18.0 | Thank you guys for having me. It's always a pleasure to go on anything. to be kind of callous of the child. |
0:22.7 | Thank you guys for having me. |
0:25.7 | It's always a pleasure to go on an A road trip, |
0:30.5 | especially go somewhere where there's a big group of infectiously happy people like you. |
0:33.9 | Looking back at me, I'm wearing ties and I'm dressed up. |
0:36.3 | I should have put on a suit or something tonight. But I'm here because Jim was kind |
0:41.1 | enough to drive all the way down to Baltimore a couple months ago and he gave a great talk |
0:45.0 | at our home group and I got to talking to him and he asked me if I wanted to come up. So thank |
0:49.5 | you to Jim. And I like that you guys have this you know they call this the sponsorship group |
0:55.7 | and seem to make that like an active part of the meeting to be continuing with that message |
0:59.7 | that's great I just so happen to be I have a sponsor who has a sponsor who has a sponsor |
1:06.1 | and I am the sponsor guys and the sponsor guys and so uh And so that puts me right in the middle of this thing. |
1:14.6 | And, you know, what I'll try to do for the next, I guess, 40 minutes is talk about basically two things. |
1:23.6 | You know, whenever I talk, whether it's for two minutes or for, you know, as long as someone will let me talk on a car ride or something like that, |
1:31.3 | or they're strained in my house, I try to talk at the same time, or at least in the same sitting, about what it's like or what my experience is like suffering from alcoholism and what my experience is like recovering from alcoholism. I think if I just do the former, then it's kind of cruel. |
1:47.0 | I just start around the mess. |
1:48.0 | If I just do the second thing, then nobody knows what the hell I'm talking about. |
1:52.0 | And we kind of have to qualify ourselves as I'm really going to be helpful to somebody who's still in that place |
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