ESH: John L (45 Years)

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🗓️ 8 November 2023

⏱️ 49 minutes

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John L from Woodstock Georgia tells his story at this meeting held in March of 2022, he was 45 years sober at the time of this speak. He was fated to become a catholic priest, but that, shall we say, got a little sidetracked. 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 Soto Cast where we provide AA speaker meetings and workshops in
0:11.3	podcast format.
0:13.0	We're an ad-free podcast, and if you enjoy listening,
0:15.2	please help us be self-supporting by visiting sobercast.com,
0:18.8	look for the donate link and drop a dollar or two
0:21.1	into our virtual basket.
0:22.4	We hope you enjoy the podcast.
0:23.7	Have a great day.
0:24.7	Good evening, everybody.
0:28.7	My name is John and I'm an alcoholic.
0:30.9	And by the grace of God, this fellowship of Alcoholics Anonymous,
0:39.0	the help of a lot of sponsors over the years,
0:43.4	and the help of a lot of good people like you.
0:48.0	I've been sober since September 7th, 1976 and I'm very grateful for that.
0:55.0	Sometimes dry as a fire hazard as they say.
1:00.0	But... a fire hazard as they say. But I when Tom asked me to speak I thought to myself I'm glad
1:10.1	it isn't the night of a football game.
1:13.0	Because one time not too long ago, a couple of years ago at Alpharetta, I spoke and hardly anyone showed up because it was the night of a playoff game of some sort and I said, well, I'm going to speak anyway. I think there were about 10 people there.
1:30.0	And, and I gave me a chance to tell them about how I feel about football because because I
1:40.3	used to I loved football I used to play the game and I used to watch it on TV all
1:51.2	day Saturday and then I'd watch it Sunday and I'd get the pro
1:57.7	plans so I could watch more than just two games on Sunday things things like this.
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