ESH: Johnnie H speaking in 1996

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🗓️ 14 June 2022

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Johnnie H tells his story in 1996 at an unknown event, he was quite a popular speaker back in his day, I have no information at all on where this was but it sounds like a larger audience so Im guessing a conference. For 1996 this is a very good recording. Email: sobercast@gmail.com Support Sober Cast: https://sobercast.com/donate We have added a page of meetings that have moved online https://sobercast.com/online-meetings Sober Cast has 1900+ episodes available, visit SoberCast.com to access all the episodes where you can easily find topics or specific speakers using tags or search.

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0:00.0	Hello, and welcome to SilverCast where we provide AA speak meetings and workshops in
0:11.3	podcast format.
0:12.3	We're an ad-free podcast, and if you enjoy listening, please help us be self-supporting by visiting
0:17.1	SilverCast.com, look for the donate link, and drop a dollar to into our virtual basket.
0:22.4	We hope you enjoyed the podcast, have a great day.
0:27.5	My name is Johnny, and I'm an alcoholic.
0:32.6	I'm really glad to be here tonight, and I'm glad to be sober tonight.
0:37.4	I've enjoyed just tremendously because of the people who I'm here with are very special
0:44.0	in my life, my old buddy Hank, and when he got out of my trucker, and Blue Anne, I haven't
0:51.0	seen her for a long time, and my grandbaby was going to talk to you tomorrow.
0:57.2	You haven't hauled the rest of the idea.
1:01.1	I just feel real good about this idea.
1:03.5	I feel tremendously pleased to be here sober, just to be sober, and you know, when I spend
1:12.4	time today thinking about being sober, I don't think about being not drunk or not hooked
1:19.4	on any kind of dope or not.
1:20.7	I don't think about that when I think about being sober.
1:25.0	I think about the way I live.
1:28.0	To me, that's what being sober is, the way I live, and I lived a certain way for a long
1:33.7	period of time.
1:34.7	I couldn't stay sober.
1:35.7	The way I live, I just couldn't stay.
1:37.9	My lifestyle wasn't conducive for being sober.
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