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basket we hope you enjoyed the podcast have a great day hi everybody i'm caring and i'm an alcoholic

and it's truly through the grace of god and the power of alcoholic synonymous i've been sober since

may 30th 1982 and that does not make me a miracle,

makes Alkalaxonomous a miracle. If you're new here tonight, I want to welcome you to A.A.

And I always call it God's Magnificent AA, the problem that saved my life, and it's going to save

yours too, if you wanted to take a few quick actions. And I suggest strong as you get a sponsor,

that you get that book, Alc collectonomous, and you get busy. Everybody else is doing around here. You're going to stay sober. I stay sober for 24 years,

and people like me cannot stay sober, I can guarantee you. My home group is the Pacific group in West LA.

Group I'm very, very proud to be a member of just as I'm sure you're proud to be a member of yours.

And I guess if you're not proud, you ought to get a job and you might change your mind I certainly have a job mine and I'm proud to have that job I think my friend Bob for

invite me to come out tonight this is an honor and a privilege it's one that I do not take lightly

I'll guarantee you you guys I love alcohol exonymous I really do and I think that it shows and I make an

awful lot of mistakes that you know a lot of things know, I'll tell you one thing that I love you,

make no mistake about that.

You know, I've been talked to an awful lot of things

before I ever wrote my big mouth,

and one thing is to talk to my sponsor,

and in Clancy's injuries, love and good, I guess, wishes tonight,

and he said, anybody in this room is wondering why have a man for sponsors. It's really quite simple. I did not get sober in California. I got sober in a place called Lincoln, Nebraska, and was not doing well in Al-Claxonomous

in Nebraska. I went through 19 sponsors at a rapid clip, and I'm certainly not proud that as I stand here tonight,

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