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basket we hope you enjoyed the podcast have a great day good evening my name's carl i'm an alcoholic

well that was he was rather kind i'm wondering whether that was twenty dollars worth or two

hundred dollars worth i'm not sure.

Anyway, it's a pleasure to be here, and I really would like to thank my friend Larry for having me here

and had a great dinner at a steakhouse where everybody was in the program at the whole

steakhouse. It was unbelievable. It had a dinner with Larry's friend Danny and Christian.

It was good to see Christian again. Anyway, this feels strange. Well, I'll tell you later why it feels

strange to be up here in a pulpit. Itings back childhood memories, actually.

All right.

The most important thing that I can tell you about myself is that I'm an alcoholic.

I could tell you about, you know, being a father, a son, an attempt at being a businessman, whatever other aspects of my life, I could tell you,

but there's nothing more important than the fact that I'm an alcoholic. It's the most prevalent

thing in my life. The reason I believe that I'm an alcoholic is really very simple. I've got a really bizarre relationship with alcohol.

That is why I believe I'm an alcoholic.

No other reason.

That's the only reason I believe I'm an alcoholic.

I've got a really strange relationship with alcohol.

And this strange relationship that I have with alcohol takes on a couple of forms.

The first part of my bizarre relationship with

alcohol happens when I drink it. A very strange thing happens when I drink booze. The book

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