ESH: Otto M (17 years)

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🗓️ 24 February 2024

⏱️ 98 minutes

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Summary

I had an email this week from someone looking to hear a speak by a guy named Otto (a Vietnam veteran), well as it turns out I have more than one Otto that spent some time there, so lets hope this the guy or you may have another Otto tomorrow. Otto M, sober in 1985 and from Plano Texas is telling his story at 19th. Annual Crested Butte Mountain Conference held in 2002. If you are in Central California in March and are in the mood for a Big Book workshop, I just added one to the event list taking place in Visalia in a couple of weeks. Next week there is one in Jacksonville Florida if you are on that end of the country. Details: https://scast.us/events If you have any AA or Al-Anon event coming up let me know I am happy to help get the word out. https://scast.us/events 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 2500+ 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 Soebecast, where we provide AA speaker meetings and workshops in
0:11.2	podcast format.
0:12.2	We're an ad-free podcast and if you enjoy listening,
0:15.0	please help us be self-supporting by visiting
0:17.0	sobercast.com, look for the donate link
0:20.0	and drop a dollar or two into our virtual basket.
0:22.0	We hope you enjoyed the podcast.
0:23.6	Have a great day.
0:24.6	My name's Otto and I'm an alcoholic.
0:29.6	It didn't used to be, I am an alcoholic. I want to say thanks for having me. It's been wonderful,
0:37.0	never in the world that I dream when I checked into that treatment center on July 1st, 1985,
0:42.0	that it was going to lead me to an all-expense paid week-long
0:45.0	vacation in Crest of U.
0:46.2	Yeah.
0:47.2	Yeah.
0:48.2	It wasn't on their list of things that you were going to get out of that treatment now. You know, my best thinking never got me anywhere
0:57.0	I wanted to go and this wasn't on my list of things to do. So once again, you know, my best thinking
1:01.2	is not going to get me where I really enjoy being.
1:03.8	I've had a delightful week in a beautiful place and with a bunch of beautiful people I've
1:09.4	enjoyed meeting you all.
1:11.4	And if I didn't get a chance to meet you, that's my regret and I'll try to come back and I hope you will too.
1:16.0	A special thanks to Jim and Oweeda for making it possible for me to be here. I know they did that, or I'm under the impression they did that.
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