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Sober Cast: An (unofficial) Alcoholics Anonymous Podcast AA

ESH: Otto W - 46 years (A different Otto from yesterday)

Sober Cast: An (unofficial) Alcoholics Anonymous Podcast AA

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Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.62.2K Ratings

🗓️ 25 February 2024

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Yesterday we had a guy named Otto speaking and today we have a guy named Otto speaking, I listened to this while looking for the first guy and liked his speak...so its 2 Ottos in 2 days. Otto W  is from Richland Washington, he got sober in 1959 and is telling his very colorful story at the Inland Empire Roundup held in 2005. 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 enjoy the podcast.

0:23.7

Have a great day.

0:24.7

I'm Otto and I am an alcoholic.

0:29.1

I'm glad to be here with you, glad to be sober.

0:32.4

I want to start off by mentioning one thing and

0:37.0

we were looking forward to spending this weekend with Joyce and her husband.

0:44.3

And Joyce was your Al-Anon speaker,

0:48.0

to be your Al-Anon speaker.

0:49.7

And she was killed about three weeks ago by a drunk.

0:55.0

And so they won't be here.

1:01.0

So sometime during the weekend, send out a prayer to him because he's, I talked

1:09.3

to him this week, Clarence, and he's waiting for his wife to come home, you know.

1:14.0

So, anyhow, that's done.

1:17.0

I'm not a teacher in Alcoholics Anonymous.

1:22.0

I'm an example I hope. Try to be a good example.

1:26.8

Maybe not always. Sometimes I, but I always try to be a sober example.

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