ESH: Patrick P - 16 Years

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🗓️ 6 June 2023

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Patrick P got sober in 2002, he is telling his story at the Primary Purpose Group in July of 2018. Email: sobercast@gmail.com Support Sober Cast: https://sobercast.com/donate Next AA Event: If you are in Florida the Way of Life Conference one day event is coming up quickly on June 10th at the Marriott Hotel in Palm Beach Gardens. Details: https://scast.us/wol 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 2200+ 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 SilverCast where we provide AA speak meetings and workshops and podcast
0:11.8	format.
0:12.8	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.
0:27.8	My name is Patrick.
0:28.8	I'm an alcoholic.
0:29.8	My sobriety date is September night 2002, trying to think.
0:40.0	I should probably start off by saying that I have apparently, I have very offensive experience
0:47.4	strength and hope, so just to let you know, I'll let you know when it gets offensive.
0:57.3	But yeah, I mean, I'm pretty, you know, it's funny about Jerry.
1:09.3	He has a circus speaker as a sponsor.
1:13.5	He spends like eight hours every Sunday, taking people through fist ups.
1:17.9	He started a group at a treatment center and, you know, he does, you know, he, he pretty
1:25.8	much, every waking hours in AA or that he's not at work and, and he calls me hardcore.
1:32.1	So I kind of like where there's a badger courage of honor, excuse me.
1:38.1	So you know, it's kind of funny when that guy calls you hardcore.
1:41.8	So, you know, I kind of relish in that.
1:48.5	So let's kind of learn how I became hardcore.
1:54.4	Basically, when I was young, my parents, I came from a broken home.
2:01.0	My parents divorced when I was really young.
2:03.4	My mom just, she wasn't capable at the time of really taking care of me and my brother.
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