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Sober Cast: An (unofficial) Alcoholics Anonymous Podcast AA

ESH: Paul McQ (funny)

Sober Cast: An (unofficial) Alcoholics Anonymous Podcast AA

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Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.62.2K Ratings

🗓️ 1 August 2023

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Paul McQ is from Oceanside New York (by way of Ireland) he is telling his story at the Gopher State Roundup in 2013. He is quite a funny guy that carries a solid message while putting a smile on your face. Email: sobercast@gmail.com Support Sober Cast: https://sobercast.com/donate Next AA Event: If you are anywhere near San Luis Obispo California, the weekend of August 25th, the 56th Annual District 22 Convention is going on and it looks like a fun one.  It is a great place to spend a quick vacation weekend less than a 4 hour drive from Los Angeles and the San Francisco Bay Areas https://scast.us/d22 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 2300+ 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 in

0:11.3

podcast format.

0:12.3

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.

0:27.4

My name is Paul, I'm an alcoholic, good to be here, and it's good to be sober, and

0:31.6

I want to thank the committee for giving me the opportunity in some small part of the service

0:36.2

here tonight, and I first thought, is there, is there anybody in Minneapolis that's not

0:41.6

here tonight, you know?

0:43.5

You go darn tarned, that's like one guy walking around and going, where the hell is everybody,

0:47.8

you know?

0:48.8

If he's out in the hall, he'd be like, oh, they're all at the party, and nobody invaded

0:54.0

me, you know?

0:56.0

I didn't want to go anyway, you know?

0:58.0

There's got a little spiritual postcard here from Bob.

1:03.7

The speakers have been wonderful so far, don't screw it up.

1:07.8

Thank you, Bob.

1:11.8

I had a vote of no confidence, and it's something we know that we say here, oh, you're a good

1:18.6

speaker and you're a good speaker, but I run with some people who, they're non-alcoholic,

1:22.6

and they think being a good speaker and alcoholic synonymous, it's like being the tallest of

1:26.6

the seven dwarfs, you know?

1:28.6

I'm kind of like, cashier in here, but it doesn't go too far out there, you know, one,

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