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Sober Cast: An (unofficial) Alcoholics Anonymous Podcast AA

ESH: Rhubarb Jim

Sober Cast: An (unofficial) Alcoholics Anonymous Podcast AA

AA Podcast

Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.62.2K Ratings

🗓️ 3 February 2023

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Rhubarb Jim from Bethlehem PA telling his story at the Feet First group in October of 2009. I spent a good chunk of the last week learning and tweaking the new event software I purchased for the website (Thank you so much to those of you that have donated to Sober Cast, you made that possible). I also edited the form for submitting an event to be a bit more robust, there's a bit of tweaking to do but I'm mostly there. You can now search for AA events by date or location and automatically save an event to your calendar with one click, plus one click to download the event flyer to take to your homegroup. The events are linked directly to the venue using google maps for easy directions. View the event list: http://cduck.us/events Along those lines if you are in the area, the 45th Annual Sacramento Spring Fling is happening February 10-12. You can register at the door. Details: https://www.sacspringfling.org Email: sobercast@gmail.com Support Sober Cast: https://sobercast.com/donate 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 our Linktree and click "Submit An AA Event". Linktree: https://linktr.ee/sobercast Sober Cast has 2100+ 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 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.

0:24.6

My name is Drew Bargian and I'm an alcoholic, the belt and group is my home group.

0:34.1

We meet on a Monday and a Friday night at 8 p.m. and you're, it's a speaker meeting

0:38.0

and you're welcome to come anytime you're in town.

0:40.4

I want to thank the feet first group for asking me to speak here tonight.

0:48.4

I've been coming to this speaker meeting now for a few months and it's getting to be

0:56.3

a nice group.

1:00.9

I want to remind the alcoholics here that if you don't have a home group you're a homeless

1:07.8

alcoholic and there are plenty of groups that would be a feast to have you as one of

1:15.1

this members.

1:19.3

I'm about as nervous as anybody else is when they get up here in front of a crowd like

1:22.9

this.

1:24.9

My home group is a large speaker meeting and I've been speaking there like once a year

1:30.8

for several years now but you know once a year doesn't really prepare you and every

1:38.2

time I get up here I get nervous and they tell me that's God's way to speak, shaking

1:43.7

the truth out of me and I believe that.

1:51.0

I began my journey in sobriety back on May 9, 1987.

2:01.4

I was 50 years old when I got here and this is only my first time here.

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