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Hi everybody, I'm Sheldon. It's nice to be here. Cut to have dinner with Jerry tonight.

The place that he works at. I was surprised to find that everybody kind of likes him there.

I mean, I don't know if you guys know the way that I know him but shocking to find that people actually like him.

So that was really, really cool.

Very, very nice. Be a very, very, very gracious host and it's been a pleasure being out here.

So I did a little bit, a little bit about me. I'm an alcoholic.

You know, I was telling Jerry this story at dinner. When I first came to alcoholics anonymous, I kind of came here by default.

I kind of showed up at AA. I knew I had a problem. I was drinking out of control.

Every time I drink, I get in trouble. I drink away my rent money. I drink away jobs. I drink away friends. I drink away family members.

But I also do some of that stuff in AA that we're not supposed to talk about.

It's kind of a funny thing. I heard a guy say from the podium, but I don't really like hope stuff that I hear other guys say from the podium.

But this was so beautiful. I think it deems repeating.

He said that if we come to alcoholics anonymous sometimes and we say, you know, I drank so much.

And when I was drinking sometimes, I was abusive to my kids and we go, yeah, that's true.

When I was drinking sometimes, you know, I would, I would, I would cheat on my wife.

I understand that, you know, sometimes when I was drinking, I would steal from my boss.

Sometimes when I was drinking, I did drugs and we say, get out.

You know, you don't have that behavior for crying out loud.

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