Father Joe M - The Famous Chalk Talk

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🗓️ 29 October 2022

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

This one was a bit of a bear, it is a pretty well known speak called "The Chalk Talk" it was presented many times by Father Joe and there are many versions of it around. The hard part was finding one that didnt have truly awful sound. I spent well over an hour working on this audio and I think it is quite listenable now. Father Joe got sober in 1958 at The Guest House, it was founded and operated by Austin R, who came across a copy of the Saturday Evening Post article on Alcoholics Anonymous. As a result of the article Austin R began his journey of recovery through AA, eventually opening The Guest House. Father Joe met Austin on his first day at The Guest House, he also was introduced to Dr. Walter G, himself a recovering alcoholic. Dr. G was the first to talk about the intellect and the emotion and how drugs and alcohol cause the emotions to over-rule the intellect. Father Joe deeply admired Austin and was so impressed with Dr. G's lectures, that he saved his notes and 14 years later would use them as the source of his famous "Chalk Talks". The occasional clicking you hear in this speak are the source of the name, as Father Joe is writing on the chalk board. No clue where or when this particular one was recorded. Im not sure why it took me so long to post anything by Father Joe, but I have well over 50 speaks by him, email me if you are interested in hearing more from him. Email: sobercast@gmail.com Support Sober Cast: https://sobercast.com/donate AA EVENT: Freedom Trail Conference of AA: Jan 26-29 2023 - Location: Boston MA. An AA conference with Al-Anon participation. This will be a weekend of talks and workshops Details: https://beacongroupaa.com/freedom-trail-conference/ If you have an AA roundup, retreat or convention coming up, we would be happy to give you a shout out and list the event on the Sober Cast website. Visit our Linktree, click "Submit An AA Event" and fill out the short form. Linktree: https://linktr.ee/sobercast Sober Cast has 2000+ 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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0:28.0	Every single one of you in this room has very very definite attitudes toward every phase of alcohol,
0:36.0	toward alcoholism, even toward drinking, toward drunkenness.
0:44.0	In fact, toward alcohol itself.
0:47.0	Our attitudes come from our parents, from our religious background, our culture background,
0:53.0	but above all else, from our contact with some alcoholic.
0:56.0	Every one of you knows an alcoholic.
0:58.0	In fact, at least thought of your lived with one actively drinking.
1:03.0	In fact, there are a minimum of three active alcoholics here.
1:08.0	In fact, that's just a statistic.
1:10.0	So many of us would die from cancer.
1:12.0	So many of us would die from other things.
1:14.0	So many of us would die in accidents.
1:16.0	So many of us would die of alcoholism.
1:19.0	In fact, it was the number one health problem in the United States.
1:24.0	Heard doubts over today's shows.
1:26.0	The only other man besides myself, who's ever had the nerve publicly to say that he firmly believes as do I.
1:31.0	But there are a minimum of 18 million alcoholics.
1:35.0	Every one of whom affects it.
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