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Sober Cast: An (unofficial) Alcoholics Anonymous Podcast AA

Joe and Charlie Big Book Workshop in one file - (12 hours) a 2013 version

Sober Cast: An (unofficial) Alcoholics Anonymous Podcast AA

AA Podcast

Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.61.9K Ratings

🗓️ 7 March 2022

⏱️ 733 minutes

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The Joe and Charlie Big Book workshops have been popular for many years and it was one of our first posts. I went looking for the latest version I could find and came across this one from 2013, it has great audio quality and I have combined all the files into one 12 hour workshop. FYI... this is a 220 meg file. There is a worksheet thats been around a long time that goes with this workshop and you can grab it from our google docs, if you want a copy it is here: https://tinyurl.com/joecharliew A little background on the workshops: In 1977, some AA members met in a Tulsa, Oklahoma hotel room for a discussion on The Big Book. One member asked Joe and Charlie to come to his home group to present a program on The Big Book. A taping of that presentation was made and called "The Big Book Study". Through the circulation of these audio tapes throughout the Fellowship, Joe and Charlie received invitations to present the Study at AA conventions, roundups and special events. At the AA International Convention in New Orleans in 1980, Wesley P, organized a lunch for 1,500 AA members from all over the world and gave away 100 Joe & Charlie tape sets as door prizes. Invitations exploded, and within a couple of years Joe & Charlie were presenting about 36 seminars a year worldwide. These seminars struck a deep chord within the AA members. Email: [email protected] Support Sober Cast: https://sobercast.com/donate We have added a page of meetings that have moved online https://sobercast.com/online-meetings Sober Cast has 1800+ episodes available, visit SoberCast.com to access all the episodes where you can easily find topics or specific speakers using tags or search.

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0:00.0

Hello, and welcome to SilverCast, where we provide AA speak meetings and workshops and

0:11.4

podcast format.

0:12.4

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.

0:22.5

We hope you enjoyed the podcast, have a great day.

0:27.6

So my name is Joe and I'm an alcoholic, and it's truly by God's grace and the fellowship

0:32.8

of alcoholic synonymous and the program of alcoholic synonymous that comes from a book

0:37.7

called Alcohol Synonymous I'm Sober Today, and for that very, very thankful.

0:42.3

And I'd like to read the preamble, Alcoholic synonymous is a fellowship of men and women

0:47.1

who share their experience, strength, and hope with each other that they may solve a

0:50.5

common problem and help others to recover from alcoholism.

0:54.6

The only requirement for membership is desire to stop brinking.

0:58.2

There are no dues or fees for AA membership, with self-supporting through our own contributions.

1:03.2

AA is not allied with any sect, denomination, politics, organization, and restitution.

1:08.6

There's not a wish to engage in any controversy, neither endorses nor opposes any causes.

1:14.4

Our primary purpose is to stay sober and to help other alcoholics achieve sobriety.

1:19.8

And I'm very excited about being here this weekend, are you?

1:22.8

Yeah, good.

1:23.8

We're going to have a lot of fun.

1:25.8

I'm going to tell you a little story for why we can't get off about this little duck.

1:30.5

He goes into the grocery store and he asks for the produce manager.

1:34.3

He walks over to the produce manager and said, you have any grapes this morning?

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