Multiple Speakers: Bill W - Lois W - Ebby and Sr Ignatia - (Very Good Audio Quality)

Sober Cast: An (unofficial) Alcoholics Anonymous Podcast AA

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🗓️ 28 April 2026

⏱️ 77 minutes

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This recording is mostly Bill W speaking at the third annual International AA convention held in Long Beach California in 1960, along the way he introduces Lois, Ebby and Sister Ignatia. Each takes the mic for a bit at their introduction, also Bill tells a good bit of his story along with information about the creation of AA. The overall quality of this recording is excellent it cleaned up really well, there a few audio artifacts but its an easy listen. Support Sober Cast: https://sobercast.com/donate Email: sobercast@gmail.com Sober Cast has 3200+ 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 Sobercast, where we provide A.A. Speak meetings and workshops in podcast format.
0:12.7	We're an ad-free podcast, and if you enjoy listening, please help us be self-supporting by visiting Sobercast.com, look for the donate, and drop a dollar or two into our virtual basket.
0:22.3	We hope you enjoyed the podcast.
0:23.8	Have a great day.
0:28.5	It's always a good idea.
0:35.8	Follow the custom of the country where we are.
0:38.9	This is the West Coast, and I think all A meetings open something like this.
0:44.2	Hi, folks.
0:48.4	I suspect that there are some, not knowing us folks too well, who suppose that Alcoholics Anonymous is a sort of
0:59.6	a modern and praiseworthy fireproofing against whiskey.
1:07.5	And so, praise God, it is. And we have needed that proofing.
1:14.2	But it isn't quite so simple as that.
1:18.3	Under the grace of God, there has been expelled from us an obsession.
1:24.3	A veritable lunacy that has plagued men and women for a time out of mind in an unprecedented
1:34.3	and we have been liberated from that we have been freed but still that is not all.
1:45.0	You and I know that we are a people who have pursued the wrong kind of liberty, have looked in the wrong direction between them,
1:59.0	and now some of the time at least we are looking in the right direction
2:03.9	toward right principles and toward him who besides over us all.
2:11.3	Therefore, in its most deeply meaningful sense,
2:23.3	A.A. is a request for freedom under God. And this freedom, in its merriest forms, has grown among us.
2:31.3	And I think one of the greatest and deepest satisfaction that any of us
2:38.4	have is to feel that again we are citizens of the world not so much that we are
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