Multiple Speakers: Carvell then Patricio

Sober Cast: An (unofficial) Alcoholics Anonymous Podcast AA

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🗓️ 17 August 2025

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Carvell opens this meeting as the 10 min speaker at the North Oakland Open AA speaker meeting in Oakland California from September of 2015. He is followed by Patricio as the main speaker for the balance of the time. Support Sober Cast: https://sobercast.com/donate Email: [email protected] Sober Cast has 2900+ 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. Speaker 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 link and drop a dollar or two into our virtual
0:21.7	basket we hope you enjoyed the podcast have a great day thank you uh my name is carvel and i'm an
0:31.6	alcoholic um my uh wait is that that a thing or what's that?
0:39.7	It's the first time.
0:40.8	I don't really want to use it.
0:42.7	Is it okay if I don't need to?
0:43.8	You have to use it.
0:44.8	You have to use it.
0:44.9	You have to use it.
0:48.3	Let's get her money.
0:49.3	Put it on the table.
0:51.5	Drop the mic.
0:54.0	Um, my sobriety day is July 6, 2010.
0:57.2	Yeah.
0:57.8	And I have a sponsor who knows he's my sponsor.
1:03.2	Hi.
1:04.0	I have spontees, one of which is in this room.
1:08.7	And I work this program to the best of my ability,
1:12.1	which is not always that great, but it's been enough to keep me sober for five-plus years.
1:20.3	I don't, you know, like my life story isn't that much different than anyone else's.
1:28.4	There are some things in my life that gave me the feeling that I was different from an early age.
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