Multiple Speakers: Mark then Mary (NSFW)

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🗓️ 14 December 2021

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Mark is the opening 10 min speaker, he tells an abbreviated version of his story getting to AA. Next we have Mary telling her story for the balance of the time both are speaking at the North Oakland Open speaker meeting of Alcoholics Anonymous held every Saturday in Oakland California, this meeting was held in January of 2017. NSFW 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 1700+ 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 in podcast
0:11.8	format.
0:12.8	We're an ad free podcast and if you enjoy listening, please help us be self-supporting by visiting
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0:22.4	We hope you enjoyed the podcast, have a great day.
0:27.4	Hello, my name is Mark.
0:28.4	I'm an alcoholic.
0:29.4	I'm going to try to condense this in 10 minutes.
0:37.4	When I was growing up, both my parents were alcoholic.
0:41.8	They used to manage and co-owner Tavern in the town that I was raising in Los Angeles and
0:53.7	until I was about eight I grew up in that bar.
0:56.3	And alcohol was part of my life basically and it was just normal for me to have alcohol
1:09.8	around and I think I was about 12 years old when I first started to drink and I started
1:20.7	getting in trouble with the law and just doing stupid shit when I was younger.
1:29.3	My mother then father split up and with the trouble I was getting into, she sent me
1:35.3	to Arizona to be with my uncle which, you know, he was kind of straight forward but he
1:44.8	was an alcoholic.
1:48.9	And I started school there and he busted us one time.
1:53.3	At that time alcohol was, you only had to be about 18 years old to buy alcohol at that
1:58.0	time in Arizona and so alcohol was pretty easy for us to get a hold of.
2:07.2	And he busted us drinking and playing hockey sack in a park one time and we got read the
2:13.7	riot act.
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