Retreat: The Power of the Program - Tom I (Part 2 of 5)

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🗓️ 14 November 2025

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Tom I leads this 5 part retreat on the topic: The Power of the Program. Tom was a highly sought after speaker for many years. This ends abruptly and picks right up on the next one. Recorded at an unknown event. Part 2 of 5. This weekend is the 2nd Annual Online International AA Convention, (Nov 14-16) registration is free. Meetings will be hosted by various groups from around the world. Details are here: https://aaev.cc/oiaa25 Support Sober Cast: https://sobercast.com/donate Email: [email protected] Sober Cast has 3000+ 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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0:22.3	We hope you enjoyed the podcast.
0:23.7	Have a great day.
0:27.1	I'm sure I told a standard set of lies.
0:29.8	I always did.
0:30.5	That was just reflex action.
0:32.6	And so did that.
0:34.0	I could do that for them midnight.
0:36.9	Done enough of them
0:37.8	and when he got through
0:38.9	he made the same
0:40.7	startling diagnosis
0:42.1	that everybody
0:43.5	whoever
0:44.2	I've never had
0:45.9	but one diagnosis in my life
0:47.8	it came out a lot of different ways
0:49.5	it'd always be something like you're an alcoholic
0:51.4	you're a drunk you're a problem drinker you're a bum
0:53.7	yeah I'd heard that stuff had nausea. And it had always gone on to something like,
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