Topic: 12 Traditions - AA founder Bill W

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🗓️ 9 July 2025

⏱️ 61 minutes

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AA founder Bill W speaking on the topic of the 12 traditions, this audio is from a film that was intended to be shown in AA meetings, the audio quality is some of the best I have found of Bill W (I did tweak it a bit to improve the clarity). Support AA: make a direct donation to AA World Services contributions can only be made by members of AA and can be made as an individual or as a group. Learn more about the 12 traditions from the AA pamphlet: A.A. Tradition How It Developed by Bill W. Support Sober Cast: https://sobercast.com/donate Email: sobercast@gmail.com 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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0:22.7	We hope you enjoyed the podcast.
0:23.7	Have a great day.
0:27.7	Greetings, friends, out there.
0:32.0	We're again and again and here today in very special kind of an AA meeting.
0:38.1	One that was greened up by my friends at the headquarters and thought-wise that we would
0:46.8	discuss the AA tradition.
0:49.8	I like this idea because, as you know, it's been impossible for Lewis and me to travel
0:58.6	extensively in AA and to contact you as we used to.
1:04.6	It strikes us that films of this sort may be very bad.
1:12.1	Of course, one thing I like about that AA meeting in particular is that I am sorry to
1:18.8	do all of the talking.
1:22.7	I still have some vestiges of ego.
1:27.4	Speaking of ego, this had a great deal to do with the formation of AA's tradition in
1:36.7	first place.
1:39.8	As every AA knows, we shall always be threatened by menacing forces within and certainly
1:48.8	in the world with power in which we live today by menacing forces without.
1:55.6	So a very prime problem, the prime problem of AA is first how to survive and then to grow
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