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Oh, what's up everybody?

My name is Matt and I'm a recovered alcoholic.

The Broken Elevator does the best introductions ever.

Andy that was touching and heartwarming and feels entirely too nice for a drunk like me.

Thank you, Tam, for asking me to come back and speak here. I've spoken here a couple times before.

This group is one of those groups that, or meetings that has taken Zoom by storm mining out some of the best messages you can find across the world.

And it's a joy and an honor to be asked to to present my experience here.

When Tam asked me to speak, she asked for a topic or a title for the share.

And I usually go with whatever the first intuitive thing is.

And this time it was everything or nothing and we know that this comes

from page 53 of the big book or maybe we don't. I'll read some of that at some point today and get to why that came to mind. I'm not entirely sure where this is going to go, if it's going to be linear or not.

I hope to never get to the podium of Alcoholics Anonymous and rattled off a couple of bullet points

and then say, life is awesome thanks alcohol it's anonymous and

go about my day I am I always prayed before I speak that God quiet my mind a bit and

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