Topic: Gratitude (Bill W)

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🗓️ 21 November 2025

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

Bill W. Bill starts with the topic of gratitude and moves on to his story and how that led to the creation of AA at an unknown event. This is from June of 1954 and I was able to remove the nasty hum it had, the result is a pretty good recording for 1954. This runs just a little over an hour and for the first 40 min the sound quality is pretty good all things considered. The last 20 min the sound isnt as clear, it gets a bit muddy and I couldnt fix that but it is still listenable. 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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0:00.0	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, and drop a dollar or two into our virtual basket.
0:22.3	We hope you enjoyed the podcast. Have a great day.
0:27.6	The great spirit that fills this hall.
0:31.6	And we know that the name of that spirit is gratitude.
0:45.3	Gratitude in the deed is the keynote of every A.A. Gavis. Gratitude to him who presides over all who has delivered us the children of the night from this dark
0:59.0	vanguard. And today we have with us our friends. Some of the many who have helped make this society what it is. Dr. Sandler
1:19.6	is here, Mr. Trousen is here, to say that this thing is good. They're saying something more than that, so they're saying not only have we become sober.
1:36.3	They are saying that we now belong again, something we always wanted so much to do.
1:47.1	We belong.
1:49.0	We are citizens of this great city, this marvelous commonwealth,
1:57.2	this beloved land of ours.
2:04.6	Indeed, we are now worldwide, 5,000 groups in all in 32 countries,
2:09.6	and I think that we are being welcomed
2:12.6	and recognized as citizens of the world.
2:16.6	It is often well said and recognized as citizens of the world.
2:24.3	It is often well said that alcoholic is anonymous
2:31.3	and its supposed virtues are not really virtues at all because they haven't been heard.
2:38.0	The thing that happened to us and will we trust happen to hundreds of thousands of more
2:44.0	is in its essence a gift, a gift of God.
2:50.0	Again, on gift of God.
2:58.1	Again, on behalf of our entire fellowship,
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