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Thank you so much. All right. My name is Jared. I'm a recovered alcoholic. Thanks, thanks

so much, you guys, for having me here. To speak with you, it's always an honor and a privilege

to get invited to speak anywhere, especially across the pond, even if it is on Zoom and

in my garage. I get to start my timer here just in case. It looks like it's synced up

pretty good. I look back at my life, and I pick this topic because something that I live

my life, right? I live my life playing God. Really, this whole thing is about step three,

but before that, let me give you guys a little history. I did the 1, 2, 3 shuffle for about

10 years in and out of the rooms, but really, I never made it past step one. I had no idea

what I was up against. You guys know that end portion of how it works, where everybody

robotically chants the last line together. I did that for years, and I had no idea about

what it meant or what I was supposed to do or anything. Even a good portion of that

time, I wasn't even sure if I was an alcoholic. You guys are the ones that helped me find my

truth so that I could diagnose myself. I think about that, even that whole passage, even

right before the ABCs, the description of the alcoholic, really the description of the

alcoholic that's defined on pages 20 to 22, the moderate, the hard and the real alcoholic,

and it ends by saying something like this description should identify him roughly. Step two,

in diagnostics, and my own experience, Drunken Sober, have led me up to this point. So basically,

am I convinced without a shadow of a doubt that Drunker Sober, I'm an alcoholic and I can't

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