Topic: How it Works - Our Primary Purpose (1 of 2)

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🗓️ 22 July 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Ray O is speaking on the topic of How it Works Our - Primary Purpose, this is part one of two, he starts out with a bit of AA history before moving onto the main topic. Ray became sober in 1965 and is speaking with 30+ yrs sober 1996 in Virginia Beach, he spoke on this topic a number of times over the years. Support Sober Cast: https://sobercast.com/donate Email: [email protected] 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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0:00.0	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 link, and drop a dollar or two into our virtual
0:21.7	basket.
0:22.3	We hope you enjoyed the podcast.
0:23.7	Have a great day.
0:27.7	I'm supposed to be talking three hours on primary purpose.
0:30.8	Well, forget it.
0:34.6	Three hours.
0:36.6	Well, I'm going to talk.
0:37.4	First, I'm going to talk. First,
0:37.7	I'm going to talk about
0:39.0	something that I like to talk about,
0:41.7	particularly,
0:42.3	and it's the history of Alcoholics and Armist.
0:47.8	It's a history
0:49.4	you don't hear very much about it.
0:50.6	The history that doesn't begin in Akrono,
0:52.4	Ohio, in fact, it ends in Akrona.
0:55.1	And I think that it's a true story.
0:58.1	It's a good A.A. story.
0:59.6	And like all two good A.A. stories, it has a moral to it, which is consistent with,
1:06.4	our primary purpose, about which I will speak, probably a great length in a little while.
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