Topic: Most Of Us Were Unwilling (Multiple Speakers)

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🗓️ 21 January 2026

⏱️ 80 minutes

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This is a topic meeting on the subject of - Most Of Us Were Unwilling - from a Young Peoples roundup that was held in 1978 in Vancouver Washington at an event called CRYPR. I couldnt find out much more about it, it had a nasty buzz I was able to remove, for such an old recording it is very listenable. Support Sober Cast: https://sobercast.com/donate Email: sobercast@gmail.com 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.
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0:21.8	basket.
0:22.3	We hope you enjoyed the podcast.
0:23.7	Have a great day.
0:28.9	Like I said, my name is Willie, and I am an alcoholic.
0:33.1	And I'm really glad to be here today.
0:36.4	You know, I was a little bit nervous last night until that dance started. And then after I got out there and started dancing, I felt pretty good, you know. I was able to relieve a lot of tension and all that. But now, again, this morning, I was a little nervous, too, because I'm not normally used to getting up like this and speaking, you know. especially this is the first time with a mic and all that,
0:56.0	and it's kind of a weird trip, something different.
1:00.0	Our topic, our deal on the thing says most of us were unwilling, you know, and I don't know really how i felt when i came to this program all my feelings
1:15.6	were anesthetized for so long that i really i wasn't capable of feeling anything for myself or
1:21.6	anybody else i was incapable of loving anybody i was incapable of being totally honest i was incapable of being totally honest. I was incapable of a lot of things.
1:29.3	But I think all I wanted to do was get sober for a while, get dried out until I start
1:36.3	feeling better and then go out and start in again, you know.
1:39.3	But after a couple weeks, after my head began to clear a little bit a it became apparent to me through talking to a lot of people that cared
1:47.8	about me and all that
1:49.8	that uh...
1:50.9	that i was an alcoholic you know and that i had a disease and i always thought it was
1:54.6	a weak character or a lack of willpower or something like that you know
1:58.6	i just thought there was something long with me other than alcohol for a long time.
2:03.6	I guess deep down inside of me I knew I was an alcoholic, but I just wasn't willing to do anything about it.
2:09.6	Who cares, you know? I sure don't care. Big deal, you know.
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