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Sober Cast: An (unofficial) Alcoholics Anonymous Podcast AA

Topic: Step 1

Sober Cast: An (unofficial) Alcoholics Anonymous Podcast AA

AA Podcast

Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.62.2K Ratings

🗓️ 8 September 2022

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Tarek K is from Atlanta and he is the Friday night speaker on the topic of Step 1 at Woodstock West held in Los Angeles CA in May of 2019. This a repost of an episode from a couple of years ago, requested by Mikel to share with the sponsees, if you ever have a past post that was a real help, feel free to email for a repost. Email: sobercast@gmail.com Support Sober Cast: https://sobercast.com/donate Sober Cast Linktree: https://linktr.ee/sobercast We have added a page of meetings that have moved online https://sobercast.com/online-meetings Sober Cast has 1900+ episodes available, visit SoberCast.com to access all the episodes where you can easily find topics or specific speakers using tags or search.

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0:00.0

Hello, and welcome to SilverCast where we provide AA speak meetings and workshops in

0:11.2

podcast format.

0:12.2

We're an ad-free podcast, and if you enjoy listening, please help us be self-supporting by visiting

0:17.0

SilverCast.com, look for the donate link, and drop a dollar or two into our virtual

0:21.7

basket.

0:22.7

We hope you enjoyed the podcast.

0:23.7

Have a great day.

0:24.7

I'm a member of Alcoholics Anonymous, my name is Terry.

0:34.7

So let's all open our books to page one.

0:37.9

I'm just kidding.

0:41.3

I know somebody out in the audience was thinking themselves, he's got his big book.

0:48.6

He's not going to read out of his big book, is he?

0:52.4

And I don't know if I'm going to read out of this book, but this book has a special

0:55.6

place in my heart.

0:56.6

It was given to me by the man who spoon fed me the program of recovery as outlined in

1:01.0

the big book.

1:03.2

And I've heard a man say once that he asked a question of one of his friends, and the

1:12.2

question was, do you think you'll be able to take someone through the steps without

1:17.0

using the big book?

1:18.9

And the friends said, well, that's heresy, I can't do that.

1:23.5

We're big book enthusiasts, and we always have to use the big book.

1:28.6

And the mentor said, if you live the way of life described in the big book, he will become

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