Topic: Step 3

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🗓️ 12 July 2023

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Ray O'K is todays speaker sharing on the topic of Step 3, I dont know a lot about this event other than it was recorded in August of 1986 and they went through the steps one week at a time over 12 weeks with Ray leading all the meetings. Ray was a popular circuit speaker for many years and spoke all over the country in the 70's and 80's. Email: sobercast@gmail.com Support Sober Cast: https://sobercast.com/donate Next AA Event: If you are in the Pennsylvania area this weekend, The Annual Pennsylvania State Convention of Young People in Alcoholics Anonymous will feature speakers, panels, workshops, fellowship events and fun! https://scast.us/penn AA Event List: https://scast.us/events If you have an AA roundup, retreat, convention or workshop coming up, we would be happy to give you a shout out here on the podcast and list the event on the Sober Cast website. Visit the link above and look for "Submit Your Event" in the blue box. Sober Cast has 2200+ 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.
0:27.4	My name is Ray, I'm an alcoholic.
0:29.9	In the book, Alcoholics Anonymous, immediately after what John just read, the A, the B and the C, the next line in the book is
0:41.7	being convinced we were at step three. So it is a prerequisite to the third step
0:48.7	that I be convinced of step one and two as it applies in my life. You know, a lot of people should stop drinking.
0:57.3	There are really a lot of people in the world that ought to stop drinking.
1:00.5	There are some guys who get drunk four or five times a year, and there are a real pain
1:06.8	in the ass when they get drunk, and they grab you by to a pelle and they blow stale
1:11.8	beer in your face and they tell you a lot of ridiculous stories and they ought to stop drinking
1:18.5	these guys because it just makes them a little unbearable and some guys that drive a car drunk
1:26.5	and they have an accident and they make the connection between the accident and the fact that they were driving their car drunk.
1:35.2	So they stopped drinking.
1:37.9	These people are abnormal.
1:40.9	When an alcoholic cracks up his car for the fourth time because he's been drinking, he buys another car.
1:48.0	He complains about the car to erect.
1:52.0	Well, it's not a good car.
1:54.0	There are people in this world who drink and get sick and they puke, and they stop drinking.
2:02.5	They have no stick-to-tutiveness.
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