Workshop: Bob D leads a workshop on the 12 Traditions

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🗓️ 19 December 2025

⏱️ 89 minutes

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Today we have Bob D leading a 2 part workshop on the 12 Traditions one by one. This is both parts of the work. He makes some interesting points in relation to speakers and anonymity on the internet, but keep in mind this was recorded in 2003. There is about 3 seconds missing between part one and two at approx. 1:06ish. 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.
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 donate link, and drop a dollar or two into our
0:21.4	virtual basket.
0:22.3	We hope you enjoyed the podcast.
0:23.7	Have a great day.
0:27.4	My name's Bob B.
0:28.7	I am alcoholic.
0:31.3	Good to be here.
0:32.9	It's good to be at a, what I would think of as a fundamentalist a weekend.
0:39.3	In a day and age where we are beset by a lot of weirdness, this is a good AA weekend.
0:48.2	I think it's amusing to me that I'm asked to talk on something that
0:52.8	I was kind of opposed to when I got here,
0:56.7	the 12 traditions.
0:57.8	It was, I was like that guy in the Treasure of Sierra Madre.
1:02.3	Traditions, we don't need no stinking traditions.
1:05.8	You know, I had that kind of attitude when I got the Alcoholics Anonymous.
1:11.5	And, uh... that kind of attitude when I got to Alcoholics Anonymous. And something happened to me, and I fell in love with A.A.
1:20.0	First through some of the people, and then the group,
1:22.5	and then just Alcoholics Anonymous itself.
1:26.0	And as I did that, it moved my caring from me out into you,
1:34.1	the traditions started to become very important to me.
1:37.9	And what I'm going to try to talk about tonight is not just a nuts and bolts academic talk about the
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