Hello and welcome to Sobercast, where we provide A.A. Speaker Meetings and workshops in podcast format.

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

basket.

We hope you enjoyed the podcast.

Have a great day.

Hi, my name's Earl.

I'm an alcoholic.

Hi, everybody.

Thank you very much for inviting me out here to share with you guys.

It's always an honor and a privilege

i must confess that i'm relatively brain dead uh this morning it was a really nasty flight

from l a new york yesterday um actual pieces of the plane the good news was it was inside the plane actual pieces of the plane. The good news was it was inside the plane.

Actual pieces of the plane fell off into the cabin.

You know one of those flights where they suspend service and strap everybody in, right?

My idea of a good way to spend the day.

Horrifying experience.

And didn't sleep much.

Had a couple hours sleep, but apparently that's all I'm going to need because here

we are.

Hi.

Thank you.

I was mildly intimidated by that.

...