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basket we hope you enjoyed the podcast have a great day for me i got asked to come come here and

present and you know the first thing to my ego does is says oh yeah sure sure sure

you have to and then a week later or so you start thinking about the magnitude of what did I just

accept you know um getting up in front of a bunch of of of drunks and in uh you might as well just

paint a big bull's eye i've already gotten about several comments on my shirt the reason i wore this shirt and and is because you know if you're gonna be

be up here like a bull's eye you might as well wear one you know and uh...

our egoic minds are gonna wanna

just not listen to what's transpired here what i share here this weekend i hope will be my experience

for these 12 steps um and uh i know that mark's going to be sharing the same thing it's going to be

his experience you can't have our experience it's our experience but one of the things that we're

going to have here this weekend is together we're going to share a new experience.

And even somebody that picks up these tapes and listens to them down the road, they're not going to have our experience.

They're not going to feel the cold of the air conditioning below a cross.

And that static, that spiritual static that's going to exist amongst us, I hope, and I pray, as we go through this weekend.

So I really hope that you open up your minds and don't listen to the messenger.

There's times that I will be arrogant and pompous.

Please forget that.

Listen for the message.

It's real important that you listen for the message.

And compare what I'm sharing

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