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Let's chat about these war stories, huh?

Let's chat about the reason that we can't keep the young adults in our fellowship.

Let's chat about why so many women are leaving this fellowship.

Who do you think you are with those war stories?

I'll go back to Bill's story.

I've been thrown under the bus so many times of this.

People come up after I talk and it's just the, you just, I just see it on their faces. They're coming up. I know, I know. You don't have to say it. Our stories are all we have because that's what we're taught. Our stories are all we have. Folks, let me tell you something. I didn't fly all this way up here 12 hours in a airport yesterday so I could come up here and share a stupid war story with you. Now, I'm going to tell you something. I ate out of the dumpsters in Houston, Texas, and I've done some stuff on a street that I wouldn't talk to about in mixed company. I've done some crazy, stupid, stupid things. You're with me? But I'm not up here to talk to you about that. I'm up here to talk to you about my life today in sobriety and how absolutely as cool it is to wake up and have that obsession gone. And if we have more people pulling people with the vision of that stuff, instead of trying to scare some moron into these rooms, we would have success rates where we had them before. Let me tell you what the difference is, where all of y'all want to take this and run with it. Because of course I have some stories. Let me tell you what the difference is where all of y'all want to take this and run with it because of course I have some stories. Let me tell you what Bill Wilson did. Ebby comes into his kitchen and they talk and they visit a little bit and they share a few little stories and gets Bill's confidence. They identify a bit with her drinking. You with me? And then Ebby does this. You can't see this on tape, but Jasea, some of y'all fishermen will know what I'm doing, right? And Ebby, he sets the hook, you know, and he tells him about God and what he's doing, right? And then Bill does the work. Bill Wilson, he goes and sees after a bunch of false starts, Bill gets sober, and he goes to Dr. Bob's house, right? And he sits down

with Dr. Bob, and they share a few drinking stories. They sit down and start talking a little bit.

And Bob understands that Bill really understands what he's talking about. And then he

sets the hook. He tells him about God and the steps. Go with us? And Dr. Bob gets the deal.

And they go to alcoholic number three.

It's the stories in the back in the vision for you.

And it talks about them going to the third alcoholic.

And they do the same thing.

They tell a few stories.

Do they tell all their stories?

Did they tell a big long repertoire of drunkalongs to bore the poor son of a bitch to death?

They don't do any of that

i'm going to go into an aa meeting and randy's going to be in there and she's not in a good place

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