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Good morning, everybody.

Morning. I know this is a little early for a workshop, but here we are. My name's Bill,

and I'm an alcoholic. Hi Bill. Jay the alcoholic.

And what we're going to do this morning is talk about as AA lost its edge.

You hear a lot of things around Alcoholics Anonymous.

And one of the things that you hear is that there was a time

we had a 75% success rate and now it's down to 10, maybe 5% or less. That we've lost something.

Somehow the message has been diluted. The fellowship is different than it used to be.

We're not working the steps correctly. The meetings are structured corely. The message is not being conveyed.

So what we'd like to do is we'd like to address some of that. And Jay and I are blessed to be able to travel around AA a bit and talk to a lot of people.

He's cursed with the historian problem.

And both of us are cursed with the fact that we think we know some stuff.

And we're going to burden you with that a little bit this morning

back there we go Scott Peck was a philosopher and a therapist and an all-around interesting cat.

And one of the things that he really loved was Alcoholics Anonymous.

And he loved watching us and he knew a lot about us.

And he would talk about us and he would always preface his talks with,

I can't stop smoking.

So whatever you hear from me is worthless.

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