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basket we hope you enjoyed the podcast have a great day hi everybody my name is johnny and i'm an

alcoholic god i'm glad to be here and i'm i'm glad to be sober i'm glad to be in and I'm glad to be sober.

I'm glad to be in a meeting of Alcoholics Anonymous.

I want to thank my friend Frederick for extending the privilege of participating in an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting.

It's my opinion and I hope it always remains such that it's some type of

a privilege to be allowed to come and sit with you good people. I hope I don't ever get

it through my sick head that I have a right to everything that goes on in Alcoholics Anonymous,

just because I was lucky enough to stumble into a room and get sober and stay that way.

I'm here to tell you that everything is good and decent in my life today

is a direct result of the God I discovered sitting in meetings of alcoholic synonymous.

So my life today is a very good one.

And it's due probably to the actions that I've taken in Alcoholics Anonymous, even though I didn't

even believe in them most of the time.

I still don't believe in them most of the time, but I still do it because I haven't got a better idea.

I'm extremely pleased to be here today, fully clothed and in my right mind.

And the reason I tell you that is the longer I stay sober, the more necessary it becomes

for me to remember from whence I came.

And I never want to forget that a little over 46 years ago today, I came to in a cell in solitary confinement and a max and security

penitentiary if you get it out of total insanity now because of a loving God has expressed

himself through our program called Alcoholics Non-is. There's no longer necessary for me

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