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Sober Cast: An (unofficial) Alcoholics Anonymous Podcast AA

Workshop: The Big Book and Steps of AA - Part 2 of 6 (Part 3 next Monday) NSFW

Sober Cast: An (unofficial) Alcoholics Anonymous Podcast AA

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Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.62.2K Ratings

🗓️ 30 November 2020

⏱️ 65 minutes

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This is a 6 part workshop and Im publishing one episode from it every Monday over 6 weeks. Bob O from Denver CO conducted this 6 part workshop at Primary Purpose in Camp Hill PA in June 2009. This is part two of a six part workshop going through the Big Book and steps of AA. The focus on this one is Steps 2 and 3. NSFW Email: sobercast@gmail.com Support Sober Cast: https://sobercast.com/donate We have added a page of meetings that have moved online https://sobercast.com/online-meetings Sober Cast has 1300+ episodes available, visit SoberCast.com to access all the episodes where you can easily find topics or specific speakers using tags or search.

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to Soebokast, where we provide a speaker meetings and workshops in

0:11.2

podcast format.

0:12.2

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0:17.0

Silbercast.com look for the donate link and drop a dollar or two into our virtual basket

0:22.1

We hope you enjoy the podcast.

0:23.7

Have a great day.

0:28.7

Is to talk about steps two and three tonight and then really get started in in inventory which is where you're going to learn

0:36.4

the lie, I suppose, about what you believe tomorrow morning and then to spend the rest of the day talking about how to

0:45.2

take that information forward and how to get free of those kinds of things that we're still carrying around.

0:56.0

So let's talk about step two.

1:02.3

When I got sober, they put me down in front of his priest, which I didn't particularly care for.

1:07.0

I mean, just that he was a priest.

1:10.0

And because I was a German Lutheran and they didn't have a high opinion of Catholics and especially priests.

1:20.0

And so when they carried me into this halfway house they slapped me down in front of this

1:25.3

priest and he said are you an alcoholic and I said yeah and he said are done? That's a very good question, incidentally. Most people can't

1:37.0

answer it because they don't know. But it's a good question. And I said, I don't know if I'm not I'm probably dead and he said do you want what we have and I'm

1:52.4

and I wanted anything but what I had, so it was sort of moot.

1:57.0

And he said, can you stop drinking? No. Well, he said, I've got some bad information for you.

2:15.7

And I said, what's that?

2:17.0

And he said, we can't stop you either.

2:25.0

And I said, then what the hell am I doing here? And he said, do you believe in God?

2:29.8

And I told him no, just because I was just because I tried to piss him off.

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