Sober Cast: An (unofficial) Alcoholics Anonymous Podcast AA

Speaker Potluck - I grabbed four random 15 min speakers from the Sunday Night speaker meeting in Seattle. Without listening to them in advance I created this audio. The result is speaker potluck, just like at a real meeting to dont know what you are going to get until you hear it.  These are all from 2015. (NSFW) Support Sober Cast: https://sobercast.com/donate [https://sobercast.com/donate] Email: sobercast@gmail.com [sobercast@gmail.com] Sober Cast has 2900+ episodes available, visit SoberCast.com [https://sobercast.com/] to access all the episodes where you can easily find topics or specific speakers using tags or search. https://sobercast.com [http://sobercast.com/]

I was in a zoom meeting today, the speaker was unable to make it and the secretary suggested a quick group consensus about playing this recording at the meeting thinking it would make a good discussion topic. As it turned out it did. I did notice the part where Barry plays a recording of Bill W speaking on the 3rd tradition was muddy so I went back at it and managed to improve Bills audio quality enough I thought it worth a new upload. Barry L sober in 1945, speaking about the origin of the 3rd tradition at the 50th World Conference in Montreal in July 1985. He was (arguably) the first openly gay member of AA.  Tradition 3 - The only requirement for A.A. membership is a desire to stop drinking. Barry passed away 3 weeks after this speak. Barry is the author of the book Living Sober and was a great friend of Bill W and his wife Lois. In 1978 Lois gave the original manuscript of the big book to Barry, and in 1979 Barry signed a notarized letter gifting the manuscript to A.A. World Services. In exchange, he asked only to be able to keep it in his possession until his death. Somewhere between 1979 and Barry's death in 1985, everyone at A.A. World Services apparently forgot about this arrangement. The whereabouts of the manuscript remained unknown until it reappeared at an auction house in 2004, sold by a “Joseph B.” for $1.5 million. It was auctioned again in 2007 to Alabama resident Ken Roberts for $992,000.  A few months later, according to court documents, A.A. World Services rediscovered Barry's notarized letter and tried to legally regain possession, they failed. In 2018 the manuscript was once again auctioned off, this time for $2.4 million. Support Sober Cast: https://sobercast.com/donate [https://sobercast.com/donate] Email: sobercast@gmail.com [sobercast@gmail.com] Sober Cast has 2900+ episodes available, visit SoberCast.com [https://sobercast.com/] to access all the episodes where you can easily find topics or specific speakers using tags or search. https://sobercast.com [http://sobercast.com/]

Bob A gives this speak on the topic, Fault Finder at a meeting held in Hollywood Ca in July 1996, he speaks for the bulk of the hour with some Q& A toward the end. Support Sober Cast: https://sobercast.com/donate [https://sobercast.com/donate] Email: sobercast@gmail.com [sobercast@gmail.com] Sober Cast has 2900+ episodes available, visit SoberCast.com [https://sobercast.com/] to access all the episodes where you can easily find topics or specific speakers using tags or search. https://sobercast.com [http://sobercast.com/]

Carole D is telling her story at the Primary Purpose Group, this meeting was held in May of 2015. I removed the first 30ish seconds of this. Lots of mike bumping was taking place and it was painful to listen to, she begins with "both of them", she is referring to her parents. Support Sober Cast: https://sobercast.com/donate [https://sobercast.com/donate] Email: sobercast@gmail.com [sobercast@gmail.com] Sober Cast has 2900+ episodes available, visit SoberCast.com [https://sobercast.com/] to access all the episodes where you can easily find topics or specific speakers using tags or search. https://sobercast.com [http://sobercast.com/]

I dont know where this was recorded, it was Feb of 2014 and apparently really nasty weather had the monthly speaker bail, this is the result. The members decided to have 4 homegroup folks go through all 12 steps in an hour.  Support Sober Cast: https://sobercast.com/donate [https://sobercast.com/donate] Email: sobercast@gmail.com [sobercast@gmail.com] Sober Cast has 2900+ episodes available, visit SoberCast.com [https://sobercast.com/] to access all the episodes where you can easily find topics or specific speakers using tags or search. https://sobercast.com [http://sobercast.com/]