Sober Cast: An (unofficial) Alcoholics Anonymous Podcast AA

This one was a bit of a bear, it is a pretty well known speak called "The Chalk Talk" it was presented many times by Father Joe and there are many versions of it around. The hard part was finding one that didnt have truly awful sound. I spent well over an hour working on this audio and I think it is quite listenable now.

Father Joe got sober in 1958 at The Guest House, it was founded and operated by Austin R, who came across a copy of the Saturday Evening Post article on Alcoholics Anonymous. As a result of the article Austin R began his journey of recovery through AA, eventually opening The Guest House. Father Joe met Austin on his first day at The Guest House, he also was introduced to Dr. Walter G, himself a recovering alcoholic. Dr. G was the first to talk about the intellect and the emotion and how drugs and alcohol cause the emotions to over-rule the intellect.

Father Joe deeply admired Austin and was so impressed with Dr. G's lectures, that he saved his notes and 14 years later would use them as the source of his "Chalk Talks". The occasional clicking you hear in this speak are the source of the name, as Father Joe is writing on the chalk board. No clue where or when this particular one was recorded.

Im not sure why it took me so long to post anything by Father Joe, but I have well over 50 speaks by him, email me if you are interested in hearing more from him.

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Six speakers sharing on the topic of Being Rocketed into 4th Dimension, 5 of the speakers are AA and one is Al-Anon. This event was the 4th. Dimension Convention held in McComb Mississippi in 2011.

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Yisrael C is the speaker at this Zoom meeting based in London England, he is 40 years sober and lives in Jerusalem.  The submitter described this as a "Really honest and humble talk on the topic of Redemption" and I dont disagree.

This was a listener submission, it was recorded on January 2nd 2021 at an unknown meeting.

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This is a two part workshop led by Chris S from Bridgewater NJ speaking at the Friday Night Recovery Workshop held in London in February of 2021 over 2 different meetings.

Part one is "Mind" and part two is "Spirit" they are combined into one podcast.

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Franklin W got sober in October of 1956, he is from Olive Branch Mississippi, (his nickname is the pope of AA). he speaking on the 47th Founders Day in Akron Ohio in 1982. The brief opening remarks are by Lois W, Dr Bobs wife Annie was also at the event but does not speak. Really great quality recording for 1982.

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