"Soberfest" in Urbana, IL

but you

my name is Neil and is by the grace of god that I belong to the owner and family

Carless over people places and things

and because of the program I can make this

the day without feeling guilty

to be on manager Paul

correct

that were given by a bunch of

the Bradley and Alcoholics Anonymous

thank

okay

the microphone

I like to believe that the other members of the

in the family

yes right I like to believe that the families of the early members of a

but America

that this program would work for everyone

and it was out of this convict

al anon family group group to reach all over the world

down there

the concept alcoholism is a family illness

and then we got carried away telling people how we got that we forget

we have a program for family

what this weekend is all about

you're listening to the speakers at the workshop

some instances where you have

first

the whole

working together

however this is absolutely wonderful thing to be involved in the celebrations

people don't delight

when they get there they are

the other and I think it's more evident in the big

all things they charged across the room

back

everybody

when you say everybody nobody is listening

someone comes in the door back there next up right in the middle of the night

there comes does your

you don't even expect each other

yeah I think it's

and

they help please I am to be here this weekend

when I bring you greetings he doesn't travel with me anymore

this

the weaker every day it may be worth a hundred pounds now almost six

he graduated

more and more restricted

I haven't quite

what

really when I lay them

yeah

that

right now I'm taking a break so I'll be

our daughter last night and they're getting along thank you hello weekends when I'm away and against him a Vanity Fair and

I think that the nine eleven

we're in the Allen family and this this this doesn't mean very much until you got to be a long term

how are you good good all you have to do

meeting whenever it rained out in Midland Texas says don't drink and don't

but

to be around for a long long time it's been my privilege and great yeah

a lot of people and a lot of places

and I learned about

everyone of you who are here today are here for

thank

we were driven here under the crawl right

because we have nowhere else to go

hello we're

what is that I want

it was a product of my generation but this is

alcoholism is

to make

your family

and

okay

public

the man or woman

alcoholism is a blight on the

the other prize winning play around but no one as far as I have been able to learn thank you very much about

back

read formality

okay great

right over here

right

another generation's going to find a cure

they wanted to find the killer of that

they're going to do this is a medical student don't waste your time on these people

they're hopeless

and there was no

only one other thing to do with alcoholic

so

we don't

Morgan

hello we have ginger ale when you really

it became a very

we tried to change the body chemistry

we

everyone

we'll never know your enemy

I like that in their jails around

you will have no way of

but there is one group of

what group

never gave up on the offer

that was the family

we

to be responsible

we don't think you're going over

J. O.

your ideas with

good man

thank

however

he was

Hey there are family

thank

they seem to feel that we were invalid

other people that we were willing to continue to live in

I thought we were playing their circumstance

another group

thank god that you're

thank

a little later

the

they were the ones with the lady vols

thank

very

we were just trying to

follow the direction of the call that lead to

the research that they were going on remember was

a lot of money

and

related to remain

that project and there

there was one kind of women now

thing that they did not start with women don't

women

but it's the kind of thing that went on there spent thousands

our system dollars treatment centers on every corner

yeah well you know I think when you're

electrician or the families of alcoholics

well well the only nation where a lot

and

don't you think

and I learned during that

research

Alexander the great

the whole world when he was only thirty three years so anyway because there were no world

but he doesn't know

I learned that

right around there but the level

the magic

and they are starting with the magic that he found in a bottle there are quite a number but

the first

Republicans

Dr Jekyll and Mr

right in my own living room just like a lot of you

degenerated from all

Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

very little about the families of the

but I believe with all my heart I don't know the loneliness and the fear that

when she waited for her restless

you come home

and I believe that I know the whole

when she left her home in California

in hopes that

his problem

and I believe that I know the joy that they knew when he gets

and I believe I know to some degree

okay

give me a hard time about my

thank you

are you ever going to get a hold of the microphone to give us

and of course have a good reason

it is

I'll tell you the

find out something that I feel is very significant

this call is M. A. N. overstock and without all the effort that is being made and there is tremendous effort being Merion

in the perfection of

and I never want to put down their friends in the profession

we are friends with all the efforts that they're making

it's almost impossible anymore

growing up in an article

I was absolutely amazed by

but you know that's

find a script from there I think the thing

but the biggest part

they currently have an alcoholic in your home

if you don't have

if you go out and get

thank you for

everything that goes wrong you can blame the alcoholic every

problem

no longer put

J. O.

thank

so they well and they and their families so they can get

but with all the effort

the major point in terms

they are just not getting

yeah

they are not getting the job and the reason they're not getting the job done because they don't know all there is to know

right now we're looking at a room

you know about how

so in my opinion this is

yeah

and I learned a lot

when I came here fifty group

the world

and if you're in the whole world

I haven't heard a response

or

part

we

over forty dollars

they went there

one hundred and twenty

if it were not represented

so with member

and for those

absolutely

it's unbelievable

it is great to watch

and it was fascinating thing that I've ever done in my life I wouldn't take a million dollars

second I wouldn't do it again right now they're making

the group and we did not

we have a program to live

we didn't have a we did not have a

are we really had in those early days

awareness of a great help

and they did

some people who are very new

to come to their meeting places well they had a meeting and

where we could put up there is very little attention wide hallways around

we got together and we

are you know very well what we

it was kind of a market competition to determine which one of us

because I did not

fine young man who during

with a lactation program together

thank you for

well it was a world were aware of the fact that in turn the family

it would become aware of this need for help

well known as the

thank you know they were both born

I am very gradually over a long period of time we did indeed become aware of this thank

you can get some help

and when they wrote the book

unless they make provisions for

the card is included in that the characters for the families of the

thank you very well know but they are one of these characters and titles to well

no that is not intended to be a put down but the

our members

the fact of the matter

there were no women in so they

the group's kind of problem there groups

any other character of course

okay the family afterwards

and they are not part of the country where I grew up in

chapter

later we open our leading

our growth

finally there's almost only

this can be of anything of value

yeah I'm going with their problems

the only

no matter how great

our their hiding place

thank

and your card

the

thank you

yeah

every

here's part of the

when I get there because I was exposed to this

program

it measures

or so many

and I was

yeah

seventeen hundred miles from a family right in the middle of

the very first

thank

everyone went

I don't understand

I just

a lawyer but he can't tell the

and he's

well I don't know if it's coming home or coming home

do not thank

this call is for you it will

hello

you're going to need for your recovery

and I can think of no better reason to read

what are the people that are sponsored

one hundred and sixty four

the card gets

if you're not willing to find out the nature of the illness

I learned a lot you're going to need

are quite frankly don't have

I get a lot of traveling Ellen on family because they don't like

things that are contained in this site number because I have been here longer than I

and there's nobody around

tell you the truth but I want you to remember

thank

well I've got a

first open meeting right now

he's in nineteen forty eight and I did not want to go to that meeting

the only reason that I went to a meeting meeting because I had put myself under obligation to a very beautiful woman who is married to a member

and if you haven't picked up on it yeah

I grew up in the hills of North Carolina and we don't

do not like to be able the only reason that I went to that meeting as I said it was an open meeting there was about a hundred and fifty people there and you've probably noticed this weekend that I drink a lot of company

and then made the coffee bar we were seated in the

related links across America

and then

in the backyard her question about Murray

really embarrassed

the question

it measures only

no no no

with

not only

further

the man who works hard

the card

there was a great

thanks for your

problems with the spring choir

but on Thursday night turned into

well it tried both

hello

and

one one eight eight

well it doesn't

the last four years

in total darkness

Hey did anybody ever love John Martin

you can make

now they know

you know

thank

for those of us

all right

the girl that never let me

after I found the courage

the god of my understanding

papers every day of my life with one partner

yeah

my dad

thank you

yeah don't let me down and

seventy

yeah

other hedge

there are you know very well that I didn't look at

American

no I didn't want

you can have a drink of water you know

about my dad are about that you may require them

all right

you are

you may know that I have

the card

I like

you know that when America just

and that became the father of my children I was not concerned with

father Martin says the only way you can identify I know how it goes but the one that you know and they all did not

there was not a Canadian girl

creeping crawling

it was the hardest part

the card is

put your little

thirty one little bit

we work for a company that all of the United States and we got

I was one of those

Chicago Illinois

but

in nineteen forty

right now I'm a girl

we

well then I will

thank

I was working

my brother

and the members

and

I didn't

I was watching it live in Europe and later in the South Pacific

we

right now the next year

he came on Wednesday and

other

welcome to the hospital

because a great deal of confusion he wanted

thank you lord

thank

and when they think they are

the house

when

for the modem and just so he could tell you about her new baby girl you say there was

there we have very little about

there's no children involved but the fact of the matter is

my brother

during my mother and my sisters went into

at home we kept that we need to

a little

and I couldn't talk about that for a long term healing I had

later that day and gave them on the phone

there was back from the doctor

after a long

and then I was absolutely overwhelmed with guilt

because there are

forty

it was one of those healthy

that downloading a guard

the United States one crippled children's

Dr right now all

I didn't create a lot more because I didn't have anything

there has been a

rather

say that

learn to walk twenty million

not quite eighteen years old

he walked

are you watching rather cross the parking lot and single lump in my throat because this is just another part of that process

it is not enough

and I want you to know that when I came to Texas in order to Kerr I had never heard the term unless some

thanks to my young because I had never heard

but I want

everything that he had

but he wanted

yeah

the respect for the difficulty of work are the affection of his own family and finally

okay

yeah

and I'll never forget the day

the largest increase

the fed to go to work but

the children and later they honored their

as far as I'm concerned that this summer

bill paid a large

in a girlfriend

and he couldn't

we were very

this

I want to help

with every fiber

the money

something directly to you

I've heard some of your standard

I don't know what you're talking about

hello

when they

what happened down in black carpet got sober and going home

children

great well in the knowledge that but for the grace of god

somebody might be walking up and down and

hello bill any insurance but he was

when I didn't know which one of those

what

it definitely wouldn't live the morning scared to death if he didn't he wouldn't happen

no

we want to help

but you wouldn't

really describe the use of

it is a feeling that those are

all right

it's the feeling you have when you

right

the baby crying

favor anyone up

but the baby because the baby

and they don't like

hello

we couldn't help but I want you to remember that we wanted

we wanted to help and I hope you remember that the next time you open your mouth and then

remember that we wanted to help

custom built

that wouldn't be here if it hadn't been for somebody like me

and

you may not know about

no no

we don't

we don't like

and yet

if I could write a very clever

our newsletter called the form and Chris

I don't think they would return it then very likely with the red pencil there right in the market

we don't make

it was very

I went there with

the real expectations

if

part of the country with the people who love them that I have the support

but

they really understood my dad and built one of eleven children

they understood readily available

he was very young

are they make

in my current always nasty cigarette

they didn't have

harmful

eight out of five built

going back to my other

it was only eighteen years older than me

right

there was the first

after you got

I realize that there really was a problem that they needed to reckon

and

we

right

through the years

I think I got some respect for me but it was hard earned dollars tell you that for sure like I said before I let you go if you're not born in Texas your secondary

first thirty

so the best I can do

no one had ever made reference to

when we went in lawyers and a violent cough

problem

no one ever

being a no

and then when we got

we're

who call themselves members and they

the matter with

they also understood

what was the matter with me because then I met I met a group of people now five eight people was wearing that

this other group of non alcoholic they were W. where

although I found it very

there are

and they didn't know what to do

I had a great

and

they were riding on articles about

and then

in the field of mental health

calling on member Alan on meeting

a group and you know in a way

so I went to this meeting expecting

right away

domino's

and I had the distinct feeling that but in order

come up for air

yeah

better than anybody else has ever worked on when I was

never seen anything else someone

they are

I didn't

and they didn't work

I'm going to change my

by the very fact that

I don't understand I am not a child

children were part of my district

one of my children was

why I had to watch from the wings

cut out in the audience

America your call internally

you got a great card she was afraid to bring it home

we'll call

and he said

there are

and

she said she was afraid to come home and come home with only

bring her great

and I don't want to say one word

she did the best we could

but the message

that you could give me and I don't want you to open your mind

anything about

failure to make a

now the Roughriders

great great

right because that really red meat

LMAO

may

I know that

ready to come home on the weekends because we lived in that room and I was

work for fifty two hours every week

maintain the house

and when we can claim that it was coming

I couldn't couldn't creatures

I'm in the kitchen everything in this album but because

and

we're

our family

and I don't know I'm program is all about

they have

terrible terrible experiences that I have never

I understand

and that was

lots of people right I couldn't name a half a dozen people docket claim

because

I wouldn't

I didn't want them to know what went on within the law

and when you do that you don't make

first Friday

I was elected for the whole state of Texas

really

one member of my group

because I'm not

so the next day we had two groups

and I had an opportunity to

and I had to make a decision I heard back from Dallas

if you're on a jet airplane or admit I was a coward and you know very well it's not going to let

sorry but only for the first time

eleven other people there from different parts of the country

and then I realized then that I had friends all over the world if I would identify myself as a member of the family

and some of you told me that your life

and then I could belong to the human race

there's not enough

and we love this program

and there was a marked the phones like this and said that I would put my four

or in the whole United States and I'm in it

from the university

when I came home and there are no

yeah twenty five million dollars what is your current car and again I

that

of course it always

are you getting very upset in California

Austin Texas

thank you very

there are

and then I would get a call from the

tell me that now

and then the rest

thank

on one of the

it's going to be all right thank you

it's going to be alright

you are on the floor

but I was very young

referring to the problem of it

thank you couldn't live with his

you probably don't but when she got in there

he was very uncomfortable

describes the respect of alcohol on the human body

it was a very very

there was no way I

because

connect

they're doing work for five years

here's

members of my family the program

I did not try to help them

I did not

I've heard terrible stories about

right now they're very

horrible stories about

Peter owns

I couldn't even

preventative Kerr was so distraught over

you couldn't live in our own country the question I don't

my favorite part

that

calibrated seventeen

here's

everything is worth remembering that

because

and I've been doing this for a large number of errors some of you know

and I'm not

it's a very

the world No

this message

because we're

this message

they're very

hello

even

this message

the one that always made

every

thank god

thank you for their dad to come home tonight Saturday so much for the work of all those different personalities we

this message may god have mercy on the

the numbers on