Bob S. from Nacoma, TX at River City Roundup in Sacramento, CA

all the people

and also to thank the committee

a lot of people are

me up at the airport

are they going to

thank you very

how much thank you very much

your word

three hundred miles north of Dallas and leave them or what your

you know what

the result was when we

the

over thirty thousand dollars worth of improvement

four years ago or whatever yeah nineteen years over program

I was just a month

the the beauty of the program was there and available when we need to open

some people

it was very well for us

they'll look for you

it's not what we have

how will

file

I know some of your services I want to tell you a little bit of luck

that's the way my sponsor

G. R. E. G. R. I. three years otherwise

and a few years ago I got a call from our office

the large for all

the educational qualifications for which

all right

yeah

talking about my group yeah

a large for all of our

guess what

my first thought was a long

there was one

the person for the job and maybe our heavenly father has

only one of the beauties of our program

a member of

forty three years old whatever it is I'm the only person still living there

the first day

thirty five

and I really feel very

and now I'm the only one

are you worried about

new guy so they're all gone except

yeah

the last one standing

really I'm not well

nobody

I'm not going to take you back with me in my memory of the

the day before mother's day with a part of

he was

my mom was a friend of

the man

help for him right on that

well not

full name of the

well we were all sitting at one of the worst

fifteen minutes

what a room by themselves many hours and it

meeting a monster

they lived at our home all the time

we're formulating

it was in the middle of the night

we live in a one industry town after

great year are starting all over

well when people

so the river went down to two days a week if anybody had a strong man on the street corners

and we are

the mortgage more

thank you thirty three or five people who are like

the way things were

my mom

well I think this is our

Merkel's

I don't know what it's like my

part of what you guys are going to raise

what it is all over the world

I saw the

Chinese

starting in

Merkel and then I can think of lots of

in order to have a large

how will that would be used to

right

I remember building in New York

another medical bills okay

two things

they both open on my

the

nobody

important

from absolutely nothing

and every

or maybe some of you

right where you are with your

you're starting all over you're coming or whatever are you starting in the program

you think right now you're starting

another thing I

these programs are Merkel's

and there maybe some of you here that are starting from nothing that are bad need of America

and I want to talk

so I want to talk about

and I want to talk about

I love

I work for

I'm not going to

life or

everyone here already knows

there was another alcoholic in the first

yeah

are even

along with the lan what

they moved the whole family and our

there are a lot

remember

and we live

reach right away is

the what you give them time to drive up

yeah

over

no problem

service immediately

my mom around

the realtor group

the only thing to do with the wife

at Arbor Michigan and recommitted

and we're calling for

one of my

two years later

I walked up to me

you know me and I looked over and I yeah no you're you're

right I'm a member of the

a group of over one year

the result

call

and the reason for our party and we don't have to be fully qualified

we go

we go with

and I know that I've made calls for the first

where there

your loving

you're all the pictures of it Graham

well he was that way at all

imprimatur from Saint John

on the other colleges and and

right in there you know

what

on his

the first

over a long enough

to graduate from the second one

because of the

equipment internship

and

or or or in court

only seventeen years things over

when the home ninety forty five are

I took a look at

we

more

yeah

very well you

a former

thirty dollars

and the Vermont

the reason that I didn't get the

what are we going to do it right he said we're going to get one

we

knowing that

there was little for rose

good

John

but there is

motor bill was very I think there will

further up the road

I've ever known in my life

he was either you or your partner

there was a long

after three years

I'm pretty much of an even

and that was good

you know he only lives fifteen years writing my

thank you for reading over five thousand dollars

a medically without

sharks

Dr

the exact opposite

I never had an argument

they just never had an argument together

and I think that was

right because you see if any two of us are exactly alike one of the

we're very expensive

sixteen dollars I think there are any money

treating alcoholics are

well first of all

seventeen years

or any of you there right at home with

the race

let me talk about that

what we

turning

I don't I also know that each of us developed our own way to call

with that problem

you don't ever bring anybody

it was I got out of there

as long as I travel with

coping

and I speak only for myself but I

I think the one thing that must be on the alert for it already

don't mind

you know

all the things that I did all the things that

they're not

I think someone else

we'll work

for

but

right right up front that I have to pay for the

right where you can see it you

a group of

in order to keep

mines mine's going

and you know one thing we learned in our programs one thing only

our program

in my case

I think that I think of myself as a survivor

I'm not a big

thank god we have

program

first it was critical

and I were both

and

they were treating alcoholics in our home

under treatment

and we might

it's called

when the guy came through it was

but when I came home if we open the front doors

we knew we

the recovery and we were

and you know

can you imagine what

you know

the card

but anyway if you

our

but it was it was

you want to start

somebody that knows anything about I think maybe she wanted

uninvited

where this

could you never lost your back into your

I started a friend

the card is

mom and mom was the one that was answering the phone because

Corey's mom was the one that injured

because modern

you're not

almost one in regards to the press

and I never heard of anybody

we were

everyone

one in the morning okay bye

and then early part of nineteen thirties are organized a group

we are we're by

right

all right

and your lower and I'm on the

your program

to their surprise they found out they were sixty four groups already

independent thank you it wasn't almost

there was something about it

okay

if you wait for your sister and I were trying

start making her own

you want to be called

Argus

it's a little

hello every one over the other

we thought that those were a little bit of history hello

have you ever used

well the first

these are very

right by the door

everyone

always the only grows old

and he wore it every time

everyone got back on the streets

three

I'm gonna wear white to the meeting

I don't know where the old black

they'll be somebody

for

that was

your available order right after

I am a afterwards you wouldn't

and I don't know what

even though your father you're not completely well

you can think of is

the media got a hold of this movement

in order

Dr okay cool

and they've been on the

on the brain

the father provided the right

it was

learn

yeah

allow them to

all right lord

this room was actually was very small room in our room

and in those days we had to bring all of our

room back in

story might because the oxygen or whatever it is far

I've often wondered when the

anyway

grow

and

in nineteen forty

what happened was

a lot of the guys on the war

other people were they were used for their own

people have started three

people hanging out their shingles

representative

corporate

their own corporation idea

from North Carolina

we're going to be like

well some of you know the history of the

the group

Baltimore decided they want to stay sober and they started an organization called the war

they had the idea total

they travel to each other's meetings the group

okay

where do I

what happened was the worst

it was good for alcoholism

all of the money they

user or a

anyway what the result of it was they

part

you were totally gone

they were

they're in New York City

for

well

right

read

private groups interested in adopting cloud

groups like they are now they

going back to New York from that like we want to

right we want

so at the first international in nineteen

and

you know what

maybe some of the things

how about this

reporting

in the early days the liquor industry want to give a big money

because it was very good advertising

somehow they managed to

turn it down even though they didn't have any money

thank you thank everybody

I would

but there would be some

Merkel refused

and that's one of the many many people

our worry well

terminally ill mother died the year before

international my wife and I drove all over Vermont one more

I would

along

we

second of all that was in nineteen fifty one

I mean

over the people

people

and your father in

talks are recorded

there in a book

after

for work

we don't turn it over to the

this morning

all of this over

right

and that's one of the things you know I read earlier one of the things that

what happened was

moved away

for more

my wife and I were

everyone merrily on our way

and we would go

and on the way home

I was working

the court heard

in the nineteen forties

I started a new Mexico

there was ever to you when

I have recognized alcohol

my wife

but we thought we were thank you for

we're

mother in law

you want a divorce

number one

the nature of the

it's become a number one priority

what we didn't immediately jump

you know

we're going to recognize the goal

I like

story I think

two hard

what are

and come back in a week and

so the plane came in and

we are

Warner

three

me and remote

don't worry about it

planning your

what he did was

the river and got a longer run

well

right

but the little work wholeheartedly over

well one day out from under the plan

but it looked around

well

world

yeah you know I think we're within a hundred yards away requires

things

the young

a group

for people that are problem like you and me we use

I'm sorry

hang on by our fingernails

I don't recommend you do it that way and then I'll tell you one thing you

I believe that

really it was a program of attraction with me she was

working hard and it was

my

forty miles

the

hello

let me

yeah when your daughter comes at four in the morning with

they're going

the rocket and all the family together

bloody but unbowed

but you know these things are revealed to us I think as we can handle them

I talked to and one of the ladies two years later she said oh I remember that many box after you left we held a meeting

it's not going to make it

did you ever wonder where they got the idea

bill in New York City for six months and my dad mother in Akron Ohio for a larger organization called the option

okay archer group was started by a Lutheran minister from Pennsylvania by the name of Frank Lloyd Wright and the basic tenets of the art

sentry spirituality

they have they shared with each other they

they had a form of a fish out

and they they had to pour out

the absolute unselfishness and

absolutely well that have been woven into our programs

I used to go to some of the parents and they

they were

in your

are you today I was very

it was inevitable that

they are

because out

I think anybody would just have a a programmer it's not absolutely absolutely about anything

and they have their

also the archer group caters to the upper middle class and they're really all calls were not

also

group wanted publicity and alcoholics already had all of them

and they have a form of a

fish take a nosedive during one of the bedrooms

where they L.

and they were out

foreign on actually that it was a problem with

and I think that Mr really worked over

but anyway this was a this was a form of open confession and was not acceptable to people in the Catholic religion

I don't know if you realize it or not but there are few Catholics should drink your money

so it was inevitable that we part but

we always people tremendous debt of gratitude thank you

as water

also you know god has his own big book

and the things that they use to find helpful or from the

I will

going on about the thirteenth Corinthians and the book of dreams which as you all know is things without works is dead these are the background materials that they used to

consolidated program

we have a lot of anger in our recovery I don't know about you but we

and we have to work through that and I had to work really in a relationship it doesn't have to be fifty fifty

just ninety ten

sometimes it's and I

reference

all even now I had to learn those things I had to learn to hear or the past the past right very very slowly

so many so many beautiful things have occurred since I've been studying and trying to learn

you know I think I was always get what I call cash register on this you know if I use the group gave me too much change I'd say you're running

quarter to

just be yourself almost all day long

there's another stage of honesty with me and I call that resume honesty

I basically tell you the truth but I guess you know

and then there's a whole industry that we are in our program when I can show you just like I am warts and all Hey do you do the same for me we can have it ends in about the relationship and I know of no other organization in the world that we can do

view the full pricing of the program

I reserve I was raised in Episcopal Church that's Catholic light

you know all the pageantry without the guilt yeah

the gun was used to improve by department and

if you do this he's going to get you well I I didn't like that as much as an adult so I presume I passed up by

in World War two I was a bomber pilot flight commander and I flew forty five missions on Africa they will forage liver

and our losses were very very happy

and I had a relationship with god I called nine one one relationship

you know I made deals with god that any of you ever do that

if you'll get me out of this mess were

well that is very

if either

I believe it was somebody

there you go

but now the relationship that I have with god these days as a result of our program god is my heavenly father well god's kids

we are all god's kids

and that helps me when I look at some people

that's true we're all god's kids and I talk to my guy just like I can talk to you

I pray I thank him every night I prayed to it every day and I hopefully I pray for things that will help other people

and

okay maybe those were driving along the highway for if you do too

did you see that absolutely because

but it's a beautiful relationship the more I have open with him tomorrow

so

to me and that is another

view mobile home

you know I think when we get here we have our freedom many of you remember the old country western song me and Bobby McGee

yeah freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose nothing nothing but it's free

kind of how it is when we get here

we begin to work the program we can do that turning point but maybe it's and I got to work this program or am I not am I going to turn my wheel of my life

what is your understanding or am I not

and this gives me a freedom for the first time the alcoholic is created on charcoal from the bottle in the other one on it a jackal from the alcohol we have freedom of choice for the first time we've had good choices we make bad choices we have freedom of choice

and then my sponsors told me about a another freedom

he said try this Bob

so when you get up in the morning say okay god you're the end house manager you're running

let him go thank you to the right

that's another level of freedom that's as high as I've got

well the miracles

coming

so many did you ever stop to think about some of these

I have happened how about this one

bill never broken they were human beings they thought it would be great if we had some money for this wonderful thing we're gonna go my dad because he himself was for the treatments that are you know with his white coat on greeting the patients and baby fell out of the streets flying a man you know

so they went to New York and met with people with the

to get some money for this Mr Rockefeller news group listened very intently and said no

body work

I just think in your own mind what might have happened

if Mr Rockefeller group picked up to a million Bucks on a hundred broke out college

do you think about it

anonymity

in the early days of all calls are anonymous and Alan on there were people with huge egos

now I know I know we don't have any of that anymore

but you can have the most rare misses out on if nobody knows what your name is

and another thing that I've done folks it makes no difference have you been here forty days or forty years where all exactly the same

and isn't that the way it should be

and that's America

as we understood it was put in there to quite a lot nothing no stricter than average you may be

this kind of stuff or run it

is that

they were among the faster we can recommend

so shut me up they put god as we understood him everyone has done that has made these programs acceptable to religions all over the world

people who have an entirely different concept of our R.

or email several lot half of America

the big book of Alcoholics Anonymous you know when they wrote it first they couldn't give it away

good work

and the guy would love having books until the cameras don't

so

they raise a little money go by what they call it the song they gave a little extra money and they get a few more the next time that's where it was

very very slow now I understand number two seller

Jennifer you have lived around the holy Bible

and I don't know how it is here but

but in Texas you can buy one of

you have to go through the center offers or in a group

in my lifetime

and the first a hundred sixty four pages

are exactly the same

the check yourself for one word

we don't have a spiritual

hang on I have a bunch

your light came on their own

most of us don't get it that way

most of us have to work

gradual gradual

so the change that word from having had a spiritual experience Avenue what

and that's the only

and think of the millions of millions of alcoholic sort of trying to find a loophole in the

how they cover them all

the programs are just full of Americans

so if you're new here in your life is just starting again or your your relapse and you're back down the path you're getting you're starting from nothing remember some of these programs

all these programs if you're in bad need of America look around here everyone in this room is over and we want to talk to you if you don't bother you help

your strength in this Hey weather's hang in there with this you see I don't know if you're if you're new here if you can understand that when we can help you that's a source of happiness let me quote for you Dr Albert Schweitzer your minister of my generation doctors watcher with a world class organization and he went back and we went down in the dark

and did nothing but three people I've never seen a doctor for the balance of his life and doctors watchers said I've no not with your destiny may be

one thing I do know

those

who will find true happiness are those who sought and found hello Sir isn't that what we're doing here is that the source of our happiness so if you're going to remember we want to help you just remember everyone was brand new at one time or another and just remember the source of our happiness so hang in there with a stick with the winners for the winners if you currently have you with us as we tried several

yes

I got one more thing I want to tell you that I'm going to quit you know my wife died four years ago

and I have a little lonely old guard

well

I found a lady

and we've been married about a month and a half

he's twenty six years old

we can

under your hours

and course you've got a few rough

nothing that the love of a good hour

my god never want or what you

and I'm sure you're

thank you very much

before we do some more now

the committee

but I wanted to give you

okay then Susie close meeting with Britain after followed by reading of the problem

which is a surprise

yeah

thank you my name is

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tomorrow night speaker meeting will begin at eight PM with our own on speaker

also

advisor sobriety countdown and then our speaker Starkey okay

the

thank

now read the promises

your

problem

hi my name is Theodore I haven't maple alcoholic and an addict

promises we are painstaking about this phase of our development you will be amazed before we are halfway through

want to know a new freedom and happiness we will not forget the past no wish to shut the door on will comprehend the words

no matter how far down the scale we have gone

Jennifer

hearing of uselessness and self

here we will lose interest and selfish things

and also thinking of the way

our whole attitude and outlook on life

zero people and economic

everyone is doing for us so we could not do for ourselves

the promises

your available fill them up

okay

and slowly they will always meant

we work for the