How it Works

For the EF Hutton of AA now, yeah. So listen,

Ryan, Clarence Schneider, and I'm on three. I'm a rummy

and I

and I have recovered a lot of people. I hear them always say they're recovering. When do we recover?

We recover when we go into this program, and we can stay recovered as long as we stay in the program. If we want to unrecover why we didn't regret going into it or get out of it, quit going

pending meetings and switch working by the plan that we have.

You know, I hear an awful lot of things about this program and I probably had more opportunity to hear these things and see them than too many people have since I've been around here longer than anyone else and I've had my last birthday was in February. I had 44 years

fellowship.

This does not qualify as me as Moses but believe me I have learned a few things. Any dumb as I am, you have to learn something in that length of time if you stay active and stay around these people.

And I hear an awful lot of things about this program and I hear people say how hard they're trying to work this and they're working this and they're working that stuff, they're working something else. And I hear them say sometimes I don't know how it works. It just works

well. It sucks. If you read the big book, it tells you how it works in chapter 5. And I have a fundamentalist in AAI believe in the fundamentals of this program.

I happen to come into this program before it was known as alcoholic synonymous and before this 12 step program was put together. Yet we had a six step program in the old Oxford Movement and all the people who preceded me in a number of them that came afterwards came into that Oxford group. We found that Alcoholics are different than people

and we and we found that Alcoholics have to have their own society.

We all our origin to the Oxford Movement and they were wonderful people, but they were all civilians.

And I saw very early in my life in, in this fellowship, friction developing between the Earthlings and the rummies. And it got to the point where it got rather desperate at times

due to a number of due to a number of reasons, we had to break away and start our own fellowship uses mostly because of the idea of religion. The nobody hears against religion. I hope that this wasn't what we what I'm talking about. The Oxford Movement was a Protestant religious fellowship,

and Catholics did not belong to it for the simple reason the Church did not permit them to. And

in my struggling around to try to find some members and I left City Hospital in Akron in February 1938, my sponsor, Doctor Bob, told me to go back up to Cleveland and spend the rest of my life fixing rummies as an avocation. And I sat up there and tackling rummy. There's like a signal. Now remember, we had no book, we had no group, we had no literature, we had no nothing.

So I walked up to some drunk on the street and I tell her, hey, Butter, you ought to quit drinking. You ought to be like me.

Well, this is a great approach

and I did get some resistance,

but after seven months of that carrying on, I finally nailed the guy and he is my first baby and I got him in the hospital and I was walking four feet off the ground. I finally had a comfort, something I think in those days my main object was I didn't feel I'd ever be a member of this great fellowship until I had successfully sponsored someone.

So I went out after that with a vengeance and mostly the vengeance is taken out on me.

But anyway, it finally happened and I've come to realize why it took me 7 months to sew up my first baby.

It says something in our program about carrying a message.

Well, I simply didn't have a message. I had a lot of time, a lot of brass, a lot of eagerness and a lot of ego. And what have you said? I had no message

that one. I'm trying because this fella bought it. He was a poor guy. He was a captive audience, but he bought the squatter anyway.

And from that point on, they start coming in real fast.

Had a dozen men going down Akron from Cleveland,

and as it happened, seven of them were Catholics and five of them were other into those.

And

they saw this performance going on in the Oxford Movement. All this witnessing and getting guidance for other people and reading out of the King James Version of the Bible and all this, all this, it really got wild. Sometimes these classics looks at me and looks at each other and they told me they couldn't take this.

So by this time we had written the a a book that was written in the fall of 1938. And this is May of 39 I'm talking about now. I went down to see my sponsor tell them our problem

and he said, well, we're not keeping the Catholic side. It says no, you're not keeping them out, but the church keeps them out the same thing. They can't come in.

No, it's not that. Tough luck. We don't need that kind of thing all this fall. They're all in the Oxford Group. It's that they can't handle. We don't need. We got the 12 steps in this book now, and we have the four absolutes of honesty and public security and love. Anyone should live by that. I don't care if he's a Catholic or is he a Hindu or what he might be or if he's nothing. He can do this,

you can't do it, I said. We got to do something. So that's when the first unity came in and a a we had the biggest damn riot really saw

on an accent. And I thought when I announced that we weren't coming down there anymore. We're starting our own group in Cleveland and then I made the mistake of telling him the address. So we're having a meeting. This is a very bad because next Thursday night in Cleveland, that whole bunch descended upon us

and they try to break up our meeting and one guy was going to whip me and this I must judge, was all done in sure Christian love.

But that's how that was a second indication of unity that we stuck together and that's how AI started. It started in a riot and it Rosen riots. People talk about unity and all that trap. If we had unity in a a it had one big group and six people doing the work and the rest of them getting drunk. A lot of people come into college here that have to move

the leaders. They have to do something. They can't sit in that back row and they can't sit on their hands.

Alcoholics have peculiar tendencies and personalities, and they have to be doing something. Alcoholics, their doers. They're not thinkers. Alcoholics don't think they most

No Alcoholics ever going to do anything until he feels a certain way. He hurts badly enough, he'll do something. If he don't, he's in all the historic King's horses. Not going to pull him into it. So this is the way we have to prepare ourselves for membership here. You and I belong to the greatest fellowship in existence.

I don't. I don't mind telling you that. I believe it too, and I'll tell you why

everybody can't be an alcoholic. I don't think that over 8 or 10% of the population can become alcoholic. I don't care how hard they try, they just don't have it.

And we are very fortunate people and we can get along with each other one minute and be killing each other the next day. She'll always love one another. In the last analysis, it's great. We are the craziest bunch of people in the world, but I'll tell you why.

If you're not much, you don't belong here.

And we are. And people wonder about these things, you know, That's why other people can't understand it. They just can't figure out. And we do things. I do things a day. Somebody say, why did you do that? I said, how do I know? We don't think about things. They never see an alcoholic sitting down there contemplating his navel. He's gonna do this,

but he's gonna do something. You can bet that

he'll he'll, he'll ask, he'll do something. But you know, we earned our right to be there. And unless the person earns his right to be here and realizes that he isn't going to appreciate this place really. And, and if we, if you stop and figure Saddam figure out

that the typical alcoholic that's been in business or in working and he retains the age of 40 years,

it has cost him a minimum, a minimum of 50,000 bucks to get here.

Believe me, that is some entrance fee. A lot of people join the Country Club and across them 1000 bucks and 1000 bucks a year and so much to play. Every time they go out, they think they're big stuff. They didn't pay the 50,000 bucks, but you and I pay 50,000 bucks to get here and money lost opportunities and to say nothing of the anguish and the heartache

and other things that happened, the tragedy that happened. So we are very much blessed that we had this opportunity, and I'll tell you why.

Alcoholism is probably the oldest malady that afflicts the human race.

You read about alcoholism

and in ancient history. You read about it in the Bible,

You read about it in mythology. There are a lot of good rummy stories in the Bible. This thing of booze has gone on a long time

and if you once you're reading the Bible, you'll find it's very interesting. You don't have to go any further than the first book of the Bible and you'll meet your first rummy

and meet Noah, the guy that had the boat.

There's a rummy.

You don't believe it, I'll tell you. You listen to this thing. There's a guy in the rummy. I'm a Chinaman.

The world has got itself in the shape about the way it is today. Go everything going down Hell Bentford disaster, you know,

and God couldn't get these people to get off this kick. He finally gave up and he decided to wipe the whole thing out, going to flood the whole thing and start all over again.

Well, he needed some seed to start with. So Noah was a good man and he trusted God and he loved him. So he went to know and he says no. My boy says I want you to do something for me. He says, anything large,

I want you to build a big boat. Again, the directions and dimensions of this boat and he says,

I want you to put out your finishes 2 of everything in there, every living creature, and I want you to put your family in that. So then she says why? Says well I'm going to flood this whole world and destroy everything in it. Now let's start all over again and you're going to be the seed. You're going to freeze the seed. Okay, that's all. No, I had a nose, but God wanted to do so. He goes to work, got his family out there cutting logs and working for years and years on their bloody boat.

And you can imagine what old Noah got from the neighbors.

They come by and say, what are you doing, Noah? I'm building a boat. You're building a boat out here in the middle of a desert. You don't know. It's playing with a short text.

Well, he kept on regardless of the criticism. He finally got the boat built

and sure enough, he got all those animals and everything else in it. I wonder why you put those two mosquitoes in there.

Well anyway, put everything in there and then climbing this wings came and it rained and it rained and it rained and it rained for 40 days and 40 nights and that boat starts to come up and everything else is going down.

A lot of those people who were laughing at noise tried to get in that boat when they saw that rain coming. They finally believe what Noah said, but he wouldn't open the door and they should have stay out there and take other semitones. So the whole world got flooded off, and for several months that boat floated around on that water.

And finally after a few months, the water started to recede and the boat came down and settled on Mount Ararat.

And the man came up. And what was the first thing our friend Noah did? He ran out there and planted a vineyard. He raised some grapes. He made some wine and got drunk. It's all in the Bible. I didn't make this up. It's in there.

No, I just mentioned that to point out that this alcoholism is nothing new. There's a lot of good rummy, but I could stand here for an hour because he's over the rummy story. He's in the Bible, and they're all good. Some of them are. You probably never heard that they were running. So I was like, you can associate with them when you're here and told properly. These ministers don't know how to tell these stories.

I hear some of these people talk about the Good Samaritan. They don't know he's a rummy. You ought to hear some of the stuff they hand out that story means and talk about that prodigal son. They give you some of the wildest stories of why this guy with the prodigal son. They never never occurred to these poor earthlings. The big diver rummies.

They were strictly grunts toys. Well, anyway,

we alcoholism for centuries has been with us is the only point I want to make.

And all down through these centuries, believe me, everything has been tried. I have a book at home is about this six and it was written way back in the early 1800s about the history of alcoholism and what had been done up to that time in order to to solve this problem of heavy drinking and alcoholism

and everything. You would be amazed at all the things that were tried

and don't you know something? Not a lot of words. And this is history.

So finally, about 40 years ago,

this program came along. We grew out of the Oxford Movement. We had a program presented to it that works up to this time. The alcoholic all down through these countries had two options. They could go crazy or die or both.

About 40 years ago this fellowship got together the way it is now and the alcoholic got a surge option. Still go crazy

he can die or he it well that's the sorry and you and I get well

we have the answer to it why people will not pay any attention to it because they're so stubborn and because they're so fearsome. They fear fear fear. Here's what kill us here is a motivating factor in Alcoholics rights. We are afraid to change our spots and change our whole direction.

We're afraid to accept something that has a connotation of spirituality to it.

Meeting. Couple of boys are here tonight. There was a meeting just a week or so ago,

these two boys got up and had the audacity in an A, a meeting to mention Jesus Christ. And did they get torn apart? You don't talk about God and Jesus and his baby. This is a a. Can you imagine that? And this is an old group. This is not a bunch of beginners that just come off as drugs or something.

Really.

Supposedly smart people?

I wonder what they think, where this program came from.

I wonder. I wonder if they ever read or ever study what these 12 steps say. It tells you how it works. Now, how does it work? Let me tell you how it works.

Let me read this

perfectly. We didn't read this before the meeting, so I'm going to read it now. You hear this, that all these meetings, most every meeting we attend, we hear this read. Let me read it to you. So this is how it works. So don't everybody tell anybody you don't know why this works or how it works for you is how it works. Rarely have we seen a person fail who has thoroughly followed our past, thoroughly get that word?

Those who do not recover

are people who cannot or will not completely give themselves to this simple program.

Did you get that completely right?

OK, usually men and women who are constitutionally incapable of being honest with themselves.

I always hesitate to talk about honesty and connection with Alcoholics, but it's in the book.

There are such unfortunates. They are not at fault. They seem to have been born that way.

They they they are naturally incapable of grasping and developing a manner of living which demands rigorous honesty.

See, their chances are less than outreach. There are those two who suffer from grave emotional and mental disorders that many of them do recover if they have the capacity to be honest. This is how it works. Don't forget it.

Our stories disclosed in a general way what we used to be like.

What happened and what we like now

here, now listen to this one. Here is the qualification for memberships in a A right here. Listen to this very carefully because if you're not ready to do this, you're not ready for this program.

It says if you have decided you want what we have

and are willing to go to any lengths to get it, you are now ready.

Take certain steps.

Roll that in over a while

if you want what we have, and I willing to go to any length. OK.

Some of these we bought. We thought we could find an easier, softer way, but we could not with all the earnestness of our command. We beg of you to be fearless and thorough from the very side. Some of us have tried to hold on to our old ideas and the result was nil until the electrical. Absolutely, absolutely no hanging on anything.

Let the whole thing go down the drain.

Remember that we deal with alcohol. Cunning, battling, powerful

without help. It is too much for us, but there is one who has all power.

That one is God, not the light bulb. That's God. Say, may you find Him now.

Now listen to this one.

Half measures avail is nothing. It doesn't say that half measures of illness, half results. If there's nothing about that, we are extremists and we can't do anything halfway. When we drank, when we worked, we worked hard. We play. We play hard. When we drink, we make a career out of it.

So half measures we don't know anything about. But people come into this fellowship do fear and one thing another. They try to go through half measures and they they miss the boat. They don't get what they should be getting out of this fellowship, not by a long shot. Some of them stay like they drive, but they don't have any fun. We're here to enjoy life

and here to search. Unless we get ourselves straighten around and we're not going to get much out of that, then it says here are the steps we took, which are suggested as a program of recovery. Alcoholics can screw up anything. They can screw up A2 car funeral and they screw this up. Let's just say this sends here reads this way to me.

Here are the steps we took which are suggested as a programmer. Recovery doesn't say these is a suggested step.

They didn't suggest them. You can take them or leave them and then suggested at the programmer recovery. You know what I mean? People screw this up and get to turn around ass back to

there we go.

Our program is divided into 4 phases. The first step is the first phase. That's the phase of admittance. Listen to that first step. There's two things in this first step and most people only hear one. Most people hear one part of that step. They hear the first part. It says we admitted we were powerless over alcohol. I don't hear this other thing at all

and our lives have become unmanageable.

OK, there are 200 well chosen words in these 12 step program.

An alcohol is mentioned once, once, once,

because there's an awful lot said in the rest of those success about getting our life manageable. And that's what we have to do if we want to recover and have a good life and be happy with it and be, be serviceable.

Yeah, any, anything back to the quit drinking. You can get quit drinking in jail and you get sick and you get somebody put a neutral on your neck, 'cause I mean, you can't swallow it because there's a lot of raising quit drinking. But that's not satisfactory.

Oh, booze is always gonna be here in this world either. There's no way that it's ever gonna be eliminated because people will have it. And it's an accepted thing socially and people we talk to. I thought the new people the other night, we're talking about the alcoholic, how he changes and the man, the person who's a real alcoholic, he starts out drinking

in social functions and he's bragging about his drinking,

bragged about it. Boy did I get a load on last night, you know. Oh, do I have a head today?

He brags about his drinking. So other than the time comes and he starts lying about it and then when he gets there he's in trouble. You start lying about it, hiding those jugs and trying to all this self justification that goes with it. We're in trouble then.

So people hear that we admitted we have powers over alcohol and you're hearing Yammer and about alcohol, alcohol, alcohol, alcohol. They keep, they keep drink conscious the rest of their life. What we want to do is get to drink consciousness out of it and get something else in our Life.

OK,

My life is unmanageable. If I my life is unmanageable, I can't manage it and I admit it. I'd better find myself a manager. That's as simple as I can see. It's very simple.

So there's the next step. We came to believe

a king to believe didn't say I believe this and I got here. I came to believe that a power greater than myself should restore me to sanity. The sanity but never bothered me too much. I find some of the bothering you a little bit touchy about it, but you start looking over your eyes and some of the things you pulled off of this is a handy for the same person. I'll take vanilla. But.

But here I came to Lee. Why did I come to believe that a power greater than myself could restore me to sanity? But how I did it. The men who preceded me came to visit me in that hospital in Akron and City Hospital. These Alcoholics,

they were all all older men than I am for us. That's why I'm the last one left of the original bunch. They just, I just outlived them, that's all. And they had been down that road in alcohol

and they've been through the ring of believe me. And they told me this power had helped them and would help me if I would but ask for it. And I wanted to believe em. That's how I came to believe em. I wanted to believe em. I wanted to get well. I was willing to do anything that they told me.

That's my willingness. This is what's necessary. All right. The second phase of our program is the 2nd through the 7th step. We have the first phase. First phase is admissions, second phase is submission.

2nd through seven. Third step says I made a decision to turn my will and my life over to the care of God.

I hear people come in and say you can take anything you want for God. You can take the group. You can take that piano. You can take that light bulb. Yeah. Oh, you hear that light bulb deal. I bet you've all heard everything. Here's a light bulb. Let me, let me read this. 12 steps of the light bulb.

No kidding,

we admitted we are pilots over alcohol. Their lives have become unmanageable. Came to believe that light bulbs greater than myself to restore me to sanity. I made a decision to turn my will in my life over the care of my light bulbs.

I made a searching a thorough tomorrow inventory myself. It matters in my light bulbs and myself into another human being. How do you like that?

My higher power has a name and his name is God and his son is Jesus,

so I make no bones about it. I didn't believe all this when I got here. I don't expect the person stomping in here too, but you better believe it if you want to get well and have a good life.

There's more to this fellowship than just saying dry. There's a lot of

airheads that come around here that can stay dry without doing anything.

I don't think a lot of them were ever alcoholic to start with and most of them don't have sense enough to be an alcoholic.

So being alcoholic, there's something on the ball

and something, you know, every alcoholic that drunk with every drunk. Not an alcoholic. I say there's a lot of drunks I I associate with a lot of my friends get well, you can't tell me too much about the type of drunk. And I tell you the fact a lot of those birds that I drank with were not Alcoholics and they could drink as much food as I could. And that's a big order I give you. But they weren't alcoholic. They could quit anytime that they get a different hobby.

I couldn't do it. I couldn't quit. I'm hooked

and I know that I've always probably will be. I let other people take the chances. I'm not gonna take chances myself. I don't. I don't have any need for booze. I don't have any desire for it. I don't have any love for it. I don't have any fear about it. It just isn't in my life serious. That's simple. I don't make a big deal out of it. So it says here. I made a decision to turn my will in my life over to the care of God.

That's quite a decision

for a guy that's been running away from God and try to hide someone for a long time and trying to deny him and trying to put some substitute in his place. That's quite a thing to do. And that takes desperation more than anything else. We have to feel pretty desperate, so we'll do that. But we feel that way. It's just right back to rotate. Qualification was if we want, if you want what we have and are willing to go to any length

you're not ready. OK, very simple. Yeah.

Then it says in the fourth step. Here's one that most people stumble all over the place on,

and it's very simple, but they don't understand or they're not taught properly what it is.

Four steps as I made a searching and fearless moral inventory of myself.

You know, people come to our house

from all over creation. They hear about this freak down in Castleberry, Florida, that has some way of taking people through the steps in two days,

and they've been fooling around with these steps for two years and they're not past one yet.

And so they wonder what this freaks up to.

So they call up and we talk to them and some of them wind up coming down to find out what's going on.

So I'm not curious. Some of them really mean business, but they come.

So when they come now, the girls are more more reliable to this than the men.

They take this fourth step

means that they have to recite every lousy thinking deal they've ever been into all their life. And these poor gals, they sit down for weeks on end and write all this crud all over a bunch of papers. And they come to me and when they get to step four, they hand me the sheep of papers, which I just take and I turn around, throat in the waist, back to other, whatever. Don't even look at it.

I'm not interested in all the funny things that they did

and all this crap. That's not what the 4th step holds for. If there's restitution to be made for some of the projects, it is in your life That is not has nothing to do with the four step. That comes later,

but that four step here says that we make we made a search of your fearless moral in there. What are my moral capacities? What have I got morally that are good? What's bad? What do I have to get rid of? What's what's ruling me in my moral setup?

There are characteristics that are tearing me apart. I have 20 questions I asked this person about these moral situations.

Things like South City self justification, lying and self condemnation and patience, dishonesty, hate, resentment and so on and on and on. There's plenty of them. These are the things we're looking for and these are the things that are eating us up. These are things we have to get rid of.

But how old is a trick here? It says that we're

my life's unmanageable. I can't manage, I can't do it. I'm, I'm at a loss and I'm not able to do it. Well,

step three, I made a decision to turn my will and life over to my new manager. What have I got that guy for? Let him take it.

So everything I have to do is ask Him to take these things away from me. I've been taught that any I can between God and myself, anything is possible.

Myself I can't do it, but with Him there's no limit. So I wind up with 10 or 12 of these thinking things in my character. So I have to get rid of. So what do I do as I administer God until myself and to another human being? What did I miss? All that treadmill. The exact nature of my wrongness. What a slob I was, what a liar I was, how resentful, how hateful and all this kind of business. What a liar I was, how dishonest I was. And always

how I got this and all that trap. These are the things so I have to admit to him and that to another human being.

Why another human being?

When we're dealing with my pot, with my, with my manager, he demands that I talk to somebody else, a human being. I express myself to a human being vocally. Thank you.

And it also says in the good books where two or three are gathered together in my name, there will I be also. Well, I'm going to have my manager do something for me. I got

no one choice that comes here because of the crime and Alcoholics ready for AAA. He is incapable of taking it on a tough job. He has to be easy.

It's just that simple. But people say, oh, it's all hard. And I've done an awful time with Swift Floors. Step 2. Step one. They've been fooling around with that since for five years,

living miserable when they can two days or one day even, they can get over the whole thing and forget it, go out and live like it feels like I came. Yeah,

some says I miss the God, myself and another human being. The exact nature of my lungs. All right, then. It says this knowing that I'm an extremist. It says we're entirely ready. Not kinda ready. About to get ready. I'm entirely ready. What for? What? To have God remove all these defects of character. He's gonna remove Mike Tandoori. How simple is it? Let George do it.

Where's I have him removed. All of them. Not on, not just part of them. I'm very frank to admit there's some defensive character. I like the King. They're fun, but that isn't what the program calls for. And those fun things are usually the things. That's just the things that destroy.

So if we want to get well, here's the way we do it. This is a prescription for living. So a lot of it say then I humbly asked him humbly asked him to remove my shortcomings. Hungry. I'd listen to Learn in a meeting one night of some, they're reading out of one of those

book, 12 steps, 12 positions or something, and somebody writing that book is trying to explain humbly. They got so far off the track, I didn't know what they're talking about. They got it all mixed up with humility and humbleness and falling in the dirt and everything else. That's not what we do. Humbly means you approach your maker in a humble, Worshipful manner.

That's what it means.

You recognize who he is and what your position to him is.

That's what that means entirely. People make some things out of these things. We wonder where they get this stuff. But that's the imagination of a rummy. Our imagination is something else. I mean running. They should all be short story writers.

After this 7th step, we go into the third phase and that's restitution.

It's that's the 8th and 9th step.

It says we made a list of all persons we had harmed

and I'll get this one and became willing to make amends of them all.

That's kind of hard because there's people that we have in solid people we've doubled dealt with and one thing another and we don't want to talk to those people and we don't want to get messed around with them. We were away from them. We don't want to get near fear

what the program calls for. We have to do it as we made a list of all person behind and became willing. We have to have a willingness to make amends to everyone. Obviously, we cannot make amends. Everyone we've harmed, that's impossible because some people have moved away. They're out of our orbit, they're dead or what have you. They're gone. The only thing we can do about that is I asked our manager to straighten it up for us and he'll do it.

Really, that's the only way to do it. But you got a manager for it. He does the things you can't do

sweaters.

Then it says I made direct amends wherever possible. Except

when to do so would injure them or others. This is a thing. A person should never go around doing this to men's business without the advice counsel of a real wise sponsor.

Because in our newest in this life, we get so excited about things, we start running off in four directions at once and it's a very easy manner to get other people involved in some things that we have no business involving them in.

So this is a stretch to be taken with a good sponsor and follow his advice. The person is living a good type of life in a A not just because some guys been around here for 20 years. I know some funny guys in 20 years are still bummed. The only difference is, are sober bums now. They were drunken bums under silver buns. They were bums anywhere when they're drunk. So they should know better.

You know, one shaking your head. You know, tell them, huh? Oh, good. I'm glad I'm not alone.

You don't know any.

Let's not get into personalities

now. We've gone through three phases of our program. We've gone through nine steps.

Now we get in the last phase, that phase of construction, in the last three steps, 1011 and 12. Listen to #1010 has nothing to do with it's an inventory step. It has nothing to do with step four at all, which also is an inventory step. Step 4 calls for a personal inventory. It says we made a searching and service moral inventory of ourselves and Step 4. The other one called the personal inventory

in step 10.

There's vast difference. This moral inventory has all those moral

degeneracies of eyes. It's a list, but that isn't what the 10th step is about at all.

The tent step is a personal checkup on our actions every day.

Today people talk about one day at a time, you know, mostly asking what they mean. But I don't really stay sober a day at a time.

Nuts During their only states over their time. They're in the wrong league.

Forget it. You're in here to live with it at a time. If you live a daytime, the way ought to be living. Never worry about the Friday or drinking the theater. I can tell you that from experience. Nobody was anywhere drunk than I was, and I have no problem with my boozing and having had never had. Why? Because I did what these birds told me to do about these this program. I don't say that if people showered me with gifts or showered me with gold,

anything. I had a lot of problems to solve. Like anyone else come in here

telling somebody tonight and I came here, I had to change my whole economic setup. I was out of the line of work that I had been accustomed to and good in and experienced and I couldn't go in it. They wouldn't let me in in the 1st place, but if they would like, I wouldn't want it anyway. I I just couldn't take it anymore. So I changed from being that kind of a executive to a salesman.

Complete change. From ordering people around, making everybody do my work to go out and working myself,

I became a good salesman.

I mean it. I say so myself. I did all right, everything I ever sold.

But you see, and Romney can do these things and what do we get into after we straighten up? Might be some entirely different. What we used to do, cut people in lines of work coming in a a ought to get out of them. They're not good for them.

The devil's handy work. You should get out of the trap, that kind of stuff. If you can't in good conscience do what you're doing in your job, get out of it and get something else. That's that's good advice. Believe me. You might not like to give up that buffer to get from us. You might have to work for half the money.

What are we here for? We're here to learn how to live and live the way human beings ought to live and be serviceable. That's what we're here for, and we're going through life here. We have so much time here. How much? Who knows? We're allowed so many hours, so many days, so many weeks, so many years,

and the day comes and we leave here. Where do we go? To me, there's only two places to go.

Other people think there's three or four. It is true to leave your kid. You don't either. Going to hell? Are you going to heaven? There ain't any excursions either way.

They're going to make it one way or the other. And how you're going to make it, how you serve your new manager while you're here. That's my message.

I heard my manager properly.

I know where I'm going now. You hear a lot of people go through. Some people say you're going to go to heaven when you die. Oh, I hope so. Hope so. Hell, I'm going.

I'm going. You bet. I hope I see you there.

No, I don't have any doubt about it.

I'm 79 years on a picture screen. There's what's nice does to me. I find out that I have done something. I have insulted somebody or done something I shouldn't do to them because we're human, we'll make mistakes. And I find out that I owe him an apology.

I have to go do that right away.

I can't afford to wait. That procrastination,

we'll never get it done. So the first thing, First things first, make that restitution. See, our life gets straightened up in the first part of this program. Now we're trying to live it that way so that we keep it clean. Any time I take a person to the steps, I get down to the 8th through the 7th step. I tell them they're clean. God has forgiven everything you've ever done.