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basket we hope you enjoyed the podcast have a great day my name is buzzer and i'm an alcoholic

and i'm nervous too i don't do this all that often.

And I just hope that somehow we can get a nice informal rapport going.

And that's kind of up to me to do.

I quit smoking two days ago, three days ago.

But I also need to tell you that I quit smoking four years ago. This hasn't been the easiest endeavor in my life.

I came first came to into treatment about eight and a half years ago, and I have had a variety of different recovery assistors and institutions, people, friends, wives.

And one thing is crystal clear.

I'm a far better man today than I was eight and a half years ago.

And if there's anything that you carry away from our bearing witness to victory over our difficulties, it's that this program works.

I grew up in New Jersey, a rather upper-class family.

My father is Swedish, and my mother was sort of half Scotch and half welch and believe it or not my grandfather's name on my

mother's side was fay Arnold Moon it was a well-to-do family.

My father had been an early aviation pioneer.

He learned to fly in 1917, and he was General Billy Mitchell's aide in the Philippines,

where he met my mother who was a

daughter of an army chaplain over there and my father went on in his Air Corps assignments to command the

or to be in charge of the engineering school at

Wright Field and he was a commandant there

for about four or five six years and since he had a doctor's degree from MIT he

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