ESH: John L - 14 Years (NSFW)

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🗓️ 11 February 2022

⏱️ 46 minutes

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John L from Hollywood California tells his story at the Sanctuary Meeting in Manhattan Beach California in February of 1996. (NSFW) He is quite a funny guy and carries a solid message. Email: [email protected] Support Sober Cast: https://sobercast.com/donate We have added a page of meetings that have moved online https://sobercast.com/online-meetings Sober Cast has 1700+ episodes available, visit SoberCast.com to access all the episodes where you can easily find topics or specific speakers using tags or search.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to SilverCast where we provide AA speak meetings and workshops in podcast
0:11.8	format.
0:12.8	We're an ad free podcast and if you enjoy listening please help us be self-supporting by visiting
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0:22.4	We hope you enjoyed the podcast, have a great day.
0:24.6	Well, good evening, my name is John and I'm an alcoholic.
0:32.6	It's good thing I don't have epilepsy, I think one of them, because of fit.
0:42.0	Thank you very much for asking me to come and share tonight.
0:46.8	A lot of people came up to me during the break because I figured it would be tough to say
0:52.3	anything afterwards and thank me.
0:54.7	I don't have to change my pitch now and make it interesting, I guess, so they don't feel
1:00.4	as though they were disappointed.
1:02.5	Well, if I stay sober till this coming Tuesday I will be in this program for 14 years and
1:11.5	in that time.
1:12.5	You guys should know better than that.
1:16.5	The only one that wants to tell me that I think graduating a drug for not drinking is
1:22.0	like giving a trophy to a cobbler with hemorrhoids for not riding his horse.
1:29.0	All right, so that you know, I'm often wondering when speakers get up sometime, I notice
1:40.8	that they take their watch off and put it on the podium to watch their time.
1:43.6	I've never understood that.
1:44.6	I can see my watch quite well enough here on my wrist.
1:49.3	It's so that you know, hello, good lord.
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