ICYMI: Pt 1 of 2 - The Story of Writing the Big Book Is More Amazing Than You Ever Knew With Bill Schaberg, Author of Writing the Big Book

Sober Friends

Matt J

Alcohol Free, Alcoholics Anonymous, Recovery, Dry January, Spirituality, Sober, Mental Health, Health & Fitness, Sobriety, Sober Curious, Addiction, Religion & Spirituality, 12 Steps

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🗓️ 6 August 2024

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Send us a text I love this episode and its so far in the back of the catalogue, you may not have seen it, especially if you are a new listener. I got the privilege of interviewing William Schaberg, author of the book, "Writing the Big Book." To me, it's the definitive history of the period when Bill write the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous. Here is what we discuss: The genesis of the why he wrote the bookBill W’s realization of why a book was writtenBill W’s original plan to hel...

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0:00.0	I'm Matt.
0:01.0	Hey, I'm Steve.
0:01.9	Hey, I'm John.
0:03.2	This is the Sober Friends podcast.
0:05.8	We're here for The Sober Curious, the new guy, and the old timer.
0:10.3	We're here to talk about the stuff anyone looking to live, alcohol-free has to face day-to-day.
0:15.5	Now we overcame those struggles.
0:17.3	We speak for no 12-step group, but we do try to remain anonymous.
0:23.5	You're not alone. This is the sober friends podcast. If you're someone who's new and you're just getting into the big book,
0:30.0	hell, if you're somebody who has been sober 20 years and you're reading the big book and half the time
0:33.7	you're looking and saying, I can't figure out what this is. So I've had to do with Joe and
0:37.6	Charlie for 20 years. Man, I've got the book for you. And I've got the author for you.
0:42.7	Interviewing today, Bill Schaberg, he is the author of writing the big book, the creation of AA.
0:48.2	Bill, thank you so much for being on the program. Thank you very much for asking me, Matt.
0:52.1	Yeah, absolutely. If Steve was here, I would have the
0:55.2	real cheap joke of the reason that he has a boot on his foot as he dropped your book on his foot.
1:02.1	This is a big book. It is a big book. When it first came out, and we got the hard copy in the
1:07.3	house for the first time, my lady Sarah said, my God, it's the bigger book.
1:11.6	Yeah, I saw that either in one of your interviews around the YouTube channel that you mentioned
1:15.6	that. And I felt good saying, oh my gosh, I can use this joke that you could drop it on somebody's
1:20.4	foot and break it. It is a meaty, meaty book. What got you in the process of writing about the
1:26.2	history of writing the big book? I started out investigating in the process of writing about the history of writing the big book?
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