ICYMI: Pt 2 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

4.2 • 718 Ratings

🗓️ 6 August 2024

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Send us a text You get both of these amazing episodes in one day! If you have not listened to my excellent interview with William Schaberg, then you are in luck today! If you have, you'll love going over this again! I hope you consider buying his book, "Writing the Big Book," which I will link in the notes. You'll be blown away by Bill's insight. In Part 2 of the interview with Bill Schaberg, we discuss: What really happened when Ebby Thatcher visited Bill Wils...

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0:00.0	I'm Matt.
0:00.9	Hey, I'm Steve.
0:01.9	Hey, I'm John.
0:03.1	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.
0:21.1	You're not alone.
0:22.2	This is the Sober Friends podcast.
0:24.6	Bill Schaberg is the author of the book, writing the big book.
0:28.3	It took Bill Schaberg seven years to research and write the book, and arguably,
0:33.8	it's the most complete history of the process of writing the big book of Alcoholics Anonymous
0:39.6	and the early history of AA. We're talking 1937, 1938, 1939, and it is an absolute honor
0:48.0	to have Bill Schaberg on our podcast. We talked to Bill this week about what really happened
0:53.9	at the kitchen table when
0:55.8	Ebby Thatcher visited Bill Wilson as told in Bill's story. The problem Bill Schaberg sees in
1:01.7	most AA history, the multiple stories Bill Wilson told over time on how the steps were written
1:07.9	and how they conflict over time, the urban legends around the authorship of two wives,
1:13.6	and even more on Hank Parkhurst,
1:16.1	arguably the most important person in the writing of the big book
1:19.5	besides Bill Wilson.
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