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An AA meeting in a Podcast. Sober Cast is an (unofficial) Alcoholics Anonymous podcast featuring AA speaker meetings and workshops. This is not a discussion podcast, simply speaker meetings and workshops in a podcast format.
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Wednesday Jul 09, 2025
Wednesday Jul 09, 2025
AA founder Bill W speaking on the topic of the 12 traditions, this audio is from a film that was intended to be shown in AA meetings, the audio quality is some of the best I have found of Bill W (I did tweak it a bit to improve the clarity).
Support AA: make a direct donation to AA World Services contributions can only be made by members of AA and can be made as an individual or as a group.
Learn more about the 12 traditions from the AA pamphlet: A.A. Tradition How It Developed by Bill W.
Support Sober Cast: https://sobercast.com/donate
Email: sobercast@gmail.com
Sober Cast has 2900+ episodes available, visit SoberCast.com to access all the episodes where you can easily find topics or specific speakers using tags or search. https://sobercast.com
Thursday Feb 13, 2025
Thursday Feb 13, 2025
Barry L sober in 1945, speaking about the origin of the 3rd tradition at the 50th World Conference in Montreal in July 1985. He was the first openly gay member of AA.
Tradition 3 - The only requirement for A.A. membership is a desire to stop drinking.
Barry passed away 3 weeks after this speak.
Barry is the author of the book Living Sober and was a great friend of Bill W and his wife Lois.
In 1978 Lois gave the original manuscript of the big book to Barry, and in 1979 Barry signed a notarized letter gifting the manuscript to A.A. World Services. In exchange, he asked only to be able to keep it in his possession until his death.
Somewhere between 1979 and Barry's death in 1985, everyone at A.A. World Services apparently forgot about this arrangement. The whereabouts of the manuscript remained unknown until it reappeared at an auction house in 2004, sold by a “Joseph B.” for $1.5 million. It was auctioned again in 2007 to Alabama resident Ken Roberts for $992,000. A few months later, according to court documents, A.A. World Services rediscovered Barry's notarized letter.
In 2018 the manuscript was once again auctioned off, this time for $2.4 million.
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Email: sobercast@gmail.com
Event List: https://scast.us/event
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Sober Cast has 2700+ episodes available, visit SoberCast.com to access all the episodes where you can easily find topics or specific speakers using tags or search. https://sobercast.com
Tuesday Feb 04, 2025
Tuesday Feb 04, 2025
Dick M, sober since 1965 leads this three part workshop on sponsorship. Part Three: How I Sponsor. This was recorded at an unknown time and event. There is some Q & A at the end and you cannot hear the questions but the answers make most of the questions evident. Part 3 of 3.
Support Sober Cast: https://sobercast.com/donate
Email: sobercast@gmail.com
Event List: https://scast.us/event
Roundup, retreat, convention or workshop coming up? List the event on the Sober Cast website. Visit the link above and look for "Submit Your Event" in the blue box.
Sober Cast has 2700+ episodes available, visit SoberCast.com to access all the episodes where you can easily find topics or specific speakers using tags or search. https://sobercast.com
Tuesday Jan 21, 2025
Tuesday Jan 21, 2025
Larry T speaking about the 12 Traditions at the Pirates Den in Linwood Scotland - Sept 2013.
Support Sober Cast: https://sobercast.com/donate
Email: sobercast@gmail.com
Event List: https://scast.us/event
Roundup, retreat, convention or workshop coming up? List the event on the Sober Cast website. Visit the link above and look for "Submit Your Event" in the blue box.
Sober Cast has 2700+ episodes available, visit SoberCast.com to access all the episodes where you can easily find topics or specific speakers using tags or search. https://sobercast.com
Saturday Aug 17, 2024
Saturday Aug 17, 2024
I dont often feature the Traditions but they are important to the long term continuation of AA and I do slip one in now and then.
Mike L (sober in 1883) from Oregon sharing on Traditions 1 - 6 at the Global Lockdown Group Zoom meeting hosting in India.
5 new events added to the event list, including the 28th Annual Thailand AA Roundup. Its not until March 2025 so you have plenty of time to plan a trip, registration opens in a few weeks. Details: https://scast.us/thairu
Coming up fairly soon is the Northwest Fellowship of the Spirit Event in Stanwood Wa on Aug 22. Details: https://scast.us/nwfots
Full Event List: https://scast.us/event
Support Sober Cast: https://sobercast.com/donate
Email: sobercast@gmail.com
Roundup, retreat, convention or workshop coming up? List the event on the Sober Cast website. Visit the link above and look for "Submit Your Event" in the blue box.
Sober Cast has 2600+ episodes available, visit SoberCast.com to access all the episodes where you can easily find topics or specific speakers using tags or search. https://sobercast.com
Tuesday Oct 24, 2023
Tuesday Oct 24, 2023
We have a well presented workshop on the 12 Traditions from the 2023 Northwest Fellowship of the Spirit Conference presented by Alvin then Kenny along with some questions and comments from the folks attending. I think they did a great job with this workshop presenting it in a clear and straightforward way.
If you are in the PNW and would like to attend the next NWFOTS it is coming up in August of 2024 more info here https://scast.us/nwfots
Email: sobercast@gmail.com
Support Sober Cast: https://sobercast.com/donate
AA Event List: https://scast.us/events
If you have an AA roundup, retreat, convention or workshop coming up, we would be happy to give you a shout out here on the podcast and list the event on the Sober Cast website. Visit the link above and look for "Submit Your Event" in the blue box.
Sober Cast has 2300+ episodes available, visit SoberCast.com to access all the episodes where you can easily find topics or specific speakers using tags or search. https://sobercast.com
Thursday Aug 10, 2023
Thursday Aug 10, 2023
This is AA founder Bill W speaking on each of the 12 traditions one at a time. I had posted a version of this in 2019, and recently came across this recording of the same speak with much better audio quality. That being said it took quite a while to get it cleaned up and it was missing the last 4 min. so I added the missing part from another copy. Repost
The quality is excellent except for the very end, this audio is from a film that was intended to be shown in AA meetings. I dont know exactly when it was made but it was after Dr Bob's death.
Support AA: make a direct donation to AA World Services contributions can only be made by members of AA and can be done as an individual or as a group.
Learn more about the 12 traditions from the AA pamphlet: A.A. Tradition How It Developed by Bill W.
Email: sobercast@gmail.com
Support Sober Cast: https://sobercast.com/donate
AA Events: I just added a number of new events to the calendar so if you will be in Arizona, California, New Zealand, Australia, Washington, or Las Vegas take a look.
AA Event List: https://scast.us/events
If you have an AA roundup, retreat, convention or workshop coming up, we would be happy to give you a shout out here on the podcast and list the event on the Sober Cast website. Visit the link above and look for "Submit Your Event" in the blue box.
Sober Cast has 2300+ episodes available, visit SoberCast.com to access all the episodes where you can easily find topics or specific speakers using tags or search. https://sobercast.com
Wednesday May 17, 2023
Wednesday May 17, 2023
12 Traditions Panel meeting at the Fellowship of the Spirit Conference held in Utah sometime in 2011. I havent had anything on the traditions in a while so its time for this repost from October of 2018.
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Support Sober Cast: https://sobercast.com/donate
Next Event: AALA Roundup - lgbtQIA+ at the Pacific Design Center in West Hollywood, May 26-28. With the theme of “Don’t take yourself too damn seriously” the AALA Roundup is the perfect opportunity to connect with others who share your experiences and journey towards a fulfilling sober life. https://scast.us/aala
AA Event List: https://scast.us/events
If you have an AA roundup, retreat, convention or workshop coming up, we would be happy to give you a shout out here on the podcast and list the event on the Sober Cast website. Visit the link above and look for "Submit Your Event" in the blue box.
Sober Cast has 2200+ episodes available, visit SoberCast.com to access all the episodes where you can easily find topics or specific speakers using tags or search. https://sobercast.com
Sunday Mar 19, 2023
Sunday Mar 19, 2023
AA founder Bill W speaking on the topic of the 12 traditions, this audio is from a film that was intended to be shown in AA meetings, the audio quality is some of the best I have found of Bill W. Repost from 2018
Learn more about the 12 traditions from the AA pamphlet: A.A. Tradition How It Developed by Bill W.
Email: sobercast@gmail.com
Support Sober Cast: https://sobercast.com/donate
AA Event List: https://scast.us/events
If you have an AA roundup, retreat, convention or workshop coming up, we would be happy to give you a shout out here on the podcast and list the event on the Sober Cast website. Visit the link above and look for "Submit Your Event" in the blue box.
Sober Cast has 2100+ episodes available, visit SoberCast.com to access all the episodes where you can easily find topics or specific speakers using tags or search. https://sobercast.com
Wednesday Mar 08, 2023
Wednesday Mar 08, 2023
A couple of days ago I was part of a meeting for a group that was trying to organize themselves into a fellowship rather than a bunch of meetings, that always brings the traditions to mind and it got me thinking about this.
A really well done workshop conducted by Norma A on the 12 Traditions. The history of, and a detailed explanation of each tradition. This workshop was given in 2014 so it also has mention of social media. Repost from early 2017.
Email: sobercast@gmail.com
Support Sober Cast: https://sobercast.com/donate
AA Event: The 2023 Lake Area Roundup in Lake Charles Louisiana 3/10- 3/11/23. I dont have a ton of info on this one but it does look like you can register at the door, details on their website. https://scast.us/lake
AA Event List: https://scast.us/events
If you have an AA roundup, retreat, convention or workshop coming up, we would be happy to give you a shout out here on the podcast and list the event on the Sober Cast website. Visit the link above and look for "Submit Your Event" in the blue box.
Sober Cast has 2100+ episodes available, visit SoberCast.com to access all the episodes where you can easily find topics or specific speakers using tags or search. https://sobercast.com