Sober Cast: An (unofficial) Alcoholics Anonymous Podcast AA

This one isnt a meeting per se, so if you need to hear a meeting please choose something else from our list. This is something fun and a little different, a play about the 12 Traditions of AA, from June 1987 that was put on by an unknown group in Fresno CA.

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A repost from July of 2017 of a very good 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.

I am trying to find more workshops conducted by women in the program (I have many by men), if you happen to have any you can share please upload them at sobercast.com. This workshop is just over 4 hours.  

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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.

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Learn more about the 12 traditions from the AA pamphlet: A.A. Tradition How It Developed by Bill W.

David A from Dallas TX became sober in 1967 and is conducting this 3 hour long workshop on The Twelve Traditions of AA, in Little Rock AR in 1984 at an unknown event. There is some brief Q&A at the end, you cant hear the questions but the answers make them evident.

 

This is a multiple speaker panel from 2011 at the 53rd ICYPAA about Anonymity in the Digital Age (NSFW)

12 Traditions Panel meeting at the Fellowship of the Spirit Conference held in Utah sometime in 2011.

June G. from Los Angeles CA speaking on the topic of Sex, Relationships and The Traditions at the Flint River Roundup in Albany GA 2009.

John C from Los Gatos CA. speaking about the traditions of AA at an unknown meeting in 1991.

Sober since 1970, Cliff R conducts a workshop about the 12 traditions of Alcoholics Anonymous at an unknown event.

Sober Cast is now available on spotify

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.  

Last month (3/18) the manuscript was once again auctioned off, this time for $2.4 million.

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