SOBER 18 CALLS

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
Hey, sorry, I thought you were giving tickets away now,
but kind of so. I'm glad to answered because this
year is my thirty year anniversary. All right, cocaine thirty
or third thirty three zero thirty Yeah, I was twenty nine.

Speaker 2 (00:22):
Yeah, any fun stories you want to tell?

Speaker 1 (00:24):
Oh, I got lots.

Speaker 2 (00:25):
Oh my set, How did you? How did you do it?

Speaker 1 (00:31):
Oh? It was the hardest thing I ever did in
my life because I had no help and I was
living in the middle of nowhere, was like, you know,
an abusive gas lighter, and you know, so I walked
and I hiked for a year up a mountain and
prayed and cried, and then I woke up June fifteenth
and nineteen ninety six and I had a spiritual awakening.

Speaker 2 (00:53):
Good for you. It was a gift story.

Speaker 1 (00:55):
Man. That's incredible.

Speaker 2 (00:57):
Yeah, thirty years that's awesome. Well I did it, I
mean I do other. Thank you for sharing.

Speaker 1 (01:06):
Keep us on.

Speaker 2 (01:06):
We're gonna give you a chance to win tickets. Give
everyone a chance to win tickets.

Speaker 1 (01:09):
You might talk to me again.

Speaker 2 (01:10):
I hope something sounds good. Thanks for sharing. Hey, yeah,
you going good. I just heard. I just heard. I'm
not sure it was Canter shared eighteenth anniversary, Yes, eighteen
anniversary eighteen. Yeah, I'm gonna celebrate my eighth Sunday. Nice brother,
congrats man. Were you like me and you wanted to

(01:32):
get it out of the way before Saint Patty's Day came?
I never really. I was a drinker every day, so
I didn't mean to Patty's Day. I just put on
a green letter. Nothing changed with the outfit, Yeah, yeah,
nothing nothing change? If nothing changed, but what what made
you make that? What made you make that decision? I

(01:53):
hit my rock bottom. I got run over by a plow.
Oh nice, dude, that's a good bottom. Yeah that was
a yeah, that was it was. Yeah. I had quite
a few injuries, and I said, you know, I just
can't do this anymore. That's bullshit. Was it your fault?

Speaker 1 (02:08):
You got run over?

Speaker 2 (02:10):
Well, if I hadn't been drinking, probably I could say
it was my I say, no, it wasn't. I say
I got over the center line. But there was too
many alcoholics, much of the word alcohol in my report.
So yeah, yeah, I couldn't fight it. You know, enough
is enough. You made it out and you didn't made
it out. I made it out. I live in the

(02:30):
program today. I'm not a I'm not a die hard,
you know, go buy the book. I'm just an alcoholic
that's in recovery. That's all awesome, dude, same here, great
to share, thanks for sharing your story, for checking in, brother. Okay,
all right, Hey, have a great day and keep it up.