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This is a repost, if you want to listen to the other 7 episodes that are already up just use the search function with -> Joe and Charlie Big Book Workshop

Joe McQ and Charlie P met in 1973, they instantly discovered their mutual fascinations with AA's basic textbook, Alcoholics Anonymous commonly called "The Big Book". They would frequently meet to discuss The Big Book, often driving 225 miles to meet in each other's homes.

In 1977, some AA members met in a Tulsa, Oklahoma hotel room for a discussion on The Big Book. One member asked Joe and Charlie to come to his home group to present a program on The Big Book. A taping of that presentation was made and called "The Big Book Study". Through the circulation of these audio tapes throughout the Fellowship, Joe and Charlie received invitations to present the Study at AA conventions, roundups and special events.

At the AA International Convention in New Orleans in 1980, Wesley P, organized a lunch for 1,500 AA members from all over the world and gave away 100 Joe & Charlie tape sets as door prizes. Invitations exploded, and within a couple of years Joe & Charlie were presenting about 36 seminars a year worldwide. These seminars struck a deep chord within the AA members. This is a later recording from around 1999 and the audio quality is quite good.

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Ann leads this topic meeting from a multipart Big Book Workshop on the subject of Step 1, talking mostly about her personal experience with it, at the second session of the 4th. Annual Firing Line Big Book Workshop held in Warwick NY in September of 2012.

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With Speaker Potluck, just like in a real meeting you dont know what you are going to hear, till you do. I grabbed four 15 min speakers without listening to them in advance, then created the audio. You get what you get, enjoy.

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Gloria V from Oklahoma City OK tells her story at 8th Serenity Harvest Conference held in Tahlequah OK in October of 1998.

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Vince Y from Los Angeles CA, sober for 28 years tells his story at the Thursday Night Speaker Las Vegas NV in June of 2001.

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What happened - What its like

Emerson G speaking as the AA speaker at Fellowship Weekend of an Al-anon Family Gathering held somewhere in Minnesota in September of 1992 he got sober in 1980.

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We have a couple of speakers today, this meeting is from February of 2002 and is opened by Keith as the 10 min intro speaker and he is followed by Janice telling her story for the balance of the meeting time at this meeting from the North Oakland AA Open speaker meeting of Alcoholics Anonymous in Oakland California.

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Scott L from Nashville TN speaking at the State Line Retreat held in Primm NV in December of 2006 on the topic of Step 4 Resentments.

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Jim W, a circuit speaker from Aledo Texas was a fairly popular speaker in the 80's. He is speaking at the 9th Young Peoples Roundup held in Las Vegas Nevada in March of 1988.

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Joe & Charlie: The Big Book Comes Alive

This is a transcript of a Big Book workshop that Joe and Charlie have done around the world.

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The Joe & Charlie Journey to Recovery in "THE BIG BOOK COMES ALIVE" is a book that you'll want to read for your own recovery as well as get one for your friends too.

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Ebby: The Man Who Sponsored Bill W.

This is book is both a fascinating history of the formative years of AA, as well as the bitter-sweet tale of the troubled man Bill W. always referred to as "my sponsor."

Available in paperback & for kindle

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The Little Red Book

In 1942, Ed W. began teaching the “Twelve Step Study” classes that helped the Minneapolis Group achieve their 75% recovery rate. Then in 1946, he and Barry C. (The first sober A.A. in the state) published the lectures used for these classes as a book. Initially titled The Twelve Steps, it was affectionately nicknamed “The little red book.”

Back in print for the first time in more than 65 years, the original 1946 edition reveals firsthand how some of A.A.’s earliest members made the program their way of life. Everyone from newcomers to oldtimers will find a wealth of practical experience in this comprehensive guide to the Twelve Steps.

The Study Edition of The Big Book

I have one of these and it is one of my favorite items, a really excellent and useful for book study meetings or as a gift to a newcomer who is going to be heading to one.

The First 164 pages of The Big Book with lined blank pages opposite each page of text for note taking.

Includes the original Foreword
The Doctor's Opinion
Dr. Bob's Story.
Bound in black bonded leather.

Paragraph numbers along side the text for easy reference. Entire Original Manuscript (about) including the stories. Easy to read retyped version. Includes paragraph numbers corresponding to the modern text for easy comparison.

Footnotes explaining historical and obscure references in the text.

Footnotes documenting all 79 differences between the modern text and the original 1st printing text of the 1st 164 pages (about). Yes, believe it or not, the basic text has been changed 79 times since it was first published.

Two place keeping ribbons. Special "lay flat" binding.