Emotional Sobriety: The Human Touch Without Agenda – Ed M.

About This Speaker Tape

Ed M. — a 6'10" ex-con who got sober at 20 in Davenport, Iowa — delivers what might be the most emotionally devastating and funny AA talk ever recorded. He traces his path from street violence through identifying his murdered father in the morgue with barely a year sober, reaching for a faith he'd been faking, only to come up empty.

What follows is a 32-year journey through sponsorship under Clancy, managing the Harlem Globetrotters, seminary, and walking into a prison to forgive the man who killed his dad.

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Timestamps

• 3:30 The 299-to-1 story.
• 19:09 Suicidal, decides not to die.
• 28:51 Over his father's body, faith comes up empty.
• 57:29 Forgives his father's killer in prison.