Big Book Workshop – The A. – 2025

We are doing the sobriety countdown now. So how this is going to work, Kath, do you want to come up and, do you mind coming up and help me? Sure. Cool. All right. So how we're going to do this and how this will work for our sobriery countdown is I think we will have the person with the most time, right, come on up and start the circle. So we're gonna make a big circle throughout the whole room and we're gotta need like all the room so we'll try to snake it yeah we'll try to kind of open this space up a little here if possible we'll be we'll make it work it's not make it work we'll Make It Work cool so um how we'll do it is we will start with I think 41 years is going to be the most Eileen how could I forget 52 52 so Eileen's gonna be our starter okay does anybody have more than 52 years fake out okay 46 okay so we'll start with the most so 52 is the most no one has more okay so what we'll do is we will start with 52 and we will clap once and then we will go 51 clap and we'll see who else comes it does anyone have 51 no okay and we will continue 49 48 47 46 All right, 45, 44, 43, 42. All right! We'll go this way around the room, And everybody can high-five or handshake everyone as they line up. 41. 41. 40. Now come get in your proper spot. 40. Oh! And that's how you do it, like that. Yeah. You can all count with us. 39. 38. She's coming. She's going. She's in. She's there. 48. 38. Shit, sorry. We're going up, we're not going down. 38. 37. There you go. 35. 35. 34. 33. Thirty-two. Thirty-one. Thirty. 29 false alarm 29 28 27 26 25 24 23 22 21 20 18. 17. 16 15 14 Someone's coming, right now. Woo! 13! Yeah! That's awesome. 12. 11. 10 9 Eight. Seven. Yeah, Gina! Six. Anybody have six? Five! Thank you. Four! Three! That's what I'm talking about. Two! One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, And one. if you have between three and one years you should be right over here all right now we are going to do months all right now everybody we're gonna do months All right, so now we're going to do months, starting with 11. 10. 10 months? Yeah, Gabby! Nine months. Eight months. Seven months. six months is anybody left yeah okay five months four months three Three months, two months, one month. More? All right, so should we go to days? Yes. 30 days. 29. 28. 27. 26. 25. 20. 24. 23. 22. 21. 20. 19. 18. Woo! Woo! All right, we're going to keep going. 18, 17, 16, 15, 14, 13, 12, 11, 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1. Woo! We're done. Good job, guys. Woo! Congratulations. And so now we're going to have Eileen, since she has the most time, give the both big bucks to the two people with the least amount of time. And this isn't to single you out. It's to welcome you in. To say, we're so happy. I get emotional because I got the book like three years in a row. It's just a welcome. Come along with us. We're so glad that you guys are here. We're happy you guys were here. Thank you everybody for participating. I'm just telling her I can remember very clearly being sober 20 days very clearly I did not want to be here I did like you I did not know that my life was going to go from a 1 to a 100 and a lot You know, a lot has gone on in my life. A lot of good, a lotta bad days, you know? And I'm here still. I thank God, thank God. Thank you all. Who's the next one? Who's he other than me? Oh, I don't know. Billy's got a whole month. I definitely remember a month. I got sober when there were no coins. You didn't get coins. You were lucky to get a one year anniversary So, congratulations. You've got the whole world ahead of you. Good luck. Thank you. Thank you one and all.