Bob B. at the Sponsorship Conference – 1999
About This Speaker Tape
Acapulco, 1970s: a man dives off a cliff into the surf, splitting his swimsuit and nearly killing himself in a drunken haze. Bob B. describes himself as a "great starter, poor finisher," a man who walked out of Notre Dame in his senior year and spent decades treating bourbon as the answer to a noise in his head that sounded like an amplifier turned up to nine.
Even after finding sobriety, Bob spent years building a brick wall around his life, hiding a wreckage of gambling, rage toward his children, and a chronic inability to hold a job. He shares the paradox of the "sober" alcoholic who is still dying inside, running up a down escalator. Only by tearing down his alibi system and admitting he was not unique did he find a Higher Power. He stopped trying to get his act cleaned up before approaching the divine, realizing that the physical sobriety was only ten percent of the battle.
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