He Was a Gifted Metabolizer of Beverage Alcohol 😆 – Jay S.

About This Speaker Tape

convention - 2016

A Ford Pinto highly flammable and occupied by a man who could metabolize alcohol better than anyone in the fifth grade serves as the starting point for Jay S. He describes a youth spent in a blur of 'racks of reds' and Spagnato wine eventually landing in a cycle of public napping and DUI arrests. The turning point arrives at 24 via a blunt encounter with a sponsor who told him to drink up any money he had for treatment and then call AA for free. Jay details a trajectory from the 'first edition' of sobriety—simply stopping the drink—to a 'fourth edition' life of spiritual biography and living in Sedona. He emphasizes the necessity of the moral inventory the danger of trying to solve one's own problems and the practice of three-minute meditations with his wife Adele S. to maintain a connection to innocence and love.

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Timestamps

• 0:00 Introduction by a fellow member regarding Jay S.'s spirituality.
• 5:15 Jay S. describes living in his Ford Pinto and his early 'gift' for metabolizing alcohol.
• 8:40 The story of the blunt sponsor who told him to drink his treatment money and find AA in the white pages.
• 12:10 Laughter: Jay S. recounts his first AA meeting in Manhattan Beach and meeting 'Butcher J.'.
• 16:30 Discussion on Debtors Anonymous and the 'hiding in clutter' habit.
• 21:15 The 'still small voice' that stopped him from driving to the Stickenstein.
• 24:40 Step 3: Jay S. describes his prayer to 'just get me off the top' and his surrender.
• 28:10 The 'four-step kit' and the process of the first moral inventory.
• 33:40 The difference between alcoholics and addicts and their relationship with carpeting.
• 38:20 Jay S. describes moving to Sedona 'samurai style' following a meditative voice.
• 43:10 Meditation exercise with Adele S. and the closing prayer.