Jimmy D. at the Saturday Night Live AA Speaker Meeting – 2024

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Frozen piss pants and a gold Dodge Dart. Jimmy D. was a sixteen-year-old delinquent in Pennsylvania sniffing glue and smoking PCP before a judge ordered him into AA. He spent his youth as a 'drink stealer' at keg parties eventually hitting a bottom of total demoralization and isolation. He credits his survival to the kindness of old-timers who treated him like a human being when no one else would. After moving to California with $600 and a Yamaha Enduro he transitioned from a broke punk in the armpit of LA to a successful business owner in Malibu. He later moved to Bali where he founded a meeting hall and a convention witnessing the fellowship's power to sustain a father through the loss of a daughter in the Bali bombings. He views the rooms not as a place to simply stop drinking but as the only safe haven for surviving the wreckage of life.

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• 0:45 Laughter: Jimmy discusses his 'cop look' and the TSA agent.
• 5:15 Jimmy describes his youth as a glue sniffer and PCP smoker in Pennsylvania.
• 10:20 Laughter: The 'frozen piss pants' story and the demoralization of alcoholism.
• 15:30 The introduction to AA via a judge and the gold Dodge Dart old-timer.
• 22:10 Jimmy's sobriety date: May 10, 1977, and the reality of early sobriety.
• 28:45 Moving to LA with $600 and the struggle of living in the 'armpit of the planet'.
• 35:10 Discussion of the Big Book and the necessity of living examples over just reading.
• 42:20 Life in Bali and the founding of a meeting hall.
• 48:15 The tragedy of the Bali bombings and Surfer D.'s loss of his daughter.
• 54:30 Applause: Jimmy concludes on the power of the fellowship as a rock for surviving grief.