He Paid Half a Million Dollars for a Big Book | Adam T | AA Speaker

Adam T (Los Angeles, CA) came into Alcoholics Anonymous at 16 and stood up as a newcomer for 17 years, collecting a bucket of white chips and going through residential treatment 28 times — not 28 days — before he finally got sober in 1998. In this AA speaker tape from the 40th Allatoona Roundup in Cartersville, GA (8/19/2017), Adam shares one of the most quotable, funny, and gut-honest stories on alcoholism, surrender, and long-term recovery you'll hear. This is a full AA speaker tape shared for anyone working the 12 steps, sitting with a sponsor, coming back after a relapse, or just trying to stay sober one more day. ▶ "I didn't come to AA because I had a bad weekend. I had a couple of bad decades. And eventually, this becomes a matter of life and death." In this talk Adam covers: ✔ Why 28 trips through treatment didn't make him an alcoholic ("you paid half a million dollars for a Big Book") ✔ Why "help" is the dirtiest four-letter word in AA for the newcomer ✔ The difference between a problem drinker and a real alcoholic ✔ How "100 forms of fear" boil down to 5: abandonment, rejection, betrayal, disrespect, and authority ✔ Program vs. fellowship — and why he stopped building AA around his life and started building his life around AA If this speaker tape helped you or someone you love, subscribe to Recovery Mixtapes for a new tape every week. Timeless messages of hope, resilience, and redemption. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ RECOVERY & CRISIS RESOURCES 📞 AA 24-Hour Hotline: 1-800-839-1686 📞 SAMHSA National Helpline (free, confidential, 24/7): 1-800-662-4357 🌐 www.sobercurator.com ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ABOUT RECOVERY MIXTAPES Recovery Mixtapes breathes new life into speaker tapes from decades past — messages of hope and healing that are as relevant today as the day they were recorded. Featured on The Sober Curator. DISCLAIMER This recording is shared for educational and recovery purposes only. Recovery Mixtapes is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or an official part of Alcoholics Anonymous or Al-Anon. AA speaker recordings are shared to carry the message to those who still suffer. We claim no rights to this recording — if you are the speaker or a rights holder and would like it removed, please contact us and we will take it down promptly. #AASpeaker #AlcoholicsAnonymous #RecoveryMixtapes