AA Speakers - Joe and Charlie - "The Doctors Opinion" - The Big Book Comes Alive
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In this part of the Alcoholics Anonymous Big Book Study, Joe and Charlie discuss the chapter "The Doctor's Opinion.
This series of talks came about from a friendship that started in Alcoholics Anonymous over 30 years ago. When AA members talk about the program, they will often speak the names Bill and Bob. However, there are two other names that are often spoken about, with nearly equal reverence. These names are Joe McQuany, and Charlie Parmley, a team of two men known as "Joe and Charlie", who met in 1973, and spent the next three decades spreading their interpretation of the Big Book.
These two men are credited with making the Big Book of AA more accessible to many who otherwise found the language archaic, or just downright confusing.
In 1978, Joe McQuany launched the Kelly Foundation, which is an organization dedicated to recovery from alcoholism and addiction. In 2011, Larry Gaines, the CEO of the Kelly Foundation said "People often say that it took Bill and Bob to write the Big Book, but it took Joe and Charlie to explain it".
According to Larry Gaines, the unlikely partnership of Joe and Charlie was the result of Joe's unstable beginnings in Alcoholics Anonymous. Joe had been studying the Big Book since 1962, but since he was an African-American man living in Little Rock, Arkansas during that time, he was only allowed to stand in the back of meetings, and leave as soon as they were over. He wasn't allowed to participate in the fellowship, so he got into the book. After a few years, someone told him about another man who was equally enthusiastic about the Big Book; Charlie. The two men began to study the book together, and over time, other members of AA began to get wind of what they were doing. Someone started taping them, and by 1974, the tapes started to spread throughout the fellowship.
Gaines believes that the clarity of Joe and Charlie's message is what has helped the "Big Book Comes Alive" recordings so popular. Gaines said "When Joe and Charlie began teaching the book, it started getting people back into the heart of AA. The were able to so beautifully teach people the difference between the program and the fellowship."
According to Billy DeLuca, Joe's former secretary and CFO for Serenity Park, a rehab center in Little Rock founded by Joe - "The true legacy of Joe and Charlie's conversations was the actual understanding of the steps. For them, it was about putting aside personalities, and bringing the principles of AA to the forefront. They broke the 12 steps down in a way that people could understand, thus helping them practice those principles in all of their affairs. They viewed the Big Book as a treatment model."
It doesn't hurt that Joe and Charlie are incredibly amusing, cracking jokes about all sorts of different topics. Another AA member was quoted as saying "They have this folksy charm that helps the medicine go down, which has always been what I love about Alcoholics Anonymous. We can talk about these serious matters, and still laugh at ourselves."
Although Joe and Charlie are no longer with us, their talks continue to inform and inspire AA members, and will do so well into the future. We are eternally grateful for what these men have done for us personally, and for what they've done for the program of Alcoholics Anonymous.
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thanks to whoever put these videos back up they went down for a bit thanks for the service!
Have listened to this series on and off since early 2001 ,first on a set of bootleg copied cassettes slowly lending them out eventually never getting them back, hahaha.
Then eventually at a Big Book study conference I came upon this version on a set of CD's ,which I would lend out to people who were having trouble using the BIG BOOK , AND unlocking THE INTENDED REAL MEANING, and what Bill was trying to pass on in Alcoholics Anonymous, and once again it didn't make it back to me at some point.
So having it on You Tube I finally think I have secured a copy,, although I am sure there is someone with that "keen" alcoholic thinking we seem to possess will figure out a way to take it . Lmao thank God for The textbook Alcoholics Anonymous and for Joe and Charlie's interpretation.!!!
Always need to "check myself "we must remember where we came from!!God Bless
Got my check up from the neck up👍
These tapes are awesome! Thanks!
My sponsor wanted me to read "Dr's Opinion" but I fucking hate reading. Thank you for putting these videos up!
Thank you very much excellent
@ 10:40 forward- heart of the segment.
I love them!
love it!!!
Does anyone know what year this was recorded please?
Amanda Thornhill 1977 thru 82. give or take
what picture do they look at? Does anyone have a link?
More specific please. Where on the site?
The man on the bed
Google "the man on the bed" images
Is the Allergy Effect different from Addiction?
No .
Drugs and alcohol are only symptoms of the same illness. Drugs and drink were never my problem they were my solution to my problem......ME. today I have a different solution. A higher power that I found at the top of a 12 step ladder
Certainly not