Dr. Keith Humphreys

I mean, that said AA is...

It's just not one thing.

So you can find, I'm sure, within a few miles of where we are sitting, you can find an AA meeting over a gas station with guys who are smoking tobacco and have jailhouse tattoos who are talking about the steps.

And you will find meetings with...

professionals who will talk about, you know, angst and things like that.

And you sort of find your own people.

And I've known some very intellectual people, like professors, who go to an AA meeting with other people like that.

And they're still working the steps and all that, but they are also, you know, they're going to talk about Kierkegaard, you know, it's like, and again, like AA is like, fine, you talk about Kierkegaard, just remember, don't drink, go to meetings, talk about whatever you want.

And you need to find your peeps.

And that's also why when people are thinking of going, I say, think of this like dating.

You wouldn't go on one date and say, I didn't like that person, I guess I'm going to be alone the rest of my life.

You go on a group of dates, right?

So pick some different meetings at different times of day and different places and they will be different.

And then go back to the one that felt like home.

Yeah, I mean, and they were very conscious about that.

If you read, you know, it's called The Big Book.

It's actually just, it was called The Big Book because it was printed on cheap paper.

So it was sort of fat and pulpy.

This was back in the depression, right?

It says flat out, this book is mostly stories and we tell stories in the hopes that something in them will catch you and say, gosh, that life is like mine.