Top 100 AA Speaker Tapes of All Time

A curated collection of the most powerful and influential recovery speeches ever recorded.

  1. Silly-Funny Story and The Solution Presented Simply — Earl H. 🤣
  2. Good News, I Found Out I’m an Alcoholic — She Said Nope, You’re an A**hole 🤣 — Pat R.
  3. CHRIS R – SELF-CENTEREDNESS, INVENTORY, STEP 4
  4. SCOTT L – AA CIRCUIT SPEAKER SHARES HIS STORY ON THE SOLUTION
  5. SANDY BEACH – THE FAMOUS “DROP THE ROCK” TALK
  6. EARL H – STEPS 1 & 2
  7. ANTHONY H – UNION PARK GROUP IN ORLANDO
  8. SANDY BEACH – STEPS 4 & 5
  9. SANDY BEACH – STEPS 1 & 2
  10. BOB D – SURRENDER
  11. SANDY BEACH – STEPS 3-7 IN IXTAPA MEXICO
  12. SANDY BEACH – THE EGO’S BIGGEST WORRY
  13. MARTY J – 6TH SPIRIT OF SAN FRANCISCO CA
  14. TOM B. JR. – EMOTIONAL SOBRIETY & PERFECTIONISM
  15. ADAM T – FUNNY RECOVERY SHARE
  16. SANDY B – SPIRITUALITY RETREAT 2008 – PRACTICING “THE PRESENCE OF THE NOW”
  17. SCOTT R – HIS STORY – HUMOROUS
  18. SANDY BEACH – A SPIRITUAL MALADY
  19. JERRY J – THE NATURE OF ALCOHOLIC SELF-CENTEREDNESS, RESENTMENTS, AND STEPS 3-5
  20. KARL M – HUMOROUS STORYTELLER – THE PHENOMENON OF CRAVING
  21. MARK HOUSTON – STEPS 1-9 – AMARILLO
  22. ANTHONY H – PACIFIC GROUP MEETING
  23. SANDY BEACH – SPIRITUAL POWER OF THE 12 STEPS
  24. ASTRID H – EXCELLENT, ARTICULATE SPEAKER!
  25. CHRIS R – THE SPIRITUAL MALADY & DEPRESSION
  26. JOE H – “THE POWER TO GET FREE” – LACK OF POWER – STEP 1
  27. RUSSEL S – STEP 4 & 7 – THE VALUE OF SUFFERING
  28. MARK HOUSTON – RECOVERY, SPIRITUALITY, & MEDITATION
  29. DR. PAUL O – DOCTOR, ALCOHOLIC, AND ADDICT
  30. EARL H – EARL H- STEPS 03-05
  31. CHRIS R – OPEN DISCUSSION AA MEETINGS WATER DOWN THE AA MESSAGE
  32. EARL H – STEPS 10 & 11, COURAGE TO CHANGE
  33. CHRIS R – ON CHICKEN-SH*T RECOVERY ONE LINERS
  34. CHUCK C – “A NEW PAIR OF GLASSES” PART 1
  35. EARL H – STEP 12, FREEDOM FROM THE OBSESSION, SHARING EXPERIENCE
  36. JOE H – FINDING THE POWER – STEPS 2 & 3
  37. CHUCK C – THE PRACTICE OF SURRENDER – CEASING TO FIGHT ANYMORE
  38. BETH H – BEING BETH JUST WASN’T ENOUGH!
  39. SANDY BEACH – SPIRITUAL PRINCIPLES
  40. SANDY BEACH – AT GULF SHORES
  41. EARL H – THE 12 STEPS (PART 1 OF 2)
  42. SANDY BEACH – DRINKING’S “SIDE EFFECTS” AND THE SOLUTION
  43. SANDY BEACH – STEPS 6 & 7
  44. PAUL M – BLOOMINGTON 2013
  45. JOE H – UNBLOCKING THE POWER – STEPS 4-9
  46. BOB D – STEP 4 , FEAR & SEX AT WOODSTOCK OF AA, COCOA BEACH FL
  47. LOCAL MEETING SPEAKERS – AN IRISH-BORN STORYTELLER FINDS HER RECOVERY IN AMERICA
  48. SANDY BEACH – FINDING AND CONNECTING TO YOUR HIGHER POWER
  49. BETTY F. – DENIAL AND THE “HIDDEN ALCOHOLIC”
  50. EARL H – EARL HIGHTOWER
  51. DAVE F AND MARK HOUSTON – NEXT STEPS – EMOTIONAL SOBRIETY – PART 1
  52. CHRIS R – RELAPSE PREVENTION
  53. You Cannot Nail Sincerity to the Wall Like Jello 🤣 — Russell S.
  54. A Few Drinks Make Me Feel Momentarily Omnipotent 🤣 — Clancy I.
  55. Jack B. Passes the Basket While Wearing a Stained Bathrobe 🤣
  56. Danny’s 6,000th “You Don’t Remember My Name” Roast and My Step 6 Brain Freeze 🤣
  57. My Parents Hired Private Investigators and Staged a Fake DEA Raid on My Apartment 🤣 — Randy L.
  58. I Married My Psychiatrist Which Isn’t a Terribly Smart Thing to Do 🤣 — Ajit
  59. Most of My Life When I Stood in Front of a Podium with a Tie on I Was Called Defendant 🤣
  60. Dog Turds Wrapped in Gold Tinfoil — That’s What We Call Our Worst Defects and We Guard Them Like Treasures 🤣 — Bob B.
  61. Called Al-Anon the Sisters of Perpetual Revenge 🤣 — Tom N.
  62. Mom Said Don’t Drink Alone or That’ll Make You an Alcoholic — So I Drank Socially 😂 — Pat F.
  63. Redneck Twelve Steps — I Can’t, He Can’t, I Think I’ll Let Him 🤣 — Bill T.
  64. Hitting Bottom Is an Inside Job Not an Outside Circumstance — Mickey B.
  65. Uncovering Discovering Discarding — the Whole Program Is an Inside Job — Chuck C.
  66. ‘My Case Is Different’ — the Sentence That Killed More Drunks Than Bourbon Ever Did — Clancy I.
  67. The Twelve Traditions Are the Principles for Living With Other People and Nobody Told Me That for Twelve Years — Dick A.
  68. The Two Dangers to the Fellowship Are Personalities Ahead of Principles and Complacency — John C.
  69. Letting Go — the Only Action Verb in a Program of Action — Sandy B. Spirituality Retreat
  70. Asking for Help as the Spiritual Action the Alcoholic Ego Cannot Tolerate — Sandy B.
  71. The Arrogant Expert Finding His Bottom in a Narcotics Hospital Bed — Bill G.
  72. Went to Interview for Atlanta PD and Did a Fifth Step with the Detective 🤦 — Kerry S.
  73. Honesty and Emotion Are Good Up to a Point — So I Walked Out of Bible Study and Into AA 🙃 — Jim T.
  74. Only Disease Where the Victim Has to Diagnose, Prescribe, and Carry Out His Own Treatment Plan — Joe McQ.
  75. Being Afraid of Being Afraid Kept Me in Total Fear Until I Accepted It Was Just Part of Being Human — John H.
  76. Ego Writes Its Own Commandments and Calls the Violations Resentments — Ted B.
  77. Ethanol Drip Saved My Body. Step Three Saved the Rest. — Nick M.
  78. Raised an Atheist, Saved by a Butterfly — Higher Power Lives in the Seeking, Not the Catching — Bob C.
  79. Thirty-Three Years from the Last Drink and Twelve Steps from the Next — Joe Klass
  80. Tenth Step Is the Cheat Sheet to the Fourth — Four Defects, Three Instincts, Seven Sheets of Paper — Bill D.
  81. Trying to Be Air Force ROTC and Drink Like I Drank Was Like Being an Opera Singer With a Tracheotomy 🫠 — Will D.
  82. Didn’t Know If I Was Alcoholic or Just Fucked Up Until Step One Got Diagnosed from the Actual Text
  83. We Went to Find Our Inner Child and Discovered What We Desperately Need Is an Adult 😂 — Polly P.
  84. Go to the Man You Hate the Most Because He’s Got What You Need — Paul D.
  85. Son of an Alcoholic, Bouncing Between Two Houses — I Learned to Manipulate Before I Ever Took a Drink — Wesley T.
  86. Lying by Intimation as the Alcoholic’s Native Tongue — the Kind of Lie You Don’t Catch Yourself Telling — Alabama C.
  87. Nobody Asked What You Want to Do — We Asked What You’re Going to Do — Jim W.
  88. Nine Areas of Unmanageability From Page 52 and a Fifth Step for the Dark Crannies — Don C.
  89. Dr. Bob’s Nightmare, the Co-Founder’s Own Story from the Big Book — Dr. Bob
  90. The Secret of AA in Four Words: Find Higher Power or Die — Jay S.
  91. The Promises Are Not Just Words, a Sick Angry Man Lives Happy Joyous and Free — Cliff R.
  92. Put the Man Together and the World Comes Together — That’s Steps Six Through Nine — Peggy M.
  93. Why Steps Five Through Seven Are Really About Smashing the Story You Made Up — Sandy B.
  94. Dr. Bob’s Farewell Simmered the Twelve Steps Down to Love and Service
  95. Traditions as Operational Tools: Common Welfare, Singleness of Purpose, and Autonomy With Responsibility — Tom I.
  96. The Steady State of Sobriety Remains the Same Whether the Bank Account Is Full or Empty — Russell S.
  97. He Left His Big Shot Job in Beverly Hills for the Mission on Skid Row — Clancy I.
  98. #24 – CHRIS R – THE SPIRITUAL MALADY & DEPRESSION – Best AA Speeches of All Time — CHRIS R.
  99. The Next Time You Say Principles Before Personalities 🤣 — Clancy I.
  100. #24 – CHRIS R – THE SPIRITUAL MALADY & DEPRESSION – Best AA Speeches of All Time — CHRIS R.