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Arthur

Arthur

French TV show host

Apr 29, 2026

speaker_0NARRATOR
5:26
[laughs]
ArthurGUEST
5:28
Oh, God, yeah, that's a lot of air coming out of you, Janice, when you laugh.

21 MINS LATER

AmeliaGUEST
26:51
Get a good chomp.
ArthurGUEST
26:52
All right.
ArthurGUEST
26:53
Here we go.
ArthurGUEST
26:55
Oh, hold your nose.
ArthurGUEST
26:58
Just hold your nose.
speaker_0UNKNOWN
0:31
[audience murmurs]
ArthurGUEST
0:32
I gotta apologize a little bit.
ArthurGUEST
0:34
I didn't know there was gonna be readings at the beginning of this, so I brought down the one-hour version instead of the fifty-minute version.
ArthurGUEST
0:40
So I'm gonna try to go along at a very brisk pace, and I'll forewarn anybody going out for coffee or to the restrooms, you might miss a couple of decades in your absence.
speaker_0UNKNOWN
0:49
[audience laughing]
ArthurGUEST
0:52
Uh, welcome, everyone, and thank you for the opportunity to make this history presentation.
ArthurGUEST
0:56
It's going to be a timeline history of AA, uh, with extra emphasis on the history of the Big Book.
ArthurGUEST
1:03
AA co-founder Bill W. published a July 1953 Grapevine article titled "A Fragment of History," describing the origin of the twelve steps.

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