Description: Recorded in 1998, Joe McQ met Charlie P when he introduced him as the AA speaker at an Al-Anon convention in 1973. Having had a mutual fascination with AA's Big Book called "Alcoholics Anonymous", they became close friends for over 20 years. Although they lived 225 miles apart, they met at each others' homes frequently to discuss the Big Book and planned meetings in hotel rooms at AA conventions in Oklahoma and Arkansas. In one of those meetings in Tulsa, Oklahoma in 1977, one member asked them to come to his home group to present what was recorded as "The Big Book Study." Those recordings spread throughout the Fellowship and they were invited to present at conventions and other events and by 1980, they were presenting about eight studies each year. AA members were so deeply moved that Joe & Charlie were asked to give their Big Book Study presentations in all 50 states as well as most Canadian provinces in addition to Australia, New Zealand, England, Scotland, Ireland, Germany, Switzerland, Sweden, Holland, and even Iceland. The original Joe, Joe McQ, had to cut back his traveling in recent years, but as members would say, (where God guides, God provides, because another Joe, Joe McC., who was active in the study group since the beginning picked up the slack! Joe and charlie tapes, aa, alcoholics anonymous, big book, recovery, primary purpose, there is a solution, 12 steps

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