# God Is Whatever Got You to Those People - AA Speaker - Karl M. Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/sober-sunrise-aa-speaker-podcast-7161561/god-is-whatever-got-you-to-those-people-aa-speaker-karl-m Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/sober-sunrise-aa-speaker-podcast-7161561/god-is-whatever-got-you-to-those-people-aa-speaker-karl-m.md Podcast: [Sober Sunrise - AA Speaker Podcast](https://stenobird.com/podcast/sober-sunrise-aa-speaker-podcast-7161561) Published: 2026-06-19T13:00:00+00:00 Episode link: https://sober-sunrise.podbean.com/e/god-is-whatever-got-you-to-those-people-aa-speaker-karl-m/ Audio file: https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/yyaxmyqyc79yk646/KarlM-Podcast.mp3 Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/sober-sunrise-aa-speaker-podcast-7161561/episodes/god-is-whatever-got-you-to-those-people-aa-speaker-karl-m Duration seconds: 3355 ## Resource Karl called his father, a minister and theologian, expecting him to explain God. His father gave him a much shorter answer: God is whatever got you to those people, so do what they say. โ˜€๏ธ Sober Sunrise Episode ArchiveMore AA speaker tapes and recovery stories:https://sober-sunrise.com/episodes ๐Ÿงก Sober Sunrise MerchShirts, mugs, and recovery-inspired gear:https://sober-sunrise.com/merch ๐ŸŒด Sober Sunrise NewsletterWeekly AA speaker picks, recovery reflections, and updates:https://sober-sunrise.com/newsletter Karl, sober since January 21, 1987, shares a rapid-fire AA talk about growing up in Borneo, blacking out from his first drink at 11, earning ten college credits in three years, dealing drugs, living on the streets, and joining the Navy to escape people he owed. His drinking followed him into military life, where he drove through a guard shack, repeatedly drank on Antabuse, landed in jail, and was finally sent to treatment under threat of the brig and a bad-conduct discharge. At his first AA meeting, one sentence described the condition he could never explain: his mind would have killed his body, but it needed it for transportation. What followed was a weekend of meetings, a recovering alcoholic waiting for him aboard his ship, nightly Big Book study in the battery shop, inventory, difficult financial amends, an honorable discharge, and a return to college. Karl explains how meetings, the book, and service became recovery, unity, and service in action, and how loading newcomers into a broken Volkswagen taught him that helping someone else could improve his life before the car even left the parking lot. Karl M. from Covina, CA speaking somewhere in Texas, sometime in 1994Music: Deep by KaizanBlu ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/sober-sunrise-aa-speaker-podcast-7161561/episodes/god-is-whatever-got-you-to-those-people-aa-speaker-karl-m/transcription-requests` โ€” Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/sober-sunrise-aa-speaker-podcast-7161561/god-is-whatever-got-you-to-those-people-aa-speaker-karl-m.md` โ€” Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.