# I Wanted to Be Ordinary - AA Speaker - David B. Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/sober-sunrise-aa-speaker-podcast-7161561/i-wanted-to-be-ordinary-aa-speaker-david-b Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/sober-sunrise-aa-speaker-podcast-7161561/i-wanted-to-be-ordinary-aa-speaker-david-b.md Podcast: [Sober Sunrise - AA Speaker Podcast](https://stenobird.com/podcast/sober-sunrise-aa-speaker-podcast-7161561) Published: 2026-06-02T15:17:47+00:00 Episode link: https://sober-sunrise.podbean.com/e/i-wanted-to-be-ordinary-aa-speaker-david-b/ Audio file: https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/thf6jkhm6dhf2yer/DavidB-Podcast.mp3 Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/sober-sunrise-aa-speaker-podcast-7161561/episodes/i-wanted-to-be-ordinary-aa-speaker-david-b Duration seconds: 3066 ## Resource Dave was the first AA member in Quebec, but what finally reached him was simple: the Big Book described people who got sober, went to work, came home, and lived like ordinary human beings. 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 Dave, 21 years sober and serving as Canadian trustee, tells an old-school AA story that stretches from childhood fear in Mexico City to boarding school, the Bank of Montreal, Quebec City, Winnipeg, Vancouver, and years of consequences he kept trying to outrun. He remembers the first beer that opened a whole new world, the rooftop story at Portage and Main, a secret marriage that somehow survived, a cerebral hemorrhage at 23, repeated hospital stays, and the final loneliness of a police station bullpen where the fight finally went out of him. From there, a phone call to the small AA office in New York brought pamphlets, a Big Book, daily letters from a sober woman who became his sponsor, and the beginning of AA in Montreal. David B. from Montreal, Quebec, Canada speaking at the 11th annual Alberta Conference Banquet/Speaker Meeting - February 27th 1965 Music: Deep by KaizanBlu ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/sober-sunrise-aa-speaker-podcast-7161561/episodes/i-wanted-to-be-ordinary-aa-speaker-david-b/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/i-wanted-to-be-ordinary-aa-speaker-david-b.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.