But I think in his AA life, he says, better living through better things by the milk of human kindness. I introduce to you now, Bob Flowers. It's a real pleasure always to share in this and any program with John Phillips. I've been on many trips with him. John has been an inspiration to me over the years. He has helped me quite a bit in my own sobriety and the plateaus of life which I have found progressively one right after the other through people like John Phillips and you and you and you. I was down there talking to Clarence Schneider a few minutes ago, and I was a little bit nervous and concerned about coming in here, and he told me, he said, go on in and just tell them how you feel. Well, that's the way to do it, and that's just what I'll do. I'm scared. I would like to say this, though, and I'd like to say this first of all, if there happens to be a new person in here this morning, a new guy or a new gal, maybe this is the first time you've ever been in an AA group, maybe it's the second time, maybe it's a week, two weeks, a month, or maybe it's a year, or whatever the time might be that you might consider that you feel yourself new, I'd like to tell you that we welcome you here. I'd like to speak on behalf of myself, and I'm sure that I can speak on behalf of AA as a whole and Blackstone, too. We welcome you. We know the form of frustration, confusion, and inner complexities that you have because each one of us have had them ourselves. We want you to know, first of all, that we knew everything there was to know about you before you arrived in AA. We knew you at your worst because we lived it ahead of you. We know almost all the details. We don't know where you hid your whiskey, but, hell, you hid it somewhere. We don't know. But in spite of all of this, I'd like to say for myself that we welcome you into AA, whoever you might be. We welcome you because we need you, because you are the source of our strength. It is through you that we find our own sobriety….