I got sober in Clancy's Pacific Group.. I owe my sobriety to Clancy's foundation and program of action (I have 29 years +). He saw me in a coffee shop some 6 years after I left the PG and he remembered my name.. I didn't think he even knew who i was. When i had a day sober I almost walked out of his backyard... angry that he was calling everyone near-do-wells (I later learned this was part of his jest). My AA eskimo friend ran after me and dragged me back.. and I fell in love with his Saturday softball regiment. I owe my life to AA; Clancy, and his brand of the program. This took me way back.. a great listen. Thank you AA.
I lost my job of 20 years 6 days ago .... Struggling really hard right now today is day 3 for me ..... losing my house and family This speech helped me tonight
This video was posted exactly 1 week after I gave sobriety a real shot. What a crazy roller-coaster ride of emotions that first year was. Lasted about 19 months before a relapse. Went out over a petty resentment and a bad case of self-pity... No thing is so bad that a relapse won't make worse. So glad I made it back in! Next October I'll have 5 years, SO SO GRATEFUL!! ♥️
6 years of sobriety today. Treating myself tonight with a message of courage strength and hope from Clancy. AA has saved me from living a life of hell. I am truly grateful for the love and support I have received from the fellowship.
Clancy's disease of perception talk was basically mandatory listening in my original sponsorship tree and homegroup...he is the first person ever to explain the disease to me that made complete sense, and I new it to the core... 'this man knows all about me...and there is a solution!' I got to see him in Wisconsin 3 times before he passed. He is such a great guy, helped so many people.
I sobered up September 21 1941 which is also my belly button birthday.....That November of 1984 Clancy came to Cheyenne Wy to speak.....Loved the talk.....We had him back for our Gratitude Banquet November 2015 ....Great speech again....Love listening to this man....I am 76 now and have lived an extra 30 years because of AA.....
I found Clancy on You Tube today, never thought to look. What a blessing. I listened to an old cassette tape of his over-and-over again in 1992 when I was new. His words on that cassette tape helped me more than I can adequately describe. They have been with me everyday for my 30 years of sobriety. Rest in Peace and thank you Clancy. 🙏🙏
Dude was my dad's sponsor. As a small child, he sent me postcards from every state he visited where he was helping other drunks. I love and will miss this man forever.
I loved listening to him. After five or six times of hearing him speak my husband and I saw him at the World Conference in San Diego in 2000. We packed the place out. 🙏🏼Thank you Clancy, the west coast distributor of small Catholics as he put it. He was one of a kind.
Didn't know Clancy had died - wow - knew he was helping them big-time downtown L.A. - The Midnight Mission - A.A. - leading thousands more into sobriety. Much respect to our cherished leader.
Clancy and AAers like him who don’t sugarcoat the Solution are what saved my life 10 years ago. Love you all and hope you’re finding life in the Solution ❤️
Well Done Clancy TOTAL ROCK STAR With A Smile.. I Absolutely LOVE This Man!!! I Love How He Defines And Explains The Message With Humor, Reality, And Truth.. These Are The Old Timers I Follow And Respect... Love You Clancy Keep Smiling Brother
Thank goodness for Clancys speaker tapes now I understand AA on a Much deeper spiritual level! Thank you Clancy for helping me so much! God bless all of us that has and has not surrendered!
Sweet William in Bozeman and gave me a copy of Clancy many years ago and he said kid go home and listen to this guy and bring it back to me tomorrow and tell me if you still think you're crazy that was the summer of 1992 and it kept me sober and gave me insight into my real problem which is not ingesting alcohol it's living with this brain. Clancy saved so many lives by helping little Knuckleheads like me understand that the solution to the problem isn't stopping drinking it's learning how to live.
I love seeing Clancy. . Every summer I go to a book study if his. He has so many stories and insight into the program. Pacific group had a lot of funny ways, but they sure have helped thousands stay sober who in turn help tens of thousands stay sober. That's a bunch of broken people getting well and living amazing lives. Whatever works. Bless you Clancy I.
RIP Clancy I. Your legacy lives on. It was a pleasure to have met you and shake your hand years ago at the Southern California AA convention. -a sober member of Alcoholics Anonymous
Thank u so much , Clancy, thanks for keeping these doors open for a drunk like me oldtimer , thanks for going threw the steps , and those reminders man , today i live a good Peaceful life ,thanks to God and AA and people like u Clancy .
I'm new to this round of recovery I'll have 3 months 3/15/2021 my sponsor told me to listen to AA related podcasts. This had me laughing, relating, and crying. I'll tell you and anyone else willing to listen that he described what's been happening in me what I've not even been able to describe myself. Thank god for this man and thank god for everything that lead me to this moment.
I got my 3 month chip this morning. Congratulations! A few old timers mentioned Clancy, and I had to look him up. I sure wish I could have met him! He is great!!
I’m so sorry your loss. I have lost many friends and family members over the years to this disease. Sobriety is truly a miracle and a gift. God bless you.
Glad to be safe,sane,and sober.Thirty years of freedom and gratitude . So thankful for this peace,this clarity,this opportunity to be used, Iron sharpens iron.
When I was newly sober I was asked to secure speakers for a small meeting in Sunland, Ca. Somebody said “see if you can get Clancy to speak!” I had no idea who he was but I called him up and asked him to speak at our meeting. His calendar was open and he agreed to come and speak. It was a great evening and I haven’t had a drink since 1989.✌️
Alcohol fills the holes of our psyche and alters our perceptions. That phrase he uttered in one of his talks changed my life. I was about 3 years sober at the time, but it allowed me to grow in my recovery exponentially. ❤
Clancy your story saved me I ended up with the hospital situation and didn't realize it until now. I always think too I'm not a drunken fool. Thank you for helping me
I got sober at 18 and I was lucky enough to hear him at a tape meeting. I inherited a bucket of tapes that I listened to in the Navy. That was almost 25 years ago. God bless you Clancy- Ora Pro Nobis.
Cooked breakfast with Clancy at an AA roundup in Lahr Germany several years ago where he was the keynote speaker. One of my favorites to listen to. Believe it or not he was very soft spoken and kind.
There were two old timers at my first meeting, they took an interest in me and are probably the only I've stayed sober, one was a sponsee of Clancy, I got to spend an afternoon at the old timers kitchen table with Clancy.
I love the fact that alcohol isn't the problem, its the void that alcohol fills that needs addressing. And the idea that alcohol is a self induced psychosis. Insightful.
Thank God Someone captured these great messages of Entertaining Wisdom! I met Clancy 30 years ago in Tahlequah, OK. My first several years, daily I played & memorized many of his tapes, especially the Disease of Perception, along with The BB Study by Joe P. & Charlie McQ... I Am So Grateful Those Three Wise Men Provided Me A Foundation & Understanding Of The AA Program. I Am Honored To Have All Of Their Autographs In My BB!... RIP Clancy!...
@@kerriann8441 If you find friends & support in AA then there is nothing wrong with attending those meetings. They generally ask that you substitute words that imply alcohol as your issue. However many alcoholics also have a drug problem & right up front the Big Book clarifies that alcohol is a drug!... I Myself initially found the best support in AA. But I went to both NA & AA for years. Today I tend to go to AA Meetings because I find more quality sobriety there. I would be looking for a temporary Sponsor to help you with your immediate needs. If they have years behind them in the Program, they will be willing to help you sort this out. Also I found more quality clean time in the city meetings like in Tulsa. After attending some of their NA Meetings I was more able to go back home to my rural meetings & find those who had quality in the NA Program.
The purpose of AA is to do very slowly what alcohol did fast: to change my perception of reality and making it a friendly place, to change my relationship to people
Clancy and Tom K. are two of my all-time Hollywood heroes. Legends who've saved trillions-of-show-business lives in Hollywood, oh and not just Hollywood people/lives - everyone, every occupation, all walks of life. Honesty saves lives, and these two are among the most honest/honorable Gentlemen on the planet. Tom K. drove 35 miles from Sherman Oaks, CA and at 11 p.m. at night. To the club Clancy started many years back on Ohio very close to the Veteran's compound. For I'd just moved West, ran out of money, was partying too hard - i.e. not taking care of business. Tom K. basically gave me Life in Hollywood - breathed it back into me and by Caring. Love you Tom, love you Clancy - thanks from the very bottom of my heart. This goes to L.A.'s strongest group/people - the Pacific Group. Despite his hilarious talk here, Clancy's won at all walks-of-lives, having once invented the advertising slogan and campaign for Elsie-the-Cow. A campaign that made ME want to get, go into advertising. Sure enough advertising on huge Madison Avenue was my first professional job post grad school - i.e. Toyota Retail serving the tri-state area of NY, NJ and CT. Might look Clancy up over the Holidays, i.e. go down, give volunteer service at "Midnight Mission" on Skid Row. ...
My neighbor Bill and I hitchiked to LA in 1967, and ran out of money, and another Street person suggested we knock on the door of th Midnight Mission and ask for a meal and a flop. We knocked on these black (?) steel doors, and a growly old bastard opened it and asked what we wanted. We told him what our Street guide said, and Clancy looked at us,i we in our 20's, and snarled and said, "get out of here, you haven't suffered enough." 10 years later, on 3/24/1977, I had my last drink, in So. Calif, and in my first 4 Years of Sobriety and Service Work, got to know Clancy, Paul O. Chuck C, Annie, and other local speakers. and never joined Clancy's Saturday yard group at his house, but always got a hug from these 3 Men, as we met from time to time throughout the Country. They were "water walkers," to we newcomers and never lacked REAL humility. I left Calif. in 6/81 with my family, but these Men and many others live in my heart and Recovery today and everyday. TYG.
I hope to come back to this comment one day and be proud of my self… I’m 2 days sober and I’m having a rough time but Im willing to do whatever it takes to stop. Lord be with me 🙏🏾❤️
I’ll be 3 years sober on September 7th!!! 🥹 I am forever grateful I stumbled upon this video that very dark and lonely day. If you’re ready this and thinking about quitting. Get to a meeting. Lean on sober people around you and stick to it. If you want your life back you have no other choice but to put in the work! One day at a time 💕
What a powerful message Clancy has,I wish he would have come to the 75th anniversary of the first perrmanet AA meeting in los angeles at the Cecil hotel on 6th and main, It was the most awesome day and night of AA fellowship I have ever experienced in my 31 yrs.of sobriety. God bless you Clancy sincerely Bruce S. San Pedro Alano Zig Zag Club 3/29 / 2015
In 1991 , I had been in AA for 2+ years and couldn't get sober. I called the Mission in California and was told to come on over , he would help me get sober. I left Montana drunk .My truck broke down in Vegas , and I never made it to California. But ,In Vegas I did run into some sponsees of Clarence Snyder and found sobriety. Thanks Clancy for getting me to make that trip. God works in crazy ways.
I was listening to Clancy on a TH-cam recording and I came upon your comment. I don’t know you, but I can certainly pray for you. Believe me, I know how hard it can be, but it can be done what my sponsor drilled into me was to keep my head in just today literally take it one day at a time he suggested not tell myself I’ll never drink again. all I need to do is tell myself I’m not going to drink today, I have 42 years sober now just one day at a time. If necessary go to two or three meetings a day for a while to jumpstart things. I’ve been a little out of sorts lately so today I’m going to 2 meetings and I’m going to do that for the next couple of days. Almost without fail it works every time after a couple of days of multiple meetings a day. I’m back on track and feeling good again. If you happen upon my comment and you wish to text me back you are welcome to. My name is Mark, I am in New Jersey and you can text me if you want at 908-500-5736. I wish you all the best never give up.
I was listening to Clancy on a TH-cam recording and I came upon your comment. I don’t know you, but I can certainly pray for you. Believe me, I know how hard it can be, but it can be done what my sponsor drilled into me was to keep my head in just today literally take it one day at a time he suggested not tell myself I’ll never drink again. all I need to do is tell myself I’m not going to drink today, I have 42 years sober now just one day at a time. If necessary go to two or three meetings a day for a while to jumpstart things. I’ve been a little out of sorts lately so today I’m going to 2 meetings and I’m going to do that for the next couple of days. Almost without fail it works every time after a couple of days of multiple meetings a day. I’m back on track and feeling good again. If you happen upon my comment and you wish to text me back you are welcome to. My name is Mark, I am in New Jersey and you can text me if you want at 908-500-5736. I wish you all the best never give up.
Thanks Clancy. Your perspective on the problem and the solution is a timeless, spot-on take on alcoholism. Forever grateful for your ability to break it down for we agnostic, intellectual, emotional wrecks.
I saw Clancy I. Cooks Forrest, PA in the 90's I'm still drinking listening to him again, I can't stop, I read the Big Book,the Basic Text,and the Bible as I drink,I'm at my wit's end,..,help
Clancy set the standard for Alcoholics Anonymous in Southern California unfortunately it sucks everywhere else too bad I used to live down toward the specific group though I never knew Clancy himself
Dear Lord🕊️ thank you for allowing us to experience listening to Clancy. God 💫 I am very grateful that I have been fortunate to have been able to listen to him for many years when he was still alive and well after his passing. Thank you 🙏🤍🤍🤍✨
Clancy's sponsor Chuck C said in 'A New Pair of Glasses' something along the lines of 'there is room in AA for only one Clancy' he is a showman, has done a lot of good for drunks, I have met him twice in UK and very much enjoy his sharing.
This is really my favourite Channel! Thanks for your nice Videos, it is very enlightening, Waiting for your latest update. Chauncey - Islington Parkette
I owe my life to Clancy's Pacific group. He made it clear that there is a solution and my sobriety date is 06/26/1977.
I got sober in Clancy's Pacific Group.. I owe my sobriety to Clancy's foundation and program of action (I have 29 years +). He saw me in a coffee shop some 6 years after I left the PG and he remembered my name.. I didn't think he even knew who i was. When i had a day sober I almost walked out of his backyard... angry that he was calling everyone near-do-wells (I later learned this was part of his jest). My AA eskimo friend ran after me and dragged me back.. and I fell in love with his Saturday softball regiment. I owe my life to AA; Clancy, and his brand of the program. This took me way back.. a great listen. Thank you AA.
He sounds like a guy would could talk to no matter the situation.
I am going to visit the West coast some day. One day at a time
Needed that comment tonight.
Yup, I loved the Yard. I miss him
This is ...was. My sponsor since 1988. I miss him so much. Aug 28th we lost him. 😢 but to hear his voice. My sweety
I can’t get sober for very long, but I love listening to these tapes.
God bless you all..
Me neither. Till I started working the program. Worked immediately
The only day you should be sober is today!!
I lost my job of 20 years 6 days ago .... Struggling really hard right now today is day 3 for me ..... losing my house and family This speech helped me tonight
Hang tough, brother.
A. Krueger Thanks for caring enough to drop a word of encouragement!
Stay sober brother! One day at a time. Hang in there.
Prayers for you and your family. We all start at the same place. One moment at a time.
Praying for you 🙏
This video was posted exactly 1 week after I gave sobriety a real shot. What a crazy roller-coaster ride of emotions that first year was. Lasted about 19 months before a relapse. Went out over a petty resentment and a bad case of self-pity... No thing is so bad that a relapse won't make worse. So glad I made it back in! Next October I'll have 5 years, SO SO GRATEFUL!! ♥️
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Love that "No thing is so bad that a relapse won't make worse"! Thank you. Congratulations on your 5 years. 🙏🏼😃💖
6 years of sobriety today. Treating myself tonight with a message of courage strength and hope from Clancy. AA has saved me from living a life of hell. I am truly grateful for the love and support I have received from the fellowship.
Clancy's disease of perception talk was basically mandatory listening in my original sponsorship tree and homegroup...he is the first person ever to explain the disease to me that made complete sense, and I new it to the core...
'this man knows all about me...and there is a solution!'
I got to see him in Wisconsin 3 times before he passed.
He is such a great guy, helped so many people.
Me too love that we had sense enough to tape him. He's a giant among Giants
AA does for us slowly, what alcohol did quickly. Fantastic. Great listen.
I sobered up September 21 1941 which is also my belly button birthday.....That November of 1984 Clancy came to Cheyenne Wy to speak.....Loved the talk.....We had him back for our Gratitude Banquet November 2015 ....Great speech again....Love listening to this man....I am 76 now and have lived an extra 30 years because of AA.....
Dang art thats was a couple days back. Good work sir. Keep coming back
Philadelphia Experiment AA, "the Life Boat"
You got sober in 1941, and are 76 as of 2 years ago? You stopped drinking as an infant?
@@djmench
Sept 21 is my belly button b/d and also my sobriety b/d.................I charged of the typo to senility
@@djmench funny sombody else did the math
I found Clancy on You Tube today, never thought to look. What a blessing. I listened to an old cassette tape of his over-and-over again in 1992 when I was new. His words on that cassette tape helped me more than I can adequately describe. They have been with me everyday for my 30 years of sobriety. Rest in Peace and thank you Clancy. 🙏🙏
if you managed to not drink for 30 years
I don't think you were an alcoholic to begin with
I'm here because I was forwarded to this by a friend. I'm 3 days sober and kind of down. I think I needed this!!! =)
Emily Levine
Keep going!!!
i got two days. so i am right with you
did you stay sober?
u still sober?
I hope you are 8 months sober now(cause thats how old your post is) but if not thats okay too.
I love when AAers laugh during testimonies. We are not a glum lot! 😁😁😁
I didn’t know Clancy had died. That saddens me a what a great man. I’ve been listening to his recordings for over 35 years and they never get old.
Dude was my dad's sponsor. As a small child, he sent me postcards from every state he visited where he was helping other drunks. I love and will miss this man forever.
He always sent me postcards from everywhere, too
Meant so much to me.
Clancy I died today at the age of 94 with 61 years of sobriety
Amazing! This is really good AA
I loved listening to him. After five or six times of hearing him speak my husband and I saw him at the World Conference in San Diego in 2000. We packed the place out. 🙏🏼Thank you Clancy, the west coast distributor of small Catholics as he put it. He was one of a kind.
93
62 years sobriety
Didn't know Clancy had died - wow - knew he was helping them
big-time downtown L.A. - The Midnight Mission - A.A. - leading
thousands more into sobriety. Much respect to our
cherished leader.
Clancy and AAers like him who don’t sugarcoat the Solution are what saved my life 10 years ago. Love you all and hope you’re finding life in the Solution ❤️
Amen
Rest in peace Clancy, thank you for carrying the message. You have helped me and so many others.❤🙏
Well Done Clancy TOTAL ROCK STAR With A Smile.. I Absolutely LOVE This Man!!! I Love How He Defines And Explains The Message With Humor, Reality, And Truth..
These Are The Old Timers I Follow And Respect... Love You Clancy Keep Smiling Brother
Thank goodness for Clancys speaker tapes now I understand AA on a Much deeper spiritual level! Thank you Clancy for helping me so much!
God bless all of us that has and has not surrendered!
Is this man still alive?
Thank you Clancy, God Bless you.
I just listened to Clancy for the 1st time tonight 6-30-2. I will have 8 months sober next Thursday. He is still helping people like me for sure!!
"Alcoholics aren't people whose problem is alcohol. Alcoholics are people whose answer is alcohol."
Genius.
En francais témoignage des alcooliques
Jerome St Amant Dieu vous bénisse
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Sweet William in Bozeman and gave me a copy of Clancy many years ago and he said kid go home and listen to this guy and bring it back to me tomorrow and tell me if you still think you're crazy that was the summer of 1992 and it kept me sober and gave me insight into my real problem which is not ingesting alcohol it's living with this brain. Clancy saved so many lives by helping little Knuckleheads like me understand that the solution to the problem isn't stopping drinking it's learning how to live.
This is the first speaker tape I ever heard and It is the best thing to happen to me this morning. Thank you Clancy.
Still helping us long after death...RIP
"Since the birth of Al Anon, there's never been a moment's rest for anyone, anywhere."😂
"Oh Clancy...is there no end to your goodness"...? Classic!!
Thank you..,..Brian K./NY
Clancy I. RIP 8.24.20 with 61 years of sobriety.
Correction 62 years
I love seeing Clancy. . Every summer I go to a book study if his. He has so many stories and insight into the program. Pacific group had a lot of funny ways, but they sure have helped thousands stay sober who in turn help tens of thousands stay sober. That's a bunch of broken people getting well and living amazing lives. Whatever works. Bless you Clancy I.
Enthusiast AA...happy clappy
Love listening to Clancy. Such a wise gentleman.
Clancy a very inspirational speaker and he’s been a blessing. He made it fun as well and that’s a way for me to not take myself so seriously.
Really wonderful-glad I could listen to this.
RIP Clancy I. Your legacy lives on. It was a pleasure to have met you and shake your hand years ago at the Southern California AA convention.
-a sober member of Alcoholics Anonymous
Thank u so much , Clancy, thanks for keeping these doors open for a drunk like me oldtimer , thanks for going threw the steps , and those reminders man , today i live a good Peaceful life ,thanks to God and AA and people like u Clancy .
I'm new to this round of recovery I'll have 3 months 3/15/2021 my sponsor told me to listen to AA related podcasts. This had me laughing, relating, and crying. I'll tell you and anyone else willing to listen that he described what's been happening in me what I've not even been able to describe myself. Thank god for this man and thank god for everything that lead me to this moment.
Clancy's my sponsor's sponsor..both of them died in 2020...I'm sure missing them.
Jim B
I got my 3 month chip this morning. Congratulations! A few old timers mentioned Clancy, and I had to look him up. I sure wish I could have met him! He is great!!
Sober 33years love the talk
Met him 37 yrs ago at a jamberer he was something else!!! Loved his talk The Pacifica group🤗🤗
to live with decency, dignity, hope and understanding. Amen, Clancy.
Thank you Clancy. November 2 ,2020.sober 37 years. Thank you .
I have a brother that is totally lost right now. Listening to this brother has given me a sense of direction and calm.
I’m so sorry your loss. I have lost many friends and family members over the years to this disease. Sobriety is truly a miracle and a gift. God bless you.
What a great story! This waa a joy to listen to...
Flying with the Angels....still a source of humor and comfort.
I am trying to reach out for help. I have problems with NA I feel more comfortable with AA is that okay
Thank you Clancy and all who have continued to carry his message
Glad to be safe,sane,and sober.Thirty years of freedom and gratitude . So thankful for this peace,this clarity,this opportunity to be used, Iron sharpens iron.
"change your perception of reality because it is not really happening" - I can relate
He yells a lot. 😂 I like it! The end is just priceless. 💕
My job gets grey, people get grey, my life gets grey. Yup, that's what initial sobriety brings. I'm listening, cuz he makes sense.
❤️❤️
When I was newly sober I was asked to secure speakers for a small meeting in Sunland, Ca. Somebody said “see if you can get Clancy to speak!” I had no idea who he was but I called him up and asked him to speak at our meeting. His calendar was open and he agreed to come and speak. It was a great evening and I haven’t had a drink since 1989.✌️
Alcohol fills the holes of our psyche and alters our perceptions. That phrase he uttered in one of his talks changed my life. I was about 3 years sober at the time, but it allowed me to grow in my recovery exponentially. ❤
Best talk ever I understand alcoholism now
Day 17, thank you sir!!! I love how he said that the point of AA is to do slowly what alcohol did quickly
Absolutely great speaker. Some of the things he's talking about reminded of how was when in my disease. 7 years sober. A.A. really saved my marriage.
I love you Clancy. June 2, 1992, I got sober. Thank you for the unconditional love and acceptance. Estella.
Clancy your story saved me I ended up with the hospital situation and didn't realize it until now. I always think too I'm not a drunken fool. Thank you for helping me
One of the best, his legacy lives on though!
WaKe Up To Peace A.A it was a Honor to know this Man & Be Part in His Recovery Family GOD Bless
8 yrs sober thank you for your service I am a lucky grateful alcoholic because AA is my priority,
So glad there's a TH-cam channel for AA speakers...not sure why it took me so long to check n see ...thanks for posting the videos!
Clancy , Thank you for sharing. Love the way you shared your story ; humor and honesty , followed with the solution. lots of good stuff.
cfdww
I got sober at 18 and I was lucky enough to hear him at a tape meeting.
I inherited a bucket of tapes that I listened to in the Navy.
That was almost 25 years ago.
God bless you Clancy- Ora Pro Nobis.
Dominus Vobiscum
Pax
@@capecodder04 et cum spiritu tuo
@@Warhawk7217
Not many of us in AA but there are many following us without knowing it.
AA is God's covert operation back to Him.
@@capecodder04 I was just talking to my brother about the grace God has poured in our lives after we decided to do His will.
@@Warhawk7217
Do you go to a Latin Mass?
Rest in Peace sir, you have inspired when I was new to AA and ever since. Thank you for your service!
Cooked breakfast with Clancy at an AA roundup in Lahr Germany several years ago where he was the keynote speaker. One of my favorites to listen to. Believe it or not he was very soft spoken and kind.
This man is amazing
There were two old timers at my first meeting, they took an interest in me and are probably the only I've stayed sober, one was a sponsee of Clancy, I got to spend an afternoon at the old timers kitchen table with Clancy.
I love the fact that alcohol isn't the problem, its the void that alcohol fills that needs addressing. And the idea that alcohol is a self induced psychosis. Insightful.
GOD bless u Clancy. U r the best speaker and I thank u for sharing ur beautiful story. U have no idea how much u have helped me🕊🙏💖💖
Thank God Someone captured these great messages of Entertaining Wisdom! I met Clancy 30 years ago in Tahlequah, OK. My first several years, daily I played & memorized many of his tapes, especially the Disease of Perception, along with The BB Study by Joe P. & Charlie McQ... I Am So Grateful Those Three Wise Men Provided Me A Foundation & Understanding Of The AA Program. I Am Honored To Have All Of Their Autographs In My BB!... RIP Clancy!...
I am trying to find some help I am in Florida I like AA but I have NA problems I am reaching out please
@@kerriann8441 What might I do to help?
@@kerriann8441 If you find friends & support in AA then there is nothing wrong with attending those meetings. They generally ask that you substitute words that imply alcohol as your issue. However many alcoholics also have a drug problem & right up front the Big Book clarifies that alcohol is a drug!... I Myself initially found the best support in AA. But I went to both NA & AA for years. Today I tend to go to AA Meetings because I find more quality sobriety there. I would be looking for a temporary Sponsor to help you with your immediate needs. If they have years behind them in the Program, they will be willing to help you sort this out. Also I found more quality clean time in the city meetings like in Tulsa. After attending some of their NA Meetings I was more able to go back home to my rural meetings & find those who had quality in the NA Program.
@@kerriann8441 I hope this helps You. But if I can do anything further, do not hesitate to reach out!... Keep Coming Back!
In Russia, we love American speakers!
We like Russians to. Happy thoughts for you guys
MrVASDAS in England we love mother Russia
In UK we love American speakers too
God Bless!
Nice, Buddy!! Clancy is awesome, sounds great!! I'll have 5 years August 21 this year, 2014!! Good to see and hear you my friend!!
Mark McCormick congrats!😘💐🌹🎊👏🏻✝💥🎉
Don't forget the eclipse on August 21st!
Mark McCormick my name is John Humphreys this month I will have 6 years sober this month on July 18
I am sober since 15 Aug 2014 ..this sharing has helped me a lot during my journey in AA .. God Bless him ..
Clancy; I absolutely love listening to your story. Love you Susan
Susan Jedlicka
listening to Clancy as well as hank j and other helps to stay sober
listening to Clancy, hank j, and others helps keep me sober
The purpose of AA is to do very slowly what alcohol did fast: to change my perception of reality and making it a friendly place, to change my relationship to people
Brilliant. Thank you.
Clancy and Tom K. are two of my all-time Hollywood heroes.
Legends who've saved trillions-of-show-business lives in Hollywood, oh and not just Hollywood people/lives - everyone, every occupation, all walks of life.
Honesty saves lives, and these two are among the most honest/honorable Gentlemen on the planet.
Tom K. drove 35 miles from Sherman Oaks, CA and at 11 p.m. at night.
To the club Clancy started many years back on Ohio very close to the Veteran's compound.
For I'd just moved West, ran out of money, was partying too hard - i.e. not taking care of business.
Tom K. basically gave me Life in Hollywood - breathed it back into me and by Caring.
Love you Tom, love you Clancy - thanks from the very bottom of my heart.
This goes to L.A.'s strongest group/people - the Pacific Group.
Despite his hilarious talk here, Clancy's won at all walks-of-lives, having once invented the advertising slogan and
campaign for Elsie-the-Cow.
A campaign that made ME want to get, go into advertising.
Sure enough advertising on huge Madison Avenue was my first professional job post grad school - i.e. Toyota Retail serving the tri-state area of NY, NJ and CT.
Might look Clancy up over the Holidays, i.e. go down, give volunteer service at "Midnight Mission" on Skid Row.
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My neighbor Bill and I hitchiked to LA in 1967, and ran out of money, and another Street person suggested we knock on the door of th Midnight Mission and ask for a meal and a flop. We knocked on these black (?) steel doors, and a growly old bastard opened it and asked what we wanted. We told him what our Street guide said, and Clancy looked at us,i we in our
20's, and snarled and said, "get out of here, you haven't suffered enough." 10 years later, on 3/24/1977, I had my last drink, in So. Calif, and in my first 4 Years of Sobriety and Service Work, got to know
Clancy, Paul O. Chuck C, Annie, and other local speakers. and never joined Clancy's Saturday yard group at his house, but always got a hug from these 3 Men, as we met from time to time throughout the Country. They were "water walkers," to we newcomers and never lacked REAL humility. I left Calif. in 6/81 with my family, but these Men and many others live in my heart and Recovery
today and everyday. TYG.
I hope to come back to this comment one day and be proud of my self… I’m 2 days sober and I’m having a rough time but Im willing to do whatever it takes to stop. Lord be with me 🙏🏾❤️
Hope you are doing ok buddy
How's it going with sobriety?
I’ll be 3 years sober on September 7th!!! 🥹 I am forever grateful I stumbled upon this video that very dark and lonely day. If you’re ready this and thinking about quitting. Get to a meeting. Lean on sober people around you and stick to it. If you want your life back you have no other choice but to put in the work! One day at a time 💕
Sober 32 yrs and the isms are much alive. The man clarified many of my attitude that I had over the years.
Needed you tonight and you will be always be there for we alcoholics.
What a powerful message Clancy has,I wish he would have come to the 75th anniversary of the first perrmanet AA meeting in los angeles at the Cecil hotel on 6th and main, It was the most awesome day and night of AA fellowship I have ever experienced in my 31 yrs.of sobriety. God bless you Clancy sincerely Bruce S. San Pedro Alano Zig Zag Club 3/29 / 2015
In 1991 , I had been in AA for 2+ years and couldn't get sober. I called the Mission in California and was told to come on over , he would help me get sober.
I left Montana drunk .My truck broke down in Vegas , and I never made it to California.
But ,In Vegas I did run into some sponsees of Clarence Snyder and found sobriety.
Thanks Clancy for getting me to make that trip.
God works in crazy ways.
This recording touched many of my reasons to not drink today!
I wish i could finally get sober 😢
Go check out AA. It works.
I hope you are well now. I have 6 days and I fought like hell for that. Hang in there
The doors are always open when you are ready🤝
I was listening to Clancy on a TH-cam recording and I came upon your comment. I don’t know you, but I can certainly pray for you. Believe me, I know how hard it can be, but it can be done what my sponsor drilled into me was to keep my head in just today literally take it one day at a time he suggested not tell myself I’ll never drink again. all I need to do is tell myself I’m not going to drink today, I have 42 years sober now just one day at a time. If necessary go to two or three meetings a day for a while to jumpstart things. I’ve been a little out of sorts lately so today I’m going to 2 meetings and I’m going to do that for the next couple of days. Almost without fail it works every time after a couple of days of multiple meetings a day. I’m back on track and feeling good again. If you happen upon my comment and you wish to text me back you are welcome to. My name is Mark, I am in New Jersey and you can text me if you want at 908-500-5736. I wish you all the best never give up.
I was listening to Clancy on a TH-cam recording and I came upon your comment. I don’t know you, but I can certainly pray for you. Believe me, I know how hard it can be, but it can be done what my sponsor drilled into me was to keep my head in just today literally take it one day at a time he suggested not tell myself I’ll never drink again. all I need to do is tell myself I’m not going to drink today, I have 42 years sober now just one day at a time. If necessary go to two or three meetings a day for a while to jumpstart things. I’ve been a little out of sorts lately so today I’m going to 2 meetings and I’m going to do that for the next couple of days. Almost without fail it works every time after a couple of days of multiple meetings a day. I’m back on track and feeling good again. If you happen upon my comment and you wish to text me back you are welcome to. My name is Mark, I am in New Jersey and you can text me if you want at 908-500-5736. I wish you all the best never give up.
Thanks Clancy. Your perspective on the problem and the solution is a timeless, spot-on take on alcoholism. Forever grateful for your ability to break it down for we agnostic, intellectual, emotional wrecks.
I saw Clancy I. Cooks Forrest, PA in the 90's I'm still drinking listening to him again, I can't stop, I read the Big Book,the Basic Text,and the Bible as I drink,I'm at my wit's end,..,help
i had the pleasure hearing Clancy speak here in bakersfield ca, at select speaker meeting on union ave
Funniest alcoholic I've ever listened to!!!!!! Love him!
thanks for uploading
thanks for a great lead and sharing Calncy one of the most honest leads I ever heard.founders day 2017.
best one ive heard yet.
Clancy set the standard for Alcoholics Anonymous in Southern California unfortunately it sucks everywhere else too bad I used to live down toward the specific group though I never knew Clancy himself
Dear Lord🕊️ thank you for allowing us to experience listening to Clancy. God 💫 I am very grateful that I have been fortunate to have been able to listen to him for many years when he was still alive and well after his passing. Thank you 🙏🤍🤍🤍✨
Clancy's sponsor Chuck C said in 'A New Pair of Glasses' something along the lines of 'there is room in AA for only one Clancy' he is a showman, has done a lot of good for drunks, I have met him twice in UK and very much enjoy his sharing.
He also said that Clancy wasn't AA, hes a preacher. Pacific Group is church not AA
Joesph. Isnt that the point 😊
Getting sober in aa clancy was one thing that saved me, he could really show the reality
He saved my life when he spoke in North Vancouver Canada January 1976. AA love to his family. Joan I
This is really my favourite Channel!
Thanks for your nice Videos,
it is very enlightening,
Waiting for your latest update.
Chauncey - Islington Parkette
Love Clancy best speaker and great man
Smoke in my eyes...❤ Thank you clancy...
Great lead, glad I found this today, helped alot
Wish I got to hear him live, amazing speaker.
thank you for sharing
His stories are amazing.
So good. 🙏🏻❤
Love this guy
I have 67 days, but I really only have today so we're All In This Tog
Together
thank you, Clancy is fantastic,