Joe McQ. & Charlie P. met in 1973 when Joe introduced Charlie as the AA speaker at an Al-Anon Convention. Joe had wondered if Charlie might be the country-western singer Charlie Pride. He wasn’t even the right color, Joe laments. They instantly discovered their mutual fascination with AA’s basic text The Big Book. What interested them most was that The Big Book was written in a particular sequence to convey certain ideas. That interest began a close friendship which has lasted to this day. They would frequently meet to discuss the book, often driving 225 miles to meet in each other’s homes.
You may read the rest of the story here: History of Joe & Charlie Big Book Studies
01 – The Book Study Introduction – AA History # 1 – Bill meets Ebby T
02 – Joe & Charlie – AA History #2 (Oxford Group)
03 – AA History #3 and The Organization of the Big Book
04 – AA History #4
05 – The Doctor’s Opinion #1 About the Illness
06 – Doctor’s Opinion #2 – Allergy and Phenomenon of Craving
07 – Doctor’s Opinion #3 – Will Power and Controlled Drinking
08 – Powerless and Unmanageability and Bill’s Story #1
09 – Bill’s Story #2 – Enter Ebby Thatcher…
10 – “There is a Solution” | The Power of Fellowship (Support) and Power of the Spiritual Experience (Changes Us)
11 – “The Spiritual Experience” – Joe and Charlie
12 – “There is a Solution” #1 – Joe and Charlie Tapes
13 – “More About Alcoholism” #1
14 – More About Alcoholism #2
15 – “We Agnostics #1” | Joe and Charlie Tapes
16 – “We Agnostics” #2 – Joe and Charlie Tapes
17 – “How it Works” #1 | Joe and Charlie Tapes
18 – “How it Works” #2 | Joe and Charlie Tapes
19 – Step 3 | Joe and Charlie Tapes
20 – Step 4 #4 | Freedom from the Bondage of Self
21 – 4th Step #2 | Joe and Charlie Tapes
22 – Step 4 – #3 | Joe & Charlie Tapes
23 – “Freedom from the Bondage of Self”
24 – Step 4 #4
25 – The 4th Step – “Fear Inventory”
26. The 4th Step – Sex list
27 – Step 4 #6 | “List of Harms”
28 – Step 5 | Joe and Charlie
29 – Steps 6 and 7 | Joe and Charlie
30 – 8th Step | Joe and Charlie
31 – The 8th and 9th Steps | Joe & Charlie Tapes
32 – Step 10 | Joe and Charlie
33 – Step 11 – Meditation and the “Sixth Sense”
34 – Step 12 | Joe and Charlie