In 2000, Minneapolis featured the third rendition of non-believers at the quadrennial International convention of AA. In 1990 We Agnostics was part of the Seattle AA program. In 1995 We Agnostics was hosted by the San Diego AA World Convention; there has been such a panel every world convention since, in Toronto 2005, San Antonio 2010, Atlanta 2015…

The AA World Convention is a quinquennial gathering to celebrate the anniversary of Alcoholics Anonymous. Since 1990, there has been a “We Agnostics Panel." At the time of posting, we are 80 days away from Vancouver 2025, July 3-6. AA World Convention with the theme “Language of the Heart.” 2025's AA celebration will include a Secular AA Hospitalit…

Connection Hope Identity Meaning Empowerment These commonalities of most people who thrive (vs. cope) in recovery from addiction and mental health comes from the research of Mary Leamy, Senior Lecturer in Mental Health Recovery and Staff Wellbeing, and Associate Dean for Postgraduate Research programme, Kings College in London https://kclpure.kcl.a…

Dr. Joe Nowinski's book ideas comes from working in the trenches, not from any ivory tower. Episode 77 of Rebellion Dogs Radio looks at a run-of-the-mill problem in early recovery that doesn’t get enough ink: if we are together in a relationship and you go to treatment and come home to stay sober, should I live a sober life too? It’s your problem. …

What’s Different? The first 164 pages are now 122 pages – by simplifying the language. More “gender-balanced” – e.g. jaywalker is female; but not gender-neutral using “they”. The wording of the Steps has not changed from Him/His, but in other places,gender-balanced He/Him/His “may have changed to God”. Only “Dr. Bob’s Nightmare” is included in the …

We look at history—why? Isn’t this a contemporary, or even future gazing look at recovery and addiction? Well yes and yes. Yuval Noah Harari, PDH author of Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind says, “History is not the study of past; history is the study of change; it’s not about remembering the past; it’s about liberating ourselves from it.” Epis…

From our Radio vault, Episode 19 features Richard, a Canadian Slam Poet, Comedian, pianist + Jack from LA, punk rocker, author, and recovering Big Book thumper. This show was recorded in the Fall of 2015. It is eight years later - both of these mavericks are doing their thing, in meetings and on stage. Visit our website for links if you connect wit…

It was the Fall of 2019, Writing the Big Book: The Creation of AA by William Schaberg was about to be published and Joe C sat down with the author to talk about the soon-to-be-unveiled book born of eleven years of primary documentary research on Rebellion Dogs Radio, Episode 49. Four years later, more has been revealed and new insights gained. So l…

Two Davids, facing two Goliaths of stubborn orthodoxy are the focus of Episode 17 of Rebellion Dogs Radio. One rebel is Mark Lewis, who challenges the disease model of addiction. Greta Vosper, atheist minister of the United Church of Canada, who at the time was facing a review of her peers who found her liberalism to be maybe too far to be called e…

Trysh Travis, is Associate Dean at University of Florida. She oversees Women’s Studies, is a cultural and literary historian whose work looks at the gendered history of medicine and popular therapeutic cultures. While working as a high school teacher, she earned an MA from the Bread Loaf School of English, followed by a PhD in American Studies from…

Ryan reviews the very first show he ever attended. SummerSlam 1996 Aug 18th 1996 from the Gund Arena in Cleveland OH. Attendance 17,000. Main Event: Shawn Michaels vs Vader for the WWF Championship

A quick review of WWE Backlash 2023 from beautiful Puerto Rico.

William G. Borchert: September 9, 1933 - October 1, 2022 memorial will be on Zoom coming from Stepping Stones April 2 (first 1000 only) ZOOM 867 0807 3394 Passcode 1962 7—8:15 PM New York time (UTC –4) Who was Bill B? A New York newspaperman who got sober in the 1960s and would write some AA history including early AA + When Love is Not Enough, the…

Bob K's new book is out - The Secret Diaries of Bill W In 1972 AA was learning to live sans-founder as Bill Wilson had been dead for a year. In Episode 72 of Rebellion Dogs Radio, The Secret Diaries of Bill W by bob k bring him back for another lap around the track. We spend, well pretty much the whole episode talking about all kinds of things but …

Michael is a professor, musician, journalist and author. Having just written a Living Sober-size booklet, Michael is our guest to make a case for AA for people, even if they are skeptical about the higher power stuff. He shares how in he neither looks for a war of worldviews nor bites his tongue. This first contemporary recovery print offering of 2…

Meet Clinical Psychologist at Greater Manchester West NHS Mental Health Foundation Trust, Mani Mehdikhani, one of AA Great Britain’s non-alcoholic trustees on their General Service Board. Among other duties, Mani and his committee prepared the quinquennial AA membership survey which went out to Alcoholics Anonymous members in Great Britain and Engl…

With or Without God: the latest Alcoholics Anonymous Membership Survey from Great Britain identifies how many members are religious vs. secular. Episode 69 of Rebellion Dogs Radio looks at our more enlightened understanding of AA members, at least a significant sample size: the findings from the Great Britain 2020 AA Membership Survey + English Spe…

This blast from the past features two interviews by recovering alcoholics helping to overcome the stigma of addiction (and in some cases, addiction recovery) from the courtroom to the Rock 'n' Roll cabaret. First, we talk with author, lawyer, former Attorney General Michael J Bryant on his second book, Mere Addiction. Michael offers an insider’s ca…

Thanks for listening to Rebellion Dogs Radio: A contemporary look at addiction, recovery and mental health, hopefully with less dogma and more bite! Douglas Coupland (author: Generation X) wrote, "The boomer generation is the one that unselfconscientiously uses pronoun 'We' when describing itself. X, Y and [generations] beyond flee the room the mom…

Rebellion Dog Radio EPISODE 68 features guest, Carl Erik Fisher. A Columbia University Psychiatrist, host of Flourishing After Addiction podcast, author of THE URGE: OUR HISTORY of ADDICTION, Carl Erik Fisher talks about his research, his work and his lived experience. Our musical feature on Episode 68 is Goodnight Sunrise with their song debuting …

This show was first published when secular AA was just growing into the digital new normal of Zoom AA. It was an experimental time and since February 2020, more new varieties of agnostic, atheist, freethinkers, irreligious AA meetings had sprung up and stuck. Many of these new meetings have never had a brick-and-mordar home. They are the trend whic…

Writing the Big Book: The Creation of A.A. by William Schaberg We have to go back to 1979, the seminal scholarly account of early history, Not God: The History of Alcoholics Anonymous by Ernie Kurtz. It took 40 years for the next deep dive of this caliber. In 2019, Writing the Big Book: The Creation of A.A. by William Schaberg drew on over a decade…

Alcoholics Anonymous starts the year—January 1, 2022—in self-inflicted public controversy: "The way our ‘worthy’ alcoholics have sometimes tried to judge the ‘less worthy’ is, as we look back on it, rather comical. Imagine, if you can, one alcoholic judging another!" Bill W. In the UK, AA’s General Service Office retaliation against it’s own group …

Jim B was 36 years, two months, four days sober, an atheist, and one of the first few dozen to get sober in Alcoholics Anonymous when he died September 8th, 1974. Jim B outlived both “official” founders, Dr. Bob and Bill W. Listen here for the moving stroll down the lane of AA history. For a twist to the story, visit Rebellion Dogs Radio page. As J…

“A person’s spirituality, then, is built on three internal processes: the way we perceive the world about us, how we feel about that world, and the choices we make—conscious and unconscious—in response to our perceptions and our sensations. These three processes are intertwined and naturally reinforcing.” Rev. Ward Ewing, Twelve Steps to Religionle…

Alcoholics Anonymous prepares for the 2021 April General Service Conference. The program—at the time of writing—is now circulated, and Literature has a few items including a modification to Big Book text. There is a video accessible to members of groups (and anyone) who knows a General Service Representative. Our fellowship, right now, is looking a…

Beth Aich has a bridge-building, gateway widening new book. We're Not All Egomaniacs: Adopting the Twelve Steps for Alcoholics with Low Self-Esteem busts the one-size-fits-all AA approach that assumes everyone in AA fits the narcissistic personality. Au contraire ; based on her personal experience an others first, people pleasing, never good enough…

Rebellion Dogs Radio # 63 features Dr. Allen Berger. Here is one of many gems from 12 Essential Insights for Emotional Sobriety: Getting Your Recovery Unstuck: “In our lives, emotional stability is achieved by becoming aware of our toxic beliefs and unenforceable rules, the idea that makes our emotional balance dependent on external conditions. We …

Joe Nowinski is back in Rebellion Dogs Radio sights as we think his new book satisfies a previously unmet need. Recovery After Rehab: A Guide for the Newly Sober and their Loved Ones is like the owners manual to your new sober life. "So, I'm finished my stint in rehab; what do I do now? What do I do first?" For all the $$$ you spent and/or your hea…

What will history record as the biggest game-changer in Peer 2 Peer support for people with alcohol and other substance use disorders? Was it a Big Book, or something bigger? Is the breakthrough in connecting the still suffering with effective mutual support be defined by history as this era - the normalizing of online recovery meetings? What did t…

Rebellion Dogs Radio, Episode 60 features author/activist Deirdre Sinnott. July 6, 2021 marks the launch of The Third Mrs. Galway and we’re talking about writing, recovery and the adventures of Upstate New York’s underground railroad, closing in on 200 years ago. “Antislavery agitation is rocking Utica in 1835 when a young bride discovers an enslav…

Visit https://RebellionDogsPublishing.com for complete show note + links. Time for the tast of a new generation; the Peer2Peer world turns over the reins of stewardship to Generation Y - thank for your service Baby Boomer, it's the Millennial Era now. This is Episode, Rebellion Dogs Radio # 58, we do an annul collection of what’s new, with AA’s sec…

I can never refuse a Higher Palooza! While there's so much to dislike about a global pandemic, the Zoom-effect on AA, AA's subcultures and the greater peer2peer community as a whole, will likely mark this turning point in our history - for those who survive the pandemic - as ground breaking in the way connection can be maintained online while we're…

On this episode, the crew w/ special guest Brayden English, discuss WWE Clash of Champions 2019 and the USA Network debut of NXT as we move toward the imminent Wednesday Night Wrestling Wars

Welcome everyone to the brand new podcast known as The Skillet. We will be talking all things professional wrestling and sprinkle a bit randomness along the way. Anything goes on this show so we hope you enjoy!!

On this episode Ryan and James discuss AEW All Out as well as the upcoming TNT debut of All Elite Wrestling.

It's almost been 3 whole months without a new episode and I am here to explain why. This will not be your typical Pro Wrestling podcast episode but it explains the status of the show, the reson behind the absence and future episodes

On this episode, Ryan and James discuss NXT Takeover XXV and the upcoming Super Showdown event from WWE.

On this episode, James and Ryan discuss AEW Double or Nothing and the comparisons to the recent WWE main roster product. Follow us on Twitter @wrestlingeekswww.wrestlingeeks.com

The May 27th 2019 edition of Monday Night Raw was quite awful at a time where it needed to step up....and Ryan is here to discuss it in this mini-episode.

On this episode we welcome Razor Sharpe back to the show to discuss the new UXWA Podcast and their big event THEY LIVE.

On this episode we talk about the burnout I had post Wrestlemania weekend.

On this quick episode, Ryan gives his thoughts on the biggest NXT show of the year.

On this episode Ryan and Razorsharpe talk independent wrestling, the responsibilities of being a promoter and the upcoming UXWA 5 Year Anniversary Show on Saturday March 23rd.

On this episode, the crew discusses the upcoming 2019 WWE Hall of Fame and who they think should be inducted and whom should headline the event.

On this episode, Joe and Ryan discuss their favorite Royal Rumble memories. From surprise entrants to the amazing undercards of years past. They also discuss some not-so -great moments in Rumble history as we move closer the the 2019 edition of the classic event that kicks off WrestleMania season.

Happy 2019!! On this episode we talk about AEW (All Elite Wrestling), NJPW Wrestle Kingdom 13, Impact Wrestling Homecoming and pay tribute to the irreplaceable Mean Gene Okerlund.

On this episode, Showtime and Hammer discuss the meteoric rise of Becky Lynch, the craziness of the go-home shows of Raw and Smackdown as we preview NXT Takeover: War Games and Survivor Series 2018.

On this episode, Ryan discusses the biggest independent wrestling show in history and how this show alone has changed his view on professional wrestling as a whole. Follow us on Twitter @wrestlingeekpod

Ryan discusses the upcoming Maximum Effort show with UXWA star Razor Sharpe as well as some of the details and hardships and rewards of promoting a professional wrestling show. We discuss the family like atmosphere that is independent wrestling and how 6:05pm on Saturdays still means a lot to us old school wrestling fans.…