My Parakeet Died With Two Years Sobriety - AA Speaker - Jack H.

Sober Sunrise - AA Speaker Podcast · Apr 20, 2026 · 1h 20m

Jack H. has been sober since 1958, drank with a parakeet named Petey who learned poker language, and says he's still got every defect of character he was born with — he's just learned what to do with them.

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Jack started drinking Tennessee homebrew at nine, joined the Navy at 18, got court-martialed three times before he was 21, and convinced his wife he owned a $2…