WAVE: Big Book Study with Corey Session Three - Bill's Story Part 1

The Daily Ripples Podcast · Aug 17, 2026 · 53m

Corey moves from the Doctor's Opinion into Bill's story, and explains up front why he's splitting it in two. Pages one through nine leave a man exactly where the book intends to leave him — in the hopeless condition, physical and mental, with the way out still a week away. He opens with the facts: William Griffith Wilson, born in East Dorset, Vermont, married to Lois for fifty-three years, dead in 1971 at seventy-five. Then he walks the text line by line, marking what he's underlined and circled in his own copy and explaining why. The capitalized "Over There" and "High Finance," and what it…