Hello, and welcome to health history I'd like to fuck with Dawn Brodey. I'm Dawn Brodey and I am loving it here in the den. That's the deluxe edition network. To hear other great podcasts in the den, follow the link in the show notes or go to deluxe edition network.com. But this episode, the history of Alcoholics Anonymous AA, an organization started in the United States in the 1930s that has helped millions achieve and maintain sobriety. It is international, multilingual and has inspired dozens of other similar 12 Step programs. And it has its critics, and its defenders, of course, but it also has an amazing origin story, one that stars a series of unlikely heroes and for a club that by definition is full of drunks. It has always been remarkably scandal free. But listen if it scandal you're looking for look no further than my guest, la based comedian Jason Ryan. He is on screens big and small. And I adore him. And trust me you are about to to.