Morning, Ray.
The punch list
So my daughter stops checking my face when I walk in.
He records one of these on Fridays for whichever stage has the most people going quiet. This week that is yours.
Money, shame, and the first honest budget
Thursday September 3, 7pm Mountain. Ninety minutes.
The Build
Jed framed houses for twenty years before he framed anything else, so the stages are named after a job site. There is no score and no leaderboard. Ranking people by how sober they are is a bad idea and he will tell you that on the first call.
Your stamps
Becoming a foreman
The room works because people who are two years in stay in it. A foreman takes one or two people who are somewhere near where they were, talks to them for fifteen minutes a week, and gets supervision from Jed once a month. It is unpaid, it is not therapy, and you can hand it back any month with no explanation.
Dale M.
Wednesdays, fifteen minutes, phone not video. Last talked three days ago.
Four people are waiting. That number is the only reason this page exists.
How was it, honestly
Four dials and one paragraph, every Sunday. Only Jed reads it and it never goes in the room. He answers in the thread on Tuesdays and Fridays.
Thirty filed so far. You have missed four.
Jed
Answers Tuesdays and FridaysSleep against cravings
The Room
Threads stay put. Nobody sells coaching in here and anyone who tries is gone the same day. Real names encouraged, anonymous allowed, and Jed answers most days.
What I am recording in September, and what I am stuck on
Three asks are out and none of them have said yes. If you know somebody who runs a sober house and would talk on tape, tell me.
Say something to one of them. Somebody did that for you in January.
No selling. No advice that starts with "you should just". Nothing from the small group leaves the small group. If you are in danger, call 988, not this forum.
Calls & Tape
Every monthly call is posted within a day, chaptered so you can find the exact minute somebody said the thing. Behind the tape is the unedited half: cuts that never made an episode, what is being recorded now, and the notes Jed writes in the truck afterwards.
Money, shame, and the first honest budget
Thursday September 3, 7pm Mountain. Ninety minutes, camera optional.
Every call, chaptered
Behind the tape
Notes after recording
Asked him the sponsor question four different ways and got the real answer on the fourth. I am leaving the first three in. Cut them and it looks like people say the true thing immediately, and nobody does.
Eleven people on the call, four of them under sixty days, and the four did not talk. Next month I go around and start with them. Note to self: stop calling it a Q and A.
August 2026
Nothing selected
Tap any day with a marker on it.
Two nights in Ogden, October 9 and 10
Twenty seats, no stage, no lanyards. Members get first refusal for two weeks.
Supply
Jed only stocks what he has taken for at least six months, and the label says what it did and did not do for him. Third party tested, batch numbers published, and the two things he tried and dropped are at the bottom of this page.
Two he dropped
A nootropic blend, dropped in March
Nine weeks, no difference he could point at, and the label would not say the dose per ingredient. It is not coming back.
A sleep patch, dropped in June
Worked for about four nights and then stopped, which is the same shape as everything else he has quit.