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Crude Conversations

2019 Recap: EP 032 with Andy Elsberg

Crude Conversations

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Society & Culture

4.9152 Ratings

🗓️ 30 December 2019

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

This week, Crude will be revisiting the top 5 most popular episodes of 2019. Number 5 on the list is with Andy Elsberg, an emergency room doctor at Providence Medical Center in Anchorage, Alaska. Cody and Andy talk about how he went from being a ski bum to an ER doc, the idea of wilderness medicine, the pervasiveness of alcohol and opiate addiction in Anchorage, what a gunshot actually does to a human body, and the short but aggressive spice epidemic that hit Anchorage a few years back. They also discuss how the urban/wilderness split doesn't exist in Alaska, meaning things like bear maulings and ATV accidents exist alongside things like inner-city gun violence and drug overdoses. This episode originally aired on Wednesday, May 1, 2019.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Soon, Soon, Soon, Soon.

0:02.0

It's been about three weeks since the last episode,

0:15.0

and in that time, the first three episodes of crude's new podcast, Lost Anchorage,

0:19.0

premiered.

0:20.0

In that podcast, I sit down with professionals, law enforcement, and those affected by crime, in order to better understand the mechanisms and causation of crime in Anchorage, Alaska.

0:30.0

The first three episodes are available on the crude conversations iTunes, Spotify, and Google

0:35.1

Podcast channels. In the near future, the episodes will be available on their own channel.

0:40.9

Just search Lost Anchorage. That's L-O-S-T-S-T, space, A-O-A-G-E, on iTunes, Spotify, or Google Podcasts. If you're a crude magazine Patreon subscriber, every episode of crude conversations and

0:56.3

Lost Anchorage are available there.

0:58.3

Okay, on to the show.

1:00.8

In this episode I sit down with Andy Ellsberg, an emergency room doctor at Providence Hospital here in Anchorage.

1:07.0

We get into how he went from being a ski bum to an ER doc, the idea of wilderness medicine, and the pervasiveness of alcohol and opiate addiction in Anchorage.

1:17.0

Okay, time to shout out the crude company men.

1:19.0

Trina Dober.

1:21.0

Seward Brewing Company, David North, Crystal Liska, Derek Adolf, Blue and Gold Board Shop,

1:28.0

Shane Robinson, and Sharon Liska.

1:30.8

Thank you all for your support.

1:32.2

This podcast would not be possible without you.

1:35.0

As always if you enjoy this podcast you can support it by reviewing it on iTunes and

1:41.0

subscribing to the crude magazine magazine at patreon.com slash crude magazine.

1:47.0

All right back to Andy Ellsberg you know one thing that stood out to me about

1:51.9

this conversation was when Andy said that Alaska is a violent state.

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