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One of the very first people I ever interviewed with a real microphone was Professional kayaker Rush Sturgis.

I don't remember how it all came together, but I was nobody, working for no one.

And Rush invited me over to his house and told me stories for hours.

The time he was chased by a crocodile, done a river in Africa.

The time he watched his friend drown and come back to life while running waterfalls in Mexico. The time he helped his

friend Raffa Ortiz prep and train to kayak over Niagara Falls. Rush has immortalized

a lot of these stories as kayaking films and documentaries.

In a time when most kayaking movies were sort of plotless footage of big hucks over huge drops,

or athletes doing flips and tricks and playboats,

Russia's stuff has always found a story to tell

about the mental and emotional aspects of adrenaline sports.

So when producer Patty O'Connell told me that Rush was taking on a new creative project, one not centered on filmmaking or kayaking, but music, I immediately wanted to know more.

What does someone so successful and fearless and

talented have to write songs about? Here's Patty.

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