Welcome back to crude conversations. It's been about three weeks since the last

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

Anchorage premiered. 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.

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

Spotify, and Google Podcast channels. In the near future, the episodes will be

available on their own channel. Just search Lost Anchorage. That's L-O-S-T-S-A-N-C-H-O-A-G-E on iTunes, Spotify, or Google Podcasts. If you're a crude magazine Patreon subscriber,

every episode of crude conversations and Lost Anchorage are available there.

Okay, on to the show.

In this episode I sit down with Andy Ellsberg, an emergency room doctor

at Providence Hospital here in Anchorage. We get into how he went from being a ski bum to an

ER doc, the idea of wilderness medicine medicine and the pervasiveness of alcohol and opiate addiction

in Anchorage.

Okay, time to shout out the crude company men.

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

Shop, Shane Robinson, and Sharon Liska.

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Patreon dot com slash crude magazine. All right back to Andy Ellsberg. You know

one thing that stood out to me about this conversation was when Andy said

that Alaska is a violent state. What he means by that is things like Bear

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