EP 101 The podcast that saved his life with Ralph Sara

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5 • 884 Ratings

🗓️ 16 January 2022

⏱️ 89 minutes

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In this one, I talk with Ralph Sara, the host of the Anonymous Eskimo Recovery Podcast, a show that features conversations with guests who are working through alcohol and drug addiction, many of which are Indigenous People. Ralph’s heritage and his past informs many of these discussions. He grew up in Bethel, where he says that almost every household on his street was affected by alcoholism, including his own. That’s where his relationship with alcohol started, with his own family. He says it goes back to his first memory and his only memory of his father. The memory goes like this: He’s at his dad’s funeral and his sister is holding him. He’s looking down at his dad in his coffin and he asks his sister if he’s sleeping. She tells him, no, that dad went to heaven. It’s a vivid and heartbreaking image of how alcohol was introduced to Ralph because his dad drowned while he was drinking and the result affected his entire family. Before he got sober, Ralph said that his life was a revolving door. He would go on binges and lose everything and then he would get sober. Sick of the revolving door, he went to residential treatment. In total, he went three times and during the last time, he thought of doing a podcast. It would be something that would hold him accountable to his own sobriety. He would have conversations with other people about their stories of addiction and sobriety, conversations that could help other people going through the same thing understand that they’re not alone. And so The Anonymous Eskimo Recovery Podcast was born.

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0:00.0	In this one, I talk with Ralph Sara, the host of the anonymous Eskimo Recovery Podcast,
0:15.7	a show that features conversations with guests who are working through alcohol and drug addiction,
0:20.8	many of which are indigenous people. Ralph's heritage and his past informs many of these discussions.
0:27.7	He grew up in Bethel, where he says that almost every household on his street was affected
0:32.1	by alcoholism, including his own. That's where his relationship with alcohol started,
0:37.9	with his own family. He says it goes back to his first memory and his only memory of his father.
0:44.4	The memory goes like this. He's at his dad's funeral and his sister is holding him.
0:50.0	He's looking down at his dad in his coffin and he asks his sister if he's sleeping.
0:55.7	She tells him no, that dad went to heaven.
0:59.7	It's a vivid and heartbreaking image of how alcohol was introduced to Ralph,
1:04.1	because his dad drowned while he was drinking and the result affected his entire family.
1:11.3	This podcast is made possible through the generous support of the crude magazine Patreon subscribers.
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