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Before crude conversations existed, Alaska journalist Amin Swenson produced a podcast called

Crude Cast. It lasted for about four episodes, and among those episodes was a three-part series

called Outrun Your Demons. In it, Amin tells a story many of us can identify with.

It involves our friend Ryan Earp, a guy with a heart of gold, but at the same time,

had a tendency to get in his own way.

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This episode came out in 2015, and Ryan has since turned his life around. He's clean and sober,

happy, and recently married. So here's part one about Run Your Demons.

So I'm plowing through this tall field of grass. It's just blinding and terrifying. I mean,

clutching both hands, pumping the brakes as hard as I can, but there's no stopping. I'm going

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