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

Crude Cast. It lasted for about 4 episodes, and among those episodes was a 3-part series

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

our friend Ryan Erp, 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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Knives. Thank you to all the Patreon subscribers. Your money and your support make these conversations

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This episode came out in 2016, and Ryan has since turned his life around. He's clean and

sober, happy, and recently married. So here's part three of Outrun Your Demons.

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