One Last Hit | A Sobriety and Addiction Recovery

Send us Fan Mail Marc B. was born on the wild west side of Chicago — Murder City, the ghetto, a Puerto Rican neighborhood bordering an African American one — the youngest of four kids whose alcoholic father died of cirrhosis at 46. His stepfather, a Vietnam vet with a Bronze Star and a Purple Heart, was a monster behind closed doors. He nearly beat Marc to death multiple times before the age of si...

Send us Fan Mail  Episode 8 is a different kind of episode. Matt is back, not as a guest, but as a co-host. We dive headfirst into what it actually takes to stay sober.  Inspired by a deep-cut episode of "Three Legacies" featuring Don L., Austin and Matt unpack the practices that hold their lives together: morning prayer and meditation, working with the newcomer, and nightly inventory. T...

Send us Fan Mail  Matt H. grew up the son of a cowboy carpenter and an Avon saleswoman, born in 1980s Colorado and raised on ten acres of cow field in the tiny town of Micanopy, Florida. His mom passed away when he was six; his dad got sober a few years later and has stayed dry for 23+ years. Matt took his first drink — a shot of 151 — at 13, swore it off, and stayed dry through high school as a d...

Send us Fan Mail  Nicole G. grew up in Phoenix, Arizona , born to an alcoholic father and a drug-addicted mother who had no business raising a child. The only stability she ever knew came from her grandparents, and when her grandfather died, the last anchor she had slipped away. What followed was a decade-long spiral that touched almost every stop on the map: drinking, opiates, heroin, dealing, a...

Send us Fan Mail  In Episode 5, Austin sits down with Jordan M. — a close friend in recovery who grew up a block from the ocean in Daytona Beach and took his first drink at 13. What followed was decades of cycles: treatment at 18, three years sober, a son, a marriage, a relapse, seven more years sober, a real estate career — and then it all came apart again. COVID hit, his father died, and on Nove...

Send us Fan Mail  Shelby M. grew up watching his father , his hero, wrestle with addiction in Casselberry, Florida. At eleven years old, Shelby ran to the house, grabbed a knife, and cut his father down from a noose in the shed behind their home. A year later, his father sat with him in a truck and gave him his first hit of freebase cocaine. That moment lit a fire that would burn for decades. What...

Send us Fan Mail  Ernie C didn't just flirt with the wrong crowd — he was in it. Gangs, cocaine, a lifestyle built on survival and loyalty to the streets. By the time things fell apart, he’d lost years he couldn’t get back and come closer to losing everything than most people ever want to admit. In this episode, Ernie sits down with Austin to tell the whole story — what pulled him in, what ke...

Send us Fan Mail  What does it look like to live inside a full-blown addiction spiral — cocaine, alcohol, and ecstasy — and somehow walk out the other side? Hunter S. sits down with Austin Rampt for one of the most raw, honest, and redemption-filled conversations in One Last Hit Podcast history. From putting cocaine in his contact lens just to feel something, to a wire that nearly hit his father&a...

Send us Fan Mail Dallas R. grew up in Southern California surrounded by drugs, crime, and chaos. What started as curiosity turned into a full-blown meth addiction that consumed everything. To fund the habit, he turned to robberies. Eventually, the law caught up with him, and he did the time. But prison was not the end of the story. It was the beginning of one. In this episode of One Last Hit, Aust...