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One Last Hit #7 w/ Matt H | Alcohol, Cocaine and Five Years as a Dry Drunk Before He Truly Surrendered

Fri, 26 Jun 2026 16:00:00 -0400

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 devout Southern Baptist athlete. Then at 20 he picked up in college, and after his high school sweetheart cheated on him and filmed it, he drank to numb the pain, dropped out of the University of Florida, and spent seven years working a downtown nightclub. At 25, cocaine flipped a Jekyll-and-Hyde switch — a thousand dollars of blow a week turned an outgoing, people-loving artist into a hermit crying alone in a dark room. He built theme parks across the country and the Bahamas, drank away the woman he thought he'd marry, and spent five years cycling in and out of the rooms — "dry," but never truly sober.

One of the heaviest moments of his life: watching a 23-year-old coworker — a young father of two, drunk on the job — fall 40 feet through a roof and die in front of him, a guilt and shame he carried for years. Today Matt is sober (date 2/16/2026), competes in Strongman, wakes before dawn to sit with God, and has finally found the peace he chased in a bottle and a bag for decades. His message to anyone still out there: keep coming back, keep showing up, until the miracle happens — because it will. This is the One Last Hit Podcast.

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One Last Hit #6 w/ Nicole G | Heroin, Meth Addiction and Losing Everything Propelled Her Into Sobriety

Mon, 22 Jun 2026 14:00:00 -0400

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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 home invasion, a high-speed police chase through residential Phoenix, a night in jail in a Chipotle uniform, and a relapse the same day she left her first rehab. She didn't have a dramatic rock-bottom moment , she had a hundred of them. The aunt who busted down her bedroom door. The glass in her hair from a crash she barely remembers. The moment she sat high in an AA meeting telling herself she was fine.

Today, Nicole is 12 years sober. She's married, a stepparent, and one of Haley's closest friends. Her story isn't about one breaking point — it's about how long a person can survive on empty before they finally let someone help them fill it back up. This is the One Last Hit Podcast.

One Last Hit #5 w/ Jordan M | Multiple relapses, Hearing Loss and Finding A New Experience

Tue, 16 Jun 2026 15:00:00 -0400

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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 November 4, 2021 he woke up deaf in one ear. He sold his house, used chemicals to numb out, and admits there was a period where he was ready to speed things up and see what the bitter end actually looked like.

He made it back. Today Jordan is sober, has a cochlear implant, and is doing the work differently than ever before — men's meetings, a sponsor who shares the same hearing loss, iron sharpening iron. His message to anyone who says sobriety "didn't work" for them? Did you really try twelve out of twelve? If you did, he's got a list — and he'll go with you to try every single one.

One Last Hit Podcast #4 w/ Shelby M. | My Dad Gave Me My First Hit at 12

Fri, 12 Jun 2026 13:00:00 -0400

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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 followed was years of juvenile delinquency, crack, opioids, and a juvenile record he lost count of , but also faith, recovery, and a miraculous near-decade of sobriety. Shelby built a thriving tree business from scratch, married a woman in recovery, had four kids, became a circuit speaker and sponsor in AA, and was flying families out to tell their story in Utah and Colorado. Then his father died. And Shelby drifted slowly, silently, until Kratom opened a door that led back to cocaine, fentanyl, and meth. Eight detoxes. Four rehabs. More white chips than he can count. And still getting back up.

In this episode, Shelby sits down with Austin to tell the whole story , from the shed in Castleberry to 15 days sober, and what it actually looks like to fall down hard when you know exactly where the door back in is.

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One Last Hit Podcast #3 With Ernie C. | From Drugs and Gangs to Freedom

Thu, 11 Jun 2026 13:00:00 -0400

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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 kept him there, and the moment he decided freedom was worth fighting for. No sugarcoating. No polished recovery speech. Just the real thing.

If you’ve ever loved someone caught up in that world — or if you’ve lived it yourself - this one’s for you.

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One Last Hit Podcast Episode #2 with Hunter S. | Cocaine. Booze. Molly. & Miracles.

Mon, 08 Jun 2026 11:00:00 -0400

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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's neck, to a courtroom miracle nobody saw coming — Hunter's story will stay with you long after this episode ends.

This is addiction without a filter. And this is what recovery actually looks like.

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One Last Hit Podcast Episode #1 with Dallas R.

Fri, 05 Jun 2026 14:00:00 -0400

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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, Austin Rampt sits down with Dallas R. for a raw, unfiltered conversation about meth addiction, the crimes that followed, what it was really like inside, and what it took to finally walk away from that life and build something worth living for. This one does not hold back.

Austin's memoir, One Last Hit: The Remarkable True Story of an Addict's Journey to Find Himself, chronicles his Tampa upbringing, a decade-long battle with addiction, eight stints in rehab, and his journey to Mexico where he found himself surrounded by members of the Sinaloa Cartel. What followed was a near-death experience that became the turning point he needed to reclaim his life.

If you have ever felt like you were too far gone to come back, this episode is proof that you are not.

Whether you are in recovery, love someone who is, or just need a reminder that people can change, this one is for you.

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