420: The ladder was against the wrong building (with Ryan Maxwell)

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Season 4, episode 20 is here!

Ryan Maxwell and I have been having deep conversations for the best part of a year now, so it was about time we did one on the record. Ryan writes Chasing Maximus, and his whole journey is about working out how you became who you are and what comes next.

He built everything he thought he was supposed to want, watched it start to crumble, and…