The Reverend Hunter Podcast

Jan Dizard: "The joyful burden of taking a life"

Tony sits down with Jan Dizard, retired professor of sociology at Amherst College and author of several books on hunting, including "Hunting: A Cultural History" (MIT Press, 2022). They discuss hunters at Amherst, non-utilitarian views of nature and animals, struggling R3 efforts, growing up in Duluth, hunting by two rivers, the spiritual attachment that human beings have to food, the mortal stakes of hunting, growing uneasy with killing as you age, the Rinella/Hanes/Rogan effect on hunting, de-fetishizing technology, the moral compact that the hunter has with the animal s/he is pursuing, and more.
 
Find Jan's latest book here: https://amzn.to/3W0SgkP
 
Find Tony's new book at GodOfWildPlaces.com
 
https://reverendhunter.com/

A Storm on Gunflint Lake

In this special episode, Tony reads from his new book, "The God of Wild Places," at the book launch event on April 2. He tells a harrowing story of getting caught in a storm with his kids in the boat.
 
Find Tony's new book at GodOfWildPlaces.com
 
https://reverendhunter.com/

Jerusalem Greer: "Liturgical, agrarian shenanigans"

Tony talks with Jerusalem Greer, author of "At Home in this Life," and executive director of Procter Camp and Conference Center. Topics include living on the Darby Plains, rewilding projects, something not clicking in the city, Phyllis Tickle, needing to get to the land, a theology of place, being an early mommy blogger, staring at our spiritual bellybuttons, the growth of wild churches, the hunger to be connected, zhuzhing, and more. 
 
Find Jerusalem at jerusalemgreer.com
 
And find Tony's new book at GodOfWildPlaces.com
 
https://reverendhunter.com/

Tim Brown: "We're kinda loud"

Tony sits down at PheasantFest in Sioux Falls to talk with Tim Brown, the "Bearded Uplander." Topics include having an angry gall bladder, hunting in a blizzard, released pheasants, shooting a turkey on the wing, the ethics of hunting, scoring a deer, not having a bird dog, thanking farmers with a 30-pack of Busch Light, hunting on Sundays, taking kids turkey hunting, snakes, and more.
 
Find Tim at https://beardeduplander.com/
 
And find Tony's new book at GodOfWildPlaces.com
 
https://reverendhunter.com/

John Dailey: “Tough, rugged bastards with strong backs and hard feet.”

John Dailey is a retired Marine and the author of the forthcoming book, Tough, Rugged Bastards. He talks with Tony about his parents’ conversion, having a holy roller pastor dad, being scared of God, how the Marine Corps is somewhat cult-like, boot camp indoctrination, 9/11 in Darwin Australia, waiting for bad guys outside of Kandahar, a big truck full of Taliban coming across the road, the correlation between sex and killing, the crisis of masculinity, when fiction is truer than the truth.
 
Find out more about John, his book, and his Substack newsletters at https://www.jadailey.com/
 
https://reverendhunter.com/

Fisher Neal: "It's really hard to hide two dudes"

Fisher Neal is the "Hunting Actor," and the founder of Learn to Hunt New York. Fisher talks with Tony about hunting being foundational to his identity, growing up in a church that frowned upon clapping, moving to New Jersey, the use of crossbows, how it's morally superior to use the most effective weapon available, being the most prolific hunting mentor in the U.S., the Austrian last meal, appearing on Law & Order, and much more.
 
Find Fisher at https://www.learntohuntnyc.com/
 
https://reverendhunter.com/

Mike Neiduski: "God shows up for me in birds of prey"

Tony sits down with upland hunting zealot and writer Mike Neiduski, and they discuss growing up in Worchester, Mass., writing poetry, stopping writing poetry, getting a German Wirehair Pointer, training dogs so that you can hunt year-round, letting it rip, divorce and dead dogs, growing up Catholic, writing about grief, becoming an entrepreneur, and more.
 
Find Mike's writing here: https://www.instagram.com/mneiduski/, and find the company he just acquired here: www.uglydoghunting.com
 
https://reverendhunter.com/

Julia Schrenkler: "It would be a sin not to hunt her"

Tony talks with Julia Schrenkler, subject of the Franchi film, "Old Dog / New Dog," about how her dog recruited her into hunting, post-Wegman confusion, how you can't just look at puppies, watching your dog bring you a pigeon for the first time, the eyelash rule, the tailgate of death, cultivating reverence, making your own mistakes, hunting out of a VW Vanagon, the partnership of dogs, and more.
 
See the film here: https://youtu.be/mnwTzt4pHgQ?si=F5YHoEhDKyX7XXAN
 
https://reverendhunter.com/

Tony & Brandon: ”Father Time welcomes Baby New Year”

Tony and Brandon welcome 2024 with some thoughts about what's coming up on the podcast and in their lives.https://reverendhunter.com/

Tripp Fuller: ”No, I would not hunt Ewoks”

Tony sits down with Tripp Fuller, author of several books and founder and host of the world's most popular theology podcast, Homebrewed Christianity. They talk about growing up as a rural Baptist preacher's kid, seeing crooked, offering a Whopper to a Jain and making her cry, the ethics of eating pork, epiphenomenology, life being more complex than we think, our complicity in suffering and death, having permission to be screwed up and working on it, polyamorous elements in the periodic table, Advent asking us to pause, the moral universe of The Lord of the Rings, and much more.Find all of Tripp's work at https://trippfuller.com/. Learn more about the Emerged project with Tripp and Tony here: https://homebrewedchristianity.lpages.co/emerged-an-oral-history-of-the-emerging-church-movement/