The Reverend Hunter Podcast

Johnny Carrol Sain: ”None of the lives I’ve taken is just another notch on my bow”

Tony chats with hunter, angler, and essayist Johnny Carrol Sain about Mississippi pot roast, flying with elk meat, the danger of removing ourselves from the processes of the world, the inevitability of being eaten when we die, feeling things deeply, weeping over dead deer, hunting as core to who we are, becoming intimate with the animals we kill, and more.Read Johnny's writings at https://jcarrolsain.substack.com/, read his essay "To the Bone" here: https://jcarrolsain.substack.com/p/to-the-bone, read "Death by any other name" here: https://jcarrolsain.substack.com/p/death-by-any-other-name, and watch his short film here: https://www.pbs.org/video/to-the-bone-z49ecu/https://reverendhunter.com/

Robert Herbst: ”I got a call from the White House”

Tony talks with Bob Herbst, who had a legendary career in conservation, culminating as Acting Secretary of the U.S. Department of the Interior. Tony talks with Bob about keeping Minnesota green, denying an airport in Ham Lake, protecting Lake Superior from taconite tailings, taking a sauna with Sigurd Olson, conservation as a never-ending process, Sigurd's writing shack, Jimmy Carter tying his own flies, protecting 115 million acres in Alaska, growing up in a family of Lutheran pastors, great fishing trips, and more.https://reverendhunter.com/Brought to you by Grain Belt Premium Beer (https://www.grainbelt.com/)

Aaron Hebeisen: ”I’m part of this ecosystem”

Tony sits down with Aaron Hebeisen, Chapter Coordinator of IA, IL, MN, MO, and WI for Backcountry Hunters and Anglers. They discuss growing up in Mora, Minnesota, the awesomeness of Irish Setter boots, deer camp traditions, canoe hunting, elk hunting, finding God inside and outside of church, assortments of ball caps, vegetarians vs. veterinarians, hitting the pipe, and a big announcement about BHA Rendezvous coming to Minnesota!Learn more about Aaron and BHA at https://www.backcountryhunters.org/chapter_coordinator_il_ia_mn_mo_and_wi and find him on Instagram at @hey_bisonhttps://reverendhunter.com/Brought to you by Grain Belt Premium Beer (https://www.grainbelt.com/)

Russell Worth Parker: ”War made me more empathetic”

Tony talks with outdoorsman, writer, and marine, Russell Worth Parker, about marine vs. Marine, "might could," pulling items out of dogs' anuses, writing without a pitch letter, doing this thing that thing and the other thing, becoming a writer, the military-civilian gap, the lack of battle epiphanies, how military and clergy are similar, not understanding the misery of war, and much, much more. Find Worth at https://russellworthparker.com/, read his essays from Garden & Gun at https://gardenandgun.com/author/russell-worth-parker/, and find him on Instagram at @worth.parker and @b00kwar

Jason Micheli: ”Death is a big part of what I do”

Jason Micheli is a Methodist pastor, podcast host, Substacker, and author of Cancer Is Funny. He talks with Tony about living with cancer, not being able to hear animals scream, the end that will summarize the story of you, our modern cathedrals, when the science ends and the dying begins, discovering that the Bible is interesting, becoming more Christian, the war in Israel, the astonishing pristineness the BWCA, the difference between exercise and labor, and much more.Find Jason at https://jasonmicheli.substack.com/https://reverendhunter.com/Brought to you by Grain Belt Premium Beer (https://www.grainbelt.com/)

Todd Littleton: ”We did this thing”

Tony's guest is Rev. Dr. Todd Littleton, a Baptist pastor in Oklahoma. Todd joined Tony on a canoe trip to the BWCA recently, and they talk about their shared experiences, paddling for the first time in 50 years, the importance of pilgrimage, lakes and trees and stillness and quiet, how hard it is to describe the BWCA, uncontrollability, finding subversive things, a long obedience in the same direction, and more.Find Todd at https://www.toddlittleton.net/, and find Rosa's book on uncontrollability here: https://amzn.to/3X7RQbfhttps://reverendhunter.com/Brought to you by Grain Belt Premium Beer (https://www.grainbelt.com/)

Jessica Carew Kraft: ”We need to be wild”

Jessica Carew Kraft is the author of "Why We Need to be Wild: One Woman's Quest for Ancient Answers to 21st Century Problems." Tony talks with her about watching her mother die of MS, the epiphany of a beehive, what it means for a species to be successful, the rewilding movement, living like the Pleistocene, being called by ancestral wisdom, converting to Judaism then away from it, the importance of social ties, when kids discover the wonder, how the whole idea of the world is a little absurd, Rod Carew, and more.Find Jessica at https://www.jessicacarewkraft.com/ and buy her book here: https://amzn.to/44YH35Ihttps://reverendhunter.com/Brought to you by: Caldera Lab (https://calderalab.com/REVHUNT)

David N. McIlvaney: ”Rivers wash away your sins”

Tony talks with fly fisherman and essayist, David N. McIlvaney, about growing up in a Canadian steel town, a grandfather who was conscripted into the Russian army, the strike of a salmon and death, picking up a flyrod at age 50, a cabin the Catskills, being peers with nature, Andy Griffith experiences, a thousand ways not to shoot a deer, how standing in a river is redemptive, and more. Read David's essay, "A More Perfect Day of Fishing" here: https://www.hatchmag.com/blog/more-perfect-day-fishing/ and find him on Instagram at @the_real_dnm.https://reverendhunter.com/Brought to you by: Caldera Lab (https://calderalab.com/REVHUNT)

Jeff Green: ”Your dog is not going to leave you”

Tony sits down with social psychologist Jeff Green to talk about our attachment to dogs. Discussed topics include Jeff's longstanding love of chinchillas, the co-evolution of dogs and humans, our tendency to underestimate animals, consciousness and cognition, whether dogs feel happy or sad, why we grieve when dogs die, and more.https://reverendhunter.com/

John Motviloff: ”That bite of wild game did it”

Tony talks with conservationist, hunter, angler, and author John Motoviloff about St. Seraphim, studying Heidegger, truth as disclosive, how forgetting lunch led to a life of hunting, watching ducks pitch in, recruiting new hunters, the butterfly effect, putting sturgeon before rabbit, the order of the natural world, the woods as an icon, and more. Find John's book here: https://amzn.to/41mLAN6https://reverendhunter.com/