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Outdoorsman and theologian Tony Jones sits down with fascinating people who find transcendence in their outdoors experiences. Hunters and anglers, hikers and kayakers, talk about how they connect to the divine, and to themselves, as they pursue their passions. The conversations are at turns poignant and humorous, illuminating and inspiring. If your spirituality is connected to the outdoors, this is the podcast for you.
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Sure, you could contact colleges yourself. But why would you if you can listen to this bop while having them contact the colleges for you? The choice is clear. You got TV to watch. You don’t have time to learn about learning! Anyway, break time’s over; time to sling these ketchup and mustard bottles to the customers! Aaron Littleton is your host th…
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Johnny Carrol Sain: "None of the lives I've taken is just another notch on my bow"
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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, a…
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Sometimes you just want to nestle in a warm blanket and watch a bunch of fire department demonstration videos on how quick things can go up in flames. Christmas Trees! Deep Frying Turkeys! Obscure Plugin Assemblies! The world is your oyster and that world is on fire! But you don’t have to cover it up further. You don’t have to fake your way into th…
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Robert Herbst: "I got a call from the White House"
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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, …
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Anime on Toonami was a rare time. You’d get work you’d never seen like The Big-O and be fascinated by its ideals that maybe was too big for it to full fit into. Or you could watch Candidate for Goddess, which no one has nostalgia for even if people claim to have it. They really mean Cowboy Bebop. That’s the one they mean. But it was available on Am…
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Aaron Hebeisen: "I'm part of this ecosystem"
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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,…
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Are you a little horse crazy? Aren’t we all? If you’re the president, you have to say yes. If you’re doiing improv, you can say no if it works to the scenes benefit but it’s better to build the scene by saying yes. If you’re a human, you can say no, but you’re probably not going to be liked by the horse-liking majority. What we’re saying is you’re …
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Oh god, the Doodlebops are in town. Hide the evidence. They can’t know. I mean, they won’t know. They’re always wrong. But I’m not the one going under for a very fragile and unsupported reason! No, it’s going to be you! You’re stuck with this mess! I’m going to Miami for a while. Maybe the Doodelbops won’t tour there. Maybe Judge Couchy will give m…
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Russell Worth Parker: "War made me more empathetic"
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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 under…
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Sometimes, you need to watch a dryer advertisement for a company in another country away from your own. See the world in a different pair of eyes. Talk through the neck holes of their shirt. Become real stop motion through a painting that is well animated. We’ve all been there. Even if you deny it, you know the truth. The truth goes on. And on and …
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It’s Spooky Season! So very spooky! Pick out a favorite bone and go to town in the graveyard! Just make sure you have a tight skele-five when you come out of your coffin. First impressions are important! Otherwise, you’re going to get laughed out of the graveyard and that’s your new home!! Aaron Littleton is your host this week and he has you cover…
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Jason Micheli: "Death is a big part of what I do"
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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 Ch…
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What is a concept anyway? Is it just making a hit song, getting a few people and a vehicle together on a backdrop to shoot a music video and posting it on youtube for all to see? Or is it the commentary on the whole process that’s the real art? Neither. It’s the work you do with it afterwards that defines the end result. And buddy, Aaron’s yard loo…
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There was a time in America where you could pay you way anywhere with two options: Money or Rob Schneider movies. Most people would prefer the money, sure, but the Rob Schnieder movies were a tradable commodity where you could get two or upwards of three dollars for it at various shops. 82 minutes of physical comedy? Sure, why not! I can probably g…
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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 su…
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The can will follow you home. You have a forged a contract with it. It is beyond your control. It is a shadow, the true self. You desire to devour it. It desires to be devoured by you. Consume your desires. Become one with them. It is time. Persona 6 is wild, y’all. John Hurst is your host this week and he and this cricket in the house aren’t getti…
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The Hento Automatic Fried Rice Machine waits for noone. You want rice/noodles made? You damn better be around to catch it. It’s got shit to do! It can’t be waiting for you! The Hento Automatic Fried Rice Machine has places to be! It’s got to get home to its wonderful house and wonderful Hento Automatic Fried Rice Machine wife and Hento Automatic Fr…
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It’s time to demagnetize your stuff! And if doesn’t need to be, let’s magnetize it anyway! It’s fun, it gets the whole family involved and who knows, it might become your job until it is phased out completely by modern technology! Embrace it while you still can! The sea is calling! Not the ocean! John Hurst is your host this week and he’s setting t…
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Jessica Carew Kraft: "We need to be wild"
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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, conver…
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The mission is totally impossible, right? Maybe? It seemed pretty doable to me. You get a face making machine and you can fight communism like all damn day. You ride a motorcycle, you sneak into a boat, you get Peter Graves to help type you with your novella and you’re home before you can discard all three of the things above. I guess when you have…
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Can the coach that brought the 1985 Chicago Bears bring your local soda brand to victory? Schweggman thinks so! Don’t worry about potentially food poisoning! Mike Ditka will solve your problem while you’re in agony! As long as it’s a sport and it involves coaching. If it doesn’t, sorry, Big Shot Soda and Mike Ditka are not responsible! John Hurst i…
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David N. McIlvaney: "Rivers wash away your sins"
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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 stand…
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We don’t know a damn thing about clams or clam juice. We’re never going to get our inheritance at this rate! Can we partake? We… Just… Don’t… Know! Better watch this one on loop to see. Aaron Littleton is your host this week and he’s recording the second take right now. John Hurst is your co-host and he’s giving a little warmth to the room as you l…
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Everybody! It is unequivalably required by you, the consumer, to move your feet and move your body! Preferably in a direction that leads to the local tanning salons where you will find great deals on ways to get a tan that does not involve (too much) of the sun! Please enjoy our salad bar. Or not! We’re pretty chill about it. Don’t put tomatoes on …
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It’s tough being Mr. T. You got to act tough all the time. Wear the chains. Yell at a dude bro. Drive in a tank. Throw a snickers at some wimp. It wears down on a person. Noone asks if Mr. T wants a snickers. He can only distribute. Sure he could go into the stash he has in the tank but that’s just not right; that box of snickers are exclusively fo…
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Jeff Green: "Your dog is not going to leave you"
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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://reverendhun…
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Hello. Welcome to Californication. We hope you enjoy our new open beta. Please keep all hands and feet inside the ride as we introduce you to four shirtless dudes who are both shirtless in fantasy and reality. Adding a shirt to these individuals is not allowed. Especially for Flea. He’s got us this sweet Silicon Graphics Workstation to make this wi…
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YOU MISERABLE, MANIC MONSTER! How dare you turn these cars into humans! Humans who can barley crush things like that of a monster truck! I wanted to see monster trucks crushing the spirit of American muscle cars! Not these mom jean wearing fools! Those thighs could barely crush an apple juice carton! Now, Grave Digger Human, that’s a thigh! We can …
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John Motviloff: "That bite of wild game did it"
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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.…
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Party People! Are you ready to jam? Jock Jam, even? Maybe even to slam for four points in tiny basketball? Tag Team is back again. We’re back too. We’re all hanging out at the combination tiny basketball court/50s diner together. Maybe you could join us too? It’s there. Where it is. You know. Whomp. Whomp, I suppose! John Hurst is your host this we…
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Tyler Webster: "Sunday was our day"
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Tyler Webster is an avid upland hunter and the host of the Birds Buds and Booze Podcast. Tyler tells Tony about growing up in Minot, how to get out of Illinois tolls, why there's a town every seven miles in North Dakota, moving the mailboxes to the other side of the road, getting cited for cutting fillets, not going to a wedding on pheasant opener,…
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It is time for teenage drama and smooches and aliens and smooches. We got it all here! All the food groups needed for a late night not quite cable network! You need a young actor looking away at a camera dramatically? We got it! No charge! Roswell’s just that kind of show. Maybe. We haven’t watched it. Maybe you have. We’re not going to watch it. U…
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Heatsinks are in everything. They’re nice. Make a good sound when you drag your finger across them. Have a good feel too. Pleasant to look at. Cools your CPU and other tech thingies. How can you go wrong? And they look delicious when they’re being made too. Tantalizing. Maybe you can just rip off one from the conveyor belt. Pop it in your math. May…
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Scott Fransen and Aaron Achtenberg: "If you like to watch people suffer, this is the show for you"
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Tony sits down with Scott Fransen and Aaron Achtenberg, the host and cameraman for the episode of The Flush television show that they all filmed together in South Dakota in January. They discuss how longevity comes with authenticity, weather, soup to nuts, deciding a storyline on the fly, headlines, cussing, talking to the cameraman, the layers of …
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Your destiny awaits you. Calling to you. Hoping you will respond to its texts. You’ve held it back for long enough while lying awake at night, staring blankly at the familiar ceiling that clouds your dreams. Are you picking the deck shoes… Or the penny loafers? Your feet desire comfort and safety, but also fashion. And maybe comfortable enough to b…
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Jim Shockey: "Getting in touch with your ancestral soul"
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Tony sits down with outfitter, guide, TV host, museum curator, and novelist Jim Shockey, and they discuss the cathedral of the outdoors, travel being the death of bigotry, the true meaning of tolerance, urbanization as a false prophet, the ethics of hunting, how every day is a beautiful day, risk vs. challenge, the allure of the Yukon, the possibil…
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Is there anything less enticing that a non-alocholic ad for a day of significance Americans love to alcohol it up on? Sources say no. Everyone says no. But Party City says maybe? We’re not sure if they said yes. They clearly hired actors to act like they’re having a party so they’re trying their best. But everyone looks like they are in the highs o…
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Wake Up! There’s a complete breakfast to be had! You must consume it now. Make it uncomplete! Nabisco Brands depends on you for the profit forecast! We rented three bear suits and one of them will not give theirs back! We hired him on as staff as a barter for getting the suit and our deposit back but we made things very, very, very much worse. Look…
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Randy Newberg: "The outdoors makes us better people"
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Tony talks with Randy Newberg, host of Fresh Tracks with Randy Newberg television show, the Hunt Talk Radio podcast, and an avid advocate for public land. Randy discusses growing up in Big Falls, Minnesota, grouse hunting on county roads, a childhood of freedom, being the only kid with divorced parents, the charity of time, Grandma Ethel, thanking …
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You know the song. It’s stuck in your head now. We don’t need to do anything else to describe it. Babies come out of the womb and their first immediate sounds are dun dun dun dun dun in rapid succession. That’s the kind of guy Funky D the DJ King is. Oh, wait. You said his name is Darude? … He’s too cool for that name. I think he’s Funky D the DJ K…
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“What a lovely place you have!” your guests says as they sip the cup of tea you provided. You glance around nervously. Yes, it’s nice. You bought it. You know it. You just don’t know if it could be… Inside enough. The walls are all there as is the roof. But the windows are a weak point. Temporary allowances of outside penetrating this indoor space.…
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Rick Hilliard: "There's a lot of ministry that can be done on an 18' skiff"
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Captain Rick Hilliard is a fishing charter guide on the east coast of Florida, with a masters degree in theology. He and Tony discuss coming home with 51 chickens, swamp donkeys, growing up passionate about the Bible, being to the left of Fuller Seminary, being a surfing missionary, the crushing tooth at the back of a redfish's throat, gin clear wa…
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The lullaby plays again. The occurrence begins again. It’s loop three. You’re back in your younger self. This time, you memorized all the great steps. The lotto numbers, the grunge era, the beanie baby fad. It’s all there in your head. You simply need to tell someone and convince them that this time around you are a voice that deserves listening to…
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Cecka Parks: "Butchering helped me fall back in love with the world"
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Tony sits down with butcher Cecka Parks, owner of the Minneapolis Meat Collective. They talk about the smoking pit at YoungLife camp, studying in Cairo, works backwards from the dinner plate, biking through George Floyd Square, gun clubs, hunting deer with a muzzleloader, dreaming about butchering a dog, and more. Find Checka at https://www.mplsmea…
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The house stands victorious. It shares its walls with living things, but it is not owned by those constricted by the mortality of flesh. It is in control and the people that temporarily reside in its belly know it. They cannot place things normally. Where the thing goes, goes. To move it or attempt to control chaos is nigh impossible, especially in…
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Good News, Jamiroquai ! You don’t have to pay taxes ever again! We’ll get the the hat squad to do it for you! As long as they don’t take the hat off, you’re in the clear. You want to make the hat your thing? It’s your thing, isn’t it? We don’t have to ask. We know it. Okay, well, we, as the IRS, say go for broke! You’re a winner! Just uh, don’t cau…
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Bush’s Baked Beans has a secret recipe but they’re happy to show you the spices just like other secret brands. But they’re all too sweet! Why are they so sweet?! So baked?! So homestyle? Anyway, none of them are going on the toast. Or all of them. We’re going to find the right bean eventually. Call Geno’s cousin. Maybe he knows. Or he can grill us …
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Encase your pocky in a glass. Stick it in the freezer. Wait however long you wait for things to get cold. Open the freezer. Eat the pocky. Repeat. Forever. Submit to the Mikugeddon. The Mikudon. The Wooly Mikueth. Just don’t enter the RESTRICTED ACCESS area. John Hurst is your host this week and he can name one other vocaloid. Aaron Littleton is yo…
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Adam Tobey: "I'm interested in keeping kids alive"
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Adam Tobey is the executive director of Tall Timber Camp in Central Washington and the founder of Arcadia Guided Outdoor Education. Adam and Tony discuss Adam's strong beard game, bring a surfboard to seminary, being happy having no cell service, no such thing as a "safe place," deep learning in the wilderness, becoming more generous and hospitable…
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The orchestra is tuning up. They’re ready. They watch the artist intently, waiting for the first stroke. A ellipses. A circle? A perfect circle? Not for this. We only need two half circles here. Maybe a C. Slightly off. Shaded with a sheen. Glorious. The Face on Mars looks on intently, but innocently. Will the robots finally be pleased with this ma…
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