The Obsessed Podcast

Aaron Persenaire is the captain of the Ranger III, a 165 foot long, 33 feet wide boat that navigates back and forth from Isle Royale to the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. This huge boat was designed sp…

John Dee is a meteorologist. He has focused on western Upper Michigan weather and snow for many years. His website, johndee.com, has winter snow data and much more. His youtube channel, John Dee's Sn…

Patrick Durkin is an outdoor writer and columnist. His work can be found in many newspapers and magazines. He was the editor of Deer and Deer Hunting Magazine and is a writer for Meateater. He is a N…

Michael Massie has been a life long fisherman. He fishes on Lake Superior as much as he can, trolling for Trout and Salmon. 

Mike Rose is passionate about woodcock. He has been hunting woodcock in the Midwest for about 50 years. He also enjoys other hunts such as Pheasant hunting the Dakota's and quail hunting in Arizona. …

Dirk Hembroff has been the Michigan Tech University Hockey broadcaster on Mix 93 WKMJ for 20 years. He also was the host of a radio morning show for many years.

Horses are a huge part of Nels Kilpela's world. Previously on the podcast I had chatted with Nels about his photography and hunting world. In this episode I had him back on to ask him all about Horse…

Stan Myaskovskiy is the owner at Keweenaw Jiu Jitsu. He has been passionately engaged in Jiu Jitsu for the last 12 years and is a brown belt in 10th Planet Jiu Jitsu. He also is pumped about fishing …

Hans Isaacson is a super talented outdoor/nature photographer and videographer. His page, Outdoorpixs, features some awesome photography and video clips. It feels like you go on an adventure with eac…

Larry Lankton was a History professor at Michigan Tech University. He wrote and published several books on the history of The Lake Superior Copper Industry. He also taught classes in other areas of H…

Alexis Dahl is an energetic and engaging science communicator. Her youtube channel can be found at youtube.com/alexisdahl. She shares some awesome stories revolving around science and history.

Nora Anderson is super passionate about minimalizing non necessary material items from her life. She practices this professionally with a cleaning, organizing, and prioritizing business. Her other pa…

Ted Mortberg is pumped on the outdoors. He enjoys camping, backpacking, hunting, and anything that allows him to challenge himself physically and to test him mentally. 

Robert "Buzz" Johnson built his own boat. It has been roughly a 5 year process and the end result is amazing. He has owned and operated a construction company for most of his life which has been take…

Nick Gedda is the chief marketing officer for Pneuma Media LLC. His marketing approach is honest and engaging. He has helped Pneuma grow exponentially since he started.

Adam Rajala is a passionate upland bird hunter. This has taken him all over the western US and here in the midwest to hunt several different types of birds with his dogs. Adam is also an entrepreneur…

Bruce Anderson is a Nurse Practitioner. He grew up in his family logging business and in his older twenties decided to go to school for Nursing. He went on to become a Nurse Practitioner and he curre…

Margaret Hanson is the owner and founder of Teach To Taste, a cooking school and a cottage bakery company where she teaches others to love and cherish food and food memories.

Matt Riutta is the music education teacher at Calumet Elementary School. He also teaches high school choir. Matt studied music education at Michigan State University. He spent time in their pep band …