The Obsessed Podcast

Bridget Durocher is a passionate and highly impressive ultra runner. She has run many ultra races in the 100-200 mile range. The first summer that she ran a 100 mile race she did four 100 mile races in the matter of four months. Initially she ran her first longer race (50K) because she needed 12 test subjects to complete her PhD study. The 12th runner had to back out last minute, so she ran the ra...

Mark Korpi is the co-owner of the Becharof Lodge On The Egegik River. This is a fly in only fishing lodge, which focuses primarily on coho salmon. They also specialize in brown bear viewing and remote flyout fishing adventures. Check out their website at https://becharoflodgefishing.com/ . Note: I called it the Kenai Peninsula, it is actually located on the Alaska Peninsula. The town of Egegik is...

Dr. Michael Nakkula is a professor at the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School. He also taught for many years at Harvard University where he had received his doctorate degree. His work has had a large focus on possibility development in children and young adults, helping them envision and implement strategies to realize their dream future.

John Koski was the founder and long time owner of Aire Care, an HVAC and plumbing company in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. He started the company when he was 26 years old, with one young child at home, and another on the way.

Luke Aho is passionate about sheep hunting. He is the owner of Red Mountain Gear, a company who created and sells a super lightweight tripod base and head that utilizes whatever style of leg you would like (such as trekking poles, tent poles, sticks, red mountain gear provided legs). They also sell a binocular adapter for the bottom of your trekking pole. Check out their website at https://www.red...

On this episode I take a minute to reflect on the process of what I have learned from this podcast experience. Then I share a brief personal highlight from each episode to reflect some engaging, insightful, and fun moments that have happened. I also break down a temporary episode release rate change moving forward.

Mindy Schmidt is super passionate about archery. She got into archery after watching her kids shoot at her local bow shop roughly 6 years ago. Finally she opted to try it out. From the first shot she was hooked, and it has been a major part of her life ever since. We discuss her story about how she got into it, how she started competing, and some recent hurdles she had to overcome to continue in t...

Dr. Stanley Vitton is a geotechnical engineer, civil engineer, and environmental engineer. He taught for many years and recently retired from Michigan Technological University. He is also passionate about glacial geomorphology, especially in relation to the western upper peninsula of Michigan.

(Explicit) Wyatt Behm is the lead vocalist and guitarist for the band Trophy Boy. Their new song, The Pain, is out on youtube, spotify, apple music, etc... He has been engaged and passionate in guitar and music since he was 12 years old.

Joseph Enrietti is 97 year old World War II veteran. He was a tailgunner on a B-24 Liberator Bomber. He grew up in the great depression and was drafted into the military at age 18. After the war he went on to work security for an upper Michigan mining company. After this he owned his own furniture store.

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 specifically for this purpose.

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 Snow Church, is another avenue of filling people in on our area forecasts and snow data.

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 Navy Veteran as well. Pat also has gotten into running. He started off light but now has run many marathons in recent years.

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. Locally he helps out with the American Woodcock Society, where they help with habitat improvement projects in our area.

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 Horses and the adventures he has been on.

Cody Rye is a passionate hunter and is pumped about Football. Cody was involved in a major car accident at a young age. At first he was paralyzed from the waist down. Through hard work and therapy he was able to obtain movement to below the knees. He eventually played football for the Ironwood Red Devils. He also has coached middle/high school football in Wisconsin. His story of perseverance and t...

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 for trout and helping others find joy through trout 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 each post.

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 History, including the automobile.

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 passion is personal finance.

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 taken over by his sons.