It couldn’t be more perfect that for this last episode of Uncivilize, my guest is the very person who inspired me to start the show: Daniel Vitalis, former host of the immensely popular and provocative Rewild Yourself Podcast. Being interviewed

The Journalist-Farmer - AC Shilton

Dec 5th, 2019 37m 30s

This week, I bring you the delightful AC Shilton, the investigative journalist of Netflix’s “The Innocent Man” fame who recently added farmer to her resume: Last year, the self-described city kid and her park ranger husband went all in on their

The Journey to Wild Abundance - Natalie Bogwalker

Oct 24th, 2019 53m 45s

I had a big birthday on Tuesday, and one of my wishes is to travel to the mountains of Southern Appalachia to take Natalie Bogwalker’s immersive women’s carpentry class (followed by perhaps her tiny house building class). If you haven’t yet hea

How the Bow and Arrow Changed Everything - Victor Kühn

Oct 3rd, 2019 44m 45s

I’m so excited to share this fascinating conversation I recorded last spring with Victor Kühn, a master traditional bowmaker and primitive archery expert based in Boulder, Colorado. Here, Victor traces the ancient history of the bow and arrow,

The Outdoors Does Not Have to Be Uncomfortable - Wes Siler

Sep 19th, 2019 36m 33s

In this premiere episode of our third (and final!) season, I talk with outdoor adventure journalist extraordinaire Wes Siler, who runs Outside’s lifestyle column IndefinintelyWild. Here, Wes shares his stereotype-defying approach to “rewilding,

Civilization Is an Ecological Phenomenon - Peter Michael Bauer

Sep 5th, 2019 1h 5m

As rewilding has reached the mainstream (or the word rewilding, anyway), it’s come to encompass many tenets: land conservation, nature immersion and ancestral skills; living off grid; homeschooling and forest schools; even wearing minimalist fo

Cohousing and the Return to Communal Living - Karin Hoskin

Apr 25th, 2019 43m 18s

I know many of you, like me, dream of decamping the modern existence to live in the solace of the woods or on a bucolic homestead—just as many of our Uncivilize guests have done. But many of you also may not yet be able to fully commit to that

On the Hadza and Human Metabolism - Herman Pontzer

Mar 12th, 2019 52m 26s

I am so excited to bring you this interview with one of my favorite guests to date: Herman Pontzer, a biological anthropologist at Duke University whose paleontological and biological field work across Eurasia and Africa have upended much of wh

A Homestead Built on Faith - Kip Smyth

Feb 7th, 2019 49m 18s

Happy New Year! I’m coming back to you from winter hiatus later than anticipated, due to an extended illness and the now-historic teacher’s strike here in Los Angeles. During that time (which also saw LA pounded by torrential rains and floods),

The Birth of an Explorer - Alegra Ally

Dec 20th, 2018 1h 10m

This week, I bring you this much anticipated conversation with ethnographer and award-winning photographer and explorer Alegra Ally. Via her Wild Born Project, Alegra has traveled to the far-flung corners of the globe to document the traditiona

A Year of Autonomous Eating - Rob Greenfield

Dec 6th, 2018 56m 26s

This week’s guest is adventurer and environmental activist Rob Greenfield, whose societal-boundary-pushing projects have ranged from biking across the United States on a bamboo bicycle for sustainability (three times); to dumpster diving in tho

The Woman and the Little Cabin That Could - Ayana Young

Nov 14th, 2018 1h 20m

In her mid-20s and a few years past her ecology studies at Columbia University, Ayana Young’s life had the makings of an off-the-grid fantasy. She lived with her partner in a cabin on an organic farm on an Oregon mountaintop. She studied herbal

The Biophilic Nature of Serenbe - Steve Nygren

Oct 30th, 2018 1h 7m

In this first episode of our second season, I interview Steve Nygren, the founder of Serenbe—a microcosmic urban utopia set on 65,000 acres of preserved forest land, a mere 40 minutes south of Atlanta’s expanding sprawl. Yet to paint Serenbe as

The Everwild Way - Amanda Caloia and Elizabeth Wells

Apr 23rd, 2018 58m 56s

Our Season 1 finale is here! I can't imagine a more fitting close to our six-month journey than this interview with Amanda Caloia and Elizabeth Wells, two of the co-founders of EverWild—a Los Angeles-based community that connects city-dwellers

The Astonishing American History of Cesarean Section - Jacqueline H. Wolf

Apr 9th, 2018 1h 23m

In 19th-century America, cesarean section was a treacherous, last-ditch surgery that nearly always resulted in death of the infant and, half the time, the mother. Fast forward to today, where 1 in 3 American babies is delivered via surgical bir

Emulating Our Wild Progenitors: A New Path - Arthur Haines

Apr 2nd, 2018 1h 5m

We want to believe that we are living at the pinnacle of human existence; that since hominins first walked on two legs, man has been marching toward our vision of modern civilization. But what if despite humanity's vast achievements, we left be

Wild Beer and The Ale Apothecary - Paul Arney

Mar 19th, 2018 53m 19s

Meet Paul Arney, the mad genius behind The Ale Apothecary, a wild-ferment brewery housed in a cabin in the woods of Bend, Oregon. Paul is a master brewer who honed his craft-beer chops for more than 15 years at Bend’s legendary Deschutes Brewer

The Freedom of Forest Kindergarten - Erin Kenny

Mar 12th, 2018 1h 2m

I am so excited to bring you this thought-provoking conversation with naturalist and educator Erin Kenny, an international leader in the forest kindergarten movement and the founder of Cedarsong Nature School -- the very first US kindergarten b

Re-creating the Village - Rachel Natland and Chris Morasky

Mar 5th, 2018 1h 10m

For 99 percent of our human history, we lived in small, likely egalitarian societies—tight-knit hunter-gatherer bands of a couple dozen people deeply reliant on their community and on the surrounding environment, for their survival. So where do

Eating Unprocessed and the Path to Food Sovereignty - Megan Kimble

Feb 19th, 2018 53m 41s

Meet today’s guest, who might be called the Michael Pollan for the millenial generation: award-winning food writer Megan Kimble, now senior editor at Austin Monthly Magazine and the author of the book Unprocessed: My City-Dwelling Year of Recla

Survivalists on Surviving a Natural Disaster - Carmen and Matt Corradino

Feb 12th, 2018 57m 24s

Today’s episode sounds like it was lifted off the pages of a Hollywood screenplay: two renown survivalists find themselves in an all-too-real survival experience, after a natural disaster decimates their tropical island home. Yet that has been

The Milk Moonshot - Lars Bode and Alan Daly

Jan 29th, 2018 53m 23s

It is 2018. Scientists sent a man to the moon half a century ago, they mapped the human genome more than a decade ago, and yet we still have scant scientific understanding about breast milk -- the lifeblood that has sustained humankind for at l

The Incontrovertible Nature of Motherhood - Erica Komisar

Jan 22nd, 2018 49m 9s

In America today, 25 percent of women go back to work less than two weeks after giving birth. Seventy percent of babies under the age of one are regularly cared for by someone other than a parent. When you consider the biological imperative for

GM Foods, Glyphosate and Gut Health

Jan 15th, 2018 1h 1m

If health is the measure by which we humans are equipped to survive in our current environment, then our children are the proverbial canaries in the coal mine. One in 13 American children has a serious food allergy. Nearly one in 10 has asthma.

Extreme Simplicity - Christopher Nyerges

Jan 8th, 2018 1h 18m

This week, I step away from my Skype interview setup to head out into the urban wild with Los Angeles-based survivalist (and National Geographic Doomsday Preppers alum) Christopher Nyerges, who has taught wild food foraging, wilderness skills,