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Setter Tales Podcast is an interview format show with friends trading stories and experiences about their outdoor adventures and beloved gun dogs. Subjects are fun, entertaining, and often educational. Host Wade Kisner speaks with guests of various backgrounds: Hunter, Breeder, Veterinarian, other experts, or just regular folk who have a passion for the outdoors.
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Thresholds

Jordan Kisner

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This is Thresholds, a series of interviews with writers and artists you love about the transformative experiences (surprises, crises, existential freakouts, u-turns, breakthroughs) that have shaped their work. The life-wasn’t-the-same-after-that moments. Hosted by Jordan Kisner, author of the essay collection THIN PLACES. Thresholds is a co-production between Black Mountain Institute and Literary Hub. www.thisisthresholds.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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In a relatively songless episode, the Court goes gaga this week when Michelle Kisner (“The Physical Media Advocate”) gives the 2024 musical sequel “Joker: Folie à Deux” what it f@#$ing deserves. *** Prosecutor: Michelle Kisner. Defense: Dylan J. Schlender. Judge: The Honorable Maynard Bangs. Jurors: Big Ben Haslar, Ryan Luis Rodriguez, Maynard Bang…
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The Court gets strapped into a supercomputer that makes us smarter when Nicki (“Trivial Theater”) threatens to mulch up any critics of the 1992 sci-fi horror film “The Lawnmower Man.” *** Prosecutor: Maynard Bangs. Defense: Nicki from Trivial Theater. Judge: The Honorable Big Ben Haslar. Jurors: Ryan Luis Rodriguez, Dylan J. Schlender, Big Ben Hasl…
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The Court continues to drink too much eggnog this week when comedian Joe Pontillo shamelessly plugs his own website (JoePontillo.com) during our Superheroic Sequel Showdown between 2004’s “Spider-Man 2” and 1992’s “Batman Returns.” *** “Spider-Man 2”: Big Ben Haslar. “Batman Returns": Joe Pontillo. Judge: The Honorable Ryan Luis Rodriguez. Jurors: …
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The Court has been drinking too much eggnog this week when Kaleigh DuLac helps 1969’s “Frosty the Snowman” sue the pants off of 2000’s “Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer.” *** “Frosty the Snowman”: Kaleigh DuLac. “Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer": Dylan J. Schlender. Judge: The Honorable Big Ben Haslar. Jurors: Ryan Luis Rodriguez, Big Ben Hasl…
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The Court stays up all night to trap Santa this week when Jason Kleeberg (“Force Five Podcast”) defends another man in a red suit, 2013’s superheroic sequel “Iron Man 3.” *** Prosecutor: Big Ben Haslar. Defense: Jason Kleeberg. Judge: The Honorable Ryan Luis Rodriguez. Jurors: Ryan Luis Rodriguez, Dylan J. Schlender, Maynard Bangs. *** Advisory: Si…
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The Court learns about a new type of pegging this week when Justin Andrews (“Mind Pump Media”) tries to jump his bicycle over the 1986 sports film “Rad.” *** Prosecutor: Maynard Bangs. Defense: Justin Andrews. Judge: The Honorable Ryan Luis Rodriguez. Jurors: Ryan Luis Rodriguez, Dylan J. Schlender, Big Ben Haslar. *** Advisory: Silvana Carranza. P…
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Tom Riccardi didn’t grow up hunting but was given an opportunity to accompany a college friend on a waterfowl hunt and was hooked. Tom found the many preparations of equipment leading up to the hunt, the early mornings to deploy decoys on that special spot with a good friend and dog an experience he had to repeat. Over the years Tom has expanded hi…
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The Court passes the homemade cranberry sauce when an overgrown stuffed turkey named D-Rok Schlender (“Schlender 5 Productions”) dishes out just desserts to the 2025 horror film “Weapons.” *** Prosecutor: D-Rok Schlender. Defense: Ryan Luis Rodriguez. Judge: The Honorable Dylan J. Schlender. Jurors: Big Ben Haslar, Dylan J. Schlender, Maynard Bangs…
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The Court runs out for more Coors Light this week when Frank Dietz (“This Monstrous Life”) scratches and claws a defense out for the 2010 remake of “The Wolfman.” *** Prosecutor: Dylan J. Schlender. Defense: Frank Dietz. Judge: The Honorable Maynard Bangs. Jurors: Ryan Luis Rodriguez, Maynard Bangs, Big Ben Haslar. *** Advisory: Silvana Carranza. P…
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The Court tries to find its family jewels this week when Ken Liu (“All That We See or Seem”) smuggles out a cache of riches inside a hollowed out copy of 2007’s “National Treasure: Book of Secrets.” *** Prosecutor: Big Ben Haslar. Defense: Ken Liu. Judge: The Honorable Dylan J. Schlender. Jurors: Ryan Luis Rodriguez, Dylan J. Schlender, Maynard Ban…
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The Court does its own stunts this week when Nathanael Hummel (“Treasure Is My Trade: A Nate Colt Adventure”) intimidates the jury with his handsomeness while defending the 2010 action comedy “Knight and Day.” *** Prosecutor: Dylan J. Schlender. Defense: Nathanael Hummel. Judge: The Honorable Maynard Bangs. Jurors: Ryan Luis Rodriguez, Maynard Bang…
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It’s time to put Hell on Reels back underground this week when Isaac Arthur (“Science and Futurism”) proves it’s not hip to be square in the 1997 sci-fi horror film “Cube.” *** Prosecutor: Isaac Arthur. Defense: Big Ben Haslar. Judge: The Honorable Ryan Luis Rodriguez. Jurors: Ryan Luis Rodriguez, Dylan J. Schlender, Maynard Bangs. *** Advisory: Si…
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The whole Court is one big dark room when Simon Majumdar (“Food Network’s Tournament of Champions”/”Eat My Globe” Podcast) tallies the bananas in the 2024 lega-sequel “Beetlejuice Beetlejuice.” *** Prosecutor: Simon Majumdar. Defense: Dylan J. Schlender. Judge: The Honorable Maynard Bangs. Jurors: Ryan Luis Rodriguez, Maynard Bangs, Big Ben Haslar.…
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Brad grew up in Corydon, Iowa where as a youth he learned to hunt both pheasants and quail. After high school Brad’s life journey led him to play college football in South Dakota where he excelled at sports and immersed himself in the pheasant hunting gundog lifestyle that flourished there. To earn extra money during the summer breaks, Tom began tr…
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Thresholds is happy to introduce "Borrowed & Returned," a new podcast from the Brooklyn Public Library about the books that have changed America. This episode was made in partnership between Borrowed & Returned and Thresholds. You can hear the whole interview with Ayana Elizabeth Johnson in our feed. Episode description: When Silent Spring came out…
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The Universal Monster Mash lives again when Jack Bennett (“Never Surrender: A Galaxy Quest Documentary”) transforms into a hairier, sweatier beast to represent the 1941 classic “The Wolf Man” against 1932’s “The Mummy.” *** “The Wolf Man”: Jack Bennett. “The Mummy": Maynard Bangs. Judge: The Honorable Big Ben Haslar. Jurors: Ryan Luis Rodriguez, Bi…
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Listen! Do you smell something? It’s Kevin Smith (“Suns and Shadows-Cast”) with an unlicensed nuclear accelerator on his back, ready to join up with the 2024 supernatural comedy “Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire.” *** Prosecutor: Big Ben Haslar. Defense: Kevin Smith. Judge: The Honorable Maynard Bangs. Jurors: Ryan Luis Rodriguez, Dylan J. Schlender, Ma…
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Jordan sits down with marine biologist, writer, and climate advocate Ayana Johnson to talk about her mission to fight climate fatalism, her love of Rachel Carson, and her skepticism of the impulse to look for "hope" in the face of climate change -- as opposed to possibility, or joy. Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson is a marine biologist, policy expert, …
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The Court kicks off the happ-happiest season of all when Marty Ketola (“Making Pondo/Talking Pondo” Podcast) carves up 2002’s “Halloween: Resurrection,” a.k.a. The One with Busta Rhymes. *** Prosecutor: Marty Ketola. Defense: Maynard Bangs. Judge: The Honorable Big Ben Haslar. Jurors: Ryan Luis Rodriguez, Dylan J. Schlender, Big Ben Haslar. *** Adv…
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Jordan sits down with Claire Vaye Watkins to talk about how the grief over her mother's death diffused into a homesickness for the landscape of the Mojave Desert, where she grew up, and the way that that singular landscape then formed her own writing style, which the New Yorker dubbed "Nevada Gothic." They also talk about postpartum depression, Wat…
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The Court has been chugging paint all day to take the edge off when Drew Landry (“10 Things I Hate About Drew”) gets naked and starts stabbing the haters of 2023’s “Beau is Afraid.” *** Prosecutor: Dylan J. Schlender. Defense: Drew Landry. Judge: The Honorable Ryan Luis Rodriguez. Jurors: Ryan Luis Rodriguez, Big Ben Haslar, Maynard Bangs. *** Advi…
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This week, Jordan sits down with the "queen of Latin American gothic horror," Mariana Enriquez, to talk about the manuscript she burned and how it led her to search for a mode of horror writing that was drawn from her own lived experiences of terror. Mentioned: Jorge Luis Borges, Argentina's military dictatorship of 1976 to 1983, gravestones as mon…
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This week, the Court breaks every single bone in its governing body when Daniel Scribner (“The Cinemania Society” Podcast) reveals to the world all of the weaknesses of M. Night Shyamalan’s 2019 film “Glass.” *** Prosecutor: Daniel Scribner. Defense: Maynard Bangs. Judge: The Honorable Dylan J. Schlender. Jurors: Ryan Luis Rodriguez, Dylan J. Schle…
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Jordan sits down to talk with Miriam Toews about her new book, A Truce That Is Not Peace, her first nonfiction book, and the events that inspired it: the death by suicide of her father and then, later, her sister. They talk about the long periods of silence her father and sister both went through when they were alive, and how Toews' own persistent …
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Get in loser, The Court is going shopping when The Vern (“Cinema Recall” Podcast) puts on his sweatpants and pushes the 2024 musical adaptation of “Mean Girls” in front of a bus. *** Prosecutor: The Vern. Defense: Ryan Luis Rodriguez. Judge: The Honorable Maynard Bangs. Jurors: Dylan J. Schlender, Big Ben Haslar, Maynard Bangs. *** Advisory: Silvan…
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This week, the Court implants memories of a far better movie in our heads when Sophia Ricciardi (“Moviestruck”) uses her nanite blood to defend the 2020 superhero movie “Bloodshot.” *** Prosecutor: Maynard Bangs. Defense: Sophia Ricciardi. Judge: The Honorable Dylan J. Schlender. Jurors: Ryan Luis Rodriguez, Dylan J. Schlender, Big Ben Haslar. *** …
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As a youth growing up in Mound City, Missouri, Pete Clegett took advantage of the abundance of water fowl hunting opportunities and became a regular in many of the goose pits. An early fascination with duck and goose calling led Pete to learn from veteran callers and develop a style of his own. His ability at deceiving ducks became legendary and se…
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The Court sequesters themselves in a snowbound retreat as author Jeremy Bates (“The No-End House”) condemns the artificial unintelligence generated by 2025’s “Mountainhead.” *** Prosecutor: Dylan J. Schlender. Defense: Jeremy Bates. Judge: The Honorable Maynard Bangs. Jurors: Ryan Luis Rodriguez, Big Ben Haslar, Maynard Bangs. *** Advisory: Silvana…
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This week, the Court keeps blurting out R.E.M. lyrics when Joshua Weilerstein (“Sticky Notes”) shows off his forte: cancelling the 2020 psychological drama “Tár.” *** Prosecutor: Joshua Weilerstein. Defense: Dylan J. Schlender. Judge: The Honorable Big Ben Haslar. Jurors: Ryan Luis Rodriguez, Maynard Bangs, Big Ben Haslar. *** Advisory: Silvana Car…
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The Court gives a giant magical middle finger to all things decent this week when Chris Gersbeck (“Dumb Industries”) defends Truth, Justice and 2025’s Superman. *** Prosecutor: Big Ben Haslar. Defense: Chris Gersbeck. Judge: The Honorable Dylan J. Schlender. Jurors: Ryan Luis Rodriguez, Dylan J. Schlender, Maynard Bangs. *** Advisory: Silvana Carra…
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The Court enjoys a hearty breakfast of shit pieces when ‘Mad’ Brad Gibson (“Film Threat”) dives into a water trap to fist fight the 1996 comedy “Happy Gilmore.” *** Prosecutor: ‘Mad’ Brad Gibson. Defense: Ryan Luis Rodriguez. Judge: The Honorable Big Ben Haslar. Jurors: Dylan J. Schlender, Maynard Bangs, Big Ben Haslar. *** Advisory: Silvana Carran…
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The Court wouldn’t like Case Aiken (“Another Pass” Podcast) when he’s angry. Luckily, this week he’s happy, happy to be teamed up with Ang Lee’s 2003 film “Hulk.” *** Prosecutor: Big Ben Haslar. Defense: Case Aiken. Judge: The Honorable Ryan Luis Rodriguez. Jurors: Ryan Luis Rodriguez, Dylan J. Schlender, Maynard Bangs. *** Advisory: Silvana Carran…
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The Court is even more confusing than usual when ‘Hollywood’ Steve Huey (“The Yacht or Nyacht Podcast”) unleashes an incomprehensible string of gibberish in favor of the 2001 comedy “Pootie Tang.” *** Prosecutor: Ryan Luis Rodriguez. Defense: ‘Hollywood’ Steve Huey. Judge: The Honorable Dylan J. Schlender. Jurors: Dylan J. Schlender, Maynard Bangs,…
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On this episode, Wade is the subject of our series Memories From the Field! Wade reminiscences about his first dog as a child, growing up on a farm, hunting as a family tradition, and more! Send us a text Support the show Please be sure to subscribe, it's free! If you can, leave a review. It goes a long way toward helping the show! Also, let us kno…
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This week on 'Where Are They Now?,' the Court finds out where Clif Campbell (“Making Pondo/Talking Pondo” Podcast) is now, which is here, defending 1983’s “Eddie and the Cruisers.” *** Prosecutor: Dylan J. Schlender. Defense: Clif Campbell. Judge: The Honorable Big Ben Haslar. Jurors: Ryan Luis Rodriguez, Big Ben Haslar, Maynard Bangs. *** Advisory…
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The whole Court is drinking the Kool-Aid this week when Billy Ray Brewton (“Coroner to the Stars”) aggressively deprograms the 2025 horror film “Opus.” *** Prosecutor: Billy Ray Brewton. Defense: Maynard Bangs. Judge: The Honorable Ryan Luis Rodriguez. Jurors: Dylan J. Schlender, Ryan Luis Rodriguez, Big Ben Haslar. *** Advisory: Silvana Carranza. …
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In what the Court is assured is a mostly ghostfree episode, Pat Edwards (“Storytellers Forge”) slowly grappling hooks away but cannot escape 2016’s “Suicide Squad.” *** Prosecutor: Pat Edwards. Defense: Dylan J. Schlender. Judge: The Honorable Maynard Bangs. Jurors: Ryan Luis Rodriguez, Big Ben Haslar, Maynard Bangs. *** Advisory: Silvana Carranza.…
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The entire Court is heckling from the balcony this week when Matt McGinnis (“Movie Riffing Melee/Mystery Science Theater 3000”) defends 2014’s “Muppets Most Wanted.” *** Prosecutor: Maynard Bangs. Defense: Matt McGinnis. Judge: The Honorable Dylan J. Schlender. Jurors: Dylan J. Schlender, Ryan Luis Rodriguez, Big Ben Haslar. *** Advisory: Silvana C…
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This week, we each disappear one by one until only Kandice Martellaro (“Stan Against Evil”) is left standing with the 2003 mystery “Identity.” *** Prosecutor: Maynard Bangs. Defense: Kandice Martellaro. Judge: The Honorable Big Ben Haslar. Jurors: Ryan Luis Rodriguez, Big Ben Haslar, Dylan J. Schlender. *** Advisory: Silvana Carranza. Prologue: Kir…
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Nicholson Baker sits down with Jordan to discuss writing about the unsung pleasures and details of the world-- things like the way your mother cuts up a banana, or the advertisements in your favorite magazine. Things that "live in this between area of noticing, they're part of the background of life." Mentioned in the episode: Nicholson's book abou…
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Season Six blasts off to Planet Justice when Conor McGiffin (“Mystery Science Theater 3000”) is forced into a strategic marriage with the 2015 sci-fi action film “Jupiter Ascending.” *** Prosecutor: Big Ben Haslar. Defense: Conor McGiffin. Judge: The Honorable Maynard Bangs. Jurors: Dylan J. Schlender, Ryan Luis Rodriguez, Maynard Bangs. *** Adviso…
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Sarah Aziza sits down with Jordan to talk about the eating disorder that almost took her life in 2019, and the search into her family's history in Palestine that she undertook in a bid for her own survival. Mentioned in the episode: the Nakba transgenerational trauma José Muñoz, Cruising Utopia ghurba Sarah Aziza is a Palestinian American writer, t…
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Flying in the face of popular demand, the court kisses Season Five goodbye with the most contemptible legal shenanigan of them all, the imprudent jurisprudence we call “The Appeals of Justice.” *** Defense (“The People vs. Daredevil: The Director’s Cut”): Big Ben Haslar. Defense (“The People vs. Demolition Man”): Maynard Bangs. Defense (“The People…
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Lisa Ko sits down with Jordan to talk about the daily journaling practice that she started at age five, and the period of creative crisis between her first and second novels when she began methodically destroying every journal she'd ever kept. Mentioned in the episode: Tehching Hsieh soft gaze Moleskin daily journals Lisa Ko is the author of the ne…
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The Court can’t let it go this week when Case Aiken (“Another Pass” Podcast) gets his tongue stuck to the 2019 animated musical “Frozen 2.” *** Prosecutor: Case Aiken. Defense: Big Ben Haslar. Judge: The Honorable Dylan J. Schlender. Jurors: Dylan J. Schlender, Ryan Luis Rodriguez, Maynard Bangs. *** Advisory: Silvana Carranza. Prologue: Kirk R. Th…
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The Court is puking up boobs this week when Victor Omoayo and Carl Byrd (“Codex Prime” Podcast) get fused together during our horrific experiments to discover the better body horror: 2024’s “The Substance” or 1986’s “The Fly.” *** “The Substance”: Victor Omoayo and Carl Byrd. “The Fly": Dylan J. Schlender. Judge: The Honorable Maynard Bangs. Jurors…
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Steve Nash grew up in Kansas City, Missouri and learned many outdoor skills related to hunting and fishing from his Uncle, Jack Brown. He has many fond memories calling in ducks and geese and the camaraderie that can only be found in a goose pit with family and close buddies. Steve fondly recalls the annual pheasant hunting trips to Viborg, South D…
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Many Bothans died this week (in an unrelated incident) when Bouncin’ Bobby LePire (“Film Threat”) gives in to his anger for 2016’s “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story.” *** Prosecutor: Bouncin’ Bobby LePire. Defense: Ryan Luis Rodriguez. Judge: The Honorable Big Ben Haslar. Jurors: Maynard Bangs, Big Ben Haslar, Dylan J. Schlender. *** Advisory: Silvana …
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The Court just can’t get beyond “Star Trek Beyond” this week when Adam Kotsko (“Late Star Trek: The Final Frontier in the Franchise Era”) sets his phasers to stun the 2016 NuTrek film. *** Prosecutor: Adam Kotsko. Defense: Big Ben Haslar. Judge: The Honorable Dylan J. Schlender. Jurors: Dylan J. Schlender, Ryan Luis Rodriguez, Maynard Bangs. *** Ad…
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