This is Later with Lee Matthews, The Lee Matthews Podcast, more what You
Hear Weekday Afternoon's on the Drive. He's produced over fifty DVDs and hosts Jim
Shockey's Hunting Adventures and Jim Shockey's Uncharted on the Outdoor Channel. Also an award
winning writer, wildlife photographer, videographer. He's got a new novel out,
Jim Shockey's called Call Me Hunter. Welcome Jim. Before we get started,
what's your favorite black powder load? You know, I've been using one hundred
and fifty grains of Pyrodex Select. I'm old school in that way with the
hornity bullets. Two hundred and fifty grain bullet. Well, I'm an enthusiast
myself, and I spent a good deal of this weekend doing some handloading of
nine millimeter and thirty eight special. But I'm not the hunter you are.
But Hunter is in your new book, uh, and that is out now?
It's your first novel. Yeah, I think it today? Is the
release date today tomorrow? But I know it's in bookstores right now as we
speak and being delivered by Amazon. So yeah, yeah, it's a big
day today. Jim Shockey, Call me Hunter is the novel Jim tell Us
about your protagonist Hunter. You know, this is I would classify it as
an autobiographical, fictional, abstract thriller. You know, it has to fit
into a genre, so they just call it a thriller. But the character
Hunter, who also is known as Icarus and known as sees you the amount
of sores. You know, it's loosely based on my life. You know,
the easiest way to write is is to to tell your own story.
And this is truly, truly my story. It's not about hunting, though
the character develops and a love for hunting, but there's no animals getting hunted
in other than human beings. Well, Hunter has some he has some unusual
abilities, does he not. Yeah, that's you know. I truly believe
that there's people around this world that are gifted with an ability to recognize beauty,
to feel a spirit of an object if it was handmade. And so
I've taken that to the ins degree with shoot Me, with Hunter so and
the other characters in the book. You know, it's it's a It's something
in my museum, the Hand to Man Museum on Vancouver Island. I see
it all the time when people walk down the hallway. They that have a
higher sensibility to the art. They feel it, they feel beauty. And
that's what the underlying premises of this this story, Call Me Hunter. Jim
Shockey is the author of Call Me Hunter. You know him from Shaki's Hunting
Adventures and Jim Shocke Uncharted on the Outdoor Channel. The main quest in this
story is treasure, but it's a different kind of trend. Sure, yeah,
yeah. The the the Again, the premise is that there's a deep
state organization our world that that controls the art market. So they're always looking
for the greatest works of art made by human beings, and there's the They
basically recruit these people with the ability to recognize that art and then they sell
it to a big auction called the Gathering, to the wealthy people of the
world. The rest of us never get to see these pieces. But the
one greatest work of art that man has ever created or human beings is the
Soul Catcher. And that that's what the book is about, is the our
world searching for the Soul Catcher, and he does so in his book Call
Me Hunter. Jim Shockey is with us and the book is out Now.
The tell us about your your your Antagonistfago Gebago. Yeah, he's the villain.
And you know, I flipped the stereotypes we've been for the last sixty
years. They've always had you know, hunters as evil. So I've flipped
the stereotypes and I've made Jevago about as villainous as you can make a villain.
But he's also an animal rights extremist. So as I say, I
flipped it, and I mean technically the anti hero Hunter. The protagonist is
actually Nyalla, a young lady. The story is really about her journey to
find herself through this process of learning about our world and the search for the
soul catcher. Jim Shockey writes about it, call me Hunter. It's out
now. Has nothing to do with Hunter Biden zero. That's just a bad
coincident, thank goodness. Okay, so when the story gets going, does
it take us to any exotic ports of call? No, this this one
is is pretty mundane rosaic. I mean it starts starts in North Carolina and
ends up on the west coast of Vancouver Island. So so you know it's
a journey, yeah, but it's not nowhere wild and crazy uh, you
know, but there you know, it's a two book deal with Simon and
Schuster, So stand by for the the sequel to call Me Hunter. I'm
sure it's it's coming as well. And yeah, and possibly movie rights as
well. I mean that that would be a perfect world, you know,
hope hopefully. I was right there when Jack Carr got the call from Chris
Pratt for his Terminalist novel, when Chris optioned it to turn it into the
Amazon series or Prime. So so it's pretty cool when that happens, and
that would be that would be the the dream come true for sure. And
I see that he's written you a byline, so are you and he pretty
well acquainted? Yeah. Like I said, I was standing right beside him
when he got the call from Chris Pratt. It was a pretty pretty funny
evening. Yeah, he's a he's a great guy, great great author.
I mean I think he said six New York Times bestsellers, three at one
time in the top ten. Yeah, he's Anyone that has read his series
do yourself a favor. Oh I have, and I'm a fan and I've
had him on this program too, So that's why I look forward to reading
Jim Shockey of Jim Shockey's Hunting Adventures and Jim Shocky Uncharted the book is Call
Me Hunter? Any of the any I wanted to get back to Chivago?
Did Javago? I mean, you've You're you're basing a lot of what you're
writing about on your own experience doing and being in these certain parts of the
country. Is Jivago a manifestation of any particular person. No, I wouldn't
say an individual person, but of an ideology. Yes, you know,
like I say, you know if you Alice in Wonderland was metaphor, and
that that's what this really truly is, is allusion to what's going on out
there in the world. So yeah, Jevago exists not as an individual,
but as a as an ideology. And you've hunted in a lot of different
places, Jim shacki Hunting Adventures and Jim Shacki's uncharted on the outdoor channels where
you know him and his newest novelists Call Me Hunter. Is are you at
any point where Oh, I'm tired of going out in the field, you
know. Twenty nineteen October Mozambique was my last international trip, and I decided
that in twenty sixteen. I was booked that partiam the Mess for these expeditions,
but I needed to write call me Hunter. So if I didn't sit
down and start writing, it wouldn't have happened. And then COVID hit anyway,
and then my wife was took ill, and so I you know,
my international travel days are pretty much ended. You know. I don't don't
run as fast anymore, don't here as well, don't see as well,
and I just end up being eaten by something with sharp teeth. You still
go hunting domestically, yeah, of course. Yeah. The Yukon is my
favorite. I've got the Road River Opening Territory up in the Yukon. It's
about twelve thousand square miles seven million acres and there's not a single road,
not a house, nothing down below, just you know, our cabins on
lakes and rivers, and so I go up there every year. I love
it. I wouldn't stop that well, as long as I'm able to continue
to go up there. No, we have quite an elk season and quite
a deer season. Our deer season just started, so I'm seeing friends of
mine and their harvests and celebrating with them on this and you'll celebrate this novel
Jim Shockey. It's called Call Me Hunter. It is out everywhere you get
books. Jim will be watching you on your hunting adventures. And thanks for
bringing us the story, Thanks for having me, Thanks for listening to Later
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