Ep. 164: John Dietsch Graced By Waters

Anchored with April Vokey

Anchored Outdoors

Wilderness, Sports

4.8 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 16 June 2020

⏱️ 70 minutes

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John Dietsch is perhaps best known in fly fishing circles for supervising all of the fly fishing scenes on the OSCAR winning film "A River Runs Through It", where he also conceived and executed the famous final fishing scene doubling for actor Brad Pitt by swimming a rapid while playing a fish. In this episode of Anchored we discuss John’s new book "Graced by Waters" and the healing properties of immersing ourselves in the outdoors, as well as John’s personal journey through loss, scenes in "A River Runs Through It" and more. Sign up here for our free live presentation with John at 5:00pm PST this Wednesday, June 17th! This episode of Anchored is brought to you by Norvise! Outline of This Episode [3:15] John grew up fishing around L.A. [9:05] How did he get involved in A River Runs Through It? [16:33] Meeting Redford was intimidating [20:35] The final scene was all John [25:45] The fly fishing is about more than just catching [33:22] Fly fishing has the potential to heal [44:09] How he lost his brother [48:23] How can we process the pain in the world right now? [55:54] How to prevent nature deficit disorder Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:29.4	John Deitch is perhaps best known in fly fishing circles for supervising all of the fly fishing scenes on the Oscar winning film A River Runs Through it, where he also conceived and executed the famous final fishing scene,
0:45.6	bebling for actor Brad Pitt by swimming a rapid while playing a fish.
0:49.6	In this episode of Ancard, we discussed John's new book, Grazed by Waters, and the healing properties of immersing ourselves in nature.
0:56.5	We also discussed John's personal journey through loss, scenes in a river runs through it, and more. This episode of Ancurt is brought to you by Norvise.
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