If you remember Tucker Max from his books about drunken womanizing, you may be shocked to find out what he’s doing now. 

About 20 years ago, a recent law school graduate called Tucker Max started posting his experiences. The details of his dating life on the internet. He became a sensation. He wrote a bunch of bestselling books, sold millions of copies, the most famous of which was called I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell. Not everyone likes Tucker Max. A lot of people hated Tucker Max, but nobody could deny that he was smart. He was a beautiful prose stylist, not something you normally find in people writing about hooking up with ladies and getting loaded. But he was.

And then he retired around 2000, probably stopped writing about that stuff and receded from public view. And then a few years ago, he reemerged as a very different person, as someone whose entire life was devoted to his own family at a level most people can’t relate to. He became a homesteader. What an interesting progression.

We thought it’d be worth spending some time hearing how that happened, and what it’s like to truly prepare for the bad times on behalf of your family. Tucker Max joins us in studio.