John Minadakis, the owner of the Maryland Jimmy’s Seafood joins Robbie to talk about their years-long feud with PETA over their world famous crabs. John and Robbie discuss the similarity in challenges they receive to those of others in the sustainable use space - from fishermen to hunters to farmers to leather goods purveyors and more the idea of sustainable wise use of resources is coming more and more under attack.

Former vegetarian Arthur Petherbridge, decided once he bcame a hunter that he needed to do what was necessary to help others do the same thing he did. Arthur who founded UK-based hunting community ‘The Wild Order’, joins Robbie to discuss the UK’s unorthodox hunting culture. From difficulty of sourcing firearms to the challenge of finding permission to hunt in a country without public lands, and how all that contributed to the birth of The Wild Order.

Roy Sloan, Executive Director of the Fiordland Wapiti Foundation, joins Robbie to talk about the Foundation’s work managing both the New Zealand native environment but also managing the nation’s deer herd for quality. New Zealand’s unique hybrid herd (they have both elk and red deer DNA) deep in the south of New Zealand began with a gift of 18 elk by none other than Teddy Roosevelt in 1905.

Former Hunter Nation Executive Director (and incoming ED of the international Order of T Roosevelt) Luke Hilgemann joins the Blood Origins podcast this week to talk more about his role, his organization, and their shifting projects and focus.

Ray Livingstone of ‘Alone’ fame digs deep with Robbie to explore the spirituality he feels when in the woods, especially when hunting. Ray has a special something about him - you can feel his exuberance of life come through the podcast. 

Robbie is joined for this week’s roundup b y the boys from FieldCraft Survival. Chief Marketing Officer Rob Parsons and Chief Medical Officer Nate Jones join us on location from Salt Lake City, UT for this week’s show. The boys cover show season shenanigans, what brought them to FieldCraft Survival, Robbie’s medical troubles in Africa last year resulting in a FieldCraft custom built medical kit for Robbie, along with a deep dive into field trauma medicine with Jason, and more fun SH$T Hitting the Ceiling Fan Scenarios with the FieldCraft Survival crew!

Peter Jones, the founder of the Capreolus Deer Stalking Club in the United Kingdom (UK) joins Robbie to discuss the world of deer hunting in the UK. With an exploding deer population greater since the Roman Empire, Robbie and Peter tackle the myths and misconceptions about deer hunting in the UK and discuss what it really takes to get started and why it is so crucial to the health of the United Kingdom.

Mark Hall, founder of the Hunter Conservationist Podcast out of Canada returns to Blood Origins to talk about First Nations hunting issues in Canada. An incredibly complex issue wrought with centuries of historical context, he and Robbie explore the intersection of First Nation rights and title specifically and where they meet and diverge with wildlife management.

Australian TV star, stunt person and survival expert Ky Furneaux joins Robbie on the Blood Origins podcast to breakdown the litany of recent controversies in the hunting space in Australia, from bowhunting to duck hunting to processing your own game meat; they cover the issues, the people behind them, and why we as hunters need to take note.

Lecturer and author Bracy Hill from Baylor University joins Robbie to talk about his newly released book. An academic look at the philosophy, perceptions and morality around hunting, and comes at it from an incredibly unique and academic viewpoint. A great book and an incredible conversation.

The boys recap the SCI show at the new location in Nashville (gotta get that sunlight in, according to Robbie!), discuss a shed hunting debate in Utah, Cody stealing the herbivorize episode’s thunder, more about the Matt Rinella and Land trust Controversy (upcoming episodes on that), and bowhunting controversies in South Australia.

Andrea Bogard, CEO of the Lady Shooter Journal, joins Robbie on the Blood Origins podcast to discuss her unlikely foray into hunting. Starting from a vegan/vegetarian perspective, she became a hunter very late in life and now has an incredible understanding of this lifestyle we love so much.

Billy Offland is the second person in the UK to have visited every country on the globe - and he did it from the unique lens of sustainability and conservation. After learning what hunting was doing for the people of Pakistan during one of his many trips and getting to know Robbie, Billy joins to give his uniquely broad point of view on hunting as someone who has seen it around the world but as a complete nonhunter purely looking at it from a conservation and sustainability perspective.

Robbie and the film crew from Slots Media recorded this week’s roundup on location from SCI Nashville. NO articles are discussed this week, but the boys do catch up on their filming and talk about the art of storytelling from the perspective of the crew that brings our amazing films to life. From their favorite thing each of the team have filmed to behind the scenes insights, this is a can’t miss look behind the curtain with the BO family!

Stijn Bruers and Adam James Davis of the ‘Herbivorize Project’ join Robbie for this much-anticipated installment to discuss an unheard-of goal, to completely ‘herbivorize’ predators and ‘abolish unintentional suffering’. Robbie approaches it in his classic, completely-open-minded style and ask the tough questions on the ‘what’, ‘why’, and above all ‘HOW’ of their movement.

Ted Spraker (former Alaska Game and Fish Board Member and Chair) and Elaina Spraker, an aide to Alaska’s US Senator Dan Sullivan, join Robbie to discuss the ‘Kenai Rule’ controversy and give an in-depth historical accounting of the fight and what it means for Alaskans and sportsmen nationwide.

The boys are joined by Dan Gates for this week’s roundup and tackle a slew of new controversies surrounding the podcast, announce some upcoming episodes tackling block management and public lands (and our much-anticipated HERBIVORIZE episode comes out this week) and another VERY SPECIAL debut, Commissioner Mark Williams of the Georgia DNR starts the #FreeCody movement, and Colorado expert Dan Gates goes into detail about all the happenings in Colorado - from new commissioners to the latest on the wolf controversy and more!

Tim Boetsma, founder of the movement ‘Doe Patrol’. Originating during the height of the COVID-era, Doe Patrol was a project with the Boys and Girls Club of America in Holland, Michigan to provide meals and badly needed protein to kids in the program. He sits down with Robbie to share his mission of feeding the less fortunate by stacking food pantries and charitable organizations with healthy venison and wild game.

Author and marketing agency founder Phillip Stutts takes a break from big name programs like Gary Vee, Fox News, and others and joins Robbie on the Blood Origins podcast to talk about his recent foray into hunting with his daughter, Parker, and what it meant to rediscover this passion and community again after a 26 year hiatus.

The boys talk about a recent controversy with our old friend Matt Rinella, woodworking in Cody’s shop, a quick preview of the herbivorize discussion coming soon, our upcoming film release, and more on the wolf discussions in Colorado (stay positive, guys and gals!).

Confederated Hunting Associations of South Africa (CHASA) CEO Stephen Palos joins the Blood Origins podcast to talk shop. The ‘last domino’ of all the hunting dominoes in South Africa, he represents the recreational hunter’s interests in the nation - you know them, the guys who are just trying to put some meat and biltong in their freezer. Robbie and Stephen catch up about his history in the hunting industry, the emergence of the new ‘Sustainable Use Coalition of South Africa (SUCO-SA)’ that just announced themselves at CITES in Panama, and the future of hunting in South Africa. 

Adri Kitshoff-Botha is the newly-minted CEO of Custodians Professional Hunting Conservation of South Africa. This new organization (they’re only 5 years young!) broke away from the Professional Hunters’ Association of South Africa at the founding and have slowly been building their mandate since. Adri joins Robbie to answer the tough questions about where what Custodians is, where they’re going, and discusses what she was hired to do and how the mission of Custodians is evolving to communicate, collaborate and and coordinate with hunting organizations all around the world. 

6 Ranch Outfitters and 6 Ranch Outfitters Podcast proprietor James Nash joins Robbie to talk about their long history - beginning with their mutual first ‘show season’ together that began a friendship at ATA 2018. From ethics to llamas and everything in between, nothing is off limits.

Torin Miller, Senior Policy Director of the National Deer Association, joins Robbie for a sobering conversation on the explosion of CWD across the ‘whitetail states’ and most recently decisions around CWD in Mississippi. The two touch base on the possibilities for Mississippi state policies after the detection of CWD and Robbie asks the tough questions regarding the National Deer Association’s policies around CWD.

Robbie is back on this week’s roundup with special guest Charlie Whitwam from Howl For Wildlife and do we have some explosive announcements for you. First, Robbie announces an upcoming podcast with a biomedical research group trying to ‘herbivorize’ the world’s carnivores, an upcoming podcast on the Kenai Rule with Senator Dan Sullivan, an exploding black bear population in Connecticut, and more on the wolf issue in Colorado with critical comment periods. Please check out www.howlforwildlife.org for more information!