Blood Origins

Blood Origins is an non-profit organization bringing unique storytelling and conservation together to change not only how hunting is viewed, but also how we fund conservation programs around the world more efficiently and effectively.

Wilderness
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Episode 140 - The Season || Changing the Narrat...
Aussie outdoorsman Craig Pringle talks about the making of and upcoming release of the first hunting show to grace Australian national broadcast television - including his camera man’s conversion from non hunter to hunter and what non-Americans try and call ‘tomato sauce’.
36 min
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Episode 139 - Joe Schwenke || Just an ‘average’...
Robbie lets loose of the reins and allows Cody to do a podcast on his own… finally!! Cody sits down with Joe Schwenke. Joe claims he is just an “Average Hunter” … we discover there is a little more to him and his upland adventures. 
73 min
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Episode 138 - Roundup 33 || Jules McQueen Joins...
Julie and Robbie discuss why it’s not a good idea to look at your iPhone right when you wake up, giving Cody crap for punking out on the roundup this week, the CWD epidemic and what solutions could look like. 
56 min
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Episode 137 - Karen Seginak || How we need to e...
Karen, a field biologist for a biotechnology company, sits with Robbie for a thought provoking discussion on how we can and should evolve the message we spread as hunters.
47 min
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Episode 136 - Mike Hairston || A tradition goin...
Mike Hairston talks about the ‘why’ behind taking up one of the hardest instruments of the hunting world, the longbow, and what rewards, chief among them a sense of history, he gets from his time in the woods.
19 min
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Episode 135 - Roundup 32 || Darrell is back on ...
Cody and Robbie, joined by Blood Origins’ Darrell Carver, dive right into the important things with Cody’s new office that you can’t see, why he’s not in his man shed, a recap of Cody and Darrells mule deer hunt. Then, the boys make time for the wolf season injunction, Africa and the rest of the articles from the list.
61 min
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Episode 134 - Nathan Ravenscroft || Feral Cats:...
Nathan Ravenscroft, an Aussie land management professional who focuses on feral and invasive species in northern Queensland, Australia discusses Australia’s invasive species issues with Robbie - especially of cats - and why the Trap-Neuter-Return (TNR) method touted by anti-hunters doesn’t work.
43 min
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Episode 133 - Rob Shaul || ‘It feels like an at...
5th generation Wyomingite and ‘Mountain Pursuit’ executive director Rob Shaul joins Robbie for a rip-roaring conversation. Its so hard-hitting that we don’t want to give too much away, so listen to the end!
55 min
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Episode 132 - Roundup 31 || Robbie meets his ch...
Robbie and Ben Cassidy from Safari Club International dish on a very special guest on a recent zoom call, trophy bans in Washington, the antiquities act, and much more - all while Cody chases (and misses) wolves in Idaho.
53 min
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Episode 131 - James Connolly || The front lines...
James Connolly, the filmmaker behind Sacred Cow and a powerful new documentary called Death In The Garden talks about the front lines defending against the war on meat and what that means for us as hunters.
55 min
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Episode 130 - Carla Brauer || Life’s ‘Great Equ...
Carla Brauer - former vegan activist, current hunter, and current taxidermist - dishes with Robbie on the why’s of vegan activism, what she wants hunters to know about vegans, and what she sees as the ‘great equalizer’ of life on Earth.
39 min
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Episode 129 - Roundup 30 || Tim joins the roundup!
Cody, Robbie and Tim tackle the ‘woof’ debacle, as Cody calls it, some exciting supporters and conservation club members, and so much more in this week’s roundup.
52 min
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Episode 128 - Travis 'T-Bone' Turner || A Fathe...
Travis T-bone Turner, co-host of Michael Waddell's Bone Collector TV Show on the Outdoor Channel, joins Robbie to discuss his journey as a hunter and a father, and some of the struggles involved in sharing such an important part of his life with his son, who once told him he didn’t want to become a hunter.
37 min
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Episode 127 - Charlie Jacoby || We have done a ...
Charlie Jacoby, the host of Field Sports Channel on Youtube, is a UK hunter and conservationist who joins Robbie to debate the way we brand hunting worldwide and what the roadmap looks like to making it more palatable to ‘the middle’.
58 min
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Episode 126 - Roundup 29 || The Wild West vs. R...
Robbie and Todd get started without Cody because he can’t tell time, Robbie’s astounding lack of Wild West knowledge, a recent unfortunate incident in Wyoming, how many people die by snake bite in India, and much more!
55 min
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Episode 125 - Michael Sabbeth || ‘If we can giv...
Michael Sabbeth, author of The Honorable Hunter, sits down with Robbie to discuss how we give hunters the tools to show hunting in a positive light and defend and discuss our sporting lifestyle in a way that works.
71 min
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Episode 124 - J Alain Smith || What's the crazi...
Past Weatherby Award winner J. Alain Smith (pronounced ‘Alan’) talks about adventure hunting with Robbie and gets down to the brass tax of what drives him to hunt species across the world.
40 min
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Episode 123 - Roundup 28 || Todd Fish
Another Blood Origins community member joins Robbie and Cody on this week’s roundup. They talk about mistakes in the woods, when a mistake is negligent - sometimes with fatal consequences, and how we can be better as hunters.
51 min
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Episode 122 - Chris Parish || The ‘Redneck Biol...
Chris Parrish, director of the Peregrine Fund and cofounder of North America’s largest non-lead partnership - also known as ‘the redneck biologist’ - joins Robbie to talk efforts to institute voluntary non-lead programs and how that contrasts with calls for outright bans.
39 min
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Episode 121 - Who Pays For All That Land? || A ...
Anne Marie Doramus, current - and the state’s first woman - member of the Arkansas game and fish commission discusses the origins of conservation and how hunter-angler dollars are generated and spent for the betterment of all wildlife resources - in Arkansas and elsewhere.
40 min
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Episode 120 - Roundup 27 || Steve (no it’s not ...
The boys, joined by Steve, discuss Cody’s (lack of) beard care routine, responding to HSUS’s newest anti-rhino-hunting campaign, what a hunter’s ‘no-shoot’ list is like, and Steve’s big muscles.
65 min
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Episode 119 - Wrapping up on the Arizona Trail ...
Cody and Robbie wrap-up the Trail Cam controversy with final thoughts after hearing from the neutral, pro-cam and pro-ban sides of the argument this week. 
16 min
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Episode 118 - Arizona Game Trails Part 3 || The...
Third in a series discussing the controversial Arizona Trail Camera Ban. Two Arizona Game and Fish Commissioners, James Goughnour and Kurt Davis, join Robbie for a followup to an earlier conversation and defend their decision to ban trail cameras in Arizona, along with addressing some concerns brought forth by citizens of their state.
72 min
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Episode 117 - Arizona Game Trails Part 2 || The...
Arizona residents, and game camera activists, Ron Nixon and Josiah Scott join Robbie and Cody to discuss what they see as an unfair mischaracterization of the game camera issue and cry foul on the murkiness of the controversial game camera ban’s rulemaking process.
56 min
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Episode 116 - Arizona Game Trails Part 1 || The...
Jay Scott, a Arizona outfitter, professional wildlife manager, and avid sportsman who while deeply knowledgeable about Arizona’s fish and wildlife scene after almost 30 years with an active guide’s license describes himself as “without a dog in the fight” on the controversial trail cam ban issue, kicks off an in-depth series where Robbie explores all sides of the issue with each of the competing opinions and personalities surrounding trail cams in Arizona.
31 min