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.

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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
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Episode 115 - Roundup 26 || Our inaugural Blood...
The inaugural roundup with a Blood Origins listener as guest, the boys - Rob, not to be confused with Robbie, included - tackle issues ranging from hunt camps to UK animal rights extremism to Ibex trophy hunting to Cody’s thoughts on the true purpose of the domestication of dogs (which definitely isn’t instagramming).
60 min
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Episode 114 - College Football or Hunting? A In...
Steven Godfrey is likely known to those in the College Football ranks as one of the most in depth investigative journalists of College Football. He did a documentary called the "Bag Man" about the underground booster rings of Olemiss and Mississipi State Football, and he is non-hunter. Steven and Robbie are good friends and Robbie wanted to pick his brain about his thoughts and perceptions around hunting and see if he would entertain the idea of hunting one day.
62 min
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Episode 113 - Are California Cougars Better Off...
Mark Hall, Canadian scientist and podcast host, dissects the California cougar problem with Robbie. Together, they delve into a pair of interesting studies and what that data means for the future of mountain lions. Mark asks the question “are cougars truly better off than they were before the ban” - and answers the question with hard facts and science.
45 min
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Episode 112 - Ivan Carter || On moving Elephants
Ivan Carter, professional hunter, conservationist, and now Elephant mover, sits with Robbie for a mind-blowing conversation about Elephant conservation and the ‘hard truths about conserving Africa’s charismatic megafauna.
46 min
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Episode 111 - John Bartolo || The Idealism of 2...
John Bartolo is the host of the "John Bartolo Show / Podcast" and Robbie was lucky enough to sit down with him in his studio surrounded by 100 guns and over 200 optics to get his opinions on the intersection of 2A and Hunting. John has a popular podcast because he speaks his mind and is straight up honest (or you could say controversial). They talk about influencers, idealistic perspectives of marketing directors and the need for clicks and impressions, and how like FFL's, the outfitters are the foundational pillars of the hunting industry. 
35 min
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Episode 110 - Roundup 25 || A discussion of Wes...
Cody and Robbie are joined by author of the Honorable Hunter, and friend of Blood Origins, Michael Sabbeth to cover the week's topics. This is the Blood Origins audience's first introduction to Michael, and you will hear the reason why we like him so much! Of the 5 articles up for discussion the team only gets to one of them as Michael sweeps the discussion along hunting ethic and rhetoric lines that gets everyone talking!
78 min
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Episode 109 || The Indian Tiger King Part II
47 min
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Episode 108 - A Hunter || Hated by anti-hunters
34 min
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Episode 107 - Roundup 24 || Outdoor Life joins ...
78 min
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Episode 106 - Mikiah Carver || Would you ever H...
Mikiah has not always been pro-hunting, but as her interest in wildlife, and research in wildlife has progressed things might have changed. Robbie dives in with Mikiah Carver, PhD Student and whitetail deer researcher in North Carolina, about what management really means and an honest evaluation of the ’tools’ available to wildlife managers. The question is would she ever hunt today?
36 min
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Episode 105 - Jenn Cubbage || Hair Stylist to H...
Robbie’s had a lot of conversations with interesting, even eclectic, personalities - but few more electic than Jenn Cubbage. This master colorist and salon owner in Baltimore also trains hog and deer hunting hounds in South Carolina. You don’t want to miss this.
32 min
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Episode 104 - Roundup 23 || Rifle slings, lions...
After a slow couple of weeks in the news, Cody and Robbie get back into the swing with in-depth discussions on lions, justifying rural depredation in Africa and where in the world Cody’s rifle sling is.
49 min
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Episode 103 - Snow Hewetson || On Tahrmaggeddon
Full time professional guide and president of New Zealand’s Tahr Foundation Snow Hewetson joins Robbie to talk about ‘Tahrmaggeddon’ and his work advocating for New Zealand’s Tahr population, and how we can change perceptions and goals from pest eradication to treasured species management.
35 min