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 102 - Why you should attend Dallas Safa...
Convention season will be back with a vengeance in 2022 and with the first big outdoor convention on the books, DSC Executive Director Corey Mason chats with Robbie on what’s in store and why you should go - from deals to camaraderie and more. The 40th anniversary of DSC Convention is January 6th - 9th, 2022 in Dallas Texas.
17 min
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Episode 101 - Why you should attend Safari Club...
Robbie digs down with Mike Rogers of Safari Club International on exactly ‘who’ the SCI convention is for - and it’s not who you think! The 50th anniversary of SCI is January 19th - 22nd, 2022 in Las Vegas Nevada.
18 min
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Episode 100 - Roundup 22 || Our 100th episode!
Shanna Finis, the mastermind behind the wildly successful Blood Origins Australia chapter, joins the boys to talk some looks ahead and special announcements in this landmark hundredth episode.
60 min
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Episode 98 - Valentine Thomas || From ‘Underwat...
Lawyer and avid spear fisherman Valentine Thomas discusses what sustainability means to her and how that drove her evolution first to spear fishing, and later to hunting on land in a hard-hitting discussion with host Robbie.
35 min
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Episode 99 - Erin Hewetson || A Vegan who works...
Robbie delves deep with Erin Hewetson in this short but powerful conversation about her unique and valuable perspective as a vegan who works inside the hunting industry.
16 min
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Episode 97 - Alex Harvey || On Humanizing Hunting
Alex Harvey - An African American and Mississippi forester with a steep heritage of hunting in his family digs deep with Robbie on how we can ‘humanize’ hunting.
53 min
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Episode 96 - Roundup 21 || Sig Sauer hunting, e...
Robbie and Patrick Hanley from Sig Sauer ditch Cody for the day and discuss an upcoming sheep hunt by the Sig Sauer team, Elephant hunting in Botswana, and why hunters should remain vigilant against the “death of the outdoorsman”.
49 min
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Episode 95 - Trevor Thompson | From SEAL teams ...
Robbie caught up with Trevor Thompson from the Black Rifle Coffee Company team from the floor of the Big Sky Total Archery Challenge to talk about what made him pursue the outdoor lifestyle, among other things.
33 min
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Episode 94 - Michael R Shea || Rimfire Revolution
“Rimfire Revolution” author Michael Shea joins Robbie to teach a novice about guns and discuss the burgeoning rimfire trend hitting the hunting world today!
48 min
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Episode 93 - Roundup 20 || Angolan giraffes, Fl...
Cody and Robbie drill down on this week’s roundup, tackling an Angolan giraffe project, Robbie schools Cody on what makes a ’subspecies’, and a concerning bill out of Florida to give the land ‘a bill of rights’.
34 min
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Episode 92 - Enrique Zamacola || The Epitome of...
Past Weatherby Award winner Enrique Zamacola gives a rare interview, where he and Robbie dig into what drives Enrique to hunt.
14 min
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Episode 91 - Keng Yang || From anti-hunter to h...
Keng Yang is an adult-onset hunter from Minnesota who credits his bird dog with converting him from full-on anti-hunter to an upland bird hunter who now mentors other adult-onset hunters.
32 min
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Episode 90 - Roundup 19 || A Blood Origins Wife...
Cody’s wife Avery makes a special guest appearance on this week’s roundup to talk the nuances of parenting kids while hunting, spotted owls vs barred owls, and what lessons New Jersey should have learned from California’s mountain lion preservationism.
56 min
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Episode 89 - Chad Mendes || What it’s like bein...
Chad Mendes, former UFC featherweight fighter and current entrepreneur, dishes on his post-fighting life and what it’s like being a celebrity who hunts - from the voices telling you to avoid it to the angry fan mobs.
30 min
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Episode 88 - Cody Heitschmidt || A proper intro...
You’ve heard him for months on the Roundups, but you haven’t been properly introduced. Cody is Robbie’s right hand man at Blood Origins, a former Marine - and star of his own turkey hunting videos! - he joins Robbie just shy of his first anniversary with Blood Origins to talk about how they met, what brought him to the family, and where we go from here.
28 min
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Episode 87 - Roundup 18 || Blood Origins Team ...
After a last minute cancellation by Avery, Blood Origins team member Darrell Carver joins the podcast to talk grizzly bear fatality records in the lower 48, Robbie teaches Cody what an ‘executive summary’ is, and more in this week’s roundup.
51 min
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Episode 86 - Christy Plott || The Queen of Alli...
Christy Plott, better known as the ‘Alligator Queen’, discusses her family’s 5th generation alligator leather tanning business and how it fits into the sustainable-use model, and how the industry rescued the American Alligator from near extinction.
45 min
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Episode 85 - Dr. Prashant Sing || Dentist By Da...
Dr. Prasanth Singh, who is a dentist by day that moonlights as a modern day Jim Corbett, breaks down the exploding leopard population in India, and how it is contributing to the unsustainable human-wildlife conflicts that plague the country. With over 200 people per year killed by leopards alone in India, you won’t want to miss his fascinating interview.
45 min
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Episode 84 - Roundup 17 || Aussie, Aussie, Auss...
Craig Murton, the mastermind behind the exploding Blood Origins presence in Australia, joins the Roundup to discuss a mice plague, hunting in Australia, some recent grizzly bear attacks and more!
64 min
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Episode 83 - Sportswoman Courtney || An Adult-O...
Sportswoman Courtney is a late adult-onset hunter. In this podcast, Robbie and Courtney discuss the life and challenges of an instagram influencer in the hunting industry and Courtney defends what it means to her to be doing it ‘for the right reasons’.
38 min
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Episode 82 - Tyler Freel || Keeping Tabs On Alaska
Tyler Freel, host of Alaskan podcast ‘Tundra Talk’, joins Robbie to discuss the recent - and still ongoing - controversy over the closing of some 60 million acres of public land in Alaska to Caribou and Moose hunting, and why hunters need to remain vigilant against more threats like it.
36 min
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Episode 81 - Roundup 16 || An Upland Bird and T...
Orvis Travel manager Reid Bryant joins the guys to talk adventure travel, Tasmanian devils causing mayhem with penguins, a big grouse hunting win in England, why Cody’s wife is a better fishing companion and what to expect from South Africa’s COVID protocols.
64 min
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Episode 80 - Nathan Olmstead || Outfitters are ...
There is a perception in hunting that outfitters in third world countries are the hardest hit from the COVID pandemic. It’s not entirely true. Robbie delves deep with Canadian outfitter Nathan Olmstead about how shutdowns in Canada have rocked the hunting world right here in our backyard, threatening many outfitters with going out of business.
39 min
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Episode 79 - Dr. Frank Vorhies || I'm not a hun...
Dr. Frank Vorhies, a conservation economist, joins Robbie to talk about his work in Kenya and discuss what the value chain’s impact is on wildlife resources in communities in Africa. As Frank eloquently states - “I don't play football, doesn't mean I'm opposed to it. Same goes for hunting.”
34 min
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Episode 78 - Roundup 15 || Africa, Africa, and ...
With lots of African headlines in the news, Robbie and Cody tag in Jay Leydendecker, a South Texan, who still holds his Botswanan professional hunter's license, for his thoughts on the topics affecting the hunting industry today.
58 min