Slots Media boys Louis Thomas and Jack Bottoms join this week’s roundup on location with Robbie from New Zealand. After recapping their recent trip’s antics - including drifting off to sleep to the sweet sounds of a ‘snore-chestra’ - their funniest moments, the infamous possum story, and more!

Gina Trimmer is a wife, mother and non hunter out of southern Utah. She joins Robbie to talk about her perceptions as a non-hunter and provides valuable insight into the non-hunting community.

Aaron Davidson, founder of Gunwerks which specializes in long range hunting accessories, joins Robbie and the Blood Origins podcast to discuss the ethics of long range hunting. He shares his expert opinion and makes the case for why he thinks it is. So, what’s your opinion? Is it ethical or no?

Andrew Aphane of South Africa’s northwest province joins Robbie to talk about the Mebala Yarona, or ‘Our Colors’, project he is chairing - and their efforts to transform South Africa by helping black South Africans get involved - in everything from hunting to land ownership to ecotourism. A a black South African that owns farm land, that hunts, and managing hunting leases and pushing a sustainable use model that works, leading to a fascinating conversation about a subject you probably have never heard of, which is exactly our style.

Jillian Garrett of Washington State joins the Blood origins podcast to talk about her harrowing experience as a former non hunter faced with a vicious black bear attack on her small farm, and how the trauma of that experience shaped her journey into understanding what healthy black bear populations look like, through hunting.

Texas outfitter Sam Janca joins Robbie on the Blood Origins podcast after meeting at the SCI convention to challenge the ‘prevailing wisdom’ of whitetail management from his point of view as an outfitter who targets free range deer.

Returning guest Jim Heffelfinger joins Robbie and the Blood Origins podcast from his perch at the Arizona Game and Fish Department to challenge the rhetoric that so-called “trophy”, i.e. selective, hunting causes phenotypical (physical) or genotypical (genetic) changes in wildlife populations.

Rick Brazell, founder of the First Hunt Foundation, joins Robbie to discuss FHF’s mission to provide mentorship opportunities to prospective hunters and his audacious goal to expand from 850 volunteer mentors in 41 states to thousands of mentors in all 50 states to spread this thing we love so much. Listen in, look them up, and get involved!

Jen Widerstrom, best-selling and globally published author, is a wellness industry leader primarily known for her undefeated coaching on NBC’s The Biggest Loser. Celebrity trainer and founder of her own community driven fitness platform, she is also an esteemed go to expert in the entertainment industry as a featured guest on numerous television series. In this episode, Jen joins host Robbie on the Blood Origins podcast to talk about the Kamagawa organization, a nonprofit she follows, and a controversial post about a crocodile where Jen was very receptive to being educated about the facts on hunting in an ‘ask me anything’ style format.

After a rousing discussion on the best way to store firearms and one man’s trash taxidermy being any other sensible man’s treasure, we get an update from Dave Gittelson on Colorado wolves, discuss hunting in Japan, to a passionate discussion about gifted, bought and earned taxidermy, New Zealand, and so much more. 

Warne Rippon from Buffalo Kloof in the Eastern Cape of South Africa and Blake Barnett, a board member of the South Texas Chapter of Dallas Safari Club,  join the podcast to talk about their groundbreaking fundraising efforts for black rhino conservation and what this incredible gift will mean for wildlife conservation.

Former Government fisheries scientist, professor of ecology and current consulting ecologist in Victoria, Australia, Paul Brown joins Robbie to discuss his recent blog post asking what is going on regarding duck hunting in Victoria, Australia? Paul began to research legal duck hunting around the world, what kind of countries and cultures are involved, and asked if the practice truly is barbaric, or if there’s more to it.

The boys are BACK after a couple week hiatus from the Roundup, with special guest Gaspar Perricone. After busting our guest Gaspar with a hot mic situation and shutting down Cody before he launches headlong into a rabbit hole about catch and release fly fishing, the boys get into the latest and greatest current events affecting the hunting space - but focusing on Colorado from wolf reintroduction to some looming anti-gun bills.

Jonathan Henshaw of Edinburgh, Scotland is a UK outdoorsman who until recently never really had the opportunity to hunt due to the tremendous obstacles, from land access to firearm access, facing UK conservationists who want to go afield. He then went for his first hunt, with former guest Arthur Petherbridge of the Wild Order no less, and talks with Robbie about his transition from non hunter to hunter, and all the emotion that goes along with it.

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.