The Origins Foundation Podcast

Bassmaster Pro Angler Brandon Palahniuk, winner of 2022’s Bassmaster Elite Series Angler of the Year, made it onto the Blood Origins radar after some thoughtful posts to his thousands of followers about his other passion - hunting elk. Brandon joins Robbie this week to talk about his unabashed life online, and ‘the why’ behind him hunting. See more from Blood Origins: https://bit.ly/BloodOrigins_S...

Robbie did a little something different on this week’s Roundup, coming at us on the ground with guests DeeDee Lancey and Ryan Martin who won our Supporter’s Program grand prize. Together, they talk harass our saintly producer with ‘authentic’ banter, talk about ‘blooding’ their knives, recap their hunting experience, misperceptions and stigma they see among their friends and family around their be...

Calvin Cottar is a wildlife tourism guide in Kenya. He’s also a now-former hunter who is considering what the future of wildlife conservation means in Kenya. He’s also on the team that produced the movie In The Blood that essentially served as the inspiration for Blood Origins. This IS why we do what we do at Blood Origins. See more from Blood Origins: https://bit.ly/BloodOrigins_Subscribe Music:...

Professional Hunter, guide and helicopter pilot Alex Oelofse, whose family runs Jan Oelofse Hunting Safaris, and the Mount Etjo Rhino Trust. Alex and the Trust - which creates sanctuary areas for Rhinos and calves that have been displaced by poaching - have some strong opinions about legalization of the trade of rhino horns. This isn’t a traditional podcast. This is Alex real and raw, from his veh...

With Robbie out with a bad case of the man flu, Cody takes charge on this week’s roundup with guest (and long time listener) Marty! The boys discuss Cody’s ongoing war war with adding prefixes to your hunting moniker, New Mexico’s new scope ban on muzzleloaders, Wisconsin’s first archery bull elk kill, and elk management plan changes in the great state of Utah. New Mexico bans scopes on muzzleload...

5th generation Floridian Travis Thomspon, the founder of the All Florida conservation foundation and mastermind behind the Cast and Blast Florida podcast, joins the Blood Origins podcast to talk about all things hunting from trophies to advocacy to everything in between. See more from Blood Origins: https://bit.ly/BloodOrigins_Subscribe Music: Migration by Ian Post (Winter Solstice), licensed thro...

Cam Speedy is a biologist from New Zealand’s North Island. He joins Robbie to talk about his involvement in the Sika Foundation, one of many organizations dedicated to restoring, managing, and protecting New Zealand landscapes. Cam talks about the New Zealand lifestyle, the ecological history of the country, the hunting culture in the state, and what it takes to hunt this beautiful island nation. ...

After a week of Robbie scouting locations for a documentary, guest cancellations, technical difficulties, and a stressed out producer Darryl ‘The Man’ Carver comes in clutch to join Cody on this week’s roundup. Marty settles the Great ‘Adult Onset Hunter’ Debate of 2022, snow leopards making a huge comeback, grizzly bear conflicts in Montana, and more! See more from Blood Origins: https://bit.ly/B...

Bill Vanderhayden, Founder and CEO of Iron Will Outfitters, is famous for archery innovation when it comes to hunting, especially with the engineering principles behind his broadhead innovations. He joins the podcast to talk about the burgeoning bowhunting ban in South Australia as an expert in the craft of archery. See more from Blood Origins: https://bit.ly/BloodOrigins_Subscribe Music: Migratio...

Robbie sits down with Jason Sumner of the Missouri Department of Conservation and Nate Bowersock the new bear biologist for the state of Missouri. This follow up to last year’s podcast on their first ever black bear hunt catches up with Jason and Nate to recap how the season went how the bears are doing, and where we go from here. See more from Blood Origins: https://bit.ly/BloodOrigins_Subscribe...

The boys are joined by returning guest Alyssa Mahaney on this week’s roundup. Robbie has a senior moment while reminiscing about having tick bite fever, Cody gives the goods and issues a challenge on ‘cow tipping’, round two of the ‘adult onset hunter’ fight, more wolves in Colorado, Chris Pratt’s speech about hunting, how to find Aly Mahaney-approved country tunes, the benefits of trophy hunting...

Ramsey Russell - also known as ‘GetDucks. Com’ - is a fanatic duck hunter who is also arguably the individual that has spent the most time hunting, exploring, and getting to understanding Argentina. He joins the podcast in a new series that looks to explore hunting in Argentina. This series is designed to really encourage you to consider going hunting. If you’re looking for encouragement, this is...

This is not your traditional podcast. Recently, we were sent an interview by Dr. Susan Close, the new Deputy Premier and Minister of Climate, Environment and Water (among other titles) of Australia’s newly elected government controlled by the ‘Labour Party’. In the interview, Dr. Close asserts her campaign promise to ‘end bowhunting in South Australia’, and Robbie responds. See more from Blood Ori...

Cody’s BACK and Erin joins this week’s roundup as well. Together, the crew tackle Cody’s curmudgeonly view on the phrase ‘adult onset hunter’, a politician’s promise in Australia to ban bowhunting, the State of Utah’s new DNR program to use drones for enforcement, New York ‘wolves’, Dan Bilzerian, Cody issues a challenge after a couple of Agaves, and much more! DNA test confirms "coyote" was indee...

New Mexico land manager Kyle Jackson discusses the private landowner’s perspective around the New Mexico E-Plus debate. In this short, but sharp, conversation, Robbie and Kyle discuss how elk in New Mexico are managed, how the tag system is setup, and all from the perspective of someone who lives it every day. See more from Blood Origins: https://bit.ly/BloodOrigins_Subscribe Music: Migration by I...

Joel Gay is one of the leading voices advocating for the reformation of the E-Plus Program in New Mexico. The Chapter President of New Mexico Backcountry Hunters and Anglers (BHA), Joel joins Robbie for a very thoughtful discussion on why BHA believes the E-Plus program needs to be reformed.  See more from Blood Origins: https://bit.ly/BloodOrigins_Subscribe Music: Migration by Ian Post (Winter So...

The first in a series of podcasts about the New Mexico E-Plus System. Robbie is joined by Kerrie Romero, the Executive Director of the New Mexico Council of Outfitters and Guides. Together, they discuss the E-Plus system in New Mexico and why she thinks it is such an important program. See more from Blood Origins: https://bit.ly/BloodOrigins_Subscribe Music: Migration by Ian Post (Winter Solstice)...

While Cody is off galavanting at football practice, Robbie and guest Jim  Curcuruto of Outdoor Stewards of Conservation Foundation get down to the nitty gritty for this week’s Blood Origins Roundup. After picking Jim’s next bottle of whiskey to open (spoiler: he’s got some good ones), the boys tackle the outlook of trophy hunting as written by Bart Gregory in Washington State, a major mistake by a...

Hailing from the small island of Tasmania off the coast of Australia, Shauna Pickin is what she would call an ‘honest hunter’. A former vegetarian and jeweler by trade, Shauna chose to become a hunter to understand where her meat comes from and take part in all parts of harvesting and processing it. See more from Blood Origins: https://bit.ly/BloodOrigins_Subscribe Music: Migration by Ian Post (Wi...

Robbie is joined by Joe Goergen, the conservation manager for Safari Club International Foundation, who also focuses on the AWCF or African Wildlife Consultative Forum. The AWCF is a mechanism to bring together leaders and authorities of African countries that advocate for sustainable use as well as the USFWS to discuss challenges and opportunities for the maintenance and growth of sustainable use...

Cale Matthews, the host of the popular Solid 7 podcast, joins the boys for this weeks Roundup as Cody’s ‘Assistant Curmudgeon’. Together, the boys talk about Cody’s growing fame and possible tick bite fever from his recent Africa trip, the Wisconsin wolf management plan, an interesting Bon Appetit op-ed about a food blogger struggling with hunting for their own food, a Northern Ireland (NOT Englan...

You could consider him somewhat of an ‘anti-hunter’. Hailing from a wildlife and zoology background, Ryan Dalton is a UK comedian who has never hunted before. During the COVID Pandemic, Ryan started the Into The Wild podcast, which explores topics around nature and wildlife conservation. As a result of that experience, he very quickly got into and began to explore the idea of trophy hunting, conse...

Long overdue for a conversation in the ‘meat space’, Robbie is joined by Force of Nature Meats CEO Robby ‘with a Y’ Sansom. Robby joins to talk about regenerative agriculture and push back on what he and others in his profession feel are an unfair blanket characterization by some hunters on our podcast of the meat industry as a whole. See more from Blood Origins: https://bit.ly/BloodOrigins_Subscr...

Outdoor Industry veteran and Carbon TV CEO Julie ‘Jules to her friends’ McQueen joins this week’s roundup! Together, they speculation Cody’s COVID status, talk about a big announcement (hint - has to do with Carbon TV), they recap Cody’s recent hunting trip to Africa, take the opportunity to talk about ‘trophy hunting’ and recent efforts to ‘rebrand’ it as something more palatable, moving cheetahs...

We’re really excited to bring you the legendary South African writer Peter Flack - who FINALLY joins the Blood Origins podcast to catch up with Robbie for a long-overdue conversation. Together, the men talk about their ‘first loves’, hunting Africa, the conservation aspect of hunting and much more.  See more from Blood Origins: https://bit.ly/BloodOrigins_Subscribe Music: Migration by Ian Post (Wi...