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_SubscribeMusic: Migration by Ian Post (Winter Solstice), licensed through artlist.ioPodcast is brought to you by:Bushnell: https://www.bushnell.com  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 being new hunters, and more.See more from Blood Origins: https://bit.ly/BloodOrigins_SubscribeMusic: Migration by Ian Post (Winter Solstice), licensed through artlist.ioPodcast is brought to you by:Bushnell: https://www.bushnell.com  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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_SubscribeMusic: Migration by Ian Post (Winter Solstice), licensed through artlist.ioPodcast is brought to you by:Bushnell: https://www.bushnell.com  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 vehicle in Namibia, laying out his thoughts on the idea of rhino trade. He sent us this monologue and I knew we needed to publish it. See more from Blood Origins: https://bit.ly/BloodOrigins_SubscribeMusic: Migration by Ian Post (Winter Solstice), licensed through artlist.ioPodcast is brought to you by:Bushnell: https://www.bushnell.com  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 muzzleloaders: https://www.gohunt.com/content/news/new-mexico-bans-scopes-on-muzzleloaders Hunter becomes first “modern era” hunter to take a Wisconsin bull elk with a bow: https://www.gohunt.com/content/news/hunter-becomes-first-to-take-a-wisconsin-bull-elk-with-a-bow DWR proposes new statewide elk management plan, changes to elk hunting: https://wildlife.utah.gov/news/utah-wildlife-news/1532-dwr-proposes-new-statewide-elk-management-plan-changes-to-elk-hunting.html#:~:text=Proposed%20changes%20to%20elk%20hunting&text=Dividing%20the%20current%20general%2Dseason,legal%2Dweapon%20any%20bull%20hunt See more from Blood Origins: https://bit.ly/BloodOrigins_SubscribeMusic: Migration by Ian Post (Winter Solstice), licensed through artlist.ioPodcast is brought to you by:Bushnell: https://www.bushnell.com  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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_SubscribeMusic: Migration by Ian Post (Winter Solstice), licensed through artlist.ioPodcast is brought to you by:Bushnell: https://www.bushnell.com  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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. See more from Blood Origins: https://bit.ly/BloodOrigins_SubscribeMusic: Migration by Ian Post (Winter Solstice), licensed through artlist.ioPodcast is brought to you by:Bushnell: https://www.bushnell.com  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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/BloodOrigins_SubscribeMusic: Migration by Ian Post (Winter Solstice), licensed through artlist.ioPodcast is brought to you by:Bushnell: https://www.bushnell.com  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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_SubscribeMusic: Migration by Ian Post (Winter Solstice), licensed through artlist.ioPodcast is brought to you by:Bushnell: https://www.bushnell.com  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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_SubscribeMusic: Migration by Ian Post (Winter Solstice), licensed through artlist.ioPodcast is brought to you by:Bushnell: https://www.bushnell.com  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices