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The Rich Outdoors

The Rich Outdoors

著者: Cody Rich: Hunter | Entrepreneur | Dad
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The Rich Outdoors is hosted by Cody Rich, an entrepreneur, and hunter. In this podcast, Cody interviews all kinds of folks about hunting, business and adventure to find the nuggets that will make you more successful in life, hunting, and anything else you wish to accomplish.
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  • Identity, Aspiration, and the Anatomy of an Elk Hunt
    2026/05/19
    Man, I don't know how else to say this — this one got me. I sat down with Christian Zeron, the guy behind the Theo N. Harris Instagram, and what started as a watch-world conversation turned into one of the most honest, wide-open talks about hunting, identity, manhood, and what it means to find something that actually moves you. That's the kind of episode this is. Christian grew up in New Jersey selling vintage Rolexes in college and built a marketing company around it. He's sharp, he's articulate, and — up until about six months ago — he had zero connection to the hunting world. Then a client invited him on a hunt in Kentucky and, well, here we are. He killed his first turkey this spring, he's already got hog hunts lined up in Texas and a dove trip to Argentina on the books, and the guy is all in. Completely, unapologetically, joyfully all in. What I love about Christian is that he brings this fresh set of eyes to our world. He's not pretending to be someone he's not. He's a Ralph Lauren, vintage shotgun, lever-action rifle kind of guy who gets genuinely emotional talking about his late grandfather while butchering his first bird. That's real. That's the stuff hunting is actually made of, and it's the stuff that's really hard to explain to people who haven't lived it. We go deep on the watch world and what Rolex figured out about aspiration and identity that most brands never do. We talk camo as identity, Sitka vs. First Lite, Yeti coolers, LVMH, Omega, Casio — and somehow it all connects back to hunting, brand building, and what it means to be a man who collects experiences instead of just stuff. Plus, we dig into what I'm trying to build with Bridger Watch and Christian gives me some real, unfiltered marketing advice on how to position it against Garmin and Apple. This is the kind of conversation that makes you want to call your old man, fire up a steak, and go outside. Strap in. Episode Sponsors onX Hunt If you're serious about hunting out west, onX isn't optional — it's foundational. We're talking land ownership, access layers, terrain intel, and a full suite of tools built for every phase of the hunt: planning, preparation, and execution. The difference onX makes is simple. It's confidence. Confidence that you're in the right spot. Confidence that you're legal. Confidence that you can find your way back to the truck when the day goes long and the country gets weird. Download the onX Hunt app and become an Elite member today. Use code TRO for 20% off your membership. Website: onxmaps.com Bridger Watch I set out to build a better smartwatch for the hunting community — plain and simple. I was frustrated. I kept pulling my phone out 100 times a day to check onX in the field and thought, why can't we just have the map on our wrist? So we went down the rabbit hole and built what I genuinely believe is the best smartwatch ever made for hunters. If you're a watch guy and a hunter, this was built for you. Use code TRO at checkout. Website: bridgerwatch.com Timestamp Chapters 0:00 — Intro & Sponsor — onX Hunt 1:45 — Sponsor — Bridger Watch 3:00 — Welcome Christian Zeron | Who Is This Guy? 5:30 — From Jersey to the Deer Woods — How a Watch Guy Found Hunting 9:00 — Building a Marketing Company on the Back of Rolex 12:30 — Christian's First Turkey: Buck Fever, Clown Makeup, and Grandfather Moments 17:00 — Why Hunting Hits Different — The Emotional Depth Non-Hunters Don't Understand 20:30 — Serving Elk Steak & The Pride of the Harvest 23:00 — Where Does Christian's Hunting Journey Go From Here? Argentina, Texas, Bear Hunts 26:30 — Identity in the Hunting World — Camo Brands, Sitka, First Lite & the Yeti Effect 30:00 — Decor, Taxidermy, and Why Rural Men Are More Aesthetic Than Manhattan Bankers 33:30 — The Smartwatch Debate — Where Does a Luxury Watch Guy Land on Wearables? 37:00 — Marketing Advice for Bridger Watch — What Rolex Got Right & What We Should Learn 40:30 — The Watch World Deep Dive — Omega, Tag Heuer, LVMH, Casio & Vintage Markets 44:00 — Lever Guns, Grandfather's .35 Remington, and Planning Future Hunts 46:00 — Wrap Up — Follow Christian & Final Thoughts 3 Key Takeaways 1. Hunting Connects You to Something Bigger Than the Kill Christian's story about his late grandfather flooding back while he was butchering his first turkey is one of the most honest descriptions of why hunters hunt that I've heard in a long time. The harvest, the meat, the field dressing — it all becomes this vessel for memory and emotion and people you've lost. And it's something you genuinely cannot explain to someone who hasn't felt it. If you've ever felt your dad or your grandfather or someone you loved in a duck blind or a wall tent, you know exactly what Christian is talking about. That feeling doesn't go away. It doesn't get old. That's why we keep going back. 2. Identity Is at the Core of Every ...
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  • Gray Ghosts and Gridirons: Joe Epple's Journey from Squamish to Stone Sheep Country
    2026/05/14
    Look, I'm not gonna sugarcoat it — life got in the way and we missed a week. But we're back, and this one was worth the wait. Joe Epple is one of those guys who doesn't fit neatly into a box. Retired professional football player. CFL veteran. Director of Business Development for Wild TV — Canada's largest hunt and fish TV network. Co-host of The Edge, now in its 17th season. Father of two boys. Columbia blacktail hunter. Stone sheep chaser. A 6'8" giant of a man who grew up in Squamish, British Columbia, hunting for meat and mushrooming in the rain just to make ends meet — and who somewhere along the way figured out that all those lessons in the wet coastal bush were actually building the foundation for everything that came after. This episode goes deep on what it really means to make the transition from professional athlete to serious hunter, and why the skills that make you elite in sports — goal-setting, resilience, the ability to learn from getting your ass kicked — translate directly to the mountains. Joe talks about growing up in a logging family that hunted out of necessity, not recreation. About being the fat, knock-kneed kid who nobody bet on, who started going to a rusty prison gym at 13 and never looked back. About how hunting blacktails in the miserable, soaking wet coastal bluffs of BC taught him to push through discomfort long before any football field did. We get into the mental game of hunting — specifically what it looks like when you've got 14-day fly-in stone sheep hunts on one end of the spectrum and a four-year-old who snaps every branch and asks to go back to the truck every five minutes on the other. How do you stay present? How do you keep the long game in mind when you're sitting in the gutter on day 10 of a backcountry hunt wondering why you're not home with your family? Joe's got a framework for that, and it's worth hearing. We talk about Kristen's bear — a giant boar that'll likely crack the top 15 all-time in the province. About Joe's most-prized blacktail taken at 12 yards with a bow. About why archery hunting teaches you more about your weaknesses as a hunter than anything else. About what it's like to hunt stone sheep as a resident in BC for a fraction of what nonresidents pay, and why he still hasn't punched an archery tag on one. And about the pressure social media puts on new hunters to skip the learning curve entirely and shoot a 200-inch muley on their first trip out. Joe's a straight shooter (pun intended), genuinely humble, and packed with perspective from both sides of the fence — the elite athlete world and the deep wilderness backcountry. This one's got range. Turn it up. Episode Sponsors onX Hunt If you're hunting out west and you're not running onX, I don't know what to tell you — it's not optional at this point, it's foundational. Land ownership, access layers, terrain intel, route planning — onX does it all. The difference it makes isn't just convenience. It's confidence. Confidence that you're in the right spot. Confidence that you're legal. Confidence that you can find your way back to the truck when things go sideways. That's what elite membership gets you. Website: https://www.onxmaps.com | Use code: TRO — Save 20% on Elite Membership Bridger Watch This one's personal — I built Bridger Watch because I was frustrated. I was pulling my phone out 100 times a day just to check my onX, and I thought there had to be a better way. So we went down the rabbit hole and set out to build the best smartwatch for hunters. Maps on your wrist. Built for the field. If you're a watch guy and a hunter, this is the one you've been waiting for. Website: https://www.bridgerwatch.com | Use code: TRO — Exclusive discount Timestamp Chapters 0:00 — Intro & Sponsor: onX Hunt 1:30 — Sponsor: Bridger Watch 3:00 — Welcome & catching up — the missed week, quick intros 5:30 — Joe's roots: growing up in Squamish, BC — logging family, pine mushrooms, coastal blacktails 10:00 — Why Joe pursued athletics instead of the outdoors — the unlikely path to pro football 14:30 — The transition: retiring from pro sports and returning to his outdoor roots 17:00 — Joe's current life — Director of Business Development at Wild TV, The Edge TV show 20:00 — Raising kids in the outdoors — Walker and Wyatt, making it fun vs. making it serious 26:30 — Cody's excavator story — how to build positive associations with hunting for young kids 30:00 — Spring bear hunting as a family — dance parties in the mountains and Kristen's record-book bear 36:00 — The fat kid with a doctor's note — Joe's aha moment at 13, the rusty gym, and building self-confidence 42:00 — Growing up with zero sports culture in the house — how a 6'8" kid ended up at Washington State on a full ride 47:00 — Blacktail hunting as the foundation — why the gray ghost builds hunters who can do anything 51:00 — Joe's most prized blacktail — the 12-yard bow shot, ...
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  • Earned Not Given | Connor Koch on Risk Tolerance, Resilience, and the Road to Becoming a Hunter
    2026/05/06
    EP 681: Connor Koch Some episodes just take a minute to get right. We lost the first version of this one — somewhere out there is an SD card with what I'm sure was a hell of a conversation — and you know what? Maybe that was the universe telling us to go again. Because this one hit different. Connor Koch is one of those guys who just operates on a different level. Arc'teryx ambassador for seven years, a man who's climbed every 14er in the lower 48, skied big lines from Alaska to the High Sierra, and survived an 1,100-foot avalanche ride in ways that defy explanation. He's the real deal. And now? He's deep in the hunting rabbit hole, chasing elk solo through grizzly country with a bow he just learned to shoot, logging 70-plus days in the field and coming home with the kind of stories that remind you why we do all of this. We cover a lot of ground in this one. Connor grew up in a tiny San Diego-area town, never saw mountains until his Nissan's transmission blew up somewhere near a place called Zzyzx on the way to Colorado. He pulled into Vail Pass, jumped out into the June air, and knew — at a cellular level, he says — that he'd found home. That moment launched a decade of elite mountain pursuits that would shape everything that came after. We dig into what it's like to be a master of one discipline and a beginner in another — and how humbling it is when all your fitness and mental toughness still can't outwit a wily bull elk. Connor talks about burning a shot opportunity 45 minutes into his first day of bow hunting, running 70+ days solo in the backcountry, getting his camp ripped apart by a known problem grizz the same night he hit a bull high, and why he doesn't regret any of it. That's the journey. That's the process. But it goes way deeper than hunting. Connor opens up about the avalanche that changed him — a full slope that fractured wall to wall, a 1,100-foot washing machine ride, karate-chopping blocks of wind slab before getting obliterated, and emerging from the toe of the debris alive while his partners tunneled out around him. He talks about what that does to your relationship with risk, with the mountains, and with yourself. And then, the hardest decision of his career: turning down a prepackaged invite to ski 8,000-meter peaks in Pakistan, not because he couldn't do it, but because he finally understood that some pages in your book are okay to leave blank. This is a conversation about reinvention, risk tolerance, the courage to step off the ship when it's time, and what happens when a man who spent a decade trying to conquer mountains starts learning to be conquered by elk season. Oh, and also — he's catering his entire wedding with two cow elk and some deer he harvested himself. That's the kind of dude Connor Koch is. Pull up a chair. This one's worth every minute. This Episode Is Brought To You By onX Hunt If you're serious about hunting out west, onX isn't optional — it's foundational. Land ownership, access, terrain, and a full suite of tools built for every part of the hunt: the planning, the prep, and the pursuit. The difference is simple. It's confidence. Confidence that you're in the right spot, confidence that you're legal, confidence that you can get back to the truck. That's what onX gives you. Become an Elite Member today and save 20% with code TRO Visit: www.onxmaps.com Bridger Watch This one's personal — Bridger Watch is Cody Rich's own company, so yeah, shameless plug incoming. It's a full-feature smartwatch built by hunters, for the hunting lifestyle. Not just for the hunt, but for everything that surrounds it. Training, mapping, texts, and most importantly: insane battery life. Because battery life matters in the backcountry, full stop. If you're a watch guy, you already get it. No compromise, no fluff. Just a watch built the way it should've been built all along. Visit: www.bridgerwatch.com Timestamp Chapters 0:00 — Intro & Sponsor Reads — onX Hunt and Bridger Watch 2:15 — The Lost Episode: A Cop, a Bow, and a County Line 4:00 — Connor Gets His Life Back in Order — Four Months of Spring Skiing 5:00 — The Purcells and the High Sierra — Whitney, Muir, Langley, and a Broken Binding 7:00 — 30,000-Foot View: Arc'teryx, Mountain Pursuits, and a Big Boy Job 9:00 — Climbing Every 14er in the Lower 48 — And Why the Number Is Arbitrary 10:30 — The Origin Story: Erik Weihenmayer, a Blown Transmission, and Finding Home in Colorado 14:00 — Arriving at Vail Pass and Knowing — The Moment That Changed Everything 15:00 — Identity, Selfishness, and the Next Chapter 17:00 — Close Calls: A Rubber Band, a Carabiner, and 200 Feet of Air 19:00 — How Hunting Fills the Gap — And Gives You a More Complete Relationship With the Landscape 22:00 — Vert Records, Big Days, and Getting Old 23:00 — Bringing a Mountain Athlete's Mindset Into Elk Hunting — Asset or Liability? 26:00 — Going Solo: Three Months, a Bow, and the Backcountry 27:00 — ...
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