This podcast aims to bring impactful, entertaining and insightful conversations from a global array of guests. People will just be like, ‘Oh, that’s bullshit, it’s not even real,’ but they look at my YouTube videos and they realise they don’t have to. Enjoy the discussion and check our back catalogue for more. It’s hard doing it myself because I’m always constrained by time, but once I’ve got my own cameraman, it’ll be sweet. For the most part it was dark. Riley Elliott, Shark Scientist | Josie Crawshaw, Marine Scientist. To enter you have to listen in. “I’ve got 500 different video clips to put together, I’m absolutely buggered, I need a few days off.”. We discover the roots of the Kiwi bushman and discus New Zealand “I’ve seen plenty of people driving by the house—it happens about once a week, people cruising past slowly,” says James. For those of you that don’t know much about me, my name is Joshua. Subscribe to our free newsletter for news and prizes. From explorers to renowned scientists and just good people, all have a story to tell which we can take something from. Enter a Titan. “I’m careful with everything, even the music I take in. Righto, forward, lads.”. In a narrow valley, the sound of a seven-millimetre Remington is shocking and concussive. In the winters Josh was working in different countries around the world rafting and eipsode the spring and autumn in the bush hunting deer and trapping possums. Topics are wide ranging, with a backbone centered on conservation, including hunting, fishing, expeditions, environmental and wildlife management. How are they getting those shots?’ And when it came time to edit the videos, I’d try to copy what people like [celebrity chef] Al Brown did well, and really focus on quality,” he says. But you can send us an email and we'll get back to you. A mix of adventure VLOGS, hunting, bushcraft and fishing videos We talk surviving with no food, limited shelter and hunting to eat in a survival situation. I discovered white water rafting in 1996 and this led me to the West Coast, I instantly fell in love with the wild and rugged beauty of the place, and back then there were deer running round all over the shop and the amount of crystal clear rivers was staggering, as were the fishing and hunting opportunities. Hi everyone, For those of you that don’t know much about me, my name is Joshua. Some famous, some you won’t have heard of. Rafting meant he could see the world, but after growing up poor, affluence seemed like a distant dream for most of his life. One of Europe’s most well known female hunters, star of Fieldsports Channel bush,an social media champion, we speak to Michaelka Fialova about hunting, conservation, anti-hunters epispde the impact female hunters are having on social interaction. All my You Tube videos are here. “It’s so important for kids to take responsibility, to do things without being asked, and to realise they’re capable of a lot already.”. From time to time, the moon—fat and heavy in the sky—would peek through the treeline, luminescent on the white froth of the rapids, silhouetting river stones jutting above the water. Three kids, three dogs, chickens, a cat, two businesses and a social-media empire take their toll on James and Kristen. Have a mug of tea and a snooze. He spent his childhood years growing iosh in Napier south.

By the fire, a bottle of white wine splashes into a soot-blackened pot, tomato sauce emerges from a boot and a two-litre bottle of malt vinegar lies in the sand. Josh James is New Zealand’s answer to British adventurer and television star Bear Grylls. The star of two Discovery Channel television shows, he documents his lifestyle on the internet, posting hunting videos, gear reviews, motivational clips and even the occasional political rant on his Facebook and YouTube profiles. It worked. $1 trial for two weeks, thereafter $8.50 every two months, cancel any time. The James residence is a compound of sorts. Topics are wide ranging, with a backbone centered on conservation, including hunting, fishing, expeditions, environmental and wildlife management. review on Itunes. Josh James, a Kiwi Facebook blogger, rants about the cost of school uniforms, arguing that they should be subsidised for low income families. To make things considerably worse, a miscommunication with ACC meant James received only half of what he expected each week—less than enough even to meet mortgage payments. I live on the west coast of New Zealands South Island with my wife and 3 boys, Jack, Charlie and Sonny Jim I spent my childhood years growing up in Napier south. The hunting is often ancillary to the glimpse at another, more grounded way of being.

“There’s one pretty gnarly section we might have to line [walk around],” says James, cleaning his knife and hands in the shallows. What are they doing? 235 talking about this.

Hopefully I can show those young fellas how to make the time and get their kids out there doing stuff, and instilling good ethics in them.”. There are books, but what guy is actually going to read those? Sean has 4 books out right now on Amazon, and you can bushmann signed copies by emailing him on his boat. See what life is like for Josh James and family on the west coast of New Zealand's South Island.

And similarly, so with sponsors. Every morning, it takes more than two hours just to manage email. Do you do hunting? * We’ll never pass your email address to third parties, or send you spammy stuff, we promise. In an age of ‘PC-gone-mad’, the cursing and the banter and the failures and the successes feel real.

And then there’s a whole lot of Kiwis living overseas, too.”.

Plus over 50 recent longer videos that aren’t on YouTube that you can only see on this site. Nothing extreme, particularly for James, with his 20 years of rafting experience. “I think they all think I’m a stoner,” he says. Available Full Episodes. IUCN report mentioned in the show: We learn where it all started and go deep into Bow vushman, hunting ethics, conservation and of course the man himself. On this weeks show we have Donnie Vincent. Conversations with knowledgeable guests that have unique experiences in the hunting, conservation and wildlife management world. A spiker in velvet, he is pierced through the hind quarters and likely drowned—a hazard of shooting in low light. In the distance, the dogs tumble. “Sonny ripped some of the pages from this diary, so I’m not sure if we’ve got any bookings,” Kristen tells me.

I ask whether he’s worried production companies will try to impose Hollywood upon his character, or affect his vision in some way. Based in a small township* on the West Coast of the South Island, James is a jetboating, deer-hunting, tahr-killing, fish-catching wildman. Within a couple of minutes, she’s tied to the raft, and we begin our search for the second deer. Less than one per cent of the population of New Zealand lives on the West Coast, and fame tends to follow you around. It provides a platform where like-minded individuals can come together and solve real issues in a constructive manner, working together and focusing their collective passion for fixing something rather than just talking about it.

“I used to love going to the airport in my stubbies and gumboots and walking into business class like I didn’t know where I was supposed to be,” he says. He settles for 20 minutes. A Patreon video blog entry from the next day shows an exhausted James blinking into the camera. Tall, bearded and intense, ‘The Kiwi Bushman’ is a pastiche of what it means to be the archetypal man in this country. *Explicit* This week we are with Josh James the Kiwi Bushman. Tag us in your own photos that show why you hunt and use the hashtags #whywehunt and #theeducatedhunter to get out attention – we would love to share your hunting moments with the whole community. This podcast aims to bring impactful, entertaining and insightful conversations from a bushan array of guests. There are a couple of crazy old guys who come by from time to time, in their late 60s, and they’re like screaming schoolgirls, like I’m The Beatles or something. Two kilometres later, in full darkness, we find him in an eddy. The West Coast is historically a place of primary industry, but making a dollar there is a hard ask given the fickle fortunes of gold strikes, dairy prices and the demand for timber. See what life is like for Josh James and family on the west coast of New Zealand's South Island. Josh discovered white water rafting in and this led me to the West Coast, He instantly fell in love with the wild and rugged beauty of the place, and back then there were deer running round all over the shop and the amount of crystal clear rivers was staggering, as were the fishing and hunting opportunities. There were possums in the bush back then as well so if a bloke ever ran short of a buck he could go bush for a few weeks and make enough dollars to gas the vehicle up and pay for food, beer and ammo. Josh James, the Kiwi Bushman. They both do.”. Kicked out of his Napier home at 14, James moved to the central North Island, working on the ski fields in the winter and rafting in the summer. The filming can take its toll, however. To keep the videos coming and see more awesome action sign up here.

He says he wants to run father-son camps, teaching work ethic and self-determination to boys on the precipice of manhood. But I was in good hands.

I live on the west coast of New Zealands South Island with my wife and 2 boys, Jack and Charlie. So sit back and enjoy the 2 hour long epic podcast with Donnie. Please create one below, or sign in if you already have one. Ready? “He’s been so good,” says Kristen’s mother, Sandra, over from Canada for a two-month holiday. Necessary cookies are absolutely essential for the website to function properly. This page requires an NZGeo.com account. “Getting this show is the difference between mucking around here, having fun, getting by, or making millions of dollars.”. “I am, I’m extremely worried about that. Welcome to my website. I kind of take my lifestyle for granted and didn’t really think that a lot of people are real interested in the stuff I get up to on a day to day basis, so I made a few more videos and its progressed from there. You ever hear of that Law of Attraction? When James endorsed a range of Svord knives, stock sold out. I hope you enjoy what I am doing and watch this space, good things are coming! At the mussel beds, empty beach stretches in both directions, a gentle curve snaking back and forward along the coastline.

And don’t smack your head on a rock—they’ll be pretty hard to see in the dark. So when they say, ‘Okay, ready, be funny now,’ it was hard to turn it on. James talks to the camera as if over a beer. This week we have the man, the myth the legend that is Charlie Jacoby, the voice and face behind Fieldsports Channel. as well look back to his childhood finding out where it all begun. This website uses cookies to improve your experience. “We were in major debt, looking like we were going to lose our house, fighting a lot, stressing out, depressed. 34.5k Followers, 494 Following, 1,640 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from Josh James Kiwi Bushman (@thekiwibushman) Ahead lie the rapids. There’s work to do tomorrow.