Mountain hunting, gear, grit, and hard lessons.
The Rich Outdoors is a hunting and mountain-life show built around elk seasons, backcountry preparation, and the gear that holds up under pressure. Its conversations move from heart-rate pacing and tag strategy to business, resilience, and the strange clarity that comes from hard miles.
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The Rich Outdoors is a hunting and outdoor-life show with a strong pull toward elk country. It is built for people who think about seasons long before opening day. The show spends plenty of time on gear, but the gear talk is usually tied to use: packs that collapse for day hunts, tripods and bipods that save weight, optics that survive the fall, and mapping tools that matter when weather changes on a slope. Fitness gets the same grounded treatment. A conversation about heart rate and VO2 max becomes a field problem about moving efficiently in Alaska, slowing down before fatigue takes over, and using wearables to keep a hunter inside a useful effort range. The stories are often the hook. One episode lingers on a beach in Hong Kong, flow state, intuition, and the feeling of being pulled toward a different life. Another follows late-season elk meat, trucks, a storm, and digging out by hand. Elk tags, point systems, Oklahoma hunts, the Arizona Strip, and the scarcity of high-quality opportunity all appear as part of the same practical worldview. The show does not treat hunting reps as theory. It comes back to pressure moments, full draw, being behind the scope, and learning what cannot be learned from targets alone. There is also a noticeable founder streak. Conversations move into early-stage companies, e-commerce, product development, smartwatch building, and the wish to create a business that funds time in the mountains. That mix gives the show a wider frame than tactics alone. It can be technical, personal, promotional, and reflective within a few minutes. Cody Rich is named as host in its episodes, and the excerpts show him steering casual, long-form conversations with guests. The pacing is loose and familiar. Sponsor reads are part of the texture, with repeated mentions of hunting gear brands and products. The show’s best moments come when field experience and life experience blur together. It is for hunters who want usable advice, but also want to hear how other mountain people think through risk, endurance, family, ambition, and purpose. Its edge is not shock value. It is the plainspoken confidence of people who have carried weight, missed chances, broken plans, and kept moving.
Made for: The show suits elk hunters, backcountry hunters, gear-minded outdoorspeople, and mountain athletes who want practical field talk with personal stories. It also fits listeners interested in building a life or business around more time outside.
What sets it apart: The Rich Outdoors stands apart by joining hunting tactics with endurance metrics, product-building stories, and firsthand mountain hardship. It treats preparation as physical, technical, emotional, and entrepreneurial at once.
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Based on 5 episodes we listened to · September 2026
The Rich Outdoors connects elk hunting's decisive moments to the preparation, endurance, and accumulated field judgment behind them.
The Rich Outdoors follows hunting talk past the shot, into the preparation, judgment, and life choices that shape time in the mountains. The host uses extended guest conversations to connect elk encounters with physical readiness, hard-earned field experience, and the practical…
Elk reps meet startup scar tissue, if your ideal campfire has a whiteboard nearby.
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A hunting conversation about identity, moments of flow, and sharing lessons about meat.
A question about identity runs through this hunting conversation. When the guest talks about moments of flow, he recalls a port call in Hong Kong. He took a cab out of the city with a sleeping bag and a few supplies, hiked to a beach, and spent the night there.
A heart rate reading helps a mountain hunter pace the climb before he reaches camp spent.
A long climb can take too much out of a hunter before the hunt has begun. Here, the speakers make pacing concrete through heart rate. One recalls learning how a familiar reading felt on a trail run, then checking that reading while gaining elevation in Alaska.
Cody and his guest talk about the experience behind good judgment and the freedom that draws people to entrepreneurship.
For Cody, the appeal of entrepreneurship includes the freedom to spend more time hunting. He would rather sit on a mountain than on a beach. His guest brings that wish down to the work involved in getting there: staying durable, keeping an open mind, and using data while…
A 55-yard shot closes a conversation about elk tags and the hunting experience that helps prepare for them.
The 55-yard shot comes at the end, but this hunting conversation spends more time on what happens before a hunter draws. The speakers discuss how many points a sought-after elk tag can take, then turn to the pressure that target practice cannot recreate.
A successful elk hunt turns into three days of digging through snow to get home.
Tyler Turco's solo late-season elk hunt went smoothly until it was time to get home. Friends came to help pack out the meat, but snow had covered the road by the time they reached their two trucks. Turco barely got his truck up a hill.
Mountain State hunting and fishing talk.
Gulf Coast outdoors, told from the boat ramp.
Serious carry talk, practical tradeoffs.
This episode discusses how to use Onyx Hunt's research tools and e-magazine to plan mountain hunts, focusing on finding draw odds and selecting hunting units.
A thrilling DIY sheep hunting adventure with Rachel Ahtila and Kayla Read, featuring planning tips and gear recommendations.
The host discusses the importance of following your heart and intuition in hunting, while also promoting products from Tricer and Onyx Hunt.
This episode features Josh Smith discussing his experiences with lawsuits, scaling company culture, and competing against larger competitors.
A discussion about heart rate, VO2 max, and physical readiness for hunting, featuring a workout session and gear sponsors.
Cody Rich introduces Cal Arnold, who shares his story of surviving a plane crash and building a purposeful life, while also promoting his new smartwatch company Bridger Watch.
The host announces a new era for the podcast and discusses a secret business he has been building for three years, while also promoting sponsors Maven Optics and Tricer.
The Rich Outdoors host Cody interviews Adam, co-founder of Bottle Keeper, which sold $60 million in product on a total investment of $10,000 with no employees, before being acquired by private equity.
The Rich Outdoors host interviews Dallas Hemeyer, an international hunting videographer, about how filming hunts took him from a $100-a-day sheep hunt camera job in Utah to 15 trips to Tanzania and managing marketing at Brad Tinney's company Birmingham Fasting.
Tyler Brown, a professional saddle bronc rider and bowhunter from Colorado, ties rodeo discipline to solo elk hunting and late-season safety.
An interview with Drew Miles about his journey from sheet metal work to building innovative tripods and tripod heads.
Cody Simons discusses e-scouting strategies and the Onyx Hunt platform, then shares an idea about using a camper as a mobile podcast studio.
A thrilling DIY sheep hunting adventure with Rachel Ahtila and Kayla Read, sponsored by Onyx Hunt and Tricer USA.