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Shane Newberry Pro-Staff Coordinator and Co-host of Bloodline TV

Shane Newberry Pro-Staff Coordinator and Co-host of Bloodline TV Bruce: Welcome to another episode of White-Tail Rendezvous and I’ve got a real treat with you because I’ve got Shane Newberry on the line with us today and Shane’s in charge of Pro-Staff…Actually, he’s called the Pro-Staff Coordinator for Bloodline Outdoors TV and is also the host, co-host of Bloodline Outdoors TV. And so, Shane, welcome to the show.

Shane: Thanks for having me, Bruce, excited to be online with you today and just hot down here in Tennessee but it’s cool in here where we’re on the phone here so I’m looking forward to it.

Bruce: Well, I hope you’ve got some sweet tea and I’m drinking cold Gatorade after being on the phone all day today.

Shane: Oh, yeah. I’ve definitely got a big, tall glass of sweet tea. So we’re ready to go.

Bruce: There you go. Let’s get her done. So, Shane, let’s start right off. You’ve been with Bloodline Outdoors Alex Rutledge since the beginning and we just had Caleb Shanky [SP] on who’s involved heavily with Bloodline TV now. Let’s talk about Bloodline and how you guys grew and what your mission vision is and why our listeners should click on the channel and look you up and watch the show.

I’m just an average guy that just loves to hunt and be around the hunting industry and sure enough after praying and deciding to make some changes he made some changes and he founded Bloodline.

Shane: Bruce, it’s kind of unique how me and Alex actually met. Alex was still, of course, with Hunter Specialties and I went to an event and they were always [inaudible 00:01:35], grew up hunting, and just loved to be around different people in industry and Alex was always one of those guys that’s just down to Earth, easy to get along with, and cut up. And, actually, I met him in Nashville, Tennessee and we shook hands and exchanged telephone numbers. He asked me for me [inaudible 00:01:53] phone number and he called me and we kept in contact and just developed a friendship. And one day he called me and he said, “Shane,” he said, “I’m thinking about doing something for myself and I want you to be involved,” and I’m like, “Yeah. Right.” I’m just an average guy that just loves to hunt and be around the hunting industry and sure enough after praying and deciding to make some changes he made some changes and he founded Bloodline.

Bloodline has definitely grown a lot since that day.

Bloodline has definitely grown a lot since that day. We’ve seen several changes but all the changes have always been for positive purpose. And the whole mission statement behind Bloodline…And I think for the listeners, what would make them want to go and watch the Bloodline Show is the official statement has always been, “Faith, family, friends, and outdoors.” And we love to incorporate all of those things and keep them in order and keep those things in perspective. And Caleb, you were saying that Caleb was just on the show and Caleb is an awesome guy. Works [inaudible 00:03:06] Bloodline, we’ve actually got new or we’ve been under new direction this year. A whole new editing process. We’re very excited. We had an awesome spring. We’ve got some awesome turkey hunts.

Actually, myself and Doug in Kansas, oh, we both took awesome long beards with our bows. So we had a great spring. Alex did really well, Caleb’s done really well. And now we’re gearing up and getting ready to go in the fall and we believe that fall’s going to be just as good as the spring’s been.

Bruce: Where do they find you on TV, Shane?

Shane: Oh, we’re on your Dish Network. We’re on The Sportsmen’s Channel on Dish Network, The Sportsmen’s Channel on DirectTV. Your local cable provider if they provide The Sportsmen’s Channel. That’s actually new, as well. Bruce, we were on [inaudible 00:04:05] Channel for the first four seasons of Bloodline and we just made the move to The Sportsman’s Channel this year. So we’re very excited about that. They can find us on The Sportsman’s Channel on Dish Network, DirectTV, or they can check with their local cable provider and see if they carry The Sportsman’s Channel and you can find us there Thursday evenings at 6:00 PM Central Time, 7:00 PM Eastern. And there’s follow-up shows throughout the weekend. So plenty of opportunity to see Bloodline and not miss an episode.

Bruce: For the listeners that want to get into the outdoor industry, young, old, guys, gals, doesn’t really matter, what are three or five things that you would tell them, “Hey, if you’re serious about it here’s a couple of things you need to do, need to know.” Share those with us.

Shane: I think the very first thing that I would tell anyone that is interested in possibly pursuing being in the outdoor industry for a career is to, number one, you have to have the passion to do it. If you don’t have the passion, I tell all the Pro-Staff guys, all the team members, this is a motto that I’ve come up with, “Everything you do you have to do it with passion and not pressure.” And if you don’t have the passion for it you just burn out. Secondly you have to have your equipment. Right now all the guys on the Bloodline team, they have their main handicam type cameras that they film with. This year we transitioned into, like I was saying earlier, a new editing process and now a lot of the things that you’ll see in season six of Bloodline, a lot of that’s done with DLSR cameras. So you have to be able to invest in equipment, to be able to keep up to date, to be able to carry on with great quality, high-quality footage.

I think this is probably the biggest thing outside of having passion for what you’re doing and equipment, the third thing I would say would be this.

And thirdly, I think the biggest thing…I think this is probably the biggest thing outside of having passion for what you’re doing and equipment, the third thing I would say would be this. You can’t expect to be [inaudible 00:06:35] or World Primos or Bill Durden or guys that people have seen and recognized on television for many years. They think that you come in this week and next week you have that status. It takes a lot of time. it takes a lot of…You have to, as they say you have to earn your stripes and if you’re not willing to start at the bottom and work very hard and be very humble and be very willing to take critiquing-type criticism…Not criticism in a negative form but positive criticism to make yourself better…I just don’t think people realize how much work goes into producing outdoor television. Probably, for us, for a 30-minute episode…Probably on average we have 30 to 40 and possibly even more hours of actual filming footage just to produce the fully-made episode. So it’s a lot of hard work, a lot of equipment, and you have to have a true passion or you just burn out.

Bruce: Thanks for that. Listeners, take notes, take it to heart because I know how much time it takes me to do one of my shows. We’re on the recording for 30 minutes with a warm-up and everything it’s 40 minutes all in. And then I’ve got four to five to six hours of production.