BLOODLINE

By: Jesse Sidlauskas
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  • Today among the most populous animals on earth, the domestic chicken followed the earliest human civilizations across the globe not for food--initially--but cockfighting. Bloodline explores the rich history between human civilization and chickens, especially gamefowl and the sport of cockfighting. Host Jesse Sidlauskas, who once fought and riased gamecocks with three generations of his family, explores the narratives of the ancient past-time through hard-hitting historical research and interviews with cockfighters and gamefowl breeders.
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  • No. 7: Worth Its Weight in Gold

    No. 7: Worth Its Weight in Gold
    Jan 7 2023
    In late 1830, Nash County, N.C. plantation owner Nicholas Arrington accepted Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna's challenge to a cockfight. Arrington and about a dozen friends spent six months crossing the country with more than 300 gamecocks in a dozen mule-drawn wagons to meet the Mexican president outside modern-day El Paso in April the following year.
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    34 mins
  • No. 6: The Society for Prevention

    No. 6: The Society for Prevention
    Dec 31 2021
    Today, almost 200 years after the formation of the SPCA in London, there are satellite organizations in countries all over the globe and in many major cities. 16 years after Broome’s meeting, the crown will grant it a royal commission, and its members will dominate the politics and business of animal law in the country, and elsewhere in the world, for at least the next two centuries.
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    44 mins
  • No. 5: Kings of the Cockpit

    No. 5: Kings of the Cockpit
    Apr 6 2021
    We’ll be exploring the lives of some of the all-time-great cockers of England and the world up to that time, including Edward Smith-Stanley, The 12th Earl of Derby and some of his contemporaries, including William Tregonwell Frampton, William "Bill" Gilliver, Joe Gilliver and Paul Potter.
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    23 mins
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