Speak the Language Podcast

Reports from early deer hunts, Crazy news out of Arkansas with it's second alleged fatal bear attack only weeks apart, A pro bass angler got indicted for manslaughter, an elk hunter in British Columbia called in a grizzly by mistake, and Lake accidentally bought 60 acres of hunting land. Check it out!

Ladies and gentlemen, it is bow season eve here at home. Now, we know it's not officially recognized, but here at the STL we treat this like a national holiday. We truly hope that your sights are dialed, your stands are hung or blinds put out, and that you have plans to hit the woods either on opening day or this weekend- and by all means, hunt what makes you happy. We dive into that topic further in this episode. Check it out!

We are one week out from bow season opening up in Mississippi as well as several other states in the country. Let us all rejoice that fall is here! and while we're at it, let's give the full run down of what happened at bear camp. Check it out

Simply talking hunting didn't feel right after this past week. So we addressed it the best we could with our honest thoughts. Pray.

A news update about a poaching case out west, a weekend hunt report for the upcoming Mississippi velvet season, food plot planting forecast, a broad head discussion, and the euphoria of riding in a new fancy tractor. Check it out!

Jordan interviews, Drew Smith, who is a hydrologist & Deputy Chief, Watershed Division at the Corps of Engineers. There are some many questions, misconceptions, and down-right good information to have when it comes to the big river. Join us for this episode as we bust some myths, learn a lot, and discover once again why the Mississippi River is such a special place. Check it out!

Jamey Nicholas is the Market President at Southern Ag Credit, which is a Mississippi locally owned cooperative lender that specializes specifically in helping people buy land out in the country, such as hunting land, timber land, agricultural land, farms, and country homes. In this episode we dive into the topic of buying land- common misconceptions about who can afford to buy land, the process a buyer goes through, getting pre-approved, surveys, appraisals, interest rates, and just the many things that can help anyone and everyone be more prepared when they start looking to find a place to call their own. Check it out! To learn more about Southern Ag Credit click here: https://southernagcredit.com/

We are under the two week marker from the official fall hunting season kickoff here at home- dove season opener. Have you ever thought beyond the socializing, cookouts, and college football watching parts of dove season and actually thought about some strategy behind it? I mean, we can all agree that no one wants to be the person at the dove hunt that can't hit anything. There actually is a little strategy that can be put to use. We also talk about Mine and Jordan's upcoming black bear hunt in North Arkansas and how it's causing us to do something new within our archery preparation regime. Check it out!

In this weeks episode you can expect: -News updates about new CWD zones in Mississippi - A Tragic Hunting Accident in South Africa - Food plot planning and preparations -Jordan's unexpected run-in with an albino deer fawn Check it out

Nick Thomas is the founder of Steward Link, an organization that makes it simple and affordable for landowners to implement high-impact conservation practices that protect and enhance our natural resources for future generations. Check it out!

As summer winds down, it's go-time for fall food plots and whitetail preparation. In this episode, we dive deep into land management strategies, habitat improvement, and wildlife conservation—Mississippi style. Jordan is gearing up for a busy planting season and shares updates on water conditions in the South Delta, food plot planning, and what’s the forecast for fall. We also explore “undesirable” plants like coffeeweed, reflect on the rising interest in African hunting experiences, and break down what makes those international trips more attainable than most people think. Then, it’s all about whitetail predictions: Hear Jordan Blissett’s outlook for this year’s deer season across Mississippi, fueled by a wet spring and lush native vegetation. Discover why central Mississippi is becoming a sleeper region for mature bucks, and how local landowners are maximizing their acreage for big deer—and even bigger results. Whether you're a habitat manager, landowner, or die-hard deer hunter, you’ll find valuable insight on: Food plot timing and strategy Habitat benefits of prescribed burning Antler growth trends after drought recovery The evolving mindset around age structure and deer quality How small tracts can produce giant bucks with the right approach Plus, we chat about the Dallas Safari Club Expo, wildlife auction shocks (yes, a $120K donation!), and tips for improving your hunting land without breaking the bank. Mentioned in this episode: Fall food plot planning African hunting trips Dallas Safari Club experience Mississippi deer season forecast Land value trends in Rankin & Scott County DIY habitat improvements 👉 Don’t miss the next episode, featuring a special guest who breaks down budget-friendly habitat improvements every landowner should know.

Pierce Young is a private lands wildlife biologist with the Mississippi Department of Wildlife Fisheries and Parks. In this episode he and Jordan discuss the wide spectrum of wildlife management services that are offered to Mississippi residents by MDWFP- particularly whitetail deer related in this conversation. If you own land or are considering buying land in the future, this episode will be of great value to you.

We recorded this episode inside for the sake of saving ourselves from the broiling heat taking place in Mississippi right now. FYI, you know it's bad when we are celebrating temps in the high 80s. But anyway, this episode we talk about if the standard we as hunting community has set for ourselves in terms of land management, finding quail in quail friendly and non-friendly places, planning safaris for next year and more. Check it out!

Everyone has a story. While some have similarities, none are the same. Jordan's life story is one of unique circumstances, high hopes, and the willingness to chase a dream even if everyone else thinks that it's crazy. Check it out!

Jordan decides to interview Lake to get his story of how he ended up working in the hunting and outdoor space. It's one of the most common questions asked, so maybe this story will help guide a listener if they are interested in that career path themselves. Check it out!

Turn your volume up and your thermostat down. Summer is here, and you might as well indulge your ears with the outdoors since it's too hot to go outside. Catch up with us as we discuss the prior weeks and lean in as we plan a good lineup of the summer podcast series. Check it out!

big news around the hunting and fishing space week. Thousands of acres of public land are possibly being put up for sale, and they are trying to make deer private property in Alabama. We are here to talk about both and give a few updates between Jordan and myself. Check it out! for more info on public land sales click here: https://www.trcp.org/action-alert/urge-lawmakers-to-oppose-public-land-sales/?utm_source=google&utm_medium=slider&utm_campaign= For more info on the proposed high fence laws in Alabama click here: https://www.outdoorlife.com/conservation/alabama-deer-breeder-cwd-bill/

Hear the last spring turkey story round up of 2025 as we go through my last hard gobbling turkey hunt home in Mississippi and Jordan tells his many tales from his Midwest turkey jaunt he took with his wife Jessi. Also, hear some changes coming in the near future for the STL podcast. Check it out!

There is few feelings worse to a turkey hunter than spooking a turkey. It's the worst possible outcome. In this episode we dive into common problems and reasons we have run into that led to us spooking turkeys and talk about steps that can be taken to keep from doing it. Check it out!

Holy smokes where did April go? While some states are just now seeing their kickoff of the spring season, here at home, we are in the home stretch. It's been a fun one, as they always are, but man has it been odd. This week, we've got a whole new pile of fresh turkey stories to tell, some success and some failure, but hey, that's all part of turkey hunting. check it out!

We're back!! And man, do we have a lot of catching up to do! The latter half of March and the first part of April was jam packed with action from the spring woods! You can hear the good the bad and the ugly of all of it! We have stories of turkeys flying from tree to tree, arguments while turkeys are inside of gun range, misses, and more. Check it out!

This week we are going deep into the STL archives to the first spring turkey episode we ever did. It was an interview with the one and only, Wilbur Primos about an in depth look at the first video Primos Hunting ever made, The Truth 1 About Spring Turkey Hunting. One could argue that this video in many ways, was cornerstone piece of content for the culture of turkey hunting we live and enjoy now. Check it out!

We are a little over a week into the Mississippi turkey season but it feels like we have been hunting for a month. We have been far from short on action so we have a pile of stories to tell. Dave Owens' hunt on the Mississippi River, struggling to find gobbles, turkeys acting like its winter, Jordan's wife's first Mississippi Gobbler, and Lake going round and round with public land gobbler in a pine thicket. This episode has it all. Check it out.

Dave Owens is a turkey hunter, a turkey call maker, owner of the popular brand and Youtube channel, the Pinhoti Project, and also the winner of the 2025 grand national turkey calling contest. To watch Dave's hunting videos click here: https://www.youtube.com/@pinhotiproject

One undeniable fact in the current culture of turkey hunting is the popularity, or lack there of, in hunting on public land. Now, Jordan and I would never dare to claim expertise in this subject, but we have spent an awful lot of time kick around out there in the government woods. In this episode we take a look at some quick and practical tricks we have learned, as well as some very important topics on public land etiquette and how we think they should be handled. As always, this spring episode is capped with a turkey hunting story. Check it out!

Gary Simons has been a dear friend of mine for a long, long time. The first place we met was at the church that I grew up in when I was just a kid. He was my sunday school teacher for a time, and he was also someone that also had a reputation for being a good turkey hunter, and also someone who was alway willing to take a kid hunting. In this conversation, Mr. Gary has a couple of turkey hunting stories lined up for us, and trust me, you'll want to listen to all of them! Check it out!

If you can't find turkeys, you can't hurt turkeys. It's a plain and simple fact. In this episode we dive into different tactics, strategies, and methods we have used to consistently find and locate turkeys in the early parts of the season. Opening day will be here before you know it, so dive into this subject with us and prepare for an awesome spring! Check it out!

Here at the STL Podcast we are fans of spring turkey stories of all kinds, and believe me, we have heard a lot of them. However, today's story told by our friend, Robert Aiken, is without any doubt one of the most bizarre turkey stories we have heard anyone tell. You have probably heard of grizzly bear charges and buffalo charges- but I bet you have never heard of a turkey charge. Check it out!

Spring turkey season can put a strain on any relationship. That is just a fact of life. With turkey season coming soon, we thought it best to get our wives, Jessi and Lacey, to sit down with us and answer a question that has plagued humanity for decades. How do you be a turkey hunter's wife? All jokes aside, we wanted to dive in and figure out what spring turkey season means from our wives' perspectives. What are some things that would be helpful to know if you are taking your wife or girlfriend for the first time, and a whole lot more. and of course, be sure to stick around for the turkey stories at the end. Check it out!

Surprise! From now through spring we will be releasing bonus episodes featuring turkeys stories with real hunt audio. These stories will be told by us and several of our friends. This first one comes from the spring of 2021 in the midst of Montana and Idaho road trip. Check it out!

Keith Polk has been a registered forester and believer in prescribed fire to benefit wild turkeys, other wildlife, and hunting quality for years now. In this conversation, we dive into understanding the uses of fire and forest management on properties big and small and the practical uses they have for landowners and/or hunters. We learn some basic fire terminology, the importance in fire safety, and a few AWESOME turkey stories with live turkey audio to go with it! Check it out!!

Adam Butler has been a wildlife biologist at the Mississippi Department of Wildlife Fisheries and Parks focused on wild turkeys since 2008. He has been the wild turkey program coordinator for the state since 2018. In his duration spent in these roles he spent vast amounts of time in the field, researching and studying wild turkeys. He's seen a lot, he's learned a lot, he's watched research change and update. We will make a bet with you that you can't go through this entire episode without learning at least one fun-fact you were unaware of! He also gives us some very interesting insight to how conservation is funded. Check it out!

It is officially time to think about spring turkeys- as if we ever really stop thinking about them, but you know what we mean. This episode is all about turkey hunting stories that stick in your memory. We have 3 stories this week- 2 from South Florida, and 1 from Mississippi public land. As an extra treat, we have real hunt audio from all of them! Check it out!

We have all but reached the end of the 2024/2025 fall and winter hunting seasons. With the exciting new twist that Mississippi has decided to extend it's deer season into the first two days of February, we discuss all the current events including the season extension, Mississippi residents getting busted for keeping wild alligators in captivity, Riding horseback into a duck hole, and getting ready for prescribed burns. Check it out!

In the spring of 2024, the state of Mississippi tried to introduce a statewide turkey stamp, and unfortunately failed. There are several acclaimed reasons for the stamp not being able to make it through the house and senate- more and that can be found in the links below- but what's more important today, is that the turkey stamp has another chance. House Bill 553, would establish a statewide turkey stamp that would generate funds that would be solely used for wild turkey conservation, research, and restoration projects. In this episode, we dive into more details about the turkey stamp, why & how we all should support it, as well as BIG announcement about our Turkey Season Kick-off event coming up on February 27! To see the newly proposed Turkey stamp bill click here: https://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2025/html/HB/0500-0599/HB0553IN.htm To see the Clarion Ledger article about last years turkey stamp debacle click here: https://www.clarionledger.com/story/sports/outdoors/2024/05/07/turkey-stamp-bill-worth-millions-of-dollars-to-ms-dies-heres-why/73554495007/ To see the Daily Leader article about last years turkey stamp debacle click here: https://www.dailyleader.com/2024/05/04/politics-killed-turkey-stamp-bills/

This week we are tackling the important questions. Is there such thing as a hunting spot worth fighting over? With most of Mississippi duck hunters singing the blues, where are all the ducks? Has anyone else seen a decrease in buck antler quality this season? If so, why? There's a lot covered in this episode. Check it out! for more information on Southern Ag click here: https://southernagcredit.com/services/ag-insurance-solutions/ To see the Consumed YouTube channel click here: https://www.youtube.com/@consumedhunting STAY TUNED FOR A BIG ANNOUNCEMENT NEXT WEEK!!

Ducks and Geese are truly one of the most unique natural resources that we as sportsmen and women have to enjoy, and that is because they are truly a shared resource. Migrating throughout the country, in an impressive fashion, and finding a way to live rent free in many of our heads, it's no secret that waterfowl hunting, waterfowl management, and the future of both is something that we care deeply about. Houston Havens has been the waterfowl program coordinator for Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries, and Parks for over a decade. In this conversation, we lean into his years of experience to better understand season structuring, bag limits, waterfowl food preferences, land management for waterfowl and more. Check it out!

A Mississippi seafood distributor and local restaurant busted for mislabeling fish, Arguments about CWD, whitetail twins having different fathers, this week's conversation has it all! Check it out! To learn more about Open Season Properties click here: https://openseasonproperties.com/ To learn more about Consumed click here: https://www.youtube.com/@consumedhunting To learn more about Southern Ag Credit click here: https://www.southernagcredit.com

Lake and Jordan discuss the latest duck hunting escapades, as well as the allure of calling mallards into the flooded timber. They also talk about the ups and downs of a good duck dog, and rut really starting to ramp up in Mississippi.

On this week's episode, we are reaching back into the archives to one most beloved episodes from the early days of the STL Podcast. In this episode titled "Embarrasment" Jordan and I share some of our favorite stories from our Primos days that happened when the cameras weren't rolling. It's guaranteed to make you laugh. Check it out!

As we move further into the peak hunting time of year for fall and winter hunting seasons in the Southeast, Jordan and Lake give updates to both of their most recent adventures in the woods. Everything from duck hunts in downtown Memphis to buzzards landing on a deer less than an hour after it had been shot. Check it out! To learn more about Southern Ag Credit click here: https://southernagcredit.com/ To learn more about Consumed Hunting click here: https://www.youtube.com/@consumedhunting

For the hunter who resides in the southeastern part of the United State, the best time of year for fall and winter hunting season is upon us! The Rut is going to be kicking off soon, duck season is finally open, and we have some actual cold weather to look forward to. Subjects discussed in this episode include, the follies of getting back into archery whitetail hunting after taking time off, Jordan's Big Black River Buck, Duck season at Francis Bay and Lake's duck camp. Check it out!

Thad Miller is a native Mississippian who has spent his life with land being the center piece. In this episode, we acknowledge that it is the dream of many outdoors men and women to one day own their own piece of hunting ground, and then go into the ins and outs of what that means, what it takes to achieve it, and how the land market has changed significantly over the past years. Check it out! To learn more about Open Season Properties click here: https://openseasonproperties.com/ To learn more about Consumed click here: https://www.youtube.com/@consumedhunting

If you are a whitetail hunter, and especially if you are a whitetail hunter that has ever spent a deer season going after a specific target deer, you owe it to yourself to listen to this episode. Mark Kenyon is a writer, host of the Wired To Hunt podcast, and part of the MeatEater crew, and in this episode we dive into his hunt for a deer that he referred to as the wide 9. It's quite the story. check it out! To see the hunt for the wide 9 video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTNocylu4ZQ for more about Southern Ag Credit: https://southernagcredit.com/services/ag-insurance-solutions/

Jordan recently returned from a two-state deer hunting trip to Missouri and Kansas where he managed to kill two bucks in back-to-back days!! crazy, right!? Believe me, we know he should be buying some lottery tickets. We go into that hunting story in great detail, as well as a habitat segment about waterfowl land management, and an internet argument segment about hunters getting angry when asked to kill more deer. Check it out!

November is officially here. In this episode Jordan and I talk about my most recent trip to South Dakota with Greg from the Hunting Public, and also my wife and her parents. We also talk about Jordan's Midwest deer road trip, as he is rolling out this week to hunt both in Missouri and Kansas. We also introduce a new segment called, Lake Reads Internet Arguments About Wildlife Conservation. It should be a funny one to do from week-to-week. We also discuss that latest Dig Deep episode! Learn More About the PATH program here: https://youtu.be/C1E749v3H8Y?si=CuKTAS4HRrQaKzF7 Find Consumed on YouTube here: https://www.youtube.com/@consumedhunting Learn More about Southern Ag Credit here: https://southernagcredit.com/

This episode is about the simple act of getting out and voting. It is important, and election day is less than a week away. Baker Leavitt joins us to discuss some shocking statistics about lack of hunter and outdoorsman participation in voting in America. For more information on Vote4America: https://www.vote4america.org/

So, before we dive into this one, lets set the stage. In the aftermath of the chaotic year of 2020, We started to see a lot of residual impacts and new buzz words coming out regenerative farming sustainable agriculture factory farming is bad. orgranic grown is the way to go. What does cage free even mean? we also saw a revived movement in supporting local farms and businesses. Here’s the thing, I know enough to know that these topics are important- land conservation and soil and water quality, not to mention the foods that most of us consume. I know everyone on this podcast are fans of wildgame, myself included, but I also know virtually none of live off of nothing but wild game 24/7, and not to mention that regenerative term is starting get thrown around in wildlife management circles as well So the real question is, is the hype is real?- I’m no farmer, I’ve never raised livestock so in efforts for all of us to get to the bottom of this I’ve called in subject experts- To my surprise, in doing research for this particular podcast episode I learned of two regenerative farms right here in my home state of Mississippi. Home Place Pastures- a grass fed beef and pork opperation in Como, Mississippi and Riley Family Farms a pasture poultry farm in Holly springs,MS and lastly, we'll talk to Kyle Lybarger of the Native Habitat Project Between these 3 guests we’re going to find out once and for all what regenerative farming and native habitats really mean, and why it’s so important for conservation, wildlife, and our every day lives. More on Home Place Pastures: https://homeplacepastures.com/ More on Riley Family Farms: https://www.rileyfamilyfarms.com/ More on Native Habitat Project: https://www.nativehabitatproject.com/

Corporal Bradley Starling is an MDWFP (Mississippi Department of Wildlife Fisheries & Parks) officer and is part of their K-9 unit. Back in July, He and his K-9, Charlie were able to successfully track and safely recover three young children that had gone missing in Monroe county, Mississippi. Both of them were later awarded a medal of valor for their efforts.

Last week we made the commitment to try a new style of deer hunting before the next episode came out, and we kept our promise. This week's episode was recorded right after we returned from the whitetail woods and learned exactly what not do in terms of calling in a doe. We also discuss a new project for Jordan in the habitat segment, a 200-inch deer killed in Mississippi in an unorthodox and comical manor, a 101-year-old man killing a buck, and the continuing controversy surrounding the upcoming vote on mountain lion hunting in Colorado. Check it out. To find the Consumed YouTube Channel go here: https://youtube.com/@consumedhunting?si=1grBx_uo4oJoYUiY To learn more about Southern Ag Credit go here: https://southernagcredit.com/ To learn more about Open Season Properties go here: https://openseasonproperties.com/