Speak the Language Podcast

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...

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...

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...

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...

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....

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 pi...

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 topi...

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 s...

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' perspe...

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, a...

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...

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...