Speak the Language Podcast

Our friend Michael Hunter is back for round two with the STL Podcast. We discuss the challenges of operating a restaurant during a pandemic, rehash old stories of deboning deer legs in front of a vegan protests, and most importantly, we talk about his new cookbook that is coming out soon! Talking about cooking and wild foods is always a fun conversation and Michael is the perfect guest for it! Che...

We went into the mountains in the search of bull elk and came back with some stories worth filling your ears with. Join us as we pick apart the wild adventure that makes up time spent in elk country! We discuss having a bull elk at 2 yards, Wilbur's intense calling style, smelling a rutty elk for the first time, and much more! Check it out! 

We got the chance to sit down with Country Music Artist, Jon Langston, to talk hunting, the path to a music career, the acceptable number of doves to miss, pandemic struggles, killing backyard gobblers, and much more! Jon is a great guy and gave us a great conversation! Check it out! 

Dove Season is this upcoming weekend. Bow season for whitetails is right at a month away. We are so close to fall hunting season in the South being in full-swing that it's hard to contain our excitement. We talk about dove fields, finding new hunting spots, pre-season scouting, indicators that the spot you found is good or bad, Red Lobster biscuits, and much more. Check it out! 

Ted Nugent is not only one of the most notable faces in the hunting community, he is also one of the most passionate and driven individuals when it comes to the subject of protecting hunting rights and the values our country was founded on. In this episode, we talk about EVERYTHING; bow hunting, Fred Bear, controversial game laws, the riots going on, finding solace and release in the woods, and mu...

We drove so far south in the state of Louisiana that the world stopped and the water started. We spent a full day in the marshes, trying our best to catch speckled trout, red fish, and anything else that we could get to bite. It was an incredible day of fishing thanks to our friend, Travis Lovell, of Reelin Good Charters. Travis has spent his entire life fishing in the bayous of Southern Louisiana...

One way to beat the heat and boredom that can sometimes set in during the summer months is to hit the water. Jordan and I  collectively regroup after a weekend of fishing in the gulf; discussing things such as shark phobia, wade fishing, stingrays cruising by your ankles, and sight fishing triple tails. Most importantly however, we talk about a upcoming fishing trip to South Louisiana with Jimmy a...

A lot of topics topics are covered in this weeks STL Podcast. Fishing competitions with your buddies, whether or not front-boating should be illegal, successfully popping wheelies on a tractor, and getting trail camera pictures of bucks in the pre-season are all part of this episode. As always, we're not short on good stories and laughs, so check it out!!

Jordan and I decided to go back over some of the previous hunting seasons and pick out the most embarrassing/funny stories that never quite made it to video. Some of these things happened when the camera wasn't running, some of them got lost in the editing process, and some of them were just so embarrassing at the time that we just didn't want anyone to know what happened. Needless to say, I don't...

Dr. Robbie Kroger is the founder and mind behind Blood Origins, a nonprofit organization with the mission of sharing the truth around hunting through story telling. In this episode, we dive into deep detail of the subject; how and why this organization came about, the challenges hunting faces around the globe, the heyday of hunting in Africa, the New Zealand Tahr situation, Ricky Gervais's views o...

Maycee Barber is the #10 ranked fighter in the UFC flyweight division. She is also someone who loves to hunt, and simply just enjoys the outdoors. This conversation was both fun and incredibly interesting. It's one of those that you do not want to miss. We talk about all kinds of things including girl scout cookies, punching people in the face for a living, what it's like growing up in a hunting f...

Logan Cooke is a punter for the Jacksonville Jaguars, a former Mississippi State football player, a Mississippi native, and of course, an avid outdoorsman. One of our favorite things to do on this show is find people who have an interesting story to tell, and Logan is exactly that. Join us for a fun conversation that includes NFL football, public land hunting, the COVID-19 pandemic, duck hunting i...

Matt Branch is a family man, a form LSU football player, an avid outdoorsman, and a survivor of a nearly fatal gunshot wound that happened accidentally while duck hunting. This is podcast is a story about gun safety, but its mainly a story about survival, determination, and perseverance. There's a whole lot to learn in Matt's story about how to respond to adversity. 

Full-time song writers and passionate outdoorsmen are words that accurately describe Dan and Reid of The Brothers Hunt. These two boys have a story worth telling and definitely worth you listening to. From having the desire to make it as songwriters in Nashville, living a in small houseboat to make ends meet, and finding time to hunt during all the madness. We talk about setting goals, life on the...

With it being the week before Father's Day, we wanted to do something special. Father's In The Field is an organization that specifically targets fatherless boys. Their mission is to rekindle and establish the spirit of boys who have been abandoned by their fathers; mentoring them one-on-one in life skills through outdoor activities, and by sharing a Christian understanding of our Heavenly Father’...

Sadly, turkey season has come to an end, so it's time to kick off the line of Summer 2020 podcasts. This week Jordan and Lake will be taking a walk down memory lane; talking about some of their earliest experiences with hunting. Everything from deer drives with three-wheelers and rock-filled jugs to backyard wrestling matches are covered in this conversation. If you're looking for a lot of laughs...

We’ve got one more turkey trip up our sleeve to finish off the spring and we also have some new territory to explore as we start to wrap our minds around what deer season prep is going to look like over the summer months!    

Jordan left us in kansas to go on a week-long turkey binge! We catch back up with him this week to see what all he managed to get himself into, and what he learned along the way! 

This podcast episode is way different than any of the one's we've ever done. It's real. It's honest, and I promise it's worth a listen. In hunting scenarios, in global pandemic scenarios, or just in life scenarios we will face hardships. What's important is how we deal with them. 

Turkey hunting in the Midwest is has become one of our favorite trips of the spring. They grow them big in this region of the country and they like to gobble long and often. In this episode, we talk with our friend Tommy Nails, of Whiskey Ridge Hunts, who has been guiding deer and turkey hunts here for over 20 years. We talk about some of the key differences between turkey hunting here as opposed...

Lake talks with Professor Mike Chamberlain about the potential implications of the COVID-19 Pandemic on wild turkey populations, especially in the Southeast. It's no secret that all of us here love turkey hunting. So naturally, we want do our best to ensure the availability of good turkey hunting in the future. 

Every turkey hunter knows what its like to experience a streak of bad luck. Well, we had a whole week of it! In this episode we talk about about a Mishap filled week where we did nothing but get whipped day in and day out! It was entertaining to say the least! So come join us and for a few hard-learned lessons and maybe get a laugh or two at our expense!

Turkey hunting when done correctly, and ethically is one the best and most gratifying pastimes we have the privelege of taking part in. It's a challenging and respectful pursuit that makes us better hunters and better woodsman. It drives us to be better conservationist and stewards of the natural resources we've been given to manage. In this episode we discuss, what we perceive to be, one of the b...

Today's episode is about as live action as it gets. We're talking about a successful hunt that happened this very morning! Every turkey that you get a chance to kill is special, no doubt, but when it's an old long spurred gobbler that you've been after for several seasons, it makes it a little more sweet. That's exactly what we were able to do this morning, and we want to go over the decisions and...

Part of what makes turkey hunting so worthy of our obsession is the extreme highs and extreme lows that it offers. There's no in between. You're either on top of a mountain after a few great hunts, or fighting frustration because you just can't seem to make it all come together. We experience an emotional turkey roller coaster this week, and are luckily still here to tell the tale. We have missed...