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Speak the Language Podcast
by Lake Pickle & Jordan Blissett
Hosted by Lake Pickle and Jordan Blissett, the Speak The Language Podcast is made with the goal to put out content that centered around Hunting, fishing, conservation, and all other things involving the natural world. Join us as we swap stories from our favorite times spent in the woods, discuss current events, seek out answers, and take the occasional dive into history! This podcast is meant to engage, entertain, and equip outdoors men and women from all walks of life. Join us!
Episodes
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Bucks That Make You Puke
Boy, do we have a pile of stories for y'all this week. I just returned from a 9-day jaunt in the Dakotas duck hunting. Jordan has spent most of his time awake deer hunting here at home, which involves a bunch of crazy tales, one involving a bizarre encounter with an alligator. Check it out!…
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Keith Polk
Keith Polk is a highly respected forester, known for both timber and wildlife management. He is also a life-long Mississippian, church elder at Crossgates Baptist Church, a dedicated hunter, and long-time friend of the show. Enjoy this conversation with him and Jordan because Lake went to duck…
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Missing Bucks & Breaking Ankles
How has deer season only been open for 5 days? Seriously, it seems like so much as has happened already and do we ever has some entertaining stories to share with y'all. We have everything from 160 inch bucks inside of 25 yds, broken hearts, and broken ankles! (well, sort of) Also, we have a…
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What Makes You Realize It's Fall?
Fresh back from the elk country of New Mexico, and fresh off the John Deere tractor, we have a pile of stories and news to share this week. The biggest news is that Mississippi has a new law for hunting deer over bait, and frankly, it's now easier than ever to bait deer if that's what your into.…
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The Great Moose Hunt
This wonderful week of entering late September we are joined by special guest, Josh Thrash, a life-long Mississippian, turkey hunter, and relatively new moose hunter. Throughout full-length discussion, all kinds of topics are covered that are worth your time, the most intriguing being the story…
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Baiting Laws & Moose Charges
If you're around central Mississippi today be sure to stop by AgUp in Canton, MS for the Deere Season kick-off event from 3-8pm! It's going to be a heck of a time! in this episode we talk failed velvet hunts, cell cam ethics, proposed law changes involving deer baiting, moose charges, and...
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How Expensive Is It To Bow Hunt?
Man, oh man do we have a full show for y'all today! Hopefully all of you are coming off of a burner of a Labor day weekend filled with dove hunts, cookouts, and college football! In the news we have the 2026 waterfowl population report, a very well thought out email from a listener, and serial...
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Food Plots & Yosemite
Holy smokes it's September. All this time waiting and enduring the endless summer days and all of the sudden we are back in action. The dove opener is this weekend, velvet season will be open soon, along with elk, and a whole lot more. To top it all off, we have a week's worth of news to catch up...
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Funky Bucks & Roadless Rules
Jordan and I have a pile to talk about this week. Some of it's fun, some of it's not. A listener sent in picture of a strange looking buck deer, we see a disturbing video a whitetail doe killing her own fawn, we talk about the border wall at Big Bend, and the proposal to rescind the roadless…
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Don't Believe Everything You Read
Welcome to the first Video version of the STL Podcast! You can check it out on our new YouTube channel "STL Show". We have a barrel full of news to talk over this week including: -shooting hornet nests out of trees - deer hunting with dogs controversy in South Carolina - More CWD drama - a…
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Hope For Us All
Thanks to a lot of your support, we believe that the Prairie Pothole region for now is safe. Rest assured, we will keep all of you in the loop as more news surfaces. We also talk about a recent poaching case that involved a young man in Ohio that will hopefully land at redemption down the road....
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The Government Wants Us To Hunt More Deer
It's still summer. It's still hot, but we are close enough to fall hunting seasons and cooler weather that we can at least talk about it, dream about it, and report on current news that will affect the upcoming year. and yes, the government is literally asking us to hunt more deer. Check it out!
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We Took Our Wives To Africa
Believe us when we say, we just returned from the most incredible hunting trip of our lives so far- and luckily for us, we got the opportunity to take our wives! In this episode, we have a full-on discussion, debrief, and breakdown of our incredible time in Zululand hunting buffalo, kudu, Nyala,...
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Aligators & Fighting Roosters
Summertime is here but do not fret, my friends, there is still plenty to get into and talk about. The Mississippi Alligator hunt draw is upon us, and unbeknownst to us, there is a fair amount of controversy around that process and the hunt itself. There was a new record set for Channel Catfish....
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Crawfish, Snakes, Turkeys, and Comment Sections
It's a wrap up for the final week of the MS turkey season. It's tales of giant snakes and hoards of crawfish swimming upstream like salmon. It's a brand new segment of people arguing on the internet about wildlife conservation. It's a little bit of everything. Check it out!
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Two Turkey Stories & A Couple Superstitions
Welcome back to Springtime STL, where our thoughts, words, and episodes are consumed by wild turkeys. In this episode we have fresh turkey updates to share with you. Spoiler alert: They're both humdinger stories. We also talk a bit about turkey hunter superstitions. Check it out!
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Running From Fire & Towards Turkeys
Holy smokes has it really only been one week of regular season!? For some reason it feels like we are already in the thick of it. Maybe it's the warm weather, the humidity, or maybe odd acting turkeys. Whatever the reason, we have pile of stories to tell to get y'all all caught up. Check it out!
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Conversations From The Blind
This is unlike any other episode we have done before. We are recording an episode while we are duck hunting. Tune in as we misidentify birds, miss ducks, talk about deer updates, and more. Check it out!
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The Best Is Here
The whitetail rut seems to have arrived early, however Jordan has yet to capitalize on it. We took Jordan's young daughter duck hunting and had a blast, I accidentally gave my wife the scare of her life getting up to go duck hunting this past weekend, and we still are pondering when the ducks…
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Thanksgiving You All Our Mallards
What's the deal with land taxes, or inheritance taxes, or taxes in general really? Who or what is to blame about mallard declines in the Mississippi alluvial valley, and as always, hunt updates. Check it out!
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Is Buck Hunting Easier in the Midwest?
This episode contains stories from deer hunts during the Midwest whitetail rut in November. As well as discussions around the noticeable differences between whitetails in the southeastern U.S versus the midwest. Of course, Jordan nor I are biologists, but it makes us wonder sometimes if they are...
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Deer Camp Drama
News updates- including the alleged black bear attack in Arkansas, an interesting fact about deer antler size in Mississippi, and the roadless rule including the Ambler road project in Alaska. Most importantly a deep discussion about what causes and the complexities of deer camp drama! to learn...
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Steward Link- How To Make Wildlife Conservation Work For You
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!
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Summer Podcast Series Kickoff
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!
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They are Still Gobbling Somewhere
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!
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Turkey Hunting Stories To Entertain You While You Drive To The Woods
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...
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Early Season Turkey Struggles and Successes
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,...
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Dave Owens : The Pinhoti Project
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
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How To Scout and Find Turkeys In Early Season- BONUS Turkey Story
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...
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SPECIAL DROP: Charged By A Turkey?- Stories From The Spring Woods Series with Real Turkey Audio
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…
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SPECIAL DROP- Stories From The Spring Woods Series with Real Turkey Audio- part 1
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!
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In Name Of Wild Turkey Conservation
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...
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Understanding Waterfowl- with MDWFP's Houston Havens - The Dig Deep Episodes #5
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…
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Flooded Timber Mallards, Duck Dogs, and Bucks In Rut
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.
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The American Dream: Owning Your Own Hunting Land- with Thad Miller- The Dig Deep Episodes #4
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…
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Two Whitetail Bucks In Two Days
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…
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Corporal Bradley Starling: Finding Three Missing Children- MDWFP K-9 Unit
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.…
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Planting Food Plots
Food plot are consistently one of the hottest topics in the whitetail hunting world. What do I plant? When do I plant? How do I plant? These are just a few of the hundreds of questions that come along with the subject. This week, we take the subject and dissect it from one end to the other, in...
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All That Panic Over A Target
Archery season is virtually here, and it's past time to start getting ready. I think all of us that bow hunt can agree that getting out and shooting your bow is one of the most fun and necessary things to do to get prepared. that is, unless you have target panic. This summer, I had the worst…
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A Long Lost Game Bird: Quail in the Southeast Part 1
For the next few weeks we are going to be discussing a single subject in a more in depth manner than we have ever done in the history of this podcast.but First, let me pose a few questions that may make you think. Right now, while your listening to this podcast, whether you’re in driving down the...
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Restoring A Native Species- The Black Bear Program
We talk with Anthony Ballard, the Black Bear Program Coordinator in the state of Mississippi about the status of black bears in the state. We learn about the history of black bears in the state, their general life cycle and ecology, and also what types of research has been done along with what is...
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New Roads, Food Plots, and Trail Cameras with Brad Farris
We are into November, A cold front is moving in, and we finally have enough rain in the forecast to justify planting food plots. This episode is all about plotting, planning, strategizing, and taking what was learned in the first year of hunting a new place and adjusting for this deer season that...
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My Brother’s First Turkey Story
In this episode I sit down with my older brother, Brett Pickle, to talk about his very recent, first successful, turkey hunt. Even though the hunt itself happened quick, this has been well over three years in the making. Check it out!
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That time the hens charged a coyote
Let's catch up on the action of spring turkey season so far. We've had hens charging at a coyote, very cooperative osceola gobblers, a bonafide sneak hunt, participating in turkey research projects, and more!
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Logan Stark- The Triple 7 Project
Logan Stark is the Producer of Content at Black Rifle Coffee Company and is in charge of the creation and dissemination of social media content. He served in the United States Marine Corps as a Scout Sniper. He went on to multiple deployments, including serving in Afghanistan. Logan is going to…
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A Near Elk Experience
Garrett Grey is a Primos Hunting employee of over seven years. Having Focussed his time on product development and management, he and Lake sit down to discuss his latest trip to elk country with the Primos team to see how some of these new calls work in the field. They also discuss what it's like...
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The Most Wonderful Time of Year
Brad and Lake discuss their last week and half spent in the mountains of New Mexico. It has been an action packed time to say the least. We talk about the different phases of the elk rut and how that changes your strategy, choosing which shot angle to take, pack outs, water holes, and much more!
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The Good, The Bad, and The Whitetails
William McKinley is the deer program coordinator for the state of Mississippi. We discuss the upcoming velvet season in great detail. The reasoning they had for instating it, The current state of baiting and CWD, and much more. check it out!
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Water
There are so many things going on in the world today that impact hunting, fishing, conservation, and really the natural world as we know it. Today we discuss alligator hunting seasons, the Pearl River hitting flood stage, the massive amount of land loss due to climate change in coastal Louisiana,...
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Rain Delay
We are in the last bit of the Mississippi turkey season. In today's conversation we catch up on the highs and lows of what's been happening since the last episode. This includes Iowa gobblers in the wind, lack of gobbles in Arkansas, silence at Kudzu, and a whole lot more. Check it out!
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Hosted by Lake Pickle and Jordan Blissett, the Speak The Language Podcast is made with the goal to put out content that centered around Hunting, fishing, conservation, and all other things involving the natural world. Join us as we swap stories from our favorite times spent in the woods, discuss current events, seek out answers, and take the occasional dive into history! This podcast is meant to engage, entertain, and equip outdoors men and women from all walks of life. Join us!
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