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The WHTL Podcast - Whitetail Deer Hunting Tactics, Stories & Expert Guests

#356 - The Spook Spann Saga: Truths & Trials Exposed

The WHTL Podcast - Whitetail Deer Hunting Tactics, Stories & Expert Guests

Jake Hofer

Publicland, Nature, Deerhunting, Trailcameras, Sports, Wilderness, Outdoors, Exodustrailcameras, Naturestudies

2.4600 Ratings

🗓️ 17 September 2024

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Dive into the controversy-riddled saga of Spook Spann, a name synonymous with colossal deer and a potential controversy. From joyous hunts to courtroom confrontations, Spook unpacks his side of the decades-long ordeal. Tune in for a gripping two-part series starting with the full lowdown on the Kansas & Tennessee tangles, leading to an arsenal of white tail tactics next week!

• Spook's take on the Kansas hunt

• Legal battles and the Lacey Act

• Witch hunt? 

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0:00.0

What is going on? Welcome back to the Exodus podcast. And you see the name, you see the guest,

0:17.0

and it's probably one you would not anticipate us doing.

0:25.6

And I had a little bit of internal debate and I thought to myself, you know, Spook has killed a lot of giant deer, a lot of giant deer, more giant deer than probably anyone else,

0:30.6

period, point blank.

0:33.6

And with that, I had some curiosity.

0:36.6

And then, you know, I've known the name Spookspan for a while, and that's all I knew.

0:41.3

I googled some things and, you know, you see the controversy regarding Kansas and then what happened in Tennessee.

0:47.3

So I reached out to him and we hopped on a call, discussed basically, hey, are you willing to talk about everything are you willing to

0:55.9

answer all these questions he said absolutely i'll answer any question i have nothing to hide and

1:01.2

that's exactly what he did in this episode so before you make a judgment like we all have been guilty

1:07.6

of doing just encourage you to listen to the episode form your own hear a story, and want to thank Spook for being so transparent sharing the story.

1:16.2

I know it's not fun to talk about. It wasn't fun to ask some of these questions. It's a little

1:21.1

uncomfortable for me. I like talking about deer. I like talking about positive things, but

1:26.0

I think that we have all been guilty of assuming things

1:31.1

and just reading things on the internet and not just going to the source and asking specifically.

1:37.7

And it's a lot harder to find bad things about someone than it is about good.

1:41.9

And I think that you guys will enjoy this episode.

1:44.3

This is going to be a two-part series.

1:45.5

First part is basically all the information regarding the Kansas Tennessee deal.

1:51.6

He's been exonerated in Tennessee.

1:53.4

You get to hear the full story in Kansas.

1:55.1

And I think that you guys probably have some formulation of what you think the story is or what happened,

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