What is the Texas Campfire Podcast?

Hosted by Mark Hubbard, a South Texas ranch broker with deep roots in the ranching world, this podcast is all about the land, the people, the stories, and the lifestyle that make Texas unlike anywhere else.

Mark grew up with red dirt under his feet in Deep South Texas, surrounded by ranching, wildlife, and the values that come from life on the land. After years of building a career in ranch real estate and traveling across private ranches from the Red River to the Rio Grande, from the Piney Woods to El Paso, he has seen firsthand the beauty, history, and hard work behind Texas ranch life.

On this podcast, Mark will sit down with landowners, ranchers, cowboys, ranch foremen, wildlife managers, hunters, outdoorsmen, and everyday people who carry the stories of Texas on their backs. You’ll hear about family histories, failures, success stories, wild hunting memories, ranching traditions, and the boots-on-the-ground work that keeps this way of life alive.

Some stories will be inspiring. Some will be hilarious. Some might be hard to believe. But every one of them will be rooted in a love for Texas, ranching, wildlife, and the people who make it all possible.

So pull up a chair, gather around, and join us at the Texas Campfire Podcast.

Life is always better when you have dirt under your feet.

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Transcript

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Hello, my name is Mark Hubbard, and this is the Texas Campfire Podcast. I'm just a South Texas boy whose grandparents gave me the awesome opportunity to grow up in the ranching world of deep South Texas as a child and as a young man. And that those times with my grandparents with that red dirt under my feet, it built a passion in me for Texas and ranching and wildlife and everything that goes with it. I knew at that stage in life that I wanted to stay close to that ranch, to the ranching world, and I was going to do everything to stay there. I developed a career later in life in the real estate business. I became a licensed salesman at the age of 19, and I failed miserably. I was too young and too naive, didn't have the contacts, and just didn't know what I was doing. I failed. But I stepped back and I kept swinging. I went through several different stages in life as a real estate appraiser, doing ranches, as a property tax consultant, and I initially I eventually got myself worked back to where I needed to be, became a licensed broker, and I've been a ranch broker ever since. It's taken me to ranches across the state of Texas, and it's just been a wonderful life. So the reason that I'm here today is to share a lot of this stuff with you. I've had access to so many private ranches across the state of Texas, uh from the Red River to the Rio Grande, uh from the Piney Woods all the way over to El Paso and everything in between. I've seen the land, I've seen what Texas has to offer. I've met the landowners, uh amazing people that love the land. Some of them, their families have been there for 150 years, some of them for 10 years. Uh, but it doesn't matter. It doesn't matter because they're all a part of the history of the great state of Texas. So I want to spring forward using this podcast to share all these things with you because I know there's so much awesome stuff out there that's going to be interesting to you. I'm going to bring those landowners to you. We're going to sit down, I'm going to interview them, and they're going to share all their stories about being ranchers in Texas, their family histories, their failures, their successes. It's an awesome story, and they all have great stories to share. I'm also going to bring you those the ranch foremen, the cowboys, the wildlife managers, the hands, the boots on the ground, the guys that are out there every day taking care of the things that you and I love so much. We owe them a great deal of gratitude. So it's with this I tell you, please join me here at the Texas Campfire Podcast. We're going to be sharing all of those things with you. I'm also going to bring you so many different personalities, some that'll be familiar with you or to you, uh, as hunters, as outdoorsmen, some of them you've never heard of. Uh, but they're all fascinating people, and we're not going to be serious about this all the time. It's going to be so fun. I'm going to bring you some people with some of the craziest hunting stories you've ever heard, things you won't believe, maybe justifiably so. But we're going to have so much fun with it, and I'm so excited to share you with you my passion for ranching in the state of Texas and everything that goes with it. There's so much to share. I'm really excited about it. So please pull up a chair and join me at the Texas Campfire Podcast. And remember, life's always better when you have dirt under your feet.