I think the most boring people in the world are the people that don't challenge themselves,

you know, which I don't know too many of those people because I like to surround myself with folks that do want to be challenged.

Welcome to the Huntback Country Podcast, presented by Exo Mountain Gear.

In this episode, we're speaking with Stephen Arrada, a former green beret about his hunting experience, military experience, and how he recovered after medical retirement, including a great challenge that he did this past year in 2020, where he hiked the year.

Meaning, he did 2020 miles of hiking in the year 2020.

That comes out to five and a half miles a day for 306 to five days.

Super impressive stuff. We'll hear about that challenge as well as some of the lessons that Stephen has learned as a green beret, how he applies that to backcountry hunting, and much more.

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Alright, let's get right into this conversation with my buddy, Stephen.

Cool, Stephen, to kick things off, man. We'll get to an intro here first, but I was looking at where you're from, where you spent time, and I have a question first thing.

First, because we've internet argued about this. I want to know how you became a Bruins fan.

Okay, so that all started when I was a kid, and I'm glad you brought this up. So did you get Steve up to speed?

No, I mean, are a little back and forth.

We have. We've just been bantering since the 2019 NHL playoffs when my St. Louis Blues beeps your Bruins.

Well, you know, I just don't know why you're claiming the Bruins. That's what I want to know.

If you pay the refs off enough, you know, and they call it, you know, I have to get slide that in.

So how it happened was obviously growing up in Minnesota, the hockey culture, and I was a huge North Star's fan.

Well, when they packed up in the middle of the night and moved down to Dallas, I was like, okay, yeah, no, even as a young kid, it's like, yeah, I'm no longer a North Star's fan.

So my dad, what grown up, you know, him being a little bit older, that was back in the original six days.

And he was a Bruins fan.

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