Hey folks, Kevin Pang here. We've got a couple of more weeks until we bring you a brand new season approved.

And until then, you know the drill by now, it's Best Approof Award Season, where we bring you award-winning episodes from our back catalog.

As we can enter Women's History Month, we want to highlight this episode from 2020.

The film, God, I'm not going to go ahead and talk to me. from 2020. It revolves with the cycle

or like this cycle or it's like it's like it.

It revolves around one woman, Sakura Yoshida, a wild boar hunter in Japan.

She wrestles with what it means to hunt and eat game in Japan,

and reporter Hannah Kirsner tells us about the history of eating meat in Japan.

This episode help us win Best Podcasts in the International Association of Culinary Professionals 2021 Media Awards.

And with that, here's Sakura and the Wild Boers, hosted by founding hosts Bridget Lancaster.

I'm walking through a field behind my house in Japan looking for damage from wild boars.

I'm an Ishikawa prefecture which is on the sea of Japan side of Honshu, the main island, in a little town called Yamanaka.

Yamanaka actually means in the mountains,

and every direction I look there are mountains.

This field is totally overgrown with weeds,

and there are these big mud pits.

Ugh, there's one right there.

Dug by wild boars. And the boars, they come and they root around for worms and grubs and tubers and of course what they really love is stuff that we grow like grains, sweet potatoes.

This whole field that's all weeds now used to be rice paddies and vegetable gardens

But my neighbors who are mostly elderly have completely given up on trying to grow anything here. They just got too tired of trying to deal

with the boars, but I'm trying and so far my little vegetable garden's okay, but I'm worried because I see these footprints I see these mud pits and the bores are definitely around.

So my friend Sakura who's a hunter, agreed to come by and take a look.

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