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He's gone to the dog.

My guest today is a gentleman I've wanted to have a conversation with ever since we became friends on social media a few years ago.

When I started this podcast, I knew right away that he was one of the people that I wanted to get on the show.

And when he consented to come on the podcast, I remember thinking, this may be our most,

or certainly one of our most interesting guests in the history of the show.

And there were several things that drew me to this gentleman.

And the first thing was his photos that he posted on Facebook with his dogs and his coon hunts.

And I kind of liked the way he took a no-nonsense approach to talking about his hunts.

It wasn't any bragging. It wasn't even blowing.

Just pictures of his dogs and pictures of the game they caught.

And then there was one thing that I particularly noticed was his beard.

You know, the Robinson boys there with Duck Dynasty made these long beard famous.

Well, our guest today certainly would qualify for that and has an awesome beard.

And then when I found out that he had the career he had and looked at some of the pictures that he posted when he was working, I thought, man, that's quite a transition.

Our guest today and I have a mutual friend in a guy named Bill Scheninger up in Ohio,

and I had told Bill that I was going to contact our guest,

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