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Hello, welcome to another episode of the Pop Bear Hikes.

Okay, today on Pop Bear Hikes, we have with us a YouTuber, fellow podcaster and

fellow backpacker, John Kelly, welcome to Pop Bear Hikes.

Thanks a lot, man, I'm excited to be here.

I've followed your YouTube, listen to some of your podcast episodes, I think I'm just

about caught up now, and I really enjoy them.

Let's talk about you.

Let's start off by you telling us a little bit about yourself.

Okay, I guess I'll just kind of talk about the whole backpacking thing for me.

Back in 2015, I just gotten off a surgery to take care of a hernia that I had, and I was

probably weighing in around £290 some odd pounds, I think, and a buddy of mine called me

up, and he said, hey man, why don't we get together?

I want to ask you about joining me on an adventure, and I want to give you a little background

of this guy.

He had just gotten done running a hundred marathons and a hundred days from Los Angeles,

California to New York City.

He's hiked the entire Appalachian Trail.

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