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Well, welcome to the hard men podcast. I of course am your host Eric Kahn and joined today by Jared Sparks.

Jared you've been on this show before you're doing a lot of great stuff.

Thank you so much for agreeing to come back on to chat.

Well, thanks for having man excited excited to be back. So,

Jared, we were talking about your masculine prowess just a minute ago. And I just feel like

we have to start with this story.

Somewhere, somehow you had pig meat on your back

and you were carrying it.

And I want to know how that happened.

How did you get in that position? Yeah, well it was quite the

story. Actually it was pretty a normal story. Actually we had a group of guys at

church and we had a guy that came to us and he said, hey listen, we went

wild boar hunting down in Texas last year

why don't we get a group together and and why don't we go hunting down there and I thought

man that's that's a great idea so we took 11 guys from the church we go down to Tex

Arcana Texas and brother we I felt like we walked days but we ended up we had a tracker and everything we just we walked about seven miles and then we came up on some pigs and we got seven of them and then our

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