Wonder Outside

Feb 08 2024

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Wonder Outside with Ranger Ted is a variety show for nature and adventure. Each episode will feature a conversation with a Wonder Guide designed to help everyone of all abilities and ages to get outside more easily, more often and more confidently. Wonder Guides will come from all walks of life: authors, actors, thought leaders, wilderness adventurers, guides, teachers and more. The core message of this show is to motivate you and your loved ones to connect to your sense of wonder, awe and adventure. Each show will have informative, inspirational and fun segments including: Where in the World Are You Game; The 3 x 3 Main Street Challenge; There's No Planet B and Where Art Meets Nature. Ted Mattison, also known as Ranger Ted, is a Certified California Naturalist, professional hiking guide, park docent, actor, teacher, director, author, husband, father and lifelong outdoorsman.

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Introducing Hometown Explorers: The Wonder Outside 3 x 3 Challenge

Feb 08 2024 23 mins

Jason Milligan of the G.O. Get Outside Podcast and yours truly introduce Hometown Explorers: The Wonder Outside 3 x 3 Challenge. We will be interviewing people from all over the country and asking them, what exciting, fun, beautiful outdoor spaces are near them.? Specifically, what's 3 minutes away? What's 30 minutes away? And what's 3 hours away from their home. Our

Finding Your Listening Point with Rolf Thompson

Apr 27 2022 82 mins

“Let’s go deep in the woods!” Rolf would say to his mother and by his tone you might think he was about to enter the Yukon. But the three-year-old was standing in his back yard in St. Louis Park, Minnesota. The Foshay Tower in downtown Minneapolis just a few miles away.Rolf, bundled up in his snowsuit, was about to venture off into a relatively small collection of trees in an

The Blues as Lens to the Outdoors with Mike Mattison

Nov 10 2021 75 mins

Anything you see. Anything you hear.Mike Mattison, the two-time Grammy award winning singer, songwriter for the Tedeschi Trucks Band and the Derek Trucks Band knows the blues. As a singer, composer, author and student of blues music Mike guides us along the many routes in which the blues meets the outdoors. The effect of the blues and how it's been impacted by the landscape ha

Heart, Soul and Mangroves with Bradley Rutherford

Oct 21 2020 88 mins

Bradley Rutherford knows his mangroves. And his turtles, barracudas, kayaks, caves, estuaries, needlefish, sharks and much more! And if you can’t find him at the water’s edge on Grand Bahama island he’s probably nearby somewhere filling up a garbage bag with the litter that other’s left on the trail or taking care of the home that he loves. His work with container ships as

Storytelling With Weather

Oct 07 2020 82 mins

Melissa Constanzer, a professional broadcast meteorologist with AccuWeather, will run for miles in temperatures ranging from 9 degrees above zero to 97 degrees above zero. That wide spectrum of commitment to getting outside combined with her thorough knowledge and passion for weather is why she is our Wonder Guide for episode 14.Stories that Help EveryoneDespite her vast knowledge

Why, How and Where to Wonder

Sep 26 2020 54 mins

Yours truly is your Wonder Guide for episode 13! I'll break down some simple, easy, fun and useful ways to wonder.This episode I’m going to be your Wonder Guide. And I’m going to do that by giving you some concrete steps that will inspire and motivate you get outside more easily often and confidently.WONDER is the key. It’s easy to speed right on by that word. We’ve go

Quiet Invigoration in Nature with Josh Doughterty

Sep 10 2020 59 mins

Josh Daugherty’s desire to connect to nature is palpable. He’ll do anything possible to immerse himself in a rainstorm, wade into a river, throw a frisbee barefoot and all along remind us that ego is the enemy. He also might be skinny dipping in that lake so – fair warning. He’ll also build a thriving outdoor community out of nothing by aiming his frisbee at the light pole

Spiritual Experiences with Doug Wallace

Aug 25 2020 75 mins

Doug Wallace is eighty-four years old going on fifty-five. He’s up by 5:30 am and if his wife, Peggy Hunter, isn’t up by six, he’s going to wake her because it’s time to get in the canoe. They canoe every day (weather permitting) from ice out in May to closing up the cabin in late September on Lake Vermilion.Lake Vermilion in northern Minnesota is big. In fact, it’s the 5

Loon Runways and the Need to Be Outside with Mark Hennessy

Aug 12 2020 81 mins

Loons Need Long RunwaysNot many people in this world know that a loon is one of the few birds with solid bones, which makes them heavier than most birds of similar size. Still fewer would know what to do when a loon can’t take off from a lake that’s just beginning to freeze over entirely. Enter Mark Hennessy, loon-runway-builder. Or perhaps ice-breaker for loons should be his

Music Meets Nature Round Up with DJ Shark

Jul 28 2020 58 mins

DJ Shark is our Wonder Guide in Episode 9 where we look at the first 8 Where Art Meets Nature Segments. A replaying of these segments will really inspire you to get outside...or write or song....or sing a song =)!