They say that when one door closes, another one opens. And in our case, we are swinging our RV door open to a new adventure with a new podcast and a whole new way to celebrate the National Parks community we've come to know and love. We're drawing Parklandia to a close and launching Hello Ranger, an independent podcast designed to showcase and celebrate communities within the national parks, and how these places unite us together.
Find us at the Hello Ranger website and on Facebook, and be sure to join our Facebook group community page, because together we are “United by Nature.”
Thank you so much for coming along on our journeys for two seasons! We love you and hope you'll follow us into our next chapter.
Goodbye Parklandia, and Hello Ranger!
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Episode Transcript
Hi everyone. This is Brad and Mac Carouac and we're
the host of PARKLANDI of the podcast produced by a
Heart Radio. They say that when one door closes, another
one opens, and in our case, that means we're swinging
open our r V door to a new chapter, a
new podcast, and a whole new way to best celebrate
the national parks community that we have come to know
and love. That means we're saying goodbye Parklandia, Hello Ranger.
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After two amazing seasons of Parklandia, it's time for us
to go off on our own with a brand new
independent podcast called Hello Ranger. For fans of Parklandia, we
love you and know that we'll continue covering national parks
across the country in the same style that we've done
with Parklandia, but this time we're taking the spotlight off
as us as our veers and putting it more into
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the greater national parks community. So we'll still be talking
about our experiences in the parks and all the crazies
shenanigans we get ourselves into, but we want to focus
more on the communities that these parks inspire. Not only
will we be exploring that on the podcast, but We're
doing so with a brand new website, Hello Ranger Community
dot Com and a forthcoming Hello Ranger app do later
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this year, which will be an immersive and interactive social
community resource for national parks lovers everywhere. In the meantime,
our website features are prove ambassadors from all over the
country who will represent different styles of travel to our
national parks. They write about different topics like education, camping, lifestyles,
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diversity and regions. Look for engaging article content roundups, and
even fun podcast interviews and takeovers. We're so excited about
what the future holds with Hello Ranger, and we hope
you'll follow along. You can find us on Instagram and
Twitter at Hello Ranger U s A, and like us
on Facebook at Hello Ranger, and you can keep your
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eyes peeled from more content in the future to include
a Pinterest and a YouTube, and you can listen and
subscribe on Apple Podcast, Spotify, Stitcher, or wherever you get
your podcasts. We also have an exciting patron program which
includes a bunch of bonus content including extra episodes, mini series,
live episodes, and more. And you can learn all about
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that and everything else at Hello Ranger Community dot com.
To our loyal Parklandia Rangers. We appreciate you and we
couldn't have done any of this without your help. As always,
thank you for listening.
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