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Take a new journey across the US to find how we work, play and interact with the outdoors.
AMERICA OUTDOORS with BARATUNDE THURSTON returns with a brand-new season as the best-selling writer, podcaster and comedian travels the country to uncover our complex relationship with the outdoors. From biologists saving snapping turtles to BIPOC mountain bikers, Baratunde meets a fascinating cast of characters with one thing in common: a passion for being outside.
NOW STREAMING
Take a new journey across the US to find how we work, play and interact with the outdoors.
AMERICA OUTDOORS with BARATUNDE THURSTON returns with a brand-new season as the best-selling writer, podcaster and comedian travels the country to uncover our complex relationship with the outdoors. From biologists saving snapping turtles to BIPOC mountain bikers, Baratunde meets a fascinating cast of characters with one thing in common: a passion for being outside.
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Baratunde gets ready to try snorkeling in Manatee Springs
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Baratunde Thurston canoeing down the Suwannee River in Georgia.
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Baratunde sits down for some dessert and conversation with Tony "Greasy T" Smith and the Buffalo Soldiers Motorcycle Club
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Baratunde holding net while fly fishing at the Albert Pike Recreation Center
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Baratunde shooting a gun with competitive shooter Kayle Browning and Anne-Marie Doramus
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Rodney Paul, director and founder of Raptor Rehab of Central Arkansas holding an owl and looking at camera
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Steve Speth pointing something out for Baratunde at Chaco Canyon National Park
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Biker kids pose for a photo in Gallup, New Mexico
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Baratunde and Mick Rose talk about Team Indigenous Roller Derby.
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Baratunde Thurston and arborist Dustin Marchello talk about the importance of forest bathing.
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Baratunde poses with the Jingle Dress Dancers in the Bonneville Salt Flats
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Amy McDonnell explains the science experiment to Baratunde.
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Baratunde Thurston concentrating as he climbs up a rock face at Big Cottonwood Canyon.
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Baratunde sawing through the ice at the ice harvest while Ken waits to break off the ice to send it to the Ice House.
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Baratunde, Farmer Steph and the kids gather moss for their wreaths in the forest in Maine.
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The Ice Mermaids warming up in the sun after a chilly dip in the ocean
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About the Show
America Outdoors with Baratunde Thurston is hosted by author, cultural activist, and Emmy®-nominated host Baratunde Thurston. He is the executive producer and host of How to Citizen with Baratunde, which Apple named one of its favorite podcasts of 2020. This series is produced by Part2 Pictures for Twin Cities PBS (TPT).
Baratunde Thurston’s ability to hold space for hard and nuanced conversations juxtaposed with his sense of humor, inquisitive nature, and his ability to synthesize themes of race, culture, politics, and technology earned him a Social Impact Award from iHeartRadio. His TED talk, which sits at over 5 million views and counting, received compliments from MSNBC’s Brian Williams who called his talk “one of the greatest of all time.” Thurston has worked for The Onion, produced for THE DAILY SHOW, advised the Obama White House, and wrote the New York Times bestseller How to Be Black. He serves on the boards of BUILD and the Brooklyn Public Library and lives in Los Angeles, California. As a child, he was a Boy Scout and still remembers how to build a fire without matches.
Part2 Pictures creates award-winning, premium television, film and digital programming across a range of formats and platforms. Focused on stories told through a human lens, Part2 comes to every project with a people-first/story-first approach to make viewers feel connected to the ever-changing world. Since launching in 2007, Part2 has partnered with leading networks and streamers, worked with televisions' leading talent, filmed around the world, and earned dozens of awards and nominations including Emmys, Gotham Award, IDAs, Gracies, Critics Choice, James Beard Media Awards and a Sundance Jury Prize.
Twin Cities PBS (TPT)’s mission is to enrich lives and strengthen our community through the power of media. Founded in 1957, TPT now operates as a public service media organization that harnesses a range of media tools to serve citizens in new ways — with multiple broadcast channels, online teaching resources, educational outreach and community engagement activities reaching more than two million people each month. Over its history, TPT has been recognized for its innovation and creativity with numerous awards, including Peabody awards and national and regional Emmy® Awards.
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