From New Hampshire Public Radio, this is Outside In, a show about the natural world and how we use it.

This week on the show, we're bringing you something different, a story from somebody else.

How did you find this guy? Let's see that was so Aaron Jones

our other producer I think she found him right? Well wasn't it Ryan? Ryan knew this guy so we had a producer sorry this is not a very clear

straight for I think I think it was Ryan meet Caroline Ballard and Micah Schweizer

this is the duo that conceived of and created another local public radio podcast called Human Nature.

It's based in Wyoming.

Can I tell you what I love about your show?

Absolutely.

I love that everybody that you guys have on is a total character.

I feel like half the time we find somebody that you know we'll meet I don't know I met someone on a camping trip or you know

mica has has met people doing some of these recording sessions around the state we

meet these people and we're like wow they're they're such interesting people, I bet they have a story.

So then the story kind of comes second after we already know that they're engaging and that,

you know, they're an interesting person

and interesting people have interesting stories.

Well, I mean, sometimes we get lucky too,

where we hear about something that we think

has a story in it, and it just happens that you know the person who has

that story is able to tell it well so but I think you know I think a lot of it comes down to the fact that we just make space for people to talk and tell their story. So today on Outside In, the story from a couple of kindred spirits.

It's the story of a man, his walk through an unfamiliar culture,

and an unexpected friendship,

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