PARKS! Pt. 1: Social media gone 'wild'

Endless Thread

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Reddit, Technology

4.2 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 4 August 2023

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

"To avoid crowds, visit areas that are less crowded." These comically obvious, wise words come from the Twitter account — ahem, X account — of the National Park Service, who has been hitting it out of the park lately (get it?) with its social media content and reaping viral rewards. Who is behind this material? And why has a more than hundred year old government agency chosen to let its hair down on social media?

Amory and Ben talk to the National Park Service's lone social media ranger, Matt Turner, and to Sarah Southerland from the Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation, whose delightfully outrageous social media presence has captured the hearts and funny bones of hundreds of thousands of people.

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0:00.0	A programming note, this episode was written and recorded before Twitter became X, but
0:06.9	hey, it's still the bird app in our hearts, so that's what we're sticking with for this
0:11.1	one.
0:12.1	Okay, enjoy.
0:13.3	WBWR Podcasts, Boston.
0:26.4	Allow us for a moment to impart some free wisdom on you.
0:31.4	Most squirrel bites originate at the front or bite the end of the squirrel.
0:38.6	Technically the truth.
0:39.6	Here's another one.
0:42.0	This hike with proper supplies and equipment, remember, flippy floppies may lead to slippy
0:47.9	sloppies.
0:48.9	Man, I hate those slippy sloppies.
0:52.3	Hate them.
0:53.3	Okay, how about this?
0:55.0	It's okay if you fall apart sometimes, s'mores fall apart, and we still love them.
1:01.4	Damn, right to the core.
1:03.7	Right to the s'more.
1:05.7	All right, let's do one more to avoid crowds, visit areas that are less crowded.
1:20.7	That was the wizard himself, the architect of these wise words, posted from the Twitter
1:25.6	account of a government agency.
1:29.2	The CIA, just a government agency that isn't afraid to get a little wild with its
1:35.4	social media posts.
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