Hey, this is outside in. I'm Nate Hedgy. Fair warning. This is not an ad. This is the real show.

But over the weekend, I tried on a pair of those Apple Vision goggles.

Now I've always laughed them off as looking really goofy because you

know honestly they do look goofy but wholly beep. I watched this virtual reality

clip that shows an NBA game from the sidelines and no joke it felt like I was literally there

I mean at one point the basketball flew right at my face and I actually flinched.

It was immersive.

And that's kind of how I feel when I listen to an episode of KUOW's podcast, The Wild, with

Chris Morgan.

I don't know what they're using for mics, but their sound design is immersive.

This season they're exploring national parks and you feel like you are right there right alongside

host Chris Morgan. So today on the show, we want to share an episode with you.

And buckle up because you're about to travel to the Redwood forests of Northern California.

These are the sorts of giants you might think would be more immersive in video, but you're wrong. Trust me. You might even flinch. The Okay, I could tell already I'm going to get neck ache this week.

I've just jumped out of my truck at the side of a long winding road. It's dark and the sky is really heavy.

Oh, lightning! Lightning. I've driven 600 miles from home to this forest in Redwood National and State Parks

and as soon as I crossed the border into this protected park just like that I'm in a grove of some of the tallest trees on the planet.

I've never seen anything like it. Immediately it feels like another world.

These are giant coastal redwoods and their home here in Northern California is a powerful place, raw and energetic and ancient dripping with life and very wet.

But as I carry on a bit further down the road, it's a different story.

A reminder of the grim past. I'm driving down this road and it's eerie because it's just lined as far as you can see with massive

redwood stumps. It feels like driving through a redwood graveyard in some ways.

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