The Wild Trips That Transformed a Scientist

Outside Podcast

Sports, Wilderness

4.4 • 2.1K Ratings

🗓️ 18 May 2021

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Biologist M. Sanjayan has traveled to remarkable places around the world, crossing a vast desert in Namibia, tracking man-eating tigers in Bangladesh, and studying a despised rodent in California. Along the way, he’s become a well-known television personality and an outspoken advocate for an approach to conservation that’s less about fencing off wilderness and more about safeguarding nature to benefit humanity. In this episode of our Wild Files series, Sanjayan, now the CEO of Conservation International, relives the journeys that spurred him to look at our relationship to the planet—and each other—in a whole new way. This episode of the Outside Podcast is brought to you by the all-new 2021 Ford Bronco Sport, a 4x4 SUV with seven available G.O.A.T. modes that enable it to go over any type of terrain. Learn more at ford.com/bronco.

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0:00.0	This episode of The Outside Podcast is brought to you by the all-new 2021 Ford Bronco Sport.
0:06.9	Smart and rugged, 4x4 SUV, engineered for your outdoor lifestyle.
0:12.8	Inside the Bronco Sport are purpose-built features from an especially committed team.
0:18.4	I would probably say I was for something when I designed my first car officially.
0:22.5	Officially, I like that.
0:24.0	That's Interior Design Manager Scott Anderson.
0:27.2	It was born and raised in Dearborn, Michigan, home of the Ford Motor Company.
0:32.3	As a kid from Dearborn, right?
0:34.3	One of your biggest dreams will be to work on something like a Bronco.
0:37.7	Scott's team was on a mission to craft an SUV that made it easier for people to enjoy their
0:43.6	time outside. This had them developing features like two adjustable floodlights in the lift gate.
0:49.8	So let's say you're pulling into a campsite, sun's going down, and you want to set up camp.
0:53.8	The lamps will shine 30 feet behind the vehicle and a few feet into the cargo area.
0:58.7	So you can sort of lay out your tent, your cooking surfaces, get your fire started,
1:04.4	in a space where you can see what you're doing.
1:06.2	Then there's the available five-way configurable rear cargo management system.
1:10.8	You heard from a lot of people,
1:12.2	jeez, I got all these wet snowboard boots and I got my sleeping bag, my backpacks,
1:16.6	a dirty and wet stuff, need to stay separated from the dry stuff.
1:19.7	The clever system lets you create dividers and shelves for your gear.
1:23.6	And when you get to base camp, it becomes a fold-out tape.
1:26.7	We thought it would be nice to be able to give people a place to have a clean dry spot
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