Bonus Stamp 01: National Park Hot Takes with Kai Tran

Kai Tran is back for a Bonus Stamp, and this one is a little less interview and a lot more two national park people having opinions.

In a funny way, it almost feels like a crossover with the Chuck Sams episode, since Chuck and Kai somehow end up referring to each other across their conversations.

We get into national park hot takes, crowds, Gateway Arch, the parks people love to criticize, and the ones we will defend anyway. We also spend an unreasonable amount of time discussing national park patches and the important question of what exactly we are supposed to do with them. A jacket? A blanket? Apparently this requires serious consideration.

This was genuinely one of the most fun conversations I have recorded, and a chance to keep talking about all the small, weird, personal things that become part of loving the parks.

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