- All right y'all it's time to pull up something awesome
from the feeds of social media that you may have missed.
This is what I'm liking.
(upbeat jazzy music)
When state national parks shut
their gates to visitors last year,
one park ranger in Northern California stepped up.
While we sat indoors
with Cheetos stains on our sweat pants,
he started doing weekly Facebook lives
to bring the great outdoors to everyone stuck at home.
Which is super cool.
Check this out.
- This is the Redwoods.
Hello, it's Griff.
And I'm in Humboldt Redwood state park.
Violet's leaves are edible most of the time.
But if you eat too many,
you might get diarrhea
because that's what happens, okay?
We can learn about these things
because like we just found out that
our flying squirrel
was a different species three years ago,
we don't know everything.
We have a lot of questions.
And we don't want things to go extinct
before we understand how important they are.
- I love him. (crowd applauds)
These videos have been a viral hit
with adults and kids alike.
Let's get park ranger Griff on the line right now.
What's up Griff?
- What's up Kelly?
Oh my gosh.
Welcome to Humboldt, Redwood state park.
- Thank you
- Kelly I don't know if I'm going to sing that
because you know, you're the singer.
- You're, (laughs)
I love you.
Like from your videos.
I totally want to go take a walk in that park with you.
I want to go on a hike with you.
You seem like so much fun.
- Come take a walk.
This is the most beautiful place on the Earth.
You should definitely come check it out.
- I love a national park.
There's nothing, literally I've dragged my kids.
I'm so into it.
And what made you want to start doing the videos?
What, you just felt bad for everybody
that you get this beautiful scenery
while we're all stuck inside?
(crowd laughs)
- Well you know what,
I've always been like an outdoors person,
like deep in the woods.
And I barely knew what a computer looked like 10 years ago.
And then one day I started making videos
of our projects and stuff like that.
And I put one on social media.
Didn't even really know what social media was.
And it was actually me dancing, it wasn't me talking.
Oh, there it is! (audience laughs)
- And it went super viral.
And then I was like, wow.
You know, maybe I could reach people
with the conservation message
because that's my real, you know, that's my real passion.
I love dancing too, don't get me wrong.
If you ever want to come here and,
- Dance it out?
- We can sing and dance to the Redwood.
The power of videos was amazing.
So when COVID hit, people couldn't come to the park.
And so we wanted to bring the park to them
and it's been an amazing journey
because we've reached more people via videos
then we ever would have reached
visitors actually come to the park.
So it's been a blessing.
And we've been able to tell people
about like the wonderful inheritance that they all have
and that they should definitely come visit.
- Yeah, absolutely.
It's gotta be inspiring for people that,
I don't know why you wouldn't have wanted.
I love Nashville.
I think it's so beautiful,
that we keep this land so special
and nobody runs it.
So what do you, what do you recommend
people do to celebrate Earth Day?
- The way I'd like to challenge people to use Earth Day,
is to use it like New Year, New Year's Eve.
So, you know, on New Year's Eve,
you have like all your New Year's resolutions.
I want people to have an Earth Day resolution.
Just, it could be one thing.
It could be just go to a park,
and spend time there,
play have a good time.
Because when you start to understand something,
you become more empathetic.
And once you become empathetic and informed,
you're more likely to take compassionate action.
And that's what makes a solutionary.
And we need solutionaries now more than ever.
- Griff, you're like one of my favorite people
to ever come on this show.
I want you to be a regular.
I love you.
Everything you just said is so important and so doable.
I'm liking your posts right now, alright?
Not just for the dancing, but more for the knowledge.
All right.
Well that's not all.
This season we've actually partnered with pilot G2 pen.
The go to pen of the Kelly Clarkson show
and they want to recognize great people doing great things.
And that is definitely you my man.
So they're donating a thousand dollars
to the Humboldt Redwoods Interpretive association
on your behalf.
That sounds cool, right?
- Whoa!
So grateful.
They will very much appreciate it.
Thank you so much Kelly for making the world a better place.
You are a solutionary.
And I really appreciate it.
- Oh man, you are too, man.
I love having you on the show.
I can't wait to have you back, all right?
- Awesome. I'd love to come back.