Trejo: Hello.

High-fives.

Trejo, voice-over: Today, Eeland has recruited family members and some folks from the community... Oh, OK, head butt.

I'll take it.

Trejo, voice-over: to help clean up the river.

Trejo: Who's excited to pick up trash?

Child: Me.

Trejo: Yeah!

So, Eeland, what are we going to get into?

I'm excited.

Stribling: So, we're going to clean up trash along the South Platte River here.

We have, like, a section that we've picked out.

Everyone has their trash pickers.

1, 2, 3.

All: Save the river!

Stribling: Let's go.

Let's find some trash.

All right, let's do it, kiddos.

Child: All this trash is crazy.

Eeland: That's trash.

That's a good find.

Child: When you guys do this again, make it competition-based because kids will do anything to win.

Trejo: A prize, a badge.

Child: Yeah.

Advice from a kid's perspective.

Trejo: I feel like this should be a no-brainer program.

Like, high school kids or something, before you graduate, you got to have X amount of community service hours.

Stribling: Yeah.

Trejo: What was your degree again?

Stribling: So, my degree was conservation and wildlife biology was, like, my focus.

I've always loved animals, I've always loved, you know, wildlife.

My name Eeland actually means largest African antelope.

Trejo: Wow.

Stribling: Yeah.

So, my grandfather was a biologist, and he named me.

Trejo: Is that where you got the bug?

Stribling: He sparked that bug in me of...not even bug, just, like, I think I was just born to, like, just be a part of this natural space.

My best moments are doing this sort of stuff and onstage.

Those are, like, the two moments where I, like, feel... Trejo: In the zone... Stribling: Yeah, like, the happiness.

Yeah.

They're good kids.

You know, they're trying their best.

I love teaching them about different species of stuff.

There's a plant called the Canadian Gooseberry, right?

And on the plant it's green on top and underneath it has, like, little bumps.

Japritti canadensis, that's the Latin name, right?

Later in the day, I'm asking my students, I was like, "Hey, do you remember what that plant is called?"

And one of my students just goes, "She pretty, huh?"

[Laughter] Trejo: Do you talk about this side of yourself onstage?

Do you feel like you bring it onstage enough?

Stribling: No, I wouldn't say I talk about myself like this onstage.

I tell people I work with kids, but I don't want to, like, virtue signal and be like, "I clean up."

Trejo: You're instilling a very cool thing in the youth by doing stuff like this.

Stribling: Yeah.

It doesn't have to be anything like I'm planting a forest or anything.

It can literally just be picking up trash.

Trejo: I've collected a bunch of stuff.

Cigarette butts.

Child: I got a ketchup packet.

Trejo: That's the rare one.

I was looking for that one.

Stribling: It's like Pokémon Go, but for trash.

Trejo: I know.

Just-- you got to catch them all.