Outside Podcast
Outside’s longstanding literary storytelling tradition comes to life in audio with features that will both entertain and inform listeners. We launched in March 2016 with our first series, Science of Survival, and have since expanded our show and now offer a range of story formats, including reports from our correspondents in the field and interviews with the biggest figures in sports, adventure, and the outdoors.
- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 34 minutes
- Episodes
- 415
- Years Active
- 2016 - 2025
What You Learn Running Toward, Rather Than Away, From a Tornado, With Pecos Hank
Spend time outdoors, and you’ll eventually spend time in brutal, even scary weather. Dangerous winds, flash flood-inducing rain, and vision-erasing whiteouts are sometimes the cost of entry. By the s…
00:47:33 |
Wed 17 Sep 2025
Running as Art, With Olympian and Filmmaker Alexi Pappas
Extreme adaptability and versatility can be found throughout the animal kingdom, but may have found their peak expression in Alexi Pappas. As a runner, Pappas was a two-time All-American for Dartmout…
00:43:00 |
Wed 10 Sep 2025
Running Toward Love, with Lawlor Coe and Family
After Lawlor Coe lost his brother Hunter to tragedy, he did everything he could to avoid his pain. Then he laced up his joggers and began to run. At first, it was to elude his grief. But over time, a…
00:31:15 |
Wed 03 Sep 2025
African Surfing and the Ocean as a Source of Joy, with Professor Kevin Dawson
The blissed out, swell chasing surfer with a single-minded focus on the next great ride is a pervasive outdoorsy archetype that’s completely at odds with the lived experience of many surfers. Take hi…
00:43:54 |
Wed 27 Aug 2025
What Life in the Grand Canyon Tells Us About Life Everywhere Else, With Cindell Dale
We love our outdoor archetypes, the folk heroes who reject the trappings of the 9 to 5 life and solely focus on the trail, the powder turn, or the frothing whitewater. River guides live a romantic su…
00:45:55 |
Wed 20 Aug 2025
What’s Harder Than the Ironman World Championship, with Chelsea Sodaro
We love our stories of human endurance, from Shackleton’s famed expedition to the 11-hour Wimbledon match to days-long ultramarathons. Hell, even the Coney Island Hot Dog eating contest is broadcast …
00:50:03 |
Tue 12 Aug 2025
Recreating Hollywood’s Greatest, Dumbest Road Trip Of All Time, with Zack Courts and Ari Henning
In celebration of summertime road trips, this week we’re revisiting an episode from our archives that is one of PaddyO’s favorites. In 2021, two men set out to do something seemingly impossible. And …
00:28:12 |
Wed 06 Aug 2025
Getting Outside of the Hollywood Star Machine, with Tony Cavalero
Famous Hollywood actors aren’t outdoorsy, right? They’re too busy being…well, famous to enjoy the outdoors and certainly too fancy to listen to a podcast about the surprising impacts of a life outsid…
00:42:36 |
Wed 30 Jul 2025
LIVE! To Alex Honnold, Fear Isn’t Real (From the Outside Festival)
Alex Honnold is the most accomplished and daring rock climber since the invention of the chalk bag. He grabbed global attention for his free solo ascent of El Capitan in Yosemite National Park, immor…
00:52:31 |
Wed 23 Jul 2025
How (Literal) Pants-Wetting Anxiety Can Clarify Life, with Sierra Schlag
Throughout professional skier Sierra Schlag’s childhood, her Japanese heritage and cultural practices made her the target of racist bullying. Then, when she traveled to Japan to visit family as a chi…
00:39:00 |
Wed 16 Jul 2025
David Blaine and Diana Nyad on the Art of Endurance
For decades, legendary magician David Blaine has completed record-breaking stunts that defy the impossible: He has held his breath for more than 17 minutes, was buried alive for seven days, frozen al…
01:04:03 |
Wed 09 Jul 2025
Surfing The Waves Of The American Culture War, with David Litt
In 2020, David Litt, former senior speech writer to President Obama, moved from Washington DC to the Jersey Shore, and felt the need for a jolt of life amidst the pandemic. So he did what anyone woul…
00:58:22 |
Wed 02 Jul 2025
How To Walk Through—And Away From—A Digital World, with Craig Mod
Craig Mod may think in binary code, but he does so from the perspective of a visual artist. Mod is…well, a lot of things. He’s a writer, a photographer, and a digital media designer. And he’s likely …
00:50:23 |
Wed 25 Jun 2025
LIVE! Matt Lyons, Katie Burrell, and Eeland Stribling Don’t Take This Seriously (From the Outside Festival)
Three comedians walk into a festival…no, this isn’t a joke set up. This is exactly what happened in Denver, Colorado, at the second Outside Festival. Professional giggle-makers Matt Lyons, Katie Burr…
00:56:10 |
Wed 18 Jun 2025
Father’s Day Special: Dad-Level Adventuring in the 70s, With PaddyO’s Dad
If your father is like PaddyO’s dad, he probably likes to spin a yarn about his wild youth. Hearing about a father’s daring, scruffy, comedy-of-errors adventures is hilarious, but it also gives you a…
00:28:41 |
Wed 11 Jun 2025
How Music Responds to the Place Where You Make It, With Goth Babe
Griff Wasburn, better known to the world as musical act Goth Babe, had a drive to create since he was a child. He grew up in Tennessee running wild in the woods, skateboarding, and riding bikes on se…
00:44:16 |
Wed 04 Jun 2025
Climbing Everest is Easy Compared to Surviving an Abusive Parent, With Melissa Arnot Reid
Melissa Arnot Reid’s mountaineering resume is a jaw dropping list of accomplishments; hundreds of summits of the world’s tallest, most dangerous peaks, including becoming the first American woman to …
00:44:43 |
Wed 28 May 2025
Bouncing Back From Heart Attacks, With Chef and Angler Ranga Perera
In and around his home of Bozeman, Montana, Ranga Perera is highly sought after as a fly fishing pal and even more highly sought after as a personal chef. There’s nothing unusual about that combinati…
00:42:01 |
Wed 21 May 2025
The Benefits (and Drawbacks) of Adult Beginner-ness, With Mirna Valerio
Everyone knows it’s important to try new things, but combating that internal voice, which begs us to stay within our comfort zone ain’t easy—even for a professional tryer of new things like Mirna Val…
00:43:43 |
Wed 14 May 2025
Taking the Battle of the Sexes Outside, With Katie Burrell
You probably know Katie Burrell from Instagram, where she’s built a sizeable following by skewering outdoor stereotypes and having World Cup race ski-sharp takes on how relationships live and die on …
00:42:07 |
Wed 07 May 2025
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