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
Butterflies on the Wall—Part 2
The border wall had an all star cast of political operatives trying to get it built. The butterflies had Marianna Trevino Wright. With the spotlight on The National Butterfly Center, Marianna finds h…
00:28:21 |
Wed 16 Oct 2024
Butterflies on the Wall—Part 1
How did a US congressional candidate and the director of the National Butterfly Center end up in a physical altercation on the US border with Mexico? When contractors showed up in Mission, Texas to b…
00:28:40 |
Wed 09 Oct 2024
The Disappearance of the Monarch King—Part 2
Was Homero’s death an accident? Or murder? And who would want Homero dead? Reporters Michael May and Zach Goldbaum head to Mexico to investigate the death of conservationist Homero Gomez Gonzalez, wh…
00:29:33 |
Wed 02 Oct 2024
The Disappearance of the Monarch King—Part 1
Monarchs are considered the king of the butterflies. In Michoacan, Mexico conservationist Homero Gomez Gonzalez was considered the king of the Monarchs. Until one day in 2020, when he disappeared wit…
00:23:54 |
Wed 25 Sep 2024
A Suspiciously Straightforward Treasure Hunt
The world's most interesting video game designer just hid a treasure in the woods. What's he up to? Jason Rohrer has been pushing the limits of game design for 20 years, but his latest creation takes…
00:30:37 |
Thu 19 Sep 2024
Ada Limon Wants Picnic Tables to Make You Feel Something
When Ada Limon, America’s first Latina poet laureate, was tasked with bringing poetry to people who otherwise might not be exposed to it, she knew just where to put it: National Parks. The celebrated…
00:31:19 |
Wed 11 Sep 2024
The Banks Growing Money on Trees
A quarter of the money at the world’s largest banks goes directly to funding fossil fuel projects. But what if it didn’t? In this episode, reporter Cat Jaffee calls customer service at her bank—one o…
00:33:31 |
Wed 28 Aug 2024
The Mystery of the Mis-Labeled Mollusk
Emojis are silly. But sometimes something silly gets lodged in your brain and you can’t stop thinking about it. Recently, reporter Meg Duff noticed that her phone was mis-classifying a handful of ani…
00:34:01 |
Wed 21 Aug 2024
The Story of Outside’s Funniest Story
What’s stranger than a story about people stuffing ferrets down their pants? How about that story leading the writer to create one of the largest, most successful digital media companies, ever. When …
00:36:06 |
Wed 14 Aug 2024
The Olympic Athletes Being Required to Take Drugs
Since the beginning of women’s sports, a question has loomed: who qualifies as female? Tested follows the unfolding story of elite female runners who have been told they can no longer race as women, …
00:40:54 |
Wed 31 Jul 2024
The Battle for Swimming’s Suits and Running's Soul
When a technological breakthrough gives some athletes a major advantage, how should we think about the victories, the medals, the world records? Is new technology unfair? Is it cool? Does it matter w…
00:27:06 |
Wed 24 Jul 2024
How Fat Makes You Fast
Some of the most hardcore athletes in the world are elite race walkers. Moving faster than most people can run, their sport pushes the limits of endurance, pain tolerance, and fueling. Canadian race …
00:38:14 |
Wed 17 Jul 2024
In Search of a Quiet Mind
A few years ago, after suffering a mental health crisis during a mountaineering expedition, National Geographic photographer Cory Richards walked away from his climbing career. In 2016, after a terri…
00:47:35 |
Wed 10 Jul 2024
What You Can Learn from More than One Octopus
After My Octopus Teacher won the Oscar for Best Documentary, the producers realized they had left an important voice out of their movie—indigenous South Africans who had been silenced and separated f…
00:47:41 |
Wed 26 Jun 2024
Caroline Gleich's Biggest Adventure Yet
Caroline Gleich is a renowned climber and skier, a climate activist, and now the Utah democratic party’s candidate for US Senate. But what would she actually do in Washington? And does she have a cha…
00:57:53 |
Wed 19 Jun 2024
A Pro Kayaker Walks into Some Hip-Hop Bars
What does a professional kayaker do when he realizes he’s in the twilight of his career? He releases a rap album, of course. Producer Paddy O’Connell sits down with pro kayaker and musician Rush Stur…
00:23:00 |
Wed 12 Jun 2024
Hello Darkness. Let's Get Weird
Three days in total blackout darkness doesn’t sound that hard, until you hear this story about someone who tried to do it. Following in the footsteps of a famous quarterback who made headlines for hi…
00:41:19 |
Wed 05 Jun 2024
The Craziest Lost Dog Story Ever
If your family dog ran off on its first camping trip, how far would you go to get them back? Scott and Shelby Prue had to ask themselves this question repeatedly on a trip to West Virginia when Holly…
00:45:29 |
Wed 22 May 2024
A Totally Different Way to Look at the Northern Lights
Is the Aurora Borealis magic, science, or something in between? For photographer Hugo Sanchez, the Aurora is an obsession he discovered when he picked up a camera to photograph a meteor shower. He wa…
00:30:28 |
Wed 15 May 2024
The 200-Mile Race to Tell the World about Everest
When the British Empire finally put boots on top of the world on May 29, 1953, the news was entrusted to a young man named Ten Tsewang Sherpa, who ran 200 miles to Kathmandu. Likely the last piece of…
00:49:46 |
Wed 08 May 2024
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