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
The Runners Who Went So Hard They Were Never the Same
Athletes train for years to overcome pain, exhaustion, and fatigue. But some people take it too far and are never the same again. In this episode from 2019, Outside contributor Meaghan Brown started …
00:44:11 |
Wed 01 May 2024
The Subtle Art of Catch and Release
When PTSD changed the course of Chad Brown’s life, the subtle art of catch and release fly fishing changed it back. In this episode, the filmmaker, fisherman, soldier, and survivor tells the story of…
00:44:05 |
Wed 24 Apr 2024
Breaking Down Point Break
Movies don’t get much better than surfer-heist popcorn flick Point Break (1991). Movies don’t really get much worse than surfer-heist popcorn flick Point Break (2015). What happened? Each week on the…
02:11:51 |
Wed 17 Apr 2024
Your Rain Jacket May Soon Be Illegal
'Forever Chemicals' keep mud out of your boots, and make rain jackets waterproof, but they’re about to be illegal. Back in 2013, footwear maker Keen decided to try and figure out the formula for keep…
00:38:35 |
Wed 10 Apr 2024
Alaska is the Center of the Universe
Where did eagles come from? Why are grizzly bears so mean? In this Audible Original excerpt, host James Dommek Jr—the great-grandson of a famous Iñupiaq storyteller— travels around the state listenin…
00:28:56 |
Wed 03 Apr 2024
Wild Animals Taught Me to… Run!
Singer-songwriter David Lindes found his way into running with help from the most unexpected teacher: a bull moose. Growing up in Guatemala David had learned to ignore his body. Thanks to beatings by…
00:26:59 |
Wed 27 Mar 2024
On the Front Lines of NYC’s ‘Kittenpocalypse’
We think of New York as having a rat problem, but cats are doing just as much damage. They hunt staggering numbers of birds, they carry parasites that cause birth defects, they spread diseases that w…
00:35:52 |
Wed 20 Mar 2024
The Size Disadvantage
Look around the start line of an endurance race and you don’t see many tall competitors. Look on the podium, and you never see any. Why is that? Why don’t tall people win endurance races? Host Peter …
00:29:46 |
Wed 13 Mar 2024
The Trouble with the Internet’s Most Famous Moose
When Marty Moose strolled into Santa Fe looking for a mate, he became a viral sensation in New Mexico. But that did nothing to help his search for love—and it created big issues for wildlife managers…
00:32:53 |
Wed 06 Mar 2024
Way, Way Too Close to a Whale
People dream of boating or swimming with whales. But that’s based on the false assumption that they are gentle giants that don’t bother humans. But they’re not. And they do. Just ask Liz Cottriel and…
00:33:21 |
Wed 28 Feb 2024
Can Golf Be an Endurance Sport?
How do you make the best of a golf addiction? Add running. That’s the formula contributor Alex Ward tried to perfect a few months ago, when he started figuring out a way to turn his rounds of golf in…
00:34:34 |
Wed 21 Feb 2024
Do Couples That Ski Together Stay Together?
Adventures can provide fuel for romance, but only if you know how to take what you learned in the mountains back home. Just askPaddy O’Connell. Paddy loves two things: fresh pow, and his wife, Carly.…
00:32:48 |
Wed 14 Feb 2024
The ‘Into the Wild’ Bus Has Another Story to Tell
The abandoned vehicle where Chris McCandless died teaches us a lot about modern Alaska. Ever since Outside published Jon Krakauer’s feature about the young, adventurous drifter who attempted to live …
00:31:39 |
Wed 07 Feb 2024
A Wild Conversation with E. Jean Carroll
Before she became famous for her lawsuits against former President Trump, the writer took a road trip for an Outside story that had her asking total strangers if they had sex outdoors. Her destinatio…
00:25:29 |
Wed 31 Jan 2024
The President of Off-the-Couch Fitness
What’s an acceptable baseline of fitness? What should you be able to do off-the-couch? For some people it’s running a mile. For others, it’s a marathon. In the waning days of his presidency, Theodore…
00:31:40 |
Wed 24 Jan 2024
Training Like a Pop Star (Taylor's Version)
Is Taylor Swift an elite endurance athlete? On the Eras tour, the singer-songwriter is performing three nights a week, singing and dancing for as long as it takes most people to run a marathon. When …
00:29:28 |
Wed 10 Jan 2024
The Anti-Bonk Diet
After a certain number of hours, endurance races are basically eating competitions. We spend years training our bodies for peak performance on race day. Producer Maren Larsen wanted to know: how do y…
00:33:29 |
Wed 03 Jan 2024
Burgers, Palm Trees, and Buried Treasure
In-N-Out Burger’s iconic palm trees are a reference to buried treasure, but they also make the restaurant a very unlikely climate change indicator. As the chain expands into places where palm trees c…
00:25:36 |
Wed 20 Dec 2023
The Most Unexpected Way for an Athlete to Get Faster
We try to gain a competitive edge from things like nutrition, recovery, weight training, and new shoes. But what if becoming a parent does the trick? Ultrarunner Tyler Green was entering the biggest …
00:32:56 |
Wed 13 Dec 2023
Are We Done with the Endangered Species Act?
After 50 years, one of the most consequential environmental laws in U.S. history may no longer be relevant to the world we’re living in. Which makes sense: the ESA was written for a planet that was s…
00:29:01 |
Wed 06 Dec 2023
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