Outside Podcast

Outside

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.

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Jul 16, 2019 · 1 hr 2 min
Dispatches: Bundyville, The Remnant
Journalist Leah Sottile reporting on the question of who owns public lands in the West continues with an investigation of two bombings that rocked the tiny town of Panaca, Nevada
Jul 2, 2019 · 28 min
The Doctors Prescribing Nature
Can a grassroots movement of physicians convince big health care that free medicine is the way of the future?
Jun 25, 2019 · 44 min
Sweat Science: The Mysterious Syndrome Destroying Top Athletes
A mysterious syndrome is leaving elite athletes lethargic, depressed, and unable to get out of bed
Jun 19, 2019 · 26 min
Why a Walk in the Woods Cures the Blues
Ecologist Chris Morgan always sensed that nature had healing power. But it wasn’t until he investigated the science behind forest bathing that he really understood why.
Jun 12, 2019 · 45 min
Science of Survival: Snakebit, Part 2
For the last 19 years, Tim Friede, a truck mechanic from Wisconsin, has endured more than 200 snakebites and 700 injections of lethal snake venom—all part of a masochistic quest to immunize his body and offer his blood to scientists seeking a universal antivenom. For nearly two decades, few took him seriously. Then a gifted young immunologist stumbled upon Friede on YouTube—and became convinced that he was the key to conquering snakebites forever.
Jun 4, 2019 · 37 min
The Radically Simple Digital Diet We All Need
Cal Newport, author of Digital Minimalism, explains how we need to reimagine our relationship with technology
May 28, 2019 · 40 min
Science of Survival: Snakebit, Part 1
When Kyle Dickman set out on a spring road trip with his wife and infant son, he was fueled by a carefree sense of adventure that had defined his life. Then he got bit by a rattlesnake in a remote part of Yosemite National Park. The harrowing event changed his entire outlook on the world. Now he’s on a quest to understand the toxins that nearly killed him—and trying to come to terms with a world where everything slithers.
May 15, 2019 · 39 min
Dispatches: Buried Treasure and Duct Tape
So you just found a buried treasure. Hooray! But wait, what do you do next? Are other treasure hunters going to stalk you day and night? Are you going to have to pay taxes on your new riches? How do you turn gold and jewels into usable money anyway?
May 8, 2019 · 22 min
Dispatches: Bob Ross’s Strategies for Survival
Bob Ross is one of the most beloved painters of his generation, and he focused almost exclusively on the outdoors. Depicting the “happy trees” and “friendly mountains” of Alaska and the greater western US for his TV show, The Joy of Painting,
May 1, 2019 · 38 min
Sweat Science: The Keto Conundrum
The ketogenic diet, a.k.a. “cutting carbs,” is all the rage in the fitness world. But is it better for you than any other kind of diet? And does it actually make athletes stronger or faster? These questions have been debated for hundreds of years,
Apr 17, 2019 · 41 min
The Outside Interview: Bill McKibben on the End of Nature
No one has done more to sound the alarm about climate change than writer and activist Bill McKibben. He’s been doing it since 1989, when he wrote his first big scary book on the topic, The End of Nature. Thirty years later, he’s still at it,
Apr 2, 2019 · 30 min
Dispatches: Can You Outrun Anxiety?
In 2008, Katie Arnold was hiking a trail near her home in Santa Fe with her baby daughter strapped to her chest when a man attacked her with a rock. Two years later, Arnold’s father died shortly after being diagnosed with cancer.
Mar 19, 2019 · 30 min
The Outside Interview: Steven Rinella Wants Hunters and Hikers to Hold Hands
As the host and creator of the MeatEater podcast and Netflix series of the same name, Steven Rinella spends a lot of time talking about hunting, fishing, and cooking. He is a proud voice in what’s often called the hook-and-bullet crowd.
Mar 5, 2019 · 39 min
Dispatches: Sports Recovery Secrets from Scientists
Recovery is the new frontier of athletic performance. The quicker you recuperate, the more you can train, and pro athletes across sports have been revitalizing their careers by taking time off. Now a wave of new recovery technologies are being pitched ...
Feb 20, 2019 · 32 min
The Outside Interview: Mindfulness for Peak Performance
Every day there’s more research showing the benefits of mindfulness. It reduces stress, lowers blood pressure, boosts the immune system, and may even slow the aging process. What we’re only starting to figure out, however,
Feb 12, 2019 · 34 min
Dispatches: The Mountain Bikers Fighting New Trails
Since the sport’s early days in the seventies, mountain bikers have carved illicit trails on public and private land. Pioneering riders create winding singletrack in their favorite nearby hills, then carefully share the location with only a handful of ...
Feb 5, 2019 · 27 min
Dispatches: Bianca Valenti Is on a Big Wave Mission
Over the past year, professional surfing has undergone a remarkable and very unexpected evolution. Beginning in 2019, the World Surf League is offering equal prize money to men and women at all of its events,
Jan 22, 2019 · 36 min
The Outside Interview: Using Pain to Reach Your Potential
Former Navy SEAL David Goggins has spent the past two decades exploring the outer limits of human performance, both in the armed forces and as an endurance athlete with more than 60 ultras under his belt. But what makes Goggins truly unique is the hard...
Jan 8, 2019 · 38 min
Sweat Science: The 3100-Mile Run Around the Block
There are a lot of really tough endurance races out there, but perhaps none are harder—both mentally and physically—than the Sri Chinmoy Self-Transcendence 3100 Mile Race in Queens, New York. The whole thing takes place on a single city block,
Dec 18, 2018 · 34 min
Dispatches: Can We Please Kill Off Crutches?
Almost everyone who’s used underarm crutches agrees: they are terrible. They’re hard on your wrists, they cause falls, they cause nerve damage. This is why almost every country in the world has abandoned them. Except the U.S.,