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Outside Podcast
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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.
Episodes
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The Surprising Link Between Competition and Community, with Eliot Jackson
You’ve surely heard the stories of a deeply competitive athlete whose drive to win has wreaked havoc on those around them. But can the positive attributes of competitive drive, like goal setting and persistence be harnessed to achieve something totally different than dominance—even something...
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BONUS! You’re Thinking About Jackson All Wrong, With Jim Ryan
Recorded live at Trailborn Jackson Hole, presented by Outdoor Collection by Marriott Bonvoy. What does Jackson Hole look like through the eyes of a big-mountain ski superhero who's just as excited to talk about the town's artists and musicians as its powder? On this special episode of the Outside...
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Circumnagivating the Globe–and Other Little Goals–with Anne-Marie Keane
Most of us, at some point in our lives, will put a goal aside, with every intention of coming back to it later on in life. Maybe it’s that marathon you always thought you should run. Maybe it’s going for that big promotion at work. Or perhaps it’s trying to learn how to play guitar or a new sport...
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Long Read! Inside the Surprisingly Intense World of Competitive Steinholding
On this week's Long Read, with Outside Magazine's Features Editor Fred Drier, we welcome you to fall—specifically, to Oktoberfest. Thanks to the magic of marketing, the German festival where people don lederhosen, drink beer, and sing songs has spawned a new tradition. Masskrugstemmen is the…
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People Raft the Grand Canyon For All Kinds of Crazy Reasons. Here are 7
This past July, host PaddyO checked the box of a bucket list adventure 20 years in the making: boating all 280 miles of the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon. And, of course, he couldn’t go without a microphone stuffed into his drybag. PaddyO interviewed a handful of guests, complete...
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Long Read! Rachel Entrekin Pushes the Limits of Human Endurance and Pets Every Dog She Sees
On this week's Long Read, Abby Wise, Brand Director for Outside, takes us into the world of ultra running that has watched in awe as American runner Rachel Entrekin completely dominates the sport's most grueling distances. Known as the Queen of Cocodona for her consecutive wins at the punishing…
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The Unexpected Upside to Getting Totally Lost , with Emily Miller
When’s the last time you were lost, as in “zero connectivity, a map you don’t understand, and tens of miles between you and shelter” lost? If you’ve ever been in that situation you know it awakens a kind of primal panic. It's not pleasant, but it's an amazing classroom, and it's one that Emily...
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Long Read: What Really Happened During the Broad Peak Avalanche
Today's Long Read with Outside Magazine Features Editor, Fred Drier, reveals the magnitude and devastating impact of the recent tragedy on Broad Peak, in the Karakoram Range between Pakistan and China. The 26,414-foot mountain is considered one of the challenging in the region, and 10 lives lost...
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Seeing Your Adventures Get the Hollywood Treatment, with Peter Heller
When Peter Heller moved to the Rocky Mountains, he arrived ready to split his time between paddling rivers and penning stories. What began with a shot-in-the-dark cold call led to a career in adventure journalism. Peter’s award winning body of work saw him on assignment in some of the most…
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Long Read! Seagulls Terrorized Ocean City, So Ocean City Fought Back
Today's Long Read with Outside Magazine Features Editor, Fred Drier, is for anyone who's done battle with snack-hunting seagulls on a beach trip this summer. Writer Andrew Zaleski tells the tale of how one beach community—Ocean City, NJ—got so fed up with the gulls dive bombing its guests, it...
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Why You Should (And Shouldn’t) Meet Your Heroes, with Heather Hansman
When it comes to the GOATs of outdoorsy heroes, who do you think of first? Chances are it’s not Grand Canyon rafting legend Georgie White, groundbreaking author and Adirondack wilderness guide Anne LaBastille, and backcountry powder-skiing trailblazer Dolores LaChapelle. And author Heather…
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Long Read! In Search of Michelle Vanek: Part 2
Today's Long Read with Outside Magazine Features Editor, is Part 2 of one of the most read articles in Outside's history: the story of the only hiker to eve rdie while seeking the summit of central colorado's most famous 14er. Ted Katauskas, a member of the search team that finally recovered her...
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How to Act Like a Crime-Solving National Park Ranger, with Tracy Spiridakos
When you watch a movie or TV show in which an actor portrays a skier or biker or climber or…whatever-er, do you believe them? Whether or not they can convincingly descend/ascend a mountain or a wall or a tree is often the difference between success and failure for shows set in the wilderness....
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Long Read! In Search of Michelle Vanek: Part 1
Today's Long Read with Outside Magazine Features Editor, Fred Drier, is Part 1 of one of the most read articles in Outside's history: the story of the only hiker ever to die while seeing the summit of central Colorado's most famous 14er. Ted Katauskas, a member of the search team that finally...
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Why You Should Take Your Grandma Camping, with Brad Ryan
Surely you know someone who has eaten the most nachos at apres. Maybe you have the fastest Strava segment on your local lunch loop bike ride. But if you’re aiming for a truly impressive outdoorsy goal, you’ll need more than quad strength to pull it off. Take Brad Ryan for example: Brad’s best…
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Long Read! Bears Keep Attacking People in Japan. We Traveled There to Find Out Why
Today's Long Read with Outside Magazine Features Editor Fred Drier, is about an issue you may have seen on social media or in the news: In Japan, bears have been attacking humans at an alarming rate. They attacked more than 100 people in 2025 alone, prompting the Japanese government to send the...
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Our Connection With the Ocean Goes Deeper Than You Think, with Kevin Dawson
It’s August, it’s hot, and everyone is dreaming of some beach time. But it’s not just the dog days of summer that pulls us to the ocean. It has a draw on all of us. Today, to celebrate that draw, we’re replaying one of our favorite episodes. Historian Kevin Dawon, a professor at UC Merced, has…
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Long Read! Low Water, No Problem. We Took a Packraft Down One of the Most Remote Rivers in the West
This week's Long Read, with Outside Magazine Features Editor Fred Drier, follows Owen Clark's journey down the Lower Owyhee River in Eastern Oregon. The trip was notable because it occurred during the river's lowest point of the year. Rather than using traditional rafts, the group used pack...
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When You Think About it, Why Does Anyone Run at All? With Abby Levene
If you’re listening to this podcast, you have likely jogged before. Maybe you’ve even run a Turkey Trot or local 5K. Suffice to say, you know that running is a time-consuming, physically exhausting sweaty mess. And yet, more people than ever are lacing up and taking to the trails right now. Which...
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Long Read! Hot Pools, Waterslides, and Cocktails: Inside the New Supersized Spas
This week's Long Read feature story, with Outside Magazine's Features Editor Fred Drier, follows writer Bill Gifford as he explores a European company called Therme, which is turning wellness concepts like hot springs, saunas, and cold plunges into gigantic destinations that look like bewildering...
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It’s True, Boating the Grand Canyon Will Change Your Life, with Steve Kenney
Steve Kenny has spent nearly three decades rowing boats and has the rippling shoulders and permanent tan to prove it. But under his ZZ Top-length beard, weather-battered Hawaiian shirt, and woman’s skirt he often sports, Steve is a lot more than an ace boatman. He’s a poet with a recently…
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Long Read! 40 Years, Zero Kills. We Spent a Weekend with Colorado's Least-Successful Elk Hunter
It's Saturday, which means it's time for another Long Read, with Outside Magazine's Features Editor, Fred Drier. This week's story is "40 Years, Zero Kills. We Spent a Weekend with Colorado's Least Successful Elk Hunter", by Devon O'Neill. This story profiles a guy named Carl Cochiarella, a...
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LIVE! Proof That World-Feeding Chef José Andrés is an Actual Superhero
Today, we are taking you back to the Ideas Stage of this year’s Outside Days festival in Denver. Outside’s media GM, Mary-Frances Heck (a James Beard Award winner herself) interviews chef and humanitarian José Andrés. José is an award-winning chef. Maybe you’ve been lucky enough to eat at one of...
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Long Read! To Hold His Breath for 24 Minutes, a Freediver Learned to Turn Off His Brain
It's Saturday, which means it's time for another Long Read, with Outside Magazine's Features Editor, Fred Drier. This week on the podcast, we have a story titled The Man Who Held His Breath for 24 Minutes, written by Sean Williams. This story was published in October of 2025. The story focuses on…
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Don’t Worry, the Yellowstone Super Volcano Won’t Kill Us All, with Ben Bradford
There are plenty of spooky things out there to make your palms extra sweaty: brown recluse bites, a flat tire in the backcountry, what to do when folks sing “Happy Birthday.” But things like climate change, nuclear war, or any other number of human world enders have a special way of keeping us up...
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Long Read! 32 Hours, 135 Miles, and 118 Degrees: What It Takes to Crew the Hardest Race on Earth
Check out the new Long Reads, now with a real human voice! Outside Magazine Featured Editor Fred Drier is here to spin a tale about ultrarunning grit, determination, and transcendence ... and we're not even talking about the competitors. You may have heard about the Badwater 135. It's a running...
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LIVE! Radiohead’s Ed O’Brien on How the Welsh Countryside Saved His Soul
Ed O’Brien is a songwriter and guitarist best known for his work with Radiohead, one of the most influential bands of the past three decades. What Ed isn’t known for—at least not until now—is the crushing mental health challenges he faced during the COVID pandemic. That “dark night of the soul,”…
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PaddyO’s in the Hot Seat in Our First Ever Mailbag
A few months back, we asked you to send us any and all the questions you have on what it takes to create a weekly podcast about the surprising impacts of a life outside. And, dear listener, you sent in some stellar inquiries. Today, angry Care Bear co-producer Micah Abrams is flipping on his mic...
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How to Deal With a Shark (and Other Wildlife Lessons), with Pippa Ehrlich
Even people who are uncomfortable getting in above their waist can be transformed by the ocean. But most of us connect with being on the water, not under it. What lies beneath our oceans is closer to another planet than anything on land, and the intrepid few who feel at home in this alien world…
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Why Raw Cookie Dough is Worse Than Cooked Possum, with Andrew Zimmern
If you’re a fan of food TV, you’ve probably seen chef and TV host Andrew Zimmern, whose hit show “Bizarre Foods” ran for 13 seasons and had him eating everything from guinea pigs to clotted cow’s blood. Andrew has made a career following the rumble in his belly—and a love of fishing and…
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Are You a “Struggle Runner”? With Mrs. Space Cadet (aka Erin Azar)
Chances are you have a storage space, garage, car trunk, and slash or cornucopia of plastic bins double stuffed with outdoor gear; anything and everything you need to get outside and get rad. But the most valuable piece of gear is something you can’t buy at your local shop: a sense of humor....
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BONUS! I Traced an Anthropologist's Deadly Obsession with the Dark World of Kanaima
Do you have opinions about our use of automated voices on the Long Reads episodes? Tell us! https://survey.alchemer.com/s3/8881338/11781bd91e29 Every now and then, the writers at Outside discover a story that is set in the outdoors, but is about something much, much larger—sometimes these stories...
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All Gas No Brakes Adventure, with Comedian Brooks Wheelan
Sandbagging is a right of passage in adventure. When a pal or significant other deliberately undersells the difficulty or intensity of an adventure in order to convince you to join, despite the fact that you’re either new to the sport in question or woefully under-trained slash unprepared for the...
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BONUS! Death on Shishapangma
Howdy pals. It’s Saturday, which means it’s time for another Long Read podcast from the Outside Archive. Tragic endings are all too common in the Himalaya, but the 2024 deaths of Anna Gutu and Gina Rzucidlo on the relatively obscure Tibetan mountain Shishapangma resonated beyond the cloistered...
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Vermonters are Tough; Adaptive Vermonters are Even Tougher, With Allie Bianchi
We will look for all sorts of things to fuel our adventures: the new electrolyte drink mix, the fancy sport goo, any and every type of futuristic gear. But mostly the best thing to get us outside is already inside of us in the form of a good old fashioned eff this attitude. Allie Bianchi grew up…
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Bonus! Want to Climb Mount Everest? The Training May Leave You Breathless
Howdy pals. It’s Saturday, which means it’s time for another Long Read podcast from the Outside Archive. We assume, dear listener, that you find Mount Everest interesting. We assume that because, over the decades, many of our most popular articles and podcasts have been about the world’s tallest...
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Cracking Open the Outdoors (And Maybe Spacetime) Through Sculpture, with Cannupa Hanska Luger
Unless you grew up inside a tumbleweed, chances are you remember your outdoorsy firsts. The first time your dad took you hiking, the time your mom helped you reel in your first fish, the first big family camp out or ski trip or the road trip to your first National Park. But there are those…
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Bonus! The Great Bedrock Clog Heist
It’s Saturday, which means it’s time for another Long Read podcast from the Outside Archive. Today’s story combines two things that you don’t expect to go well together but wind up really working, like peanut butter and cucumbers (try it, seriously). In this case, those two things are cool camp...
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The Unexpected Ultrarunning/Rock and Roll Connection, with Ben Gibbard
The Outside Days festival Denver is coming up fast, and you should come! If you need further convincing, check out one of our favorite episodes from the vault, which just so happens to feature the frontman for festival headliner Death Cab For Cutie: Ben Gibbard. The singer, songwriter, and...
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BONUS! Why Does Yellowstone National Park Turn Us All into Maniacs?
Howdy folks. PaddyO here with a special treat: We’re going to be sharing some of our favorite feature stories from Outside Magazine and Outside Online every Saturday. We call these our “Long Reads,” and they’re the kind of eye-opening, sometimes heart-pounding, always inspiring-you-to-go-outside...
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How a Normal(ish) Woman Got To The South Pole Unsupported, with Monet Izabeth
We love our spur of the moment adventuring. Maybe a pal calls us up for a self-inflicted, day-long backcountry sufferfest, maybe we decide on a whim to see how many miles we can push it on a bike ride, maybe we sign up for a Turkey Trot 10k with no training. But there is one woman who has taken...
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How Running Can Heal Your Body, Mind, and Community, with Anthony Clary
Endurance running is objectively terrible: the immediate quad and lung burn, the myth of runner’s high, the blisters, the chafing—running is brutal. And yet, there are brief moments when running can make you feel strong, capable, and proud. Just ask Anthony Clary. After a college football career,...
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What a Healthy Relationship With Your Phone Looks Like, with Catherine Price
We use our smartphones in service of our outdoor time all the time. We plan trips, track our runs, hikes, and bike rides. Use compass and mapping apps to better navigate outdoor fun. We take photos and videos of our adventures, archive these precious memories in our Favorites folder. And if…
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LIVE! Matt Lyons, Katie Burell, & Eland Stribling On Why The Outdoors Are A Joke (From Outside Days)
In the runup to the third annual Outside Days festival in Denver, Colorado, at the end of May, we’re revisiting a panel that podcast host PaddyO moderated—or rather tried to moderate—while stand up comic Eeland Stribling, Instagram and TikTok phenomenon Matt Lyons, and the new host of the Warren...
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The Joys and Wonders of Never Leaving Your Campsite, with Rolland Tizuela
Hot Take: We should camp for camping’s sake! If you’re anything like me, your camping is often (always?) in service of some greater objective, whether it’s a backpacking trip or mountain you’re climbing or a weekend of mountain biking. But are those objectives actually greater than simply hanging...
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The Lifelong Benefits of Uprooting and Moving to Santa Fe with Katie Arnold
Every great character has a captivating origin story—the thing that explains not just the how but also the why of who they are. Santa Fe’s Katie Arnold is a great character: a writer, ultra runner, and Zen practitioner who rattles off insights about running, adventure, and the outdoors the way…
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Anniversary Special!!! - Why Outdoorsy People Are The Funniest People, With Scott Losse
Today we are celebrating one year of PaddyO as host of the new interview format of your beloved Outside Podcast. We’ve got some big plans for this next year, and to commemorate the occasion we are revisiting one of our (and your) favorite chats. Enjoy this conversation with standup comedian and...
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Where Surfing Ends and Music Begins, with Third Eye Blind’s Stephan Jenkins
In the mid-90s, the cultural collision of music and sports was everywhere in pop culture. You saw it through the brand new X Games and MTV Sports, in movies like “Point Break” and “Airborne,” and you heard it through what we used to call “alternative rock.” The band Third Eye Blind was a staple…
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Awe, and the Scientific Proof that the Outdoors is Good For Your Brain, with Dr. Paul Piff
You’re on a hike and the faff of daily life won’t stop clanging around your head. Then, all of a sudden, the to-do list instantly evaporates when you notice dappled light dancing on the trail. Calm sweeps over you and you’re filled with a great sense of connection and gratitude. This is the...
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The Joy (and Agony) of Skiing, Surfing, and Climbing in the Dead of Night, with Chris Benchetler
Outdoor folks love to push themselves to go farther, faster, higher, etc., and there’s a good reason for it: When you climb a big mountain or finish that half marathon or ski that steep run, it can translate into a confidence that makes hard things in the rest of our lives seem less daunting. But...
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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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