Outside/In's Get Outside: Recent Episodes
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The weather may occasionally put a damper on outdoor activities, but these episodes, hand-selected from the production team behind NHPR’s podcast Outside/In, will transport you to the Polynesian islands, the deep woods of Wyoming, and the Chilean Andes. Get those earbuds in and get ready to step outside.
When Matt Mckee took a job forecasting avalanche danger for a Chilean gold mine (which was opening for the winter for the first time), they handed him a couple yard sticks and told him to get to work. This story is bonkers.
Sometimes the outdoors can be mysterious. Sometimes that mystery comes in the form of a Sasquatch.
There’s a giant hunting reserve in New Hampshire, stocked with elk and 200-pound wild boar, but most people have never even heard about it, and almost nobody wants to talk about it. Sam goes on the hunt for answers about what one NH lawmaker calls: “the most exclusive game preserve in the United States.”
File under unintended consequences: your free-range, rotationally-grazed chickens may be a mobile buffet for a flock of ravenous bald eagles. Just wait for the tourism angle though… you won’t see it coming.
We take a step back to imagine a world without a web of GPS satellites telling your smartphone where you are every second of the day. While this might sound scary, come along and maybe you’ll discover you have a secret sixth sense… one that’s been inside you all along, if you just knew how to turn it on.
This story perfectly captures both the melancholy of a waning summer, and the boundless possibilities of an August day in New York City. It’s one of my favorite pieces of all time.
A New Hampshire lake in moonlight, children splashing at a swimming lesson, a blind dog catches a Frisbee. These are just a few of Scott Carrier’s impressions of summer.
A good overview of our southern border, the genesis of U.S. vigilance, and some of the not so discussed issues of wall building.
Our relationship with the natural world is complicated – and people have very different ideas about how other organisms fit the needs of humans. A compelling debate about vegetarianism.
A story about the great lengths we go to in this country in order to wrestle nature into what we feel is ideal. This episode and the next one made me say, “What?!?!?!” out loud.
Turns out, plants have a way of communicating and relating to one another that is not so different from our own.
The outdoors aren’t always fun and games – this episode of Criminal explores the thriving black market for Venus fly traps, from the thousands of plants that go missing every year to the North Carolina base of a flora-focused crime ring.