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Welcome to The Outfall – a podcast that explores the backstories of our water world and its infrastructure through unique stories. The Outfall is about sharing stories about topics we don’t think about. We aim to be more fun than serious, short than long, and hopefully more lively than dull.
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Booking probability
32%
Guest openness
Selective
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Signup to Generate a PitchWelcome to The Outfall, a podcast that explores the backstories of our water world and its infrastructure through unique stories. The Outfall is about sharing stories about topics we don’t think about. We aim to be more fun than serious, short than long, and hopefully more lively than dull.
The Outfall Podcast is hosted by The Outfall. The show has published 100 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "Dogs That Sniff Out Invisible Water" (24 October 2026, 16 minutes), "When Undersea Cables Break" (2 October 2026, 5 minutes), and "Where the Internet Comes Ashore Part 2" (26 September 2026, 19 minutes).
The Outfall Podcast publishes roughly every two weeks, with episodes averaging 12 minutes across 100 episodes.
Booking probability for The Outfall Podcast is 32%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. The Outfall Podcast requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. The Outfall Podcast's contact route on record: public web form.
The strongest fits for The Outfall Podcast are Water & Sewage Systems. The Outfall Podcast has a science audience.
The Outfall hosts The Outfall Podcast, a science podcast with 100 episodes published.
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Episode #109
Otis knows he's close when he starts licking his lips, drooling, and scratching at the dirt. The golden retriever is following the odor signature of treated drinking water, even when a leaking pipe leaves no puddle, no...
Episode #108
An undersea cable breaks in the middle of the Atlantic, and the answer to “what happens now?” takes us back to 1866. The Great Eastern is searching for a lost cable with a hook, a winch, and a crew trying to hear one...
Episode #107
A cable from Argentina comes ashore through a manhole at Myrtle Beach State Park, and it does not stop there. In Part 2 of Where the Internet Comes Ashore, DC BLOX , the company that built the landing station, follows...
Episode #106
We found a line on a map that runs nine thousand miles up from Argentina and comes ashore at Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. We didn't believe it, so we called Samanth Subramanian, who wrote a book about the cables that...
Episode #105
Somebody decided Pikes Peak would have no apostrophe. Somebody decides what every mountain, creek, and reservoir in America is officially called, and has since 1890. Almost nobody can name the committee, and most years...
Episode #104
A creek beside Clemson outmuscles a river forty five minutes up the road, draining twice the land and carrying close to twice the water. No agency will call that wrong, because no official line between a CREEK and a...
Episode #103
Two filmmakers spent years inside the East End Wastewater Treatment Facility in Portland, Maine, and came out with a comedy. It has screened at festivals and museums across New England, and it is not on Netflix, not on...
Episode #102
In 1993, Joel Jones got a wildlife biology degree and a dream of working in the woods. He ended up on the night shift at a sewer plant instead. He stayed thirty-two years and retired as CEO. And boy, did he come away...
Episode #101
A man flipping through old tax map books finds a piece of land with no parcel number, no taxes paid, and no explanation. The county can't tell him why, so he spends two years of weekends with a compass and a stack of...
The Outfall Podcast
<p>Season 8 of The Outfall starts with a set of coordinates, a fence line, and a wife who wisely stayed in the car. What comes next is bigger, quieter, and a lot stranger than where it began. New episodes begins in...
The Outfall Podcast
Season 8 of The Outfall starts with a set of coordinates, a fence line, and a wife who wisely stayed in the car. What comes next is bigger, quieter, and a lot stranger than where it began. New episodes begins in June...
Episode #98
A maintenance worker's suspicious 911 call. A toxic chemical banned since the 1970s. And a $2.5 million cleanup that started with one man's $6,000 shortcut. Former Spartanburg Water CEO Sue Schneider takes us inside the...
Episode #98
<p>A maintenance worker's suspicious 911 call. A toxic chemical banned since the 1970s. And a $2.5 million cleanup that started with one man's $6,000 shortcut. Former Spartanburg Water CEO Sue Schneider takes us inside...
Episode #97
For nearly a century, the Chattooga River has shaped the lives of the people who ran it, fought for it, and tried to keep it wild. In this episode, Jack Wise, Owner of Wildwater and conservationist Buzz Williams share...
Episode #97
<p>For nearly a century, the Chattooga River has shaped the lives of the people who ran it, fought for it, and tried to keep it wild. In this episode, Jack Wise, Owner of Wildwater and conservationist Buzz Williams...
Episode #96
In September 2019, thieves broke into Blenheim Palace and stole Maurizio Cattelan's "America"—a fully functional solid gold toilet worth $6 million—in under 5 minutes. But this isn't just a heist story: it's about an...
Episode #96
<p>In September 2019, thieves broke into Blenheim Palace and stole Maurizio Cattelan's "America"—a fully functional solid gold toilet worth $6 million—in under 5 minutes. But this isn't just a heist story: it's about an...
Episode #95
For 400 years, people reported eerie blue lights dancing over marshes, which science often dismissed as folklore. Now, a stunning new paper from Stanford scientists proves the lights were real. The cause is stranger...
Episode #95
<p>For 400 years, people reported eerie blue lights dancing over marshes, which science often dismissed as folklore. Now, a stunning new paper from Stanford scientists proves the lights were real. The cause is stranger...
In the series finale, we go on set for the chaotic, death-defying filming of Deliverance and find out what really happened during Burt Reynolds's infamous waterfall stunt. Then, we follow Governor Jimmy Carter on his...
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award-winning journalist and author
Vice President of Growth and Strategy, Colorado State University Cooperative Extension
Associate Professor of Architecture, Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University
South Carolina Forestry Commission Forest Protection Chief, Tallahassee-Leon County Office of Economic Vitality
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