Return of the Kiwi Apocalypse: 10 years of Outside/In

Outside/In

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Society & Culture, Documentary, Natural Sciences, Nature, Science

4.7 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 31 December 2025

⏱️ 32 minutes

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** We’re celebrating our 10 year anniversary and want you to come! Join us in Portsmouth, New Hampshire for a night of storytelling, featuring former Outside/In guests and hosted by our very own Nate Hegyi. Get your tickets here! ** In celebration of Outside/In’s 10th anniversary we’re looking back at our very first episode: “The Kiwi Apocalypse,” first published in December of 2015. Afterwards, we’ll get an update to the story and talk about how weird it is to have a podcast old enough to be in middle school. Here’s our original description for The Kiwi Apocalypse: Iago Hale has a vision: it’s one where the economy of the North Country is revitalized by local farmers selling delicious cold hardy kiwi berries to the masses. Meanwhile, Tom Lautzenheiser has been battling a hardy kiwi infestation in Massachusetts for years, and is afraid that this fight will soon be coming to the rest of New England. Should we worry about the cold hardy kiwi and what does the quest to bring it to market tell us about what an invasive species is? Featuring Iago Hale, Tom Lautzenheiser and Bryan Connolly. This episode was produced by our original host, Sam Evans-Brown. For full credits and transcript, visit outsideinradio.org. SUPPORT Grab a ticket for our 10 year anniversary live show here! Outside/In is made possible with listener support. Click here to become a sustaining member of Outside/In. Follow Outside/In on Instagram or join our private discussion group on Facebook. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I've been feeling old, Nate.
0:02.5	Yeah, how so?
0:03.6	The other day I was eating a bagel.
0:04.9	Uh-huh.
0:05.3	And I asked my son if I had any cream cheese in my beard.
0:07.8	He was like, ah, it's hard to tell.
0:09.7	There's so much gray.
0:10.7	Ooh.
0:12.6	What a burn, right?
0:14.3	Yeah.
0:20.5	This is Outside In, a show where Curiosity and the Natural World collide.
0:23.7	I am Nate Hedgy in the studio with our esteemed executive producer, Taylor Quimby, TQ.
0:29.6	So I've been thinking about Seinfeld a lot lately.
0:32.5	Were you a fan?
0:33.4	Were?
0:34.1	Are you a fan?
0:35.4	Yes, it's syndication.
0:36.6	I watch it a lot. I love it. To that point,
0:39.5	Seinfeld is one of those shows that, you know, to me, it's practically timeless. Like, there's,
0:43.7	A, an episode for virtually every situation that you could reference. And B, because of the reruns and
0:50.1	streaming, it just, it goes on forever. And here's a thing, Nate, Outside In has officially been a podcast for longer than Seinfeld's
0:59.9	original TV run.
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