outside is Magic

About outside is Magic

A podcast about the intersection of creativity and the outdoors. Each week features honest conversations with creatives inspired by the outside world.

Publisher

Christopher San Agustin

Category

arts · business · society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

1 Jun 2025

Latest episode

31 Jul 2026

Latest episodes

37 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   31 Jul 2026

   Art Is Design and Design Is Art | Makenzie Brown

   Makenzie Brown knew what she wanted to do when she was three years old. Then she spent the next twenty years getting foggier about it, the way everyone does. What snapped her back was watching her own preschooler paint at the kitchen table every single day and thinking, why am I not doing that? So she started painting again. And because she's a designer, she built rules for it: fixed canvas sizes, a locked color palette, a Figma board that tells her she isn't allowed to add a new color until ...

2. 

   24 Jul 2026

   Why He Stopped Filming Other People to Focus on His Own Riding

   The first trick Christian Rigal ever learned on a BMX bike was a tree ride, at a Burger King in Moraga, California. Twenty five years later he rides mountain bikes for a living and, in his words, all he is doing is driving around looking for cool trees to ride his bike on. Christian spent a decade as a pro BMX rider, earning X Games Real Street medals and filming video parts on both sides of the lens. Then Brandon Semenuk put him on a mountain bike and it changed the trajectory of his career....

3. 

   17 Jul 2026

   He Spent Years Making Logos Bigger. Then He Built a Brand Without One. | Ornot's Matt Quann

   Matt Quann spent his design career being asked to make the logo bigger. So when he started his own cycling brand, he took the logo off entirely. Thirteen years later, Ornot is still made in the USA, still small on purpose, and still one of the most quietly loved brands in cycling. We go back to the early Grinduro days and trace the whole arc: the personal project that turned into a real company, teaching himself the business side one Google search at a time, why he chose Bay Area manufacturin...

Who has been a guest on outside is Magic

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Gritchelle Fallesgon
• Tom Briggs
• Ron Lewis
• Anya Miller
• Gabriel Amadeus Tiller

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

4 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

9 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 58 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

84

Social presence

94

YouTube

0

Engagement

32

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