Podcasts about Alabama, United States

Ask Alabama's football podcasts what happened, and they start counting. After the playoff game at Oklahoma, the Alabama Football Podcast tallies offensive-line snaps, 29 for one lineman and 25 for another, then rules: "It's a good unit. It is not a great unit." On Roll Pod: An Alabama sports show from Bama247, the Bama247 crew grades two quarterbacks off a spring scrimmage, an A-minus or B-plus for one and a C-minus for the other. Football is the loudest subject in the feed, and the fall has supplied plenty to count: on dated results through October 3, 2026, Alabama had started 5–0 and Auburn 3–2.

The counting habit runs through much else. People on these shows keep records and test stories against them. A Mobile fishing show devotes an episode to the power of good notes. An NPR team went to Selma to separate a 1965 killing from the rumors around it. The archivist at Huntsville's downtown library explains what its collection holds.

Many of the arguments are about public money. The CHOOSE Act's education-savings-account program is scheduled to become universal in 2027, and in September 2026 the expansion was an election issue. Alabama Politics This Week put school choice in a March episode title and was still arguing about preferential help for private-school pupils in April. Some of this listening covers particular communities, with strong showings from Huntsville and Mobile. For the country around it, go to the United States page.

What Alabama is

Alabama is a U.S. state on the Gulf Coast, covering roughly 52,400 square miles, with Montgomery as its capital. Its population was 5.02 million in 2020. In the Encyclopedia of Alabama's 2020 figures, education, health care and social assistance accounted for 22.7% of employment and manufacturing for 14.2%. The state is closely associated with the civil-rights movement.

Saturdays and Friday nights

Roll Pod: An Alabama sports show from Bama247 argues with a reporter's caution. In Discussing biggest takeaways from Alabama A-Day Scrimmage, the panel regrets that fans judged a quarterback for two hours before learning he was not fully healthy. They also admit they do not know how much it limited him. The asides are local too: in Tide Hoops in March Madness, biggest takeaways from week one of spring practice, Mike Rodak lists his weather apps and shouts out James Spann.

Alabama Insider is the official counterpart, from the Crimson Tide Sports Network, and Hey Coach 04-13-2026 shows what that access sounds like. Live from Baumhauer's Victory Grill in Tuscaloosa, softball coach Patrick Murphy dubs host Roger Hoover "Mr. Rat poison" for looking past the next opponent. Touchdown Alabama Radio is blunter. In Timeout Podcast | Alabama NEEDS an ELITE Running Back.., the verdict is that the current backs "are not the same elite backs that Alabama once had."

Further from campus, 1st & Sold seats Beau Goss and Tracy Black with North Alabama high-school coaches. In 1st & Sold - Lexington High School - Coach Brett Mask, the coach credits his father with teaching him how to be a professional ("And notice I didn't say X's and O's"). Then he sums up the game: "football to me teaches life. It's not life."

Who decides, and who pays

Alabama Politics This Week, hosted by Josh Moon and David Person, makes no pretense of neutrality. It is sharpest when a policy lands on a person. In Garbage Bills, Chemtrails, and the Death of the Newsroom, a guest from the SPLC describes Fayette jailing people who fall behind on garbage bills, a practice the guest calls "both bad policy and unconstitutional." The guest also recalls a client who left her house after the service was cut.

Capitol Journal works from a studio inside the Alabama Statehouse, with Don Dailey as host. Its October 10, 2025 edition reads out the state law-enforcement agency's statement on expanding patrols into downtown Montgomery.

On The Uncle Henry Show, Mobile County Sheriff Paul Burch explains that when deputies call off a pursuit, the fleeing driver doesn't know it. He estimates "four out of ten times that ends up badly."

Alabama Prison Reform Proposal, in Promoted for Death: Alabama’s $51 Million Cover-Up and the Forgotten Prison Crisis, reports that use-of-force incidents rose 47% over a decade while the prison population fell by 4,000. Its descriptions of conditions are graphic.

Canary: The Washington Post Investigates follows Carol Griffin of Birmingham as she goes on the record alleging a judge sexually assaulted her more than 40 years ago. In Chapter 6: "You can always have the last word", he acknowledges "sexual touching" in writing while denying a key part of her account, and she stands by it.

The past, on the record

White Lies, from NPR's Andrew Beck Grace and Chip Brantley, is the deepest listen here. Early in The Who And The What, the show sets out what is certain about Jim Reeb. He was attacked in Selma on March 9, 1965, and died two days later in Birmingham. Three men were tried and acquitted. Then come the rumors that filled the gap, down to talk of slow ambulances. In A Dangerous Kind Of Self-Delusion, the show says it "untangled the history from the mythology." It also warns there is no justice at the end, "at least not in the way we're taught to think about justice." A second season turns to the 1991 takeover of a federal prison in Talladega by Cuban detainees.

S-Town reaches Bibb County through host Brian Reed, and its lasting gift is portraiture. Chapter VII moves through a collector's house full of clocks John restored, Woodstock's homecoming Turnip Green Supper, and the mercury fire gilding John did in his shop without a mask. Chapter II includes a racial slur spoken on tape in a Bessemer tattoo parlor.

Alabama History Podcasts, in Episode 89 - Dr. John Giggie on 2025 Ala Hist Assn Coley Book Award, argues that more people were jailed and injured on Bloody Tuesday in Tuscaloosa than on Bloody Sunday eight months later. Spice Radio Huntsville's Huntsvillain History - Suffrage in Alabama brings in the library archivist and recalls that Alabama did not ratify the 19th Amendment, even symbolically, until 1953. That show has an episode dated October 2020. In Momentum Matters, Cathy Sloss Jones remembers 1950s and '60s Birmingham as segregated, "the best of and the worst of."

Water, fairways and the Rocket City

Record-keeping is plainest on the water. Mobile-Tensaw Delta Fishing Report, hosted by Nick Williams, spends The Best Time to Fish Isn’t Random: Inside Don Green’s Legendary Lunar Charts with a man who wrote for Great Days Outdoors magazine for 30 years. When the magazine shut down, Williams says, what readers least wanted to lose was Green's solunar charts. Green's story of a Christmas-morning run onto the Delta, past thousands of ducks, is the episode's warmest stretch.

The Cart Barn Podcast, from Chris Lemley and Gregg DeWalt, treats golf as state business. In Inside the Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail ft. Mike Beverly | The Cart Barn Podcast, Beverly maps which courses draw travelers and counts three qualifiers held in Dothan in one year.

Huntsville gets the most patient portrait. Beyond Rockets looks past the space program to the people building the city's businesses. In Episode 273: How One Huntsville Weatherman Changed Weather Forever: The Bob Baron Story, Baron recalls pestering a New Mexico radio station as a high-school junior until it gave him airtime. Later, his small Huntsville company, with a partner, won a roughly $43 million upgrade of the National Weather Service's radars. In another episode, Anusha Davis of Crunkleton Commercial puts Huntsville's retail vacancy at 3.1%, against about six and a half percent in Birmingham. For food, Port City Plate Podcast does similar work in Mobile with Exploring Mobile's Gumbo Legacy with David Hubbell.

Where to start

• For a first serious listen: White Lies, The Who And The What, which lays out what is known about Jim Reeb's death before turning to what people came to believe.
• If you fish, or want to: Mobile-Tensaw Delta Fishing Report, The Best Time to Fish Isn’t Random: Inside Don Green’s Legendary Lunar Charts. At 103 minutes, it rewards patience.
• For statehouse arguments: Alabama Politics This Week, Garbage Bills, Chemtrails, and the Death of the Newsroom. It is openly opinionated and specific about Fayette.
• For a coach's-office conversation: 1st & Sold, 1st & Sold - Lexington High School - Coach Brett Mask.
• For a city's working history: Beyond Rockets, Episode 273: How One Huntsville Weatherman Changed Weather Forever: The Bob Baron Story, which runs from a teenager's radio job to a federal radar contract.

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