Podcasts about Arizona, United States

In April 2026 the Burns & Gambo Show plays Diamondbacks manager Torey Lovullo telling the hosts not to be surprised if Lourdes Gurriel Jr. is in the lineup that weekend, less than eight months after an ACL tear. The studio can barely take it in. "You mean this weekend?" a host asks in Hour 3: Could the Arizona Cardinals go all offense in this year’s NFL Draft? It is ordinary drive-time radio. It also shows what some of Arizona's podcasting is about: people with authority explaining themselves, and hosts deciding how far to believe them.

Sports feature here, and the Cardinals feature in the sports. Sports shows, the team's own feed and a Spanish-language program all work the same roster. The habit of testing an official account reaches well beyond the stadiums. It runs into a newsroom investigation of police testimony and a politics show tracing what happened when non-lawyers overstepped their role in law firms.

The arguments are live. The Diamondbacks were eliminated from playoff contention on September 27, 2026, the final day of the season. In October 2026, Reuters reported Republican gubernatorial candidate Andy Biggs arguing that Governor Katie Hobbs had exaggerated water scarcity. Hobbs presented her administration as defending Arizona's Colorado River allocation. Water turns up in less obvious places too, from a farm interview to a Hopi guest's testimony.

What Arizona is

Arizona is a landlocked state in the southwestern United States, with 113,653.42 square miles of land in the Census Bureau's 2020 geography figures. It is internationally associated with Grand Canyon National Park. Its economy includes health care, transportation and government.

The Cardinals, from inside the building and out

Arizona Cardinals Podcasts is the franchise's own feed, and it houses several shows. In Big Red Rage - Cardinals Draft Countdown, Mike LaFleur’s Culture And Defensive Rebound, Paul Calvisi and Ron Wolfley treat mock-draft noise as comedy and linger happily on Gardner Minshew's personality. The feed also carries La Tacleada Cardinals in Spanish. In La Tacleada Cardinals - Los Muchachos Están De Vuelta, Jesús Quiñones and Irving relay press-conference takeaways and note that heat is a factor when camp returns to Tempe. The team's audio brings access and warmth. Criticism lives elsewhere.

The Rise Up, See Red podcast, with Jess Root and Seth Cox, supplies it. In Ty Simpson and the Cardinals; NFL draft need at each position, the hosts point out that a national analyst talking up the Alabama quarterback shares an agency with him. The Red Bird Reboot: A Podcast for Arizona Cardinals Fans admits to "grading on a curve" in Red Bird Reboot: Free Agency Finale & QB fits for the Cardinals, because its hosts see a team built to tank. PHNX Arizona Cardinals Podcast, with Johnny Venerable and Bo Brack, greets live chatters by name ahead of the draft. Its October titles chart fan frustration after a beating by Detroit.

Baseball, the Suns and two college towns

In Hour 4: The Arizona Diamondbacks have a power problem, from July 2026, a Burns & Gambo Show host checks FanGraphs on air. He finds the team second to last in the majors in home runs, then brings in broadcaster Chris Garagiola to talk pitching. Locked On Diamondbacks - Daily Podcast On The Arizona Diamondbacks sits closer to the box score. In D-Backs SURGE Behind Ryne Nelson's Gem, the host argues that two Jose Fernandez misplays at first base should have been errors. On the day of a Suns play-in game, a Wolf & Luke Show host says, "This one game tonight really does impact how I'm going to look back on this season." Locked On Suns - Daily Podcast On The Phoenix Suns and PHNX Suns Podcast are about Phoenix.

Tucson's teams have their own rooms. The Wildcast, Michael Lev's show from Tucson.com, covers the Purdue game in The Wildcast, Episode 558: Arizona is going to the Elite Eight! Plus, UA spring football impressions. It predicts that "the entire town is going to be watching." Wildcat Radio: Arizona Football. Arizona Basketball handles the aftermath in Basketball season ends with a thud, now the Cats head into the offseason. The hosts work through a 91-73 Final Four loss to Michigan, and one insists the season was a success and offers to "fight you if you say it's not."

Police, courts and the people who answer for them

The gravest listening here is Verified. Its season Full Disclosure was released in late 2022 and is hosted by Natasha Del Toro. It follows a reporter named Dave through his work on Arizona officers whose records of dishonesty went undisclosed. In Full Disclosure | E3 Exposing a Liar, Frances Salazar recalls sitting silent while an officer testified against her. The series reports that his testimony alone cost her 22 months in prison. Full Disclosure | E4 Superior Policing travels to the small town of Superior, in Pinal County, and lands on its central finding: Brady lists depend almost entirely on agencies reporting voluntarily. Full Disclosure | E5 The Big Lie examines Phoenix protest prosecutions built on a supposed "ACAB gang." In the show's telling, "ACAB is not a gang. It's a phrase." The season also covers sexual-misconduct allegations against a Phoenix officer, who denied them. Hear it as an archive, not a current briefing.

The Gaggle: An Arizona politics podcast takes up a different part of the legal system in Rare Arizona program lets non-lawyers own law firms. It lays out what has gone wrong with that program, from bar discipline to a grieving family's mishandled settlement check. Valley 101, from The Arizona Republic and azcentral.com, meets a law firm's advertising at the roadside in Why does a 'Real Housewives' husband own an Arizona law firm?. Its host reads aloud the beginning of a Republic story about Joe Gorga's billboard.

Some shows are institutions speaking for themselves. Let's Talk Business Phoenix is hosted by Todd Sanders. In Season 4 Episode 1: Governor Ducey Discusses Career Highlights & Current Trajectory for Arizona, Ducey says school choice took eight years and calls border security a public-safety issue. At one point Sanders replies, "I couldn't agree more." Its fifth season opened with "Candidate Conversations," including Andy Biggs and Katie Hobbs. It belongs with the Phoenix page.

Water, land and long memory

In 4/4/26 - OUTDOOR LIVING HOUR! Farm Fresh Forage Crops!, Rosie on the House, a weekly radio broadcast for homeowners, turns to cotton and alfalfa with a farm guest. The conversation takes up the charge that exporting alfalfa means exporting water. One speaker puts exports at "about 20%" while conceding the figure isn't tracked carefully. Sedona Spotlight is blunter. In Sedona Spotlight - Water Proclamation From Hopi - Vernon MASAYESVA Founder, from 2023, the Hopi guest describes what mining did to his people's water and says, "We were sacrificed."

Some of the strongest listening looks back. In Valley 101's Were there Black cowboys in Arizona?, a guest climbs the cowboy ladder from wrangler to trail boss to ranch owner and notes that few Black cowboys reached its top rungs. AZ: The History of Arizona podcast, in Episode 234: I Held History in My Hand, recounts how high-ranking Japanese prisoners were held at the Triangle T guest ranch during World War II. The story circulated as rumor until files were declassified 50 years later. Luke Slaughter of Tombstone | OTRWesterns.com revives a 1958 radio western about a cattleman near Fort Huachuca. In Outlaw Kid | Luke Slaughter of Tombstone (05-25-58), Slaughter catches a young rustler and decides, "We're gonna let him go."

Arts and inner life

Arizona Spotlight, produced and hosted by Mark McLemore for AZPM, covers Southern Arizona's creative community. Arizona Spotlight brings you "A Moment to Cope" visits Tucson's Bodhisattva Institute. There a woman named Deborah recalls a river evacuation and answering her companions with "no past, no future. Right now."

Where to start

• For a serious listen: Begin Verified at Full Disclosure | E1 Who Ya Gonna Believe. The season includes sexual-misconduct allegations and a prison term it attributes to false testimony.
• For curiosity about the place: Valley 101, Were there Black cowboys in Arizona?
• For draft-season skepticism: The Rise Up, See Red podcast, Ty Simpson and the Cardinals; NFL draft need at each position.
• For quieter company: Arizona Spotlight, Arizona Spotlight brings you "A Moment to Cope".
• For water at ground level: Rosie on the House, 4/4/26 - OUTDOOR LIVING HOUR! Farm Fresh Forage Crops! Listen for who gets to decide what the water is for.

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