Podcasts about Arizona, United States

The loudest thing on this page is one college basketball season, argued from every seat in the building. Arizona's run to the Final Four, and the 91-73 loss to Michigan that ended it, comes up on more shows here than any other subject: Bleav in Arizona and Wildcat Radio: Arizona Football. Arizona Basketball both work through the same score, and Bear Down Bias has the crowd that waited past 1 a.m. to welcome Tommy Lloyd and the team home. Behind that sits a nearly-as-large block of Cardinals talk, most of it conducted with a draft board in the room. The Suns and Diamondbacks surface mainly inside one all-teams sports-talk show. The rest -- a politics desk, a home-repair hour that keeps returning to water, a wildlife federation, a northern Arizona travel show, a beer show -- is smaller, and it is where the state rather than its teams gets talked about.

What Arizona is

Arizona is a southwestern US state on the Mexican border. Phoenix is the capital and the center of by far its largest metro area; Tucson, home of the University of Arizona, is the second city. The state is known for the Grand Canyon, the Sonoran Desert, a dry climate broken by summer monsoon storms, and long-running arguments over Colorado River water.

One season, replayed from every angle

The Wildcats shows cover the same games and differ in what they do with them. Wildcat Radio is the postmortem, two voices thinking out loud rather than performing: its clip on the Michigan game has the 12-of-27 three-point shooting that decided it and the admission that "Arizona got kind of punched in the nose and didn't ever quite recover", under the title "Basketball season ends with a thud, now the Cats head into the offseason". Bleav in Arizona, with Jake Faigus and Patrick Francis, does the before and after: a preview built on KenPom ratings and seven-foot centers, then a wrap that puts the loss down to a 22-5 assist gap. Bear Down Bias carries the arc in its numbered titles, from "Ep.219: Arizona finishes best regular season ever. Onto the Madness!" through the Big 12 Tournament, where Walker Del Orso scored 26 and called his rhythm "shooting into the ocean", to the end. Locked On Wildcats - Daily Podcast On Arizona Wildcats Football & Basketball is Mike Luke alone with the numbers: Motiejus Krivas dominating LIU, Tommy Lloyd winning over 80% of his games, and a title run that follows Brayden Burries toward the draft and Koa Peat's chances of coming back. The Wildcat Scoop: An Arizona football and basketball podcast pairs a preview and a review for each game and fixates on Burries too -- seven straight points in a little over a minute, 21 points and zero turnovers against Houston. AZ Wildcats Podcast has the Kansas loss that ended the undefeated season, and titles that follow the transfer portal: Bryson Tiller's cancelled visit, keeping Krivas, Derek Dixon's visit from UNC.

The Cardinals, from the draft board to Week 1

Cardinals coverage splits by season phase. The Red Bird Reboot: A Podcast for Arizona Cardinals Fans is spring: "TCR Mock Draft Monday - Season 5, Episode 9" and its siblings, a panel building a case step by step, and clips arguing Ty Simpson is a second-round quarterback who could be pushed into the first, weighing Francis Mauigoa's 33.25-inch arms against Monti Ossenfort's first-round tackle pattern, and ranking Reuben Bain Jr. above David Bailey and Arvel Reese. Its free-agency finale grades the offseason a B-minus or C-plus on a curve, because the hosts read the team as built to tank. Arizona Cardinals Podcasts is the in-house room, several strands under one roof -- Cardinals Cover 2, Big Red Rage, Red Sea Report, "La Tacleada Cardinals - Training Camp Aquí Vamos" -- and it is where players speak: Yelda Froholdt on getting "in and out of the huddle" fast enough to leave time for Mike LaFleur's pre-snap motion, Zaven Collins saying Nick Rollis might have "a chip on his shoulder", Mack Wilson Sr. on a rib fracture that nearly punctured a lung. PHNX Arizona Cardinals Podcast, with Johnny Venerable and Bo Brock, is game week, rapid and clause-on-clause; the September titles are all Chargers opener, Justin Herbert and Jeremiyah Love's health, and the clips rank the Cardinals fourth at quarterback behind Stafford, Darnold and Purdy while Venerable insists the offense cannot operate without Paris Johnson Jr. at left tackle. Cardinals Update: An Arizona Cardinals podcast network is the solo fan version, its titles here dated late 2023 and January 2024, and its clip on a Week 3 loss states its thesis flatly -- "The word for this game would be very frustrating." -- then explains it through the 15 to 20 scripted plays that go right before everything after them goes wrong.

Phoenix and Tempe

Burns & Gambo Show is the one show here that moves across all the Valley's teams. Its titles are labeled by hour and run from the Cardinals (Josh Sweat, the five most interesting players) to the Diamondbacks (how badly they need Ketel Marte back); its clips are Suns: Devin Booker at 36% in fourth quarters and 30% in the clutch since the All-Star break, a "mini legacy game" on offer after 11 years in Phoenix, Draymond Green, Dillon Brooks and Steph Curry on the same floor. It moves in short bursts -- a question, a stat, a joke -- and one host reaches for the previous night's TV finale to argue it is not too late for Booker to change his narrative. PHNX Sun Devils Podcast covers Arizona State in the same sports-bar register, and its clip is the rare live moment: reporter Pete Nacos breaks, during the episode, that Arizona State is expected to part ways with Bobby Hurley at season's end, and the hosts process 11 years on air. The titles move on to Randy Bennett closing on a transfer and Jordyn Tyson's draft stock; Locked On Wildcats looks at the same hire from the Wildcats' side, as a coach who built a powerhouse at St. Mary's and now has better resources.

Politics and the public record

The Gaggle: An Arizona politics podcast is The Arizona Republic and azcentral.com's politics desk, measured and interview-driven, built on the practical question of what a law or program actually does. Its clips: the program that lets non-lawyers own law firms, seen through bar complaints and a firm that mishandled a grieving family's settlement check; E-Verify's flaw, that it cannot tell when someone is using another person's valid Social Security number, raised after ICE raids; and Erica Connell, on an episode giving two sides on ICE actions and protests, calling the moment a constitutional crisis. The titles add Trump's early Phoenix visit in the 2026 midterm cycle, Adrian Fontes on mail-in ballots, data centers and betting on politics. Verified, from Scripps, is investigative narrative in the long-form public-radio tradition, and its Full Disclosure episodes are a Phoenix story: police and prosecutors who, the series reports, fabricated an "ACAB gang" to charge 18 protesters, one facing up to 100 years, with a protest chant as evidence of membership, and prosecutor Elizabeth Lake telling a jury "You have an officer who testified — that's it. End of inquiry."

Houses, water and the ground itself

Rosie on the House is the non-sports show with the most Arizona in it, practical local talk radio that likes examples and side loops. Its titles are named hours -- "7/18/26 - OUTDOOR LIVING HOUR! Monsoon Preparedness!" is typical -- with weekly to-do hashtags and hours given over, per the titles, to listener call-ins, texts and emails. Its clips: guests from the Registrar of Contractors on an apprenticeship fair putting about 40 construction companies in front of 1,500 students at Chase Field, and Brad Lancaster on greywater, that an average single-family home can redirect about 45% of its potable water to irrigation and that greywater, rainwater and AC condensate can feed the same mulched basin. Arizona Wildlife Federation Podcast, hosted by Michael Cravens, is the hunting-and-fishing conservation voice, with 2022 titles on javelina, waterfowl with Scottsdale Ducks Unlimited and water projections with Joan Card, and clips on Trout Unlimited, Ben O'Brien and fly-fishing instruction from Jim Strogen. Discover Northern Arizona: Events, Hikes, and Hidden Gems is the travel entry, strongest on history: Jerome's fall from 15,000 people to a couple hundred once copper demand collapsed after the First World War, alongside camping at Lockett Meadow near Flagstaff. Tap That AZ - The Arizona Craft Beer Podcast rates the state's beers one at a time in a 2023 title run -- Arizona Wilderness Brewing, Desert Monks Brewing, Papago Brewing Company -- and its clips have Desert Monks explaining how a brewing mistake turned a warm Märzen into an award-winning pumpkin-pie ale.

Where to start

• For the basketball season: Wildcat Radio for the postmortem, Bear Down Bias for the arc, Locked On Wildcats for the numbers and the portal.
• For the Cardinals: PHNX Arizona Cardinals Podcast in game week, The Red Bird Reboot when the draft board is out, Arizona Cardinals Podcasts to hear the players.
• For Arizona outside the stadium: The Gaggle on how a state program works and fails, Verified on the Phoenix protest prosecutions, Rosie on the House on where a household's water can go.
• For the north: Discover Northern Arizona on Jerome and Flagstaff.

The Arizona feed on this page plays clips from these shows.