Podcasts about Atlanta, Georgia

Somewhere in a match review on Five Stripe Final, one of the panel admits he cannot remember a single Atlanta United shot from the night, the expected-goals figure comes out at 0.07, the lowest in the club's history, and the talk turns to how these games have become a chore to watch. That is the register of most of the listening about Atlanta: people who know a team very well, arguing in specifics, often while the team lets them down.

What Atlanta is

Atlanta is the capital and largest city of Georgia and one of the largest metropolitan areas in the South: a transport and business hub with major-league teams in baseball, football, basketball and soccer, and a civil-rights history that still marks its streets and institutions.

Atlanta United, from the stands and the press box

Five Stripe Final is the analytical end: a panel of supporters with real tactical and squad literacy. What plays from it is bleak in the specifics — Ronny Deila asking for "more crosses" while the attack produces 0.07 xG, and a training-ground episode noting the team sits on 27 points with the Galaxy able to pass them with one more win.

Atlanta United FC Weekly - a Home Before Dark Atlanta United Soccer and MLS Podcast is the same club as a group chat: casual, profanity-comfortable, full of interruptions and callbacks, with the panel acknowledging a live chat as it goes. Under the banter the clips are squad-building: the club moving on from Martinez before the move had registered on Transfermarkt, and a U22 problem that comes down to Franco Ibarra, Edwin Mosquera, Santiago Sosa and Eric Lopez.

Southern Fried Soccer - An Atlanta United Podcast, from The Atlanta Journal-Constitution with Doug Roberson covering the club, plays as reporting rather than reaction: Dax McCarty explaining the timing of his retirement, and the club parting ways with vice president Carlos Bocanegra after years of playoff failures.

The Falcons, by way of Kyle Pitts

The Falcons shows are easiest to tell apart by how they handle the same story. On Locked On Falcons - Daily Podcast On The Atlanta Falcons, a solo daily notebook read aloud, Pitts is the extension looming over a cap sheet with $11.6 million of room, and the expectation is that he rejects anything under $20 million. On the access-driven Atlanta Falcons Podcast Network, general manager Ian Cunningham says at the combine that the franchise tag buys time to evaluate Pitts and move on from Kirk Cousins, and the title run includes "Kyle Pitts Sr. on his new contract with the Atlanta Falcons & his best plays | Friday Five Podcast". On One Time For The Fan, the hosts debate whether Cunningham could trade Pitts for a first-round pick, alongside a backup-quarterback search that rules out Aaron Rodgers flat.

Blogging Dirty: Atlanta Falcons Podcast is John Buehler alone, rapid and exasperated, cap logic in sports-bar language: the new uniforms should have been the 1990s throwbacks, and Tyreek Hill is not worth the baggage, ego and lower-leg injury.

The Braves, present tense and past tense

Locked On Braves - Daily Podcast On The Atlanta Braves is the in-season show: live postcasts after Marlins games, rookie Drake Baldwin going 3-for-5 with two home runs and five RBI in a comeback win, and a mailbag in which Jake Mastroianni makes the case for Justin LeBron as a 2026 top-pick shortstop. Atlanta Braves Radio Network is live local radio, two voices, always already mid-argument, and its playable moments wander the way a sports station does — Kirby Smart on Steve Smith, Emory's Division III title game, a jab at New York as a sad city that does not win titles.

Atlanta Baseball Talk is a rapid, overlapping panel — Steve, Hammy and Curtis — who kept the receipts, and "Show #502: The Braves Win The World Series" is exactly that: an eight-pitch eighth inning through the heart of the Dodgers lineup, Freddie Freeman's first-pitch homer off Josh Hader in NLCS Game 4, and two-hitting the Astros in Game 3 after Charlie Morton's broken leg. Behind the Braves, Ricky Mast's conversations with staff, historians and players, treats the franchise as a living archive: "FINALLY! The ’95 Braves Part 1" has smoke filling the team charter and David Justice comparing those Braves to the Buffalo Bills for coming up short so often. Atlanta Braves Podcast is the Braves conversation on this page that runs in Spanish: in its Detrás del Guante episodes Eddie Pérez calls the pandemic-bubble NLCS a series that goes to whoever makes fewer errors.

The Hawks

The Hawks get the smallest share of the listening on this page, and it comes from ATL and 29: two people thinking out loud at the level of the possession — which lineup can survive playoff matchups, a six-for-six night with four threes against Golden State, and Glenn Willis reading the Pistons game as a preview of how playoff officiating will work.

Off the field

Archive Atlanta is the city's listening life beyond its teams. Victoria Lemos works through a stack of notes on one concrete subject at a time — Chamblee, the Dick Lake Velodrome, the Atlanta Botanical Garden, tennis, the Atlanta women of the Green Book — and the Chamblee clip is the method in miniature: a railroad stop called Roswell Junction, and a local historian, Michael Hitt, finding the Atlanta Constitution article that tied the name to H. Chambly, a Black railroad worker. The interviews cut deeper: in "Dancing in Darktown (Interview w/ Dr. Julie B. Johnson)", Johnson shows how Atlanta newspapers cast Black dance halls as "breeders of prolific crime" and used arrests to justify raids.

Intent: The Tex McIver Case is the city's courtroom story, the shooting of Atlanta businesswoman Diane McIver, in which who fired the gun was never in doubt. The clips carry Tex's own account — the gun in his lap when he woke, going off as the SUV stopped — Danny Joe hearing a big boom, and the jury's verdict of felony murder, aggravated assault, firearm possession and witness influencing. The Real Housewives of Atlanta After Show Podcast rounds out the non-sports listening, with Erica Edwards and Danny B picking apart Season 12 down to a couples therapist who never presses Dennis.

Where to start

• For Atlanta United match by match, Five Stripe Final; for the reported version, Southern Fried Soccer - An Atlanta United Podcast.
• For the Falcons offseason in dollars, Locked On Falcons - Daily Podcast On The Atlanta Falcons; as a fan argument, One Time For The Fan.
• For the Braves as memory, "Show #502: The Braves Win The World Series" on Atlanta Baseball Talk, or the '95 series on Behind the Braves.
• For the city away from its teams, Archive Atlanta.

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