Podcasts about Atlanta, Georgia

"It took me one hour to get to the arena," E-Dub tells listeners of Hawksbeat Podcast - A Podcast on all things Atlanta Hawks before he reaches the game in Hawks back in the win column against weary warriors. The drive usually takes him about 25 minutes. He scolds the city for scheduling a Hawks game against an Atlanta United match. It is a fan's complaint, and it says a lot. In Atlanta's podcasts the teams are the main road, and that road runs through the same traffic and calendar as everyone else's week.

Sports talk includes radio from 680 The Fan and 92.9 The Game. This season has given it plenty to talk about. The Braves returned to the playoffs in September 2026 after missing 2025, and Atlanta Braves Radio Network offers Braves vs. Dodgers NLDS Game 1 Preview: Can Atlanta Beat Skubal & LA? Away from the scoreboard, the governor's race sharpened on October 6, 2026. That night Democrat Keisha Lance Bottoms and Republican Rick Jackson debated in an Atlanta News First forum and differed on how, not whether, to expand Medicaid in some form.

What these shows share is a habit of checking the present against the record. Fans weigh this year's roster against old heartbreak. Political hosts weigh candidates against their time in office. The history and crime series return to stories the city has told about itself. Almost all of them take the whole city as their subject.

What Atlanta is

Atlanta is Georgia's capital, in the northern part of the state, and a major southeastern centre for commerce, finance and transportation. The city proper had an estimated 529,110 residents in July 2025, and the metropolitan area is much larger. See the Georgia page.

Baseball, live and remembered

Buck's Beat belongs to Buck Belue, a former Georgia national-championship quarterback, and its pleasure is the company. In Buck Belue Saturday 4-18-26 Hour 3, broadcast from Fowler Park, the hosts savour a fourth shutout in 13 games. Then they drift into why star-stacked rosters fail, with Canada's Olympic hockey team as the warning. The Buck Belue Show 4-16-26 Hour 2 settles a way-too-early MVP debate on air, and the doubter concedes Drake Baldwin with "Okay, you've convinced me."

The same station's Chuck & Chernoff are louder. In Chuck & Chernoff - Braves Still Have Not Lost a Series This Season, on Atlanta Braves Radio Network, they needle New Yorkers watching the YouTube stream. They also run a timed quiz on New York trivia and pause to grumble about pollen season.

The archives hold the memories. 755 Is Real: A show about the Atlanta Braves paired David O'Brien, a Braves writer at The Athletic, with the former Braves reliever Eric O'Flaherty. Its latest episodes date from October 2023. Braves postseason ended by Phillies for second straight year is a candid postmortem that dwells on Philadelphia's crowd booing the Braves bullpen on its walk out, a scene one host says "feels like a SEC football game." Atlanta Baseball Talk said goodbye in Show #501: All Good Things, a fond history of itself that includes finding Mark Wohlers in the phone book. The hosts then came back for Show #502: The Braves Win The World Series.

Behind the Braves, the club's official podcast, tells FINALLY! The ’95 Braves Part 1 through the people who were there. Among them is the team historian Sam Wallace, recalling a division clinched aboard a flight from Cincinnati to Colorado. Atlanta Braves Podcast looks ahead instead. In 2/1/19: Braves Extras | Where outfield ranks in NL, from February 2019, Tim McMaster and Mark Bowman weigh the outfield prospect Pache. They praise his glove and note that he had never homered before hitting nine the previous year, and they counsel patience before he claims a spot.

Falcons, Hawks and the weekend shows

Football talk sorts itself by distance from the team. Atlanta Falcons Podcast Network is the official channel, and its interviews come alive off the field. In What we LOVE about the Atlanta Falcons' 2026 Free Agency class | Friday Five Podcast, a new defensive end born in Nigeria recalls his first peanut-butter-and-jelly sandwich after moving here at nine, and he leaves nicknamed Samson the Wise.

Blogging Dirty: Atlanta Falcons Podcast, from a FanSided writer, is the sceptic's corner. New uniforms soon?!, Kevin Stefanski is all about Bijan Robinson, Kyler Murray fit? calls the team "Incredibly dysfunctional" and notes that "there are no bandwagon fans left." One Time For The Fan is built around its live chat and reads viewers' jersey news aloud in One Time For The Fan podcast talking Falcons offseason.

Basketball comes in two temperaments. E-Dub jots down "pregame vibes" before games on Hawksbeat Podcast - A Podcast on all things Atlanta Hawks. In Hawks drop game one to Knicks he picks the Knicks in six or seven, hoping he won't "get a lot of heat" for it. ATL and 29 is the tactics desk, and its hosts disagree on air. In (Ep. 427/ATL and 29) Garden Pests, an argument over the quality of the Hawks' threes against Boston includes "I disagree. You get up 42 threes."

Crenshaw & Clarkson, a weekend show on 92.9 The Game, is the most neighbourly listen. Early in Is Victor Wembanyama today's Wilt Chamberlain? the hosts puzzle over who should clear tree-removal debris from a roof. How was Sam's time at the Masters? promotes a segment for young anthem singers and a flag-football coaching clinic in Macon.

Politics at the tavern table

Political Breakfast from WABE seats the journalist Lisa Rayam between the Democratic strategist Tharon Johnson and the Republican strategist Brian Robinson. Its February 17, 2026 episode was recorded at Manuel's Tavern. Partisans argue face to face here, and that calls for some care from the listener. In Governor's race candidates stumping ahead of May primary, Atlanta youth gun violence, teen takeovers, Robinson says he is "not speaking on behalf of the Rick Jackson campaign." In a March episode, a co-host mentions working with that campaign over the weekend.

The same April episode takes on youth violence. A co-host notes Mayor Dickens' promise of stricter enforcement of the 11 p.m. curfew for teenagers, then argues that Republican leaders' push for open carry has put pressure on cities to enforce the law. Earlier in the episode, Robinson describes taking his nine-year-old daughter to the Masters in his family's hometown since the Civil War. The race continues on the Georgia page.

Old cases and older streets

Archive Atlanta, a history podcast about the people, places and events that shaped the city, finds Atlanta in particular lives. Its Halloween panel in Fortune Telling follows Toby Grant. One panellist says Grant's wealth came from telling fortunes, and Grant gave land in DeKalb County for a park for Black children that now carries her name. Tami Roche sits with a burlesque performer who came to Atlanta in 1969 for a few weeks and stayed. She built a champagne-glass bathtub act and fought to run four clubs as a woman after her husband's sudden death. Recent titles include Neighborhood Planning Unit (NPU) and Manuel's Tavern (Interview w/ Megan Maloof).

Atlanta Monster, hosted by Payne Lindsey for Tenderfoot TV and iHeartPodcasts, reexamines the Atlanta Child Murders, the killings of over 25 African American children and young adults. Its feed now carries other Monster series too. In Live from CrimeCon [bonus], a panellist says the authorities handled the case "the wrong way" while holding that Wayne Williams is "guilty of something." In Inside The Monster Series [bonus], a producer describes pressure from the city to close the case, qualifying it with "I don't want to sound conspiratorial." Both are views to test against the reporting.

Breakdown, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution's podcast on the Georgia justice system, introduces its second season with Death in a Hot Car: Mistake or Murder? Bill Rankin, who has covered courts for 25 years, sets out the state's malice-murder case against Ross Harris in the death of his son, Cooper. Rankin promises balance: "I'll plant questions in your mind about Harris' guilt." The subject is a child's death.

Where to start

• For a first taste of the sports radio: Buck's Beat, The Buck Belue Show 4-16-26 Hour 2, where an argument is won and conceded.
• If state politics is your habit: Political Breakfast from WABE, TSA wait times and chaos at Atlanta's airport, One bullfight after another in the Georgia governor's race. It sets primary strategy beside sympathy for hourly airport workers deciding whether they can afford the gas to get to work.
• For history at human scale: Archive Atlanta, Fortune Telling. Listen for how a fortune became a park.
• If you can face a hard case: Breakdown, Death in a Hot Car: Mistake or Murder?, which lays out the state's theory and promises doubts in both directions.

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