Podcasts about Colorado, United States

Who owns the Colorado Rockies is the argument a listener meets before anything else here. Rocky Mountain Rooftop calls Greg and Carrie Penner's purchase of 40% of the club a "seismic shakeup", and its two hosts talk the ownership through out loud: the Monforts, Dick and Charlie, running the show, small holders like the Denver Post sprinkled in, the Penner stake standing apart from other Walton money that took a piece of the Diamondbacks. Locked On Rockies puts the projected investment at $670 million and just under half the club, and asks whether outside backing can level the playing field for a team that has relied on whoever was calling the shots. Sports is most of what plays here, and inside Sports the baseball club's front office is what the shows keep circling.

Around it sit the Avalanche, the college programs under Coach Prime and Jim Mora, the Rapids from their own club, and the Broncos and Nuggets by way of Behind The Glass; then a smaller layer of news, true crime and a Carbondale historical society. Nothing here plays music or business.

What Colorado is

Colorado is a Mountain West state whose capital and largest city, Denver, sits where the Great Plains meet the Rocky Mountains. Most of its people live along that Front Range; the mountains hold the ski towns, and the Western Slope runs on toward Utah. Denver is the Mile High City for its elevation, and its teams are the ones most of this page argues about.

The Rockies, on the field

Ownership aside, the baseball shows differ in how close they stand to the box score. Locked On Rockies stands closest: its April 2026 titles run through a losing streak — "The Colorado Rockies Can't Stop Striking Out", "The Colorado Rockies Blow Early Lead, Lose 5th Straight" — and its clips put numbers on it, an outside-zone swing rate up from 33.4% to 37.5%, MLB's worst contact rate on its most aggressive-swinging team, then Chase Dollander's five-plus innings, one hit and nine strikeouts in relief when the streak snaps. The DNVR Colorado Rockies Podcast works the trade deadline instead, with Ryan McMahon gone to the Yankees and the hosts insisting Seth Halverson and Victor Vodnik should only move for top-five prospects or an overwhelming return.

20th and Blake, from Mile High Sports, sounds like two baseball people talking through what they just watched, and it reaches past the lineup: Drew Creasman and Mark Knudson want realignment that gets the Rockies away from the Dodgers and into Midwest rivalries with Minnesota, Kansas City, Texas and Houston, and Knudson argues revenue sharing rather than a salary cap is the fix for the club's competitiveness. Rocky Mountain Rooftop is the same team from fan level, loose and self-correcting, where Dick Monfort's promise of "the best infield in baseball" is tested against Ryan McMahon, Ezequiel Tovar, Michael Toglia and Thairo Estrada. Purple Dinosaur Podcast is the far side of that optimism, its clips a few seasons old — the Rockies "just not very good", Tyler Kinley the lone bright spot — and a title like "Episode 223 | May 13, 2025: Where Is The Bottom?" shows the mood has held. Rox Pile Rockies Report, from the same era, has David Hill calling Sterling Monfort's promotion an example of Rockies nepotism.

Avalanche: postgame and rumor mill

Between the Pipes, from Kroenke Sports and Entertainment, is the Avalanche postgame, and it sounds like an informed sports-bar argument with a box score open: fast, opinionated, profane in places. Its titles run game by game through a West Final — "WEST FINAL G1: Makar-less Avs Fall to Knights", "WEST FINAL G4: Ceci n'est pas une coupe" — while the clips are about goaltending: one host arguing Colorado should keep alternating Wedgwood and Blackwood in the playoffs, with Boston's 2023 collapse as the warning against settling on one starter, and Wedgwood leading the league in traditional counting stats without entering the Vezina conversation.

Avalanche Digest is the rumor desk, every title a teaser and every clip a trade link: a veteran right-shot Winnipeg Jets defenseman during the Olympic trade freeze, Bobby McMahon as the piece that could make the bottom six the league's best. Locked On Avalanche's clips come from the Olympic break, a panel thinking out loud about every Avalanche player scoring an Olympic goal; its titles pick up the Round One series against the Kings.

College football, two programs apart

The DNVR CU Buffs Podcast has Coach Prime in nearly every title. Its Big 12 Media Day clips have the hosts polling the chat over which quarterback interview should play, Kaidon Salter or JuJu Lewis, and DJ McKinney describing a dream of intercepting Oklahoma State. The DNVR CSU Rams Podcast is one voice, a beat conversation thinking in real time, and its heard clip is CSU history against BYU: seven straight losses to close the Mountain West era, a 58-13 win in Provo in 2003, Gartrell Johnson chest-bumping Joey Porter in the end zone. Another clip relays Hauss Hejny on wanting to "establish the run game" while still hitting "explosive plays".

Rapids, Broncos, Nuggets

The Colorado Rapids Podcast is the club's own, and its best clip is an interview: Auston Trusty, the youngest of six, on nearly being cut before a mentor intervened, while his family group chat blows up his phone mid-answer. Behind The Glass Sports Podcast, with Stephen Priest Jr. and Brandon Stowell, is where the Broncos and Nuggets get their hearing, two fans working through arguments in real time: Hackett humbled after saying he did not need preseason, and a crowd counting down the play clock treated as worse than anything under Vic Fangio or Vance Joseph.

The state read aloud, and talked through

Colorado Sun, from Aftersight, sounds like a local newsroom being read aloud, dates and dollar figures intact. Its H-2A clip lays out the Department of Labor rule letting employers pay $2 to $3 less per hour to seasonal workers who receive housing, taking Colorado's rate from $17.84 to $15.16 for an estimated 3,500 workers in the state's fields and orchards, a change the rule calls a "downward compensation adjustment" rather than a wage decrease. Colorado Matters is the steady, curious public-radio conversation beside it: SafeSport redesigning staff training around trauma-informed investigations, an author who grew up beside Walden Pond on a conservationist less heralded than Thoreau, and a Denver cemetery mausoleum scheme that sold shares for $7 or $8 before its promoters fled.

Old cases and a small town's memory

Colored Red and Altitude Crime both work Colorado murders and prefer the lesser known. Colored Red's Bruce Dodson clip follows a NecroSearch geologist noticing bentonite clay around a stock pond, the clay that also turned up on Janice Dodson's boots; its KKK history lands on Preston Porter Jr., burned alive in 1900 before a crowd of more than 300. Altitude Crime's Helene Pruszynski clip traces Douglas County deputies to a beer mug in Florida for the DNA match, then a guilty plea and a life term. Carbondale Historical Society narrows to a single town, and its speaker series is what plays: Roaring Fork's 1977 champions retold through a 2-yard goal-line stand and the 96-yard touchdown that followed, and a former-mayors session anchored on "Don't change Carbondale, let Carbondale change you".

Where to start

• The ownership story: Rocky Mountain Rooftop's "Affected by Altitude Episode 206: Here Comes the Money", then Locked On Rockies for the numbers on the field.
• Hockey: Between the Pipes through the West Final titles; Avalanche Digest for the rumors.
• The state beyond sports: Colorado Sun for the news, Colorado Matters for the interviews.
• The lesser-known cases: Colored Red; a single town's memory: Carbondale Historical Society.

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