Podcasts about Denver, Colorado

Late in an April episode of After the Horn, talk of the Nuggets' playoff series drifts to the Colorado Rapids and then to where they play. "People don't want to go to Commerce City for any reason," one panelist says. Another allows that it is a nice stadium, and a panelist says that it seems surrounded by oil tanks and gas stations. It is a throwaway joke, but it points at the argument underneath the panel's talk: where the teams play, who owns them, and what a fan will put up with to follow them.

The teams dominate here. A listener pressing play hears the Broncos, the Nuggets, the Avalanche and a Rockies franchise discussed for its owners as well as its box scores. The same After the Horn panel has asked Is Lone Tree a Better Fit for the Broncos’ New Stadium? | After the Horn and Are the Penners Taking Control of the Rockies? | After the Horn. As of October 4, 2026, the Broncos stood 2–2.

Civic Denver arrives more sideways: through a transportation host's questions, a talk-radio host's vote arithmetic and a lifestyle show's account of a scooter fight. The city has its own live arguments. In September 2026 it narrowed its proposed housing-density changes to areas near major transit corridors.

What Denver is

Denver, Colorado, is the "Mile High City," set on high plains east of the Rocky Mountain foothills. Its city population was estimated at 740,613 on July 1, 2025, a figure for the city alone, not the metropolitan area. Its economy includes regional trade and distribution, energy and mining.

Old hands and long memories

After the Horn is where Denver sports people remember out loud. Woody Paige and Tom Green are named in its episode titles. One panelist recalls Larry Walker reaching for a seven iron on what he remembers as a 540-yard golf hole. Another recalls a training camp where some 80 people crowded John Elway while he walked over to Gary Kubiak instead. In Trouble for Nuggets? Avs Wild Game Reaction + Denver Sports Mount Rushmore Debate | After the Horn, the panel runs down the Nuggets roster and predicts departures. One voice says of a player, "He will beg to leave here."

That bluntness is the pleasure. The tangents are the cost: a WNBA relationship story and LIV Golf money both take real time from the hockey. Matt McChesney's McChesney Unchained has its latest listed episode, Previewing Super Bowl LVI, dated February 2022. It still shows its host redrawing college conference maps in With the departure of Texas and Oklahoma, the Big 12 just needs to start over.

Broncos Country, three ways

The Broncos are covered by reporters, by fans and by radio, and the difference is audible.

The 1st And Orange Podcast comes from newspaper beat reporters. Broncos podcast: Previewing free agency for Sean Payton's team was recorded at the paper's office, which one host calls "the epitome of grandeur." The episode is built on cap math. Trading Courtland Sutton for A.J. Brown, one host figures, means "taking a $20 million bath" before inheriting 29 million guaranteed. This is the show for listeners who want the reasoning behind a roster move.

The Bourbon, Broncos & NO B.S. Podcast is openly a fan show and makes no pretence otherwise. In Pregame Podcast - Broncos vs Patriots AFC Championship - Bourbon, Broncos & NO B.S., the hosts talk themselves into Jarrett Stidham as the starter. One cites a Sean Payton record with backup quarterbacks that he says he believes he read on Twitter. That candour about where a number came from is worth hearing.

Broncos Country Tonight, hosted by Benjamin Allbright from the team's training center, runs in segments with guests. 07-22-26 Hour 2 of Broncos Country Tonight with Ryan Michael includes a stat: Bo Nix's 8,175 yards of total offense lead the AFC since he entered the league. It then detours into a report of an Angels scout filming Rockies coaches. The studio calls it "the worst team in baseball was getting spied on by the second worst team in baseball."

Around these sit narrower feeds:

• The DNVR Denver Broncos Podcast weighs whether a prospect's injury history would let him slide in the draft.
• Locked On Broncos - Daily Podcast On The Denver Broncos reviews the team's NFLPA report card.
• MoodSwings: with Liv Moods answers national critics of Bo Nix.
• Broncos Country BLITZ!!! argues, in a 2024 season review, against trading a proven cornerback for a draft gamble.

The Nuggets and the Jokic arithmetic

Nuggets talk is denser and more numerical. Jeff Morton hosts the CSG Podcast. In CSG #918: Nuggets win their 10th in a row and a rumination on spacing in the NBA, he notes the first ten-game streak of the Nikola Jokic era. He then argues that health matters more than seeding and links the league's rising soft-tissue injuries to the space defenders must cover because offenses rely on the three. It is an argument, clearly labelled as one.

CSG #921: Tim Miller looks back at a weird Nugget season and previews the Nuggets vs Wolves adds an outside view. The guest left Denver years ago and followed the Jokic era from afar.

Jake Shapiro's Mile High Hoops is strongest on scenario math. In Nuggets dodge their biggest bullet, Nikola Jokic will return this year | Mile High Hoops, it works out why the two, three or six seed would suit Denver. Locked On Nuggets - Daily Podcast On The Denver Nuggets has DENVENGERS ASSEMBLE: Nuggets Playoff Preview With Locked on Nuggets, DNVR. Pickaxe and Roll's Ryan Blackburn compares past playoff paths by the strength of the opponents faced, and Nuggets Ink weighs Jokic's struggles against the Thunder.

Ice, and who owns the Rockies

The Jared Bednar Avalanche Coach Show is the coach's weekly interview on Altitude Sports Radio 92.5 FM, and it is useful in a plain way. In Coach Bednar says Makar's injury isn't serious & he'll be back for the playoffs, a 20-minute episode, Bednar says of Cale Makar: "Nothing serious, though." A host then mocks fans who parsed the pause in Bednar's speech, promising "we're not going to FBI this thing."

The Rockies conversation has turned toward ownership. 04-10-26 Hour 1 of Broncos Country Tonight carries a KOA newscast citing a newspaper report that Broncos ownership is buying a minority stake of around 40 percent. The hosts then argue over whether 40 percent buys any influence. The DNVR Colorado Rockies Podcast covers players' roles, as in RYAN MCMAHON TRADED TO THE NEW YORK YANKEES.

Streets, ballots and dinner

Jayson Luber makes Driving You Crazy a show about the machinery of getting around. In E397 - Everything is trying to distract you from driving, he presses a General Motors distraction engineer on how drivers will adapt to assist features. Along the way he confesses deep love for his 2014 Chevy Volt, past 170,000 miles. Near the end, he recalls a young driver's verdict on a transponder that slides between HOV and toll settings: "This is just too confusing." In E395 - Will I still be able to modify my car however I want?, his guest explains why their group wanted a way to switch off mandated emergency braking.

Rush To Reason is weekday afternoon talk on KLZ 560 with John Rush. It argues from the right. In HR2 Colorado’s Unaffiliated Voters: The Math Problem Colorado Republicans Can’t Ignore. (4-14-26), Rush, guessing "off the top of my head," puts the share of unaffiliated voters who vote left at 65 to 70 percent. His co-host Andy counters with 62. Rush also tells doubters to check the Secretary of State's voter rolls themselves. That is commentary. Readers can go to the Colorado page.

Real Good Denver covers the city's lighter side, but Denver Scooter DRAMA! Goldens in Golden, Nick Offerman, and Our City's Mental Health Resources with Guest Angela Shelley. lays out a real dispute. The hosts say a lobbyist apparently representing the scooter company Veo helped overturn a finalized road safety project. The hosts say some lawmakers allege corruption and others call the matters unrelated, and they leave the question open.

The Mike Boyle Restaurant Show Podcast records an episode inside a Little Caesars on Rock Rim and wanders happily into Pulp Fiction and Dick Dale.

BLAME is the sober counterweight. The Fear All These Years | Chapter 10: Swift Justice traces the DNA match that tied a suspect to the 1984 Bennett family murders in Aurora and to a killing investigated by Lakewood detectives. It deals with violent deaths and keeps its focus on the investigators' work.

Where to start

• For history with your headlines: After the Horn, Nuggets vs T-Wolves Reaction, Avalanche Playoff Preview & Broncos Draft Talk | After the Horn Ep 46, the episode with the Commerce City exchange.
• If you like roster math: 1st And Orange Podcast, Broncos podcast: Previewing free agency for Sean Payton's team.
• For a basketball thesis: CSG Podcast, CSG #918: Nuggets win their 10th in a row and a rumination on spacing in the NBA.
• Away from the scoreboard: Driving You Crazy, E397 - Everything is trying to distract you from driving.
• For the election argued hard: Rush To Reason, HR2 Colorado’s Unaffiliated Voters: The Math Problem Colorado Republicans Can’t Ignore. (4-14-26).

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