Podcasts about Georgia, United States

Georgia Bulldogs football takes up more of this page than anything else, and it arrives in more than one register. On DawgNation Daily a single host builds a case in real time, weighing in one clip whether Kirby Smart's way of building a team can still win a national championship as college football changes around him. Locked On Bulldogs runs the same program at speed and with its elbows out, reading Gunner Stockton's line aloud, 2,894 yards, 24 touchdowns, five interceptions against a far tougher schedule than Notre Dame's, and demanding that anyone ranking another quarterback above him show their work.

The professional sports here are Atlanta's: the Braves, the Falcons and, with more shows than either, Atlanta United. Underneath the sports is a smaller layer that sounds nothing like it: a WABE politics roundtable, unedited county commission meetings, the courts, and local memory from Middle Georgia, Savannah and Augusta.

What Georgia is

Georgia is a state in the southeastern United States, on the Atlantic coast between Florida and the Carolinas. Atlanta, its capital and largest city, has one of the world's busiest airports; Savannah is its historic port; Augusta hosts the Masters. The state is known for the University of Georgia Bulldogs, Atlanta's professional teams, peaches, and film and television production.

Bulldogs football from several angles

The title runs show what these shows keep returning to: spring practice and G-Day, injuries, recruiting, NIL money and whatever Kirby Smart has said. DawgNation Daily's clips catch DeMello Jones saying no comment on the Sugar Bowl loss and then smiling. Locked On Bulldogs writes its titles in capitals and talks the same way, with Daniel saying Elijah Griffin can demolish a game plan down after down, and a prediction that Ellis Robinson III becomes Georgia's best defensive back ever. Junkyard Dawgcast, powered by Dawgs247, is a looser room, and its clips are more reportorial: the hiring of Larry Knight to fix the program's worst sack numbers this century, and Kirby Smart warning that a 12-team playoff could kill rivalry games like Georgia-Miami.

The Georgia Show, from On3, is the insider room: a live session around the Charlotte game in which Rusty Mansell takes questions, explains how much of Jared Curtis's recruitment ran through his agent, and walks through how Georgia held Texas to one field goal across 11 drives.

Atlanta's teams

The Braves are heard mostly through Buck's Beat, from 680 The Fan, which moves between Georgia scrimmage reports and baseball; in one clip the hosts argue an early Braves MVP between Bryce Elder, whose ERA dropped to 0.77 after five and two-thirds scoreless innings against Miami, and Drake Baldwin, whom both concede is the no-brainer. Locked On Falcons is a solo daily notebook that lives in the weeds of the salary cap: $11.6 million in space forcing a quiet free agency, and Kyle Pitts expected to reject anything under $20 million.

Atlanta United has more shows here than any other professional team. Five Stripe Final is the analytical one, measured even when it admits the games have become a chore to watch; it puts a 0.07 xG night against LAFC down as the lowest in club history while Ronny Deila keeps asking for more crosses. Southern Fried Soccer is the Atlanta Journal-Constitution's, with Doug Roberson on Dax McCarty's retirement and Carlos Bocanegra's departure after years of playoff failures. Atlanta United FC Weekly, from Home Before Dark, is a group chat that knows the club well, profanity-comfortable and full of live-chat asides. Off the Woodwork, from 92-9 The Game, widens to the World Cup. All of this is really Atlanta's listening, and the Atlanta page on PlayNext is where it lives.

The Capitol, the courthouse, the county commission

Political Breakfast from WABE is a politics roundtable with newsroom discipline. Its clips track a governor's race in which Rick Jackson and Burt Jones are spending at unprecedented levels, and Theron Johnson calling Atlanta's violence a gun violence epidemic tied to 404 Day and teen curfews. The title run adds Marjorie Taylor Greene's former district, a District 14 runoff and the mood after the legislative session.

Liberty County, Georgia is the opposite kind of listening: unedited Board of Commissioners recordings. Dr. Bell says that if Relay for Life tops $100,000 she will kiss a pig on May 1st. A $2,428,920 road project may need a city partnership because an asbestos concrete line sits under the street. Judge Michael McGirt reports 4,396 magistrate court filings in 2025 against 2,650 dispositions. The North Georgia Advocate podcast, on Gainesville and Hall County, is heard through an introductory episode in which Chris Dyer says it is hard to get a true read on Hall County's government meetings.

The courts get their own strand. In Recess is a forum for people who run Georgia's courts, with Stacey Peace on the ADA final rule and Paul Panusky on courtroom interpreting needing four languages, English, Spanish and the legalese of each. See You In Court, with Robin Frazier-Clark and Lester Tate, is heard entirely through its conversation with David Windecher, founder of RED, who had 13 arrests by 19 and was tutored toward a GED by a young woman named Nicole. Breakdown, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution's Georgia justice series, is heard on its Guidestones investigation, including "Who Blew Up The Guidestones? Ep 1: The Granite Capital of the World" and a clip in which police rifles are pointed at Candace Taylor's South Georgia home after a fake shooting report. Georgia Safe Retirement Planners covers personal finance, with clips on HUD homes at as much as 50 percent below market, as-is being the catch, and Georgia Land Bank Authority properties at $1,000 with strict renovation requirements.

Local memory: Middle Georgia, Savannah, Augusta

Middle GA Podcasts is local memory, much of it told by the people who lived it: J.Keith Lancaster on the fifth mission in which flak destroyed the only generator on board and all nine crew bailed out over Italy; Gail Causey Terry admitting she skipped church choir to watch the Beatles on Ed Sullivan; Brenda Clyette Thomas on how Fort Hawkins helped launch her path to the U.S. team.

Savannah, Georgia: Anything But Ordinary is the official podcast of Visit Savannah, and its clips lean toward natural and local history: someone named Richardson who studied Tybee's rocks for 30 to 35 years and found an octopus there once, and T.C. Michaels on Alice Riley using a pregnancy to delay her execution. DropTheDis Augusta treats Augusta as a network of people doing work: Dub and Cody on learning live morning radio at Kicks, and Troy Akers on Tobias Harris telling his banker to wire the money for his store. The Savannah page on PlayNext goes deeper on that city.

Where to start

For the Bulldogs, DawgNation Daily if the appeal is a case being argued, Locked On Bulldogs if it is speed and volume. For state politics, Political Breakfast from WABE. For a long story, Breakdown's Guidestones investigation or See You In Court's conversation with David Windecher. For local government as it actually sounds, Liberty County, Georgia. The Georgia feed on this page plays clips from these shows.