Podcasts about Houston, Texas

The same April week keeps arriving from different directions. Will Anderson Jr. gets his extension and The Drive with Stoerner and Hughley calls it "the easiest check that they've ever written"; Nick Caserio's draft strategy is the subject on Payne & Pendergast, Texans All Access and Locked On Texans; the Rockets draw the Lakers and The B-Block goes straight to LeBron James against Kevin Durant. Houston's podcasts are mostly about its teams. The civic listening — Houston Public Media's Hello Houston shows, KTRH's morning news, a South Asian community panel — is much smaller beside it.

What Houston is

Houston is the largest city in Texas and one of the largest in the United States, laid out flat across the Gulf Coast plain and tied together by freeways. It is the center of the American energy business, home to a vast medical complex and NASA's Johnson Space Center, and a city whose flooding, growth and traffic are permanent civic subjects.

Rockets: Durant, Sengun and a Lakers series

Locked On Rockets - Daily Podcast On The Houston Rockets does the awards-and-matchups version: Kevin Durant's case for All-NBA first team — 25.8 points on 63.8% true shooting while covering for five major absences — and Amen Thompson's 41-point night in a loss that set up a first-round series with the Nuggets or the Lakers. Summit State Of Mind (A Houston Rockets Podcast) is the fan's version, and less forgiving. Its clip from "283: Why Are The Houston Rockets STRUGGLING?" is a double-digit second-half lead lost to Sacramento — "another choked job by your Houston Rockets" — and the prescription is a clear hierarchy rather than a different shot-taker every night. The B-Block is Brandon Scott alone, talking at speed; his Lakers clip frames LeBron and Durant meeting in a conference playoff series for the first time, and his offseason clip prefers Fred VanVleet and the young guards to paying De'Aaron Fox $50 million a year. Houston Sports Talk goes finer on lineups, crediting Aaron Holiday's minutes beside Alperen Sengun for getting the ball into the post faster, and reduces the Lakers series to whether Ime Udoka can adjust before JJ Redick changes the defense again.

Texans: Caserio's draft and Stroud's money

Texans All Access is produced by the team, and its clips lean on John McClain: the defense is the NFL's best but the running game has to improve, and Earl Campbell's arrival once revived the Oilers and produced three straight playoff appearances. Locked On Texans - Daily Podcast On The Houston Texans is the front-office desk, where every name gets tied to a role, a contract value, a scheme fit or an injury history: whether the Texans could trade C.J. Stroud for multiple first-round picks and still win with a backup, $78 million in freeable cap space, EJ Speed as the number-one must-sign. The stretch that plays is a map of where players actually live — 288 South toward Pearland, inside the Loop, up in Montgomery County — offered as an ingress-and-egress argument. Payne & Pendergast — Seth Payne, a former NFL player, and longtime Houston radio voice Sean Pendergast — questions why Houston would take quarterback off the table given the uncertainty around Stroud. The Drive with Stoerner and Hughley is looser, a panel of clipped questions, overlapping reactions and comic detours that circle back to the take: Anderson's deal was easy because of what he is in the locker room, Stroud's camp will not accept game-manager money, the Astros' staff sits 29th in MLB with a 6.05 ERA.

Astros: a losing streak, told two ways

Astros Baseball Podcast, hosted by Rob Fontenot, is two fans recapping games they have just lived through in box-score detail, and its April titles tell the run: "Astros Lose 7 Straight", "Astros End Losing Streak and Win Series", "Astros Get Swept By Cardinals". The clips are the better nights and the near-misses — Hunter Brown's six scoreless innings and eight strikeouts opposite Jacob deGrom, then extras in which the Astros three times failed to score with a leadoff runner on second. Houston Astros Podcast is the polished counterpart, team radio built on setup, question, answer and follow-up: Carlos Correa calls the clubhouse "a big family", and the title run is GM Dana Brown, Joe Espada and an American League West preview.

Cougars and the high school leagues

Locked On Coogs - Daily Podcast on Houston Cougars Football and Basketball previews a Sweet 16 game against Illinois, 0-5 in games decided by three points or fewer, and on the football side counts Jalen Mayo's four interceptions and eight breakups. Inside High School Sports covers Texas high school football across Dallas–Fort Worth and Greater Houston, heavy on records, classifications and final scores. The Houston-side clip is Summer Creek's record against North Shore, winless in eight tries since November 2016; much of what plays is the Dallas side, Joshua over Midlothian in triple overtime and Aledo's 130 straight district wins.

City Hall, Harris County and the household economy

The political story in these clips is one fight: Greg Abbott threatening to pull $110 million from Houston after City Council limited HPD cooperation with ICE. Houston's Morning News on KTRH carries the threat, Jimmy Barrett asking whether Abbott will actually withhold the money, and Doug Griffith saying officers could face indefinite suspension for ignoring the new policy.

Houston Public Media's Hello Houston summarizes a story plainly and then tests it — who pays, who gets displaced — with room to wander, as in Frank Aces-Garcia on AI turning decades of paper flood maps into digital data. Hello Houston: The Commuter Cut is the same station's question-led briefing, pulled toward the listener's house, wallet and commute. Gus Fauché, PNC's chief economist, puts consumer sentiment at its lowest in forty or fifty years despite low unemployment and expects slower but still above-average population growth as people keep moving to Houston; a YouTube comment — "this gentleman is living in another world" — is read back to him for a reply. Phoebe Tudor lays out an Astrodome market day for investors, developers and prospective tenants.

Hobby Talks, from the Hobby School of Public Affairs, puts the officials in its title run — Council Member Alejandra Salinas, Precinct 3 Commissioner Tom S. Ramsey — while its clips are the national end of the same machinery, Robert Pondiscio on working with "the teachers you have" among them. The Franklin Factor is shop talk from inside a residential real estate team working across Houston, Carrie Vaughn weighing AI against the personal touch that referrals depend on.

Indo American News Radio Houston TX is a rotating panel sharing one community calendar, circling a subject through questions, corrections and small jokes. The stretch that plays is festival logistics: tickets at $10 that day, $15 from tomorrow, $20 at the gate, a color rave, Bollywood dances. Annise Parker, campaigning to become Harris County judge, criticizes the lack of warning during Harvey's dam releases, pledges countywide flood-project dashboards and calls the Trump ICE operation "retribution" rather than immigration enforcement.

Where to start

• For the Rockets' playoff argument: Locked On Rockets for the Durant All-NBA case, The B-Block for LeBron against Durant.
• For the Texans' front office: Locked On Texans; for the same subjects at radio speed, The Drive with Stoerner and Hughley.
• For the Astros: Astros Baseball Podcast after a loss, Houston Astros Podcast for Correa in his own words.
• For the city itself: Hello Houston: The Commuter Cut on the economy and the Astrodome, Houston's Morning News on KTRH for the Abbott–City Council fight, Indo American News Radio Houston TX for the community calendar.

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