Podcasts about Louisiana, United States

Football talk in two accents. Most of what plays here is LSU coverage out of Baton Rouge and Saints coverage out of New Orleans, and the two keep crossing, since the LSU receiver and cornerback the Saints shows are scouting came out of the program the Baton Rouge shows cover. Around that core is a smaller, more distinctive set of shows about what the whole state lives with, which is water: a coast losing land, a restaurant that keeps its own levee, a hardwood floor buckled by Gulf South moisture. Most of it is filed under Sports.

Much of this listening is really New Orleans listening: the Saints and Pelicans shows, the investigative newsroom and the Katrina documentary all belong to that city, and the New Orleans page carries them on their own. The rest comes from Baton Rouge, Lafayette, Louisiana Tech and a few shows that take the whole state as their subject.

What Louisiana is

Louisiana is a Gulf Coast state at the mouth of the Mississippi River, with New Orleans as its largest city and Baton Rouge as its capital. It is divided into parishes rather than counties, and its southern half is a low, wet landscape of bayou, marsh and delta. It is known for Cajun and Creole cooking, Mardi Gras, its music, seafood and oil, and the hurricanes that periodically remake it.

LSU, football and baseball in the same hour

The Baton Rouge shows do not pick a sport. After Further Review, hosted by Matt Moscona, pairs a spring football practice recap with an SEC baseball preview in a single title, and its clips split the same way, including a Riot Radio Hour segment that compares a two-strike at-bat to a fist fight and then puts numbers on it, Pearson's 21 strikeouts in 76 at-bats against Curiel's 23 in 149. Tiger Rag Radio Show works the same beat as a panel, several voices stacking agreement, pushback and statistics on top of each other, and its clips are the program's business side: Ryan McGee on why Lane Kiffin can win quickly through the transfer portal, Todd Horn on a signing class graded 93.81 and built on "quality over quantity", and SEC rivals who can spend double or quadruple LSU's revenue-share money.

Hold That Podcast, Podcast, with Brody Miller and Chris Branch, is an earlier LSU era, its clips from 2021 and 2022, both hosts picking Myles Brennan to start against Florida State. Tech Drive covers Louisiana Tech in a looser interview style; Matt Thorne explains the IA Society as a $25,000, five-year commitment.

The Saints and the Pelicans

The New Orleans sports shows divide by temperament more than subject. NewOrleans.Football: Saints Podcast, with Nick Underhill and Mike Triplett, is the measured one, two people thinking a draft decision through in real time. Locked On Saints - Daily Podcast On The New Orleans Saints and the show titled simply New Orleans Saints both work the draft and the LSU pipeline: Chris Hilton Jr. on why, after what he calls a rough five years at LSU, he played all four all-star games in one draft process; Deuce McAllister on Alvin Kamara at 30, "Nothing. Go play." New Orleans Saints Podcast is the interview show, Erin Summers setting up a question and letting the answer run, and its clips are fandom and character rather than tape, International Fan of the Year John Silva among them: "I wake up and I eat Saints".

Saints Happy Hour is the opposite, a rapid-fire panel that assumes familiarity with the old scars and running jokes, asking whether a team with the fewest rushing touchdowns in the NFL should give up on the run. Locked On Pelicans - Daily Podcast On The New Orleans Pelicans is the basketball show, solo and blunt, on a team that finished with 56 losses and no first-round pick.

Water, from the coast to the crawlspace

Louisiana's coast is losing land, and the shows here measure it. Behind The Lens, from The Lens, New Orleans' nonprofit investigative newsroom, puts it at 2,000 square miles gone and 16 more a year, a football field every 100 minutes. Its titles run the state's politics too, from oil companies' liability for coastal damage to a bill eliminating the job Calvin Duncan won. Delta Dispatches is the restoration side; Jacques Hebert signs off after eight years claiming no one has addressed coastal flood risk better than Louisiana. Floodlines, The Atlantic's documentary on New Orleans before, during and after Katrina, is the careful, reflective register: a city built by levees and pumps, and Max Mayfield of the National Hurricane Center calling reporter Mark Schlefstein to ask how high his building was.

The Home Improvement Show, with Paul Lagrange, starts from homeowner questions and slows into building science, as when Tammy's buckling hardwood floors are traced to a vinyl-plank layer trapping Gulf South moisture under the house. Louisiana Great Outdoors with Don Dubuc is the water at play, brisk and plain, practical about weather, access and safety, down to saving an outboard in a freeze. A run of its titles from February 2026 is farewells, among them "Don speaks with his daughters and granddaughter, then signs off the WWL airwaves".

Food, letters and Lafayette

Louisiana Eats treats food as a map of the state, and its clips are about persistence: Horst Pfeiffer on the generators, pumps and levee that keep Middendorf's serving in the swamp, Lauren Haydell writing loyalty to Manny Randazzo king cakes into her wedding vows. LETTERS READ, filed under History, has local performers read letters and documents by culturally vital individuals; the Josephine Louise Newcomb reading moves from a grief-stricken Christmas letter to the court fights in which her nephews and nieces contested the will that endowed Newcomb College at Tulane. Discover Lafayette talks with the city's institutions and founders; Maureen Dugas Foster on how unemployment, a bottle of wine and a Facebook page became Designing Women of Acadiana, a nonprofit membership group that talks its way into historic and new buildings.

Where to start

• For LSU: After Further Review for the day-to-day of spring practice and SEC baseball; Tiger Rag Radio Show for the panel argument about money, the portal and the conference.
• For the Saints: NewOrleans.Football: Saints Podcast for the draft thought through; Saints Happy Hour for the same season argued at speed.
• For the coast: Floodlines for Katrina, then Behind The Lens for the land loss now.
• For the state at the table: Louisiana Eats.

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