Podcasts about Louisville, Kentucky

Sports takes the largest share of the listening here, and much of it is Louisville arguing about its teams. On What High School Did You Go To?, Chris Hatfield wants some anger from Satterfield at the podium after a near-miss against Clemson, because "the fans are mad as hell". On The Round Table with Round Daddy, the pressure is on Kentucky basketball's recruiting, and texts get read out between points. Soccer City Podcast calls Louisville City FC matches play by play. Beside the sports there is a smaller and harder body of local reporting: women waiting on the seventh floor of a courthouse, a case for loosening the city's zoning, and the Courier Journal read aloud.

What Louisville is

Louisville is Kentucky's largest city, on the Ohio River across from southern Indiana. It is known for the Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs, for bourbon, and for the University of Louisville Cardinals.

Cardinals from the inside, and from the stands

Cards Cast: A Louisville Cardinals athletics podcast comes from Jody Demling and Michael McCammon of Cardinal Authority. It talks from inside the fan community and takes for granted that the Cardinals matter. Its episode titles keep returning to commits and young players, and its clips cover more than one sport. When the baseball team heads to Omaha, the show says the scene there is "somewhat like Omaha's Kentucky Derby", with lines at the gates and beach balls in the outfield. Freshman pitcher Ethan Eberle says being the kid on the mound there is a dream come true. Before a Friday night game against James Madison, the coach says he loves night games and sees a loud home crowd as an advantage.

What High School Did You Go To? covers the same teams from the stands. The show describes itself as Louisville sports, news and "other goings on in our big-little city". Hatfield and Gabe Duverge think out loud, correcting themselves as they try to tell one bad game apart from a real problem. Its clips come from a 2021 conversation: the complaint about Satterfield, and a basketball preview arguing that college basketball writers keep picking Gonzaga to win it all so they can say they were right. The episode titles stay on the city's teams, down to "104. Punked by Pitt at a Gordon Biersch".

The Round Table with Round Daddy is James Streble's show with rotating co-hosts, and its clips are about Kentucky basketball. One says the next few days will decide a lot: Kentucky has to land at least two of Tyron Stokes, Rob Wright III and Donnie Freeman or face a major problem next season. Then the texts come in. One calls Kentucky's coaches soft, and another says Pope Leo is tougher than Mark Pope. In another clip, Jeff Goodman asks whether Pope's personality can handle Stokes's demanding approach.

Lou City, match by match

The episode titles of Soccer City Podcast, from ESPN 680's audio vault, are mostly Louisville City FC games: Sporting Jax, Charleston Battery, and a US Open Cup tie with Austin FC of MLS. The clips are play-by-play commentary that keeps track of where things are happening on the field: which end each side is attacking, contact in midfield, the flag going up for an early offside. "Home opener here at Lynn Family Stadium for the boys in purple" is from the call against Miami FC, where Aiden McFadden and Chris Donovan turn three early chances into a 3-0 lead. Two clips come from 2025. One is a game against Hartford Athletic, with both sides already 2025 USL trophy winners and Louisville chasing a single-season points record. The other is a USL quarter-final against Detroit City FC.

Zoning, condo leaks and carryout cocktails

On Uncovered by WDRB News, made by the former newspaper reporters of WDRB.com, Pat Mulloy argues that the land development code has to get easier and allow more density. He wants duplexes, triplexes and tiny homes on lots the city once zoned R4 for single-family homes, everywhere from Cane Run Road to Prospect and Fern Creek. In his words, "every neighborhood in this city is entitled to have housing where people can live". The same conversation includes a projection that Louisville could add 80,000 foreign-born residents by 2040, raising their share from 9% to 18%. The episode titles range from the state of downtown to the 'Pappygate' bourbon heist.

Louisville Real Estate Show sounds like live local radio. A panel takes homeowners' questions, answers them, then makes the same point again in plainer language. In one clip, a man named David explains that his girlfriend's condo is leaking through the concrete floor and the condo association says it has no available funds. Cora Henderson explains assessments, reserve studies and insurance claims. The show treats the problem as common across condo communities in Louisville and southern Indiana. There is also an aside about stink bugs ("They are not breeding in your walls"). In another clip, Brett Lawler warns that a home inspection does not guarantee every defect will be caught.

Eight More Miles - The Louisville Metro District 8 Podcast is the most local of the three. District 8 Councilman Brandon Coan talks with officials and community leaders about the Highlands, in episodes from 2020. Ryan Rogers describes High Cotton Hospitality's sales falling 70% on March 16. He explains how one restaurant reopened as online-only, making pizzas in the brick oven, and later added pre-batched carryout cocktails. Darcy Costello raises unanswered questions about a place-based police unit, Elliot Avenue, development and public oversight.

The courthouse, the police and the paper

Dig, from the Kentucky Center for Investigative Reporting, is the heaviest listening on this page. Its season The Girls carries a warning for accounts of child sex abuse. The narration is calm and plain, built from testimony and records. In the clip from Part 1, four women wait on the seventh floor of the Louisville courthouse for Ronnie and Donnie Stoner. The brothers were respected educators and football coaches for almost 20 years, and the women say they sexually abused girls who trusted them. Alyssa Foster, 21, says, "Every time the elevators open, my heart drops". Clips from Parts 3 and 4 turn to the police. Only four of LMPD's last 100 child-sex-abuse cases led to charges or an arrest, and Arielle Stoner remembers an officer telling her, "I hope you're not just saying this just so you can run away".

LMPD comes up again on Louisville Courier Journal, a spoken edition of the newspaper. One story adds up a single officer's pay: 4,326 hours worked and $281,832 earned, $158,909 of it overtime. The same edition looks back at Barbaro twenty years later. After the Kentucky Derby champion's 2006 Preakness injury, his fans raised about $1.5 million for horse rescue.

Where to start

• Soccer City Podcast for the sound of a Lou City match.
• Cards Cast: A Louisville Cardinals athletics podcast for Cardinals players and commits, and What High School Did You Go To? for the fans' side of the argument.
• Uncovered by WDRB News for how the city might grow, through the Pat Mulloy conversation on housing.
• Dig for investigative reporting built on testimony and records. Note its content warning.

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