Podcasts about Michigan, United States

Somewhere in HOUR 2: Pistons Playoff Preview + Mike Wants To Make A Finals Bet, a joke on The Valenti Show about betting on the Pistons at plus 3000 turns into a plan to help a co-host's church. The room imagines new pews and a kazoo. Then the real need comes up, a new roof, and someone prices it at "a $100,000 job." The bit is Detroit sports radio at its loudest and most generous, and it lands on the question that runs under a great deal of Michigan's podcasting: who pays, and for what.

Sports are what you will hear first. The Lions, Tigers, Pistons and Red Wings each have several shows working the same news from different chairs. Michigan's men's basketball national title in April was celebrated or picked over even by shows that otherwise live on the Lions. The arguments stay current. The Lions' own schedule records a 32–26 loss at Carolina on October 4, 2026. Off the field, a federal appeals court on September 11, 2026 rejected the administration's emergency justification for keeping the J.H. Campbell coal plant operating. That case sets an asserted reliability concern against the limits of emergency authority.

Listen past the scores and money keeps surfacing: a young star's contract, an ambulance fee schedule, a records deposit a true-crime host found cost-prohibitive. Much of this listening is about Detroit.

What Michigan is

Michigan is a U.S. state identified with the Great Lakes, made up of two peninsulas separated by the Straits of Mackinac. Automotive manufacturing is central to its economic identity. The Census Bureau estimates 10,127,884 residents in July 2025.

Detroit's teams, from the hot seat to the box score

The Valenti Show, hosted by Mike Valenti and Rico Beard, is the loudest table. In Best of Tigers on 97.1 The Ticket: AJ Hinch And The Tigers Have Now Won 6 In A Row, Tigers manager AJ Hinch talks through Kevin McGonigle's extension. The show then puts the eight-year, $150 million deal to callers with a blunt question: "who's taking a better risk? The team or the player?"

Locked On Tigers - Daily Podcast On The Detroit Tigers works closer to the ground. In WAKE-UP CALL: Detroit Tigers HEART of the Lineup SLUMPED Early in Season, host Scott Bentley insists that six games prove little. By late September the feed was taking apart PRESS CONFERENCE: AJ Hinch and Scott Harris Try to EXPLAIN the Detroit Tigers' 2026 Season. Litter Box: A Detroit Tigers Podcast hears the same season from Chet West and Bill Patterson. Their September 30 episode is Thank You, JV: Justin Verlander's Farewell and the Tigers' Season That Slipped Away.

Hockey brings out the gallows humour. In Death by Apathy, Zach of The Gongshow - A Red Wings Podcast reads a mock obituary for the team's playoff hopes, "strangled to death by their own lack of urgency." Locked On Red Wings - Daily Podcast On The Detroit Red Wings asks the plainer question in Was the season a failure after missing the playoffs for the 10th straight season?, and its answer is yes.

Locked On Pistons - Daily Podcast On The Detroit Pistons and Pistons Talk Podcast both published titles naming Jalen Duren's contract. The latter's Detroit Pistons NBA Playoffs Predictions With Natalie Kerwin. is worth hearing for its account of a broadcast day that runs from morning shootaround through solo pregame, halftime and postgame hosting. On Lions Grey Manes, four longtime fans recall in War Room Live: The Grey Manes First Round Mock Draft - EP 030 how they followed drafts together on AOL Instant Messenger in the nineties.

Ann Arbor's title, and what came after

The UM Hoops Podcast is the place to hear how Michigan won. In How Michigan won a National Championship, Dylan Burkhardt and Eric Shapiro cite a KenPom stat: since 1997, Michigan is only the fourth champion with a better defensive rating than offensive rating. They also return to their late-February call, made after an injury, that this would be Elliott Cadeau's postseason. The summer shows how fast college sport moves. Emergency Pod: Dusty May to the Mavericks arrived in June.

Plugged In with Chris Howard is hosted by Chris Howard. Its title episode spends a stretch on championship merchandise, with a stated preference for buying where the money reaches the players. Football belongs to Michigan at The Voice of College Football. Its Michigan Spring Game Postgame LIVE was recorded in Ann Arbor with the Big House behind the hosts, and one of them judged that Tommy Carr looked better than Bryce Underwood. By October the feed was asking Start The Carr? / Michigan Wolverines LIVE 270 Part 1.

News and talk, from Benton Harbor to Midland

News/Talk/Sports 94.9 WSJM covers southwest Michigan at the scale of meetings and bills. In The Morning Show with Ken & Friends! Apr. 17, '26 | Southwest Michigan's News & Talk podcast, the hosts preview Benton Harbor's meeting with Medic One. A new fee schedule raised Benton Harbor's annual ambulance cost to about a quarter million dollars. A chamber guest explains a free public town hall with Mike Duggan, whose billboards, someone notes, run along 94. WSJM Sports widens the frame in its Gus Macker tournament special from Benton Harbor, where founder Scott McNeil traces the event to his parents' driveway in Lowell.

'JR Morning broadcasts. Its JR Morning ~ April 17, 2026 ~ Full Show follows Detroit's response to teen takeovers downtown. Mayor Mary Sheffield and Police Chief Todd Bettison's six-point plan includes a contested decision to partner with 16-year-old event organizers, and the show describes Detroit as divided over it.

Justin Barclay hosts from WOOD Radio in Grand Rapids, and his show ranges well beyond the region. COMMIE MAMDANI CANCELS AC makes the case, from the Treaty of Paris, that America was founded as a Christian nation.

TALK MIDLAND w/ Logan Richetti does quieter civic work. New Public Charter School coming to Midland! | #77 explains why a charter school authorized by Central Michigan University can never levy a bond. LARA Living Room brings state regulators to the microphone. In it, State Fire Marshal Tom Hughes says smoking remained the leading cause of fires as of September 2025, with cooking close behind.

Crime, records and the past

Already Gone is Nina Innsted's series on lesser-known cases from Michigan and the surrounding region. Its "Don't Talk to Strangers" run on the Oakland County child killings is methodical and deals with the murders of children. In the finale, Innsted describes requesting first responders' reports from Birmingham police and being asked for an $1,100 deposit, when she usually pays $15 to $100.

Crimetown has a Detroit season. From the Ashes moves through Detroit's history of corruption, then pauses near a demolition pit, close to a lived-in house with a child's tricycle on the lawn. The Streets Don't Love You Back gives the floor to Rob Boyd, a former drug dealer from the east side. He remembers carrying a Christmas tree home through a blizzard with his stepfather, before recounting his stepfather's murder.

The Mitten Channel keeps Flint's record. In one episode, a high school star recalls how a Tigers scout came to watch other players and left interested in him. In Jeffrey LeValley, Gospel Grammy Songwriter, the composer says simply, "I was raised in church. All I ever knew was church."

Where to start

• For a fan new to Michigan basketball: The UM Hoops Podcast, How Michigan won a National Championship.
• If public records interest you: Already Gone, Don't Talk to Strangers Vol. 1, the start of the series.
• Wanting Detroit's history in one voice: Crimetown, The Streets Don't Love You Back.
• Curious about small-city government: News/Talk/Sports 94.9 WSJM, The Morning Show with Ken & Friends! Apr. 17, '26 | Southwest Michigan's News & Talk podcast. Listen for who pays the ambulance bill.
• For music and faith: The Mitten Channel, Jeffrey LeValley, Gospel Grammy Songwriter.

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