Podcasts about Missouri, United States

Brian Witt is at Missouri Possum Radio when the talk turns to money. On Superintendent Brian Witt of the Bourbon School District (08-27-2026), a host of The Bill & Jim Show Podcast asks how the school year looks. Witt answers with arithmetic: "They shorted us about $250 per student last year." He then explains what superintendents call "funny money," $190 million in state funding that arrives only if certain revenue comes in. Rural districts like Bourbon and Sullivan, he says, are "following the same path." The episode includes a plug for a Cars re-release and a reminder about the back-to-school bash. It raises the question: who pays, and who finds out last.

Sports talk takes in the Chiefs, Royals, Cardinals, Blues, St. Louis CITY SC and Mizzou. Even the sports shows drift into the ledger, through a ballpark financing plan, a Chiefs stadium deal and an overworked bullpen. The civic shows argue over ballots, audits and cameras.

Those arguments have dates. As of October 5, 2026, Missouri will use the congressional map it used in 2022 and 2024. On September 28, 2026, abortion was again an election issue, with the Republican-controlled legislature asking voters to reverse the constitutional protections they added in 2024. And on September 30, 2026, Ameren Missouri's proposed long-term power-plant expansion was reported as driven by data-center demand.

What Missouri is

Missouri is in the Midwestern United States, with an estimated 6,270,541 residents on July 1, 2025, and 68,746.48 square miles of land. Its economy includes agriculture, aerospace, transportation equipment and food processing. Its cultural associations include ragtime, Kansas City jazz and St. Louis blues.

Some of the shows below are about places inside Missouri, including Kansas City and St. Louis. Readers who want more can go to the Kansas City page and the St. Louis page.

The ballpark question in Kansas City

On Fescoe & Dusty's Royals Stadium News and One Word, the show airs a breakdown of how a $600 million city contribution to a Royals ballpark at Washington Square Park would come from redirected tax revenue. The state's Show Me Sports Investment Act would supply the public financing. Then one host confesses he loves downtown baseball "with all of my heart." Cody & Gold covers the same ground with less sentiment. In Hour 4 - Rob Brenton joins The Fan Club, one voice calls the Chiefs' arrangement the best stadium deal for an owner in American sports history. Later the hosts are trading plans for the afternoon's storms.

Up To Date's Kansas City Royals mark another Opening Day at Kauffman Stadium with no new ballpark plan gives owner John Sherman room to say "we feel pretty good about the options that we're working on." Then it hands the microphone to the head groundskeeper. He recalls that when George Toma retired, "only one guy applied" to replace him.

Royals Rundown: A Kansas City Royals Podcast is the skeptic of the group. In What’s Going Wrong for Kansas City Royals — and What’s Still Right, a host dismisses an earlier community benefits agreement as the Royals paying themselves and calling it charity. The show then credits Sam McDowell and the Kansas City Star for the reporting. McDowell also co-hosts Red Gold & Bold - A KC Football Podcast with Jeff Chadiha and Soren Petro. Their What We Learned From Brett Veach’s Draft Presser? treats Veach's answers as code to be broken.

St. Louis keeps score

St. Louis sports shows lean on guests. BK & Ferrario's Derrick Goold, beat writer for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch is a short course in how a bullpen survives a doubleheader week. Goold explains why a rainout let the Cardinals delay a roster move, and why one reliever's latest appearance was handled as a competitive tune-up rather than a full outing. He describes a club "chasing, chasing, chasing innings since Kansas City."

Red Smoke Rising: A St. Louis CITY SC Podcast sounds like the supporters' section with a laptop open. In A Draw With Dallas Ahead Of Open Cup Tea With Tulsa | Red Smoke Rising, April 14, 2026, the hosts bring on Mario, a Tulsa voice, who says that this year his club has a higher chance of winning when it has less of the ball.

Beyond the two cities

Away from the metros, sports radio gets personal. The Big Show, built for Mid-Missouri, has Brenden calling in from Busch Stadium in Tuesday 07/07/26 Hour 2: How Will the Cardinals Piece a Bullpen Toether Tonight?. He wonders aloud whether raising his young son as a Mizzou fan was a mistake, "because all we ever know is pain." Reigning Cats & Dogs, hosted by Henry Janssen, talks with coaches from Truman State and Kirksville High. In Reigning Cats & Dogs 4/15/26, a wrestling coach recalls a first-year heavyweight who reached the bubble match at districts.

Ballots, audits and cameras

Political audio here splits by temperament. Politically Speaking, from St. Louis Public Radio, explains politics as a system. A Blue St. Charles County? A glimpse into the future of the fast-growing county reports that voters there rejected a property tax freeze and conservative Francis Howell School Board candidates. It then hears from residents and from Carl Bearden about who is moving in.

Missouri Liberty Report is unhurried. In State Auditor slams city of Arnold, the hosts play a Fox 2 report on the audit, including the city's charge that the auditor presented facts selectively. Guest Tom Martz then says he wants the attorney general involved and people sent to prison. NewsTalk STL, which describes its lens as conservative and libertarian, takes on surveillance. On TheVicPorcelliShow-HOUR01-08-28-26, David Stokes of the Show Me Institute argues that Flock cameras are worse than the red light cameras that went away.

Heartland Labor Forum calls itself radio that talks back to the boss. The August 4th Missouri Ballot Amendments #4: and #5 and Union Leader Series: Kevin King from Union Leader to Mayor of Independence brings in KCUR's Sam Zeff on Amendment 5's plan to phase out the state income tax. The conversation asks where nine billion dollars in replacement revenue would come from.

Town halls and kitchen tables

Some of the most revealing local shows sound like talk at a lunch counter. Nick Parker of Lee's Summit Town Hall moderated Ep. 881: The Mayoral Forum — Lopez & Rader face questions on housing, trash, jobs & the World Cup. In it, one candidate disputes an apartment figure and makes the case for duplexes and townhomes for teachers and first-time buyers. In Ep. 880: Bob Kendrick — Baseball, Civil Rights & the Fight to Be Remembered, Kendrick remembers finding the museum as a single office. Don Motley looked up and told him, "son, you're standing in it." Back at the Possum, The Bill & Jim Show Podcast's Jesse and Phil Harms Air Date 04-08-2026 gives two hemp retailers room to argue against HB 2641. If signed, the bill would pull hemp seltzers and gummies from Missouri stores, a host reports in the episode, which also notes a beverage carve-out.

Stories told at length

The Paddlefish Caviar Heist follows a federal poaching sting called Operation Roadhouse in Warsaw. Its sharpest turn comes in Bait and Switch | Chapter 6, when the narrator, once a caviar dealer, realizes he may have sold poached Warsaw roe: "To learn that I may have been complicit really makes me question my role in all of this." Take the series in order, and note that The Caviar Mafia | Chapter 5 describes illegal roe harvesting in graphic detail.

Borrasca is fiction, a scripted thriller set in the town of Drisking, Missouri, and its publisher credits Cole Sprouse as the star. Expect gunfire, addiction and abuse. Welcome Home finds Kimber back in Sam's life after years apart, intent on returning for the women who never escaped.

Where to start

• For the civic-minded: Politically Speaking, A Blue St. Charles County? A glimpse into the future of the fast-growing county.
• If baseball is your way in: Up To Date, Kansas City Royals mark another Opening Day at Kauffman Stadium with no new ballpark plan, with the owner and the groundskeeper in one sitting.
• For a story about memory: Lee's Summit Town Hall, Ep. 880: Bob Kendrick — Baseball, Civil Rights & the Fight to Be Remembered.
• For anyone following school budgets: The Bill & Jim Show Podcast, Superintendent Brian Witt of the Bourbon School District (08-27-2026). Listen for what determines whether that $190 million ever arrives.
• For bullpen obsessives: BK & Ferrario, Derrick Goold, beat writer for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.

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