Podcasts about Ohio, United States

Ohio State football is the sound of this page before anything else. The largest group of shows here exists to talk about the Buckeyes, and their clips come at the team from several angles at once: Cotton Bowl picks against Miami, a basketball season that climbed from the bubble to an eight seed, spring-practice reports, and, underneath all of it, the Michigan sign-stealing report, which The Buckeye Scoop treats as live grievance rather than settled history. The state's other voices are quieter but distinct: Cleveland pro-sports talk, high school football notebooks, a statewide news show with a taste for legal mechanics, Dayton city government, farm and factory interviews, and history and crime told county by county.

What Ohio is

Ohio is a Midwestern state in the Great Lakes region of the United States, with Lake Erie to the north and the Ohio River to the south. Columbus is the capital and home of Ohio State University; Cleveland and Cincinnati are its other large cities. It is known for manufacturing, farming and an unusually intense college football culture.

The Buckeyes, from several seats

The Bill and Doug Show: Ohio State Football Talk is the beat-reporter version. Its titles track spring practice by number, with Julian Sayin, Tavien St. Clair and Jeremiah Smith recurring; its clips come from the playoff, Doug and Bill breaking down Ohio State against Miami and Doug calling an ESPN article a lie that hides the SEC's mediocrity behind search-engine tricks. Bucknuts Morning 5: An Ohio State athletics podcast runs the same beat at message-board speed, quick verdict, player name, joke, firmer verdict: Cortez Hankton wanting a deeper receiver rotation, Cincinnati suing Brendan Sorsby over a $1 million NIL buyout.

The OHIO Podcast is a Buckeye message board turned into a live group conversation, and in its clips fan culture itself is the subject: a defense of recruit Brady Edmunds against the rating sites, and Buck Vader reading Ryan Day's line about first- and second-round picks as an admission that Ohio State is an NFL finishing school. The Buckeye Scoop's clips are about Michigan, all of them: two fast, loose insiders working through the Norman Bay report, a spy network with 56 instances over 52 games, Justin Spiro's claim of hard evidence about the Quorum LLC arrangement, and the sarcastic lesson that the smart move is to stonewall the NCAA rather than self-report like Iowa or Ohio State.

Basketball belongs to Land-Grant Podcast Network: An Ohio State University podcast, whose Bucketheads episodes carry practice reports and recruits in a casual fan rhythm with an analytic spine, and whose clips relive March: Braylon Mullins pulling up from near the logo to put UConn ahead with half a second left, Bruce Thornton ending up with a half-court shot. Drive The Lane Podcast does the pre-game arithmetic, TCU's defense 22nd nationally against an offense ranked 81st. Spielman and Hooley is the outlier, one long opinionated sports-radio monologue whose clips wander past Columbus to the Cavaliers passing on Malachi Branham.

Cleveland, Stark County and Friday nights

Illegal Ham to the Face is two guys from Northeast Ohio on the Browns, Guardians and Cavs, and it sounds like a loose Cleveland sports bar conversation that happens to have a run sheet. In its clips the Browns pay a giant amount of money for a Houston lineman who pass-blocks well and run-blocks poorly, which reads as Houston taking advantage of the Browns again, and the Cavaliers lead Miami 30-8 in the first quarter.

Friday Night Ohio Podcast is Stark County high school football from The Canton Repository and FridayNightOhio.com, local sportswriters talking through a Friday-night notebook while the games are still fresh: Minerva ending a 44-game losing streak with a 30-20 win over West Branch while a writer recalls the fire-truck rides after a 10-0 season, McKinley putting 50 on Hoover. The BCSN Nation Podcast covers schools like Clay, Perrysburg, Wapakoneta and Medina, and its clips are baseball: Landon Echelberry shutting out Finley 4-0 with nine strikeouts, and Jace Bowen telling his parents about his MLB call-up by asking when they could fly to Philadelphia for a haircut.

News, from the statehouse to Dayton

Today in Ohio, filed under News & Politics, sounds like a newsroom conversation tightened into segments but not polished smooth: a pointed question, then a compact answer with dates, dollar amounts and legal mechanics. One clip asks why the EPA would consider a reclassification that lets major polluters pollute more, and answers with the Ohio EPA blaming Canadian wildfire smoke for the 2023 readings that moved Cleveland into serious ozone non-attainment. Another sets out what a data-center ban needs to reach the November ballot: 413,000 valid signatures across 44 counties by July 1. Its titles keep returning to data centers.

Birthplace of Next: City of Dayton Radio is city leaders talking about their own city: the police department's 30 X 30 campaign, where promotion can push an officer back to night shifts and become a childcare barrier; $2 billion in investment from 2021 to 2025, $1.3 billion of it in neighborhoods; and Sybil Martin on how the Say Yes program removes barriers to mammograms.

Farms, factories and job sites

Ohio Farm Bureau Podcast is a practical trade-organization interview rooted in the concerns of working farmers. Its USMCA clips explain that Canada and Mexico wanted to renew and the United States did not, so annual reviews run to 2036, and that about 95% of Ohio's avocados come from Mexico. Ohio Ag Net Podcast is closer to the ground: Carter Boyd deciding to run for Ohio FFA president after members comforted him following his great-grandfather's death, and titles about seed and nitrogen dollars, sulfur and long-term farm sustainability.

Manufacturing Tomorrow, from the Ohio Manufacturing Institute at The Ohio State University, is practical to the point of procedure: Ken Fanger contrasting an eight-week ransomware recovery with a 15-minute restore from protected backups, and a client who now makes a two-minute phone call before any wire transfer. Construction Employers Podcast covers contractors and the CEA, with Joe Jurek's buffalo metaphor for leadership and the admission that job sites see mental-health crises without a standard response program.

Old crimes and unsolved ones

Ohio Mysteries sounds like local history retold across a kitchen table. Its clips sit with author Neil Sater at Gnadenhutten, where in 1782 American militiamen massacred 96 Moravian Christians after falsely accusing them of espionage, and follow pilot Jim Hysong Jr., whose missing plane produced four later sightings of its tail number and no aircraft. Ohio 88 takes one notorious figure per county; its Fayette County clips follow Art Schlichter, with Anita Barney handing over more than $200,000 by the end of 2009 and a $350,000 Colts bonus turning his gambling into a $1 million loss.

Where to start

• For the Buckeyes: The Bill and Doug Show: Ohio State Football Talk for the beat, The Buckeye Scoop for the Michigan report.
• For basketball: Land-Grant Podcast Network: An Ohio State University podcast, then Drive The Lane Podcast.
• For the state beyond the stadium: Today in Ohio on data centers and ozone, Ohio Farm Bureau Podcast on USMCA.
• For something older: Ohio Mysteries at Gnadenhutten, or Ohio 88 in Fayette County.

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