Podcasts about Oklahoma, United States

Sooners football is the loudest thing here, and it comes from several rooms at once: a two-host network show that thinks in portal fits and playoff math, beat writers comparing notebooks after practice, a Norman radio booth with the mics hot, and panels that sound like the group text of people who have argued about the depth chart all day. The same names cross between them, above all John Mateer. Oklahoma State has its own voices, the Thunder's title season gets picked apart from both fan bases, and a smaller set of shows covers the legislature, cold cases and legends, and the state's recorded memory.

What Oklahoma is

Oklahoma is a south-central US state of roughly four million people, with Oklahoma City as capital and largest city and Tulsa second. Oil and gas, cattle and wheat shaped its economy, it sits in tornado country, and it is home to dozens of tribal nations. Its flagship universities, Oklahoma in Norman and Oklahoma State in Stillwater, supply most of the sports talk on this page.

Norman, from the press box to the group text

Distance from the field decides the sound. The Sooners On SI Podcast is beat writers talking through what they have just gathered, stats and quick corrections included; its clips run from a fire at Lloyd Noble Center to a softball team first in home runs, slugging and OPS after three weekends. Oklahoma Sooners Postgame and Oklahoma Sooners Unofficial 40 both come out of SoonerScoop and both work names deep into the depth chart. In "The 2026 Red & White Spring Game postgame podcast" the conversation credits Lloyd Avant, Stephen Walker and Jonathan Hatton with productive days on the ground, then argues over whether Tristan Haynes really had rough moments; Unofficial 40, regulars who sound as if they have been texting each other all day, handles the bigger numbers, Mateer producing 77 percent of Oklahoma's successful offense on a 68.4 percent usage rate.

Locked On Sooners is the recruiting-and-depth-chart show: its recruiting clip explains why five-star linebacker Cooper Witten's commitment was ever in doubt, his father having been his high school head coach, and calls it Brent Venables' biggest linebacker pickup; another clip sets Mateer's arithmetic plainly, 30 to 35 points a game and he can win ten and push for the playoff. Through the Keyhole covers similar ground with more interruption and self-revision, counting eight SP+ top-25 opponents on the 2026 schedule. The REF 1400 Podcast is the station voice, two hosts in a booth, one letting himself get excited about a tight end room built around Hayden Hanson, called the biggest tight end Oklahoma has ever had, the other telling him to check back in late October because he has been lied to before. Its spring-game clip treats Owen Heinecke as a coach on the field, and Heinecke's name recurs in titles across the OU shows, one saying his case had gone before the courts, another carrying #FreeOwen.

Stillwater, and the Thunder from both directions

Locked On Oklahoma State sounds like fast local sports radio talking from inside Cowboy country, and it ranges past football: a seeding argument over wrestler Jax Forrest at 133, the best in the class by eye test but with a regular season that ought to count; Carson White's 5,445 passing yards and 44 rushing touchdowns as proof Eric Morris is building a quarterback factory; the prospect of the SEC and Big Ten leaving the NCAA outright. Pistols Firing, with Carson Cunningham and Colby Powell, is roomier and longer in memory, and its clips here all come from "Podcast Ep. 650: Oklahoma City Thunder Are World Champions!": Shai Gilgeous-Alexander's 32.7 points a game edging Michael Jordan's 32.6 for a champion, and Sam Presti taking every player, ten-day signings included, to the Oklahoma City bombing memorial as their first act with the team. Just OK Sports argues the same player's case from the Sooners' side, Gilgeous-Alexander as the first 30-point scorer on a Western No. 1 seed to miss MVP since 1967.

The statehouse with the gears visible

This Week in Oklahoma Politics is a measured panel that starts from the news hook and widens into consequence. On the Justice Department's suit for Oklahoma's voter data, the discussion notes a similar suit dismissed in California and a federal government that seems to want the state to do the matching because its own systems are full of errors, and its titles run the state's docket from a poultry pollution settlement to Markwayne Mullin's confirmation hearing. Let's Pod This looks at the same machinery from the voter's end. Its clips from "Choose Your Own Voters, or, How the Legislature is Trying to Bamboozle Us" trace how SJR 47, HJR 4440 and HJR 1089 would move voter-approved issues onto a low-turnout August ballot, then count what is settled in advance: 69 percent of 321 contested positions decided before November, 138 of 152 judicial races with one candidate. Listen Frontier, drawn from The Frontier's investigative reporting, has Pat McFerrin's poll putting Gentner Drummond at 39 percent among Republicans in the 2026 governor's race, and in "Why Tulsa is hitting pause on data centers" sets Phil Lakin, arguing residents already rely on data centers every time they search or back up a photo, against Maura Bellis, who calls the proposed opportunity scraps.

Cold cases, legends and the recorded past

The true-crime shows split between the documented and the folkloric. Sooner State True Crime works from the record: Brittany Phillips, who missed three straight days at Tulsa Community College before a friend found her apartment door unlocked, in a city with a single detective, Eddie Majors, assigned to all its unsolved cold cases. Oklahoma Strange goes the other way, its "Deer Woman" clip describing a half-human, half-deer punisher of rapists and racists and setting her beside the Not Deer of Appalachian folklore; EERIE OKIE wanders furthest from the state, from Jeff Provine's Soviet drilling project with screaming voices at 50,000 feet to the Polybius arcade legend of Portland, Oregon.

Amplified Oklahoma draws on the OSU Library's oral history collections and carries the most striking testimony on the page: in "Episode 95: Title IX", Sandy Fisher recalls women traveling on a dollar for breakfast, a dollar fifty for lunch and two dollars for dinner, and Pat Jones refusing to believe the budget and calling it criminal to the athletic director's face. This is Oklahoma is the long-interview counterpart, patient with digressions, with David Davis on an Oklahoma Historical Society document signed by William Clark and tied to Big Axe of the Otoe-Missouri, and on a Galileo collection at OU with a signed Sidereus Nuncius. Cycling Oklahoma, the sports show furthest from a campus, recaps the Cape Epic, down to why endurance athletes do not need 200 grams of protein a day.

Where to start

• Sooners: Locked On Sooners for recruiting and depth-chart arithmetic, Oklahoma Sooners Postgame for names straight off the field.
• Oklahoma State and the Thunder: Locked On Oklahoma State, then Pistols Firing for the championship clips.
• The state itself: This Week in Oklahoma Politics for the docket, Let's Pod This for how elections get decided before they happen, Listen Frontier for the reporting underneath.
• Neither a scoreboard nor a bill: Amplified Oklahoma's oral histories, then This is Oklahoma.

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