Podcasts about Oregon, United States

A segment on The Bald Faced Truth With John Canzano starts with one Ducks fan. He has followed Oregon football for 31 seasons, graduated from the University of Oregon, and holds three season tickets in section 34 at Autzen Stadium. His tickets and parking for the season come to about 2,400 dollars. Seats for a playoff opening round cost 270 dollars each. The show presents it as a question of whether being a fan has got out of hand, and the segment works as a key to Oregon's podcasts right now. The sports feeds cover the Ducks and the Trail Blazers, and their arguments keep sliding from the field to money, ownership and who can afford a seat.

The calendar explains some of the volume. The University of Oregon's schedule records a 41–27 win at USC on September 26, 2026. Away from the stadiums, OPB reported the state's unemployment rate at 5.2% in August 2026. Democrats welcomed encouraging signs while warning about the budget. Republicans argued that taxes and business regulation were holding Oregon back.

Past the scoreboards, a steadier theme comes through: many of these shows are about keeping things within reach. A guest in Baker City wants fewer patients driving the interstate for care. A Portland bar podcast asks tavern owners how they got through the pandemic. A Bend trail group describes a national forest stretched thin. Some of the shows below are about places inside Oregon, Portland among them, and the Portland page offers another way in.

What Oregon is

Oregon is a state in the Pacific Northwest of the United States, with landscapes that include evergreen forests and high desert. Its population was estimated at 4,273,586 on July 1, 2025, and its land area was measured at 95,995.98 square miles in 2020. Its economy combines technology manufacturing and services with agriculture and forestry. For the wider frame, see the United States page.

Ducks, Blazers and the price of caring

Oregon Sports Network is the Ducks' daily desk, and it lets coaches talk at length. In Duck Insider 4/9/26, the men's basketball coach explains how this year's tournament rosters were assembled, observing that many portal-built teams "spent a lot of money to get there." The Bald Faced Truth With John Canzano runs on opinion and phone calls instead. In BFT Show: Dana Altman, Karl Benson, the show breaks the news that Central Washington's Chris Fisk will coach Portland State. In BFT Show: December 8, 2025, it argues that Oregon and Oregon State should play each other while allowing that Scott Rueck has reasons to balk.

Other shows fill in around the Ducks coverage. Quack 12 Podcast turns the season into a game in 2025 Oregon Football Quiz Show: a contestant guesses 21 to 30 points a game, and the answer is 36.93. The Big Ten Huddle Podcast sees the Ducks from the conference level. Its Predicting 10 Big Ten Upsets For 2026 Season weighs Oregon over Ohio State. For 3 Portal Rumors – Oregon Spring Ball Preview – Key Recruiting Battles, it borrows a local voice, Ryan Winters of Sports Chat 503, to sort out the offensive line.

The Blazers shows are where fandom sounds most domestic. In Holy Backboard's Victorious in the Valley, Previewing San Antonio, one host's mother struggles to find the game on Prime while the other's manages it alone. A dad at preschool drop-off asks one host whether he had wanted the draft picks instead of the win. Bleav in Blazers, hosted by beat reporter Peter Sampson, greets Tom Dundon in The Trail Blazers welcome new owner Tom Dundon without piling on: "I don't know the guy I've never met the guy."

The Firm of Harris and Marang brings percentiles to Previewing Game 1 vs Spurs, where its number one concern is whether Deni Avdija can get into the paint. Sports Saturday with Rashad and Joe is looser. In Sports Saturday 3.28.26 - Hour 2, the hosts look forward to a retrospective on the Jail Blazers years, and one plans to show his son "what we had to deal with." Locked On Blazers – Daily Podcast On The Portland Trail Blazers takes the play-in win over Phoenix apart.

Old rooms and working stages

History by the Glass sits down in Portland bars and drinks on mic, which its hosts insist is unsimulated. Early in 48 — Dublin Pub, they drink Widmer Hefeweizen with lemon from Spuds McKenzie glasses. The joke becomes history: the episode credits Widmer with co-founding Portland Brew Fest. The owner, JT, gets the best story. He was faxing in his St. Patrick's Day order just as Governor Kate Brown shut everything down. The banter is long and profane, and listeners who stay with it are rewarded by stories from owners. 42 — The Rainbow Cafe (Pendleton, OR) takes the show on the road. Recorded on site, it lingers on a bar surface showing the wear pattern of every drinker.

Oregon Music News is more patient. In Chris Doss: Biamp Portland Jazz Festival honcho looks back at this year's, the festival's Chris Doss reviews a program with 22 or 23 free community performances. He admits he never got to work the Staples show. Chance Hayden: : Working between releases / Coffeeshop Conversations #450 turns on a gold sparkle baritone guitar and widens into the gigs few people see: hotel lobbies, wineries and monthly nights at the Blue Diamond.

Care close to home

Power Eastern Oregon Podcast comes from Oregon Trail Electric Cooperative, and its episodes say they kick off "like we always do with our safety share." The real subject is how small places keep their services. In How Saint Alphonsus Keeps Care Closer to Home, With Tony Swart, Swart, who has been with the organization in Baker City since 2019, marvels at "the amount of patients that are on I-84 in a daily basis." He then describes telehealth that keeps the feel of a clinic visit. Strengthening Harney County Through Innovations in Health Care introduces a Telestroke robot that links the emergency department to round-the-clock neuro specialists. The tone is warm and close to promotional, so this is the place to hear how a co-op and its partners describe themselves, not independent scrutiny of them. Grounded: a Podcast by the Oregon Department of Energy works similar ground in Episode 53: Fueling EVs in rural Oregon. A guest who keeps his diesel pickup for hauling explains how little his power bill rose when he started charging at home.

Bend Don't Break, from the Bend weekly The Source, interviews people doing visible civic work. In Bend Don’t Break: Casey Andrews, Executive Director for COTA (Central Oregon Trail Alliance), Andrews notes that "The Deschutes National Forest has one trails employee for over a million acres." Peak Northwest, from The Oregonian and OregonLive, turns access into practical advice. In Let’s talk about Abiqua Falls: Everything you need to know about Oregon’s newsiest waterfall, a host backs a Subaru up a steep grade and walks the last mile, and the hosts note that the state's apparent purchase is not finalized.

Who gets a hearing

KGW's Straight Talk gives one guest room to answer Tim Gordon's follow-ups. In Dan Rayfield takes on Trump in court; Portland celebrates the Thompson Elk's return, the attorney general argues that elections belong to the states if Congress is silent on time, place and manner. Government accountability comes up in Portland’s economy at a crossroads and Ed Diehl's bid for Oregon governor. In that episode, a guest claims Multnomah County has "the nation's highest business taxes" and calls for radical change. In Dudley eyes governor’s office; new book revisits Atiyeh's legacy, an author argues that newcomers move for Tom McCall's Oregon but work in Vic Atiyeh's economy.

The Truth Ride with Riccardo Waites asks from a different seat. It broadcasts on We Black Radio. Its Deschutes County commissioner series is meant to let marginalized listeners hear the candidates before the May vote. The Truth Ride S2 E5 Interview with Deschutes County Commissioner Candidate Amanda Page March 15th 2026 reaches a proposal for fees on short-term rentals and second homes, with the money feeding an affordability fund. The same episode also covers a report on what it calls modern-day lynchings in southern states, so expect hard listening there.

Cold cases, a crow and old vintages

The Oregonian's audio favors patience over shock. News Updates from The Oregonian carries The Unidentifieds Episode 6: Four Oregon cold cases solved, families get closure, which restores names that include Freeman Isaac Asher Jr., a Navy veteran of the Vietnam War. Beat Check with The Oregonian lightens the mood with a crow that dive-bombed neighborhood children until they wore bicycle helmets. The reporter calls it "high drama, low stakes." The Oregon Wine History Archive Podcast's Dean Underwood: Oral History Interview remembers an acre of wheat earning $200 or $300, and sangria evenings spent dreaming of the wine world.

Where to start

• For a Ducks fix: Oregon Sports Network, Duck Insider 4/9/26, to hear a coach think aloud about building a roster.
• For an evening on a barstool: History by the Glass, 48 — Dublin Pub.
• For local politics up close: The Truth Ride with Riccardo Waites, The Truth Ride S2 E5 Interview with Deschutes County Commissioner Candidate Amanda Page March 15th 2026.
• For rural life beyond the metro: Power Eastern Oregon Podcast, How Saint Alphonsus Keeps Care Closer to Home, With Tony Swart. Listen for who still has to make that drive.
• For a gentle mystery: Beat Check with The Oregonian, (2024 Replay) The backstory to the mystery of ‘Cosmo the talking crow’.

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