Podcasts about Sacramento, California

Most of what plays on this page is an argument about the Sacramento Kings, and in April a good share of it was about one foul. Draymond Green insinuated that the Kings had thrown a game against Golden State. Locked On Kings - Daily Podcast On The Sacramento Kings answered by going through the sequence. Doug Christie did not want Steph Curry to come down and hit a three, and he is seen telling Doug McDermott to foul Seth Curry. The accusation becomes a debate about a coaching misread. Beside the Kings sit two very different kinds of listening: a community microphone in West Sacramento where the talk is climate, Palestinian prisoners and protest art, and a local newsroom's true-crime series. The day-to-day business of city hall and the Capitol barely comes up.

What Sacramento is

Sacramento is California's state capital, set where the American River meets the Sacramento River in the northern Central Valley. It grew up with the Gold Rush, runs largely on state government, and anchors a metro area that includes West Sacramento, across the river in Yolo County. Its best-known sports franchise is the NBA's Kings.

A spring spent on the lottery

Across the Kings shows, the spring keeps coming back to the draft lottery and what losing is worth. Sac Kings Therapy titled a late-March episode "Kings vs Hawks & Nets 3/29/26 - Kings pick up 2 crucial losses in the tanking race". In the clip from it, the hosts work through a proposed reform: a win floor that flattens the odds for teams that fall short of it, and odds drawn from two seasons' records instead of one. One of them does not hate the idea but wants to see it work in practice, and points to the Pacers as a team it might keep out of the lottery. Locked On Kings' April titles include "Kings cleared of ANY WRONG DOING in tanking probe, plus a discussion on Doug Christie's future". Its clips stay on the court. One covers the chippy 124-118 win over Golden State in which four young Kings scored at least 20. Another covers a media-room honor for Sacramento's radio voice of more than four decades.

D-Lo & KC covers the same weeks from a wider angle. Daryl 'Guru' Johnson explains why the Kings failed to build on their playoff momentum against the Warriors. James Ham notes that Sabonis, Murray and LaVine together played fewer games than one regular season holds. Kings Related - A Sacramento Kings Podcast, from Ben Gascoigne, goes game by game more than the others, and its titles are a string of recaps. Its December recap of a home loss to Portland is about the youth movement and the rookies holding up in a defensive game.

Same team, different rooms

The Kings shows differ less in subject than in how they sound. D-Lo & KC, from Audacy, is local sports radio: two hosts talking in short, often interrupted bursts, a producer or guest cutting in, and talk that ranges well past Sacramento. In an April episode with Eddie Gonzalez, LeBron James is called one of the most dramatic and self-centered athletes around and defended in the same breath. One voice reasons that anyone told at 16 he would be better than Jordan would turn out the same way: "I'd probably be pretty self-centered, my damn self." By September the show's titles have turned to the Raiders and 49ers.

Sac Kings Therapy is a looser, slightly breathless postgame conversation. It circles a point, tests it against examples and lands somewhere blunt, and it does not stay on basketball. Its titles pair Kings games and Summer League with Smackdown, WWE and House of the Dragon. One clip settles that Pat McAfee, not Cowboy Bob or Ric Flair, was Randy Orton's mystery caller. Another turns Jaden Ivey's waiver into a discussion of faith, mental health and NBA double standards.

The SportsEthos Sacramento Kings Podcast rotates its voices and stays in the details. Its clips from February 2025, the stretch its titles mark with "Exit De’Aaron Fox. Enter Zach LaVine", spend nearly as much time on Golden State as on Sacramento. One breaks down how the Warriors beat Oklahoma City: they took away the rim, controlled the offensive glass and left role players to miss threes. In another, a Kings voice calls the West a shark tank where Sacramento matches up well with Denver, Memphis and Houston. In a separate draft conversation, William rates Matas Buzelis a fourth-ranked prospect and a home run at 13.

Causes rather than teams

KYWS Community Conversations 92.9FM West Sacramento hands its microphone to causes rather than teams. Chris Brown of the Sacramento Climate Coalition ties Sacramento's extreme heat, flooding, fires, insurance costs and worsening air quality to climate change. Jenna Abu Hasna of Addameer describes overcrowded cells, contaminated food, disease and medical neglect in Palestinian prisons. The conversation with Johnny Goh and @PrintingAintEasy runs from protest art to self-defense. "I always made two kinds of posters for a rally," one speaker says: some for the more radical crowd, some that a liberal ally would be comfortable holding. For personal work, the advice is to be so plain that nothing can be co-opted. Goh, whose resistance runs through martial arts, argues that "Non-violence is a privilege". The show's episode titles keep returning to Sacramento's Sudanese community. Otherwise they stay close to the neighborhood: youth resources, a local artist, a DJ mix, and a new Ethnic Studies library at the Washington Neighborhood Center.

Crime, from a Sacramento newsroom

EXPOSED comes from journalists at KTXL FOX40 News in Sacramento, and its episodes here date from 2018. In "Sister Survivors", Debbie Domingo recounts a call from Ann Marie Schubert just past midnight: "Debbie, we got him." She asked whether he was alive. He was, the DNA matched, and he was in custody. Fear and relief arrive together, and then: "This is what I've wanted my whole life." "A Major Break" recounts how Paul Holes matched DNA from Contra Costa County to Orange County murder cases in March 2001. Under the title "Dorothea Puente - The Shadow Keeper", John Cabrera argues that the Puente case showed how vulnerable people can be placed in a caretaker's hands without scrutiny.

Where to start

• For the Kings, argued closely: Sac Kings Therapy on lottery reform, or Locked On Kings on the Draymond Green foul.
• For sports talk beyond one team: D-Lo & KC, starting with the LeBron James conversation.
• For causes and neighborhood voices: KYWS Community Conversations 92.9FM West Sacramento, starting with Chris Brown on heat, fire and flooding.
• For true crime: EXPOSED, starting with "Sister Survivors".

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