Podcasts about Seattle, Washington

The Seahawks are Super Bowl champions in the football shows on this page, and most of the listening is a city working out what a champion does next. Locked On Seahawks - Daily Podcast On The Seattle Seahawks ties the February Lombardi Trophy run to rebuilding both lines and asks whether John Schneider, who has drafted one first-round running back since 2010, might take a second. On Chuck and Buck, Gregg Bell explains why Mike McDonald has to reset a team that has already won. Around that core sit Mariners shows in a sour mood, Kraken and Sounders shows, and a smaller layer with no sports in it: light rail timelines, council budgets, a raccoon in Ballard, and a law that kept teenagers out of concerts.

What Seattle is

Seattle is the largest city in Washington and the Pacific Northwest, set between Puget Sound and Lake Washington. It is known for rain, coffee, the technology companies based in and around it, the grunge era, and a full set of professional sports teams.

Seahawks talk, measured and loud

Free agency and the draft run through every Seahawks show; what differs is temperament. Locked On Seahawks - Daily Podcast On The Seattle Seahawks and Seahawks Playbook Podcast are the measured end: Corbin Smith and Rob Rang work the draft like a board, with Rang arguing a Toledo back could sneak into the fourth round after rushing for over 1,100 yards, while the Playbook pair reason in long, qualified sentences about cap and positional value. Sea Hawkers Podcast: for Seattle Seahawks fans and Seahawks Collective are the talked-over end. Sea Hawkers walks through why trading up for Jeremiah Love makes no sense for a team short on picks and names Emmett Johnson as its preferred late-second or early-third-round back; Collective untangles a trade the Ravens backed out of in the limbo before the league year turned over, and frames JSN's $168 million extension as paying for the person around him, not just the production. Rashid Shaheed's three-year, $51 million contract turns up on both Sea Hawkers and Playbook, the latter noting Seattle had seen 18 catches from him before paying it. Collective's titles carry the summer's mood, "Super Bowl Champs RUNNING IT FORWARD | Seahawks Collective" and "Your SUPER BOWL Seahawks are SOLD!" among them.

The radio hours and the Mariners

The sports-radio shows are filed by the hour and carry both teams, but the Mariners are where the grievance lives. Chuck and Buck wanders through socks and the day's guest list before landing on the bullpen: the relievers rank among baseball's top five, Gabe Speier was used for three outs in 17 days, and the host is frustrated with Dan Wilson while Gregg Bell is among those blaming Jerry DiPoto for tying the manager's hands. The same hour has Bell projecting Witherspoon to reset the cornerback market above $31 million a year, a question Sea Hawkers also carries under "Witherspoon On Deck To Become NFL's Highest Paid Corner". Wyman and Bob, former Seahawks linebacker Dave Wyman with Bob Stelton, ask how worried to be after a sweep and argue the Mariners are pressing into avoidable outs. Dave 'Softy' Mahler and Dick Fain is the loudest of the radio shows, argumentative and talking straight at the listener; its sharpest clip has Softy unable to let go of someone at T-Mobile Park filming Angie Mentink's phone screen from behind the camera well and posting it, and he still refuses to forgive the Oklahoma City Thunder for taking the Sonics 18 years ago.

Meet at the Mitt: A Seattle Mariners podcast is the fan-panel version, a rotating Lookout Landing group talking fast enough that the grammar sometimes lags. Its clips run from an opening-day over-under on a hitter clearing 40 home runs, to Cole Young calling opening day a blur, to two straight games without a single, and "A Guide To T-Mobile Park - Meet at the Mitt Podcast" makes the case that International District Station, Occidental Avenue, and the light rail beat driving.

Kraken and Sounders

Kraken talk arrives from different stretches of the team's life. Sound Of Hockey - Seattle Kraken Hockey Podcast lets a listener note or a travel story run before tightening onto the team; its mailbag clip works through what a Shane Wright trade would have to return and who needs a goalie. THE Kraken Pod: a Seattle Kraken and NHL podcast is the profane, chaotic one, where Jeff says Ron Francis failed upwards and the organization is too nice to win. The Deep Dive - A Seattle Kraken Podcast by Emerald City Hockey, with RJ and Dylan, brings a chart showing the Kraken play worse when winning. Nos Audietis is the Sounders show, supporters thinking out loud with the microphone left on: a Cascadia cup tie in Spokane with hundreds marching to a 5,000-seat riverside stadium that did not feel like Starfire's 5,000, Peter Kingston turning a risky sideline throw into a goal, and a count of 13 first-team players who came through Defiance. Its titles keep calling the team the Orca Boys.

Light rail, city hall, and a raccoon named Jimothy

Seattle Now sounds like a newsroom conversation that jokes its way into a topic and then explains it. Its casual Friday clips have the Ballard light rail line possibly slipping past its 2039 target, which Dan Strauss calls unacceptable; Off Alley serving rabbit kidney over toast and veal brain Rockefeller from a 12-seat menu; and Jimothy, a Ballard raccoon shared by NASA, the BBC, and Seattle's sports teams. Seattle News, Views, and Brews, from Brian Callanan, is the council show. Its titles track shelter plans, a revenue forecast, a SODO housing bill, democracy vouchers, and the CARE Department; its clips reach back to 2020, when a viral video generated 13,000 pepper-spray complaints without showing the spray itself, and to Kevin Schofield asking whether a psychedelics resolution covers medical treatment or self-medicating for personal growth.

The Teen Dance Ordinance, and older Seattle

Let the Kids Dance! and Rainy Day History meet on the same law. Let the Kids Dance!, from KUOW, documents the Teen Dance Ordinance: TV commentator Lou Guzzo arguing punk rock mesmerized teens with drugs and asking why they needed nightclubs at all, sweat raining from the ceiling at a sold-out show where teens defied a decades-old ban on concerts, and Nirvana knocking Michael Jackson to number five. Rainy Day History, from the MOHAI Youth Advisors, reaches the ordinance from the cost side, how it made all-ages music prohibitively expensive, especially for young hip-hop audiences; its other clips cover InterIm turning opposition to the Kingdome into housing and a community garden, and Initiative 692 legalizing medical cannabis after the Ralph Seeley case. Dedication: A Centennial Story is narrower, a history of Seattle's Christian Science churches whose titles walk through the 1930s a year at a time, with clips on Fort Lewis services that drew 19 people and not a single soldier and on Agnes Anderson's $375,000 gift for the hall that carries her name.

Where to start

• For the Seahawks worked like a draft board: Locked On Seahawks - Daily Podcast On The Seattle Seahawks; for the same questions argued across a panel, Seahawks Collective.
• For the Mariners in a bad mood: Chuck and Buck for the bullpen grievance, Meet at the Mitt: A Seattle Mariners podcast for the fan-panel version.
• For the city outside sports: Seattle Now, then Seattle News, Views, and Brews when the topic is the council.
• For history with a soundtrack: Let the Kids Dance!

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