Podcasts about Washington, United States

In a 21-minute episode of Groz with Gas "Take 5", the talk turns to Randy Johnson's number being retired and the statue the club put up for him. One voice in the conversation calls him "a complicated guy for sure," recalls him throwing reporters under the bus, then reaches a civic verdict: "Seattle, you're right, kind of does, for the most part, you know, forgives its heroes for leaving." It is a baseball line, but it names the question these podcasts keep circling: who stays, who goes, and what a place owes the things it decides to keep.

Sports talk is what you hear first, and most of it is about Seattle. The Seahawks shows spent the spring arguing over which champions to pay and which to let walk. The baseball and soccer shows' autumn titles carried bad news. As of mid-September 2026, the Mariners were 70–81 and the Sounders had not won an MLS match since May 13. Meet at the Mitt: A Seattle Mariners podcast titled one late-September episode QuietLLy into the Night: End of the Dan Wilson Era - Meet at the Mitt Podcast, and Nos Audietis posted Being winless since May could make this homestand pivotal.

The keep-or-let-go argument extends past the scoreboard. GeekWire asks whether Seattle can hold on to its startup money. Cascade of History fights over towers at Gas Works Park. Seattle Now follows a single bus route through City Hall. Most of these shows are about Seattle; see the Seattle page. Voices from Spokane and Tacoma add a wider frame.

What Washington is

Washington is a state in the Pacific Northwest of the United States. Census figures counted 8,001,020 residents in July 2025 and 66,455 square miles of land. Its economy includes aircraft manufacturing and shipbuilding, and it is a major apple-producing state. For the national picture, see the United States page.

Football, and the price of a title

The Seahawks hold the most microphones. Seahawks Collective is a roundtable with Michael-Shawn Dugar, Rob Staton, Annabelle Hasselbeck and HawkBlogger. It is at its loosest in Seahawks 2026 Draft and Future Hard Knocks Appearance!, where the panel worries that a locker room full of weddings and new babies may be too wholesome for television. Sea Hawkers Podcast: for Seattle Seahawks fans sounds more like a live watch party. Super chats are read on air while the hosts set Josh Jobe's new deal against cornerback contracts around the league and regret losing Kenneth Walker. "We are the champions of the world," one voice reminds the chat in Free Agency Day 1: K9 Departs, Jobe and Shaheed Get Extensions.

For slower roster logic, Seahawks Playbook Podcast hosts Bill Alvstad and Keith Myers draft against each other in Seahawks Playbook Podcast Episode 739: Seahawks Duel Mock Drafts. There is one rule: at least six picks each. A hundred and six picks in, one of them notes he still has no edge rusher. That is the show's pleasure, and its limit if you don't follow college prospects. Locked On Seahawks - Daily Podcast On The Seattle Seahawks, with Corbin Smith and Rob Rang, works the same board. The season has since bitten back, and Seahawks Playbook Podcast has an episode titled Tough Loss. Big Questions. Final: Seahawks 31 - Commanders 33.

Podcast Vs. Everyone - For Washington State Cougars fans gives Craig and Jeff room to argue in David Riley won't be fired. But he should be. (Episode 248) that the basketball team's season was not a resource problem. The language is profane, and the hosts offer their own political sign-off near the end.

A baseball season argued in real time

The Mariners shows are best heard together because they argue about the same pitchers. In Softy & Dick 4-15 Hour 3: Larry Stone, YouTube, Mariners, Hannes, Dave 'Softy' Mahler and Dick Fain ask Larry Stone whether Emerson Hancock's sweeper makes him a real rotation piece. Stone thinks it does. Chuck and Buck devotes rundown segments to what it calls the "Munoz meltdown" and pleads for a strong start from Luis Castillo (Best of Chuck & Buck 4-16). Both are KJR radio, loud and fast.

Meet at the Mitt: A Seattle Mariners podcast, made by Lookout Landing writers, reaches Hancock with more delight. In Stuck In First Gear - Meet at the Mitt Podcast he is "playing grown-up baseball," and the hosts start auditioning nicknames. It runs 79 minutes and rewards fans who like digressions.

Groz with Gas "Take 5" is the elder voice. With Dave Grosby and Mike Gastineau, memory interests them more than projection. Their autumn titles have soured: GWG are stupefied Dipoto is still in charge.

Soccer, from Lumen Field to Spokane

The soccer shows have the liveliest sense of the state as a map. In What We Learned This Week: Sounders Storm Spokane for 'Caps Cascadia Clash Cup Tie, Nos Audietis describes a downtown Spokane pub packed three hours before kickoff and a drive home that "got a little slick at the pass." The hosts say the community around the match made the trip worth it. On Seattle Soccer Shows, Reign Weekly also follows the Reign to Spokane. The Sounders postgame show from St. Louis names the whole back line man of the match and dubs it "the Jackson Five."

Sounders FC Pod-Cast With Brad and Zak brings Steve Zakuani and Brad Evans to the coach's chair. In Episode 249, they ask the coach why he called one defeat the toughest loss he has experienced at the club.

The civic week

Seattle Now, a daily news show, makes local power concrete. Early in the 18-minute Casual Friday with Phil Burton and Danny Ball, the headlines note a deadline for a plan to fix the Route 8 bus, "known to riders as the Late." The plan follows an executive order from Mayor Katie Wilson. The panel then asks whether King County Metro can resume collecting fares after years of not enforcing them. Recent titles reach the statehouse and the U.S. House, among them This WA swing district could determine the fate of the U.S. House.

Smaller outlets go deeper into specific communities. On Seattle Medium Rhythm & News Podcast, Chris B. Bennett hosts Upcoming iUrban Teen Illuminating Futures Gala Supports Youth STEM Careers And Achievement. In it, a guest describes students using mapping and data tools to research diabetes as a health inequity. Sunday Morning Magazine's 4/12/26 - Lois Busby and Nicki Rocco, with "Beat the Bridge" explains a type 1 diabetes fundraiser whose course crosses Seattle's University Bridge while it rises. Runners who miss it wait on the other side, then finish at Husky Stadium.

GeekWire's Todd Bishop and John Cook report that Seattle venture funding dropped 40% early in What's going on with Seattle startup funding, a Kalshi setback, Impinj's long game, and a smartphone detox. The episode is reporting with opinion mixed in.

Politics beyond Seattle tends to come from people with a side. Capitol Ideas: The Washington State House Democratic Caucus Podcast is the House Democratic caucus's own podcast; on it, Everett Rep. Mary Fosse says the legislature "wasn't made for parents." RIGHT Spokane Perspective gives Rep. Joe Schmick room to oppose making general contractors answer for subcontractors' wage theft. Citizen Tacoma hears Congresswoman Marilyn Strickland on checks and balances. Hear these as advocacy rather than reporting.

Keeping the old things

Cascade of History is the most openly partisan show here, and its cause is preservation. Felix Bunnell broadcasts live from the old gatehouse of Sand Point Naval Air Station, now Magnuson Park. "I am clearly, clearly not impartial. I am biased toward historic preservation," he says while previewing a public meeting on the Dr. Annie Russell House. A neighbors' group says more than 300 public comments led to that meeting. In a Gas Works Park bonus episode, Eugenia Wu of Historic Seattle explains a city order over the park's towers. Bunnell offers, as he frames it, a cynical person's reading that it could possibly override the volunteer landmarks board. The dispute is unresolved in the episode.

Rainy Day History, from MOHAI's youth advisors, records a speaker in Location, Location, Location recalling how the International District won a community garden and control of a parking lot as mitigation for a stadium. Exploring Washington State travels farther. In Before They Wore Dodger Blue: Spokane’s Untold Role, Scott Cowan's guest describes Tommy Lasorda taking young players for morning batting practice in Spokane "cause there wasn't much else to do." For heavier listening, Focus: Adults in the Room is a serialized investigation. Adults in the Room: Jonathan follows a student talking a despairing teacher through a night, and it deals directly with suicide.

Where to start

• For the civic week in miniature: Seattle Now, Casual Friday with Phil Burton and Danny Ball. It is short and moves from a bus route to fare policy to bike-only weekends.
• For preservation fights: Cascade of History, BONUS EPISODE: Gas Works Park Update - Did City of Seattle Staffers Override Volunteers of Landmarks Preservation Board? Listen for where the host's advocacy ends and the explanation begins.
• For football with a draft board open: Seahawks Playbook Podcast, Seahawks Playbook Podcast Episode 739: Seahawks Duel Mock Drafts.
• For baseball memory: Groz with Gas "Take 5", The big mouths discuss the Big Unit's career. It holds the forgiveness line above.
• For the road east: Nos Audietis, What We Learned This Week: Sounders Storm Spokane for 'Caps Cascadia Clash Cup Tie. Listen for what the hosts say made the trip worth it.

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