Podcasts about Wisconsin, United States

The sound that carries this page is a Badgers postgame, and often one after a loss. On Wisconsin Badgers Sports Network, the local call after the NCAA tournament exit to High Point works through how a 12 seed took 43 threes, won the offensive glass 13-6 and, as one voice puts it, "out-Badgers-ed the Badgers". Sports is by a wide margin the largest filing among the shows about Wisconsin, and the university's teams are the largest part of it. Around them sit the Packers, Bucks and Brewers, handled by statewide sports-talk shows, and a smaller ring about the state's working life: farming, road safety, politics, travel and a true-crime series.

What Wisconsin is

Wisconsin is an Upper Midwestern state with Lake Michigan to the east and Lake Superior to the north, Madison as its capital and Milwaukee as its largest city. It is known for dairy farming and cheese, for beer, for the Green Bay Packers and the University of Wisconsin's Badgers, and for long winters its outdoor life is built around.

The Badgers, from the coach's show to the fan's

More shows here are about the University of Wisconsin's teams than about anything else, and they do not sound alike. On Wisconsin Podcasts sits closest to the programs: its titles alternate Wisconsin Hockey Hour with the Greg Gard Radio Show, and its clips are interviews that explain rather than perform, as when Hastings calls Ben Dexheimer the glue holding the hockey roster together through injuries and turnover. Wisconsin Badgers Sports Network is the same teams with the game still warm, loose and immediate, Nick Boyd's 27 points against High Point picked over while the loss still stings; its spring titles are mostly men's hockey, through the NCAA tournament to a Frozen Four and a championship game against Denver.

Football is where the arguing happens. The Camp: A Wisconsin Badgers Football Podcast pairs postgames with program news, and after USC it makes the case that Wisconsin's traditional strengths, running the ball, stopping the run and avoiding mistakes, no longer reliably exist. Locked On Badgers - Daily Podcast On Wisconsin Badgers Football & Basketball works the recruiting desk, where Cole Reiter is a 6'7" offensive tackle who moves like a power forward. BuckAround: A Wisconsin Badgers Football Podcast and IKE Badgers Podcast are both fan shows, and the difference is temperature. BuckAround calls itself "the podcast devoted to all things Wisconsin Badger football from a fan perspective", and its clips are Richard Branch and Maxwell Brusky disputing what the Citrus Bowl is called now and a Thanksgiving side-dish highlight that turns out to be scotch. IKE is two deeply invested fans talking fast after a game: a bowl streak snapped, the charge that Luke Fickell handed Brayden Locke the starting job and lost the locker room, and today's players dismissed as mercenaries who, as in Braveheart, cannot be trusted.

Packers, Bucks and Brewers in one sitting

The professional teams come mostly through general Wisconsin sports talk. TO:SS Tristain On: Sports Show is one person thinking out loud and landing on short verdicts; in a single episode Tristain Thomas goes from the Brewers' purse strings to the Bucks at 8-7 with Giannis out, the league's best offense with him and its worst without, to Jordan Love's 13-for-24, 174-yard game, impressive because of the pressure he faced. The Bullpen with PJ & Nick sounds like a sports bar that knows the box score and plays mostly baseball lore, Earl Weaver telling callers to mind their own business about team speed, Terry Crowley and tomato plants, while The Questionable to Return Podcast is the memory show, its titles revisiting one past season at a time. The Packers show, Packer Universe Podcast, is about the offseason as much as the games, and its clips come from the playoff exit that started one: the Packers had been 306-1 before 2025 when leading late with a 95% win probability, and Tay hears Matt LaFleur taking the blame for every collapse as its own way of dodging accountability.

Mats and fairways

The Wisconsin Wrestler follows the state's high school season down to the individual bout: Max Haye going from two-time runner-up to champion and sprinting out of the Kohl Center, a third state title sealed by a 3:26 fall in the final, Danica Spets holding off Caitlin Kroenig 20-18 in a 100-pound regional final. Talking.Golf, from Wisconsin.Golf, has Gary D'Amato and Rob Hernandez on the WM Phoenix Open, fans belly-flopping down muddy hills and Gary asking who would pay over $500 to play the trashed course afterwards; its titles stay closer to home, with Steve Stricker and "Gary & Rob on the most popular, most impactful Wisconsin golf stories of 2023".

Farms, highways and the Capitol

MID-WEST FARM REPORT - MADISON sounds like a working agricultural newsroom, clear questions and long explanatory answers, and its clips go into the details: Becky Larson on hydrogen sulfide, which can kill at low concentrations and which your nose can stop smelling, and Jeffrey Buehle on AI that can monitor cows but is held back by broadband and economics. Its titles run to dairy and the state fair, including "How Much Electricity Does It Take To Run A WI Dairy In July?". Transportation Connects Us, produced by the Wisconsin Department of Transportation, is about the people on the shoulder of the road: Brian Swan says some firefighters would rather enter a fully burning building than work a roadside crash, and the same episode has Governor Evers coming to the Amherst fire station to sign into law a measure the guest had helped initiate. Battleground Wisconsin is the politics, from the organizing side, with Matt Bruski and Robert Craig thinking out loud. Its governor's-forum clips have Kelda Roys arguing that Wisconsin should open the state health plan to anyone rather than wait on the Trump administration's permission, and David Crowley on being born in Milwaukee's 53206 zip code and moving every year for 15 years; the titles include "Progressive Caucus in Wisconsin" and "Civil War in the Democratic Party?".

The state as a place, and one case from it

The Cabin is the travel desk. Its titles run "Famous Wisconsin Landmarks" and "Your Guide to Northern Wisconsin with The Northern Nerd", and its clips are the stops: Matt Hamilton on how the curling team that was rejected beat the two U.S. super teams built to replace them, and four thousand people skiing and snowshoeing across Lake Superior in a candlelit 10-kilometer Valentine's race. Eau Claire Hometown Media belongs to one city, and its clips are school and social-service stories: CFAUSD capping athletic fees at $20 a student, and a Feed My People program through which a family of seven from a one-bedroom apartment found stable housing. 88 Days: The Jayme Closs Story - VS is a documentary series on the October 2018 case in which a couple was murdered in a small Wisconsin town and their 13-year-old daughter was gone for 88 days; its clips are the resolution, Jake Patterson pleading guilty and the moment Jayme's own statement turns from what Patterson took from her to what he can never take.

Where to start

• For the Badgers as the programs tell it, On Wisconsin Podcasts; for the same teams at full volume, IKE Badgers Podcast.
• For a game still warm, Wisconsin Badgers Sports Network's High Point postgame.
• For the state beyond its stadiums, MID-WEST FARM REPORT - MADISON, then Battleground Wisconsin for the politics.
• For Wisconsin as somewhere to go, The Cabin.

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