The RadioU Podcast

The RadioU Podcast is cut from RadioU's morning show, and it keeps that format's fast back-and-forth. Hudson and Aly are the two voices at its center. They trade quick reactions and short interjections, and they tend to turn a small detail into a running bit. A story about NASA shows how that works. When Jared Isaacman, the NASA administrator, said the odds of finding something to suggest we are not alone were pretty high, the pair got hung up on his job title, checked the agency's organization website, and decided the conspiracy went straight to the top. Space also has its own named segment, the In Space Update, which by their own account has often meant scaring people about asteroids. Movie outings come back as verdicts. A group trip to Super Mario Galaxy, with a crowd ranging from children to grandparents, ended with everyone disliking it. Elio, another recent letdown, came out ahead because it at least had a story. Even Star Fox drew complaints for doing little more than moving the action from one place to the next. Reality TV gets the same treatment, as in a conversation about a Bachelorette season built around Taylor Frankie Paul that had already been filmed and now will not be seen. Sports come up often. Golf got a full recap when Rory McIlroy won a second straight Masters, the first repeat since Tiger Woods, while Cameron Young came back after falling well behind early. Other episodes promise a baseball brawl and Aly cheering for Michigan. Then there is the strange news: a Ugandan army general demanding a billion dollars and the most beautiful woman in Turkey, a streaming service in China made for cats and dogs, and a live check-in from Nene at a Buc-ee's grand opening in Ohio. The pet channel segment is typical of the pair: they marvel at it, point out how much Americans spend on their pets, and wonder why the United States has nothing like it in a TV package yet. Their personal lives get airtime too. Aly came back from Red River Gorge with a hoodie from an old limestone mine that flooded when miners hit water and can now be explored by kayak. Food is fair game as well, down to a closing standoff over whether the lettuce or the bread is the part of a sandwich to skip. Musicians visit. ALTIRA came in with Dawn, Gina and Ash, and Dawn described Fireflight's twenty years together, the last album in 2020, and her joke that band years are like dog years. The station's own business runs underneath all of it: RadioU asks for donations to stay commercial free, plugs its spring fundraiser, and invites listeners to weigh in through a talkback button in its app. The result is light and scattered, a morning show's chatter packaged as podcast episodes.