Join Ike Morgan each weekday for a sometimes breezy, sometimes serious roundup of the biggest, the most peculiar, and the most Alabama stories, of the day.
The Down in Alabama with Ike Morgan podcast is an absolute gem. As a listener who discovered it during the Covid-19 pandemic, I have been hooked ever since. This podcast has become an integral part of my daily routine, providing me with a reason to love being from Alabama even more. Every morning, as I wake up at 4 am to drive a bus, I enjoy making my French Press coffee while listening to Ike Morgan. His ability to summarize the latest news while injecting personality, humor, and local color is truly remarkable. This podcast is a real local treasure that keeps me informed and starts my day off with a smile.
One of the best aspects of the Down in Alabama with Ike Morgan podcast is how effectively it brings together various news tidbits and presents them in an engaging manner. Morgan's storytelling abilities make me feel like I'm hearing a story from a friend rather than just receiving news updates. His calm, cool, and funny demeanor adds an extra layer of enjoyment to each episode. The way he delivers the highlights of Alabama news quickly and informatively is commendable. Additionally, his voice and delivery are top-notch, creating an engaging listening experience for both Alabamians and those who didn't have the privilege of growing up in Alabama.
While it's challenging to find any faults with this podcast, one aspect that could be improved upon is the length of each episode. At times, five minutes can feel too short considering all the interesting stories that are covered. It would be great if there were occasional longer episodes that allowed for more in-depth discussions or interviews related to Alabama current events. However, this is only a minor complaint compared to the overall quality of the podcast.
In conclusion, The Down in Alabama with Ike Morgan podcast is undoubtedly worth every minute of your time. Whether you're a native Alabamian or someone who has been away for years like myself, this podcast provides a sense of home and keeps you up to date with the happenings in the state. It's informative, humorous, and offers a quick overview of Alabama news that is far from boring. If you're looking for an enjoyable way to start your day or want to stay connected to your Alabama roots, I highly recommend giving this podcast a listen.
Today: mobile banks, the top public school in the state (by one ranking), and economic frustrations over an Auburn football game. Click here for more information about the Madison County Special Olympics. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Today let's talk about how the shutdown might affect some women and children, Rock the South, the National Shrimp Festival, the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade and longtime Southeastern Conference Executive Associate Commissioner Mark Womack. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Today we have some ESPN/Finebaum drama, more debate over Montgomery crime, a new bank in the state and a sheriff ordered to pony up a pretty penny. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Today we have the FBI and SPLC on the outs, an alleged illegal fighting event, and updates on a Montgomery shootout and a Smith Lake collision. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Mike Cason joins us today to talk Alabama politics, particularly next year's U.S. Senate race that Paul Finebaum said he might enter. Read more of Mike's work here Also, we have Dr. Jeanne Marrazzo's firing, a really, really old crab that's named after a retired football coach, where Rock the South is going, and the percentage of Alabamians who identify as Christians. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Topics include shark-attack alerts, pharmacy reimbursements, illegal immigration, and the firing of the Priceville Police officer who happens to be the son of Dog the Bounty Hunter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Congress couldn't avoid a shutdown, so federal workers in Alabama and across the country brace for all that might be coming. We also have a terribly tragic shooting that involved a 3-year-old finding a gun. And if at all possibly, don't start a fire outside. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Today: Paul Finebaum says he might run for Senate; what we're hearing about businesses who hire illegal labor; and Alabama's getting more Shakespeare study. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Today is National Coffee Day, and the state of Alabama is down four Starbucks locations. Also, there was a 100-0 high school football game, Rush Propst picked up win No. 300, Dobb's Bar-B-Cue has closed after 115 years, and Tuskegee Airman Lt. Col. George Hardy has passed away. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
We have news updates on Thursday's execution, Marshall Space Flight Center Leadership and the passing of the founder of American Village. Then we're going to talk Cullman history with local writer and journalist Greg Richter. Here are ways to see more on that: "Becoming Colonel Cullmann" documentary More on Cullman's Oktoberfest More from Greg Richter Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
We have: An ethics complaint in the Birmingham mayoral race; who's playing the Rose Bowl Parade; a Major League Baseball record held by many; and some "Jeopardy!" clues that I'll bet you'll know. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
We have a few mayoral election runoffs, Meta's growing plans for Montgomery and the top Alabama colleges and universities on the annual U.S. News & World Report's "Best Colleges of 2025" rankings. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Today we have news items on Bruce Pearl, the city of Tarrant, Jabo Waggoner and Turning Point USA. Special thanks: Auburn Athletics Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Contractors are concerned about the economic impacts of the illegal-immigration crackdown. Jimmy Rane named a successor. Sad news after a prep football game. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Today we have an interview that Lawrence Specker did with acclaimed singer/songwriter, musician and longtime Jimmy Buffett collaborator Mac McAnally. That'll be after the break. First, we have news items on the CHOOSE Act and athletics, a company that says the trade wars won't be stopping its construction, and an expanded drought. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Today we have a medical helicopter taking gunfire, Birmingham targeting dilapidated property, and hockey returning to Mobile. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Drones, a detention center, daycare THC exposure and teachers in trouble for sounding off on an assassinated activist. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
We'll look at how the Senate race and some of Alabama's top lawmakers did in the latest Alabama Poll. Also, more fallout from the Charlie Kirk assassination. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Today we have briefs on an ancient sea turtle, National Guard and a new place to chow down. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
We have a Friday conversation with country music songwriter Bobby Tomberlin, who grew up in Luverne. You don't want to miss that if our state and southern culture are your thing. First we have news briefs on an endemic disease being spread by a bug that lives here, a swatting case and tapping the brakes on a garbage-truck AI plan. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
We have a lowered flags to honor Charlie Kirk, an involved snakebite rescue, Kamala Harris's take on her Selma speech, and a couple of noteworthy obits. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Today: What Karoline Leavitt said about Birmingham, who's headlining MoonPie over Mobile and why today's state ranking might make your eyes roll a little. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Today we have a new credit-score study, APT layoffs and some CMA nominations. Click here for more on Motley Fool's credit-score study. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Today we have the closest an election can possibly get, how Miss Alabama did at Miss America, the latest on an Auburn park killing and the passing of a Gadsden grocer. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Today we're going to welcome Ben Flanagan and Mark Heim back on the show. You've heard them pick the all-time best baseball movies; today we're doing football movies. First we'll talk about why the governor is suing the AHSAA and why the DOJ is investigating Rainsville. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Today is a day to honor past and present newspaper carriers. We'll talk about more Spacecom anticipation in Huntsville and how it might affect the real-estate market. Also, Spirit airlines is pulling out of Birmingham and the state gave its annual oyster updates. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
President Trump announces that U.S. Space Command will relocate to Huntsville's Redstone Arsenal. Guy Fieri is opening an Alabama restaurant. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
We have a couple more tax breaks in effect in Alabama. We'll tell you about that, a Walmart fire and red-snapper season. And we also have how you can contribute to a future segment on favorite football movies. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The money raised in the Birmingham mayoral campaign, the most conservative college campuses, and accusations against Buford Pusser of "Walking Tall" fame. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Items on Alabama's cellphone ban, moms in trouble for allegedly encouraging kids to fight, negative reaction to MLK-named road, and the end of print for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The Crescent Theatre in Mobile is back (again). Also, we have a chiropractor getting life in prison over a pretty awful attempt on his wife's life, record low temperatures Wednesday morning and pretty good jobs numbers despite a high number of mass layoffs in the state. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
We have municipal election stuff, a new trial thanks to DNA, a study to help Alzheimer's patients, Birmingham's weed abatement (not what you might think), and Cracker Barrel. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Let's talk about our first measles case in a hot minute, Tuberville's openness to using troops in Alabama cities, a recent internet scam and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Let's start off the week with why some lawmakers are lobbying for more tariffs, a football referee's health scare and a brief reunion for legendary country band Alabama. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Political battles: Down in Alabama Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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A controversial data-center plan, the re-closing of a 188-year-old hotel, and more national titles for Auburn. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Today we have updates from Death Row, the crime beat and Magic City Classic preparations. Then, after the break, Amber Sutton from This is Alabama will join us to tell you about the long-promised best of Unsung Alabama barbecue as determined by their readers. Click here for more on unsung barbecue in Alabama. Click here see see more Unsung Alabama. Click here for more stories by Amber Sutton. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Today we have the passing of civil rights-era activist Calvin Woods Sr., his grandson Pastor Mike Jr.'s music-awards haul, a really big gator and the return of Gulf Coast rail service. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Today we have an arrest in the killing of a prep assistant football coach, an item lost in Hurricane Katrina that has returned, what "Randemic" means and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
High school football season -- a cultural phenomenon in the South -- is upon us. AL.com's Ben Thomas joins us to talk about some of this year's storylines. Click here for high school sports coverage Click here to sign up for high school sports email newsletters Click here to follow Ben on X First, we'll talk about bodies missing organs without family's consent and a live World War II-era mortar shell found at Redstone Arsenal. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Politics, college entrance exams, embezzlement and barbecue. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Today we have a dog finding more human bones, a vape bill, an IKEA announcement and a really big fish. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Happy National Presidential Joke Day! Also, we have updates on a couple of '26 election races, TV stations changing ownership, Philip Rivers and some of Alabama's top high school sports programs. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Today we have another high-profile ICE detention, a comedy club's explanation over Michael Rapaport's cancelation, and the passing of a longtime pastor. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Bodycam footage reactions: Down in Alabama Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Rockets, landfills, makeovers: Down in Alabama Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Giving one's life for a friend: Down in Alabama Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Back to School is all up in our faces right now, so we have an update on college enrollment trends. We also have items on counties in the red, a state-legislature about-face, and a heavy-metal cancelation Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Today we have a proposal to expand capital punishment to some child-sex crimes, a stock-trading bill in Washington and a city looking to pay parents to take their kids to school. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
We have Birmingham partnering with the ATF, where we rank among affordable housing, and some southern history that affected refrigeration and air condition, some things that are near and dear to everyone's heart this week. Then we'll share some thoughts on a man who pioneered refrigeration and air conditioning in our part of the country. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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