Podcasts about Massachusetts, United States

Most of what plays loudest here is Boston: Celtics postgame argument, Bruins playoff arithmetic, Red Sox trade-deadline nerves. It is the largest layer on the page, and it is really Boston's listening; Boston has its own page. Westminster and Ashburnham publish the audio of their select board meetings. A state representative talks through bills on a Quincy news show. Other shows treat the 413 area code as a beat, follow one Provincetown summer, or work through the 1692 witch trials one accused person at a time.

What Massachusetts is

Massachusetts is a New England state on the Atlantic coast of the United States, with Boston as its capital and largest city. It is known for its colonial history, its concentration of colleges and universities, Cape Cod to the southeast and the Berkshires to the west, where the 413 area code has become shorthand for the region.

Boston's teams

Filed under Sports, the Boston shows sort by team, and the Celtics have the deepest bench. Celtics Talk from NBC Sports Boston runs postgame pods, one with Jaylen Brown risking a $25,000 fine by blasting referees after a four-free-throw night, and a Kevin McHale interview about the Red Auerbach phone call that made him a Celtic. Celtics All Access & Breaking News gathers several Celtics shows into one feed; its clips are Baylor Scheierman going 6-for-7 from three, which Keith Smith reads as another late first-round hit. Older Celtics windows, Banner Banter Podcast from the 2024 playoffs and Anything is Poddable: A Podcast about the Boston Celtics from the 2023 offseason, also play here.

Hockey is Black N' Gold Hockey Podcast, a panel tracking the Bruins' wildcard cushion from a tying goal with 11 seconds left to a 6-5 overtime loss to Carolina, and Bruins Diehard: Boston Bruins Analysis, NHL Recap, and Hockey Chatter, which wanders into college hockey. Baseball is Boston Baseball from Audacy, where Christian Arcand argues the Red Sox chase a new right-handed Fenway bat every year and never keep one past a season, and Since 1901: A Boston Baseball Podcast, where Emerson Lotzia tells fans not to panic a week before the 2024 trade deadline.

Town halls and the zoning fight

The most Massachusetts thing here is towns recording their own government. Westminster Select Board Meeting Podcast and Ashburnham Select Board Meeting Podcast are the meetings themselves. In Westminster the newest board member jokes about taking credit at the coffee shop for the new sidewalks, and the board moves on to a warrant for $286,449.29. In Ashburnham the town administrator walks through a $4,956,200 OPEB liability against a $311,506 balance, Dawn Collette says a playground would sit five feet from her property line, and Mike Collette argues the town is ignoring its own setback rules. This is the room itself.

AM Quincy, filed as local news, is conversational where the meetings are procedural. Its clips are check-ins with Rep. Tackey Chan, who calls a federal mail-in voting order "complete nonsense" and says states control elections, and who frames a House vote on social media age verification as a privacy question rather than a liquor-store ID check.

Mass Construction Show argues the same state from the builder's side. Its clips take up farms losing their zoning exemption once they stop selling enough product, and towns pushing back on the events and petting zoos that keep them afloat; and, with Andrew Mikula of the Pioneer Institute, whether MBTA Communities adds only about 20 percent more permitting a year while its politics consume major zoning capital.

Boston Public Radio Podcast from GBH News is national in subject and Boston in manner: two contrasting hosts, caller prompts, texts, quick corrections. Its clips are Trump posting an AI image of himself as Jesus, and a retired federal judge calling a threat to wipe out Iran lunacy and raising the 25th Amendment.

The 413

Western Massachusetts arrives through The Fabulous 413, from Monte Belmonte & Kaliis Smith, which sounds like local public radio that can be funny without making everything a bit. In its April 2026 episodes Salman Hameed calls Hampshire College's 2026 closure "a shock to the system", Sewell calls microgreens "little ninjas" that helped her recover from Lyme disease, and the Berkshire Athenaeum buys extra print copies of Rules for Ghosting and every copy checks out.

BusinessTalk is the regional economy as sit-downs: the Food Bank of Western Massachusetts on a SNAP disruption that brought a 50 percent rise in pantry visits and a 600 percent rise in calls, and Lois Nesci of Gándara Mental Health Center on how talk about mental health has widened while judgments about appearance, language and employment persist.

Provincetown, Salem, and cases that stay open

Welcome to Provincetown, from Rococo Punch + Room Tone, follows a resort-town summer as glamour rubs against harder things: Mitra Kaboli framing her season around intentionality and queer community, Ethan confronting an employer who threatens his bonus over medically necessary surgery, and a narrator moved at summer's end by a song Kaya has sung about sixty times.

The Salem Witch Trials Podcast, from Greg Houle, works through 1692 one accused person at a time: Susanna Martin laughing at her accusers at Ingersoll's Tavern while neighbors blamed her household for dying livestock, George Jacobs asking the authorities whether they believed any of it, Rebecca Nurse, whose standing as a visible saint made her accusation the opposite of everything Salem believed about her. Crime of the Truest Kind is the present-day counterpart, built on Massachusetts and New England cases, Charline Rosemond in Somerville and Jill Kloppenburg in Tyngsboro among them, with a conversation with Julie Murray about her sister Maura's disappearance and her four-part CARE principle for covering it.

UMass and the caddies

Plant The Flag is the University of Massachusetts's own sports feed, hockey with Jay and Nate and hoops with Frank Martin. Its hockey clips include a 3-2 win over unanimous No. 1 Boston College at Conte Forum, Cole O'Hara scoring at 1.1 seconds left in the second. Frank Martin says UMass keeps losing the same movie, leads gone through ball-screen discipline and rim protection. Legacy – The Ouimet Fund Podcast is the narrowest subject here: interviews around the Francis Ouimet Scholarship Fund that keep returning to the story of Francis and Eddie, which Dick Connolly calls the richest and sweetest tale in golf history.

Where to start

• For the Boston sports layer, Celtics Talk for postgame reaction, or Black N' Gold Hockey Podcast for the Bruins' playoff push; Boston has its own page.
• For the state governing itself, AM Quincy with Rep. Tackey Chan, then Ashburnham Select Board Meeting Podcast for the meeting itself.
• For western Massachusetts, The Fabulous 413, then BusinessTalk for the economy underneath.
• For narrative, Welcome to Provincetown or The Salem Witch Trials Podcast, depending on whether you want 2022 or 1692.

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