Podcasts about New Jersey, United States

"David Blitzer fired Tom Fitzgerald because he came in second too many times." Zach Berman says it on Locked On Devils - Daily Podcast On The New Jersey Devils, in The New Jersey Devils CANNOT Come In Second on their GM Search. He goes on to list the targets the club missed and tells ownership to pay whatever it takes for the next hire. Six days later, Neil Villapiano of Devils State of Mind Podcast introduced the man who got the job. He was Sunny Mehta, who Villapiano says was the Devils' director of hockey analytics from 2014 to 2018 and now "comes back home."

That argument sets the pitch. Hockey's front office draws loud voices in New Jersey's podcasts. Around it sit the softball fields, wrestling mats and college arenas where much of this listening happens. The shows that leave the scoreboard turn toward memory instead: a battleship's crew, a 1922 murder, a childhood spent between two worlds.

The new season brings smaller hopes. The Devils beat the Rangers 3–2 on September 21, 2026, and Villapiano titled his Devils State of Mind Podcast opener New Season, New Hope for the New Jersey Devils | Full Episode | S8 E1. Away from the rink, on September 29, 2026, Governor Mikie Sherrill announced an increase in planned housing on state-owned land from 20,000 to 40,000 homes. That figure is a target, and the homes have not been built.

What New Jersey is

New Jersey is a U.S. state on the Atlantic coast, bordering New York, Pennsylvania and Delaware. It has approximately 7,354 square miles of land and 126 miles of Atlantic oceanfront, and an estimated 9,548,215 residents as of July 1, 2025. Transportation and warehousing are a substantial part of its economy, with approximately $44.9 billion in sector receipts in 2022. Its shoreline and musical heritage are useful ways in for newcomers. For the country it belongs to, see the United States page.

Hockey and hoops

Berman's Locked On Devils - Daily Podcast On The New Jersey Devils runs hottest. In Bye Bye, Jersey Jersey! New Jersey Devils Sweep Final Weekend of 25-26 Season he calls a third-period comeback against Detroit goal by goal and admits he enjoys playing spoiler. Devils State of Mind Podcast is more confiding. In Devils' Jake Allen Giving Back FT Jennifer Streeter | Full Episode | S7 E26, Villapiano explains that he stepped back out of frustration with the team. He also says he is starting a master's in broadcast and digital journalism at Syracuse University. He builds a pointed case against Fitzgerald's drafting, and gives the floor to Streeter, whose reporting on the goaltender's charity work turns a lost season toward life off the ice. Let's Go Devils Podcast plays it as morning radio. Time To Light Up Flames! (MORNING WOO EP159) broadcasts from "inside the bunker," miscounts the gap to a playoff spot and corrects itself on air.

The college game gets the same appetite for argument. Tri-State College Basketball Podcast, from Bryan DeNovellis, follows Rutgers and Seton Hall alongside UConn and St. John's. His April 2 conversation with CBS Sports announcer Ian Eagle suits anyone curious about the craft of calling a game. Eagle explains his approach to the winning sequence: "I made sure to mention everybody who touched the ball." After the title game, DeNovellis says he believes that referee James Breeding was on the whistle for four of UConn's six losses. He then adds, "I'm not saying James Breeding cost UConn the game."

Home games on local air

The professional arguments have a smaller-scale counterpart in the state's high school gyms and ballfields. North Brunswick Raiders Baseball/Softball puts Corbett Thompson on the call for the King James Radio Network, and the pleasure is in his candour. North Brunswick Softball vs. Woodbridge Magnet runs 114 minutes. In it he reaches "the portion of the program where I fight with the wind," and after an 18-3 win in four innings he lists plays he had not seen in 23 years. In North Brunswick Softball vs. Wardlaw-Hartridge he checks mid-game whether "Lady Rams" exist. Defeat gets the same care. Old Bridge won 13-0 in #15 North Brunswick Baseball vs. #2 Old Bridge: Central Jersey Group IV First Round, and Thompson reads out the whole bracket before the game and admits pride at finding the field without GPS.

Jersey Sports Zone's Beyond the Score Podcast, with Rich Chrampanis and James Mooney, takes the statewide view. Beyond the Score | Episode 30 | Delbarton SS Sal Garcia talks Green Wave baseball! finds Garcia at shortstop, his "office." Later in the episode, Mooney raises a reported new MLS Next rule on top-tier players playing both high school soccer and the league's homegrown matches. Chrampanis calls it "a terrible change." That is one host's view of a live dispute.

Wrestling gets its own long-form treatment in New Jersey Mat Chat. In 036: Unthinkable with Greyson Pettit, a state champion walks through his bracket at Boardwalk Hall, talks about weight discipline and a sore knee, and recalls his mother making everyone sit where they sat the day before. 037: The Climb with Will Cruz was recorded at Immortals Gym in Mount Holly. In it the Paulsboro wrestler and his host land on the relief of a state final with no weight to cut.

Marsh and bay

The outdoors has its own kind of competition. The Marsh Boys Podcast, hosted by Brian and Ryan, covers hunting, fishing and trapping in loose, profane conversation. #188 - Steve Gooditis brings on the chairman of Hunterdon County Ducks Unlimited, who is just back from picking up a Boykin in Georgia. The talk runs to dog work and fundraising auctions. In #187 - Scott Turner, the debate is whether tall sock decoys give a goose spread enough movement, and the talk makes the case that they do.

Decks, archives and cold cases

Memory has its own podcasts here. WETSU: a BattleshipNJ Podcast is hosted by Marshall Spevak. CDR Mike Holmes: Bringing Big J Back: Inside the 1980s Reactivation runs 65 minutes. Holmes says he chose engineering after seeing how engineers treated deck cadets, and he recalls the crew's frustration off Beirut at not being allowed to fire. He also remembers volunteering, to general laughter, and escorting Brooke Shields during Bob Hope's USO visit. The archive also holds Governor-elect Mikie Sherrill: From Naval Aviator to being elected New Jersey's next Governor.

Thinkery & Verse present: the first season examines the 1922 Hall-Mills murders near the Raritan River. In S01 Episode 10: [BONUS] "Careful, very fragile!" The archives at Saint John's, Part 2, the hosts read church records from September 22, 1922. They note that the bereavement statements never mention Eleanor, while starting a scout troop makes the agenda.

DEVIL'S TEETH: the series follows young women who vanished while hitchhiking beginning in summer 1972 and were later found dead. Episode 12 - Conclusions centres on a man in jail who, the host says, sought an arrangement before talking with Union County. It is hard listening, and what he told the host remains his account.

Civic life and private life

Public affairs arrive in shorter doses. WBGO Journal Podcast, with Doug Doyle, pairs a segment of Senator Cory Booker's record-breaking Senate speech with playwright Christina Pumariaga on her premiere at Two River Theater. EJB Talks: Rutgers Bloustein School Experts makes room for method. In Beyond “Does It Work?”: Laura Peck on Policy, Evidence, and Impact, the discussion describes an evaluation that randomized almost 14,000 people across 42 programs in 19 states.

Middle of the Fence starts from host Andre Spruell's own upbringing. The show describes it as split between one of New Jersey's highest-crime areas and a private school in Morris County. In Overcoming Depression, Faith & Growing Up Between Two Worlds ft. Marlyn | Ep. 46, the guest recalls moving from Harlem to Teaneck at 10 and describes helping someone who watched her own podcast find a church. Spruell returns near the end to the same line: "no matter what side of the fence you grew up on, we're all more alike than we think."

For lighter company, New Jersey Wedding Podcast divides the state between its officiant hosts: Celia Milton in North Jersey, Andrea Purtell in Central and South Jersey. In Historic Charm, Modern Magic. The Perfect Wedding Venue!, a Madison Hotel staffer reports booking more Monday-through-Thursday weddings and micro weddings.

Where to start

• If you want the front-office drama: Devils State of Mind Podcast, New Jersey Devils Hire Sunny Mehta as New GM | Full Episode | S7 E29, a 20-minute briefing on the new general manager.
• For a ballgame with a narrator: North Brunswick Raiders Baseball/Softball, North Brunswick Softball vs. Woodbridge Magnet, where the wind gets top billing.
• History listeners: WETSU: a BattleshipNJ Podcast, CDR Mike Holmes: Bringing Big J Back: Inside the 1980s Reactivation.
• Wrestling families: New Jersey Mat Chat, 036: Unthinkable with Greyson Pettit.
• When you'd rather hear a life story: Middle of the Fence, Overcoming Depression, Faith & Growing Up Between Two Worlds ft. Marlyn | Ep. 46. Listen for how she describes arriving in Teaneck.

The New Jersey feed on this page plays clips from these shows.