Podcasts about New Jersey, United States

Three of the shows on this page exist for one hockey team, and a fourth splits its time between the Devils and the two New York clubs across the river, so the likeliest thing to come up here is someone arguing about the New Jersey Devils: Zach Berman insisting that missing the playoffs was the better outcome, or Chico Resch leading a live game preview from a packed bar. The other large block is high school sport, treated with a seriousness the wrestling show says the state's downsized newspaper sports desks no longer supply. The rest is smaller and more specific: two New Jersey murder cases fifty years apart, a Department of Education podcast and a homeland security one, a newsroom that sets a senator's marathon speech beside jazz.

What New Jersey is

New Jersey is a small, densely populated state on the Atlantic coast of the United States, wedged between New York City and Philadelphia. Newark, its largest city, is where the Devils play; Trenton is the capital; the ocean shoreline is what everyone means by the Shore. Living beside two bigger cities is also why two shows here call themselves tri-state rather than New Jersey shows.

The Devils, from three angles

Locked On Devils - Daily Podcast On The New Jersey Devils is the opinion show. Its clips come from the end of a season that went wrong: Jacob Markstrom allowing four goals on 1.2 expected goals against in a 5-1 loss to Philadelphia, and Berman's case that a complete disaster beat a playoff berth, because a team that got in would have kept the same players, general manager and goalie. The titles trace the collapse from "BREAKING: NEW JERSEY DEVILS FIRE GM TOM FITZGERALD" to "Bye Bye, Jersey Jersey! New Jersey Devils Sweep Final Weekend of 25-26 Season"; the one warm clip is Nico Hischier's overtime winner against Ottawa.

Devils State of Mind Podcast is Neil Villapiano alone, brisk and blunt, with more reporting in it: Kevin Weeks's report that the team's initial offer to Markstrom was about $5 million a year, Hischier explaining why he confronted Jacob Chikrin after Chikrin challenged Jack Hughes, Sunny Mehta pioneering the NHL's first full-time analytics department before becoming general manager. Later titles are a transaction ledger: Anthony Mantha, Luke Evangelista, Connor Hellebuyck, Simon Nemec.

Let's Go Devils Podcast is the fan room, its titles cycling through Game Day Live!, Devils After Dark and MORNING WOO, its clips putting Resch, host Sam Wu and analyst Vinny Parisi in a packed bar before a game against the Flames. Tri-State Hockey Podcast adds the Rangers and Islanders, a panel of Jonny Lazarus, Mike Rupp and Arthur Staple that turns profane when the emotion spikes; Jack Hughes getting his teeth sliced in half and still answering back late is its Devils clip, and "Episode 41: Isles Out, Devils Out, Rangers Out" covers the spring for all three.

High school sport, called like it counts

Near Fall: The NJ Wrestling Podcast does what a sports desk used to: wrestlers of the week, Kendall Serbo of High Point clinching a team match and Emily Diaz Santos of Morris Hills winning her hundredth; Delaware Valley completing its first undefeated team season while reaching 900 program wins; West Essex beating Caldwell 38-32 after Rocco Maglione won at heavyweight in a packed rivalry gym. Brower calling it "lazy" to bury conference matches in Saturday quads is its editorial line.

North Brunswick Raiders Baseball/Softball is live broadcasts of one school's baseball and softball games from the King James Radio Network, a broadcaster thinking out loud through seeds, weather, umpires and field conditions; in the clip heard here the whole Central Jersey Group 4 bracket gets read seed by seed at Fred Cole Field before a game against Old Bridge. Corbett Thompson also calls Willie Pena's two-run homer and notes that Victoria Frobosillo is chasing a career hits record of 118 held by Edison's head coach Marilyn Muldowney, who is standing in the opposing dugout.

Jersey Sports Zone's Beyond the Score Podcast ranges across the statewide calendar, two hosts asking and a guest running with the answer; its clips are the winter awards, Addie Niemczyk named Miss Hoop Zone with 36 first-place votes and Micah Gordon named Mr. Hoop Zone. Tri-State College Basketball Podcast is the college layer, and the New Jersey in it lives in titles about Rutgers coach Steve Pikiell recruiting in the portal and Adam Zagoria of nj.com on the tournament draw; the clips are UConn's run, Braylon Mullins's shot to beat Duke and Ian Eagle calling the finish a "once-in-a-lifetime sequence of events".

Two murders, fifty years apart

Thinkery & Verse present is built on the Hall-Mills murders of 1922, a priest and a choir singer killed near the Raritan River, and its clips are archival: a single razor-cut page missing from the 1922 church record at Saint John's just after the killings, a 1920 vestry entry that may show Edward Hall arranging James Mills's church job. Its third-season finale clip has Charlotte Mills saying, "I remember everything. Even things I didn't see." DEVIL'S TEETH is the 1972 case, several young New Jersey women vanishing while hitchhiking and found dead in the woods miles from home; its clips are testimony and bargaining, Robin identifying Jeanette as the hitchhiker she picked up in Summit on August 7, 1972, and Cottingham saying Union County must grant complete immunity before he talks.

The state talking about itself

DOE Digest with the New Jersey Department of Education, hosted by Dr. Ken Bond, is educators comparing notes: Eric Crespo on translation earbuds for students arriving from Ukraine, Colin Hogan on six-value student houses, Lauren Gunther on wellness centers across Ocean City's schools. Intelligence. Unclassified. is the state's homeland security podcast and more concrete than its name: Jeff Gale on 3D school maps that let responders move through a building like a video game, Mayor Doug Vitale on how one viral boardwalk incident could keep visitors from Point Pleasant Beach.

WBGO Journal Podcast is the newsroom: Doug Doyle's clip carries a segment of Cory Booker's 25-hour Senate speech, framed by Booker as right or wrong rather than left or right, then playwright Christina Pumariaga on her world premiere at Two River Theater, and the titles add the Montclair Jazz Festival and the state's film industry. NJ Criminal Podcast is the legal voice, its surveillance episode walking through Flock Safety access logs of sales staff clicking into a Georgia community center's gym and pool.

Weddings, marsh and stage

New Jersey Wedding Podcast, with Celia Milton and Andrea Purtell, treats planning as logistics, and its clips wander: Mary Beth Cooney of Creature Comfort Pet Therapy on demand across nine counties, Tim McHale on his favorite Madison Hotel wedding, his daughter's, in the conservatory. The Marsh Boys Podcast is hunting, fishing and trapping, with titles on the state's fish and game law changes and a clip of James Irvine holding full draw for five minutes before taking a buck. Jersey Arts Podcast, from ArtPride New Jersey, is the warm interview end, Jonatha Brooke on being terrified of a piece of theater bigger than a record.

Where to start

• The Devils: Locked On Devils for the argument, Let's Go Devils Podcast for the bar, Tri-State Hockey Podcast for the Rangers and Islanders in the same room.
• High school sport: North Brunswick Raiders Baseball/Softball for a whole game called from the field, Near Fall: The NJ Wrestling Podcast for the statewide picture.
• A long story: Thinkery & Verse present on 1922, then DEVIL'S TEETH on 1972.
• The state itself: WBGO Journal Podcast, then Intelligence. Unclassified.

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