Podcasts about Virginia, United States

The Virginia Tech shows on this page are all working the same spring practice, and they sound nothing alike doing it: The Tech Sideline Podcast like a sports desk, Inside the Tunnel like a notebook dense with names and reps, Two Deep like a fan conversation that has run long enough to be loose. Add a Cavaliers show out of Charlottesville and college sports is the loudest thing here. The rest is smaller: Charlottesville civic argument, an 1864 campaign narrated field by field, a tunnel under Hampton Roads, fiction set in the state.

What Virginia is

Virginia is a mid-Atlantic state on the U.S. East Coast, running from the Chesapeake Bay west to the Blue Ridge and the Appalachians. Richmond is the capital and the northern suburbs border Washington, D.C. It was one of the original colonies and the capital of the Confederacy, and much of the Civil War's eastern fighting happened on its ground.

Hokies, Cavaliers, and the whole Commonwealth

The Tech Sideline Podcast is the measured one. Its clips have David Teel and Chris Coleman on the basketball program turning down the NIT: Teel says it sends a message along the lines of peace out, I got what I needed from you, and Coleman calls it a slap in the face to donors and ticket buyers. The titles also track the university itself, with "Virginia Tech President Steps Down, BOV Meeting Notes And More" in the run.

Inside the Tunnel, from VT Scoop and 247Sports, is where the personnel detail lives: Kolby's Corner entries on scrimmage intel and recruiting. Its clips follow A.J. Brand's move from quarterback to wide receiver, Ethan Gronkmeyer leading the first open spring-practice periods, and Xavier Perkins explaining why a 6 a.m. visit to Virginia Tech felt right after Miami did not.

Two Deep has the tailgate logistics and the long memory. Its best clip is a new coach vowing to pour his heart and soul into the place, insisting Virginia Tech is not some rinky-dink program, and saying he called Coach Beamer the night before signing to ask his blessing.

On the Cavaliers side, Good Ole Podcast is Jacquie Franciulli of Wahoos247 doing beat coverage as conversation; the clip to hear is the double-overtime interception of Castellanos that beat then-No. 8 Florida State, from "Episode No. 144: 'Do you believe in the 'Hoos now?' featuring Virginia Sports' Ahmad Hawkins".

Charlottesville argues, Richmond organizes

The I Love CVille Show With Jerry Miller! sounds like a local livestream that never fully separates council news, real estate, UVA football, family anecdotes, sponsor reads and national politics. Titles include 5th Street Station selling for $117M and an investigation coming in AlbCo schools. In the clips, Miller argues the Iran war is splitting Republicans between older hawks and younger pocketbook voters, and Nakia Walker suggests a Charlottesville High School active-shooter call may have been staged to justify police in schools.

The Schilling Show is the other chair: Rob Schilling, solo, direct and suspicious, starting from a document or a public statement and making a hard judgment quickly. In the clip here he gives out the call-in and fax numbers, then reads a Cavalier Daily story about the University Cavalier Food Pantry's donation drive and says it sounds good on the surface but isn't.

Race Capitol belongs to Richmond, and Richmond is where to go for more of it. A Black feminist show on racial narratives in the former capitol of the Confederacy, its clips have Lauren Garcia assembling more than 1,000 PPE kits and an ask to go talk to a neighbor, because that is how tenant organizing starts.

The state speaking for itself

VSBA: School Board News comes from the Virginia School Boards Association, hosted by executive director Gina Patterson, and its clips are more pointed than the name suggests: Joe, on serving on his local school board, says candidates should not run on one issue and need to learn governance and operations, and Dr. Jason Van Heukelum says "Opportunity is not enough" when students face headwinds.

HRBT Tunnel Talk follows the Hampton Roads Bridge Tunnel Expansion Project, the largest its state agency has ever built, and its clips are engineering told plainly: Mary the tunnel boring machine, named for Mary Jackson, at 5,000 tons with a 46-foot cutter head, and over 4,000 data points on the project.

Battlefields, mill towns, mountains

War Yankee - Overland is May 1864 and Grant's Overland Campaign through Virginia, narrated solo like a battlefield walk-through by someone thinking out loud while teaching. The clip here is the Wilderness around the Higgerson farm, a brigade dissolving with men running every which way, some straight into Confederate lines, and a prisoner describing 'no front nor rear' and just 'howling mobs'.

Hometown Stories goes through the Blue Ridge Mountains into the heart of the state: the mill town of Fries and Henry Witter, mocked, then walking into a New York City studio to say "I want to make records." In another clip Lindsay calls the 611 locomotive the Taylor Swift of steam engines.

Vile Virginia: A True Crime Podcast, led by Jenny, works the state's historical cases in parts: the Haysom murders, the Norfolk Four, and the Carroll County Courthouse Massacre, where Floyd Allen says 'I just ain't a-going,' and the courtroom erupts in gunfire.

Fiction set here

Lost In Williamsburg is a multi-generational supernatural drama moving between the 18th century and the present day, and its clips are domestic and haunted at once: a box flying across a room while paying tourists complain about the noise, Julie Dunhill telling Trevor and Lisa they are dead and discovering Halloween lets them see her.

Pop Will Tell You A Story is 1948, a charismatic stranger arriving in a small Virginia town with two suitcases, read like serialized literary fiction: patient, image-heavy, emotionally direct. Its author line says it can help you sleep; the clips are a courtroom. Sylvan Glass refuses the oath and walks out, and Sam hears seven screams and sees Sylvan come out with seven stab wounds.

Where to start

• Hokies: The Tech Sideline Podcast for the desk version, Two Deep for the fan version, Inside the Tunnel for the depth chart.
• Charlottesville: The I Love CVille Show With Jerry Miller! for the livestream, The Schilling Show for the talk radio.
• History: War Yankee - Overland for the Wilderness, Hometown Stories for Fries and the 611.
• Something narrated: Pop Will Tell You A Story, or Lost In Williamsburg for the ghosts.

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