Bridgeport, Connecticut Podcasts

Podcasts About Bridgeport, Connecticut

PlayNext's Bridgeport shelf holds five shows, and they land one per category: a local-history show, a real-estate show, a culture show, a music show and a talk show. No cluster, no depth in any single subject, and nothing resembling daily news, sports or arts criticism. Two of the five are ready to swipe. One of them is not about this Bridgeport at all. The accurate description is that the city is thinly covered, not that it has a small scene of specialists.

What Bridgeport is

Bridgeport is the largest city in Connecticut, sitting on Long Island Sound at the mouth of the Pequonnock River, roughly sixty miles from New York. It is an old manufacturing port with a diverse working population and a downtown that has been the subject of redevelopment plans for decades.

The one show about the city itself

Bridgeport Stories is the closest thing here to a general-interest local show. Its fourteen episodes are largely interviews with people who run things: "Bill Finch - Executive Director of Discovery Museum and former Bridgeport Mayor", "Dr. Monette Ferguson - Executive Director of ABCD Bridgeport", "Wayne Winston - Bridgeport Civic Activist and Entrepreneur". Food and small business get a look too, in "Frankie's Diner Owner Nick Roussas" and "Chef Raquel - A Pinch of Salt". It is filed under Society & Culture and is not currently in the swipe feed.

Talk, property and a music room

Bridgeport's Own Podcast is the largest of the five by volume, at 247 episodes, and describes itself as talk about mainly local things with some national, entertainment and sports mixed in. It is filed under News & Politics. Episodes are titled by number — "Bridgeport's Own Podcast EP #247" — so the listing gives no indication of what any single one covers.

The Bridgeport Real Estate Investing & Real Estate Financial Planning™ Podcast, hosted by James Orr, carries the city's name and says its modelling uses Bridgeport-specific numbers. The recent episodes are generic craft lessons: "Secrets of Wholesaling", "Secrets of Rent Comps", "Secrets of Contract to Close". It reads as real-estate education with a local label rather than reporting on the Bridgeport market.

Acoustic Cafe Podcast is a record of open-mic nights and live sets at a Bridgeport venue of the same name. Thirteen episodes, with dates in the titles running back to 2006.

A different Bridgeport

Old School Red Hill sits on this shelf because of the name. Its subject is Red Hill High School in Bridgeport, Illinois — old games such as "WATCH ALONG: RH vs Lville 93 Regional", holiday segments, and readings from the town paper. It has 106 episodes and is in the swipe feed, so it will surface, but it is not about Connecticut.

Where to start

Bridgeport Stories, for anyone who wants the city: it names real people, real institutions and real streets, and fourteen episodes is a short enough run to work through. Bridgeport's Own Podcast is the option for sheer volume of local talk, though you will have to sample blind. The real-estate show is worth time only if you want investing instruction rather than a portrait of Bridgeport.