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What's the Saddest Place in New Jersey?
New Jersey Is The World - May 08, 2023 15:54 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 158 ratingsHello all! YES WE HAVE HEARD ABOUT THE PASTA IN THE WOODS. Now that that's out of the way, today we're combining two of my longstanding passions in life: New Jersey and Sadness. After a recent trip to a famous New Jersey park that I realized was a lot sadder than I ever realized, I posed the ques...
Jersey Dude Reviews Jersey Food: Heirloom Kitchen
New Jersey Is The World - May 01, 2023 13:24 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 158 ratingsIn this stunning turn of events, Chris is the one who had the food in this month's JDRJF. And he's using his knowledge to try to make Don jealous. You see, Chris has had a longstanding nervousness surrounding the idea of fine dining, and yet he recently took his wife Hallie on a date to Heirloom ...
Interview: Aaron Levine, Master of Insurance
New Jersey Is The World - April 24, 2023 15:16 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 158 ratingsMike D made the acquaintance of one Aaron Levine, who is behind LG Insurance in West Long Branch. We realized - what an interesting lens to look at New Jersey through. From homes and climate to cars on notoriously insane roads, Aaron has a part of his brain that's constantly processing New Jersey...
77 vs. 23: When Was Jersey Better?
New Jersey Is The World - April 17, 2023 18:44 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 158 ratingsWe've broken down a number of aspects of Jersey life and listed how they were in 1977 versus how they are today. And we're deciding which lifestyle was better? Was our state better 45 years ago? Or are we in a golden age today by comparison? Only one thing is certain - I have no idea how this epi...
NJ Summer Games
New Jersey Is The World - April 11, 2023 13:21 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 158 ratingsGuys, this is really weird, but the state government came to us and said this summer they're starting a new version of the Olympics that revolves around New Jersey and takes place in New Jersey and they need US to brainstorm all the events for it. You'd think they'd have a whole team in place to...
Interview: Joanna Angel
New Jersey Is The World - April 03, 2023 18:23 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 158 ratingsYou might know Joanna Angel as a woman who revolutionized the porn industry. I knew her many years ago as Joanna, the punk rock girl who worked at Brower Commons when we were both students at Rutgers University. In this wide ranging interview, she and I talk about how being on the periphery of Ne...
Bonadooch vs. Machine
New Jersey Is The World - March 27, 2023 15:07 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 158 ratingsJersey is a driving state. Listen to any Springsteen song and you'll remember this state romanticizes cars. We spend a lot of time in them. And we spend a lot of time listening to our precious robots, the GPS. But here at NJITW, we are firm believers that we mustn't let man succumb to the evil ...
Interview: Jackson Pines
New Jersey Is The World - March 20, 2023 07:00 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 158 ratingsOn today's episode we interview Jackson Pines, a South Jersey band. But not just any South Jersey band - a band that's chronicling the folk music that's come out of the Pine Barrens for many decades with their new album Pine Barrens Volume 1. They're combining all the DIY ethics and methods Jerse...
Interview: Jerry Carino, Oracle of NJ Basketball
New Jersey Is The World - March 13, 2023 04:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 158 ratingsMarch Madness is upon us! And Jersey cares about basketball. Jersey style basketball also directly reflects the state and its attitude. In this episode, Chris talks with Jerry Carino from the Asbury Park Press, who knows more about Jersey basketball than maybe anyone else on earth. They talk abo...
Who Is The Least Jersey Jersey Person?
New Jersey Is The World - March 06, 2023 16:16 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 158 ratingsThere's certain qualities that we all like to think of as "Jersey". And in the Garden State, we think of many great representatives of this state who demonstrate that grit, tenacity, and attitude. We love celebrating the people who embody "Jersey" as an adjective. But it does beg the question - ...
Jim Brown and the Rutgers Strike
New Jersey Is The World - February 27, 2023 08:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 158 ratingsHello fine people of New Jersey! Today on NJITW, Andrea and I are talking to Jim Brown, a professor at Rutgers Camden involved pretty heavily with unionization efforts at our state university. Not sure if you've heard about this, but things aren't going great on this front. In fact, there's a p...
Interview: Jeremy Schneider and Bobby Olivier
New Jersey Is The World - February 20, 2023 19:27 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 158 ratingsOld friend Jeremy Schneider returns to the show and this time he's brought his NJ.com editor Bobby Olivier with him. These two psychos spent a long time publishing articles detailing why New Jersey is better than every single other state. They went one by one. 49 articles, a compendium of which ...
The Ultimate NJ Valentine's Playlist
New Jersey Is The World - February 13, 2023 14:22 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 158 ratingsHey you! Tomorrow's Valentine's Day. Did you forget? It's cool, we got your back. It's well known that Jersey has produced an embarrassment of riches when it comes to music. From pop to punk to hip hop to r&b, our small state has produced a ridiculous amount of good music relative to its size. ...
Interview: Baseball Legend Rick Cerone
New Jersey Is The World - February 06, 2023 04:59 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 158 ratingsMonths back we stumbled into the knowledge that baseball legend and Newark native Rick Cerone released a song in 1981 called "A Long Way Home". We made it a stated goal to someday talk to this Jersey sports icon about this strange blip in his history. Huge thanks to listener Erin, who was able ...
Newark Conversations: Maria Lopez-Nunez
New Jersey Is The World - January 30, 2023 16:29 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 158 ratingsOur series focusing on New Jersey's largest city continues, this time featuring an interview with one of the most badass people I've ever had the pleasure of talking to: Maria Lopez-Nunez of the Ironbound Community Corporation. She's done an amazing amount of work focusing on environmentalism i...
Small Business Spotlight: Cat's Luck Vegan, Neptune City
New Jersey Is The World - January 23, 2023 14:02 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 158 ratingsToday we continue our spotlight on small businesses around the Garden State, or more accurately, "Small businesses in or near Asbury Park", which I swear is not intentional but for some reason a lot of the coolest stuff happening focuses on that area! This episode features an interview with Mic...
Garden State Gagootz January '23 Edition!
New Jersey Is The World - January 16, 2023 14:03 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 158 ratingsHello all! Enjoy this episode of Garden State Gagootz, in which we listen to your voicemails and react to them. If you want to leave a voicemail about anything Jersey related, feel free to do so at 973-780-4660. We'd love to feature you on the show sometime! Gagootz is usually a Patreon exclus...
Legends of NJ Comedy with Rich Vos
New Jersey Is The World - January 10, 2023 01:15 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 158 ratingsIn this very special episode, Chris interviews legendary NJ born and bred comedian Rich Vos about legends of New Jersey comedy. From the Peppermint Lounge in East Orange to almost getting murdered in Denville to the people long forgotten from the NJ scene to the relationship NJ comedy has always ...
Special Report: Lucy the Elephant is back!
New Jersey Is The World - January 02, 2023 08:00 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 158 ratingsThis episode breaks our usual format(s) in a big way, but that's because certain things in New Jersey are just that important. For example, if you've spent much time in the vicinity of Atlantic City, you know that one of the most legendary local icons is a big ass elephant in Margate City that us...
Jersey Dude Reviews Jersey Food: Who Yelps the Yelpers?
New Jersey Is The World - December 26, 2022 19:37 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 158 ratingsIn this very passionate episode of JDRJF, we ask a simple question: Who's out there leaving these one star Yelp reviews on some of our most beloved New Jersey small businesses? Instead of reviewing food this episode, Don reviews some Yelp reviews left for NJ restaurants. Not surprisingly, this le...
The NJITW Audio Yule Log
New Jersey Is The World - December 20, 2022 17:59 - 4 hours ★★★★★ - 158 ratingsAll North Jersey residents fondly remember the WPIX Yule Log, when Channel 11 ran the image of a crackling fire for endless hours on Christmas. In tribute to this regional video tradition, we bring you the NEW JERSEY IS THE WORLD AUDIO YULE LOG! Set to a background audio bed of a crackling fire...
The New Jersey Music Scene
New Jersey Is The World - December 12, 2022 15:42 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 158 ratingsThis week, Alt Press put out a pretty great article tracing the history and impact of New Brunswick's basement music scene. We figured this was a perfect opportunity to pull our episode on the NJ music scene out from behind the Patreon paywall where it's lived for over a year. If you're not a Pat...
Small Business Spotlight: Flux Modern
New Jersey Is The World - December 05, 2022 16:32 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 158 ratingsHow does one go from hitting up garage sales looking for cassette tapes and Mr. T lunch boxes to running a thriving furniture resale business on the Jersey Shore? We talk to Drew from Flux Modern to find out! Hear about dealing with furniture obsessives, staking one's business on an unexpected...
Interview: This Psycho Is Trying To Eat Every Taylor Ham Egg And Cheese In The State
New Jersey Is The World - November 28, 2022 08:00 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 158 ratingsHello all! First things first, don't forget our upcoming show at the House of Independents on December 11th! It would truly be an honor to see you all there. SECONDLY, THIS DUDE KYLE FROM TOMS RIVER IS ON A QUEST TO EAT EVERY PORK ROLL, EGG, AND CHEESE SANDWICH IN THE ENTIRE STATE. It's tru...
Black Friday: A New Jersey History
New Jersey Is The World - November 25, 2022 14:57 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 158 ratingsHappy holiday, everyone! In New Jersey, land of malls, Black Friday has always meant a lot. In this special episode, we break down a brief history of Black Friday in general (no one in Jersey will be shocked to hear this insanity started in Philly). Then we break down a history of some of Jersey...
The Ultimate NJ Thanksgiving Invite List
New Jersey Is The World - November 21, 2022 13:55 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 158 ratingsThis episode is simple, sweet, and quite dumb. Just like we like it! In it we pre-suppose a simple question: "If you could assemble the ultimate Thanksgiving guest list consisting of New Jersey notables living or dead, who would they be and what would you ask each person to bring?" On a schmalt...
The Ultimate NJ Thanksgiving Invite List
New Jersey Is The World - November 21, 2022 13:55 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 158 ratingsThis episode is simple, sweet, and quite dumb. Just like we like it! In it we pre-suppose a simple question: "If you could assemble the ultimate Thanksgiving guest list consisting of New Jersey notables living or dead, who would they be and what would you ask each person to bring?" On a schmalt...
Jersey Dude Reviews Jersey Food: Kohr's Frozen Custard
New Jersey Is The World - November 14, 2022 08:00 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 158 ratingsYou would think this episode would be exactly this long: "Kohr's frozen custard is good." What else is there to say about frozen custard? Well, little did we know that the history of this company is hilariously old-timey. AND their current corporate structure is indecipherable, to the degree tha...
Interview: Joe Pompeo, author of Blood & Ink
New Jersey Is The World - November 07, 2022 08:00 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 158 ratingsNew Jersey and true crime... they seem very much linked. I mean, between The Watcher and The Good Nurse it seems like Netflix is making all its money this month solely by focusing on true crime in the Garden State. But did you know there was a murder that went down a hundred years ago that many...
Trick or Trauma: Halloween in New Jersey
New Jersey Is The World - October 31, 2022 07:00 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 158 ratingsHappy Halloween, New Jersey! This holiday is a sacred one in this state, since it's not just about dressing up and collecting candy. It's also a big step in the New Jersey tradition of kids testing their mettle and getting in over their heads. We share stories of the traumatic side of Halloween ...
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