What it REALLY means to be from New Jersey — Jim Gearhart Show podcast

There's a reason (maybe not a good one) the New Jersey legislature spent time debating whether a tomato was a fruit or vegetable. And there's a reason the horse is the official animal — one end of it seems to show up in Trenton a lot.

"Did you realize we are the only state in the union that does not have a state song, and does have a state cryptid?" Jim asked on the latest edition of the Jim Gearhart Show podcast — though even our loquacious had had to admit he didn't know what that meant. (Our Cryptid is the Jersey Devil, by the way

But Jim says he's heard the essence of New Jersey captured perfectly just once — with a slogan that's EXACTLY what we're all about.

The video above is just part of the latest installment of the Jim Gearhart Podcast, available every week on New Jersey 101.5 and in the New Jersey 101.5 app. You can also subscribe with your favorite podcasting app for iPhones, Android devices or your computer:

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— Townsquare Media staff

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