Podcasts by The BNA Podcast

District 14's Jordan Huffman and a December Update from 2023-12-07T14:11:47

The BNA boys talked with Councilmember Jordan Huffman about the new city council, upcoming issues, homeless camps and the upcoming city budget.

Back from Summer vacation and Franklin Dodges a bullet or Bully or both from 2023-10-28T13:49:14

Brian and Jay return from their late summer travels and look at the Franklin Election and Nashville's September runoff. Wicked at TPAC was great and we love to eat. This is all. Let us hear ...

The End was always going to be the Beginning from 2023-08-11T20:02:12

We review the results of the August 3rd elections with a view towards the September runoff. Big wins, big surprises and some highly predictable results. Enjoy

"Mine Goes to 11" District 11 that is. Here are the candidates for Nashville City Council from 2023-07-18T20:21:53

We talk with three of the four candidates for Nashville city council district 11. We are only doing this one episode on the council as we were asked to host by some community members. We enjoyed...

Absolutely NOT related to Newt but he's new to Town from 2023-07-06T18:06:52

Jim Gingrinch is our final interview of the leading candidates for Mayor of Nashville. You can find him at @jimfornashville on Twitter or at jimfornashville.com. We dive into the obvious questio...

Go Ask Alice from a Little Right of Center from 2023-06-15T15:20:23

We talk to Alice Rolli the only competitive conservative in the race. She has great answers to the tough questions that plague Nashville's relationship with the State legislature. We also la...

Heidi Campbell: A State Senator states why she's ready to run the city the Statehouse hates! from 2023-05-23T16:05:48

A formidable force in Nashville politics, Heidi Campbell is the former Mayor of Oak Hill and a current state Senator. She talks about her vision for the city and why her background makes her sui...

Is Nashville ready for the Yarbro Man? from 2023-05-16T22:03

Jay continues our series of interviews with Nashville mayoral candidates by sitting down with Jeff Yarbro. A great chat that I hope enlightens the listeners. I had to miss this episode to deal w...

A Unicorn for Mayor, Matt Wiltshire's History and Vision for the Future from 2023-05-02T15:58:06

We continue our conversation with Nashville's Mayoral hopefuls. In a casual setting with no gotcha moments we hear from Matt on the issues he thinks will save Nashville from adding an SH to ...

Is Nashville Ready for Freddie? from 2023-04-11T15:18:26

We continue our conversations with the mayoral candidates for Nashville's fall election.

August 3 is the election date, early voting starts on July 14th.

Listen to our entire ...

Democracy 911 a BNA Emergency Podcast from 2023-04-07T19:20:05

We gathered this morning to discuss and inform around issues from the TN legislature last evening where two duly elected member of the legislature were expelled for being disruptive. Evidently b...

"Who Moved My Cheese?" with Mayoral Candidate Councilwoman Sharon Hurt from 2023-03-19T14:05:52

We kick off our series of conversations with the Nashville Mayoral candidates by hosting Councilwoman Sharon Hurt. She has a long background of civic engagement with the vulnerable and the voice...

Can't Overstate the Damage of Over Stating from 2023-02-11T19:38:49

In our return for 2023 we talk about the latest on the stadium, the mayors race and the never ending fascist legislature trying to, quite literally, kill Nashville. 

Money's Too Tight To Mention: But it's a stadium from 2022-12-11T03:37:50

The boys discuss the new Nashville football stadium, homelessness and all it's challenges, Mad Town Coffee and the Madison Family Diner. We also touch on the Mayors race, bad pedestrians and the...

The Superbowl of Spending from 2022-10-22T21:31:07

We talk about our old reliable topics, the stadium, homelessness, Metro Council and Food. Shout out to El Pulgarcito, Henrietta Red, El Fuego and King Tuts. 

Also happy birthday to D...

My Favorite Masha-ian and Paying the TAB from 2022-08-26T18:31:52

We talk about paying the TAB (total abortion ban), Marsh Blackheart happily wears a face mask in Taipei but not in the US, the massive East Bank project and the ineptitude of those in charge of ...

RNC: I'm a NO on that one... from 2022-07-29T17:15:23

We get back together for our monthly summer session and discuss the upcoming election, the new stadium, the ridiculous ads for TN-5, Hamilton at TPAC, a downtown plan and then the election again...

Lawyers Guns and Money from 2022-06-27T17:12:30

We discuss Nashville's budget, Pride vs Monster Jam, the new homeless department and revisiting a favorite restaurant. 

Bike lanes, Brimley and Budgets from 2022-05-28T19:40:26

After a long and action packed month away from the mike we come back together to discuss transpotainment rules, homelessness, Southern Baptists, school budgets, the war on cities and Narcan. Oh ...

The BNAPodcast Stadium from 2022-04-26T17:12:20

We have a goal of renaming the horribly named GeoDis Stadium after our podcast and we only need another 6 million listeners to achieve our goal. Also, elections, malls and mayors all get discuss...

Glenn Funk for DA, Amazon as Loan Shark and a Joyous Cheeseburger from 2022-04-13T19:12:35

The last of our series of interviews with the candidates for Metro Nashville District Attorney with incumbent Glenn Funk. We discuss the new soccer stadium's opening day, Amazon's mis-perceived ...

P. Danielle Nellis is running for DA, Jay and Brian are DAds from 2022-04-01T15:54:27

P. Danielle Nellis joins the two old dudes to discuss her vision for a modern district attorneys office. After you hear her say smart things, hang around and we'll discuss the missing traffic co...

Sara Beth Myers runs for DA and an Unpronounceable Stadium Name from 2022-03-15T19:38:13

We begin our series of interviews with candidates for local elections in Nashville. We also look at our cool new soccer stadium, an oil leak at the airport and a great dinner at Margot.  Listen

Trash Talkin' with a Jester! from 2022-02-19T20:47:54

We revisit the Nash Trash problem again (or we recycle it, if you will). 

We have our first guest Tim Jester, active community member in Old Hickory to talk about misdemeanor recidiv...

Banned Books Tell No Tales from 2022-02-05T20:16:53

We're back for 2022 with Banned books, burned books, gerrymandering, License plate readers and other racist stuff. Then we turn our attention to good food and a fabulous piano bar. Isn't that Na...

Drinking Town with a Homeless Problem from 2021-12-03T22:03:06

Brian and Jay start the episode talking about Madrid and end with listing the restaurants we'll miss. In between we have a bracing discussion of redistricting, homelessness and codes along with ...

Heavy Metal Homeless Camp from 2021-11-08T23:59:14

We spend a few moments discussing the cluster that is Nashville's homeless response. Also, a fresh look at the redistricting process, the sale of PSC metals downtown and then we talk about downt...

Sean Brock's Take on Grandma's Ham from 2021-10-16T18:52:43

We discuss anti vax conventions, the ever exciting redistricting process in the worlds largest city council and the Nashville Scene's best of Nashville ...oh yeah and there's a new Sean Brock re...

Dropping Newks on the Mayor from 2021-10-08T19:13:01

We discuss eating at Newks, as Jay did with the Mayor of Nashville. We dive deep into rolling hot tubs, party wagons and finally homelessness and Oracle. 

Is Transpotainment a Real Word? from 2021-09-20T02:00:44

We catch up on our losing battle with Covid, discuss 100 kinds of party vehicles and Belmont's new concert hall!

Better Call Saul from 2021-09-05T13:27:43

We engage in some HR work for the city's finance department, discuss Covid, Floods, Murder, Bonnaroo and fun times at 5th and Broadway! 

Red Tide in Florida ain't got nothin' on us from 2021-08-25T20:15:25

There's a red tide going on in Florida...no the actual algae red tide. But right here in TN we've got a red tide of our own. Also, lots of Covid, a terrible flood, noticed by the New York Times ...

Race, Racing, Racist from 2021-08-25T20:15:13

This week on the BNA we talk about the Nashville Grand Prix, the removal of a KKK leaders bust from the capital, Covid and Italian food. What's not to like. Also, send us a question...we want so...

Millions for Tourists and Brother Can You Spare a Dime? from 2021-07-10T16:09:11

We talk about the Governor's seemingly desperate need to convince people to travel to TN while airlines are cancelling flights due to overbooking and under staffing.  But at least we are th...

Independence Day Extravaganza...or not from 2021-07-02T21:12:38

Happy 4th of July to all our listeners and the Chief who turns 50 on Sunday. We had a nice little chat about the police shooting people, naked statures and blowing shit up!! Enjoy 

World's Best Driver Hits a House from 2021-06-25T20:28:48

We talked about how great Nashville drivers are and especially the truck driver that ran into a house. There's not going to be a referendum on property taxes cuz the bill was so poorly written a...

Dads Juneteenth and Hot Chicken from 2021-06-18T18:23:06

Our inaugural Juneteenth episode. We talk about Southern Baptists being too southern and not enough Babtist, the REAL Hot Chicken and the first time Juneteenth is celebrated as a national holida...

Grave Robbers and Road Rage from 2021-06-04T19:21:19

Nashville has a drinking problem, a driving problem and a road rage problem. Our solution is to sell them all guns and see who lives to tell the tale. 

Brother Can You Spare A Dime from 2021-05-18T12:29:17

Nashville has some debt, no masks, maybe NASCAR and definitely has a Republican Election Commission. Listen To "Drinking Town (with a Music Problem)" at the end of the episode!! And it's Brian's...

The Edifice Complex from 2021-05-01T17:54:42

This week we're talking about Nashville's budget, wacky directions and headlines. As always we end with a rousing chorus of our current favorite Nashville anthem "A Drinking Town with a Music Pr...

Blue Dot Special (in a sea of red) from 2021-04-23T11:33:03

Oracle is coming to town, our property tax rate is going down but our payment is going up and our state is full of weirdos hiding in bunkers with two cans of Hormel chili and an AK-47...cuz evident...

A Drinking Town with a Music Problem from 2021-04-09T17:33:22

Check out our latest BNA podcast where we take on the Governor the council and the myth of Nashville. 

As soon as I get a link I'll add it for the song at the end Drinkin...

2020 Out with a Bang from 2021-01-20T01:07:02

Our last podcast of 2020, of the Trump administration and the holidays. 

Merging and Grandma's Ham from 2020-11-22T17:03:44

Nashville has America's worst drivers...and they don't know it

Trump's Final Air Assault from 2020-11-09T18:29:31

Brian and Jay's 5th Episode

I Don't Believe In Bellevue from 2020-11-09T18:28:48

Brian and Jay's 4th Episode

Sin Boldly So Grace May Abound from 2020-11-09T18:27:32

Brian and Jay's adventure

Forty Jealous Whores from 2020-09-13T13:16:56

Jay Voorhees and Brian Rawlings discuss the dysfunction of the Nashville Metro Council and a couple of other funny things that we don't understand. 

You Gotta Start Somewhere from 2020-09-03T13:31:55

Brian Rawlings and Jay Voorhees discuss all things Nashville Tennessee.