The BNA Podcast

Today we start the long and bittersweet goodbye to brother Jay!

Brian is back from a safari, Jay is up to speed on homeless needs during a massive freeze and now we're making time to chat about Nashville.

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

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 from you!

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

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 meeting and were pleasantly surprised on a couple of occasions. Good Luck choosing from this years choices.

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 question for a former corporate king, why should a former COO run our city. I hope this helps anyone and everyone in their choice for our next mayor.

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 lament not eating at fancier restaurants and wonder what's next for our local homeless. It's kind of a mess.

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 suited for the job. Another great contender in a crowded field. Also, listen carefully for her very direct point about how to win TN district 5 in the next election. HINT: GO VOTE!!!

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 with my spousal unit needing to dispose of her appendix!

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 it's IT City status!

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 series of interviews to get a more informal peak into each candidate's vision.

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 black people are to be seen and not heard in the Tennessee House.

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 voiceless. She shares her vision for leading a growing city and how to address the state of Tennessee in its ever aggressive attempts to change our city.

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. 

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 restaurant Char.

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 Daddyo.  

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 building it...A new stadium is still getting built and we're still not sure why.

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. We also talk hot chicken, BBQ, great fencing and the best bar in Madison. 

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

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 yeah, I went to the new soccer stadium and Jay ate at Mafongo. Welcome back

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 discussed. So let us know what you think!

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 generosity, an invite to Easter Sunday at City Road Chapel United Methodist Church and a Joyful Cheeseburger.   

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 cops, half a billion for football and other equally odd priorities of the city of Nashville. 

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.