City Cast Nashville

About City Cast Nashville

Join Rachel Iacovone and the City Cast Nashville team every weekday morning as we bring you the day's can't-miss conversation about life in Music City. With the help of local journalists, artists, activists, experts, and everyday residents, we explore this promising, frustrating, still-sorta-small town, where old bumps up against new, natives adapt to transplants, and everybody struggles to navigate the ‘Binge Drinking Tourism Industrial Complex’ that threatens to consume us all. Alongside our daily newsletter, we cover the news and culture of our endlessly growing city from every perspective we can find — including yours. It’s like a backyard barbecue and the whole town’s invited, so whether you’ve lived here for a blink or a lifetime, we hope you’ll pull up a lawn chair and sit a while. Learn more and subscribe to our newsletter at nashville.citycast.fm.

Publisher

City Cast

Category

news · society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

5 Jun 2024

Latest episode

20 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

146 of 621 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   20 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Have Locals Lost 12 South? Plus, Racetrack Petition Gets Certified and Michelin Guide Predictions

   Host Rachel Iacovone interviews executive producer Whitney Pastorek and creative producer Marie Cecile Anderson about 12 South's rapid changes, the racetrack petition, and Michelin Guide predictions.

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   19 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT

   How Nashville's Sex Workers Helped Save the City

   Historian Betsy Phillips and producer Marie Cecile Anderson interview each other about how Nashville's sex workers, including Rebecca Higgins, shaped the city's history.

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   18 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT

   ‘Your City Could Be Better’: Why Salt Lakers are Adopting Storm Drains — Presented By City Cast Nashville

   City Cast Nashville host David interviews City Cast Salt Lake host Ali Vallarta about Salt Lake City residents adopting storm drains to combat flooding and pollution.

Inside a recent episode

Have Locals Lost 12 South? Plus, Racetrack Petition Gets Certified and Michelin Guide Predictions

Published 20 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] This is above the legal threshold of around 40,000 people or 10 percent of Davidson County voters. Whitney, now what happens? What next? Well, according to the Nashville banner, the next step is a visit to Davidson County Chancery Court where opponents have already filed a challenge to the signatures and a hearing is set for October 27th. Oh, well, what stood out to me about this story is that according to the Nashville scene, Davidson County Administrator of Elections, John Richardson, actually got emotional talking about how hard it was to go through all of these signatures. They had to certify the petition within 30 days by law, which meant 70 people worked a total of 12,500 hours going through each and every one. […]

Who has been a guest on City Cast Nashville

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Betsy Phillips
• Ali Vallarta
• Tala Shatara
• Margaret Kingsbury
• Amelia Edelman

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

Apple Podcasts (US)

4.4 / 5

81 ratings

Spotify

4.2 / 5

39 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 54 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

88

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

51

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Guest appearances

Does not typically book guests

Based on episode analysis; this does not confirm that the show is currently accepting guests.

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