{"podcast":{"title":"City Cast Nashville","slug":"city-cast-nashville-6929788","podcast_index_feed_id":6929788,"rss_url":"https://feeds.megaphone.fm/CC2002452330","website_url":"https://nashville.citycast.fm/","image_url":"https://megaphone.imgix.net/podcasts/021aca2a-eab9-11ee-9ff2-ebf466277b88/image/ab8c2c0a84bda721b66244cd3f736b0a.png?ixlib=rails-4.3.1&max-w=3000&max-h=3000&fit=crop&auto=format,compress","author":"City Cast","episode_count":543,"summary":"Join Marie Cecile Anderson 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.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-20T16:20:17.635673+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/city-cast-nashville-6929788"},"episode":{"title":"Does Tennessee Have the Worst Quality of Life? Plus, YASNI Winners and Early Voting Starts Today","slug":"does-tennessee-have-the-worst-quality-of-life-plus-yasni-winners-and-early-voting-starts-today","published_at":"2026-07-17T08:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/city-cast-nashville-6929788/does-tennessee-have-the-worst-quality-of-life-plus-yasni-winners-and-early-voting-starts-today","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/city-cast-nashville-6929788","url":"https://traffic.megaphone.fm/CC7954012115.mp3","audio_url":"https://traffic.megaphone.fm/CC7954012115.mp3","summary":"The Nashville Scene’s YASNI winners were revealed yesterday, and here’s our belated submission: You are so Nashville if… you recognized Elliston Place Soda Shop as the place where Mayor Freddie O’Connell kicked off his reelection campaign by throwing more than a little shade at Sen. Marsha Blackburn’s recent fortune cookie debacle. On today’s Friday News Roundup, contributor Nicole Williams joins creative producer Marie Cecile Anderson and executive producer Whitney Pastorek to talk through Freddie’s reelection chances, Marsha’s just-revealed ethics investigation, and CNBC ranking Tennessee dead last in quality of life. Plus in our bonus segment for City Cast Nashville Neighbors, should daylight saving time be permanent? Early voting in the midterm state and federal primary election and the municipal general election is NOW OPEN through Aug. 1! Here’s everything you need to know to go vote. We’re doing our annual survey to learn more about our listeners. We’d be grateful if you took the survey at citycast.fm/survey — it’s only 7 minutes long. Plus, anyone who takes the survey will be eligible to win a $250 Visa gift card and City Cast City swag. Get more from City Cast Nashville when you become a City Cast Nashville Neighbor. You’ll enjoy perks like ad-free listening, invitations to members only events and more. Join now at membership.citycast.fm/nashville Want some more City Cast Nashville news? Then make sure to sign up for our City Cast Nashville newsletter.  Follow us @citycastnashville You can also text us or leave a voicemail at: 615-200-6392 Interested in advertising with City Cast? Find more info HERE.","meta_description":"The Nashville Scene’s YASNI winners were revealed yesterday, and here’s our belated submission: You are so Nashville if… you recognized Elliston Place Sod…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1760,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/city-cast-nashville-6929788/episodes/does-tennessee-have-the-worst-quality-of-life-plus-yasni-winners-and-early-voting-starts-today/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/city-cast-nashville-6929788/does-tennessee-have-the-worst-quality-of-life-plus-yasni-winners-and-early-voting-starts-today.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}