Your Turn to Talk: Ask the Mayor and Ghost Mayor

Every Thursday, we open up the phone lines because it’s your turn to talk. And once a month, Mayor Freddie O’Connell joins us to take your calls.

Although we never know exactly what’s going to come up on our Ask the Mayor show — that’s up to you — today is Halloween, and we expect some extra spooky surprises. For instance, did you know that downtown Nashville is haunted?

In addition to Mayor O’Connell answering the most difficult of Halloween-related questions (“Candy corn — yum or ick?”), we’ll hear the story of the Ghost Mayor of Printer’s Alley, David “Skull” Schulman. Schulman, the beloved owner of the original Skull’s Rainbow Room, was murdered there during a robbery in 1998, and now, some say Skull’s ghost has joined others that haunt the narrow, two-block street tucked away in downtown Nashville. Join us for a scary edition of Your Turn to Talk!

This episode was produced by Mary Mancini.

Guests:

• Freddie O’Connell | Mayor, Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County
• Mark Therrien | Owner, Nashville Tours and Haunted Nashville

Listen to previous Ask the Mayor episodes:

• Ask the Mayor, plus presidential debates (Sept. 12, 2024)
• Ask the Mayor, plus International Overdose Awareness Day (Aug. 29, 2024)
• Ask the Mayor and Metro Legal Director with Freddie O’Connell and Wally Dietz (July 25, 2024)
• Ask the Mayors with Freddie O’Connell and Benton McDonough (June 18, 2024)
• Ask the Mayors with Freddie O’Connell and Ken Moore (May 30, 2024)
• Ask the Mayor with Freddie O’Connell, plus Taking Cover (April 17, 2024)
• Ask the Mayor with Freddie O’Connell, plus Votes For Women (March 28, 2024)
• Ask the Mayor with Freddie O’Connell, plus photographer Jeff Fasano (Feb. 15, 2024