Muses & Roots — The Podcast
Two friends.
One city.
Better questions.
Culture, displacement, and the roots beneath the Queen City. What Charlotte is becoming, what it's losing, and the people who carry the weight of both.
Muses & Roots
A conversation about the Queen City — its culture, its displacement, the roots you can't see anymore and the ones still holding.
The Show
Charlotte is being
remade in real time.
We're paying attention.
Muses & Roots started as a conversation between two men who kept asking the same questions in the same rooms and getting the same silence back. What is this city becoming? Who gets to say? What do you do when the place you love doesn't recognize you anymore?
It's a podcast about Charlotte — South End, Camp North End, the light rail corridor, the neighborhoods that got moved so other ones could bloom. It's about culture and what carries it. About the stories underneath the skyline.
The Hosts
Jack Stallings
Writer, Army veteran, former pastor. Raised in Startown, rebuilt in Charlotte. Asks the questions the room doesn't want asked.
Mack Greene
Best friend, honest witness, the one who holds the thread when the conversation goes somewhere true and dangerous.
Recent Episodes
All episodes ↗Pilot · Muses & Roots
What Charlotte Costs
The first conversation. What it means to love a city that keeps rewriting itself without asking you. Who gets to stay. Who decides what the roots were worth.
Episode 2 · Muses & Roots
The Light Rail and the Long Memory
The Blue Line changed South End. The question is what it changed it into, and for whom. A conversation about infrastructure, displacement, and what stays when the ground shifts.
Episode 3 · Muses & Roots
Camp North End Is a Sentence in the Middle
What do you do with a place that used to make weapons and now makes cold brew? A meditation on reclamation, aesthetics as politics, and what we call art when we really mean gentrification.
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