Retired Nashville Cop Shares Intense Police Stories & Recovery Journey
Things Police See: Firsthand Accounts
Steven D Gould
4.9 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 22 October 2025
⏱️ 76 minutes
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Summary
Join host Steve Gould on "Things Police See" as he interviews retired Nashville Police Sergeant Scott Cothran. With 16.5 years at Metro Nashville PD, Scott shares gripping stories from his career, including high-stakes drug busts, a dramatic flood rescue during Nashville's 2010 flood, and a terrifying encounter with a murder suspect. Now working with first responders battling PTSD and substance abuse, Scott opens up about his personal struggles with alcoholism and recovery. Discover powerful insights, intense police experiences, and advice for new officers. Subscribe for more real police stories and recovery journeys!
Reach Scott at - Scott.cothran@magnoliameadows.com
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| 0:00.0 | This is Things Police Seed, first-hand accounts, with your host, Steve Gold. |
| 0:09.1 | Welcome to the podcast, interviews, active, retired police officers, both the most intense, bizarre, and sometimes humorous moments on the Jorb. |
| 0:18.2 | Hello, it is I, old gingerface, here with you as always. Thank you for being here, |
| 0:22.4 | everybody. A little bit of an announcement right up top. I have a new, new YouTube channel, |
| 0:27.8 | in addition to what I'm doing here on the podcast. I got approached by a small company that had a |
| 0:34.5 | channel. They were looking for a host for body cam footage. We struck a |
| 0:38.5 | deal. And now the channel, Sergeant Steve, is a real thing. So if you could go there, |
| 0:45.5 | subscribe, like, check it out. If you like body cam breakdowns, this is the channel for you. It's, |
| 0:51.6 | it's been really fun. There's two videos up so far. They have a professional editor that |
| 0:55.0 | puts it all together, all the footage and graphics. And, uh, it looks really slick. I mean, I could definitely not do it on my own. I'm happy to be partnered with these guys. Um, the, the, the, the whole Sergeant Steve, uh, name. I guess it's a little bit, it's a little bit on the nose, but these guys know what they're doing, and they said it's a, it's a good name for |
| 1:12.4 | YouTube channel, and it should and it should work out well. |
| 1:14.8 | So please wish me luck. I'm hoping that it would take off and we'd get all kinds of views, and it could be another way, another source of income to help support the podcast. |
| 1:25.8 | So we'll see. But for now, it is up. |
| 1:28.3 | It's live. |
| 1:28.7 | There's two videos. |
| 1:29.5 | I would appreciate it if you guys would subscribe to it. |
| 1:32.6 | And check the videos out. |
| 1:33.8 | See if you like it and like, comment, all those good things to keep it or to get it to take off and be a huge monumental success for old Gingy. |
| 1:43.4 | So thank you guys if you go and check that out. |
| 1:46.7 | I truly appreciate it. |
| 1:48.5 | Today's show, very excited to have him. |
| 1:50.8 | He hails from one of my favorite cities that I visited from the great city of Nashville. |
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