58 episodes
bigcitysmalltown with Bob Rivard Bob Rivard
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4.9 • 28 Ratings
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The big city small town podcast, hosted by Bob Rivard, is dedicated to telling the stories of San Antonians working to make the city a more sustainable, better educated, equitable and prosperous city. We want San Antonio to become a destination city for talented and creative people, and a city where young people born or raised here want to build their futures here. We embrace diversity, multiculturalism, and every individual’s right to realize their full potential without fear of oppression.
Each Monday, big city small town will offer listeners a new podcast release, a timely, focused look in one of the fastest growing cities in the United States that serves as the economic, cultural and regional capital of South Texas.
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57. Mary Thorsby, CEO of ABODE Contemplative Care for the Dying
This week’s guest is Mary Thorsby, the CEO of the nonprofit ABODE, whose mantra is contemplative care for the dying. ABODE operates end-of-life care in a single home on San Antonio’s near-Northside, caring for terminally ill individuals in the last weeks and months of life. It’s one of only three such programs in Texas. As it prepares to celebrate the 10th anniversary of its founding, listen as we learn more about ABODE.
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56. Jenna Saucedo-Herrera and Emily Royall: Innovation in San Antonio
This week, two perspectives on innovation in San Antonio. We revisit our conversations with Jenna Saucedo-Herrera of Greater: SATX as she discusses how San Antonio is winning on workforce development, and Emily Royall of Smart Cities San Antonio on how her team is using data to improve the quality of life for San Antonians.
Listen in full to both conversations:
Jenna Saucedo-Herrera's episode originally aired on October 30, 2023 as Episode 30.
Emily Royall's episode originally aired on July 11, 2023 as Episode 15.
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55. Garrett T. Capps: Honky-Tonk in San Antone and Beyond
We have Garrett T. Capps in the studio this week with guest hosts Kory Cook of KRTU 91.7 and Nicholas Frank of the San Antonio Report. Garrett T. Capps tours internationally with his band, Nasa Country, and has been a longtime curator of unique musical events in our city. Listen as we discuss how Capps has created space for other touring musicians at the bar he co-owns, The Lonesome Rose, how they weathered the disruptions to business on the St. Mary's Strip from COVID to construction, and the deep musical history in our city that has been largely overshadowed by Austin in the last fifty years.
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54. Liz Tullis and Dr. Peter Fox on the Conrad Smiles Foundation
Liz Tullis never gave up advocating for her son Conrad after his near-drowning and anoxic brain injury as an infant. Neither did Dr. Peter Fox, the founder and head of the University of Texas Health Science Center's Research Imaging Institute in San Antonio; and they are this week's guests. Listen as they discuss their unlikely journey to change how the medical community views pediatric non-fatal drowning and the powerful story behind the founding of the nonprofit Conrad Smiles Foundation.
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53. Bonnie Prosser Elder and David Zammiello, San Antonio Charter Review Commission
Today's guests are Bonnie Prosser Elder and David Zammiello, the volunteer co-chairs of Mayor Ron Nirenberg’s 15-member Charter Review Commission, formed last November to explore amendments to the city charter for voters to consider on the Nov. 5 ballot.
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52. Joe Holley on Power: How the Electric Co-Op Movement Energized the Lone Star State
This week’s guest is Joe Holley, a longtime Texas journalist and the author of a new book titled “Power: How the Electric Co-Op Movement Energized the Lone Star State.” Power is a book that anyone who cares about Texas history and the state’s development will want to read, and Joe will be a featured author at this year’s San Antonio Book Festival at the Central Library, Saturday, April 13.
Customer Reviews
Always interesting and informative!
I’ve been following Bob Rivard’s work since The Rivard Report. The detail and depth he brings to each story and episode is an expression of the passion he has for his work. I listen regularly, even to episodes that don’t seem initially all that interesting to me, because his work always inspires me to broaden my interests in, and to engage with, my community and beyond! Definitely worth a follow if you live, ever lived, and/or love San Antonio, Texas, or of well done and informative content!
San Antonio on tap!!!!
If you live in San Antonio, this podcast is a must listen. Rivard’s cultivated perspective of our city, and network in San Antonio translates to an informative and thought provoking podcast. However most importantly Big City Small Town host conversations that should be heard and had all over San Antonio. Subscribe. Subscribe. Subscribe.
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I have thoroughly enjoyed every episode. Keep up the good work.