bigcitysmalltown with Bob Rivard
Hosted by Bob Rivard and Cory Ames · Bob Rivard
4.8from 47 ratings
- 198
- Episodes
- 30
- Transcribed
- 47
- Ratings
- Weekly
- Cadence
- 2023
- First episode
- 1M
- YouTube views
About bigcitysmalltown with Bob Rivard
The bigcitysmalltown 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 Friday, bigcitysmalltown 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.
- Publisher
- Bob Rivard
- Category
- news · society & culture
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 27 Mar 2023
- Latest episode
- 23 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
30 of 198 episodes have a transcript.
23 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
194. Doc Watkins on 10 Years of Jazz, TX, His New Memoir, and the Business of Live Music
15 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
193. What Makes a Good Job? Greater:SATX and Brooks on How San Antonio Picks Its Economic Partners
9 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
192. From 8 Tables to the St. Anthony: Chef Leo Davila on Bringing San Antonians Back Downtown to Eat
Inside a recent episode
194. Doc Watkins on 10 Years of Jazz, TX, His New Memoir, and the Business of Live Music
Published 23 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] I was like, wow, is it really that easy? I worked my tail off to try to get these Oscar Peterson tickets sold. And it was just an uphill battle the whole way. And here we come up with, you know, no marketing. And we just put Christmas big band music out there and people love it. So eventually over time, we just decided, look, you've got a month between Thanksgiving and Christmas. Let's just go all in. And then in January, all the people that hate Christmas music come back. So, you know, it's it's that is the part of it's funny. I'm not a businessman. First and foremost, you know, and this is, I think, why I'm fascinated with this conversation about the symphony, because I really do approach these things as an artist. […]
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- Doc Watkins
- Leo Gomez
- Sarah Carabias-Rush
- Leo Davila
- Charles Woodin
Reach and audience
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- YouTube views
- 1,447,057
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.8 / 5
- 47 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 79 / 100
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- Quality
- 93
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 93
- Engagement
- 71
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Bob Rivard and Cory Ames host the show. Published by Bob Rivard.
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