Former Councilman Greg Brockhouse speaks to reporters in front of City Hall. Credit: Michael Karlis
Former city councilman and two-time mayoral candidate Greg Brockhouse is back.
Or his podcast is, anyway.
Brockhouse last week announced on Facebook that The Brockcast is returning and its first episode is scheduled to stream live on Thursday, Aug. 6. In the post, the SA politico said his podcast will “dive into San Antonio politics, bad ideas, good ideas, taxpayer dollars, and whatever fresh chaos City Hall, Austin, and D.C. manage to create between now and then.”
The first installment of Brockhouse’s resurrected talk show was originally scheduled to air this Thursday. However, Brockhouse told the Current he pushed back the start date so he could visit his son in Colorado.
“There’s all these issues going on, and when I look at City Hall … there really is just a new level of dysfunction, and I think a disconnect from people in the community and the neighborhoods and a lack of knowledge of what’s going on,” Brockhouse told the Current during a Wednesday phone call.
Brockhouse hopes his show will close that gap by inviting community figures from all parts of the political spectrum to share their point of view.
Before diving into the podcasting world, Brockhouse served as District 6 City Councilman. He also ran twice against former Mayor Ron Nirenberg, forcing a runoff and losing by just 2 points in 2019 before getting trounced by 30 points in 2021.
During the 2019 run, Brockhouse faced allegations that he’d been involved in a domestic violence incident with his wife a decade earlier. The Express-News published the police report, which mysteriously disappeared from SAPD’s records system. Brockhouse and his wife, in a 2019 interview with the San Antonio Report, disputed the police department’s version of events.
Since his 2021 mayoral defeat, Brockhouse has been largely quiet.
Over the past year, though, Brockhouse has offered up political commentary on the Brockcast Facebook page, which now has 16,000 followers. His weekly newsletter, Sunday’s Opinion, has more than 500 subscribers, he told the Current.
Brockhouse also plans to launch a website in the coming months that will host a blog, the podcast and other forms of media.
“I think now, more than ever, people want information,” Brockhouse said. “They want to get engaged.”
When asked if the podcast is a precursor to his return to local politics, he said anything is possible.
“The elections are three years away,” Brockhouse said. “That’s an eternity. Things will change, the issues will change, the city will change. I’m here doing this because I think we need to get under the hood, see what’s going on, and help people understand what’s going on.”
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