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Speaker 2: W l w N, Cincinnati, I thought we talked to
Speaker 2: Jeff Ceas over the since a choir this morning talking
Speaker 2: about what happened all year long. Jeff, good morning, Thanks
Speaker 2: for joining us here.
Speaker 3: Oh thanks for having me.
Speaker 4: Good tuck to you. I saw this a couple of
Speaker 4: weeks so I wanted to talk to you about it.
Speaker 2: You guys did a story a couple of weeks ago
Speaker 2: the eight most notable concerts in Cincinnati history that I
Speaker 2: enjoyed reading. Tell me how you came up with the
Speaker 2: eight and then we'll talk about a little bit of them.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Well, my colleague Cadiza was really kind of the one
Speaker 3: working on that, and she asked me to kind of
Speaker 3: chip in with some ideas, and so, you know.
Speaker 4: She did most of the writing and stuff.
Speaker 3: But you know, when we were kind of rolled some
Speaker 3: ideas of what are the big concerts, you know, things
Speaker 3: like the Beatles, who are pretty obvious, the Cup tragedy,
Speaker 3: I mean those are major ones, and kind of like
Speaker 3: chose things that people still talk about, you know, it
Speaker 3: has an impact. And some of them were wild, like
Speaker 3: I can't believe that concert ever happened. And some of
Speaker 3: them are like everyone was there, everyone was talking about it,
Speaker 3: and something like Taylor Swift and you see how the
Speaker 3: media covers it. That's exactly what it was. Like when
Speaker 3: the Beatles were here, Beetles were bigger. But you know,
Speaker 3: it's still a comparable. You know that these are the
Speaker 3: concerts that people still talk about. And you know there's
Speaker 3: plenty more than the eight as all of the readers
Speaker 3: who sent emails and.
Speaker 2: You got both Beatles concerts, and there's sixty four and
Speaker 2: sixty six, and I believe the one at crosley Field
Speaker 2: was twenty eight minutes long compared to what they do
Speaker 2: with concerts now, was that a twenty eight minute show?
Speaker 3: Yeah? The Beatles shows were very I mean the concerts
Speaker 3: were just not as big productions the way they are today.
Speaker 3: You know, the Beatles didn't even have monitors on stage
Speaker 3: to hear the their own music playing, so they couldn't
Speaker 3: hear themselves. The people in the pans couldn't hear them,
Speaker 3: so they couldn't hear because they were screaming so loud.
Speaker 3: So they were out of town. They were playing too fast,
Speaker 3: and they would just play through like twelve songs in
Speaker 3: twenty eight minutes. It was just quick, quick, quick, quick,
Speaker 3: wick And it was really you know, in the Beatles case,
Speaker 3: it was an experience. It was like I got to
Speaker 3: see the Beatles live. That's kind of like why you went.
Speaker 3: He wasn't to hear the music because he had the
Speaker 3: albums for that. But yeah, it was very different than
Speaker 3: the three hour special effects extravaganza as they do today.
Speaker 2: I assume Elvis in nineteen seventy seven, a couple of
Speaker 2: months before he died at Riverfront Coliseum was one of
Speaker 2: those Hey, I saw Elvis kind of concerts.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but you know.
Speaker 3: From the reports, you know, I had colleagues that have
Speaker 3: had been to some of those shows. Elvis just had
Speaker 3: this rapport about him that you know, when you went
Speaker 3: and saw him, he was like, yeah, that's Elvis, you know,
Speaker 3: like he could put on a good show. I've seen
Speaker 3: the concert footage of some of those later ones, and
Speaker 3: you know he's he's not doing too well, you know,
Speaker 3: but his voice is still incredible, and it's just yeah,
Speaker 3: I get. I mean, I know my my parents, that
Speaker 3: was the one show that they saw when they were younger,
Speaker 3: is when Elvis came to town. They went and saw Elvis.
Speaker 4: And here's what I remember.
Speaker 2: Prince nineteen eighty four, he did a surprise show at Bogart's.
Speaker 4: Didn't he.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so it was it was not announced or anything,
Speaker 3: and you know, Bogart's is a you know, historic venue,
Speaker 3: but it's you know, the small venue, and you know,
Speaker 3: it was it was just kind of like word of mouth.
Speaker 3: People found out that he was doing a secret show
Speaker 3: to kind of try out his Purple ragin tour, and
Speaker 3: you know it was just if you lucked out to
Speaker 3: have been to that show, that was I mean, it
Speaker 3: still talked about today.
Speaker 2: We're talking to Jeff Csover the Sassa Chuirer their story
Speaker 2: about the eight biggest greatest concerts in Cincinnati history.
Speaker 4: Grateful Dad.
Speaker 2: This is one that I I missed wasn't living here then,
Speaker 2: but a lot of people don't. I haven't heard a
Speaker 2: lot about this Grateful Dead show in Cincinnati nineteen sixty eight.
Speaker 3: I think that's what Jim Tarbell did. And you know,
Speaker 3: Tarboro was one of those movers and shakers in the
Speaker 3: music community back then. You know who I had Arnold's
Speaker 3: and Lovelow Garage and you know, and it's amazing how
Speaker 3: many of these bands that were before they were big
Speaker 3: came through town. So it's Grateful Dead and the Yardbirds, yeah,
Speaker 3: and the uh you know, the doors and some of
Speaker 3: these bands had these like small shows that only the
Speaker 3: college kids knew about, and they would do ride up
Speaker 3: on it and you'd say like wow. But they were
Speaker 3: at weird places like a teen center or a prom,
Speaker 3: and it's just sort of like The Grateful Dead was
Speaker 3: at this teen center. You know. It was just it
Speaker 3: was an interesting time, I think, I mean before my time.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Here, but all the stuff that I've read and friends
Speaker 3: who've been there that I talked to, you know, it's
Speaker 3: memorable shows.
Speaker 4: Uh yeah, I enjoyed it.
Speaker 2: The who was in there, n Wa, the Yardbirds that
Speaker 2: you were talking about, Uh, the since any summer pop
Speaker 2: festival in nineteen seventy that had the what Bob Seeger,
Speaker 2: Alice Cooper traffic, Grand Funk Railroad. Even more, it is
Speaker 2: a nice article. Thanks pop one, Yes, oh Iggy pop Yon,
Speaker 2: Jeff c since a Choir, Thank you so much for
Speaker 2: your time and for the article.
Speaker 4: Okay, oh my pleasure. Thanks for having me.
Speaker 2: The eighth and most notable concerts since the Some of
Speaker 2: the other notable ones Jimmy Hendrix at Xavier in sixty eight,
Speaker 2: Jackson five, they were the Gardens in seventy four. You
Speaker 2: two at Bogarts nineteen eighty one, Pink Floyd at Riverfront
Speaker 2: Coliseum in seventy seven, Black Sabbath Riverfront Stadium in seventy eight,
Speaker 2: Stones at Riverfront Stadium in eighty nine. I did get
Speaker 2: to see that when bon Jovi was at the cincinn Gardens.
Speaker 2: Check out Jeff season. This insane choir rates like the
Speaker 2: our history column every Sunday. That's good stuff. I really
Speaker 2: like it. Favorite column.
Speaker 4: There.
Speaker 2: Roberts are ABC News political analysts in Washington. Steve, let's
Speaker 2: talk about the mid term temperature check is what they're
Speaker 2: calling it this morning.
Speaker 4: Yeah, they are.
Speaker 5: And it's interesting because, you know, Donald Trump has said
Speaker 5: repeatedly it doesn't make sense that the president's party almost
Speaker 5: always loses seats and off your elections. In twenty of
Speaker 5: the last twenty two midterms, the president's party has lost seats.
Speaker 5: The only exceptions were nineteen ninety eight, two thousand and
Speaker 5: two after the nine to eleven tragedy. Well, the president's
Speaker 5: wrong about this. It does make sense. It does make sense.
Speaker 5: Think about this, Steve. For instance, in presidential elections, a
Speaker 5: magnetic candidate like Trump pulls in a lot of marginal voters.
Speaker 5: He was brilliant in the last election and utilizing you know,
Speaker 5: podcasts and TikTok and beyond traditional media to reach a
Speaker 5: lot of voters who don't know much about politics, don't
Speaker 5: care much about politics, seldom vote. And yet often there
Speaker 5: were younger people and he drew them in. But they're
Speaker 5: not going to vote next fall, or many of them
Speaker 5: won't vote. It's going to be a very different electorate.
Speaker 5: And that's always true. I remember two, nineteen eighty two,
Speaker 5: I covered Ronald Reagan.
Speaker 4: I was covering the Congress of the Times, and.
Speaker 5: Reagan lost twenty six seats in eighty two. He was
Speaker 5: of an extremely popular president who had won a huge landslide victory.
Speaker 5: But exactly that happened. A lot of folks who voted
Speaker 5: for Ronald Reagan in nineteen eighty It's not that they
Speaker 5: voted democratic in nineteen eighty two.
Speaker 4: They just didn't vote. They didn't bother to show up.
Speaker 5: And you know, and the second factor that we see
Speaker 5: very strongly right now, Steve, is that all presidents, all
Speaker 5: presidents make promises they simply cannot keep.
Speaker 4: And Donald Trump was classic.
Speaker 5: He's classic and over promising by saying I'm going to
Speaker 5: bring down prices.
Speaker 4: On day one.
Speaker 5: Well, it was never going to happen, and his core
Speaker 5: supporters understand that up to a point, but it inevitably
Speaker 5: it creates a certain disillusionment, a certain lack of confidence.
Speaker 4: And you look in the polls, his handling and.
Speaker 5: The economy is down to about thirty five thirty six percent. Well,
Speaker 5: he got forty nine percent of the vote a year ago,
Speaker 5: so that means about ten to fifteen percent of the
Speaker 5: country who voted for Trump has lost certain confidence in
Speaker 5: him and the Republicans because inevitably, inevitably.
Speaker 4: There's going to be a certain amount of disappointment.
Speaker 5: So there are other reasons as well, but those are
Speaker 5: the two main reasons, and they're very visible right now.
Speaker 4: So when Donald Trump says it doesn't make sense.
Speaker 5: It does make sense, and it's always made sense because
Speaker 5: these are very powerful historical trends.
Speaker 2: Is there any correlation or historical trend that who wins
Speaker 2: the midterm elections that party wins the presidential election two
Speaker 2: years later.
Speaker 4: That's a good question, and.
Speaker 5: You know the answer is no, because particularly you know, again,
Speaker 5: look at Ronald Reagan, right, yeah, he loses twenty six
Speaker 5: six in eighty two and eighty four, he wins one
Speaker 5: of the biggest victories in modern presidential history. So look,
Speaker 5: the out party can gain a certain amount of confidence,
Speaker 5: a certain amount.
Speaker 4: Of energy, but there's.
Speaker 5: No guarantee, particularly when you have a president. You now,
Speaker 5: given the fact that Trump is not going to be
Speaker 5: on the ballot again, Republicans are going to face whoever
Speaker 5: they nominate.
Speaker 4: They're going to face the problem of.
Speaker 5: How do you get those marginal Trump voters who did
Speaker 5: not necessarily interested in politics, are not necessarily strongly Republican,
Speaker 5: but they are strongly Trump their mogernation, they're red hats.
Speaker 4: How do you get them to the polls without Trump
Speaker 4: on the ballot.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it doesn't help either. I think twenty five GOP
Speaker 2: incumbents have announced they're not seeking re election either.
Speaker 5: Well, that's a very good telltale sign of where politics
Speaker 5: is going, because the Republicans can talk bravely about keeping
Speaker 5: control of the House of Representatives, but it's actually is
Speaker 5: up to twenty six now, and most folks expect even
Speaker 5: more Republicans to retire. Some are running for other offices.
Speaker 5: They're running for governor, some are running for the Senate,
Speaker 5: but many are just leaving politics. And you know, it's
Speaker 5: a whole lot more fun to be a member of
Speaker 5: the House of Representatives if you're in the majority and
Speaker 5: one of the reasons and then so it's very dispositive
Speaker 5: those folks that retire. In fact, it's likely to hit
Speaker 5: a record number of retirement. And that tells you that
Speaker 5: for all of the bravado and the talk publicly about oh,
Speaker 5: we're going to keep the House and you know, no problem,
Speaker 5: privately they understand.
Speaker 4: They're political pros.
Speaker 5: They understand all of the trends I've just been talking about,
Speaker 5: and they're thinking about life in the minority under the
Speaker 5: Democrats in the House.
Speaker 4: It won't be much fun, all.
Speaker 2: Right, Steve roberts Our, ABC News political analyst Washington, thanks
Speaker 2: for report this morning.
Speaker 5: Happy New Year, Happy New New Year, Steve anytime, all.
Speaker 4: Right, thanks so much.
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Speaker 2: Time to talk to Deb Has over at Big Brothers
Speaker 2: Big Sisters are Greater Cincinnati.
Speaker 4: Hey, good morning, How are you?
Speaker 8: Good morning? I was just listening to your traffic report
Speaker 8: and not let me tell you the wind is no jokes.
Speaker 2: He's right, wow, Okay, I'm gonna hit the roads here
Speaker 2: in a second. You are the PR and communications manager
Speaker 2: over there at Big Brothers Big Sisters, right, I.
Speaker 8: Am, yes, and I really appreciate you giving us a
Speaker 8: chance to kind of share a little bit about what
Speaker 8: we've been doing and what we're up doing.
Speaker 2: Twenty six Okay, So first off, startup listeners that don't
Speaker 2: know Big Brothers Big Sisters, how do you describe it?
Speaker 8: What I tell people is that what we do with
Speaker 8: match young people in the community with adult role models.
Speaker 8: So somebody wants to be a big there, a big sister,
Speaker 8: You're you're essentially you know, you're just an added layer
Speaker 8: of support for kids. For a child in the community
Speaker 8: whose parent or guardian have gotten in touch with us,
Speaker 8: just say and you know, I've got a good kid here,
Speaker 8: but you know, I see some I see some negative
Speaker 8: influences maybe something like that, or maybe they're being raised
Speaker 8: by a single parent or a grandparent who just you know,
Speaker 8: just wants an extra person in that child's life to
Speaker 8: kind of keep them on a positive path, kind of
Speaker 8: talk to them about, you know, why it's important to
Speaker 8: do well in school and help them maybe with social
Speaker 8: skills that they're lacking, things like that.
Speaker 2: Any ages that can I be too old to be
Speaker 2: a big brother or a big sister.
Speaker 8: You can never be too old to be a big
Speaker 8: brother or big sister. I was talking the other day
Speaker 8: to someone. We have a woman in Indiana she's been
Speaker 8: matched with five little sisters over decades and she's approaching
Speaker 8: eighty five, and that those kids have always been thrilled
Speaker 8: to have a mentor no matter what the age.
Speaker 2: Okay, what did you do this year? What are you
Speaker 2: doing next year?
Speaker 4: Phillis in We are.
Speaker 8: We are excited because we've got some bold goals and
Speaker 8: we so far we're reaching them. But this year we
Speaker 8: served about nine hundred and fifty kids, which is about
Speaker 8: fifty more than last year. So that was a success
Speaker 8: and our goal is to double that number within the
Speaker 8: next five years. And so you know that that takes,
Speaker 8: that takes a lot of new volunteers. That always encouraged
Speaker 8: people to just you know, google Big Brothers Big Sister
Speaker 8: at Cincinnati and you'll get to our website.
Speaker 3: You'll see a lot of stories that we.
Speaker 8: Tell as well as the commitment that we asked for,
Speaker 8: which typically we asked people to commit to a year
Speaker 8: as a volunteer Big brother or Big Sisters, understanding that
Speaker 8: life changes, people move, people have job changes, and we understand,
Speaker 8: I mean, they're not finding a piece of paper that
Speaker 8: obligates you. But we asked for that commitment because it's
Speaker 8: really good for the kids. If they are matched and
Speaker 8: then somebody decided in a month that it wasn't a
Speaker 8: good sit you know, that's that's a difficult challenge that
Speaker 8: these kids don't need.
Speaker 2: So we can also donate financially, right if we If
Speaker 2: we can't be the big brother Big Sister, we can
Speaker 2: get our checkbook out.
Speaker 8: You sure can't. And we welcome that because we do
Speaker 8: We do there's a lot of background checks. There's a
Speaker 8: lot of ongoing communication between our social workers and the matches.
Speaker 8: We don't just match to you and say go have fun.
Speaker 8: So there's a lot of communication back and forth because
Speaker 8: there can be challenges and so we want to make
Speaker 8: sure that the goals are being met. So we communicate
Speaker 8: with the big the littles, and the parent or guardian
Speaker 8: about once a month for the first year, just to
Speaker 8: make sure that everybody's on a good path and that
Speaker 8: we can we can help make suggestions that they're you know,
Speaker 8: if anything comes up that the bigs or or the
Speaker 8: or the kids have questions about. And so, like you said,
Speaker 8: we we do welcome financial donations. Obviously we rely on
Speaker 8: that to keep to keep our doors open and our
Speaker 8: life on and but also there's other things people can do.
Speaker 8: You know, if you have a if you part of
Speaker 8: a business, that we can come in and talk about
Speaker 8: what it's like to be a big brother or big sister,
Speaker 8: so we can spread the word and hopefully recruit new
Speaker 8: volunteers from a workplace.
Speaker 3: If you have a workplace where you would.
Speaker 8: Like our We have programs called beyond School Walls where
Speaker 8: we have kids that take a bus, let's say, from
Speaker 8: Newport High schools and a business and then they learn
Speaker 8: once a month. And I think the employers like that
Speaker 8: because it's great for employer retention because the people they
Speaker 8: like that the kids are coming into them and that
Speaker 8: the employees don't have to go out to the school
Speaker 8: and so just once a month and you're talking to
Speaker 8: them about what it's like to be in a workplace.
Speaker 8: We have programming that helps with financial literacy and all
Speaker 8: kinds of things, resume building, So there's allways the way.
Speaker 8: If somebody wants to get involved, you get in touch
Speaker 8: with us and we can talk it through and we
Speaker 8: can help people become involved with big brothers sisters.
Speaker 2: Do you have events that I can take my little
Speaker 2: brother little sister too, or do I have to come
Speaker 2: up with all this stuff on my own.
Speaker 8: We help a lot with that. We have a lot
Speaker 8: of suggestions about what you can do. But also we
Speaker 8: have monthly activities, and we are very fortunate that this
Speaker 8: community has rallied around us because we get a lot
Speaker 8: of tickets to all of the professional sporting events. We
Speaker 8: also have partnerships with the Cincinnati Zoo, with the Museum Center,
Speaker 8: with the Nature Center, where our bigs and littles can
Speaker 8: go free of charge. We can go with activities that
Speaker 8: there will be other matches at, or you can also
Speaker 8: go just the big and the little together. We're so
Speaker 8: grateful because those are expensive things that a lot of
Speaker 8: people wouldn't be able to do without the partnerships we
Speaker 8: have in the community.
Speaker 2: All right, deb Haas over Big Brothers, Big Sisters of
Speaker 2: Greater sinceat you guys do a great job.
Speaker 4: How do we connect with you?
Speaker 8: I would easiest thing is just to google Big Brothers
Speaker 8: Big Sister of Cincinnati. We've got thirteen county so wherever
Speaker 8: your folks are, we can match.
Speaker 3: Them up with a big brother, a big sister, or
Speaker 3: with a little brother.
Speaker 8: And little sister.
Speaker 2: All right, keep doing the good work and we'll talk
Speaker 2: to you next time.
Speaker 4: Have a great New Year.
Speaker 8: Thanks, looking forward to it, you too, Steve.
Speaker 2: All Right, it's deb Haas, Big Brothers, Big Sisters, Mike
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