Speaker 1: W all right, once more, we say good morning to
Speaker 1: Dan Schwartzman from the Bloomberg newsroom in New York City. Danny,
Speaker 1: how much investment in the US is President Trump going
Speaker 1: to bring in?
Speaker 2: It sounds like a ton. Well, that's an interesting question, Tom.
Speaker 2: President Trump has to proclaimed he's brought the US a
Speaker 2: historic investment boom, drawing pledges he says is going to
Speaker 2: reach twenty one trillion dollars by the end of the year. Now,
Speaker 2: the White House's own list of projects, though, falls a
Speaker 2: bit short of the president's claim. A Bloomberg Economics analysis
Speaker 2: of those numbers shows the actual investment promises are substantially smaller.
Speaker 2: So who knows. He likes to proclaim a lot of
Speaker 2: big numbers. And I guess we'll find out soon enough
Speaker 2: what the actual number will be.
Speaker 1: I reckon we will. Meanwhile, Ford is still going green.
Speaker 2: Yeah, remember Montreota just said we're not going to left
Speaker 2: Uker staying hybrid and people laugh at him. Well, guess
Speaker 2: what good luck buying a hybrid to Toyota. They sell
Speaker 2: like hotcakes. Now, Ford, though, they're sticking by their green
Speaker 2: goals despite the political wins, with other automakers rolling back
Speaker 2: or downplaying their climate efforts. Ford has tightened its supply
Speaker 2: chain emissions targets and says it remains committed to quote
Speaker 2: Big Pictures sustainability goals. America's second largest automaker has aimed
Speaker 2: to be carbon neutral across its vehicles, manufacturing facilities, and
Speaker 2: supply chains no later than twenty fifty, with a set
Speaker 2: of interim targets kicking in earlier now. Ford says more
Speaker 2: than seventy percent of the electricity used in its global
Speaker 2: manufacturing operations last year was carbon free. I guess it's
Speaker 2: a good thing, but must be costing them a fortune.
Speaker 3: Tom.
Speaker 1: I think you're probably right on the money there. Speaking
Speaker 1: of money, our futures today.
Speaker 2: They've now shifted back to red now that Dow and
Speaker 2: the S and PR let's call it slight me down,
Speaker 2: so essentially, you know flat. The NAZAC though getting a
Speaker 2: bit better, but that's now down a tenth of one
Speaker 2: percent from Bloomberg. Dan Schwartzman on news Radio seven hundred WLW.
Speaker 2: All right, I eight eleven on the Big One. Welcome
Speaker 2: to the morning show here on seven hundred double l W.
Speaker 2: And today we have a special guest with us today,
Speaker 2: first time on the program the new music director of
Speaker 2: the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra. Okay, now I'm going to give
Speaker 2: this a shot. I'm going to give this a shot.
Speaker 2: Christian Macho laru am I clothes.
Speaker 1: That's perfect, perfect, Gosh. I feel so much better now. Hey,
Speaker 1: thanks for taking the time today. You know, you have
Speaker 1: led orchestras all over the world and now you're coming
Speaker 1: to our city. So welcome to our city. And how
Speaker 1: have things gone so far for you?
Speaker 3: Wonderful? Thank you. You know, I discovered not just a
Speaker 3: world class orchestra, but I believe the Cincinnati. I discovered
Speaker 3: the city that is so passionate about the arts. It's
Speaker 3: so passionate about culture, also about being able to create
Speaker 3: a community that really fosters world class musicians and artists.
Speaker 3: And I was very impressed, and I'm so happy to
Speaker 3: be here.
Speaker 1: When you think about the CSO Sound identity, all those
Speaker 1: kinds of years, the reputation through the years, what qualities
Speaker 1: would you like to I guess nurture bring forward.
Speaker 3: Well, it's an orchestra that, of course, as you said,
Speaker 3: has an incredible tradition that is really centered around the
Speaker 3: wonderful recordings that the entire world knows of the orchestra,
Speaker 3: and this sound, this really beautiful, cohesive, unified sound that
Speaker 3: defines the orchestra, is one that I hope to build
Speaker 3: on and to find ways that we can diversify our
Speaker 3: styles and to play all genres of music. And I
Speaker 3: don't just mean, you know, to focus on one small
Speaker 3: little niche, but the orchestra actually offers so much for everyone,
Speaker 3: and my goal is to be able to extend this
Speaker 3: to all the limits available.
Speaker 1: You know, it's interesting you bring that up because, like
Speaker 1: a lot of things in life, right, you've got the
Speaker 1: quote unquote traditionalist with orchestra, right, but you also want
Speaker 1: to have something a little bit new, a different sort
Speaker 1: of innovation, if you will. How do you balance those
Speaker 1: two things? Christian?
Speaker 3: Well, you know, the interesting challenge for an orchestra that
Speaker 3: performs music by artists and composers that have died, some
Speaker 3: of them, most of them two hundred years ago, is
Speaker 3: to find a way you need to keep it fresh
Speaker 3: and to keep it new, which is why we balance
Speaker 3: everything that we do, as you mentioned already. But also
Speaker 3: at the same time, I think we have to understand
Speaker 3: and acknowledge the fact that all art at one point
Speaker 3: was new and it was fresh, which is why, like
Speaker 3: this week, for example, we are pairing our concerts this
Speaker 3: weekend with a brand new composition written by a composers
Speaker 3: that is alive and well asa and which focuses on
Speaker 3: American tradition and American folklore. And at the same time
Speaker 3: we pair it with an incredible symphony by Athony Voischak,
Speaker 3: who of course lived in the last part of the
Speaker 3: nineteenth century and who was so important in defining American
Speaker 3: sound and American tradmission. So this is really truly how
Speaker 3: I see it, as a beautiful representation of both keeping
Speaker 3: in line with the tradition and satisfying that the needs
Speaker 3: that our audience has, but also challenging ourselves and the
Speaker 3: audience in discovering the new voices of today.
Speaker 1: You know, I always find it interesting when you talk
Speaker 1: about symphony Christy Anna, and it kind of you to
Speaker 1: join us here today. You're always I would imagine, trying
Speaker 1: to another sort of you know, balancing act. There is
Speaker 1: how you approach building concerts that feel exciting and accessible
Speaker 1: for people that have really enjoyed it for a long time,
Speaker 1: while at the same time, what would you say to
Speaker 1: those people who are like, you know what, I'm going
Speaker 1: to give the symphony a try brand new listeners. In
Speaker 1: other words, I.
Speaker 3: Will encourage them to come to one concert. Don't commit
Speaker 3: ten concerts. I think, just come to one concert and
Speaker 3: if you have never been to a symphony call. I
Speaker 3: think people are more intimidated by what is behind the
Speaker 3: doors rather than the music itself. Because the music, as
Speaker 3: soon as they hear it, I can guarantee you they
Speaker 3: will be able to recognize things that they hear every day.
Speaker 3: You know, on the street, in the buses and car
Speaker 3: on the radio. You hear the music that we perform
Speaker 3: all the time. So I think the courage is to
Speaker 3: walk through the doors of our incredible music hall and
Speaker 3: then to see what lies on the other side of
Speaker 3: the doors. And I think a lot of people will
Speaker 3: be surprised to discover that it's actually very easy, accessible, normal.
Speaker 3: It shows beauty. Of course, there is a small ritualistic
Speaker 3: part entering a concert hall, like you would enter a
Speaker 3: church or any public buildings. Really, you have to enter
Speaker 3: the respect and with an understanding that you are part
Speaker 3: of You know, twenty five hundred people that are attending
Speaker 3: the concert, But it doesn't require any knowledge other than that.
Speaker 3: It just requires an open heart and an open mind
Speaker 3: and open ears. And if you just follow along with
Speaker 3: what goes on there, I think you will be so
Speaker 3: pleasantly surprised, and even more importantly, you get to connect
Speaker 3: with other like minded people that are looking for beauty
Speaker 3: and are looking for a few moments of peace and
Speaker 3: tranquility and entertainment and happiness, and we all share the
Speaker 3: same those same moments.
Speaker 1: Together, all right now, Christian, every conductor, every single one
Speaker 1: of you guys, has a unique style upon the podium.
Speaker 1: What are they going to see out of you?
Speaker 3: Well, I people tell me that I'm very energetic on
Speaker 3: the podium. I like to be involved in the middle
Speaker 3: of it all. And my concept about being a conductor
Speaker 3: is that I'm less in charged and more leading, meaning
Speaker 3: that I have to be, as I tell my conducting
Speaker 3: students at times, that sometimes you're the quarterback, sometimes you're
Speaker 3: the coach, but sometimes you're the ball itself, you know,
Speaker 3: and you have to find a way to really navigate
Speaker 3: between the different needs that the orchestra has a different
Speaker 3: seconds in the program. But I tend to be very
Speaker 3: energetic on the podium and very physical in my in
Speaker 3: my movements.
Speaker 1: Well, good, we'll look forward to that, you know, just
Speaker 1: so people get to know you a little bit outside
Speaker 1: of music. What other I guess hobbies interests keep you
Speaker 1: kind of grounded.
Speaker 3: I love the Actually, nature is a big passion of mine.
Speaker 3: I love to be out in nature and to see things.
Speaker 3: I love traveling and discovering places that speak of people's identities.
Speaker 3: And I'd really really deeply interested in just finding stories
Speaker 3: about people. It's something that I've always loved. I come
Speaker 3: from Dominia myself, and I've traveled the world, and I
Speaker 3: would say I have learned more about myself by discovering
Speaker 3: other people then I would have done it if I
Speaker 3: would have just stayed at home, you know. And I
Speaker 3: think the beauty in life really truly comes from the
Speaker 3: people that you meet and the connections that you make.
Speaker 3: And for me, music is really the language that does that.
Speaker 3: So it combines both my job and my passion for
Speaker 3: music with my hobbies of finding more about life. I
Speaker 3: like to know, I like to understan and things, and
Speaker 3: they are really intertwined.
Speaker 1: All right, tell me one thing before I let you go.
Speaker 1: In the short time you've been in Cincinnati, you've enjoyed
Speaker 1: what the most.
Speaker 3: Oh well, I spent quite a bit of time around
Speaker 3: the music hall, and also I live in over the Ride,
Speaker 3: so I just I love walking around. I love the beauty.
Speaker 3: Uh you know, I'm a big scan of colors, so
Speaker 3: I love just turning on the street corner and seeing
Speaker 3: the beautiful architecture with very bright colors. It's something that
Speaker 3: could a smile on my face. Then the food that
Speaker 3: I've been discovering, you know, going to different restaurants I make.
Speaker 3: I have a list that I that it keeps growing
Speaker 3: of places that I need to see, you know, from
Speaker 3: the best fight chicken, you know in the gas station,
Speaker 3: to really the most sophisticated restaurants, and I enjoy it all.
Speaker 1: Well, we are so blessed and lucky to have you.
Speaker 1: Christian here is the new conductor and head of Cincinnati
Speaker 1: Symphony Orchestra. Welcome to town, and thank you for your
Speaker 1: time today. It's been a pleasure having you with us.
Speaker 3: Thanks you so much. I appreciate it.
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Speaker 1: Alrighty, it is a forty on your Tuesday morning, This
Speaker 1: rainy Tuesday morning, but here to brighten our spirits brings
Speaker 1: a smile to our face each and every Tuesday. As
Speaker 1: our friend Julie Isfording, former United States Olympian and for
Speaker 1: the final year, the CEO of the Thanksgiving Day Race
Speaker 1: in downtown Julie, you ran in this thing when you
Speaker 1: were sick sixteen years old.
Speaker 4: Yes, I have a huge history with this race, and
Speaker 4: as a runner, it was my favorite race. And then
Speaker 4: I got the privilege, the gift to be the race
Speaker 4: director after I retired from running, came back from the Olympics,
Speaker 4: and it was sort of the next season of my life.
Speaker 4: And Tom, I think both great things that happened in
Speaker 4: my life, being in the Olympics, training for the Olympics,
Speaker 4: and being the race director of the Thanksgiving Day Race
Speaker 4: for the past twenty five years. I stepped down in
Speaker 4: June this year, so I'll just be a volunteer this year.
Speaker 4: Both ethers are so similar in my life. They both
Speaker 4: challenged me, they changed me, and I poured my heart in.
Speaker 4: I poured my heart into each of those and I
Speaker 4: kind of walk away not with a sense of relief. Tom,
Speaker 4: I thought I'd be so relieved. I don't have to
Speaker 4: worry about weather and about you know, the police, the medical,
Speaker 4: the Secret Service. I thought i'd be relieved, but what
Speaker 4: I feel is like everything, like a sense of greed,
Speaker 4: a sense of letting go. But I think the feeling
Speaker 4: I feel most is a sense of gratitude, like thank
Speaker 4: you for the volunteers for volunteering, the sponsors for sponsoring,
Speaker 4: the police for policing, my family for participating. So all
Speaker 4: that made me realize I was just pretty much an
Speaker 4: orchestra director. I was the lucky one that got to
Speaker 4: put everyone together on one starting line, in the chaos,
Speaker 4: in the messy, in the most thankful day of the year,
Speaker 4: all together and and be part of something that is
Speaker 4: so much bigger than myself. So it's so weird because
Speaker 4: I got the family text, you know, for Thanksgiving Day dinner,
Speaker 4: and I texted back it's like, I'll be there. Well,
Speaker 4: I've done that in twenty five years, And the whole
Speaker 4: family is putting little hearts on my text because you know,
Speaker 4: it'll be nice to sit down at the dinner. But
Speaker 4: at the same time, they were a part of the
Speaker 4: race too, they were there with their volunteering or running,
Speaker 4: so it goes to show you that it's not just
Speaker 4: a run, it's just something so iconic and so traditional
Speaker 4: and such a gift in my life that it's no
Speaker 4: wonder I feel so much. But most of all what
Speaker 4: I thought, you know, I fell in love with it.
Speaker 4: To be very honest, I'm in love with this race,
Speaker 4: but now it's kind of a different kind of love.
Speaker 4: It's a form of gratitude and just more of a softness.
Speaker 4: And it's hard to.
Speaker 1: Explain share with us because I was talking about you
Speaker 1: coming on the program, and you come on every Tuesday
Speaker 1: for those that don't know, maybe just joining us for
Speaker 1: the first time. We talk about health, and we talk
Speaker 1: about gadgets as far as things that are out there,
Speaker 1: trends that are out there, all that kind of thing.
Speaker 1: But you know, at the end of the day, life
Speaker 1: is so much, if not entirely, it's about the people
Speaker 1: you come across, and in your role with the race,
Speaker 1: you were so actively involved in not only the planning
Speaker 1: and execution and so forth, but getting to know some
Speaker 1: of the stories as you look back, and I know
Speaker 1: there's thousands of them, but is there anything that just
Speaker 1: stands out in your mind? Someone, some charity, they were
Speaker 1: running for relative, family, friend, they were running for anything.
Speaker 1: Stand out.
Speaker 4: Well there, it's hard to twenty five years. I think
Speaker 4: some of the really neat things for Cincinnati itself is
Speaker 4: when we had the hundredth anniversary of the race. That's
Speaker 4: the year the starting line was so full of people,
Speaker 4: seventeen thousand people that the starting line we couldn't get
Speaker 4: everyone over the starting line and the finisher started coming in.
Speaker 4: So that was one of those miraculous moments. I don't
Speaker 4: know how we did it where we were able to
Speaker 4: move people aside get that finisher through, and that became
Speaker 4: an historical day for Cincinnati on a national scale. I mean,
Speaker 4: that was on the national news and that made us
Speaker 4: all proud because that's a sense of community of our
Speaker 4: city is really really special. Another kind of miracle along
Speaker 4: the race was the year that a gentleman coded. He
Speaker 4: had a heart attack on the course, and lucky for us,
Speaker 4: the ambulance was ten yards away and there was a
Speaker 4: seventeen year old boy who stopped his race, helped get
Speaker 4: that ran to the medical got the medical person there,
Speaker 4: saved their life, and later that day he was at
Speaker 4: Christ Hospital and had a quadruple bypass and his wife
Speaker 4: said to me, I went to visit him. His wife
Speaker 4: said to me, this race saved my husband's wife because
Speaker 4: he was his arteries were so closed. He could have
Speaker 4: had a heart attack at the Thanksgiving Day dinner table
Speaker 4: and he wouldn't have had the help he needed. So
Speaker 4: that was really cool. The neat people I worked with
Speaker 4: over the years, I mean I got to work with
Speaker 4: the Secret Service, squat the police are probably my favorite
Speaker 4: people to work with because the demands on them. You know,
Speaker 4: we need at least sixty five people to man that course,
Speaker 4: you know, and this is this is off time. So
Speaker 4: for them to show up year after year and just
Speaker 4: be such a part of it, we always got compliments
Speaker 4: about them. And of course a special tribute to Western
Speaker 4: and Southern mister Barrett Keith, a one who truly truly
Speaker 4: invested in the race and made it what it is today.
Speaker 4: There's no doubt in my mind that he, I think
Speaker 4: was the person, you know, my mentor the person I
Speaker 4: truly looked up to. And then of course the charities,
Speaker 4: Oh my gosh, the they are Cancer Center keep going,
Speaker 4: twenty five Big Brothers, Big Sisters, Girls on the run Alzheimer's.
Speaker 4: These are all local charities. But here's something great about
Speaker 4: the charities, Tom, they also volunteer. So you know, we
Speaker 4: had young like doing the water stop. We had keep
Speaker 4: Going twenty five manning the split where the five k
Speaker 4: and ten case. We had girls on the run at
Speaker 4: packet pick up. We had big brothers, big sisters manning
Speaker 4: the starting line. So you're getting that just is that
Speaker 4: I was just the girl that kind of put everything
Speaker 4: together and got everyone to fall in love with the
Speaker 4: race as much as I did. So that was really
Speaker 4: you know, that's those are the people. And you notice
Speaker 4: the more we talk, the more the memories creep up.
Speaker 4: We used to have packet pick up at the running spot,
Speaker 4: that old little store and o'brienville. We're twenty five years
Speaker 4: later now it's in TQL Stadium, So so much has
Speaker 4: changed about our city and how much better it's gotten,
Speaker 4: and I think the race has grown with the city.
Speaker 4: And it's funny how you can sort of sit back
Speaker 4: and be at peace with what has happened the future
Speaker 4: of the race and that the race is in really
Speaker 4: good hands, and that brings me a sense of east
Speaker 4: and gratitude as well.
Speaker 1: All right, now I'm going to dig into actual race day.
Speaker 1: I've run this before. I wish I could run it now,
Speaker 1: but this hip issue I'm having is just not allowing
Speaker 1: me to do it. So I'm really bummed about it.
Speaker 1: But for the first timer that's heading down there tomorrow,
Speaker 1: you know they're nervous, They're wondering about the weather, They're
Speaker 1: worried about parking. How early should I get there? So
Speaker 1: if you just had some words of advice for the
Speaker 1: first time or tomorrow running of this maybe it's their
Speaker 1: first race of this kind. Ever, what would Olympian Julie
Speaker 1: Isfording say to them?
Speaker 4: Okay, so we have to go with this beautiful spirit
Speaker 4: of Thanksgiving, meaning I'm going to have a great time
Speaker 4: no matter what. So if you go with that, get
Speaker 4: there an hour early. It would be great if you
Speaker 4: picked up your pocket today or tomorrow TQL Stadium so
Speaker 4: you don't have to worry about that. It's going to
Speaker 4: be cold tomorrow on race day morning, so gloves. I
Speaker 4: think i'd wear tights, a nice sweatshirt, pin your number
Speaker 4: on the front of the shirt. Bring a fun person
Speaker 4: to run with, a family member, a friend, someone you
Speaker 4: can do it with. Be aware of the chaos. One
Speaker 4: of the most neat memories you will remember is when
Speaker 4: they sing the national anthem. You'll be lined up on
Speaker 4: the start You'll be with all these people and you'll
Speaker 4: hear the national anthem and the world will be still
Speaker 4: for one moment, and in that stillness you will be
Speaker 4: so thankful. You're on your feet with all these people
Speaker 4: doing what you love to do. You're moving, and it's
Speaker 4: a beautiful tradition. The second thing you will always remember
Speaker 4: member is finishing the race. So I highly recommidze.
Speaker 1: Finish line we go, right, yeah, we.
Speaker 4: Do, because I don't think we celebrate enough. Celebrate being
Speaker 4: on the starting line on the most thankful day of
Speaker 4: the year, so you're healthy and strong enough to be there,
Speaker 4: but then celebrating those last youth steps in to that
Speaker 4: finish line where you say to yourself self, I am
Speaker 4: outrageously wonderful and put your arms in the air and
Speaker 4: really smile, because they do take lots of really good
Speaker 4: pictures of the finish and you want to pretend that
Speaker 4: the whole thing was so much fun and it was
Speaker 4: no exercise at all. You don't have to be in
Speaker 4: a hurry to finish it. And the other thing, for
Speaker 4: you know, little things like parking. There's plenty of parking down.
Speaker 4: You need to worry about the little stuff, but don't
Speaker 4: let it distract you from the big stuff, the fact
Speaker 4: that you're healthy and strong and part of a Cincinnatis
Speaker 4: tradition that's lasted for one hundred and sixteen years, making
Speaker 4: it the old Yeah, it's one of the oldest races
Speaker 4: in the country. So it's just one of those other
Speaker 4: proud moments where I feel proud of our city and
Speaker 4: proud of the police, and proud of the big companies,
Speaker 4: especially Ohen. iHeartMedia of course, who keep this race alive
Speaker 4: and thriving and growing. And that's you know, It's it's
Speaker 4: a certain way to just fall in love with something
Speaker 4: that it's so much a part of me and it'll
Speaker 4: always be a part of me. But you can fall
Speaker 4: in love with something and then you just know when
Speaker 4: it's time to step aside. So I stepped aside in June.
Speaker 4: So this year I'll be a volunteer at a water
Speaker 4: stop for a charity, Young Life, So I'm going to
Speaker 4: do that, and then I'm also starting a huge project
Speaker 4: with the Art Museum on health and well being, so
Speaker 4: I'll still be able to support the city and new ways,
Speaker 4: and support the race and new ways, and just fall
Speaker 4: in love in a different way. If there's such a tame,
Speaker 4: sure there is.
Speaker 1: Well, Julie, for twenty five years, you've done an unbelievable job.
Speaker 1: You are Cincinnati through and through. So we thank you
Speaker 1: for your commitment to this race and so many other endeavors.
Speaker 1: I know we talk every week, we laugh a lot,
Speaker 1: we joke a lot, but I know I'm speaking for
Speaker 1: all of us here in the Tri State when we
Speaker 1: say thank you, And so with that, have an awesome
Speaker 1: Thanksgiving