The Neil Diamond musical, a beautiful noise, the uplifting true story, featuring all the songs you love from his Grammy Award-winning career.

October 21st through 26 at Des Moines Civic Center, on sale at DMPA.org.

What is up?

Welcome to The Beat Reporters.

And this group of Beat Reporters is going to be hitting the road this weekend.

I'm excited.

I'm Jake Brand with Cyclone Fanatic and Iowa Everywhere.

Joined by Ben Hutchins of the Quad City Times and Rob Gray of Cyclone Fanatic and The Gazette out of Cedar Rapids. Gentlemen, how are we doing? Getting ready for

Friday. I guess this is as good of a time as ever to break out my Bill Belichick impersonation.

We're on to Cincinnati. That we are. Rob. I got nothing. I got a lot of impersonations.

Maybe they'll come up in future editions of the beat reporters.

Rob, did you go to Cincinnati in 2023?

I did not go.

So this would be a meeting voyage nippert for me.

First for everybody.

I hear it gets loud.

That's what I've heard too.

Capacity, but I hear it gets pretty loud.

Yeah, the Godfather John Walters was telling me just the way it's built there right on top of

you almost over you.

So it's going to be, even though it's not the biggest stadium, the way the, the way the fans,

I guess, kind of go down. It sounds loud. So I guess we'll, we'll experience

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