Full Transcript for Hey! Michelle with a Mic: The Biggest Boom Yet: 50 Years of WEBN Fireworks

00:04:09.039 --> 00:04:12.319 Yeah, just want things about him and personal stuff and funny things. 00:04:12.560 --> 00:04:12.639 Right. 00:04:12.879 --> 00:04:14.639 So people get to know him outside of that. 00:04:14.800 --> 00:04:15.120 Yes. 00:04:15.280 --> 00:04:16.560 So it's taken off. 00:04:16.720 --> 00:04:20.319 And um, I really love doing it, but Willie's a trip, man. 00:04:20.480 --> 00:04:24.000 I mean, you know, you're probably nervous at what he's gonna say because he's sometimes I am. 00:04:24.240 --> 00:04:27.439 No, sometimes I'm literally like, okay, you need not say that. 00:04:27.680 --> 00:04:29.120 You said starting over again. 00:04:29.360 --> 00:04:30.879 I was watching one and you were like, you can't. 00:04:31.040 --> 00:04:31.600 And you're like, okay. 00:04:31.759 --> 00:04:32.480 Yeah, what he did. 00:04:32.639 --> 00:04:33.439 Just move on. 00:04:33.519 --> 00:04:33.920 Just move on. 00:04:34.319 --> 00:04:36.319 He's just gonna repeat it and make it louder anyway. 00:04:36.639 --> 00:04:38.160 I mean, it is so funny. 00:04:38.399 --> 00:04:38.959 I love it. 00:04:39.040 --> 00:04:42.639 And I'm lucky to do a little spot uh with Tom Rennerman on Thursday mornings. 00:04:42.720 --> 00:04:44.879 I'm on every Thursday morning, and that is super fun. 00:04:45.040 --> 00:04:46.000 I don't get to go to the station. 00:04:46.079 --> 00:04:47.680 I told him, I'm like, I want to come in one morning. 00:04:47.759 --> 00:04:48.560 I do it from home. 00:04:48.800 --> 00:04:49.759 But it's super fun. 00:04:49.920 --> 00:04:51.680 And always come to the station and do. 00:04:51.920 --> 00:04:52.079 I know. 00:04:52.160 --> 00:04:54.959 I told him, I'm like, I'm coming in one day because it'd be more fun to do it in the station. 00:04:55.040 --> 00:04:59.439 And people think Tom and I are like, you know, best friends because they can picture us like talking back and forth. 00:04:59.759 --> 00:05:00.160 Absolutely. 00:05:00.399 --> 00:05:04.319 Um and the draw that that 700 WLW, wow. 00:05:04.560 --> 00:05:06.879 I had no idea how many people tune in. 00:05:07.519 --> 00:05:11.439 And I get calls from people on Louville and they're like, I'm listening to you, or up north. 00:05:11.519 --> 00:05:18.560 It's just insane how many people from my past or whatever are comment or send me stuff like you need to talk about this, or hey, mention. 00:05:18.639 --> 00:05:21.279 It's just, it really gets the data, is wow. 00:05:21.839 --> 00:05:24.560 It's like just not even like across the country. 00:05:24.639 --> 00:05:25.519 It's like worldwide. 00:05:25.759 --> 00:05:26.480 It's insane. 00:05:27.279 --> 00:05:27.680 I know. 00:05:27.839 --> 00:05:31.120 I mean, it's super cool, and maybe I shouldn't think about it because then I'll be excited. 00:05:31.920 --> 00:05:32.560 I know, right? 00:05:32.800 --> 00:05:33.920 I'm loving people listening. 00:05:34.800 --> 00:05:35.759 Don't overthink. 00:05:35.920 --> 00:05:36.480 Don't do it. 00:05:37.040 --> 00:05:38.160 Totally overthink it. 00:05:38.399 --> 00:05:40.079 Well, what's your favorite part of your job? 00:05:40.319 --> 00:05:41.439 Oh my gosh. 00:05:41.680 --> 00:05:49.839 I would say my favorite part of the job is the execution of events like this. 00:05:50.000 --> 00:06:04.480 I mean, this is what is kind of like my wheelhouse, you know, and I just love being out with the people and putting on things for the community and making everybody happy and bringing music to it and fun to it. 00:06:04.639 --> 00:06:07.759 And it's just always been who I am, really, you know. 00:06:08.000 --> 00:06:08.480 I love that. 00:06:08.720 --> 00:06:09.680 Okay, so tell me. 00:06:09.839 --> 00:06:13.120 You you clearly have been to like, you know, a thousand concerts. 00:06:13.360 --> 00:06:13.920 Oh gosh. 00:06:14.240 --> 00:06:14.480 I know. 00:06:14.720 --> 00:06:14.879 I know. 00:06:15.120 --> 00:06:28.240 No, I know, but I'll just like just like when when somebody talks about concerts, if you're like talking to your like some kids or family and you're like just throwing out fun facts or fun stories, like what are a couple like oh my god moments? 00:06:28.399 --> 00:06:30.720 Like or concerts that you're like, holy crap. 00:06:30.800 --> 00:06:32.959 Because I mean, I've seen you have pictures with everybody, it's so awesome. 00:06:33.199 --> 00:06:35.839 I love a holy crap one. 00:06:35.920 --> 00:06:36.879 Let me think. 00:06:37.439 --> 00:06:43.600 Um well, I will say that um I was this was crazy. 00:06:43.839 --> 00:06:54.879 I was uh back in the early 90s, I want to say it was, I went to a Billy Idol concert, and the music rep for Capitol Records was one of my friends based out of Cleveland. 00:06:55.120 --> 00:06:59.199 So we were backstage and I was like in awe because it's Billy Idol and you grew up with him, right? 00:06:59.279 --> 00:06:59.839 Yeah, for sure. 00:07:00.079 --> 00:07:06.720 And um the next thing you know, they said, Hey, we have to shoot a promotional video for um Capital. 00:07:07.040 --> 00:07:08.720 And do you mind being in the video? 00:07:08.800 --> 00:07:10.240 And I'm like, what? 00:07:10.720 --> 00:07:14.879 So next thing you know, I'm like backstage at Riverbench shooting a video with Billy Idol. 00:07:15.040 --> 00:07:19.519 You were like the Courtney Cox doing were you doing like ideas, right? 00:07:19.920 --> 00:07:20.800 It was crazy. 00:07:21.199 --> 00:07:24.240 So last year, was it last year or the year before? 00:07:24.319 --> 00:07:31.839 I can't remember, he came back to town, and um I had the picture that they took backstage still of us. 00:07:32.240 --> 00:07:37.600 And I went back again and met him and told him the story, and he signed it and was like, no way. 00:07:37.759 --> 00:07:39.279 I love it in a Billy Idol voice. 00:07:39.360 --> 00:07:40.480 That wasn't really good, but yeah. 00:07:40.720 --> 00:07:42.720 So I have a picture of Rod Stewart and myself. 00:07:42.800 -->

00:07:43.120 Yeah. 00:07:43.360 --> 00:07:46.160 And of course, it was canceled the other night. 00:07:46.319 --> 00:07:48.079 But I really want to get that picture signed. 00:07:48.240 --> 00:07:53.439 I met him in LA near a bathroom, like like we're just you know at a restaurant, and it was his birthday. 00:07:53.600 --> 00:07:55.199 So we have a picture and it's so cute. 00:07:55.279 --> 00:07:57.279 But I was like, oh, I need to get this signed. 00:07:57.519 --> 00:08:00.000 Um but that is so fun. 00:08:00.399 --> 00:08:01.199 I love it. 00:08:01.360 --> 00:08:03.120 So, what was your first concert? 00:08:03.360 --> 00:08:04.879 My first concert was Billy Idol. 00:08:04.959 --> 00:08:05.600 No, it was your first. 00:08:05.680 --> 00:08:05.839 Yeah. 00:08:06.000 --> 00:08:06.560 Oh my god. 00:08:06.720 --> 00:08:08.560 Yeah, that's why he's like in my life. 00:08:08.800 --> 00:08:09.680 I love it. 00:08:09.920 --> 00:08:10.480 Where was it? 00:08:10.720 --> 00:08:11.439 Riverbend. 00:08:11.600 --> 00:08:11.920 Okay. 00:08:12.240 --> 00:08:15.680 So mine, ironically, because it is sincere tennis time right now. 00:08:16.000 --> 00:08:18.879 My first concert was Rick Springfield at the ATP. 00:08:18.959 --> 00:08:19.040 Oh. 00:08:19.279 --> 00:08:21.519 So, you know, they had concerts out there back in the 80s. 00:08:21.600 --> 00:08:23.040 This is probably 82, 83. 00:08:23.120 --> 00:08:23.279 Yeah. 00:08:23.439 --> 00:08:24.000 Probably 82. 00:08:24.800 --> 00:08:29.040 And I don't know, they need to bring that back because that venue is perfect for a concert. 00:08:29.279 --> 00:08:32.480 And the traffic getting in and out out of both ways would be really awesome. 00:08:32.639 --> 00:08:32.960 Yeah. 00:08:33.200 --> 00:08:39.360 Um, and like you, I took my ticket because I have every single ticket from every concert I've ever been to. 00:08:39.600 --> 00:08:40.159 You still have them? 00:08:40.240 --> 00:08:40.639 I still have them. 00:08:41.039 --> 00:08:43.679 Started from that, then I just uh I have them all in a thing. 00:08:43.759 --> 00:08:46.159 So I want to do a like literally, it would be a whole wall of tickets. 00:08:46.240 --> 00:08:48.879 But I have all the VIPs and picks and pictures. 00:08:48.960 --> 00:08:51.759 I have everything I've ever had, like the you know, confetti. 00:08:52.000 --> 00:08:54.000 I tried to keep all a little bit of something. 00:08:54.240 --> 00:08:57.519 Um, but he came and did the Taste of Cincinnati and I got him to sign my ticket. 00:08:57.759 --> 00:08:58.639 Oh, you did there? 00:08:59.120 --> 00:08:59.519 Oh, that's cool. 00:08:59.679 --> 00:09:01.840 So I was like, that's awesome, the whole full circle. 00:09:02.080 --> 00:09:03.919 You know what a funny story about the tennis, really quick. 00:09:04.080 --> 00:09:04.960 I played inner club. 00:09:05.120 --> 00:09:05.919 I was in tennis club. 00:09:06.240 --> 00:09:06.480 Okay. 00:09:06.639 --> 00:09:10.399 So we every year they had inner club day out at the ATP. 00:09:10.480 --> 00:09:10.799 Yeah. 00:09:11.039 --> 00:09:17.679 And I think I was like in middle school or something, and we were all hanging out in the parking lot, the Fort Thomas Club, if you will. 00:09:17.840 --> 00:09:18.159 Yes. 00:09:18.320 --> 00:09:23.360 And all of a sudden, John McEnroe comes walking to his car, carrying all his stuff to his rental car. 00:09:23.440 --> 00:09:25.360 And I look over and I'm like, hey, John. 00:09:25.600 --> 00:09:27.039 And he's like, Yeah. 00:09:27.679 --> 00:09:30.000 And I'm like, can I have an autograph? 00:09:30.159 --> 00:09:31.360 And he goes, No. 00:09:32.879 --> 00:09:34.320 He gets in his car and drives away. 00:09:34.399 --> 00:09:35.679 And then they, it's middle school, right? 00:09:35.759 --> 00:09:39.120 So they're all like, oh I've never forgot that. 00:09:39.440 --> 00:09:41.039 Obviously, he was still telling that story. 00:09:41.200 --> 00:09:42.000 That's hilarious. 00:09:42.159 --> 00:09:42.320 Yeah. 00:09:42.559 --> 00:09:43.360 Oh my gosh. 00:09:43.519 --> 00:09:44.879 And that's so John McIntyre. 00:09:45.039 --> 00:09:45.600 Yeah, one million. 00:09:45.679 --> 00:09:49.519 And yeah, and you had no phone to even video it or anything because we didn't have any of that shit. 00:09:50.480 --> 00:09:51.200 No, not that. 00:09:52.000 --> 00:09:52.799 Oh my God. 00:09:52.960 --> 00:09:53.840 Okay, I love that. 00:09:54.000 --> 00:09:55.279 Okay, so that's so fun. 00:09:55.440 --> 00:09:57.840 But you've been backstage and you've got to do all kinds of stuff. 00:09:58.000 --> 00:09:58.240 Yeah. 00:09:58.399 --> 00:09:59.440 I normally run them. 00:09:59.519 --> 00:10:02.159 So it got, you know, it's like what does that mean you run them? 00:10:02.240 --> 00:10:04.639 Um like what goes on in your day with a concert? 00:10:04.960 --> 00:10:19.519 So basically, for the radio stage that I work for, if there is um a backstage meet and greet with winners, either this or that, or um, I'll go back and meet them and I'm the contact person and go back and take them to meet them and leave. 00:10:19.679 --> 00:10:25.200 And uh, it's so crazy because I have two boys and they've been raised. 00:10:25.519 --> 00:10:26.080 Um sure. 00:10:26.559 --> 00:10:39.039 Going backstage with me to where they don't, it doesn't even now they're like 24 and 23, but it doesn't even phase them anymore, you know, because yeah, I was single mom and I had to take them to work with me, and work happens to be backstage. 00:10:39.200 --> 00:10:40.559 I mean, that's amazing, right? 00:10:40.799 --> 00:10:44.159 I mean they were pretty much so raised, just chilling out. 00:10:44.240 --> 00:10:45.679 So they have all these pictures of people too. 00:10:45.759 --> 00:10:54.960 And then it got to the point where I want to say they were probably like middle schooly, maybe five, whatever, and I had to work and was like, Do you want to get with me? 00:10:55.039 --> 00:10:56.320 And they're like, nah, brah.

00:10:56.399 --> 00:10:59.279 Oh, and I was like, Oh, well, it is now past. 00:10:59.919 --> 00:11:02.559 We've now started a new chapter, and they were like, done, yeah. 00:11:02.720 --> 00:11:03.600 So it's cool. 00:11:03.759 --> 00:11:04.399 Oh my gosh. 00:11:04.559 --> 00:11:06.080 But I'm sure you're always gonna be the cool monster. 00:11:08.799 --> 00:11:09.279 For sure. 00:11:09.440 --> 00:11:12.480 Okay, we'll just dabble in a couple more things because I'm obsessed with this. 00:11:12.559 --> 00:11:12.639 Okay. 00:11:12.960 --> 00:11:16.000 Who is some of who is like the nicest, the couple of the nicest people? 00:11:16.159 --> 00:11:19.039 Like oh gosh, they're racist. 00:11:20.000 --> 00:11:21.360 Oh, there's so many. 00:11:21.600 --> 00:11:28.720 Well, that's good because all right, then well, oh, you probably won't name a a real mean person. 00:11:29.039 --> 00:11:30.080 I'm not gonna say that. 00:11:30.240 --> 00:11:31.679 I know you won't, but you probably had them. 00:11:31.919 --> 00:11:32.240 Oh yeah. 00:11:32.399 --> 00:11:32.639 Uh-huh. 00:11:32.720 --> 00:11:32.960 Oh, yeah. 00:11:33.120 --> 00:11:34.799 Where they just treat you like, uh-huh, whatever. 00:11:34.960 --> 00:11:44.080 Yeah, and they well, and they were like really crappy to like the winners, and that makes me angry because if it wasn't for like the people there, you wouldn't, you know. 00:11:44.399 --> 00:11:46.080 And then I had one too. 00:11:46.320 --> 00:11:48.080 Um oh god. 00:11:49.440 --> 00:11:50.080 Tell it. 00:11:50.960 --> 00:11:51.919 No name, no name. 00:11:52.000 --> 00:11:53.120 We will not tell any names. 00:11:53.440 --> 00:12:01.519 This person um started on TV doing like when it was reality show things, but they were also on tour at the same time. 00:12:01.600 --> 00:12:05.200 So there was a lot of famous, you know, going on in this person's world at that time. 00:12:05.279 --> 00:12:14.240 And we were backstage and doing a meet and greet, and they had a um duct tape on the floor. 00:12:14.559 --> 00:12:20.399 And when you went back, they said you had to stand on the duct tape, and the band was gonna go behind you. 00:12:20.559 --> 00:12:23.039 So when you take a photo, it's 2D, right? 00:12:23.200 --> 00:12:30.159 Okay, so you can't tell that you're not together when really you're like feet apart if you had to just walk in and stand there like this and then turn around and walk out. 00:12:30.960 --> 00:12:31.519 Swear to God. 00:12:31.759 --> 00:12:37.200 It's just so funny because I feel like that they don't understand that without these people, you would not be where you are. 00:12:37.279 --> 00:12:38.480 And I just don't understand that. 00:12:38.799 --> 00:12:39.120 Right. 00:12:39.360 --> 00:12:39.840 Yeah, no. 00:12:40.000 --> 00:12:40.799 I feel like most of them are great. 00:12:41.200 --> 00:12:42.080 She's super nice. 00:12:42.159 --> 00:12:42.639 I loved him. 00:12:42.960 --> 00:12:44.320 Oh, I have not seen him. 00:12:44.480 -->

00:12:46.480 I want to see him in concert so bad. 00:12:46.720 --> 00:12:47.440 I love him. 00:12:47.600 --> 00:12:50.559 And he's just funny and fun in his social media. 00:12:50.639 --> 00:12:52.240 Like, I'm he is so talented. 00:12:52.399 --> 00:12:52.720 Yeah. 00:12:52.879 --> 00:12:53.679 I love him. 00:12:53.919 --> 00:12:57.120 And another one I want to say too, um, Taylor Swift. 00:12:57.279 --> 00:13:00.159 And this was back when she was first starting. 00:13:00.320 --> 00:13:16.240 And one thing I love about her, which is so freaking smart, was that after her tours were over, all of the leftover merch that did not sell, yeah, they ship to radio stations all over the country for free to do giveaways with. 00:13:16.480 --> 00:13:17.919 Okay, that's amazing. 00:13:18.240 --> 00:13:21.039 See, I feel like she's such a smart business person. 00:13:21.840 --> 00:13:22.080 So smart. 00:13:22.159 --> 00:13:22.879 And you never thought about it. 00:13:22.960 --> 00:13:24.159 Now you look at her and you're like, oh my gosh. 00:13:24.399 --> 00:13:24.879 You're amazing. 00:13:25.039 --> 00:13:27.279 And you've always heard, I've never really heard anything bad about her. 00:13:27.840 --> 00:13:29.440 And she gives all encompassing. 00:13:29.679 --> 00:13:31.679 She's like a just a yeah, she's good. 00:13:32.000 --> 00:13:32.639 Love her. 00:13:32.960 --> 00:13:33.279 Okay. 00:13:33.600 --> 00:13:34.960 So 50 years. 00:13:35.120 --> 00:13:36.080 This is amazing. 00:13:36.240 --> 00:13:39.600 What does this anniversary mean to EBN and to Cincinnati, do you think? 00:13:40.000 --> 00:13:41.039 Oh my gosh. 00:13:41.360 --> 00:13:41.679 Okay. 00:13:42.240 --> 00:13:45.840 Well, this is gonna be the absolute, look at all my notes. 00:13:45.919 --> 00:13:46.159 I know. 00:13:46.399 --> 00:13:52.639 This is gonna be the absolute um biggest in history ever of the fireworks. 00:13:52.720 --> 00:13:56.080 It's just the monumental 50 golden. 00:13:56.720 --> 00:13:58.720 Um, I'm just gonna give you some stats. 00:13:58.799 --> 00:13:59.840 Can I do stats? 00:14:00.080 --> 00:14:00.480 100%. 00:14:00.720 --> 00:14:01.279 Okay, here we go. 00:14:01.360 --> 00:14:01.840 You ready? 00:14:02.000 --> 00:14:02.559 Yes. 00:14:02.960 --> 00:14:04.720 Thank you, Joe Razzie, by the way. 00:14:05.200 --> 00:14:05.519 Okay. 00:14:06.080 --> 00:14:09.919 And I told Joe too, we always like, I'm like, I just wanted to blow everything up. 00:14:10.080 --> 00:14:10.960 This is crazy. 00:14:11.039 --> 00:14:11.759 Just do it all. 00:14:11.840 --> 00:14:13.679 And it's going to do. 00:14:14.159 --> 00:14:14.879 Here we go. 00:14:15.120 --> 00:14:19.039 Normally there's three barges, and those are in between the two bridges, right? 00:14:19.120 --> 00:14:19.360 Yep. 00:14:19.919 --> 00:14:21.840 This year there are six barges. 00:14:22.080 --> 00:14:22.879 Oh my gosh. 00:14:23.200 --> 00:14:23.919 Two locations. 00:14:24.080 --> 00:14:32.960 So between the normal bridges, yep, and then on the other side of Taylor Southgate, going west, are the other three barges, and that's kind of in the middle of the river. 00:14:33.200 --> 00:14:36.240 Um, also blowing things off of rooftops. 00:14:36.399 --> 00:14:36.559 Oh. 00:14:36.960 --> 00:14:40.240 So we're gonna be blowing things off of the top of heritage. 00:14:40.480 --> 00:14:40.720 Oh. 00:14:41.039 --> 00:14:41.200 Yeah. 00:14:41.600 --> 00:14:42.720 So Heritage Bank Center. 00:14:45.679 --> 00:14:46.960 Oh, sorry, I didn't say that. 00:14:47.120 --> 00:14:47.679 You didn't say that. 00:14:47.840 --> 00:14:48.159 I did. 00:14:48.320 --> 00:14:51.360 And also um the AMC at Newport on the Left. 00:14:51.600 --> 00:14:52.320 Oh, okay. 00:14:52.799 --> 00:14:54.240 And let's see. 00:14:54.399 --> 00:14:57.519 Well me, what are other things that are fun on here? 00:14:57.919 --> 00:15:12.720 So there are uh 75 total positions between rooftops, barges, bridges, you know, also the bridges on top of the bridges, the bridges itself, the barges, 75 different um positions total. 00:15:12.960 --> 00:15:14.399 Normally there's only 30. 00:15:14.720 --> 00:15:16.000 Oh my gosh. 00:15:16.240 --> 00:15:16.480 Yeah. 00:15:16.720 --> 00:15:17.840 Okay, so I'm trying to think. 00:15:17.919 --> 00:15:23.919 Well, the boats, well, yeah, because the boats where I'm like trying to think of where you can be to see the best, but you can really be anywhere. 00:15:24.000 --> 00:15:26.240 And everybody's gonna have a different show almost. 00:15:26.320 --> 00:15:26.559 Yeah. 00:15:26.720 --> 00:15:27.120 In a way. 00:15:27.360 --> 00:15:27.919 Yeah, yeah. 00:15:28.000 --> 00:15:33.840 So it's gonna be, I mean, the best way we've even described to everybody is kind of like you're in a snow globe the whole time. 00:15:33.919 --> 00:15:41.360 So wherever you're looking, it's like something's going on off of the roof or off of the barge or off of the whatever, or down here and in the middle, like the other thing. 00:15:41.440 --> 00:15:44.960 And it's just going, and the show is 10 minutes longer. 00:15:45.200 --> 00:15:46.000 That's what I was just gonna ask. 00:15:46.240 --> 00:15:47.360 Yeah, it's 40 minutes this year. 00:15:48.159 --> 00:15:48.960 Oh my gosh. 00:15:49.120 --> 00:15:50.240 I know, I know. 00:15:50.399 --> 00:15:50.960 Let me see. 00:15:51.039 --> 00:15:52.879 I have something else that's really fun. 00:15:53.840 --> 00:15:55.759 I had to get all of this from Joe. 00:15:56.000 --> 00:16:02.240 So normally there are 20 effects in one fireworks show every year, different types of okay. 00:16:02.399 --> 00:16:05.360 There um 20,000, my bad, 20,000. 00:16:05.519 --> 00:16:07.600 This year there are 50,000. 00:16:08.159 --> 00:16:10.480 Oh my gosh, this is gonna be incredible. 00:16:10.799 --> 00:16:11.279 Right. 00:16:11.840 --> 00:16:15.840 And instead of five days of setup and 20 employees, that's what I wondered. 00:16:16.000 --> 00:16:19.840 He's using 10 days of setup and 60 Rozsi

employees. 00:16:20.080 --> 00:16:22.000 This is gonna be a full-time gig. 00:16:22.320 --> 00:16:24.480 Full-time gig for the whole city. 00:16:24.559 --> 00:16:24.960 Oh my gosh. 00:16:25.360 --> 00:16:25.840 I know. 00:16:26.480 --> 00:16:26.720 I know. 00:16:26.960 --> 00:16:29.200 Is this gonna the biggest thing that Rossi has ever done? 00:16:30.159 --> 00:16:31.279 Uh, probably. 00:16:31.519 --> 00:16:32.559 Yeah, I mean, I would think it was. 00:16:33.200 --> 00:16:38.320 I mean, we're we're, you know, marketing this as like the biggest boom in America, you know. 00:16:38.399 --> 00:16:43.120 It's like igniting this whole entire thing, and it's just gonna go crazy. 00:16:43.279 --> 00:16:44.879 And um I would be curious to know. 00:16:45.360 --> 00:16:45.919 Thanks to Mr. 00:16:46.000 --> 00:16:49.759 Baird and uh Western Southern for being behind this and saw the vision. 00:16:49.840 --> 00:16:52.399 I mean, we've been working on this for over a year, you know? 00:16:52.559 --> 00:16:52.879 Yes. 00:16:53.919 --> 00:16:58.720 We wanted it to be the one that everybody remembers for their lifetime. 00:16:58.799 --> 00:17:00.879 And it's going, I've seen it because it's digital. 00:17:01.200 --> 00:17:01.840 Oh, right, sure. 00:17:01.919 --> 00:17:03.759 Yeah, they could probably do a pre-doppree. 00:17:04.079 --> 00:17:04.400 It's crazy. 00:17:04.480 --> 00:17:06.400 And the okay, can I tell you one thing about the indie? 00:17:06.559 --> 00:17:07.759 You can tell me anything you want. 00:17:07.920 --> 00:17:11.839 Of course, you're you're jumping ahead because I'm like, okay, tell me some more things to expect. 00:17:12.480 --> 00:17:12.799 Surprises. 00:17:13.279 --> 00:17:14.799 Okay, this is this is good. 00:17:15.680 --> 00:17:19.440 Um, Joe Rossi, as in here, I have to say this on his behalf. 00:17:19.519 --> 00:17:21.759 He says the finale is effing epic. 00:17:22.000 --> 00:17:22.559 I love it. 00:17:22.799 --> 00:17:30.480 And this, okay, so you know how at the very end I call it the booms, he calls it the bombs, but the booms are boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. 00:17:30.640 --> 00:17:31.279 Yes, uh-huh. 00:17:31.440 --> 00:17:35.039 You know, which I mean you'll ever say it's like woo-hoo, screaming the entire time. 00:17:35.279 --> 00:17:38.319 There are normally, this is my favorite fact of this whole thing. 00:17:38.480 --> 00:17:42.319 There are normally 600 booms, as I call them, right? 00:17:42.400 --> 00:17:43.200 For the ending. 00:17:43.279 --> 00:17:43.359 Yeah. 00:17:43.759 --> 00:17:50.559 In the last 15 seconds of the show before it's over, there are 1,900 booms. 00:17:50.880 --> 00:17:51.680 Oh my gosh. 00:17:51.839 --> 00:17:57.839 So if you have a dog, you may want to ship them away if they live in the downtown area or northern Kentucky. 00:17:58.000 --> 00:17:59.839 Right because it is going to be insanity. 00:18:00.079 --> 00:18:00.640 Insanity. 00:18:00.799 --> 00:18:01.359 Oh my gosh. 00:18:01.519 --> 00:18:01.759 I know. 00:18:02.000 --> 00:18:02.960 I and I love it. 00:18:03.119 --> 00:18:03.680 I love all that. 00:18:03.759 --> 00:18:05.200 I love when you can feel it. 00:18:05.680 --> 00:18:08.960 Um, you're the past. 00:18:09.039 --> 00:18:15.200 I've been doing the EBM Fireworks, you know, probably since eighth grade, freshman year, high school. 00:18:16.319 --> 00:18:17.039 High school, yeah. 00:18:17.279 --> 00:18:18.160 And we would go down. 00:18:18.240 --> 00:18:20.240 I mean, it was it was the thing to do. 00:18:20.319 --> 00:18:22.000 And you went down first thing in the morning. 00:18:22.160 --> 00:18:22.400 Yeah. 00:18:22.559 --> 00:18:23.279 So the 80s. 00:18:23.599 --> 00:18:24.319 This is the 80s. 00:18:24.400 --> 00:18:29.200 We're going out first thing in the morning, and you put your blanket down to mark your territory on the wall. 00:18:29.279 --> 00:18:29.440 Okay. 00:18:29.599 --> 00:18:30.000 Oh, yeah. 00:18:30.160 --> 00:18:31.440 And then you can't do that anymore. 00:18:31.599 --> 00:18:32.240 You can't do that anymore. 00:18:32.319 --> 00:18:33.839 You can't do any of the things I'm gonna tell you we did. 00:18:34.640 --> 00:18:39.200 Then the guys would come in their pickup trucks with their kegs of beer. 00:18:39.279 --> 00:18:39.599 Oh, yeah. 00:18:39.759 --> 00:18:49.200 And we put them on a dolly and we would take them down to the wall, like near where we were, and you would literally set up that was your area, okay? 00:18:49.359 --> 00:18:53.519 And then people would trickle in and everybody had their thing, and nobody really knew each other. 00:18:53.680 --> 00:18:55.039 You just had your posse. 00:18:55.519 --> 00:19:03.920 And then, fast forward to the end of the night, you're making out with the guy next to you because now you've spent the entire day together and you're now like that. 00:19:04.000 --> 00:19:08.559 That was your dude, because there's nothing more romantic than a keg of beer and some fireworks on a summer night. 00:19:08.720 --> 00:19:14.000 That's um, it literally was hilarious because you'd look around and you're like, oh, there's my friend with, you know, Joe. 00:19:14.319 --> 00:19:16.480 And here's my new buddy, Todd. 00:19:16.640 --> 00:19:19.680 And all the guys. 00:19:19.759 --> 00:19:25.920 I mean, it was just, and then you talked about how the rest, you know, the whole, you know, fall in school because it was like the most epic. 00:19:26.480 --> 00:19:29.279 So A emails about that, how I met my husband. 00:19:29.759 --> 00:19:30.559 I bet works. 00:19:30.880 --> 00:19:38.480 Because it was just you you hung out all day, and then everybody like took care of your your blanket while you went to find somewhere to go to the bathroom, usually, and everywhere. 00:19:38.640 --> 00:19:41.279 And then it always got cool at night, so you always had to bring a sweatshirt. 00:19:41.359 --> 00:19:45.920 Because for some reason, the temperature back then, I don't think it does it as much

anymore, but it always got cooler at night. 00:19:46.079 --> 00:19:46.319 It did. 00:19:46.400 --> 00:19:47.440 And you had to bring a sweatshirt. 00:19:47.519 --> 00:19:48.880 You were hot as heck during the day. 00:19:48.960 --> 00:19:51.039 And once that sun went down, it always cooled off. 00:19:51.200 --> 00:20:02.319 Um, and then you'd sit there and the ashes would come flying on you, and the smoke was everywhere, and it was just it is so fun and is such a memory that is etched in your mind from those days. 00:20:02.400 --> 00:20:05.599 And I'm sure this show will be for everyone else too. 00:20:05.680 --> 00:20:12.880 And that whole area now is very family friendly and very cool for everybody to bring their kids, and there's it's a no-alcohol zone, I think, now. 00:20:13.440 --> 00:20:14.160 On the Ohio side. 00:20:14.319 --> 00:20:23.599 On the Ohio side, and then other side, the northern Kentucky side is more more active with the uh and I wanted to say too, I forgot about this. 00:20:23.759 --> 00:20:25.680 The um I didn't forget, we just didn't get there. 00:20:25.759 --> 00:20:27.200 That we're also doing two drone shows. 00:20:27.440 --> 00:20:30.160 Okay, I was wondering because the drones popped up like last year or two. 00:20:30.720 --> 00:20:34.079 Um, yeah, I worked really hard on getting those finally in, so it worked. 00:20:34.240 --> 00:20:38.880 Um so the the Pelo Windows and Doors drone show. 00:20:39.119 --> 00:20:39.440 Okay. 00:20:39.839 --> 00:20:41.519 And thank you to them. 00:20:41.759 --> 00:20:42.640 And there's two. 00:20:42.720 --> 00:20:45.920 So we're shooting them off in Kentucky, and also the Rossies do this. 00:20:46.079 --> 00:20:47.039 The Rossies drone. 00:20:47.200 --> 00:20:47.440 Okay. 00:20:47.599 --> 00:20:53.119 So shooting them off at Kentucky and then shooting them off in Ohio, and they're going off at the same time. 00:20:53.359 --> 00:21:02.960 So that's going to kick it off, like after we do Crowd Wars, and then the drone show is gonna go up and both sides, and then when the drone show ends and the fireworks kicks off. 00:21:03.039 --> 00:21:07.599 So the whole thing this year with the drones and the fireworks is a little over 50 minutes. 00:21:08.079 --> 00:21:10.559 Oh my gosh, that is gonna be unbelievable. 00:21:10.720 --> 00:21:11.119 I know. 00:21:11.519 --> 00:21:15.839 Um, you have to plan going to the bathroom and everything right before it kicks off because you're not gonna want to leave. 00:21:15.920 --> 00:21:16.880 There's no time. 00:21:17.119 --> 00:21:21.279 Um, what's your what's your memory of your first EVM fireworks? 00:21:21.440 --> 00:21:22.240 Oh my gosh. 00:21:22.400 --> 00:21:24.400 Um, well, can I just tell you something different? 00:21:24.559 --> 00:21:25.359 Yeah, absolutely. 00:21:25.599 --> 00:21:25.839 Okay. 00:21:26.000 --> 00:21:27.200 So we're not on script here. 00:21:27.279 --> 00:21:28.240 I'm just flying shit out here. 00:21:28.400 --> 00:21:39.519 So this

is this is so um back in the day in my uh 20s and 30s, I lived up on the hill on Kentucky Drive in Newport, Kentucky. 00:21:39.680 --> 00:21:40.000 Okay. 00:21:40.160 --> 00:21:43.680 And I had an unobstructed view of the skyline. 00:21:44.319 --> 00:21:51.279 And I would have an EVN fireworks party that I mean, I did it for I think like 15 years or something. 00:21:51.519 --> 00:21:56.319 And I at one point would even build a stage in my backyard and hire a band. 00:21:56.799 --> 00:22:03.599 And so then when the fireworks ended, then the Started and the party went on and on and on, and I did it forever. 00:22:03.680 --> 00:22:08.240 I had it, I had it was the Katie Walters WEBN fireworks party. 00:22:08.400 --> 00:22:15.920 And my friend, um, Dave Shernowski found one of my flyers from back then to me, and I posted every year. 00:22:16.240 --> 00:22:21.440 Because I said when I saw that flyer, I was like, it was like the universe was saying, just wait. 00:22:21.599 --> 00:22:21.920 Yeah. 00:22:22.079 --> 00:22:23.359 Right, right, right. 00:22:23.759 --> 00:22:25.279 Just wait. 00:22:26.400 --> 00:22:27.279 Oh my gosh. 00:22:27.440 --> 00:22:28.880 But I feel like people didn't embrace it. 00:22:28.960 --> 00:22:35.920 For years, we did uh Covington too, and there was the people that owned uh Odd Chalk a lot, those guys, had a huge party. 00:22:36.240 --> 00:22:45.599 And it it was it was drag queens, Shiraco, who was like the oldest and first sh uh drag queen in city, but she would always be at the party. 00:22:45.680 --> 00:22:47.119 It was like a fun party. 00:22:47.200 --> 00:22:51.119 And you would start there and they would make slushies, and you just made your way through the streets all day. 00:22:51.200 --> 00:22:53.599 It's just like an all-day thing. 00:22:53.680 --> 00:22:57.279 And it was so fun, and it was it's just like it's a holiday. 00:22:57.359 --> 00:22:59.839 It truly is a holiday in our city. 00:23:00.079 --> 00:23:01.119 And that's why, too. 00:23:01.200 --> 00:23:05.599 Um, because I was we are having a kickoff concert to the weekend. 00:23:05.920 --> 00:23:06.880 Oh, that's what I was gonna ask. 00:23:07.279 --> 00:23:07.680 Yeah, yeah, yeah. 00:23:07.839 --> 00:23:10.400 Thursday blind at MegaCore. 00:23:10.720 --> 00:23:22.960 And um, I really, really wanted it on Thursday because I'm like being born and raised here and being part of this, once everyone sees those bridge banners go up, yes, you stop working. 00:23:23.119 --> 00:23:25.519 Yeah, you stop working, you're not doing anything else. 00:23:25.599 --> 00:23:30.000 And so I really wanted that concert to be on Thursday because the bridge banners are gonna be up. 00:23:30.079 --> 00:23:31.279 And I'm like, nobody's gonna do anything. 00:23:31.359 --> 00:23:36.960 Like, I want them to say, start their weekend on Thursday with Third Eye Blind and Mega Core. 00:23:37.039 --> 00:23:43.279 And at the same time you're at the concert, you can look out and see everything

being built and structured and the whole thing going on. 00:23:43.440 --> 00:23:49.759 And um, I said it's like it's a whole weekend a bit, and then of course, Monday, you just get to sleep in. 00:23:50.079 --> 00:23:52.400 So Labor Day is absolutely off. 00:23:52.640 --> 00:23:53.119 Yeah, right. 00:23:53.279 --> 00:23:54.960 Um, well, yeah, because Monday's off. 00:23:55.279 --> 00:24:00.400 Because they did one time switch it to Monday, didn't they do it on Monday once and everybody's like, boo, the worst ever. 00:24:00.880 --> 00:24:04.559 Bring it back to Sunday so you can be off the next day for sure. 00:24:04.799 --> 00:24:08.240 Um, so how do you think it's evolved over the last five decades? 00:24:08.400 --> 00:24:13.599 I mean, it, you know, the first, I mean, we were all in awe when it happened, but now you look to where we are now. 00:24:14.000 --> 00:24:16.160 I mean, it is just it's just it's crazy. 00:24:16.240 --> 00:24:18.240 Was it always set to music even at the beginning? 00:24:18.480 --> 00:24:18.559 Yeah. 00:24:18.640 --> 00:24:23.759 Um, I don't know if I really recall that, or we even it actually it was boom boxes down there, I guess. 00:24:24.000 --> 00:24:28.880 It started out as um um the as a birthday party. 00:24:29.599 --> 00:24:30.640 That's how it started out. 00:24:30.799 --> 00:24:36.799 And there was so much um uh so uh Bo Wood Frank Wood Jr. 00:24:36.960 --> 00:24:38.160 was the one who created it. 00:24:38.240 --> 00:24:44.640 Um, and EBN was 10 years old as a rock station, and he wanted to have a birthday party, and that's kind of how it started. 00:24:44.799 --> 00:24:48.640 And so many people showed up and he wanted to have music to it and have fun. 00:24:49.119 --> 00:24:51.119 And then here we are 50 years later. 00:24:51.200 --> 00:24:57.920 And the crazy thing is, it's the longest soundtracked fireworks show in the entire United States. 00:24:58.319 --> 00:24:59.039 I love it. 00:24:59.200 --> 00:25:00.799 And can I let me say this too? 00:25:01.279 --> 00:25:03.200 And I'm sure you probably experienced it. 00:25:03.440 --> 00:25:13.839 Being born and raised here and having this our entire lives, when you're at another place and there's a fireworks show going off and there's no music, you're like, what lame? 00:25:15.039 --> 00:25:15.440 What is up? 00:25:15.759 --> 00:25:16.799 This is so lame. 00:25:17.039 --> 00:25:18.160 Why is there no music? 00:25:18.240 --> 00:25:19.279 And you just don't get that. 00:25:19.359 --> 00:25:20.480 That's because we're special here. 00:25:20.640 --> 00:25:34.799 Yes, you know, yes, and so we were down, my family was been recently vacationing over the Fourth of July together, and the fireworks shows go off, and we now all bring like our JBL speaker and just figure it out because we're like we try to match it up. 00:25:38.559 --> 00:25:40.319 Like, we're from Cincinnati, y'all. 00:25:40.480 --> 00:25:42.480 Like, we have to like have music to it. 00:25:43.119 --> 00:25:44.960 So yeah, and I've heard that uh okay. 00:25:45.039 --> 00:25:49.920 First of all, was that was that birthday party on Serpentine Wall, or where was that original birthday party? 00:25:50.079 --> 00:25:52.799 Do you think I think it was down there, but you had it down in that area. 00:25:53.119 --> 00:26:00.640 Um yeah, I've heard that it takes you guys, like literally you're planning the next year before the this one even goes off. 00:26:00.799 --> 00:26:01.039 Oh, yeah. 00:26:01.200 --> 00:26:06.319 And the music and this and syncing everything together and with Rosie to try to plan it all. 00:26:06.480 --> 00:26:08.720 It's like a kind of a year-long process. 00:26:09.119 --> 00:26:19.359 It's um it starts a year out, but really I want to say kind of after the holidays, like when we come back in January, it's just like it's game on with everything all the way up to it. 00:26:19.440 --> 00:26:24.880 And I will say too, this soundtrack this year's thank you, Miles, um, is amazing. 00:26:25.039 --> 00:26:25.519 It's amazing. 00:26:25.759 --> 00:26:27.759 Is there a pretty or is it 50? 00:26:27.920 --> 00:26:29.039 I mean, just okay, 50. 00:26:29.119 --> 00:26:29.200 Okay. 00:26:29.359 --> 00:26:32.160 But it's pretty much like the biggest hits of like all okay. 00:26:32.720 --> 00:26:33.440 It's so good. 00:26:33.599 --> 00:26:34.559 It's so good. 00:26:34.799 --> 00:26:35.279 Yeah. 00:26:35.599 --> 00:26:36.240 I love it. 00:26:36.559 --> 00:26:37.039 Oh my gosh. 00:26:37.359 --> 00:26:38.160 She's so happy. 00:26:38.480 --> 00:26:46.240 Um, has there any has there been any, which I'm sure is something like oh no moments that you've uh the public never knew about? 00:26:46.319 --> 00:26:51.039 Like, did anything glitch that you're like, oh shit, that maybe we didn't know about, or is everything? 00:26:52.319 --> 00:27:00.960 Um I did have, I did have, um, I want to say two years ago. 00:27:02.240 --> 00:27:07.519 So we set up and have police guard everything on both sides, right? 00:27:08.079 --> 00:27:15.680 And all of the speakers were set up for the bottom of Serpentine Wall, right on the edge of the river, and it lines it. 00:27:15.920 --> 00:27:21.119 And on Sunday morning, the fireworks day, we get there early and the speakers are gone. 00:27:21.279 --> 00:27:32.960 And as it turned out, some guy in a boat in the middle of the night in pitch dark went sing down the edge and jumped up and threw all the speakers in his boat and took off. 00:27:33.279 --> 00:27:34.720 You are kidding. 00:27:34.960 --> 00:27:37.519 No, no, oh my gosh, it was horrible. 00:27:37.680 --> 00:27:42.319 It was horrible, and we're already like maxed out on all of like the audio equipment. 00:27:42.480 --> 00:27:45.359 It was it was Oh my gosh, it was awful. 00:27:45.599 --> 00:27:47.680 And like we just said, the music is the most important part. 00:27:47.759 --> 00:27:48.720 You cannot not have the speaker. 00:27:48.960 --> 00:27:53.839 And so we learned

really quickly after that that we set that up the morning of. 00:27:54.160 --> 00:27:58.559 Okay, that is a lot of equipment to fit on a boat and one and a posse to do that. 00:27:58.799 --> 00:27:59.680 That is insane. 00:27:59.839 --> 00:28:00.720 I know, I know. 00:28:00.960 --> 00:28:02.319 Oh my gosh. 00:28:02.880 --> 00:28:05.279 Um, okay, let's see. 00:28:05.440 --> 00:28:08.319 What's your favorite uh firework effect or grand finale? 00:28:08.480 --> 00:28:10.960 What's your uh do you have a favorite firework? 00:28:11.039 --> 00:28:11.599 Like I like to do it. 00:28:12.960 --> 00:28:14.319 Oh, the waterfall is super cool. 00:28:14.799 --> 00:28:16.720 The wack-adoos, that's what I call to Joe Rossi. 00:28:16.880 --> 00:28:18.000 He speaks Katie, by the way. 00:28:18.079 --> 00:28:19.440 He knows what a wackadoo is. 00:28:19.920 --> 00:28:22.799 And they're kind of like the ones who just fly up and kind of spiral. 00:28:23.200 --> 00:28:23.359 Spiral. 00:28:23.519 --> 00:28:24.240 Do you want to know their own? 00:28:24.640 --> 00:28:26.000 Shall I say what my family calls this? 00:28:26.240 --> 00:28:27.119 I have a feeling I know what. 00:28:27.279 --> 00:28:27.839 The spermies. 00:28:28.000 --> 00:28:29.039 Yeah, I knew you were gonna say that. 00:28:29.200 --> 00:28:30.079 I knew you were gonna say that. 00:28:31.599 --> 00:28:32.400 I knew that. 00:28:32.559 --> 00:28:32.880 Yeah. 00:28:33.119 --> 00:28:34.079 Because it is, it's what it is. 00:28:34.160 --> 00:28:46.240 They're like it is, and I will say too, what's exciting this year, too, is that Joe um went over to Japan and actually created fireworks that's never been seen before. 00:28:46.480 --> 00:28:49.359 So there's gonna be stuff this year that is never been seen. 00:28:49.440 --> 00:28:55.279 And he's uh bringing back some of the old ones that they don't do, like the big, big ones from back in the day when our parents were growing up. 00:28:55.519 --> 00:28:55.839 Okay. 00:28:56.079 --> 00:29:04.400 So it's a mixture of, you know, every single thing that you can possibly put into a show is this year. 00:29:04.720 --> 00:29:15.279 You know, and I sometimes I think, and I live downtown and I am looking at the river, and sometimes you see people driving, you know, the highways or whatever, and you're thinking, what if they're like coming home from vacation and they're just they don't live there? 00:29:15.599 --> 00:29:19.359 And you're driving through Cincinnati and you're like, what is happening? 00:29:19.440 --> 00:29:21.279 And I think that's when you see cars just stop. 00:29:21.359 --> 00:29:24.079 Yeah, they stop on the bridges, they stop, they pull over. 00:29:24.400 --> 00:29:27.680 Because once you see something that could go off, you're not you're not driving through. 00:29:27.759 --> 00:29:29.680 You probably have kids in your car that are like, let's go. 00:29:29.759 --> 00:29:30.640 This is amazing. 00:29:30.960 --> 00:29:31.359 That's for real. 00:29:31.519 -->

00:29:32.880 I mean it's pull over all the time. 00:29:33.200 --> 00:29:34.480 All over the place, and and why not? 00:29:34.559 --> 00:29:37.839 And nobody can get mad at that because I'm sure everybody wants to, you know. 00:29:37.920 --> 00:29:42.880 I think I stayed home one year when we lived in Anderson, and I was like, We're we're not going down. 00:29:43.039 --> 00:29:44.799 And I'm like, never again. 00:29:45.039 --> 00:29:46.319 Because you try to watch it on TV. 00:29:46.480 --> 00:29:47.920 You're like, this is just terrible. 00:29:48.079 --> 00:29:50.480 I mean, it's not terrible, it's wonderful if that's what you can do. 00:29:50.640 --> 00:29:53.680 But right, once you've seen it and you try to watch it over, you're like, no, I've got to be right there. 00:29:54.240 --> 00:29:55.039 I've got to be in the thick of it. 00:29:55.279 --> 00:29:56.640 Okay, let's talk about this t-shirt. 00:29:56.720 --> 00:29:57.039 Oh, yeah. 00:29:57.440 --> 00:30:00.079 I am like, this is the these are, I mean, the gold. 00:30:00.400 --> 00:30:03.200 So tell us the story on this the EBN t-shirt for this year. 00:30:03.279 --> 00:30:05.680 And you can get these at Kroger or online, right? 00:30:06.079 --> 00:30:11.440 Online at WEBN.com, also at uh Kroger around, I'd say Kroger's because we're from here. 00:30:11.759 --> 00:30:14.480 Yeah, Kroger's Tony had that in around the year. 00:30:14.640 --> 00:30:18.240 And they're also gonna be sold on sites on the Kentucky side and the Ohio side. 00:30:18.400 --> 00:30:18.720 Okay. 00:30:19.039 --> 00:30:36.640 And so basically, um, we were trying to come up with ideas of the art, and then all of a sudden, with it being a the 50th, it was suggested, let's just go down into the archives of EBN and see what's down there. 00:30:36.880 --> 00:30:39.440 And so that's a treasure crew. 00:30:40.880 --> 00:30:41.759 I can't even imagine. 00:30:42.640 --> 00:30:43.039 I would love it. 00:30:44.160 --> 00:30:53.680 So remember when you were in um school and you were in art class and you had those big old like folders where you kept all of your artwork in with your name on it? 00:30:53.920 --> 00:30:55.200 We found one of those down there. 00:30:55.279 --> 00:31:05.599 There's actually more than one, and um opened it up, and there were all of these different hand-drawn uh on the big thick paper, too. 00:31:05.759 --> 00:31:06.559 It's kind of like yellowy. 00:31:06.880 --> 00:31:10.480 So we brought them all up and looked at everything and decided on this. 00:31:10.640 --> 00:31:11.440 It's simple. 00:31:11.599 --> 00:31:14.079 I love it, it's throwback, it's retro. 00:31:14.400 --> 00:31:15.359 It might be my favorite. 00:31:15.599 --> 00:31:17.039 It was hand-drawn. 00:31:17.200 --> 00:31:18.319 This was hand drawn. 00:31:18.559 --> 00:31:23.279 Like when we pulled out the paper, it was like pointalism almost with. 00:31:23.359 --> 00:31:24.319 I think they call that a kind of art. 00:31:24.400 --> 00:31:27.359 I have one, and it's like taking a pen or a marker to do it. 00:31:27.920 --> 00:31:28.640 It is so cool. 00:31:28.720 --> 00:31:29.680 It's do you have the same? 00:31:29.920 --> 00:31:31.519 Do you know who the artist who did it? 00:31:31.599 --> 00:31:32.160 I do not know. 00:31:32.240 --> 00:31:36.559 I don't I mean, did you get different people to design every year, or is that a contest, or what happens with it? 00:31:37.279 --> 00:31:38.640 That would be kind of fun to do a contest. 00:31:38.880 --> 00:31:39.119 Yeah. 00:31:39.359 --> 00:31:45.359 There's been an artist um who's uh have done it over the years, and then they retire and get a new one. 00:31:45.440 --> 00:31:51.759 And then most recently has been Erin uh Strauss has been doing it, and she's amazing. 00:31:52.000 --> 00:31:55.119 And um, yeah, it's always, always an artist. 00:31:55.200 --> 00:31:56.880 And at this point, this was an artist. 00:31:57.519 --> 00:32:02.720 I mean, it's a really, you know, and so we asked our printer, can you digitize this, please? 00:32:02.960 --> 00:32:04.079 And they were able to do it in some. 00:32:04.480 --> 00:32:05.279 I mean, it is super cute. 00:32:05.920 --> 00:32:06.880 You still have the frog on the back. 00:32:07.119 --> 00:32:08.400 Yeah, the frog in the western southern list. 00:32:09.680 --> 00:32:13.039 I mean, it is, I mean, run out and get that with your milk and eggs. 00:32:13.440 --> 00:32:14.240 Going quick, I'm not lying. 00:32:14.319 --> 00:32:15.039 I might have to go back to the floor. 00:32:15.200 --> 00:32:17.039 We've already had to do more shipments to courier. 00:32:17.200 --> 00:32:18.319 They're they're going quick. 00:32:18.559 --> 00:32:20.160 I'm gonna have to go after this. 00:32:20.319 --> 00:32:20.960 Yeah. 00:32:21.680 --> 00:32:22.960 That is so fun. 00:32:23.359 --> 00:32:24.160 Um, okay. 00:32:24.240 --> 00:32:25.599 Do you have a favorite viewing spot? 00:32:25.680 --> 00:32:28.640 Do you always do the never like Kentucky side, don't you? 00:32:29.039 --> 00:32:33.440 I am my ground zero is over at um Serpentine Wall. 00:32:33.839 --> 00:32:34.559 Okay, you're on that side. 00:32:34.640 --> 00:32:35.279 So I'm on that side. 00:32:35.519 --> 00:32:37.599 But growing up my entire life, I was always on Kentucky side. 00:32:37.759 --> 00:32:40.240 Well, it's great because you get the Cincinnati skyline with it. 00:32:40.319 --> 00:32:41.599 It's just such a great view. 00:32:41.759 --> 00:32:51.519 But I I think this year I think you can't go wrong and it's almost going to be spread out because I feel like you can be with those three new barges, you can be all the way down kind of a nowhere land where you never would have stayed. 00:32:51.759 --> 00:33:09.680 And I was gonna say this too, that um for some people looking for other options of where to go, the logger house, uh, is having a build-up to the boom party, and they have drinks and food and whatever, and because the barge is gonna be like you could be

able to see like from there. 00:33:09.839 --> 00:33:10.319 That's awesome. 00:33:10.480 --> 00:33:14.240 So they're having a lawn party, and um, the headliners are gonna be the menus. 00:33:14.400 --> 00:33:15.359 So you talk about throwing. 00:33:15.680 --> 00:33:24.000 They were so fun, back wretched, everything, a huge party there too, okay, which is a first time, like throwing a big, massive build-up to the boom party. 00:33:24.160 --> 00:33:28.079 And um that's Cincinnati Lagerhouse, which is aka Moor Line House as we know it. 00:33:28.240 --> 00:33:31.119 So they're doing two, so yeah, like you were just saying, all along. 00:33:31.440 --> 00:33:33.599 Yeah, and they have that balcony up there too. 00:33:33.680 --> 00:33:36.480 You have to get up there and mark your spot pretty early, I would assume. 00:33:36.799 --> 00:33:51.839 So there's stuff all over, and like I said, from you know, from the six different barges in two different locations, and the rooftop in Kentucky, and the rooftop in Ohio, and all the bridges, and the tops of the bridges, the bottom of the bridges, and everything on the wall. 00:33:52.000 --> 00:33:55.839 I mean, it is literally just everything somewhere you look, it's just crazy. 00:33:56.240 --> 00:33:57.200 Preset snow globe. 00:33:57.519 --> 00:34:02.079 Like Davu Park would be good, all the parks, you know, the west side um park over there. 00:34:02.240 --> 00:34:03.279 We'd be that's awesome. 00:34:03.359 --> 00:34:04.400 Okay, so we're kicking off. 00:34:04.480 --> 00:34:07.759 Okay, tell us the dates, and it's kicking off Thursday with Third Eye Blind. 00:34:08.320 --> 00:34:10.159 Kicking off third, uh September 3rd. 00:34:10.480 --> 00:34:11.039 September 3rd. 00:34:11.360 --> 00:34:17.360 And then um Riverfest is actually the fireworks is Sunday, September 6th. 00:34:17.599 --> 00:34:22.559 The side on can on Ohio opens inside the fence line at three o'clock. 00:34:22.719 --> 00:34:28.639 Okay, and then drones are gonna go off at nine, and then following that is going to be the fireworks. 00:34:28.880 --> 00:34:32.320 So you have to take a nap during the day, be all ready to go. 00:34:32.719 --> 00:34:35.360 Um, we talked about so many things, all the things we've never seen. 00:34:35.519 --> 00:34:35.840 What else do we have? 00:34:37.440 --> 00:34:40.960 Uh with the Cincinnati Warbirds doing their flyovers. 00:34:41.119 --> 00:34:41.440 Oh, what? 00:34:41.760 --> 00:34:42.559 From Logan. 00:34:43.119 --> 00:34:45.599 And then also St. 00:34:45.760 --> 00:34:47.599 Elizabeth is doing St. 00:34:47.760 --> 00:34:51.119 Elizabeth Elizabeth Healthcare is doing the flag jumpers. 00:34:51.280 --> 00:34:54.480 So you know what the jump out with the American flag for the 250? 00:34:54.639 --> 00:34:54.960 Yes. 00:34:55.199 --> 00:34:59.280 And they're gonna fly over and then land over there at Bellevue Bets Field, which is also a St. 00:34:59.440 --> 00:35:00.719 Elizabeth Healthcare field. 00:35:00.960 --> 00:35:04.159 Okay, so the flyover will be before everything expires or what? 00:35:04.480 --> 00:35:11.920 Or like all day from Blanc Green, and then when there's a little bit of break, then the jumpers towards the end of the day are gonna come out with the flag. 00:35:12.159 --> 00:35:12.719 Oh my gosh. 00:35:12.880 --> 00:35:22.239 And then we have the hourly salutes where we uh at every hour we Joe Rossi blows off the firework, and that's coming off of the AMC theater on top of that as well this year. 00:35:22.480 --> 00:35:22.639 Okay. 00:35:22.800 --> 00:35:24.159 So there's just a lot. 00:35:24.719 --> 00:35:25.360 There's a lot going on. 00:35:25.599 --> 00:35:26.159 A lot going on. 00:35:26.239 --> 00:35:35.920 Oh, and I also have on the Ohio side inside the Riverfest um footprint, um Chris Rusk from um CR carving. 00:35:36.320 --> 00:35:45.679 He's gonna be down on the wall and he's bringing like a tree trunk and he carves it, and he's like an artist and carves it, and it's gonna be some kind of something, something that has to do with obviously what's going on. 00:35:45.920 --> 00:35:49.119 Fireworks, yes, and and frog and no idea. 00:35:49.199 --> 00:35:49.840 So that's something fun. 00:35:49.920 --> 00:35:52.159 And then we have What happens with that when he's finished, Gina? 00:35:52.320 --> 00:35:52.639 Do what? 00:35:52.719 --> 00:35:53.920 What happens with that when he's finished? 00:35:54.159 --> 00:35:55.280 It's gonna go on a splay. 00:35:55.440 --> 00:35:56.480 Okay, it's gonna get on a slay. 00:35:56.559 --> 00:35:56.880 Okay, good. 00:35:56.960 --> 00:36:00.639 And then we also have the um Northern Wrestling Foundation. 00:36:00.800 --> 00:36:05.280 They're gonna come in and uh do a couple wrestling matches and fun stuff for the families. 00:36:05.440 --> 00:36:08.400 Oh my gosh, that's and they're the ones that go out to the y'all's every Wednesday. 00:36:08.639 --> 00:36:09.519 Yes, yes, exactly. 00:36:09.840 --> 00:36:10.159 They're awesome. 00:36:10.320 --> 00:36:11.119 I know exactly what I'm saying. 00:36:11.199 --> 00:36:13.280 And then we have an entertainment stage down there. 00:36:13.360 --> 00:36:30.159 I mean, there's there's just something going on and all the food and the benders and the live broadcast, and it's just a huge the biggest celebration in the history with the biggest fireworks show and the biggest drone show and the biggest soundtrack, and it's all us. 00:36:30.400 --> 00:36:30.880 I love it. 00:36:31.039 --> 00:36:36.400 I love it, and that is way more than we used to just sit down there trying to find a boyfriend to kiss with a cake. 00:36:36.880 --> 00:36:38.239 I don't think there was a cake. 00:36:38.400 --> 00:36:40.480 Because I don't think there was any live, I don't even think we did live music. 00:36:40.559 --> 00:36:42.320 We had literally hit our boom boxes, yeah. 00:36:44.719 --> 00:36:48.800 Boom box double D batteries for those bad boys for the whole to make it through the night.

00:36:49.039 --> 00:36:49.360 I remember. 00:36:49.519 --> 00:36:50.880 I mean, that is literally what we did. 00:36:51.280 --> 00:36:54.800 Um all I'm picturing is guys with no shirt and jeans and a belt. 00:36:54.960 --> 00:36:58.159 Like that's the look that I remember of those times, which is so funny. 00:36:58.320 --> 00:36:59.679 It's it's true, with big hair. 00:36:59.840 --> 00:37:01.199 With big hair, big curly hair. 00:37:01.679 --> 00:37:04.559 And those guys are probably, you know, now bigger with no hair. 00:37:04.719 --> 00:37:05.039 Yeah. 00:37:07.119 --> 00:37:08.320 Because we're talking 50 years. 00:37:08.400 --> 00:37:08.480 True. 00:37:08.719 --> 00:37:09.119 No, I'm just kidding. 00:37:10.719 --> 00:37:12.960 Okay, let's do a little uh lightning round. 00:37:13.119 --> 00:37:13.519 Oh no. 00:37:13.760 --> 00:37:14.079 This is fun. 00:37:14.159 --> 00:37:14.559 You can do this. 00:37:14.639 --> 00:37:15.679 Oh gosh, I'll go. 00:37:15.760 --> 00:37:17.199 Your favorite Cincinnati restaurant. 00:37:17.519 --> 00:37:18.559 Or northern, like whatever. 00:37:18.719 --> 00:37:20.000 Northern Kentucky can be edited too. 00:37:20.079 --> 00:37:21.119 Naughty Pine on the Bayou. 00:37:21.360 --> 00:37:22.800 Oh, I haven't been there in a minute. 00:37:22.880 --> 00:37:23.440 That reminds me. 00:37:23.599 --> 00:37:24.079 I need to go back. 00:37:24.159 --> 00:37:24.719 That that's good. 00:37:24.960 --> 00:37:25.599 Easy, easy. 00:37:25.760 --> 00:37:26.079 Okay. 00:37:26.239 --> 00:37:28.159 Well, one was best concert you've ever seen. 00:37:28.239 --> 00:37:30.960 But what I mean, what what would you say your best concert was? 00:37:31.599 --> 00:37:31.920 That's it. 00:37:32.000 --> 00:37:32.880 I think that's a hard one, too. 00:37:33.280 --> 00:37:33.920 That's a hard one. 00:37:34.000 --> 00:37:34.320 I know. 00:37:34.559 --> 00:37:42.000 Because I want to like I will say recently, recently, the best concert I've seen was Youngblood. 00:37:42.320 --> 00:37:47.280 Oh, I really shoot. 00:37:48.000 --> 00:37:51.360 Um okay, what is always in your purse on fireworks day? 00:37:51.679 --> 00:37:52.800 It's always in my purse. 00:37:53.039 --> 00:37:53.679 My charger. 00:37:54.719 --> 00:37:55.199 100%. 00:37:55.599 --> 00:37:56.159 And my phone. 00:37:56.239 --> 00:38:00.159 And Apple's trying to tell me now I need a new phone because it's dying in like an hour and a half. 00:38:00.239 --> 00:38:02.480 Um I I I see what you're doing to me here. 00:38:02.800 --> 00:38:04.800 Um coffee or cocktails? 00:38:05.440 --> 00:38:06.159 Cocktails. 00:38:06.400 --> 00:38:06.719 Okay. 00:38:07.360 --> 00:38:09.440 One word to describe Cincinnati. 00:38:10.159 --> 00:38:11.280 I this is a hard one, Joe. 00:38:11.519 --> 00:38:12.079 Community. 00:38:12.320 --> 00:38:14.159 Oh, I like that one. 00:38:14.800 --> 00:38:16.000 I like that one. 00:38:16.400 --> 00:38:17.760 Um okay. 00:38:17.920 --> 00:38:20.320 Well, I mean, this is so, so fun. 00:38:21.119 --> 00:38:24.000 And let's wrap it up with just one more thing. 00:38:24.239 --> 00:38:26.159 I think if I'll shout out to Abby Branscombe. 00:38:26.320 --> 00:38:26.559 Oh, yeah. 00:38:26.800 --> 00:38:27.039 Shout out. 00:38:27.280 --> 00:38:28.079 Here, you have a lot of notes. 00:38:28.159 --> 00:38:32.239 Is there anybody on there on your on your acceptance speech for you award that you would like to do that? 00:38:32.400 --> 00:38:35.119 Oh, we are getting forgotten about one more thing. 00:38:35.440 --> 00:38:37.440 But no, yes, tell us all the secrets huge. 00:38:37.599 --> 00:38:38.000 I love it. 00:38:38.159 --> 00:38:38.639 Oh my gosh. 00:38:38.800 --> 00:38:40.480 Oh, first of all, thank you to Local 12. 00:38:40.559 --> 00:38:41.840 They're our TV partner. 00:38:42.079 --> 00:38:45.039 Oh, so that's where you can tune in if you can't get out. 00:38:45.280 --> 00:38:53.360 They're running a special that starts at eight o'clock as a one-hour special on um EBN in the 50 years, and then it's gonna go straight into the live broadcast at nine. 00:38:53.519 --> 00:38:53.760 Okay. 00:38:53.920 --> 00:38:55.039 So that's channel 12. 00:38:55.119 --> 00:38:55.760 Thank you for that. 00:38:55.920 --> 00:38:58.800 And also, um, oh my gosh, how'd I forget this? 00:38:59.119 --> 00:39:06.800 New this year, and once one time only, right next to the live broadcast stage, we're having the Lunatic Legacy Lounge. 00:39:07.039 --> 00:39:17.119 So the OG DJs are gonna be able to come back and do autographs and photos, and Wildman's gonna be signing his books and oh, the lunatic fringe of American ethics. 00:39:17.280 --> 00:39:17.920 Yeah, the lunatic. 00:39:18.480 --> 00:39:19.440 I wanted to be on the radio. 00:39:19.519 --> 00:39:20.239 I have a voice for that. 00:39:20.400 --> 00:39:20.559 I know. 00:39:20.880 --> 00:39:22.239 And let's see what other shout outs. 00:39:22.400 --> 00:39:28.800 Western, southern, miles, Scott Reinhardt, Chad Schaefer, Stefan Schellhouse, everybody. 00:39:29.119 --> 00:39:33.840 So many people, all my PS amazing night, you know, that we all get to. 00:39:34.079 --> 00:39:38.480 And now all we do is everybody praise don't, don't, good weather. 00:39:39.039 --> 00:39:39.599 You just gotta pray. 00:39:39.840 --> 00:39:40.480 Nope, nope, nope. 00:39:40.639 --> 00:39:41.280 It's all things. 00:39:41.360 --> 00:39:42.159 It's gonna be good weather. 00:39:42.239 --> 00:39:43.519 It's gonna be fantastic. 00:39:43.679 --> 00:39:44.960 It's gonna be great, right? 00:39:45.119 --> 00:39:45.599 Everyone? 00:39:45.840 --> 00:39:46.239 It is. 00:39:46.320 --> 00:39:47.360 It's gonna be great. 00:39:47.679 --> 00:39:49.760 Um okay. 00:39:49.920 --> 00:39:52.079 Like I think we covered, we covered a lot of stuff. 00:39:52.239 --> 00:39:52.639 We did. 00:39:52.880 --> 00:39:54.559 Where to watch, da-da-da. 00:39:54.960 --> 00:40:00.480 Okay, so where can people find any updates or anything they need to keep up with what to do or what's going on? 00:40:00.639 --> 00:40:02.800 Road closures, all the things, because all that stuff happens. 00:40:03.119 --> 00:40:04.480 Well on WEBN.com. 00:40:04.639 --> 00:40:04.880 Okay. 00:40:05.039 --> 00:40:07.760 So there is actually a fireworks exclusive section. 00:40:08.079 --> 00:40:08.639 Oh, nice. 00:40:08.800 --> 00:40:12.400 So you can go there and um get everything that you need to know. 00:40:12.639 --> 00:40:13.360 I love it. 00:40:13.599 --> 00:40:14.719 Okay, everybody. 00:40:14.960 --> 00:40:18.000 Uh, get your t-shirt, get your plan. 00:40:18.320 --> 00:40:21.440 I think this is when you're gonna want to really be there to see it if you can. 00:40:22.400 --> 00:40:32.000 Um, and and thank you to you guys for doing it because honestly, it is your way to tell Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky how much you love them because it is an epic situation. 00:40:32.320 --> 00:40:33.920 And we're so lucky to have it. 00:40:34.079 --> 00:40:34.480 I love it. 00:40:34.639 --> 00:40:34.800 Yeah. 00:40:34.960 --> 00:40:40.239 And uh cheers to you guys and cheers to you for doing all you do for us to make this happen. 00:40:40.320 --> 00:40:42.559 Because I know it's a shit ton of work. 00:40:43.199 --> 00:40:45.039 Yes, with a with very few people. 00:40:45.280 --> 00:40:45.599 Yes. 00:40:45.840 --> 00:40:46.159 All right. 00:40:46.320 --> 00:40:48.079 And I don't want to take too much of your time either. 00:40:48.239 --> 00:40:49.840 So thank you so much, everybody. 00:40:50.559 --> 00:40:50.960 Cheers.