Chaz Rough: Welcome everyone to this edition of lookin’ @ Louisville. My name is Chaz.
Stacey Yates: And I’m Stacey.
Chaz Rough: We’re here at the beautiful Water Front Park in Downtown, Louisville.
Stacey Yates: That’s why I’m here on the gorgeous spring day, and just ride around the corner is the opening celebration for the Kentucky Derby Festival, Thunder of Louisville.
Chaz Rough: Now hopefully during the Derby week and all the festivities we will have beautiful spring weather like we have here because there are so many things to do.
Stacey Yates: That’s right and Thunder Over Louisville just to kick off is the nation’s largest air show and firework show. It’s an all day event. And it’s the kick off where two weeks actually three weeks this year at Derby Festival Fun. There are over 70 events most which you can get it free for if you just go back here. This is a Pegasus pin
Chaz Rough: And you can pick up the Pegasus pin in all the retail stores of all throughout the city.
Stacey Yates: And at the entrance of most events, a lot of voyage takes place right here on the great one.
Chaz Rough: Now we’re going also to speak with Mike Berry, the President of the Kentucky Derby Festival and we’re going to go to kick out party.
Stacey Yates: And as a little preview of that the events I had.
Chaz Rough: And they get to take you with this you only need a pass to get in.
Stacey Yates: Oh, but you should have the pen.
Chaz Rough: Be sure you have a pen, and we’re also going to take you around Louisville on some of the key places where some of the big events.
Stacey Yates: Where the Pegasus currently started and then of course we have to eat, so we’re going to—where are you people preferred for the mini mere fun. We’re going to show you one of our favorites art alert. Really get started?
Chaz Rough: Yes I am.
Stacey Yates: It’s Derby week. We are here with a very good of mine and my former boss I won’t say old but this is Mike Berry, President/CEO of the Kentucky Derby Festival. First of all tell us why are you staying here for the globe?
Mike Berry: We stand from the globe because the theme of this year’s festival is a world of fun, so it’s all going to be of that about multi-cultures, diversity having a big world class party. You know you are going to see lots of international units. We’re working with the Mayor’s Office of International Affairs. You can see cultural groups boats and floats where a lot of the inflatable, the John inflatable that we do during the parade. There are going to be like media explorations.
Stacey Yates: We’re under my second merry fun this year.
Mike Berry: I’m going to finish it this year.
Chaz rough: Have launched that—
Stacey Yates: Yeah, tell us a little about that.
Mike Berry: We went a full marathon and a half marathon and both of them started in Earth quake Park and run the same route including a Loop 30 and fill the Churchill Downs which is very cool because the horses are on the truck and you know.
Stacey Yates: I had a glass
Mike Berry: It’s the whole state. We almost have a lot of workers play as runners. We have runners this last year for 49 states, but we also add from 12 different countries.
Stacey Yates: Where else are you going to made you looking finish.
Mike Berry: That’s right.
Chaz Rough: Now, what is that? I can’t remember there’s a small little bin with its fonder over loop I think they feature all the firecrackers in here, right?
Mike Berry: That’s it. Me on the bridge with the sparkler, it’s a flashlight.
Chaz Rough: But if become a big sparkle now to do.
Stacey Yates: Some years probably we’ll going to have to do that.
Chaz Rough: Now how many years have you got this?
Mike Berry: Actually Thunder Over Louisville is probably of that 19 years old now.
Chaz Rough: You mean it’s huge. It shakes and sweating.
Mike Berry: It really does. Thunder is our largest event and it actually is a component of two things and one is the future show that starts about two or three in the afternoon. It goes all the afternoon and you’re going to see not only virtual beautiful of military planes but the best, the biggest and the loudest is that the United States Air force and the army and the navy have to offer, but also we’re going to do a little lot this world theme and again in fact the team of thunders out of this world.
And we’re going to be having some international acts that are going to come in and do some of the show. Hear also the sound tracts are really big when we get to the fire works at 9:30, and we’re going to be doing a lot of international music and cultural music. And then of course fire works are different country to country, so we’re going to have fireworks from Spain and from Japan and from China and take your place over the globe, but believe me they really looked different.
Stacey Yates: Now for people they are used to know it’s a two weeks of flirty derby.
Mike Berry: That’s right.
Stacey Yates: Where you need to mark the counter. Is it right?
Mike Berry: That’s right. We’re April 12 this year that’s three Saturdays early and that’s three weeks before Derby and a week early because it past over that.
Chaz Rough: And what about 750,000 people on the river for golf?
Mike Berry: Actually, Stacey last time she counted came up with few more than that then you know.
Chaz Rough: Here we take it. Give and take her the 400,000.
Stacey Yates: For the testing that you required early for the entire month of April as you celebrate the Derby Festival. This three days have is that’s going to be your ticket to a bunch of entertainment including an event that started last year, and it’s kind of Chow Wagon if you’re familiar with that and that is the festivals.
Mike Berry: That’s right. Progress think of that Chow Wagon. We are all familiar with the Chow Wagon; It’s been around for a long time. It’s Chow Wagon on stairways, and we have completely separate entertainment stage, a lot for kids to do. We’ve incorporated some of our events down there they run for roseleaf’s count down there. We’ve got one feast is down there which is a land testing.
Chaz Rough: Very cool.
Stacey Yates: You know that.
Mike Berry: It’s actually. We’re that.
Stacey Yates: Another with Kentucky products.
Mike Berry: That’s right. We’ve got Bourbon there and thanks to the Commissions Bureau. We are doing a Bourbon country again this year, and it’s great and go down there and you do testing they are hosting you learn all of that.
Stacey Yates: Give the master the stealers of your favorite Bourbon
Mike Berry: That’s right, you will learn all of that Kentucky’s mother’s milk, Bourbon.
Stacey Yates: Mike thank you so much. It’s look like they’re getting ready.
Mike Berry: Yeah.
Stacey Yates: We’ll see you on all of some of the 70 events of this year’s Kentucky Derby Festival.
Chaz Rough: Alright Stacey, we’re here on Broadway we have a nice little venue for the Pegasus parade. Give us an idea of what the Pegasus parade’s about and exactly where we are.
Stacey Yates: Sure, it’s kind of that insiders knowledge here we’re actually in the Broadcast Food where waved television does the whole parade entirely live on television. It’s where John Belsky and Don G. hang out and sometimes throughout for years while in Scottsdale as sitting right now. There’s going to be over a 100 units that are going to march down Broadway for Cabletron 9th Street. Free viewing in most areas around 250,000 will line Broadway on the Thursday before the derby. There’s a really un expensive major tickets.
If you want to make sure that you got a spot reserved though, you want to come early and that you’re blocking your chairs, and also one of the best tips that I think to share with viewers is right across the street there’s a stand and the tickets are really nominal for that $25 for a ticket. You’ll get a lot for that value. You are right in the heart of the action right across in the Broadcast view. Then people may not know this, but they’ve got signs about the black up that are telling the parade participants with the marching bands and the celebrities to wave a little stronger, play their band, but instruments a little louder because it’s the television. It’s really a lot of energy to goes right here during those two hours of parade.
Chaz Rough: Well you know all these derby festivities coming out I’m developing this huge derby appetite.
Stacey Yates: You know I am too, and I’m training for the many so let’s go to race in Carbo.
Chaz Rough: It’s Carbo Louisville where you can visit
Stacey Yates: That’s right, let’s go.
Chaz Rough: Well we finally made here in the Crescent Hill to Ray Parella’s restaurant and frankly phenomenon, and we have of course Ray Parella here with the staple here and Stacey.
Stacey Yates: And running champion, long time runner of the mini marathon which kind of when we set up this segment. We are Carbo loading and in training, and there we’re going to be any of the race though. This is a world class runner. Tell us a little about your running history.
Ray Parella: I think I started running when I was 45 and I set most of my natural work is the age of 50 and 60 and the Popper Johns, there’s a national get that run in 63 minutes at the age of 67. So those 7:43 records but most of my records was set to when I was 50 years old.
Stacey Yates: Okay, and how many minutes have you ran, remember?
Ray Parella: About 25.
Stacey Yates: Okay, are you ready this year?
Ray Parella: No, I just recovered from knee surgery.
Stacey Yates: Okay, do you have any tips for everyone?
Ray Parella: Yeah, I’m coaching some people at the Downtown way and you should start loading out on liquids starting on 13 and after the day before.
Stacey Yates: Okay.
Chaz Rough: And these bigger boys will come to the run?
Ray Parella: Yeah, we’ll be busy.
Stacey Yates: If you don’t have tickets to the run, we’ll pass it there definitely.
Ray Parella: This is Italian.
Chaz Rough: This is Italian and make a pasta.
Ray Parella: Alright, all pasta makes you one feast.
Chaz Rough: Well, look at here look at how many records he’s broken.
Stacey Yates: And an excellent cappuccino maybe.
Chaz Rough: Yes, they actually made our cappuccino.
Stacey Yates: Thanks for having us.
Ray Parella: I’m so glad you showed up and congratulations on your training and I hope you do well.
Stacey Yates: How about you too.
Chaz Rough: And as always.
Stacey Yates: You’re lookin’ @ Louisville.
Chaz Rough: See you real soon.
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