Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus join The Kathy Romano Show

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00:00we're in the hallway and the reason we're in the hallway is because of our next guest

00:03so i'm here with juanita and chen they're from ringling brothers and barnum and bailey circus

00:08uh presents the greatest show on earth they're coming to xfinity mobile arena february 13th to

00:14the 16th tickets on sale xfinitymobilearena.com juanita hi nice to meet you hi good morning so

00:20happy to be here you guys along with my friend chen here and you know show you a little exclusive

00:25here in the station but also to invite everybody at home just like you said it is the greatest show

00:30on earth also aka the greatest party on earth that's right that's right wow now i know why they

00:38picked you to go out and do pr uh how long have you been with the circus so i myself have been with

00:44ringling brothers and barnum and bailey since last year april been able to do a lot of fun things with

00:48them um and but this is my first foray into circus and circus life and being with professional

00:55circus performers um chen has been practicing his handstand balancing and everything since he was

01:02five years old so so chen's over here you know one of these performers that's like yeah i've been

01:08doing it since i was five years old check that out yeah all right well i can't wait to see some of that

01:11but you um you're a singer do you sing in the show yes i do so we are the ringling hype peru and like

01:18you said we do pr and we do these events three weeks ahead of the big circus to be able to invite

01:24everybody and get everybody warmed up so as part of our our whole mission here we actually have

01:29a 30-minute show so i am the emcee and singer and you know we get to sing a little bit welcome to the

01:35show great i would imagine just by i'm watching her move while she talks you have to be a dancer

01:43uh yeah i i would say strong mover definitely a strong mover like as she's talking she's dancing and

01:50i'm like this i want to see like more of this well i guess i guess i have to go to the circus to do

01:54that absolutely you do because check it out guys we're going to be here just like you said february

01:5913th through the 16th and it is a party when i tell you that is a non-stop two hours and even before

02:06the party starts like there's a free show my girl madison and our lovable robo cup bailey circuit

02:14they are working the crowd and interacting with the kids asking them questions really getting

02:18everybody's like revved up for when this big opening number begins to like leaving job on the

02:25jaws on the floor jaws on the floor i love her so much i'm like mesmerized while she's speaking i just

02:34watching her she's so beautiful and the way she speaks is like this and we're video we're videoing all

02:41this so we'll be able to see this all hopefully in our social media soon right we're definitely doing

02:45the videos yeah so we're gonna have um we have video we'll have that up there um but i'm gonna

02:49describe to you what's about to happen so chen's gonna show us a little bit so he he juggles but he's

02:54also a hand balancer and i was like well i need to see what this is now i know you usually like work on

02:59a table but uh we're gonna try some stuff on the floor today yeah absolutely so like i said chen has

03:04been practicing and you can go ahead chen you can show us what you got so this is actually what chen

03:09started in the beijing international art school when he was five years old is this is what he

03:13started practicing and you can see the amount of core strength that it takes sorry no no i just

03:19want to explain what to you so he's on his hands now he's on one hand and both of his legs are

03:25completely over to one side like the the how still he is in doing this is incredible and look at that

03:33the other one too boom and so he's on one hand right now just bouncing on his right hand and then

03:38pushes back up into a handstand from that one hand like look okay listen i i do it looks like

03:45gravity there's like no gravity in the hallway the way he's holding himself up like that's amazing

03:49okay so i do yoga and i've learned handstands uh you know a little bit but i'm watching his hands and

03:55they always tell you to use your fingers are your fingers so important in doing this yeah the finger

04:00is important and you're like almost like grabbing the ground with your finger yeah i'm working

04:04an eagle yeah oh yeah um chen is uh does jokes on the side let me tell you he's a little standard

04:13comedian um do you can we see a little juggling so bobby before we went on the air bobby showed chen

04:21his juggling uh skills which were pretty good i cannot juggle at all but you can do handstands so go

04:27ahead i did my juggling so go ahead kathy i can't do anything but i cannot juggle i always find the

04:33jugglers so interesting i think because i can't do it um and they don't just go like in that normal

04:38circle like he's throwing the balls in different directions and yeah i can't do any of that that's

04:42amazing what he can do how what else do you juggle in what else does he juggle in the show oh well so

04:47this is actually chen's hobby and part of our look at that he's doing it on the floor right now he's

04:52bouncing off the floor under the leg let's go chen um so this is chen's hobby and uh in our show he

04:59does his full handstand balancing act where he goes 30 feet in the air almost it's like as tall as a

05:05school bus you want to do one more throw one more so chen's been juggling three balls right now i just

05:09tossed him a fourth one look at that hand he worked yeah can you give him the fifth one too oh let's go

05:17oh check it out boom hey boom hey that's right oh this is incredible yeah all four of them on the

05:24ground and juggling them now he's got the fifth he's gonna try five and by the way we are gonna

05:28have this video yes uh brett is videoing it right now yeah be 101 philly.com slash kathy and it'll be

05:34on our social media as well yeah and then what's amazing to me is just the hand-eye coordination that

05:39is required to be able to do this but juggling is so much fun too because you can you can play circus

05:45pretty much anywhere anytime anyplace and juggling is one of those things that's right chen um where

05:49you can pick it up and practice in your house sitting down and the the sense of accomplishment

05:55when you actually manage to do the thing let me tell you that's the dopamine the serotonin all of

06:02that is going on let me tell you listen i think if you get your tickets to go to the circus you're

06:06gonna get a lot of energy especially if juanita is there did you just throw him a six yes ma'am

06:12um he's juggling six right now i can't see him from my angle he's doing six oh my gosh six bobby

06:18you should step out here so you can see him if you can't yeah so he is juggling six uh tickets you

06:23can get to the circus it's a party here this morning xfinity mobile arena.com uh the ringling

06:31brothers and barnum and bailey circus presents the greatest show on earth february 13th 13th to the

06:3616th what other than than you guys what else can people expect i always love the trapeze is that

06:43there goodness yes the trapeze and it's a crisscross trapeze so it's like a big act um it's incredible

06:50and one of my favorite things is that this year we have this giant led screen that really gets put to

06:55use because cam he's our hammer guy right so he's actually in the action taking some angles that

07:03you the audience have never been able to see before one of my favorites is the trapeze

07:06he goes under the net oh floor up you could see that view on the big screen as the trapeze artists

07:13are flying and landing it's incredible and you'll get some singing from juanita guys thank you so much

07:21for coming by the studio today we really appreciate it again xfinity mobile arena.com if you want to go

07:26see the circus that was our first kathy romano show live broadcast from the hallway by the way how about

07:30some applause for that yes live from the hallway bobby i'm going to take two steps and come come on back

07:36in the studio it's the kathy romano show on philly's b101

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