Yesterday, Phish finally confirmed that their long-rumored eleventh multi-day festival, Curveball, will take place August 17th – 19th at Watkins Glen International in Watkins Glen, NY. While strong rumors about the festival have floated through the Phish grapevine for the better part of a year, the announcement understandably sent a wave of excitement rolling through the fan base.

One particularly enthusiastic fan, Steve Lacy, professed his excitement from the tallest platform he could: his seat as the weeknight news anchor for Fox 5 New York. Lacy has never been shy about his Phish fandom on the air before and has previously joked about the band’s upcoming New York shows as they come around. Today, with the announcement of Curveball just a few hours from the city, Lacy managed to parlay his excitement into a full package on the festival on the evening news.

In it, he jokes about how his wife isn’t exactly excited as he is about the festival and solemnly swears to be out there getting down this August. But the best part of the clip is probably Lacy’s co-anchor, Dari Alexander. Like many of your non-Phish friends, she shoots Lacy a befuddled and amused side-eye throughout the segment. As she retorts after Lacy finishes, “That was, like, a little private interlude…Can we get back to the newscast now? You and your tribe…”

As Lacy joked when sharing the clip on his Facebook, “You a big racing fan? No. I said ‘raging’. You’re going to Watkins Glen for the raging? Yes.” Watch Steve Lacy’s Curveball segment on Fox 5 News last night below:

Located amidst the rolling hills of central New York’s Finger Lakes region, Watkins Glen offers an abundance of campsites and is just a short drive from numerous Northeastern cities. Curveball continues a tradition that began with The Clifford Ball in August 1996 and will mark Phish’s third weekend festival at Watkin’s Glen, following Super Ball IX in 2011 and Magnaball in 2015. Prior to Super Ball, the NASCAR track hadn’t hosted a concert event since the famous Summer Jam in 1973, a single-day concert by The Grateful Dead, The Allman Brothers Band, and The Band which saw 600,000 fans descend on the venue.

We’ll see you out there, Steve!