1 00:00:00,360 --> 00:00:06,680 Speaker 1: A summer time and the great song selection from producer keV. 2 00:00:06,800 --> 00:00:10,040 Speaker 2: This is the Kendal and k C Show ninety three Wibc, 3 00:00:10,200 --> 00:00:13,640 Speaker 2: Ethan Hatcher and Brad Klopfenstein filling in. And what better 4 00:00:13,680 --> 00:00:17,720 Speaker 2: summertime activity is there, Brad than attending the Indiana State Fair. 5 00:00:18,239 --> 00:00:20,040 Speaker 1: I love the Indiana State Fair. 6 00:00:20,120 --> 00:00:23,479 Speaker 2: It is by far one of the best highlights every year. 7 00:00:23,720 --> 00:00:25,360 Speaker 2: I've never had a bad day at the State Fair. 8 00:00:25,400 --> 00:00:27,320 Speaker 2: How can you have a bad day at the State Fair? 9 00:00:27,360 --> 00:00:32,440 Speaker 2: There's midway, there's animals, there's music, there's chatchkes, there's food, 10 00:00:32,680 --> 00:00:35,600 Speaker 2: there's anything and everything and wonderful people in between. 11 00:00:35,760 --> 00:00:37,800 Speaker 1: I love going to the State Fair. What say you bring? 12 00:00:37,960 --> 00:00:40,559 Speaker 1: I would agree? Which I like a good festival? I 13 00:00:40,640 --> 00:00:43,199 Speaker 1: like a good party to a parogi fest proces. That's 14 00:00:43,240 --> 00:00:45,600 Speaker 1: why I was. I was in waiting for parogi fests 15 00:00:45,720 --> 00:00:46,320 Speaker 1: last Friday. 16 00:00:46,600 --> 00:00:49,159 Speaker 2: Help tell people what a parogi is, because I actually 17 00:00:49,240 --> 00:00:52,760 Speaker 2: was introduced to parogis by my Pennsylvania friend a couple 18 00:00:52,760 --> 00:00:55,320 Speaker 2: of years ago. I've never had a parogi before, so 19 00:00:55,480 --> 00:00:57,360 Speaker 2: progis are typically a pole. 20 00:00:57,480 --> 00:01:00,240 Speaker 1: It's like a Polish dumpling. Pretty much any society has 21 00:01:00,280 --> 00:01:03,080 Speaker 1: their version of a dumpling. Sure, but this is a 22 00:01:03,080 --> 00:01:06,240 Speaker 1: about the size of a clam and it's like a 23 00:01:06,240 --> 00:01:08,800 Speaker 1: potato thing. It is stuffed with potato and it kid 24 00:01:08,800 --> 00:01:12,960 Speaker 1: have sour kraut or cheese or there's. So they probably 25 00:01:13,000 --> 00:01:15,080 Speaker 1: had twenty five different types of progi's up there, the 26 00:01:15,080 --> 00:01:17,200 Speaker 1: potatoes inside of it. I thought the soto was the 27 00:01:17,280 --> 00:01:19,840 Speaker 1: dumpling material. Well I don't know. So it's like a 28 00:01:19,920 --> 00:01:21,800 Speaker 1: dough on the outside and you got a filling. So 29 00:01:21,840 --> 00:01:24,480 Speaker 1: the potato and whatever else is in there is the 30 00:01:24,480 --> 00:01:25,399 Speaker 1: filling that goes in it. 31 00:01:25,440 --> 00:01:27,360 Speaker 2: So see, I've had a perogi a couple of times 32 00:01:27,360 --> 00:01:29,319 Speaker 2: and I still don't know what the damn thing right exactly. 33 00:01:29,720 --> 00:01:31,560 Speaker 1: It's Yeah, it's basically a big dumpling. 34 00:01:31,480 --> 00:01:34,200 Speaker 2: Potato at starch. It's tasty, it's good, it's fried. Any 35 00:01:34,520 --> 00:01:36,880 Speaker 2: anytime you fry something, you know, it's it's going to 36 00:01:36,920 --> 00:01:38,440 Speaker 2: find a home in the state of Indiana. 37 00:01:38,520 --> 00:01:41,400 Speaker 1: So yeah. So this festival, apparently it started off thirty 38 00:01:41,400 --> 00:01:44,040 Speaker 1: five years ago, was a small thing. They probably had. 39 00:01:44,120 --> 00:01:45,560 Speaker 1: I think they said they were going to get about 40 00:01:45,560 --> 00:01:48,440 Speaker 1: one hundred thousand people a day that we're going to 41 00:01:48,480 --> 00:01:53,000 Speaker 1: show up. But this was four blocks long on either 42 00:01:53,040 --> 00:01:55,480 Speaker 1: side of the street. It was vendors shoulder to shoulder, 43 00:01:55,560 --> 00:01:59,480 Speaker 1: So I'm guessing I don't know, forty vendors, maybe fifty vendors, 44 00:01:59,480 --> 00:02:01,720 Speaker 1: and they all had prog's and various other things on 45 00:02:01,760 --> 00:02:04,040 Speaker 1: a pole, sausage that had beer tents. They had like 46 00:02:04,120 --> 00:02:08,120 Speaker 1: five live music stages. The one hundred thousand people a day, 47 00:02:08,440 --> 00:02:10,400 Speaker 1: thousand a day. How long was this festival going on? 48 00:02:10,760 --> 00:02:12,440 Speaker 1: Three days Friday, Saturday, Sunday. 49 00:02:12,520 --> 00:02:15,320 Speaker 2: Okay, well, hey, that stacks up at least pretty decent 50 00:02:15,400 --> 00:02:18,120 Speaker 2: for a small town festival compared to the Indiana State Fair, 51 00:02:18,160 --> 00:02:21,800 Speaker 2: which usually sees about eight hundred and nine hundred thousand attendees. 52 00:02:21,919 --> 00:02:25,280 Speaker 2: And you know, hopefully we'll get a bunch coming this year. Yeah, 53 00:02:24,919 --> 00:02:27,200 Speaker 2: So when you go, what is the first thing you do? 54 00:02:27,240 --> 00:02:27,880 Speaker 2: When you go to the fair? 55 00:02:27,960 --> 00:02:30,440 Speaker 1: First thing I do is check out the Pioneer Village. 56 00:02:30,480 --> 00:02:33,320 Speaker 2: I always go the rear entrance because you can usually 57 00:02:33,360 --> 00:02:35,960 Speaker 2: find a good place to park over there by what 58 00:02:36,120 --> 00:02:38,440 Speaker 2: used to be the Farm Bureau building that is now 59 00:02:38,480 --> 00:02:40,280 Speaker 2: I think the State Farm building. 60 00:02:40,680 --> 00:02:44,160 Speaker 1: That maybe Lord you park at the Deaf school. 61 00:02:44,480 --> 00:02:46,640 Speaker 2: I part near the Deaf school right, okay, right in 62 00:02:46,680 --> 00:02:49,440 Speaker 2: the rear, and then walk in through the Farm Bureau building, 63 00:02:49,560 --> 00:02:51,240 Speaker 2: check out whatever they've got going in there. 64 00:02:51,560 --> 00:02:52,200 Speaker 1: Check out the. 65 00:02:53,800 --> 00:02:55,320 Speaker 2: I can't remember the name of the structure with the 66 00:02:55,320 --> 00:02:57,440 Speaker 2: solar panels on it, and the oh yeah, yeah, the 67 00:02:57,480 --> 00:02:59,800 Speaker 2: farming structure. And then I love to check out everything 68 00:03:00,040 --> 00:03:02,320 Speaker 2: in the Pioneer Village, all those Yeah, I mean, you 69 00:03:02,360 --> 00:03:03,520 Speaker 2: know how much I love antiques. 70 00:03:03,600 --> 00:03:04,840 Speaker 1: Well, that's just it. I was gonna say, that is 71 00:03:04,919 --> 00:03:07,480 Speaker 1: right up your alley. Yeah, because yes, you're like anything 72 00:03:07,480 --> 00:03:08,400 Speaker 1: that's one hundred years. 73 00:03:08,280 --> 00:03:10,800 Speaker 2: Old, well, and getting to see the way, you know, 74 00:03:11,160 --> 00:03:13,640 Speaker 2: things were made one hundred years ago, like you said, 75 00:03:13,639 --> 00:03:17,080 Speaker 2: in the machinery that is still in operation and being 76 00:03:17,160 --> 00:03:20,280 Speaker 2: kept alive by the love and perseverance of people who 77 00:03:20,320 --> 00:03:23,200 Speaker 2: are keeping stewards of that history. 78 00:03:23,440 --> 00:03:27,000 Speaker 1: Antique tractors are must see for me. I love seeing 79 00:03:27,040 --> 00:03:29,120 Speaker 1: the old tractors, and you're right, it's amazing. I mean, 80 00:03:29,200 --> 00:03:31,800 Speaker 1: just like classic cards. It's amazing that these things all 81 00:03:31,840 --> 00:03:34,920 Speaker 1: still run and they've been kept up. And yeah, to 82 00:03:34,920 --> 00:03:38,360 Speaker 1: see the various designs that were on them. And then 83 00:03:38,440 --> 00:03:40,240 Speaker 1: the food. Now do you go to the midway at all? No, 84 00:03:40,400 --> 00:03:41,960 Speaker 1: I always skipped the midway, see too. 85 00:03:42,120 --> 00:03:44,320 Speaker 2: I am a man of tradition, and I've been doing 86 00:03:44,360 --> 00:03:46,840 Speaker 2: the State Fair the same way since I was buttle lad, 87 00:03:47,040 --> 00:03:49,280 Speaker 2: and I always make sure to make my way around 88 00:03:49,280 --> 00:03:50,240 Speaker 2: the entire loop. 89 00:03:50,280 --> 00:03:52,040 Speaker 1: And then I usually like to get the. 90 00:03:52,280 --> 00:03:54,920 Speaker 2: Highlights of the fair food, because why I come to 91 00:03:54,960 --> 00:03:56,960 Speaker 2: the State Fair. I come to eat. I come to 92 00:03:57,200 --> 00:03:59,400 Speaker 2: you know, get all you know, my fried fixings. I 93 00:03:59,480 --> 00:04:02,080 Speaker 2: like an elf, I like a corn dog. I like 94 00:04:02,080 --> 00:04:05,680 Speaker 2: a Ribbi sandwich. I like a margarita, like a turkey leg. 95 00:04:06,640 --> 00:04:08,240 Speaker 2: And I don't have as big of an appetite as 96 00:04:08,240 --> 00:04:09,640 Speaker 2: I used to. I lost a bunch of weights, so 97 00:04:09,720 --> 00:04:11,960 Speaker 2: now I got to share a lot of this bundy, 98 00:04:12,240 --> 00:04:14,800 Speaker 2: So that way I can actually eat my way around 99 00:04:14,840 --> 00:04:17,520 Speaker 2: the State Fair. And then, you know, maybe check out 100 00:04:17,560 --> 00:04:20,599 Speaker 2: one of the new specialty items that they're selling as well. 101 00:04:20,800 --> 00:04:23,400 Speaker 2: Always got to get some cotton candy. Always got to 102 00:04:23,440 --> 00:04:26,360 Speaker 2: get some of that kettle corn that sold right next 103 00:04:26,360 --> 00:04:27,440 Speaker 2: to the d NR building. 104 00:04:27,480 --> 00:04:28,920 Speaker 1: Oh my god, that's fantastic. 105 00:04:28,920 --> 00:04:31,160 Speaker 2: They've been at that spot for years and they got 106 00:04:31,160 --> 00:04:34,880 Speaker 2: that big cast iron kettle that they cook it all 107 00:04:34,920 --> 00:04:36,839 Speaker 2: in right in front of you. It's always wafting through 108 00:04:36,880 --> 00:04:39,480 Speaker 2: the air. It smells fantastic. What about you, Brad, what's 109 00:04:39,520 --> 00:04:40,640 Speaker 2: your State Fair tradition? 110 00:04:40,760 --> 00:04:43,400 Speaker 1: I love to go and I always hit the dairy 111 00:04:43,400 --> 00:04:48,359 Speaker 1: barn because I gotta have a milkshake. Whatever big meal 112 00:04:48,440 --> 00:04:50,960 Speaker 1: I'll have will either be at the pork tent or 113 00:04:50,960 --> 00:04:53,640 Speaker 1: the beef tent because I love going to the producer tents. 114 00:04:53,680 --> 00:04:56,760 Speaker 1: Plus it supports the producers. I'm not as big of 115 00:04:56,800 --> 00:05:00,480 Speaker 1: a fan of just the carnie vendors that are there. 116 00:05:00,560 --> 00:05:03,640 Speaker 2: And how can you forget since you mentioned the producers 117 00:05:03,680 --> 00:05:05,280 Speaker 2: and the uh, the. 118 00:05:05,240 --> 00:05:07,720 Speaker 1: Animals, how can you forget about the animals? I like, 119 00:05:08,440 --> 00:05:10,279 Speaker 1: I will go into the hog barn and look at 120 00:05:10,279 --> 00:05:13,240 Speaker 1: the hogs walk around on shoot sheet barn. On the 121 00:05:13,279 --> 00:05:16,040 Speaker 1: Afro ducks I always get. I love the Afro ducks. 122 00:05:16,080 --> 00:05:19,280 Speaker 1: I love the fancy chickens. Yeah, they're cool too, So 123 00:05:19,800 --> 00:05:22,640 Speaker 1: I go to that. I do like to go into 124 00:05:22,680 --> 00:05:25,440 Speaker 1: the commercial building just to see who's giving away good stuff, 125 00:05:25,440 --> 00:05:26,880 Speaker 1: because they do give away a lot of good stuff. 126 00:05:26,880 --> 00:05:27,440 Speaker 1: They're fair. 127 00:05:27,560 --> 00:05:30,839 Speaker 2: Yeah, and uh for rah building. All those kids and 128 00:05:30,880 --> 00:05:33,200 Speaker 2: their projects. Some of those kids are really artistic. Oh 129 00:05:33,279 --> 00:05:39,200 Speaker 2: screw those kids, I'm just teasing for I love you, 130 00:05:39,680 --> 00:05:45,960 Speaker 2: the the sculptures, the art, the little budding entomologists there 131 00:05:45,960 --> 00:05:48,400 Speaker 2: with their bug collections. Always like seeing all the bugs 132 00:05:48,440 --> 00:05:51,840 Speaker 2: pinned up, the beatles the things that are collected around 133 00:05:51,880 --> 00:05:54,000 Speaker 2: the state that you really never even see unless you're 134 00:05:54,000 --> 00:05:56,559 Speaker 2: going and looking for them, like these little six grade kids. 135 00:05:56,640 --> 00:05:59,160 Speaker 1: Yep. Now, have you ever taken the tram that goes overhead? Oh? 136 00:05:59,240 --> 00:06:01,800 Speaker 2: Yeah, oh, the the trend that goes overhead? No, I 137 00:06:01,839 --> 00:06:02,839 Speaker 2: take the tram around the. 138 00:06:03,000 --> 00:06:04,560 Speaker 1: That was the one that's pulled by the tractor. You've taken. 139 00:06:04,600 --> 00:06:10,919 Speaker 1: But they've also got the yeah, the overhead the skylift. Okay, yeah, 140 00:06:10,960 --> 00:06:13,200 Speaker 1: I'm not taking that. Someday I want to do it. 141 00:06:13,320 --> 00:06:15,240 Speaker 1: So I've not done that, and I've not done the 142 00:06:15,480 --> 00:06:16,640 Speaker 1: ferris wheel. It's just. 143 00:06:18,080 --> 00:06:20,640 Speaker 2: Why you got paid for it, right, fan for enough 144 00:06:20,800 --> 00:06:23,360 Speaker 2: as it is so, and they have some. 145 00:06:23,320 --> 00:06:26,120 Speaker 1: Pretty cool demonstrations over there. I know, me and my 146 00:06:26,200 --> 00:06:28,440 Speaker 1: wife went two or three years ago and they had 147 00:06:28,440 --> 00:06:31,880 Speaker 1: horses out there doing it wasn't quite barrel racing, but 148 00:06:31,920 --> 00:06:33,880 Speaker 1: they were doing all sorts of stuff with ponies, and 149 00:06:34,360 --> 00:06:36,919 Speaker 1: they were doing tricks. I don't know, but I enjoy 150 00:06:37,000 --> 00:06:39,360 Speaker 1: everything about it also the same reason I love going 151 00:06:39,400 --> 00:06:40,080 Speaker 1: to county fairs. 152 00:06:40,360 --> 00:06:45,880 Speaker 2: Yeah, and the Pepsi Coliseum. Sometimes they'll put mulch down 153 00:06:46,080 --> 00:06:48,760 Speaker 2: and then they'll have the wagon exhibit exhibitions where they 154 00:06:48,760 --> 00:06:52,279 Speaker 2: have teams of horses pulling around these incredibly ornate wagons. 155 00:06:52,360 --> 00:06:54,440 Speaker 1: It's wonderful, it's neat. How long until you get your 156 00:06:54,480 --> 00:06:57,839 Speaker 1: own kind of stoga wagon since you like antiques and old. 157 00:06:57,640 --> 00:07:00,799 Speaker 2: Stuff, Probably not for a long time because cost hundreds 158 00:07:00,800 --> 00:07:01,760 Speaker 2: of thousands of dollars. 159 00:07:01,800 --> 00:07:03,880 Speaker 1: They are not cheap. Horses are a rich man's game. 160 00:07:03,880 --> 00:07:05,800 Speaker 1: You ought to know that, well. I know, horses are yeah, 161 00:07:07,120 --> 00:07:08,720 Speaker 1: hor horses. 162 00:07:08,760 --> 00:07:10,600 Speaker 2: The horses are expensive, and then the thing that the 163 00:07:10,600 --> 00:07:12,000 Speaker 2: horses are pulling is expensive. 164 00:07:12,040 --> 00:07:13,720 Speaker 1: I don't have that kind of disposal. We'll get to 165 00:07:13,720 --> 00:07:15,240 Speaker 1: a powered cond of start of the way, and we'll 166 00:07:15,240 --> 00:07:17,400 Speaker 1: put a on Moore engine in it, and that's on 167 00:07:17,440 --> 00:07:18,200 Speaker 1: done road. 168 00:07:18,240 --> 00:07:20,800 Speaker 2: I have to least triple my real estate empire before 169 00:07:20,840 --> 00:07:22,560 Speaker 2: I could contemplate a purchase like that. 170 00:07:22,800 --> 00:07:25,320 Speaker 1: Speaking of which, Jim Merce's house is on the market. 171 00:07:25,680 --> 00:07:27,960 Speaker 1: Turn that into an airbnb so you can buy that. 172 00:07:29,120 --> 00:07:31,120 Speaker 1: We'll see, We'll see. You'll have to contact the bank 173 00:07:31,200 --> 00:07:35,800 Speaker 1: for a loan. I know some bankers it's you know, 174 00:07:36,120 --> 00:07:37,480 Speaker 1: you never know, it's the end of the month. They 175 00:07:37,520 --> 00:07:38,680 Speaker 1: might need a loan, some money. 176 00:07:38,800 --> 00:07:41,040 Speaker 2: What's ay you producer, keV. You a big fan of 177 00:07:41,080 --> 00:07:44,120 Speaker 2: the Indiana State Fair? What is your state fair tradition. 178 00:07:44,400 --> 00:07:46,520 Speaker 3: I always enjoy just going to the concerts on the 179 00:07:46,560 --> 00:07:49,640 Speaker 3: stage by the colisseum. And you know, also when it 180 00:07:49,640 --> 00:07:52,400 Speaker 3: gets very hot, I like to go into the coliseum 181 00:07:52,440 --> 00:07:55,360 Speaker 3: and check out the livestock or what is it. They 182 00:07:55,440 --> 00:07:57,000 Speaker 3: have some kind of competition in there. 183 00:07:57,160 --> 00:08:00,280 Speaker 2: They have been multiple competitions in the coliseum. And then 184 00:08:00,320 --> 00:08:03,680 Speaker 2: now that is usually where they display some of the 185 00:08:03,720 --> 00:08:06,640 Speaker 2: award winning produce that's cultivated around the state, like in 186 00:08:06,680 --> 00:08:11,000 Speaker 2: the lobby area, so you can see unusually sized pieces 187 00:08:11,040 --> 00:08:15,600 Speaker 2: of corn or you know, incredibly large watermelons or pumpkins 188 00:08:15,680 --> 00:08:20,280 Speaker 2: or squash or whatever. I mean, it's the giant hogs. Yeah, 189 00:08:20,280 --> 00:08:21,240 Speaker 2: with the big old nuts. 190 00:08:21,360 --> 00:08:24,720 Speaker 1: Yeah. Oh, they measure the nuts. That's what I remember. Yeah. 191 00:08:24,920 --> 00:08:27,280 Speaker 3: Did you volunteer for that job, Kevin, No, Yeah, I 192 00:08:27,360 --> 00:08:28,320 Speaker 3: was just a bystander. 193 00:08:28,360 --> 00:08:30,240 Speaker 1: I just just a victim.