WEBVTT - 121: Brains In Jars Go To The Minnesota State Fair 0:00:00.200 --> 0:00:04.160 It's ten twenty three pm at the Minnesota State Fair 0:00:04.559 --> 0:00:16.279 and you're listening Tonight Call, Hello, and welcome to Night Call, 0:00:16.480 --> 0:00:19.920 a call in show for our dystopian reality. I am 0:00:19.960 --> 0:00:24.759 Molly Lambert and with me our test Lynch and Emily Oshida. 0:00:25.120 --> 0:00:26.840 And later this episode we are going to bring on 0:00:26.880 --> 0:00:30.200 our guests Brandy Brown. She's a comedian from Minneapolis and 0:00:30.520 --> 0:00:33.960 an expert on the Minnesota State Fair. It's a really 0:00:33.960 --> 0:00:36.760 fun conversation. It'll make you wish you could go to 0:00:36.800 --> 0:00:39.240 a state fair, So stay tuned for that. But first 0:00:39.440 --> 0:00:42.280 we are going to jump into it with a Nightcall. Hi. 0:00:42.440 --> 0:00:46.839 My name is Morgan in Chicago, second time caller. UM, 0:00:46.880 --> 0:00:50.440 I have some evidence to add to the folder on 0:00:50.560 --> 0:00:57.920 Instagram listening to us and or mining all of our thoughts. Um, 0:00:57.920 --> 0:01:03.600 I'm pretty sure that Instagram can tell how long my 0:01:03.720 --> 0:01:08.160 eye lands on a particular image as I'm scrolling through 0:01:08.200 --> 0:01:12.959 the Explorer section of Instagram. Like if I'm scrolling through 0:01:13.000 --> 0:01:15.240 and I see something new to my algorithm and my 0:01:15.280 --> 0:01:17.240 eye lingers on it, it's a little bit I'm like, 0:01:17.240 --> 0:01:20.039 oh that thoughts like I haven't seen I've seen those 0:01:20.040 --> 0:01:22.240 coming up before, you know, like a new kind of 0:01:22.280 --> 0:01:24.840 dog or something, and then I noticed them growing, like 0:01:25.000 --> 0:01:26.680 more and more and more and more, where it's all 0:01:26.760 --> 0:01:30.039 within the same hour of scrolling. I can see the 0:01:30.120 --> 0:01:34.240 algorithm changing as I scroll through it, depending on like 0:01:34.800 --> 0:01:39.560 where my gaze lingers the longest. I'm almost positive the 0:01:39.680 --> 0:01:42.200 Instagram knows exactly where we're looking in for how many 0:01:42.200 --> 0:01:45.800 of my fort seconds And it's freaking me out. Okay, bye, 0:01:46.280 --> 0:01:49.400 I totally believe this as well, though I've had this 0:01:49.480 --> 0:01:55.680 thought before, believe it also continue to believe that it's Uh, 0:01:55.800 --> 0:01:59.240 the mic is on all the time, because last week 0:01:59.280 --> 0:02:01.480 we talked about milk a bunch. We'll talk about milk 0:02:01.560 --> 0:02:04.200 more later in the show, but I just started getting 0:02:04.240 --> 0:02:07.680 all these ads for milk afterwards that were like, perhaps 0:02:07.760 --> 0:02:11.560 you'd like some fresh milk. Milk. So weird. It never 0:02:11.680 --> 0:02:14.120 stops being We've been talking about it the entire time 0:02:14.120 --> 0:02:16.240 we've had a podcast. I think we started talking about 0:02:16.240 --> 0:02:18.720 this maybe even on Girls and Hoodies. Yeah. I wrote 0:02:18.760 --> 0:02:21.720 something about it like a few years ago for Night Gallery, 0:02:21.960 --> 0:02:24.360 this art gallery in l A, where I talked about 0:02:25.120 --> 0:02:28.000 just my first experience of like directly getting an ad 0:02:28.040 --> 0:02:30.160 for something that my friend had said out loud, which 0:02:30.200 --> 0:02:33.280 was mint chocolate chip ice cream sandwiches, which was so specific, 0:02:33.840 --> 0:02:36.640 but I was like clearly and I wasn't like searching 0:02:36.639 --> 0:02:40.200 for it before. Um, it feels like more people agree 0:02:40.240 --> 0:02:44.480 with us now, Yeah, definitely, yeah, I was. I I've 0:02:44.760 --> 0:02:47.400 talked about this before. I was. I was routinely mocked 0:02:47.440 --> 0:02:49.320 for believing in this. When I worked at the Verge, 0:02:49.400 --> 0:02:52.840 nobody thought that this was a thing, which is crazy 0:02:52.880 --> 0:02:55.480 because it's like, we know they scrape our data for everything. 0:02:56.680 --> 0:03:00.600 Why would we trust them to like not use these things? Right? 0:03:00.680 --> 0:03:03.320 And you're carrying an object has a camera and a 0:03:03.400 --> 0:03:07.040 front facing, a front facing and a back facing whatever 0:03:07.080 --> 0:03:10.840 you call it camera and a microphone? What why would 0:03:11.120 --> 0:03:14.880 it not be used at all times? And of course 0:03:14.919 --> 0:03:17.000 it just makes me think of all the times that 0:03:17.040 --> 0:03:19.919 I've just been likted Instagram all I'm on the toilet. 0:03:20.120 --> 0:03:23.120 I also think that, like, do you ever have the 0:03:23.160 --> 0:03:24.960 thought like when it comes to you know, because you 0:03:25.000 --> 0:03:26.799 know a lot of people put the tape over there, 0:03:27.360 --> 0:03:30.359 um their laptop and so that I don't know if 0:03:30.360 --> 0:03:32.400 you're like undressing in front of the camera or something 0:03:32.400 --> 0:03:34.600 to real see you, But I always feel like you 0:03:34.639 --> 0:03:38.560 should like do as many mundane like unsightly things in 0:03:38.600 --> 0:03:40.880 front of the camera in case anybody is buying on 0:03:40.960 --> 0:03:45.120 you because it's annoying, just just just to be annoying. 0:03:45.320 --> 0:03:48.560 I think I like all those memes that are like 0:03:48.680 --> 0:03:51.760 given the FBI agent assigned to watch me like a 0:03:51.840 --> 0:03:57.040 real show tonight, giving him a thrill. This call also 0:03:57.120 --> 0:04:02.360 reminded me of um Elon musk company neural Link, which 0:04:02.440 --> 0:04:06.680 is the brain computer interface that he founded in twenty sixteen, 0:04:06.920 --> 0:04:09.800 and it's been mentioned in the news recently because um 0:04:09.840 --> 0:04:12.640 they're supposed to be sharing an update in late August, 0:04:13.080 --> 0:04:15.320 and the last time they gave an update, it was 0:04:15.360 --> 0:04:17.960 to say that neural Link planned to use surgical robots 0:04:18.360 --> 0:04:21.520 to implant teeny tiny wires in our brains that just 0:04:21.560 --> 0:04:25.840 connect to an external computer processor because Elon Musk is 0:04:25.880 --> 0:04:30.440 concerned that, like we're not efficient enough at competing with AI. 0:04:30.480 --> 0:04:34.159 I guess. Um. But last year they said they they've 0:04:34.160 --> 0:04:37.240 already been do like performing these tests on mice and apes, 0:04:37.279 --> 0:04:40.320 which is very sad. UM. And then they said next 0:04:40.400 --> 0:04:46.479 year we're gonna start testing on humans. Yes, basically, um, 0:04:46.520 --> 0:04:49.680 it's I guess. Tech Crunch had reported on this recently 0:04:49.839 --> 0:04:54.039 and they said that, um, the goal was originally to 0:04:54.560 --> 0:04:57.800 use technology to help mitigate the effects that's to quote, 0:04:57.839 --> 0:05:01.400 mitigate the effects of neurological disorders patients with severe impacts 0:05:01.400 --> 0:05:04.880 to mobility and other daily functioning, which is great, but 0:05:05.000 --> 0:05:09.080 then it's you know, real intent is to like make 0:05:09.160 --> 0:05:12.679 humans two point oh yeah no thanks, yeah, no, thanks 0:05:12.720 --> 0:05:16.720 at all, huge note, thanks, especially from Elon Musk. I know, 0:05:17.160 --> 0:05:20.200 I gotta say that having Meredith Whittaker on last week though, 0:05:20.480 --> 0:05:24.280 was very comforting in a way because she reassured us 0:05:24.320 --> 0:05:26.560 that a lot of these things that they are marketing 0:05:26.600 --> 0:05:30.839 as being possible are not in fact possible yet. Yeah, 0:05:30.880 --> 0:05:32.440 and I think and I was thinking about this. We 0:05:32.440 --> 0:05:34.080 didn't get a chance to touch on this when we 0:05:34.080 --> 0:05:37.440 were talking to Meredith, But like, like Elon Musk and 0:05:37.440 --> 0:05:40.560 and Peter Teal and a couple other of the big 0:05:40.640 --> 0:05:47.400 tech dudes are kind of in this community of these thinkers. 0:05:47.400 --> 0:05:51.000 I use like heavy scare quotes there, who um who 0:05:51.040 --> 0:05:55.320 believe in like hostile AI, Like that's their number one concern. Um, 0:05:55.360 --> 0:05:57.800 It's like all these tech guys have their number one concern, 0:05:57.880 --> 0:06:02.320 whether it's like building like off worlds or combating the 0:06:02.320 --> 0:06:05.880 hostile AI. Like what it's like their doomsday scenarios are 0:06:05.920 --> 0:06:09.919 all um sadly different in stupid ways, and the hostile 0:06:09.960 --> 0:06:12.640 AI thing is like a real camp of thought among 0:06:12.680 --> 0:06:15.479 these guys. It's also very funny to me always that 0:06:15.560 --> 0:06:19.800 they refer to themselves as futurists, because like futurism was 0:06:19.839 --> 0:06:23.240 a movement of Italian fascism. Well yeah, just like when 0:06:23.279 --> 0:06:25.880 they started being like we're futurists, I was like, maybe 0:06:26.160 --> 0:06:29.320 call yourself something else, but then it's like, maybe that's 0:06:29.320 --> 0:06:32.560 what you met. Actually, maybe it's on purpose, because the 0:06:32.560 --> 0:06:35.599 original futurists are very obsessed with like machines and like 0:06:35.720 --> 0:06:40.599 the future as being and speed and efficiency and stuff. Yeah. 0:06:40.760 --> 0:06:43.280 I hear the word efficiency and my eyes are all 0:06:43.400 --> 0:06:46.120 into my head, you know. Well yeah, but I mean 0:06:46.160 --> 0:06:48.760 I think it's funny though, that that that Elon Musk 0:06:48.800 --> 0:06:53.440 in particularly so haunted by this threat of the robots 0:06:53.480 --> 0:06:57.160 turning on us, which, as Meredith explained, is like unlikely 0:06:57.320 --> 0:06:59.599 that they're going to become sent to it because it's 0:06:59.640 --> 0:07:03.880 all just a data collection. It's not there's not magic 0:07:04.000 --> 0:07:07.279 going on there. Uh, but it just it does feel 0:07:07.360 --> 0:07:12.600 kind of like a very classic like like Frankenstein type 0:07:12.680 --> 0:07:16.800 thing where it's just like his anxiety about like and 0:07:16.920 --> 0:07:19.360 his anxiety about like arming humans to be able to 0:07:19.400 --> 0:07:23.520 come conbat this potential AI threat just feels like a 0:07:23.520 --> 0:07:28.440 guilty conscience, like just just raging. I don't think he 0:07:28.560 --> 0:07:33.040 has a guilty conscience though, Dude, dude. He Uh. In 0:07:33.080 --> 0:07:36.960 the Werner Herzog documentary about the Internet that is not 0:07:37.120 --> 0:07:40.080 very good but has some interesting parts in it, um 0:07:40.160 --> 0:07:44.400 he entered, he interviews Musk at length and uh, and 0:07:44.440 --> 0:07:47.160 he just talks about how he has like nightmares all 0:07:47.160 --> 0:07:50.400 the time, and it's very interesting. It's like, really, I 0:07:50.440 --> 0:07:53.160 want to know what Elant Musk's nightmare. So I want 0:07:53.160 --> 0:07:56.040 to know why Elon Musk's nightmare. Isn't that when they 0:07:56.240 --> 0:07:58.800 put wires in your brain and hook you up to 0:07:58.840 --> 0:08:01.320 a computer that they could computer doesn't turn on you 0:08:01.400 --> 0:08:03.680 now that there are wires. Now, it doesn't make any 0:08:04.160 --> 0:08:07.440 It doesn't make sense, like you just made it easier 0:08:07.480 --> 0:08:10.120 for the machine to destroy you because now it's got 0:08:10.200 --> 0:08:14.960 like fingers in your brain, you know, yeah, my yeah. 0:08:15.000 --> 0:08:17.360 I mean it's also like having just rewatched the Matrix. 0:08:17.400 --> 0:08:19.040 I'm like, right, these are the people that want to 0:08:19.080 --> 0:08:22.920 build the matrix. They want to like put humans are 0:08:23.080 --> 0:08:27.160 the sentinels, like they're the squids coming to inslave us 0:08:27.200 --> 0:08:30.040 and put us in fats and slime, like that they 0:08:30.040 --> 0:08:32.120 want that for us. It does also feel like all 0:08:32.160 --> 0:08:36.240 the trans humanists are so specifically motivated by making trans 0:08:36.280 --> 0:08:39.320 humanism exists before they die. Well, I want to know 0:08:39.880 --> 0:08:41.920 and a and a broader like, I know that this 0:08:41.960 --> 0:08:43.480 is something that comes up a lot. How do you 0:08:43.480 --> 0:08:47.880 guys feel right now about being a brain in a jar? Um? 0:08:47.920 --> 0:08:51.200 I guess less good than I used to, right because 0:08:51.200 --> 0:08:53.080 now I'm like, well, I guess it's like, if you 0:08:53.120 --> 0:08:55.480 are the brain in the jar, are you having what 0:08:55.679 --> 0:08:59.839 feel like real experiences? Yeah? Is the is the sense 0:09:00.800 --> 0:09:03.440 needle being poked at you in a satisfactory We never 0:09:03.440 --> 0:09:05.400 said the brain in the jar had to like stay 0:09:05.400 --> 0:09:07.800 in a room. You know, someone could carry it around, 0:09:08.440 --> 0:09:11.079 just like the man with two brains a little boat, right, 0:09:12.080 --> 0:09:15.520 take it to the State Fair for sure. Not as 0:09:15.559 --> 0:09:18.640 big a fan of the I mean, it's not that 0:09:18.760 --> 0:09:21.040 I want to have a body either, though. I think 0:09:21.080 --> 0:09:23.120 for me, part of the appeal of being a brain 0:09:23.160 --> 0:09:25.600 in a jar wasn't just that like, you get some 0:09:25.679 --> 0:09:28.720 alone time, but also that you didn't have to worry 0:09:28.720 --> 0:09:31.240 about a body, and in a sense, I think being 0:09:31.600 --> 0:09:33.679 um in the middle of a pandemic has made me 0:09:33.800 --> 0:09:38.200 even more upset to have a body, you know, because 0:09:38.480 --> 0:09:42.120 we're kind of like, we're online a lot. Obviously we 0:09:42.160 --> 0:09:44.719 can't do anything without staring into a screen, and that 0:09:44.960 --> 0:09:48.160 is not fun at all. Like I, I don't enjoy this. 0:09:48.600 --> 0:09:50.680 But at the same time, if I were truly a 0:09:50.720 --> 0:09:54.200 brain in a jar, then I couldn't get coronavirus, could 0:09:54.240 --> 0:09:57.920 I because it couldn't permeate it's airborne. I'm in jelly right. 0:09:58.040 --> 0:09:59.880 The brain in the jar has to be in fluid. 0:10:00.240 --> 0:10:02.080 Why is the brain's going to dry out and get 0:10:02.080 --> 0:10:06.080 all cracked and not work. So I'm surrounded by protective fluid, 0:10:06.360 --> 0:10:09.720 I cannot be infected, Whereas now I have all the 0:10:09.840 --> 0:10:12.480 terrible things about being a brain in a jar, but 0:10:13.120 --> 0:10:17.720 I could get your vulnerable. Yeah, the worst of both worlds. 0:10:18.440 --> 0:10:23.080 I remain anti brain in a jar. I've I've That's 0:10:23.120 --> 0:10:26.080 been my position. Probody. I love. I love having a 0:10:26.200 --> 0:10:32.400 freaking body, you guys, it rules freaking bad. The thing 0:10:32.600 --> 0:10:35.520 that freaks me out the most, That is the most 0:10:35.520 --> 0:10:38.040 Philip K. Dick, which is like another level of it 0:10:38.080 --> 0:10:40.920 is when Instagram shows me something I was thinking about 0:10:41.080 --> 0:10:45.160 but did not see or search for which happened. Oh, 0:10:45.280 --> 0:10:47.400 that happens all the time. But it must be a 0:10:47.440 --> 0:10:50.720 subliminal Well, it's like they probably know like, Okay, you've 0:10:50.720 --> 0:10:54.600 looked up, um, you've looked up like you've been on 0:10:54.679 --> 0:10:59.480 real self. You've been looking at uh energy drinks and 0:10:59.559 --> 0:11:01.760 something else, and they can triangulate that and be like, therefore, 0:11:01.800 --> 0:11:04.120 you're going to be interested in this fourth thing. And like, yeah, 0:11:04.440 --> 0:11:06.920 if I'm thinking about Martha's If I'm like talking about 0:11:06.920 --> 0:11:09.280 Martha Stewart and it shows me a picture of Martha Stewart, 0:11:09.320 --> 0:11:11.520 that's one thing. But if I'm just like thinking about 0:11:11.600 --> 0:11:13.640 it and then it shows me the picture, then I 0:11:13.679 --> 0:11:15.719 go into this crazy mode where I'm like, it has 0:11:15.800 --> 0:11:19.160 to just be a coincidence because it can't possibly like 0:11:19.360 --> 0:11:22.160 no my thought patterns that well, can it? And then 0:11:22.160 --> 0:11:24.000 I want to throw my phone in the O. That's 0:11:24.040 --> 0:11:26.120 also like a chicken in the egg type of thing. 0:11:26.200 --> 0:11:28.800 Why are you thinking about Martha? Right? Like, there had 0:11:28.840 --> 0:11:31.840 to be steps there, and it can see the steps 0:11:31.880 --> 0:11:34.480 even if that even if those steps are not obvious, 0:11:35.200 --> 0:11:38.640 adds to the idea that humans are just collections of data. 0:11:38.920 --> 0:11:43.120 We are just ai contrary to uh what Bree Larson says, 0:11:43.160 --> 0:11:46.720 I don't believe in free will, that's true. Have you 0:11:46.720 --> 0:11:49.800 guys seen that? No? Oh my god. You know how 0:11:49.920 --> 0:11:53.960 Brie Larson like has dipped her toe into being a YouTuber. 0:11:54.120 --> 0:11:57.640 A YouTuber so like she does her sign off on 0:11:57.720 --> 0:12:00.079 her video, like at least on her first video O 0:12:00.840 --> 0:12:03.280 and like where most people would say, you know, like 0:12:03.400 --> 0:12:06.040 and subscribe, she says, like, I'm not going to tell 0:12:06.040 --> 0:12:11.680 you to subscribe because I believe in free will. Well, 0:12:11.760 --> 0:12:15.360 all right, it's the stupidest thing in the world. That's funny. 0:12:15.400 --> 0:12:18.840 But we are very predictable people in a lot of ways. 0:12:19.040 --> 0:12:21.920 I think, Well, because they're so we reveal ourselves so 0:12:22.000 --> 0:12:24.960 much now, yeah, yeah, we we put so much of that. 0:12:25.120 --> 0:12:26.880 So much of what goes on in our brains is 0:12:26.920 --> 0:12:29.679 actually like collected now in some way. That's why I 0:12:29.720 --> 0:12:33.280 love when an algorithm fails or doesn't actually know something 0:12:33.320 --> 0:12:37.320 about me. My TV commercial algorithm for whatever reason, is 0:12:37.320 --> 0:12:39.960 always like totally off in a way that's really funny. 0:12:40.240 --> 0:12:41.599 But it's the thing. It's like you can set it 0:12:41.640 --> 0:12:43.920 off to where you'll be, like, if you talk about parenting, 0:12:43.920 --> 0:12:46.520 it will start serving you ads about parenting. It doesn't 0:12:46.800 --> 0:12:49.160 know that you don't have kids. It just does it 0:12:49.200 --> 0:12:53.160 anyway in case you do. That's when the algorithm is weak, 0:12:53.200 --> 0:12:56.160 when it's just like looking at demographics and it's like, oh, 0:12:56.280 --> 0:12:59.439 this person willst have a child. It serves me ads 0:12:59.440 --> 0:13:02.240 in Spanah a lot, which I'm always really flattered by. 0:13:02.320 --> 0:13:04.079 I get that a lot too. I get a lot 0:13:04.080 --> 0:13:09.440 of Spanish ads. I'm always like, I wish algorithm only Well, guys, 0:13:09.440 --> 0:13:12.400 should we take a little vacation? Via a night email 0:13:12.600 --> 0:13:16.640 short guarding Key West? Um this we've been getting a 0:13:16.640 --> 0:13:19.640 lot of anonymous calls and emails because, um, we've been 0:13:19.720 --> 0:13:21.960 talking about a lot of sensitive topics. So this one 0:13:22.200 --> 0:13:26.080 is also an anonymous email. Hello from Key West. I 0:13:26.120 --> 0:13:28.280 feel weird for saying this because you guys are a 0:13:28.280 --> 0:13:30.280 fan of this place. But it hasn't been great here 0:13:30.320 --> 0:13:32.920 these past few months. Well, honestly, it hasn't been great 0:13:32.920 --> 0:13:34.800 here the past year and a half that I've lived here, 0:13:34.800 --> 0:13:37.320 but that's mostly on me. The big issue that we've 0:13:37.360 --> 0:13:39.760 seen is with opening the island back up to tourists, 0:13:39.800 --> 0:13:42.280 which happened way too soon, and now the mayor is 0:13:42.320 --> 0:13:44.400 working with the city council to try and figure out 0:13:44.400 --> 0:13:47.000 a way to regulate mask usage because of how prominent 0:13:47.080 --> 0:13:49.920 restaurant and bar attendance is for the island. The mayoral 0:13:49.920 --> 0:13:52.720 elections are next month and it seems to be very contentious, 0:13:52.720 --> 0:13:55.440 with many signs for the main three candidates displayed all 0:13:55.480 --> 0:13:58.920 over the island, mostly outside of people's homes. Multiple places, 0:13:58.960 --> 0:14:02.120 such as Charlie Matt since Salsa Loca have closed for good, 0:14:02.160 --> 0:14:05.559 the former having actually already been sold to an unknown end. 0:14:06.000 --> 0:14:08.240 My question for you all is do you think that 0:14:08.320 --> 0:14:10.880 Key West will survive all of this? Or rather, do 0:14:10.920 --> 0:14:13.480 you think that an isolated island that relies heavily on 0:14:13.520 --> 0:14:16.320 tourism and military for income should continue to thrive in 0:14:16.320 --> 0:14:19.200 this economy when all of this is eventually settled. My 0:14:19.240 --> 0:14:22.040 odds of leaving here anytime soon are slim, so I'm 0:14:22.120 --> 0:14:24.400 really just wondering about my next move down here. What 0:14:24.400 --> 0:14:27.600 do you guys think? Great? Great night, call night, you know, 0:14:28.040 --> 0:14:30.440 thank you. I'm glad to know that we have um 0:14:30.520 --> 0:14:33.320 at least day Listener and Key West. Yeah, I mean, 0:14:33.400 --> 0:14:38.320 I think anybody in a tourist, a tourism reliant place 0:14:38.880 --> 0:14:41.760 is in a total catch twenty two right now, where 0:14:42.520 --> 0:14:46.320 you need the tourism to come back for economic reasons, 0:14:46.360 --> 0:14:49.160 but you don't want it to come back because it's dangerous, 0:14:49.640 --> 0:14:51.960 or you know, we could have just paid everybody to 0:14:52.000 --> 0:14:55.440 stay home. They could have paid businesses to to not close. 0:14:55.520 --> 0:14:57.240 The fact that they were like, we're going to force 0:14:57.280 --> 0:15:00.400 a reopening and if you close, it's your fault. And 0:15:00.440 --> 0:15:03.320 I've seen there's a lot of lobbying happening right now 0:15:03.360 --> 0:15:06.120 to ensure that companies like don't have to be liable 0:15:06.160 --> 0:15:08.680 if their workers get COVID and die from going back 0:15:08.680 --> 0:15:13.000 to work. So it's very gross. Yeah, yeah, all the 0:15:13.040 --> 0:15:16.760 concern isn't exactly the wrong place, and kind of at 0:15:16.800 --> 0:15:19.600 the end of the day, it's hard. It's hard to 0:15:19.640 --> 0:15:22.960 blame especially in places like Key West or like I 0:15:23.080 --> 0:15:26.760 was just in Carolina Beach Share in North Carolina, UM 0:15:26.800 --> 0:15:29.000 a couple of days ago for a few nights, and UM, 0:15:29.400 --> 0:15:32.640 you know a lot of these places they're not they're 0:15:32.640 --> 0:15:35.720 not like the reason people go there is not at 0:15:35.800 --> 0:15:38.960 least four independent businesses is for independently owned restaurants and 0:15:39.000 --> 0:15:41.680 little bars and stuff like that. So they're not it's 0:15:41.720 --> 0:15:43.960 not like an Applebee's on the beach like, these are 0:15:44.000 --> 0:15:47.760 independent businesses, and if they have one location and it 0:15:47.840 --> 0:15:50.160 has to close, they're really, you know, kind of screwed. 0:15:50.200 --> 0:15:52.240 And if they're not getting any kind of help. It's like, 0:15:52.760 --> 0:15:56.960 as much as I cringe when I see people packing 0:15:57.000 --> 0:16:00.400 into a beach bar um or not even sacking in 0:16:00.560 --> 0:16:03.760 just go like going to one and one being open 0:16:03.840 --> 0:16:07.040 for business is just like, well, like it's hard to 0:16:07.080 --> 0:16:10.760 know what else they're supposed to do other than completely 0:16:11.040 --> 0:16:14.480 you know, like get out of the entire game. One 0:16:14.480 --> 0:16:16.680 thing I've seen suggested, I mean, I guess at least 0:16:16.720 --> 0:16:21.000 in Florida and like in Louisiana, you can take drinks 0:16:21.040 --> 0:16:24.240 away and take them to the beach. At least. I've 0:16:24.240 --> 0:16:27.280 seen people in New York talking about how it's a 0:16:27.320 --> 0:16:30.080 big issue for bars there and sort of encouraging them 0:16:30.120 --> 0:16:33.200 to let have been doing that. They're let people carry 0:16:33.240 --> 0:16:36.000 liquor around because they were temporarily letting people do it. 0:16:36.160 --> 0:16:38.360 It's like same in l A. Right, they were, that was, 0:16:38.440 --> 0:16:40.760 but it actually they don't seem to be very strict 0:16:40.800 --> 0:16:43.240 about it in l A still um. But for a 0:16:43.320 --> 0:16:47.000 while there was like a cart with cocktails roaming the streets, 0:16:47.000 --> 0:16:50.040 and I really enjoyed. Just no, I didn't order anything, 0:16:50.040 --> 0:16:51.960 but I was like, I like knowing that they're there. 0:16:53.080 --> 0:16:56.240 But yeah, I mean having some flexibility here to support 0:16:56.280 --> 0:17:00.360 businesses and ways that are safe seems pretty imperative. Yeah, 0:17:00.400 --> 0:17:02.760 if you can make it safer to support those businesses 0:17:02.880 --> 0:17:06.160 by you know, changing changing a law that is sort 0:17:06.200 --> 0:17:12.240 of silly anyway, like open alcohol carrying laws. Um. But yeah, 0:17:12.440 --> 0:17:14.960 I think the thing that's really a bummer is that 0:17:15.000 --> 0:17:20.080 this is hitting restaurants and bars, and I think that 0:17:20.280 --> 0:17:22.359 a lot of the places that aren't going to see 0:17:22.400 --> 0:17:25.120 that much of a downturn, in places like qus in 0:17:25.119 --> 0:17:28.439 in beach towns and tourist towns. Is real estate stuff. 0:17:28.480 --> 0:17:30.880 Is people who have airbnbs? Is that kind of thing 0:17:30.880 --> 0:17:33.800 because people are still going to these places and people 0:17:33.960 --> 0:17:38.199 still have you know, rental houses and stuff, and or 0:17:38.280 --> 0:17:42.080 they have, um, they have time shares or something. Although 0:17:42.119 --> 0:17:45.119 oh this is something there's so many ads when I 0:17:45.160 --> 0:17:48.880 was driving for um, like like lawyers that would get 0:17:48.920 --> 0:17:51.720 you out of your time share because the resort that 0:17:51.760 --> 0:17:53.840 it was at. I heard one in l A recently, 0:17:53.920 --> 0:17:57.720 too specific. It's very Yeah, it was like this entire 0:17:57.800 --> 0:17:59.639 cottage industry. And I guess because a lot of the 0:17:59.640 --> 0:18:02.639 resort it's in places where people have time shares, like 0:18:02.680 --> 0:18:05.080 the facilities of clothes, so like you know, if you 0:18:05.119 --> 0:18:07.680 can't go to the pool at your timeshare or whatever, 0:18:07.760 --> 0:18:09.479 then what's the point of having it. So people are 0:18:09.640 --> 0:18:11.960 trying to get out of it. It's very interesting. It 0:18:12.040 --> 0:18:14.880 was just like such a specific bit of world building 0:18:14.960 --> 0:18:18.200 for our dystopia right now. Yeah, I mean, I think 0:18:18.320 --> 0:18:21.560 that it's very disgusting, especially that the companies that have 0:18:21.680 --> 0:18:25.920 been build out are these big companies that nobody's using 0:18:26.000 --> 0:18:29.239 right now, like cruise ships. That's one of those things 0:18:29.280 --> 0:18:31.200 where you're like, well, who knows even when the cruise 0:18:31.240 --> 0:18:33.160 industry is going to come back, Like, wouldn't it make 0:18:33.200 --> 0:18:38.480 more sense to give money to workers and people who 0:18:38.880 --> 0:18:41.280 can't afford not to go back to work right now 0:18:41.720 --> 0:18:43.920 so that they don't die. Because I also just don't 0:18:43.960 --> 0:18:46.200 understand it from the business owner perspective. It's like you 0:18:46.240 --> 0:18:49.320 don't want your workers to die, then you need to 0:18:49.440 --> 0:18:52.280 hire more, and you're just assuming there's like an endlessly 0:18:52.359 --> 0:18:57.640 replenishable well. Also, it's such a horrible association for a brand. 0:18:57.680 --> 0:19:00.399 I mean, we just had in California to work deside 0:19:00.440 --> 0:19:04.439 it I think a mission tortilla plant. Um, yeah, I 0:19:04.440 --> 0:19:06.480 mean it's it's just endless and like it. You know, 0:19:06.640 --> 0:19:10.280 it really makes you not feel great about supporting a 0:19:10.320 --> 0:19:13.720 company that has created that problem, but so many of 0:19:13.720 --> 0:19:16.160 them have, you know. It's also it's it's a similar 0:19:16.200 --> 0:19:19.480 things with with landlords and evictions. It's like that same 0:19:19.560 --> 0:19:21.919 kind of failure of logic. It's like, Okay, you're gonna 0:19:21.960 --> 0:19:25.640 lose employees because they're either going to get very very 0:19:25.640 --> 0:19:28.480 sick or die, uh, and then you're just going to 0:19:28.600 --> 0:19:31.000 replace them, and you assume that people are going to 0:19:31.080 --> 0:19:33.199 still want to the people are still going to be 0:19:33.280 --> 0:19:36.200 able to work for you. Uh. In the same way, 0:19:36.240 --> 0:19:38.280 it's like, Okay, I'm just gonna evict people because they 0:19:38.280 --> 0:19:42.720 can't pay their rent because their entire livelihood has been destroyed, 0:19:43.200 --> 0:19:45.399 and I'm going to assume that there's an unlimited supply 0:19:45.440 --> 0:19:49.120 of people whose livelihoods haven't been destroyed that can take 0:19:49.200 --> 0:19:54.520 over their lease or whatever who's moving in. It's such 0:19:54.560 --> 0:19:57.840 a weird it's like, oh THEO, no, my my tenants 0:19:57.880 --> 0:20:00.280 who couldn't pay rent. They were a special failure case. 0:20:00.400 --> 0:20:03.480 Like right, I don't understand like not wanting poor people 0:20:03.520 --> 0:20:06.760 to exist when your whole model is based on exploiting 0:20:06.760 --> 0:20:13.359 them for labor. Yeah, it's just going back to Key West, 0:20:13.400 --> 0:20:15.000 I have to say that. So the other day we 0:20:15.160 --> 0:20:18.639 had a series of earthquakes in l a Um and 0:20:18.680 --> 0:20:22.399 it just was also a reminder that every the things 0:20:22.440 --> 0:20:27.240 that have been happening over the past uh year, ish, 0:20:27.440 --> 0:20:30.119 who expected any of this? And then there are so 0:20:30.160 --> 0:20:32.840 many other factors like earthquakes and fires, So it's also 0:20:32.920 --> 0:20:36.520 just so hard to predict, like what cities will you know, 0:20:36.600 --> 0:20:40.040 go under because of COVID related reasons and what cities 0:20:40.080 --> 0:20:42.080 I mean, I guess everything is kind of entangled, so 0:20:42.160 --> 0:20:45.399 everything could probably be COVID related. But I mean with 0:20:45.480 --> 0:20:47.960 Key West, it's like and and other places too, You're 0:20:48.000 --> 0:20:50.080 like you we just don't know. I mean, there's we're 0:20:50.119 --> 0:20:52.560 so focused on the pandemic and as we should be, 0:20:52.600 --> 0:20:54.600 but then there are also like all of these other 0:20:54.680 --> 0:20:57.640 factors that are going to continue happening. I hope Key 0:20:57.640 --> 0:21:00.680 West exists. I hope everyone's thinking about the way that 0:21:01.040 --> 0:21:04.040 the way money is spent and who gets to spend 0:21:04.080 --> 0:21:08.720 it and when you know, it's it's imaginary on some level. 0:21:08.960 --> 0:21:11.240 So it does seem crazy to me when you hear 0:21:11.280 --> 0:21:14.239 about like these big companies getting these like millions, you know, 0:21:14.320 --> 0:21:17.119 millions of dollar bailouts, and then they say, like and 0:21:17.240 --> 0:21:19.760 we have to stop unemployment because we can't you know, 0:21:20.359 --> 0:21:24.400 afford to pay people anymore. It's like again that thing 0:21:24.480 --> 0:21:28.000 of companies being treated more like people than people get treated. 0:21:28.800 --> 0:21:32.000 I do think that there's one thing that having been 0:21:32.080 --> 0:21:35.639 in a beach town recently and having also been in 0:21:35.720 --> 0:21:39.520 Galveston a couple of weeks back, like and even though 0:21:39.560 --> 0:21:43.159 there are like nightmares aspects to both of them, at 0:21:43.160 --> 0:21:45.240 the end of the day, like you're going. I mean, 0:21:45.320 --> 0:21:47.879 there are other reasons that are unique to every town, 0:21:47.920 --> 0:21:51.600 but you're going to these places for their position in nature, 0:21:51.960 --> 0:21:55.439 like their proximity to a peach or a park or 0:21:55.440 --> 0:21:59.359 whatever the case may be, and that stuff remains available, 0:21:59.760 --> 0:22:03.160 Like you can go to the beach. I mean, there 0:22:03.200 --> 0:22:06.240 are you know I did. We did this thing where 0:22:06.240 --> 0:22:08.040 we like went and walked out and I just wanted 0:22:08.080 --> 0:22:09.680 to like scope out what it looked like. And it's 0:22:09.720 --> 0:22:11.919 most crowded at like the high point. It's like, Okay, 0:22:12.000 --> 0:22:13.520 we won't go. Then we'll go to like the dead 0:22:13.560 --> 0:22:16.000 hours and you can go and it's fine. It's like 0:22:16.040 --> 0:22:18.720 totally safe, and I think it's like if it's available 0:22:18.760 --> 0:22:21.680 to you, it's something that you can do now, Like 0:22:22.000 --> 0:22:25.040 whether or not that keeps a town afloat of all 0:22:25.080 --> 0:22:28.200 you're doing is like going to the beach and not 0:22:28.480 --> 0:22:31.560 going to their bars and their hangouts, and you know, 0:22:32.000 --> 0:22:34.600 giving your money to local businesses, Like that's a whole 0:22:34.600 --> 0:22:37.600 other thing. But like I think that if you're responsible 0:22:37.640 --> 0:22:41.800 about it, it can be very good for your mental health. Eventually, 0:22:41.840 --> 0:22:44.879 you just have to consider your mental health and like, 0:22:45.400 --> 0:22:48.480 you know the fact that you're you're living your rare 0:22:48.520 --> 0:22:51.080 and precious life. You know, you gotta do something with 0:22:51.119 --> 0:22:57.600 your body. You're freaking body in your freaking body. But 0:22:57.720 --> 0:23:00.280 that's the thing. Like I was, like swimming in the ocean. 0:23:00.359 --> 0:23:03.479 I was like, God, damn, this is awesome. Like everything 0:23:03.520 --> 0:23:05.639 in the world is so shitty right now, but like 0:23:05.720 --> 0:23:07.760 I can be here right now, and like I know, 0:23:07.800 --> 0:23:10.720 the shart's very woo woo and yoga, but like it's 0:23:10.920 --> 0:23:14.080 anything that you can access, whether it's swimming in the 0:23:14.080 --> 0:23:17.040 ocean or going on a walk in nature somewhere, like 0:23:17.160 --> 0:23:19.840 I think is really important to do right now. Yeah, 0:23:19.880 --> 0:23:23.000 I mean, even just like leaving your phone inside and 0:23:23.160 --> 0:23:28.040 just going outside for a while is very relaxing, like 0:23:28.600 --> 0:23:32.160 silly relaxing makes me realize how much having a phone 0:23:32.160 --> 0:23:34.440 on me makes me like betense all the time. Even 0:23:34.480 --> 0:23:36.680 if you just like go to the grocery store and 0:23:36.840 --> 0:23:43.560 don't bring your phone, Like garden stores open and allow 0:23:43.640 --> 0:23:46.879 you to like wander around with a bunch of plants outside. 0:23:47.560 --> 0:23:51.400 I find that to be a great free brain vacation. 0:23:52.800 --> 0:23:55.000 And then maybe you spend some money on plants as 0:23:55.040 --> 0:23:58.240 I did, and support your local garden store. It's a 0:23:58.280 --> 0:24:01.280 win wind. I have been so boarding my garden storeway 0:24:01.320 --> 0:24:04.119 too much. The guys, it's it's getting crazy. Well, my 0:24:04.200 --> 0:24:06.080 parents went to the garden store. That was like their 0:24:06.119 --> 0:24:09.200 first trip really out of the house. Um was there 0:24:09.280 --> 0:24:11.800 was like a senior hour where you can buy plants 0:24:11.880 --> 0:24:14.679 in the morning, and they went and I could just 0:24:14.800 --> 0:24:17.080 sense that it had like a huge effect on their 0:24:17.119 --> 0:24:20.400 mental health to be out for the first time since 0:24:20.400 --> 0:24:25.080 it started and see just you know, see nature. Yeah, well, 0:24:25.440 --> 0:24:27.800 we're gonna take a quick break and when we come back, 0:24:27.840 --> 0:24:30.639 we're going to bring on our guests, Brandy and go 0:24:30.720 --> 0:24:44.160 on another little vacation to the Minnesota State Fair. Welcome back. 0:24:44.200 --> 0:24:47.679 To Nightcall and welcome our very special guest, Brandy Brown. 0:24:48.280 --> 0:24:51.760 Brandy is a comedian for Minneapolis. She co hosted the 0:24:51.760 --> 0:24:55.720 podcast Bill Corbett's Fun House, and she regularly hosts at 0:24:56.000 --> 0:25:01.160 the Acne Comedy Company in Minneapolis. Welcome Brandy, Hello, Hello, Hi. 0:25:02.400 --> 0:25:05.840 Brandy is on Twitter as it's the Brandy Brandy with 0:25:05.880 --> 0:25:09.240 an Eye and was one of my best Twitter follows 0:25:09.240 --> 0:25:12.080 of all time. Thank you. I will say it. Brandy 0:25:12.160 --> 0:25:15.320 is highly influential to the Night Called Twitter to somebody 0:25:15.320 --> 0:25:19.760 who may or may not be behind good follow in general. 0:25:21.080 --> 0:25:25.200 So we hear that you've been Uh, you're a big 0:25:25.200 --> 0:25:28.960 fan of the Minnesota State Fair. I am am, And 0:25:29.040 --> 0:25:32.840 they have they've they've gone ahead with the Minnesota State 0:25:32.880 --> 0:25:35.720 Fair this way, but like in a very COVID specific way. 0:25:35.800 --> 0:25:37.879 And I was just like, from meeting your tweets, I 0:25:37.920 --> 0:25:40.959 was just like, how does a state fair even occur? 0:25:41.200 --> 0:25:44.000 Right now? Just feels like such a vector. But I'm 0:25:44.040 --> 0:25:47.560 sure that you have much first had experience, so well, 0:25:47.600 --> 0:25:49.359 I mean they're not doing it, They're doing it a 0:25:49.440 --> 0:25:51.760 pretty safe way, which I am not a fan of 0:25:51.800 --> 0:25:54.560 doing it this way. I mean I'm not like I 0:25:54.600 --> 0:25:56.160 just don't want to do it this way, But I'm 0:25:56.160 --> 0:25:57.840 not saying it's a bad idea. It's a great idea. 0:25:57.920 --> 0:26:01.520 Tickets one on sale today. UM, it's a drive through 0:26:01.560 --> 0:26:04.760 State Fair kind of experience. And UM. The thing you 0:26:04.800 --> 0:26:06.520 need to know about the State Fair rounds is that 0:26:06.560 --> 0:26:09.040 they're pretty big. I should have looked up how big 0:26:09.080 --> 0:26:12.679 they are. But it's square miles, um, and it's like 0:26:12.720 --> 0:26:17.399 a normal street situation in there with buildings and stuff. 0:26:17.720 --> 0:26:20.160 So what they're doing is they have I think twenty 0:26:20.600 --> 0:26:24.080 vendors and including the two dollar all you can drink milk, 0:26:24.119 --> 0:26:27.560 which I don't know how they're looking that, um, and 0:26:27.680 --> 0:26:31.960 people they stagger. They charge you twenty dollars per car, 0:26:32.000 --> 0:26:35.400 and then they stagger the you know entrance, so that's 0:26:35.440 --> 0:26:37.960 not too backed up and people can basically do a 0:26:38.080 --> 0:26:40.119 drive through. I didn't really look into it exaucep. I 0:26:40.200 --> 0:26:43.680 was just like, I don't I drive everywhere in Minneapolis, 0:26:43.680 --> 0:26:45.159 And so when I say I don't drive to the 0:26:45.160 --> 0:26:47.320 State Fair, that's pretty significant because we have a pretty 0:26:47.400 --> 0:26:50.480 robust park and ride situation normally. So I just leave 0:26:50.520 --> 0:26:54.359 my car at this lot and then you pay five 0:26:54.400 --> 0:26:56.720 bucks to get on a bus that'll take you straight 0:26:56.720 --> 0:26:59.920 there and it's free to get back um and at 0:27:00.040 --> 0:27:02.600 night you can just leave till up to midnight. So 0:27:03.240 --> 0:27:04.840 I don't want to drive and also want to go 0:27:04.840 --> 0:27:07.640 to stay Fair. I like to have beers and I 0:27:07.680 --> 0:27:10.240 share my food with other people and so I can't 0:27:10.280 --> 0:27:14.160 take anyone really, and so I'm just probably gonna skip 0:27:14.160 --> 0:27:15.960 it this year. But I mean the fair grounds open, 0:27:15.960 --> 0:27:17.920 I could just go have a picnic there, and they 0:27:17.960 --> 0:27:20.160 also it's open. The fair girls are open for other 0:27:20.160 --> 0:27:22.600 stuff there. They have car shows. They have another thing 0:27:22.600 --> 0:27:24.840 that's going on I think now, which is like a 0:27:24.960 --> 0:27:32.200 drive through dinosaur experience, which, yeah, it's the roller Derby. 0:27:32.200 --> 0:27:35.040 One of the roller Derby are several roller dirty teams 0:27:35.080 --> 0:27:38.040 play over there in the Colosseum. So it's a pretty 0:27:38.680 --> 0:27:42.560 big little area. So they've mostly just done aside from 0:27:42.560 --> 0:27:45.040 the dinosaurs, they've mostly just done a drive through for 0:27:45.200 --> 0:27:47.680 the food stuff. This is the first year. That's all 0:27:47.720 --> 0:27:50.960 I think they're doing. It's a drive through, um, so 0:27:51.119 --> 0:27:54.240 I mean it's it's safe, it's just stay Fair traffic. 0:27:54.240 --> 0:27:57.240 It's notoriously a nightmare. Yeah, so it's like, why would 0:27:57.280 --> 0:28:00.840 I want to do that for funzies? Yeah, But mostly 0:28:00.960 --> 0:28:03.800 the experiences walking around and sharing your food with people 0:28:03.880 --> 0:28:08.359 and totally like it's you can't leisurely do that. I 0:28:08.359 --> 0:28:10.240 mean it sounds cool if you have like a family, 0:28:10.359 --> 0:28:12.760 it's actually great, but you're paying toy dollars to get 0:28:12.800 --> 0:28:15.200 in for the car, so that's a flat fee, and 0:28:15.240 --> 0:28:17.080 then you're paying for the individual food. And a lot 0:28:17.119 --> 0:28:20.359 of these vendors are exist in the Twin Cities anyway, 0:28:20.400 --> 0:28:23.640 I'll just get the food, however, So it's not like 0:28:23.720 --> 0:28:27.160 where there's like the one people who make the turkey 0:28:27.240 --> 0:28:30.120 drumstick that you can only have like that that one 0:28:30.440 --> 0:28:32.359 time of the year. There's a place called Turkey to Go, 0:28:32.560 --> 0:28:35.480 which they make really great sandwiches and stuff, and they're 0:28:35.480 --> 0:28:37.439 in the Skyway system and they're they have like a 0:28:38.120 --> 0:28:40.720 storefront or something, so I could just go there. There's 0:28:40.880 --> 0:28:45.240 a giant egg roll um Vietnamese place. They have a store. 0:28:45.280 --> 0:28:47.280 They're over northeast. I mean, they're all sorts of place. 0:28:47.360 --> 0:28:49.600 All you can drink milk. I'm lactose intolerant. I'm not 0:28:49.640 --> 0:28:52.600 trying to do that. You could drink milk is insane. 0:28:52.720 --> 0:28:55.320 It sounds like punishment, like if you're if you do 0:28:55.400 --> 0:28:58.360 something terrible, it's like, now, sit down, and drink milk 0:28:58.440 --> 0:29:01.400 until you spew like smoke in the whole pack exactly. 0:29:01.840 --> 0:29:04.560 We were just talking about milk last week in the 0:29:04.560 --> 0:29:08.240 Midwest because Emily, Oh, yeah, because I was witnessing the 0:29:08.560 --> 0:29:11.640 rapid expanse of Culver's. I don't know, if you're a 0:29:11.640 --> 0:29:15.600 Culver's fan, maybe I am. Like my late grandmother would 0:29:15.640 --> 0:29:18.520 often guilt me into going to Culver's for her like 0:29:19.200 --> 0:29:23.040 a huge Culver's family here. Yeah, I was like, because 0:29:23.080 --> 0:29:26.160 I'm from I lived in Iowa for a lot of 0:29:26.160 --> 0:29:28.600 my childhood, and uh so it was a big there. 0:29:28.640 --> 0:29:30.640 It was big, like Wisconsin thing, Minnesota thing. And then 0:29:30.680 --> 0:29:32.800 I was shocked to see them in like Arizona when 0:29:32.840 --> 0:29:35.880 I was driving. So Colver's is taking over the country. 0:29:36.160 --> 0:29:39.760 It's funny that you both are cursed with lactose intolerant 0:29:39.920 --> 0:29:42.920 and like the place with the most milk products. That 0:29:43.000 --> 0:29:45.080 probably is what did it, though, I think if you're 0:29:45.120 --> 0:29:49.400 like like, because I drank milkshakes and frozen custards and 0:29:49.440 --> 0:29:52.520 everything all through my upbringing and then at some point 0:29:52.520 --> 0:29:54.720 in college was just like, no, I know exactly what 0:29:54.840 --> 0:29:56.560 it happened. It was. I remember it was in like 0:29:56.640 --> 0:29:59.720 cafeteria and I used to have every day with lunch, 0:29:59.760 --> 0:30:02.040 like chocolate milk, and it was like really thick, like 0:30:02.200 --> 0:30:06.640 school chocolate milk. Um. But like one day I was like, 0:30:06.680 --> 0:30:09.080 why am I farting so much? And then I was like, well, 0:30:09.080 --> 0:30:11.440 maybe it's a chocolate milk which is very thick. So 0:30:11.480 --> 0:30:13.959 I would cut it with like regular milk and that 0:30:14.040 --> 0:30:15.960 didn't help, and I was like, oh, I gotta stop 0:30:16.040 --> 0:30:18.840 doing this. And it's not super severe for me, but 0:30:18.880 --> 0:30:20.960 it was like it kicked in when I was like seventeen, 0:30:21.400 --> 0:30:23.920 and so I mean, I'll, you know, I'll eat ice 0:30:23.960 --> 0:30:27.880 cream and stuff, but at the fair, but I can't 0:30:27.960 --> 0:30:30.040 drink milk. Also, there was a big thing a few 0:30:30.120 --> 0:30:32.160 years ago where they doubled the price. It used to 0:30:32.200 --> 0:30:34.880 just be a dollar, and a Rudy Boschwitz who was 0:30:34.960 --> 0:30:36.840 like a politician here. I think he was like I 0:30:36.840 --> 0:30:39.280 don't forget what he was, but he was like the 0:30:39.320 --> 0:30:42.400 Rudy bosh Witz like milkstand and now it's just you know, 0:30:42.480 --> 0:30:45.000 the milkstand or whatever it's called. And they were like, 0:30:45.040 --> 0:30:47.160 we have to double the price to two dollars and 0:30:47.160 --> 0:30:50.160 I was like, yeah, it's fine, guys, no, But people 0:30:50.200 --> 0:30:52.240 were kind of just sad because they were nostalgic for 0:30:52.280 --> 0:30:55.000 the one dollar milk, but I think they had like 0:30:55.200 --> 0:30:58.320 different flavors they used to. Strawberry might still be around, 0:30:58.360 --> 0:31:01.840 but it's like plain chocolate straw berry if you can 0:31:01.880 --> 0:31:06.000 never get sick of milk. So I take it they're 0:31:06.040 --> 0:31:09.600 not doing the world famous butter cow as part of 0:31:09.640 --> 0:31:14.360 the drive through. Oh that's Iowa. Iowa doesn't. Actually they are. 0:31:14.400 --> 0:31:17.520 They are doing the Butter Sculpture. So what Minnesota has 0:31:17.640 --> 0:31:21.680 is something called Princess K of the Milky Way, of 0:31:21.760 --> 0:31:24.480 the Milky Way. It's a it's a pageant, but it's 0:31:24.880 --> 0:31:29.200 agriculture and dairy stuff and it's actually really not hard 0:31:29.240 --> 0:31:31.240 to get it, but you have to know your ship. 0:31:31.520 --> 0:31:33.440 So the people who get into the finals are all 0:31:33.520 --> 0:31:36.720 like you have m agg majors who I think the 0:31:36.760 --> 0:31:38.760 cut off is like twenty three or something, and they 0:31:38.800 --> 0:31:42.400 have to like know their dairy ship so to get 0:31:42.440 --> 0:31:45.600 to be a finalist for that, they all all the 0:31:45.640 --> 0:31:48.960 finalists get there, like you go into this one building. 0:31:49.000 --> 0:31:52.520 There's the dairy building, and then there's the cattle building, 0:31:52.560 --> 0:31:56.560 which is different, but the dairy building, Um, there's a 0:31:56.640 --> 0:32:00.120 giant like I don't know, like glass case. The it's 0:32:00.160 --> 0:32:06.440 refrigerated and the like the Milky the Milky Way finalists, 0:32:06.440 --> 0:32:08.840 they wear their little crowns in their sash and they 0:32:08.840 --> 0:32:12.360 wear like whatever heavy coats they do, and they get 0:32:12.480 --> 0:32:15.520 they sit there and get carved in the blocks of butter. 0:32:16.760 --> 0:32:18.840 The winner, Princess Kid of the Milky Way, who's the 0:32:18.920 --> 0:32:21.160 number one, gets carved first, and it's like on down 0:32:21.160 --> 0:32:24.480 the line, and it is a very very prestigious honor. 0:32:24.560 --> 0:32:28.120 Like these people will save their butter bust un till 0:32:28.240 --> 0:32:30.800 their wedding day. They'll put it in deep freeze and 0:32:31.240 --> 0:32:33.560 it'll be a thing where I think, you know, I 0:32:33.560 --> 0:32:35.600 think some there was like a big controversy years ago 0:32:35.600 --> 0:32:39.120 where like someone's sibling like like destroyed the butter sculpture. 0:32:39.200 --> 0:32:43.400 It's like it's a huge deal. And um, so what 0:32:43.480 --> 0:32:45.640 they're doing this year is I think the person who 0:32:45.640 --> 0:32:50.000 normally called carved the butter sculptures retired and handed over 0:32:50.000 --> 0:32:52.200 to somewhere else. And what they're gonna do is they're 0:32:52.200 --> 0:32:55.920 probably going to put the butter person in the cooler 0:32:56.000 --> 0:32:59.040 and then put the Princess k person outside of the 0:32:59.040 --> 0:33:01.880 cooler for social distancing. But they're gonna do it this year. 0:33:01.880 --> 0:33:06.160 I mean they're gonna get those sculptures. So yeah, the 0:33:06.200 --> 0:33:09.480 main butter artist in Minnesota is not the same lady 0:33:09.640 --> 0:33:12.360 is in Iowa? Is it? Do you know y'all have 0:33:12.440 --> 0:33:16.520 your own but Well. The other difference with the Iowa 0:33:16.560 --> 0:33:20.160 butter cow is one Iowa recycles that butter on that 0:33:20.200 --> 0:33:26.160 butter cow likes going to eat the seen a documentary, Well, 0:33:26.280 --> 0:33:28.160 they eat the Princess K like they'll put it as 0:33:28.160 --> 0:33:31.160 a centerpiece and just use it for because it's just 0:33:31.440 --> 0:33:34.560 a giant block of butter that's brand new. It's very 0:33:34.640 --> 0:33:37.280 quick question. How big are these? Is it like a 0:33:37.360 --> 0:33:40.280 life size thing or I would say it's a pretty 0:33:40.400 --> 0:33:44.440 standard size like bust Like they're pretty big. So we're 0:33:44.480 --> 0:33:48.960 talking like punds of butter. Oh yeah, I mean I 0:33:49.400 --> 0:33:51.360 don't know what your producers are doing. They can google 0:33:51.360 --> 0:33:54.440 how big the butter cow bus, the butter the Princess 0:33:54.520 --> 0:33:57.880 K bus. But the other thing about this bus is, um, 0:33:57.880 --> 0:34:01.080 my ex boyfriend who I'm still friends with, thought maybe 0:34:01.120 --> 0:34:02.280 it was like one of my friends we all go 0:34:02.320 --> 0:34:05.440 to the fair, and he thought that they were just 0:34:05.600 --> 0:34:08.279 carving over and over the same sculpture and I was like, no, 0:34:08.400 --> 0:34:09.960 that's each of the women and if you. You can 0:34:09.960 --> 0:34:12.520 see their pictures next to the thing, and they all 0:34:12.600 --> 0:34:15.239 look different. I mean they all look very like Minnesotan 0:34:15.239 --> 0:34:18.680 and like Scandinavian, but they have different you know, hair 0:34:18.760 --> 0:34:21.040 and looks. But you have to kind of make their 0:34:21.040 --> 0:34:24.080 hair a little longer because of their necks because if 0:34:24.080 --> 0:34:28.080 you don't, their neck will like fall over. The breaking 0:34:28.120 --> 0:34:32.280 news from Joel. Producer Joel chimes in, it's a ninety 0:34:32.320 --> 0:34:37.560 pound block of butter. Yeah, I think I think butter 0:34:37.840 --> 0:34:42.200 is um lighter than like human flesh, well pound of 0:34:42.200 --> 0:34:46.640 butter sticks, and it's frozen too. It's pretty ya. But 0:34:46.719 --> 0:34:48.319 the butter cow in Iowa, I think I saw a 0:34:48.320 --> 0:34:50.640 documentary about it. So basically what happens there is that 0:34:50.680 --> 0:34:53.400 there's a frame made um and then the butter is 0:34:53.400 --> 0:34:56.480 applied and then like shaped onto them because there's no 0:34:56.520 --> 0:34:59.520 way those skinny little cow legs holding up all that 0:34:59.520 --> 0:35:03.760 that mass. This kind of relates to the Drive Through Dinosaurs. 0:35:03.800 --> 0:35:07.000 I've seen the Dinosaurs Live show and it was a 0:35:07.080 --> 0:35:10.120 little disappointing just because they had to hold up the 0:35:10.160 --> 0:35:15.359 dinosaurs heads because the dinosaurs next couldn't support it because 0:35:15.360 --> 0:35:18.120 it wasn't a real dinosaur. Yeah, you'd have to do 0:35:18.200 --> 0:35:23.120 select kind of dinosaurs, Like you couldn't do a bronosaurs, 0:35:23.920 --> 0:35:29.239 t sterotops, you could do probably it's all get into 0:35:29.280 --> 0:35:32.279 butter carving. This sounds like the great Well I wanted 0:35:32.360 --> 0:35:34.880 to say. Also, you introduced me to another hobby that 0:35:34.920 --> 0:35:38.440 I knew nothing about, which is crop art. Yeah. I'm 0:35:38.440 --> 0:35:42.440 actually going to be hosting a fundraiser for the Minnesota 0:35:42.440 --> 0:35:44.920 State Auditor who's her name is Julie Blah. And I 0:35:44.960 --> 0:35:47.160 don't have the exact details, but I couldn't like pass 0:35:47.239 --> 0:35:49.880 them on you guys. But she is a crop artist herself, 0:35:49.880 --> 0:35:51.760 and she's really awesome. She's to be a mass teacher, 0:35:51.920 --> 0:35:55.319 just a really fun person. Um. She does crop art, 0:35:55.360 --> 0:35:57.680 and she figured out that like if you enter your 0:35:57.719 --> 0:36:01.080 crop art and it's not controversial, uh, they'll leave it 0:36:01.160 --> 0:36:03.360 up for the duration of the fair, which is twelve days. 0:36:03.600 --> 0:36:06.400 So what she did is she made her political sign 0:36:06.480 --> 0:36:09.000 like you know, Julie Blaha vote for her or whatever 0:36:09.480 --> 0:36:11.759 in crop art, and then she got free advertising for 0:36:11.800 --> 0:36:16.799 a total of eight dollars. And I've ever seen but yeah, 0:36:16.800 --> 0:36:19.680 behind me some of my crop art, my novice entry. 0:36:20.080 --> 0:36:22.600 Uh it's a shady panda from Polar Bears. Cafe, my 0:36:22.600 --> 0:36:26.600 favorite show. Oh my god. Yeah, and then um above 0:36:26.680 --> 0:36:28.960 that is I can show you guys later is the 0:36:29.320 --> 0:36:32.920 I entered the special Occasion category last year. Um, and 0:36:32.960 --> 0:36:35.279 I did the thirtieth anniversary of the Game Boy and 0:36:35.280 --> 0:36:40.600 then that pieces like sixty or twelve by like sixteen, 0:36:40.640 --> 0:36:44.480 I think, baby, Um yeah, so the wait, so what 0:36:44.640 --> 0:36:46.600 is it made of? Oh, it's made up a lot 0:36:46.600 --> 0:36:49.839 of stuff. So typically in crop art. So I guess 0:36:49.840 --> 0:36:52.000 I should back up the history of crop art. And 0:36:52.080 --> 0:36:55.239 I don't don't quote me on this because I'm very 0:36:55.320 --> 0:37:00.279 new to crop art. I'm in my like third year technically, well, 0:37:00.360 --> 0:37:03.839 to have new blood in the crops, the nicest people like, 0:37:03.920 --> 0:37:07.480 they're so talented and so nice. So crop arts started 0:37:07.520 --> 0:37:11.640 about fifty five years. Fifty anniversary was actually gonna be 0:37:11.640 --> 0:37:13.480 this year and I was gonna do crop art sneakers, 0:37:13.520 --> 0:37:19.480 but that's a different story. Um. But basically, um, you know, 0:37:19.560 --> 0:37:21.879 they they started the crop art they at the fair 0:37:21.960 --> 0:37:25.359 where you basically just have to use Minnesota crops. They 0:37:25.400 --> 0:37:27.760 have to grow in Minnesota. Doesn't have to be native 0:37:27.760 --> 0:37:30.720 to Minnesota, just has to grow there. So there's someone 0:37:30.800 --> 0:37:35.040 who is a um they're the woman who originally started 0:37:35.080 --> 0:37:38.120 crop art. There's a book I was reading called Seed Queen. 0:37:38.280 --> 0:37:41.399 She started that and then her daughter is now like 0:37:41.880 --> 0:37:44.520 royalty literally in crop art where she doesn't even enter 0:37:44.560 --> 0:37:47.680 anymore because like she destroyed everyone else, but she's still 0:37:47.680 --> 0:37:50.879 like shows her art or she'll enter something like that. 0:37:51.200 --> 0:37:53.719 So they have to grow in Minnesota, and so there's 0:37:53.760 --> 0:37:57.080 some really super competitive people who will watch the University 0:37:57.080 --> 0:38:01.239 of Minnesota UM experimental like agriculture thing and if they 0:38:01.320 --> 0:38:04.840 grow a seed hybrid, that's a that's a legal seed 0:38:04.920 --> 0:38:07.840 and you just ask you intend. Yeah, so what you 0:38:07.920 --> 0:38:11.200 have to do is you basically there are different categories. 0:38:11.200 --> 0:38:14.560 There's the novice category, which is just your first year UM. 0:38:14.600 --> 0:38:18.279 There's wearable crop art, and there's the amateur division and 0:38:18.320 --> 0:38:21.200 then the advanced and if you get a certain number 0:38:21.239 --> 0:38:24.160 of blue ribbons you have to go to Advanced UM. 0:38:24.200 --> 0:38:27.360 There's wearable crop art, there's flat floral arrangements where you 0:38:27.400 --> 0:38:31.560 can use plant parts beyond the seeds. Uh. There are 0:38:32.200 --> 0:38:34.960 UM crafts I think there you can make like dolls 0:38:34.960 --> 0:38:38.359 of stuff. There's a scare crow category which is kind 0:38:38.400 --> 0:38:40.640 of with the crop art but not the same thing. 0:38:41.200 --> 0:38:44.439 And at the state Fair there's a whole creative arts 0:38:44.600 --> 0:38:47.040 thing that's separate from this where people show their jams 0:38:47.080 --> 0:38:50.120 and stuff. And then there's fine arts, which is just 0:38:50.280 --> 0:38:54.120 the artist. But I think like crop art is showcase 0:38:54.239 --> 0:38:58.680 in the agriculture and horticulture building. Um, and it's it's cool. 0:38:58.800 --> 0:39:03.160 It's just like you basically have to turn in your 0:39:03.600 --> 0:39:06.000 seed guide where you have little samples of all the 0:39:06.080 --> 0:39:09.120 seeds you used so that you can you know, they 0:39:09.120 --> 0:39:11.560 can check it against to make sure it's legal. So 0:39:11.680 --> 0:39:14.280 my my panda here is the easiest one to see. 0:39:14.840 --> 0:39:17.560 It's pretty small as crop art goes. But I used 0:39:17.800 --> 0:39:22.960 flax um like regular flax. I think golden flax. Quene 0:39:23.000 --> 0:39:29.680 wa staff flower grows in Minnesota. Uh yeah, somebody's grown it, 0:39:29.719 --> 0:39:33.319 and somebody's grown it wild rice. Um. I think there's 0:39:33.360 --> 0:39:36.560 some lentils. All the lentils are legal, even though they 0:39:36.560 --> 0:39:39.840 technically shouldn't because like nobody in Minnesota really grows bloga lentel, 0:39:39.880 --> 0:39:46.919 but somebody did. Um n yeah, sorghum and then uh 0:39:47.080 --> 0:39:52.000 keenewa different kinds of quenua canola or rape seed. I 0:39:52.040 --> 0:39:56.880 don't have a story about that. Um. And like I think, um, 0:39:56.920 --> 0:39:59.520 a couple of like wild grasses and stuff for lines. 0:39:59.760 --> 0:40:01.360 But like some of the seeds you can't use. You 0:40:01.360 --> 0:40:04.360 can't use sesame seed, you can't use anything that's a weed. 0:40:04.840 --> 0:40:08.959 You can't use um white rice. You can use wild rice. 0:40:09.360 --> 0:40:12.480 But people get really creative, like I think somebody did 0:40:12.600 --> 0:40:15.600 a few years ago they did Bob Marley and hemp 0:40:15.680 --> 0:40:19.480 seed that's legal. Um. Somebody did a controversial one that 0:40:19.520 --> 0:40:22.239 stayed up for like three days where they did Bill 0:40:22.320 --> 0:40:24.960 Cosby and all canola seed um, which is also known 0:40:25.040 --> 0:40:29.120 as rape seed, and god that one was taken down 0:40:29.400 --> 0:40:30.840 that I think it's the same person who to the 0:40:30.880 --> 0:40:34.520 hemp seed. Just like people, it's very political to people 0:40:34.560 --> 0:40:36.360 tend to lean left in this, so there's a lot 0:40:36.400 --> 0:40:40.960 of political statements um, and a lot of it's pretty competitive. 0:40:40.960 --> 0:40:43.959 That the person who won Grand Champion two years ago 0:40:44.200 --> 0:40:48.520 whose starts basically her next year's project in her projects 0:40:48.560 --> 0:40:51.319 like thirty six inches by like twenty four inches, and 0:40:51.360 --> 0:40:53.879 she uses like tiny time like poppy seeds, So there's 0:40:53.920 --> 0:40:57.400 poppy seeds on that one too. Um. It was a 0:40:57.680 --> 0:40:59.720 Dr Seuss thing and I can send you guys pictures, 0:40:59.719 --> 0:41:03.000 but was gorgeous. It was about immigration, but it was 0:41:03.080 --> 0:41:06.239 like making fun of like anti immigration people using dr 0:41:06.320 --> 0:41:08.759 SEUs And in the prior year she did Swampy Town, 0:41:08.760 --> 0:41:10.920 which was just busy Town but about Trump with a 0:41:11.000 --> 0:41:15.239 busy town animals. But it was gorgeous and you could 0:41:15.239 --> 0:41:16.880 sell these for like thousands. It should be in the 0:41:16.920 --> 0:41:19.560 Fine Arts building. But yeah, well, we're going to take 0:41:19.560 --> 0:41:21.880 a quick break and we will be right back with 0:41:21.960 --> 0:41:39.440 another night email. We received a night call for Brandy 0:41:39.480 --> 0:41:42.480 about crop art. Um not to take this in a 0:41:42.640 --> 0:41:45.520 in a morbid direction, but I'm going to, uh, this 0:41:45.560 --> 0:41:47.680 person did not sign their email, so we're gonna let 0:41:47.680 --> 0:41:51.240 them be anonymous. I feel like when I watched Witness 0:41:51.360 --> 0:41:55.160 starring Harrison Ford and learned about grain entrapment, it completely 0:41:55.280 --> 0:41:58.600 changed my relationship to crop art. Imagine drowning in a 0:41:58.680 --> 0:42:03.320 vat of paint or being rushed by crayons. I haven't 0:42:03.360 --> 0:42:06.360 seen that, but I mean, yeah, you don't funk with silos. 0:42:06.440 --> 0:42:09.759 I mean that's Midwestern, like I'm from the city, but 0:42:09.840 --> 0:42:12.520 you yeah, you don't sunk around in those. Anything on 0:42:12.560 --> 0:42:16.160 a farm can kill you. So that's just like crop art. 0:42:16.200 --> 0:42:17.680 I just go to this farm and feed. I mean 0:42:17.680 --> 0:42:19.440 the most dangerous part of crop art for me is 0:42:19.440 --> 0:42:21.879 going a little too far outside the ninety four loop, 0:42:21.960 --> 0:42:24.040 which is I ninety four and like all the connecting 0:42:24.080 --> 0:42:26.360 things and going out to the farm and feed stores 0:42:26.400 --> 0:42:29.000 to pick up some you know, like sorghum and stuff, 0:42:29.200 --> 0:42:30.520 and they're just like, what are you doing? I was 0:42:30.520 --> 0:42:33.440 like crop art and then everyone's super nice, what are 0:42:33.440 --> 0:42:36.120 you doing? And then um, yeah, and I get a 0:42:36.160 --> 0:42:39.000 lot of the edible seeds and stuff from just coops 0:42:39.120 --> 0:42:40.960 and stuff like that. Did you guys see the story 0:42:41.040 --> 0:42:44.600 this week about the mystery seeds three seeds? I would 0:42:44.640 --> 0:42:46.520 love to talk about mystery seeds. What do you guys 0:42:46.560 --> 0:42:48.880 think is going on? Something I heard someone say that 0:42:48.960 --> 0:42:53.560 was actually like a scam to get ratings or something 0:42:53.640 --> 0:42:56.319 from something else. Can somebody explain the mystery seeds? I 0:42:56.320 --> 0:43:00.880 haven't seen this. People were getting mystery packages from companies 0:43:00.920 --> 0:43:04.400 like Wish and Ali Baba I think from from and 0:43:04.640 --> 0:43:06.640 there was just something going around being like, do not 0:43:06.840 --> 0:43:10.000 open the mystery seeds from China. They are unmarked seeds 0:43:10.040 --> 0:43:13.560 from China, unidentified And yeah, people were receiving them and 0:43:13.560 --> 0:43:16.560 then the FDA said don't plant them and send them 0:43:16.600 --> 0:43:19.120 to us so that we can figure out what they are. Um. 0:43:19.160 --> 0:43:21.600 But yeah, like Brandy said, I think, you know, it's 0:43:21.640 --> 0:43:24.040 it could be one of those things where it's sellers 0:43:24.040 --> 0:43:27.520 trying to just send um send packages to people who 0:43:27.520 --> 0:43:30.160 didn't order anything, and then they can use that address 0:43:30.280 --> 0:43:33.280 to make it a verified purchase and give themselves good reviews. 0:43:33.960 --> 0:43:35.640 But it seems kind of strange because there have been 0:43:35.719 --> 0:43:40.279 multiple reports. Someone someone actually a mutual on Twitter said 0:43:40.280 --> 0:43:42.879 that she got super high and saw that Wish had 0:43:42.880 --> 0:43:45.440 a thing for trees, and so she bought trees and 0:43:45.480 --> 0:43:47.440 she had forgotten she had done this while super high, 0:43:47.520 --> 0:43:50.600 that she got the seeds and she's like, oh, that's 0:43:50.640 --> 0:43:53.200 what it was. Like they were selling like trees and 0:43:53.200 --> 0:43:55.839 people thought they were getting trees, which at the State Fair, 0:43:55.840 --> 0:43:58.560 by the way, last year, I got a like an 0:43:58.560 --> 0:44:01.799 actual seedling for a tree if I went the first day, 0:44:01.800 --> 0:44:04.319 and like the Forest Service was like free trees, Like 0:44:04.320 --> 0:44:06.759 there's so much stuff, like they give away yardsticks and 0:44:06.800 --> 0:44:09.279 all sorts of great things. So, I mean people thought 0:44:09.280 --> 0:44:12.120 they were getting seedlings and they were just getting seeds 0:44:12.239 --> 0:44:15.160 seeds right, and two weeks ago people thought they were 0:44:15.160 --> 0:44:20.120 going to get children in cabinets, So gotta keep up. 0:44:20.480 --> 0:44:22.480 So going back to the crop art thing and like 0:44:22.560 --> 0:44:25.000 kind of the political statements and some of the more 0:44:25.080 --> 0:44:29.120 stunty crop art entries. That kind of made me curious 0:44:29.120 --> 0:44:31.000 because I haven't been to a state fair, big fair 0:44:31.040 --> 0:44:33.480 for a while. I did um go to the Iowa 0:44:33.520 --> 0:44:35.759 State Fair bit um growing up, but I also went 0:44:35.800 --> 0:44:37.960 to UM. It wasn't a state fair, but it basically 0:44:38.000 --> 0:44:40.600 was a scale of a state fair in UM in Washington, 0:44:40.719 --> 0:44:44.200 the Polut Fair, Um that one a lot too. Yeah, 0:44:44.960 --> 0:44:47.719 but uh but I was sort of wondering, like, you know, 0:44:47.760 --> 0:44:49.920 what is the political vibe of some of these different 0:44:49.960 --> 0:44:54.200 Like is the is the crop art scene more political 0:44:54.360 --> 0:44:57.560 than like say the quilty and scene or any of 0:44:57.600 --> 0:44:59.200 the other cars. I would say, yeah, I would say 0:44:59.200 --> 0:45:02.359 the crop arts se is more left leaning. And it's 0:45:02.360 --> 0:45:04.839 a lot of city people. There's some from Outstates, which 0:45:04.880 --> 0:45:07.000 is Outstates what we call its side of the metro area. 0:45:07.120 --> 0:45:10.600 So uh so that's just you know, greater Minnesota outside 0:45:10.640 --> 0:45:12.799 of the what we call seven county metro area, which 0:45:12.840 --> 0:45:17.320 also includes like far far western Wisconsin. But um, mostly 0:45:17.360 --> 0:45:19.000 like a lot of the people who win are like St. 0:45:19.000 --> 0:45:22.960 Paul Minneapolis people, And yeah, I mean the quilting people 0:45:23.520 --> 0:45:27.040 tend to just make gorgeous quilts and in the Creative 0:45:27.080 --> 0:45:32.319 Arts building. Like I said, it's not as political because yeah, 0:45:32.400 --> 0:45:35.319 it's just I mean the room for it. And the 0:45:35.480 --> 0:45:39.640 whimsy is just generally like stuff that's like always gonna 0:45:39.640 --> 0:45:41.840 be whimsical. But the crop art, you do new stuff 0:45:41.880 --> 0:45:44.160 every year, so you're just like and you can enter 0:45:44.239 --> 0:45:47.120 multiple categories if you want, so people are just kind 0:45:47.120 --> 0:45:49.880 of you know, I have my theories on the pandering. 0:45:50.320 --> 0:45:53.280 What would win with the judges who tend to skew 0:45:53.400 --> 0:45:55.279 older and you kind of if you do something like 0:45:55.360 --> 0:45:57.719 pandering to the state Fair in Minnesota, that would win 0:45:58.280 --> 0:46:02.800 my I mean my tetrissing. It's good, but it rightfully 0:46:02.840 --> 0:46:06.640 did not even place. I actually, um, I have an 0:46:06.680 --> 0:46:10.880 ongoing thing where my croppart is accidentally in the background 0:46:10.920 --> 0:46:14.960 of politicians taking pictures with other crop art. So two 0:46:15.040 --> 0:46:17.919 years ago, my panda was right behind someone's entry, which 0:46:17.960 --> 0:46:20.360 was a like a head a three D head of 0:46:20.640 --> 0:46:23.440 ilhan Omar out of seeds and they just used a 0:46:23.480 --> 0:46:25.399 base of like you know, styrofoam and then they made 0:46:25.400 --> 0:46:27.440 it out of seeds. So she's leaning in front of it, 0:46:27.480 --> 0:46:29.680 and then behind her is like the shady panda spying. 0:46:31.640 --> 0:46:36.960 That's great. Yeah, then last year Julie. Uh, Julie Blaha 0:46:37.000 --> 0:46:40.200 actually did a great She entered multiple things last year 0:46:40.239 --> 0:46:43.359 she entered she did a piece for Peggy Flanagan, who 0:46:43.440 --> 0:46:46.320 is our current lieutenant governor. Tom Weber was going to 0:46:46.400 --> 0:46:48.680 propose to her who he was, he's a journalist here 0:46:49.040 --> 0:46:53.000 and so she did a piece of crop art for 0:46:53.040 --> 0:46:57.200 their engagement um and like, because you can do like 0:46:57.280 --> 0:46:59.960 birthdays or themes or stuff with a special occasion category. 0:47:00.280 --> 0:47:02.120 And she said, and everyone was like, well, what if 0:47:02.640 --> 0:47:05.200 you know, they don't get engaged or he moves the 0:47:05.280 --> 0:47:07.680 date And she's like, well, I waited and saved the date. 0:47:07.719 --> 0:47:11.320 But also her anniversary was coming up anyway, She's like, 0:47:11.320 --> 0:47:13.080 I could easily just make it me and my husband. 0:47:13.120 --> 0:47:15.400 So it was fine, but it was a gorgeous piece 0:47:15.440 --> 0:47:19.080 at one first place, but it was also right my 0:47:19.080 --> 0:47:21.000 my tetrising was right below it. So I have a 0:47:21.040 --> 0:47:24.560 picture of Julie Blah i was a state auditor with that, 0:47:24.800 --> 0:47:26.520 I have a picture of Peggy flang and who's a 0:47:26.560 --> 0:47:28.719 lieutenant governor with that, and then Tim Wallace who's a 0:47:28.800 --> 0:47:31.680 governor with my pictures. So now it's just like an 0:47:31.719 --> 0:47:33.759 ongoing thing where I try to I'm gonna try to 0:47:33.800 --> 0:47:36.560 like get my crop art next to other politicians stuff, 0:47:36.640 --> 0:47:39.160 or just to have them stop by. Next time you 0:47:39.200 --> 0:47:41.319 have to put a secret message and that you can 0:47:41.320 --> 0:47:44.560 only see from very far away. I mean, I'll just 0:47:44.560 --> 0:47:47.360 put a blatant message, and like, I like there's like 0:47:47.480 --> 0:47:49.360 all sorts of stuff. I might actually just make a 0:47:49.360 --> 0:47:51.239 piece just to like make fun of amy Cloba Shar, 0:47:51.320 --> 0:47:54.040 because there's also the amy Cloba Shar ongoing state at 0:47:54.040 --> 0:47:58.240 fair feud um with me and her. Wait, what what happened? 0:47:58.600 --> 0:48:03.680 What's the amy? So Amy Klobascher is very very diplomatic, 0:48:03.760 --> 0:48:06.920 always like to the point where you're like comedically like 0:48:07.040 --> 0:48:09.920 centrist on stuff. You don't want to upset people, and like, 0:48:10.560 --> 0:48:13.439 so there was a news story before the state fair 0:48:13.440 --> 0:48:16.680 because everyone's down in Iowa pandering down there in Iowa, 0:48:16.800 --> 0:48:18.840 and of course you're in Iowa. You don't want to 0:48:18.840 --> 0:48:21.479 say the Minnesota State Fair is better. So somebody said 0:48:21.520 --> 0:48:23.920 which is better? And she, of course was very diplomatic 0:48:23.960 --> 0:48:26.680 about it. Fine, she's a guest in Iowa, who cares. 0:48:26.880 --> 0:48:28.959 But I saw that, and I'm just a huge state 0:48:29.000 --> 0:48:31.360 fair stand I was like, I'm gonna ask her which 0:48:31.400 --> 0:48:33.560 is better and make her say the Minnesota State Fair. 0:48:33.800 --> 0:48:35.719 So my good friend Hayley and I go on the 0:48:35.760 --> 0:48:38.440 first day and we were like you know what. We 0:48:38.520 --> 0:48:41.399 went at like it opens the gates open at six am. 0:48:41.480 --> 0:48:44.200 We were there at seven with like Hayley's mom drove 0:48:44.320 --> 0:48:46.600 us and I'm just like all right, thanks, Like her 0:48:46.600 --> 0:48:48.400 mom like picked me up. It was like high school 0:48:48.440 --> 0:48:52.080 or something. And uh we went and we were like, Okay, 0:48:52.120 --> 0:48:54.160 here's what we're gonna do. We're gonna go like run around. 0:48:54.160 --> 0:48:56.200 We got these plans. We're gonna go see the Baby Rabbits. 0:48:56.200 --> 0:48:58.359 We're gonna go to the three four h musical at 0:48:58.400 --> 0:49:01.359 eleven or something to find Amy Cloba Shar at two 0:49:01.360 --> 0:49:04.320 o'clock at the MPR stage where she's being interviewed and 0:49:04.360 --> 0:49:06.719 we're gonna ask her this question. It was like we 0:49:06.800 --> 0:49:09.239 totally weren't gonna do like it. It doesn't seem like 0:49:09.239 --> 0:49:10.520 a gotcha. All you have to do is say the 0:49:10.520 --> 0:49:12.839 mississ State Fair is better you're in Minnesota, but also 0:49:12.920 --> 0:49:17.279 objectively it is a better fair anyway. But so we 0:49:17.280 --> 0:49:20.320 were walking around and we were we here just yelling 0:49:20.440 --> 0:49:23.200 and I'm like, that's Amy Klobashar's voice. It was from 0:49:23.239 --> 0:49:26.719 the DFL like shack or like they're little like hut 0:49:26.840 --> 0:49:29.160 that they have. And I was like, well, let's go 0:49:29.239 --> 0:49:31.759 over there. And amy Clobshar is just like yelling, like 0:49:31.800 --> 0:49:34.120 the the joke I have an amy Ckloba Schar, which 0:49:34.160 --> 0:49:35.920 is not even a joke, It's true. It's that woman 0:49:35.960 --> 0:49:39.759 has no indoor voice. She will always yell, so like 0:49:40.120 --> 0:49:42.600 she's yelling, and so I was like, well, let's just 0:49:42.640 --> 0:49:44.960 do it now. So we kind of sneake our away 0:49:45.560 --> 0:49:48.000 to amy Kloba Shar after she's wrapping up her her 0:49:48.080 --> 0:49:49.960 big like ra ra speech and she was gonna go 0:49:50.000 --> 0:49:53.120 from the DFL booth to the MPR stage to be 0:49:53.160 --> 0:49:57.160 interviewed by the news. So I kind of like upstream 0:49:57.280 --> 0:49:59.840 salmon towards her. And I was a DFL R d 0:50:00.040 --> 0:50:02.600 fell by the way, is our Democrats the Democratic farmer 0:50:02.680 --> 0:50:05.600 labor thing, that's what it's called Minnesota. So I was 0:50:05.640 --> 0:50:09.360 a delegate to the DFL party and eighteen at the 0:50:09.400 --> 0:50:13.560 state convention, and I met amy Klobasher there. I walked 0:50:13.560 --> 0:50:16.719 into the DFL after party that night and there was 0:50:16.719 --> 0:50:19.840 a Prince Cover band playing, and I saw Amy Klobascher 0:50:20.200 --> 0:50:26.080 dancing with the michaelob Golden and just like toasting the 0:50:26.080 --> 0:50:28.719 the Prince Cover band in a in a skirt suit. 0:50:28.840 --> 0:50:31.520 It was I'm so glad my friends were there. I'm 0:50:31.560 --> 0:50:33.400 so glad. I'm like, holy sh it, this is the 0:50:33.440 --> 0:50:37.319 great thing. So we take a picture with her, and 0:50:37.400 --> 0:50:39.719 so I did meet her. So I walked up to 0:50:39.719 --> 0:50:41.800 her and I was like Senator Klobischer. Her name is 0:50:41.800 --> 0:50:43.279 Brandy Brown It she was kind of just gonna do 0:50:43.320 --> 0:50:45.239 the oh nice and I go I was a delegate 0:50:45.239 --> 0:50:48.000 in and she's like oh. And at that amount of 0:50:48.040 --> 0:50:50.319 time I talked to her like it was enough to 0:50:50.320 --> 0:50:52.360 slow her down. And then kind of people gathered around 0:50:52.320 --> 0:50:54.120 and say, I have a question. It's a fun question 0:50:54.280 --> 0:50:56.960 because I wasn't gonna do like a regular ambush because 0:50:57.000 --> 0:50:59.040 it's just venue wise, wasn't the time and place you 0:50:59.040 --> 0:51:02.120 couldn't really pull it off. And I go, uh, yeah, 0:51:02.239 --> 0:51:04.880 So you were in Iowa and you said the Iowa 0:51:05.000 --> 0:51:06.879 State Fair is better. And by the way, there's video 0:51:06.880 --> 0:51:08.320 of this. I can said it to you. I tweeted 0:51:08.320 --> 0:51:11.360 it and my friend Haley who was on the camera, 0:51:11.760 --> 0:51:14.360 and she's like and I said, which state Fair is better? 0:51:14.680 --> 0:51:17.279 And I'm by the way in this video because I 0:51:17.320 --> 0:51:20.640 went to the horticulture building, and there's the beer, like 0:51:20.719 --> 0:51:22.799 the craft brewers Guilty. You can get like a four 0:51:22.880 --> 0:51:25.800 pack of like Samplers. So I'm holding a four pack 0:51:25.960 --> 0:51:29.120 of like beer, and and I'm wearing my little buff 0:51:29.160 --> 0:51:31.600 around my neck and I'm just like, my skin looks 0:51:31.640 --> 0:51:35.680 amazing in this. But it's like the Blazing Sun. And 0:51:35.760 --> 0:51:38.279 she's like Amy Clover Show. Everyone's like circling around, like 0:51:38.320 --> 0:51:40.399 what is going on? Why did she stopped? Amy Clover Show. 0:51:40.480 --> 0:51:42.160 Was like she wants to know which is better the 0:51:42.239 --> 0:51:45.520 Minnesota State Fair the Iowa State Fair. I'm like, yeah, 0:51:45.520 --> 0:51:47.560 so which is better? And she's like, well, they have 0:51:47.640 --> 0:51:51.480 a butter cow and we have the butter Boss. And 0:51:51.520 --> 0:51:53.880 I go, yeah, but which is better? And then she's like, 0:51:53.920 --> 0:51:56.359 well we got to bring people together. I'm like, right, 0:51:56.520 --> 0:51:59.640 but which is better? I just get like and over 0:51:59.680 --> 0:52:03.120 again and then she like contestantly like pats me on 0:52:03.160 --> 0:52:05.480 the shower, was like and then like and then it 0:52:05.520 --> 0:52:07.759 cuts off on the video, but I have the full 0:52:07.840 --> 0:52:10.040 video of me going, well, I guess it's war in 0:52:11.560 --> 0:52:15.680 but like she didn't hear me, so it's just ongoing fude, 0:52:15.680 --> 0:52:20.359 And like our all city pages published something uh like 0:52:20.480 --> 0:52:23.520 called like um, because there's always a state Fair new 0:52:23.560 --> 0:52:26.200 foods and like the state Fair new thing is Amy 0:52:26.239 --> 0:52:28.839 Klobaschar's flip flop or something, and it's just like this 0:52:29.000 --> 0:52:31.879 ongoing thing where people would just tweet and black which 0:52:31.920 --> 0:52:36.000 is better? And I was on there's a local podcast 0:52:36.040 --> 0:52:38.040 here called Wrong About Everything, and I'm friends with the 0:52:38.040 --> 0:52:40.480 people on it, and they were doing a state Fair thing. 0:52:40.560 --> 0:52:44.560 Wrong about Everything is two Democrats and two Republicans one 0:52:44.600 --> 0:52:46.759 and they're all friends with each other and they're really cool. 0:52:46.840 --> 0:52:49.600 Given the Republicans um and I hung out with them, 0:52:49.719 --> 0:52:52.719 and you know, like Julie Blaha, the state auditor, was 0:52:52.760 --> 0:52:55.359 on this and a couple of other DFL people were 0:52:55.400 --> 0:52:59.560 on this live state Fair episode because radio records at 0:52:59.600 --> 0:53:02.680 the state Fair. It's just everything shuts down and everyone 0:53:02.719 --> 0:53:04.799 goes to State Fair. The news is all from there, 0:53:04.880 --> 0:53:07.200 the radio stations are all there. So I'm on this 0:53:07.280 --> 0:53:11.040 episode and I'm just sitting there, like I get to 0:53:11.040 --> 0:53:12.799 talk about it. I'm just like I would ask every 0:53:12.800 --> 0:53:14.759 politician I met, which is better? And of course the 0:53:14.800 --> 0:53:18.439 answer is even if you're running, the diplomatic answer is, well, 0:53:18.800 --> 0:53:21.200 they're both great, and they both have great things. But 0:53:21.239 --> 0:53:24.640 obviously I gotta go with the hometown st Fair. That's 0:53:24.640 --> 0:53:26.960 all you felt to your people. No one's gonna be 0:53:27.040 --> 0:53:29.279 mad if you fail for the home team. I mean, 0:53:29.360 --> 0:53:31.120 it's a like a state fair is one of the 0:53:31.160 --> 0:53:34.640 most low stakes things that like it's it's like lower 0:53:34.680 --> 0:53:37.200 stakes than sports. You can just be like, well that's 0:53:37.239 --> 0:53:39.960 my team and people would be like okay, okay. But 0:53:40.120 --> 0:53:42.680 she she she didn't. I don't know that. Wait, so 0:53:42.760 --> 0:53:45.480 this was last year. They used last year, so she 0:53:45.719 --> 0:53:49.279 was like still thought she had some kind of she won't. 0:53:49.280 --> 0:53:52.240 I'm convinced she won't admit it until like she gets 0:53:52.320 --> 0:53:55.600 in office, like her not winning this year or getting 0:53:55.920 --> 0:53:59.080 even the nomination, not being VP, she won't ever admit 0:53:59.160 --> 0:54:02.920 it until there's no chance she'll be president. So like 0:54:03.320 --> 0:54:06.879 we've got twenty years of her not doing this. I 0:54:06.920 --> 0:54:10.640 followed your journey last summer at the Minnesota State Fair 0:54:10.960 --> 0:54:14.640 just like it was the highlight of my summer because 0:54:15.400 --> 0:54:18.279 I've followed I've watched your your content for a couple 0:54:18.320 --> 0:54:21.319 of years now about the Minnesota State Fair, and it 0:54:21.440 --> 0:54:24.600 was just so funny because like you were posting, it 0:54:24.640 --> 0:54:26.239 was like you're walking around and going to all the 0:54:26.280 --> 0:54:29.640 different pavilions, and then sometimes you would pass stand and 0:54:29.680 --> 0:54:32.239 be like, I'm coming back for you, Amy. My other 0:54:32.320 --> 0:54:34.799 favorite thing is So there's a Minnesotan here. His name 0:54:34.840 --> 0:54:37.520 is Tony Webster. His Twitter handle is Webster, and he's 0:54:37.520 --> 0:54:41.560 a big foia guy. He's a journalist. He often sues 0:54:41.719 --> 0:54:45.400 people to get public data. He's just excellent and like 0:54:45.760 --> 0:54:48.960 definitely an important follow in general. But he's also like 0:54:49.280 --> 0:54:51.840 takes photos of things a lot. So he went to 0:54:51.880 --> 0:54:54.400 the state fair and Amy Kloba schars it's great because 0:54:54.400 --> 0:54:56.799 all the politicians at the state level have their own 0:54:56.840 --> 0:54:59.360 little booth and hers is like a little like house. 0:54:59.480 --> 0:55:01.800 It looks like an nice little house. It's it's cute, 0:55:02.040 --> 0:55:04.760 but it's also right in front of the my pillow 0:55:04.800 --> 0:55:08.920 Guy like building where they're selling stuff it so the 0:55:09.040 --> 0:55:13.200 thing has windows, and Tony Webster posted this picture where 0:55:13.200 --> 0:55:15.680 he's like, it looks like because of the way it's 0:55:15.719 --> 0:55:19.680 positioned that somebody in Amy Cloberhard's little like shack house 0:55:19.800 --> 0:55:22.680 thing hung up a picture of the my pillow Guy 0:55:23.160 --> 0:55:25.560 with a it's like the poster that says from crack 0:55:25.600 --> 0:55:30.279 Addict to CEO. She hung that up and so they 0:55:30.280 --> 0:55:32.160 took a picture of it, and I was like, this 0:55:32.160 --> 0:55:34.840 is incredible, this is funny. But also several of my 0:55:34.920 --> 0:55:36.879 friends have now broken this woman at the State fam. 0:55:36.960 --> 0:55:39.080 We weren't like trying to be malicious, but you know, 0:55:39.120 --> 0:55:43.359 whatever beyond your toes amy and uh. The next time 0:55:43.400 --> 0:55:45.239 I was at State Fair, because I went multiple times 0:55:45.239 --> 0:55:47.719 because I did some live podcasts there, I figure out 0:55:47.719 --> 0:55:49.560 how I can write off the State Fair, so like 0:55:49.600 --> 0:55:52.960 whatever people want to be for it's like your south 0:55:52.960 --> 0:55:56.319 by Southwest or something totally is myself by self West, 0:55:57.560 --> 0:56:00.880 thank you? Uh? I walk why was My friend was like, 0:56:00.920 --> 0:56:02.880 holy sh it. They boarded up the windows and the 0:56:02.920 --> 0:56:05.640 amy Culoba shar hut, So that can't be a thing anymore. 0:56:05.920 --> 0:56:07.799 You can't because I was gonna walk by and like 0:56:07.880 --> 0:56:10.960 hide behind it to like hold up a sign to 0:56:11.000 --> 0:56:13.200 be like Minnesota State Fair is better, and I couldn't 0:56:13.200 --> 0:56:17.400 do it. See this is like all making me so 0:56:17.400 --> 0:56:19.840 so so nostalgic for going to state fairs, and like 0:56:19.880 --> 0:56:22.440 it it makes me miss them and like, you know, 0:56:22.520 --> 0:56:24.440 kind of more and that we can't really do them 0:56:24.560 --> 0:56:26.600 right now in the same way because it is this 0:56:26.680 --> 0:56:29.920 sort of absurdity where the entire world gets so shrunken 0:56:29.960 --> 0:56:32.200 and there is like a little Amy. Amy Clobhar has 0:56:32.239 --> 0:56:34.840 a little house in a park. The thing about the 0:56:34.880 --> 0:56:36.680 State Fair, I was trying to figure out why I 0:56:36.680 --> 0:56:38.120 love it so much of other people who hate it 0:56:38.120 --> 0:56:40.759 because it's crowded and it's you know whatever. And that's fine. 0:56:40.800 --> 0:56:42.879 If you don't like it, I don't care. I just 0:56:43.120 --> 0:56:45.040 won't invite you to come along. That's it. Like, if 0:56:45.040 --> 0:56:46.640 you don't want to go, like, I don't judge you. 0:56:46.880 --> 0:56:48.920 There are a lot of things people like and don't like. 0:56:48.960 --> 0:56:51.759 That's fine. But for me, I have a website that 0:56:51.760 --> 0:56:53.680 I haven't updated in a while. I would only update 0:56:53.719 --> 0:56:55.879 it when I was born. At work during the State Fair, 0:56:55.880 --> 0:56:58.520 it was called Minnesota State Fair Cliches, and it was 0:56:58.640 --> 0:57:02.200 just all the cliches of the state Fair. And people 0:57:02.400 --> 0:57:04.239 were like, wait a minute, this is just everything of 0:57:04.280 --> 0:57:08.680 the state Fair. And I'm like, exactly, it's all. It's 0:57:08.800 --> 0:57:11.960 so comforting. You go there every year. It's the same thing. 0:57:12.080 --> 0:57:14.600 I went there with my grandpa and I when I 0:57:14.640 --> 0:57:17.360 was five. I remember being a little leash thing where 0:57:17.400 --> 0:57:19.680 like wrap around veil crom on my wrist so I 0:57:19.720 --> 0:57:22.000 could eat with both hands and my family could eat 0:57:22.000 --> 0:57:24.680 with both hands and still keep track of me. And 0:57:25.000 --> 0:57:26.960 there are just certain things you just go. I have 0:57:27.080 --> 0:57:29.400 friends who would spend a forty hour work week there. 0:57:29.440 --> 0:57:31.640 They'll just do different things because it's so big. You 0:57:31.640 --> 0:57:33.800 can go see the animal shows. You can go see 0:57:33.800 --> 0:57:36.400 the four age musical, which is I believe somebody called 0:57:36.440 --> 0:57:40.360 it Haystack Glee. Um I'm beer. Imagine you can be 0:57:40.400 --> 0:57:42.920 ship faced and go see a high school musical. It 0:57:43.000 --> 0:57:45.160 is the best thing in the world. All the kids 0:57:45.160 --> 0:57:48.920 are earnest um because four age kids, they're just like 0:57:49.200 --> 0:57:52.240 too pure for this world. You really, Brandy, you should 0:57:52.240 --> 0:57:58.600 be made uh Many Minnesota State Fair Ambassador, the queen 0:57:58.760 --> 0:58:01.840 or whatever it's called. Princess came. I'm too old and 0:58:01.880 --> 0:58:05.120 I'm not. I'm not on the dairy like expert, but hey, 0:58:05.520 --> 0:58:09.600 it's never too late, you know. They need an outsider's 0:58:09.640 --> 0:58:13.400 perspective on dairy sometimes, like somebody who can only appreciate 0:58:13.440 --> 0:58:15.960 it by looking at it. Yeah, it's also just fun 0:58:16.000 --> 0:58:19.000 because during certain political things you also see confused out 0:58:19.000 --> 0:58:21.440 of state politicians, Like there's one picture I have a 0:58:21.480 --> 0:58:23.919 Fred Thompson just being like, what the fund is happening here? 0:58:24.480 --> 0:58:27.919 And you know, celebrities come by. You have the Grand State. 0:58:27.960 --> 0:58:30.840 They have the free Stage, which last year or like 0:58:30.840 --> 0:58:33.160 two years ago, like or last year, I know Tony 0:58:33.200 --> 0:58:38.520 Tony Tony played uh invogued at the free stage, and 0:58:38.560 --> 0:58:41.600 then in the grand Stand you might have like Taylor 0:58:41.640 --> 0:58:44.080 Swift or something like that come through, or like I 0:58:44.120 --> 0:58:48.960 saw Patti LaBelle at the grand Stand stage. And it's 0:58:49.000 --> 0:58:52.000 just like I don't know, like it's there's just so 0:58:52.080 --> 0:58:54.120 much to do it so you can you run into 0:58:54.120 --> 0:58:56.800 people you don't normally see. And it's also all of 0:58:56.880 --> 0:58:59.360 Minnesota is there. It's interesting because it's not like a 0:58:59.360 --> 0:59:02.160 lot of state fairs, like the New York State Fair, 0:59:02.200 --> 0:59:05.000 for example, is in Albany or no, it's in Syracuse, 0:59:05.480 --> 0:59:08.880 and like that's gonna attract certain people. But it's in 0:59:08.920 --> 0:59:12.360 Falcon Heights, Minnesota. Unfortunately, you might know where it is. 0:59:12.400 --> 0:59:14.720 It's because that was just down the street from where 0:59:14.720 --> 0:59:18.480 Philando cast Steele was shot. But um, it's a place 0:59:18.480 --> 0:59:20.800 where you have all the city folk, but then also 0:59:20.840 --> 0:59:23.000 all the outstate people come down and it's just like 0:59:23.240 --> 0:59:26.080 a big melting pot of fuckory and I love it. 0:59:27.160 --> 0:59:29.320 And it's just it's every year, you know, you have 0:59:29.440 --> 0:59:31.920 your favorite food stands that you go to because your 0:59:31.960 --> 0:59:33.760 parents went there. And then someone has to be like, yo, 0:59:33.840 --> 0:59:37.440 that's not even the best cheese curd stand you have. Um, 0:59:37.640 --> 0:59:39.760 you get like free stuff in a bag. You're like, oh. 0:59:39.840 --> 0:59:41.760 Like you see adults be like, oh my god, free 0:59:41.760 --> 0:59:44.480 paper pig hats. Oh I gotta do this. I'll just 0:59:44.520 --> 0:59:47.160 wear like a pig hat all day. And you have 0:59:47.240 --> 0:59:50.440 the Lama costume contest, like I mean that kind of stuff. 0:59:50.480 --> 0:59:53.720 Like the four age kids are just like people thought 0:59:53.720 --> 0:59:55.320 I was just making fun of them by going to 0:59:55.360 --> 0:59:58.280 the musical every year. I'm like, no, I earnestly they 0:59:58.360 --> 1:00:00.440 love it. It's I went to pay camp every year 1:00:00.480 --> 1:00:03.040 for several years in high school, and they all like 1:00:03.240 --> 1:00:06.760 move into these dorms and they're just like barracks. They 1:00:06.800 --> 1:00:09.880 practiced to this show that's a musical and sometimes they're 1:00:09.880 --> 1:00:13.160 not the best musicians and not the best singers, but 1:00:13.280 --> 1:00:15.200 three times a day, for thirty minutes, they just do 1:00:15.240 --> 1:00:18.120 a medley of music in this hotass building and I 1:00:18.200 --> 1:00:21.520 am ship faced. And one year I was completely wasted 1:00:21.640 --> 1:00:24.240 and I saw the theme was and the themes are 1:00:24.240 --> 1:00:27.280 never anything complex. One time the theme was the kids 1:00:27.320 --> 1:00:29.320 woke up in the jungle and they had no idea 1:00:29.320 --> 1:00:31.360 how they got there. And then the opening scene was 1:00:31.400 --> 1:00:33.920 a medley of like welcome to the Jungle, like it's 1:00:33.920 --> 1:00:38.360 a jungle out there something else and like two years 1:00:38.360 --> 1:00:40.360 ago or last year was something about a candy shop. 1:00:40.400 --> 1:00:42.080 And of course they didn't do fifty cent because if 1:00:42.120 --> 1:00:45.560 they did, I would have just completely lost it. But 1:00:45.680 --> 1:00:48.400 it's I was just like stream. I was like, yeah, 1:00:48.440 --> 1:00:50.880 and each year we pick our our all star musician. 1:00:50.880 --> 1:00:53.080 Because you have the band up top, it's a really 1:00:53.120 --> 1:00:55.360 elaborate set. So there's always like one kid who's like 1:00:55.400 --> 1:00:57.320 too cool with their instruments. So there was a cool 1:00:57.440 --> 1:01:02.240 viola player. Last year, there's a cool s best but 1:01:02.280 --> 1:01:04.040 there's like the one kid and you're like, that's a 1:01:04.080 --> 1:01:06.240 cool kid at the air camp. Yeah, there he is 1:01:06.400 --> 1:01:08.200 right there. And so yeah, I mean I just I 1:01:08.200 --> 1:01:11.120 could go on on you know, I should I should 1:01:11.160 --> 1:01:15.720 do a State Fair podcast, but you totally should. We should, 1:01:16.240 --> 1:01:19.720 we should do it? Wait, I want one on right now? There? 1:01:19.800 --> 1:01:23.400 Did they go? All of them canceled, including Texas, but 1:01:23.520 --> 1:01:28.960 Minnesota went forward. Oh no, not I mean Minnesota. Yeah, 1:01:29.000 --> 1:01:31.080 but like I think the only one that did something 1:01:31.120 --> 1:01:35.560 limited was like North Dakota or like Nebraska. I don't know, 1:01:35.760 --> 1:01:37.440 but my friend Haley and I were going to do 1:01:37.480 --> 1:01:39.360 a thing this year. She lives in l A now, 1:01:39.400 --> 1:01:41.160 but she, you know, she comes back for the fair. 1:01:41.200 --> 1:01:42.800 And I mean people do that, They come back to 1:01:42.880 --> 1:01:45.080 visit their family, go to the fair. We were gonna 1:01:45.160 --> 1:01:47.600 do a thirty five w because all the state best 1:01:47.600 --> 1:01:50.000 state fairs are on thirty five, So we're gonna like 1:01:50.040 --> 1:01:53.800 Minnesota is always it's twelve days. It ends on the 1:01:54.400 --> 1:01:56.440 on Labor Day, the very last day, and I don't 1:01:56.440 --> 1:01:58.840 like to be there Labor Day because it's like people 1:01:58.840 --> 1:02:01.320 are tearing down moving. It's just sad I have to 1:02:01.360 --> 1:02:04.360 go pick up the property. Um So I went last 1:02:04.440 --> 1:02:07.640 year and there was shooting, so I was not cool. 1:02:07.720 --> 1:02:12.640 But um and on the on the grounds, well not 1:02:12.800 --> 1:02:14.640 on the ground. I mean there are the other thing 1:02:14.680 --> 1:02:17.280 about the state fair where I'm actually seriously glad it's 1:02:17.320 --> 1:02:19.200 not happening this year, is there are so many fucking 1:02:19.200 --> 1:02:21.480 cops in the state affair. Like it's like all the 1:02:21.560 --> 1:02:24.920 departments send their very like all over the states and 1:02:24.960 --> 1:02:29.600 there you know cops stays and their horse cops. And um, 1:02:29.640 --> 1:02:31.720 I have like a friend who's a I have a 1:02:31.760 --> 1:02:34.760 friend who's a police officer. She's really really cool. But um, 1:02:35.120 --> 1:02:37.080 like she was saying that, like that's not when you 1:02:37.120 --> 1:02:41.600 want to really work the fair. Um, but it's you know, 1:02:41.680 --> 1:02:44.439 all the outstate people get to you know, come down there. 1:02:44.440 --> 1:02:48.640 And then there was outside the ground. When it ended 1:02:48.680 --> 1:02:51.200 at ten o'clock, there was a shooting outside and I 1:02:51.240 --> 1:02:53.960 showed up from I'd driven up to International Falls like 1:02:54.520 --> 1:02:57.520 Canada basically to get my global entry card because it 1:02:57.560 --> 1:03:00.480 was so backed up that you couldn't get it anywhere 1:03:00.480 --> 1:03:02.280 in the city. So I just was like, well, I'll 1:03:02.360 --> 1:03:05.040 drive up there, take a leisurely trip back, come back 1:03:05.040 --> 1:03:06.840 to the State Fair because I couldn't get in until 1:03:07.120 --> 1:03:09.360 for free until after a certain point. And when I 1:03:09.360 --> 1:03:10.800 got there, I had no idea what was going on. 1:03:10.840 --> 1:03:12.720 It was just chaos. But it was also raining, so 1:03:12.760 --> 1:03:14.960 I thought people were running because of rain. But there 1:03:14.960 --> 1:03:17.520 were a lot of sirens, so what I thought had 1:03:17.560 --> 1:03:21.680 happened was either a stage collapse or lightning strike. Um, 1:03:21.760 --> 1:03:23.800 I didn't know what was going on. So I finally 1:03:23.840 --> 1:03:25.680 got into the grounds with my car, and I got 1:03:25.680 --> 1:03:28.360 into the agriculture building and got my crop art just 1:03:28.440 --> 1:03:31.000 in time, and I was really had to get it 1:03:31.040 --> 1:03:33.360 because there's a fee if you don't pick it up 1:03:33.400 --> 1:03:36.160 in time and they have to ship it um And 1:03:36.200 --> 1:03:38.720 I ended up staying in that building toil like two am, 1:03:38.800 --> 1:03:41.240 just hanging out with the like the operations staff for 1:03:41.280 --> 1:03:42.520 the state fair, and they were just telling me all 1:03:42.520 --> 1:03:47.000 their secrets, which I won't tell, but yeah, so, uh 1:03:47.040 --> 1:03:48.640 it was like I guess there was just like a 1:03:48.640 --> 1:03:51.840 beef and what happened. Someone was shooting someone else and 1:03:51.880 --> 1:03:54.400 then like people were running and then somebody got hit 1:03:54.440 --> 1:03:57.560 by a car running across a very busy street. And 1:03:57.720 --> 1:04:00.360 I don't know what happened to the woman man who 1:04:00.400 --> 1:04:03.960 got hit, but it was a whole thing and that sucked. 1:04:04.000 --> 1:04:08.000 But um, Minnesota's is like the last state fair until 1:04:09.120 --> 1:04:13.560 Texas is a little different because Texas runs like September October, 1:04:13.640 --> 1:04:17.080 but it's also thirty days and it's also nobody like 1:04:17.120 --> 1:04:19.360 wants to be outside in August and Texas right and 1:04:19.360 --> 1:04:22.240 in Texas does stuff like they have their football game, 1:04:22.320 --> 1:04:24.919 like I think Oklahoma ut as our football game at 1:04:25.040 --> 1:04:27.720 the state fair, so that one doesn't really count in 1:04:27.760 --> 1:04:30.120 the same way. But we're gonna do all of the 1:04:30.160 --> 1:04:33.840 state fairs. We're gonna go to Iowa, We're gonna go 1:04:33.840 --> 1:04:36.760 to Kansas. Missouri's is actually near Kansas City, so I 1:04:36.800 --> 1:04:40.520 was pretty we can do Kansas and Missouri's, um, Oklahoma, 1:04:40.880 --> 1:04:44.560 Texas and COVID like a lot of other people's dreams 1:04:44.680 --> 1:04:50.600 ruined our dreams. So yeah, well, I appreciate you taking 1:04:50.720 --> 1:04:54.640 us to the State Fair of the Mind for this episode. 1:04:54.760 --> 1:04:59.240 I um, now, I'm like really really craving a turkey 1:04:59.320 --> 1:05:02.320 leg and a deep fried Twinkie. Deep Fried twink was 1:05:02.360 --> 1:05:04.320 a big thing at the Iowa one. I don't know 1:05:04.400 --> 1:05:07.080 if that's Minnesota they have deep fried stuff, but I 1:05:07.120 --> 1:05:10.040 think it's the you know the Minnesota has a corn 1:05:10.080 --> 1:05:13.720 dog Pronto pop divide Um. One of them is made 1:05:13.720 --> 1:05:15.680 with corn meal. I think the other ones made was 1:05:15.720 --> 1:05:20.520 like wild rice, like well like honestly the Battle of 1:05:20.520 --> 1:05:24.720 Gluten Free Dogs. They honestly like taste the same to me, Like, 1:05:24.760 --> 1:05:27.520 I'll go to which everyone has a shorter line. I 1:05:27.560 --> 1:05:29.800 love corn dogs, so I'm just like whichever horn dogs 1:05:29.880 --> 1:05:33.360 are incredible. I'm very centrist on that. I'm so hungry 1:05:33.400 --> 1:05:36.760 for everything out. This is awesome. Thank you so much 1:05:36.920 --> 1:05:42.480 for your for coming on. I loved, Yeah, I love 1:05:42.960 --> 1:05:45.320 I love to have you back again. And yeah, we 1:05:45.360 --> 1:05:47.840 didn't even we didn't even talk about like the actual 1:05:47.920 --> 1:05:51.680 serious things happening in Minneapolis. That's fine, Well we can 1:05:51.680 --> 1:05:54.040 get back to that. You know, we'd love to have 1:05:54.120 --> 1:05:56.400 you back. Definitely. I love this. I listen this is 1:05:56.440 --> 1:05:59.280 one of my like mondays when all my favorite podcasts 1:05:59.280 --> 1:06:01.520 like Monday and two Day Drop and yours is definitely 1:06:01.720 --> 1:06:03.600 like yep, I listen to every one day. So I 1:06:03.640 --> 1:06:08.360 love this the Bill Corpet Podcast, and we look forward 1:06:08.360 --> 1:06:12.000 to your future podcasting efforts. And please follow Brandy. It's 1:06:12.040 --> 1:06:17.000 the Brandy on Twitter for not just amazing State Fair content, 1:06:17.200 --> 1:06:23.920 but also uh incredible close reads of newspaper comics. Yes, yes, 1:06:25.320 --> 1:06:29.760 and my cat was in Kittie Corner. Yeah, paper Claudet 1:06:29.880 --> 1:06:32.440 Cookie Lion, very famous cat. I'll ask you just one 1:06:32.520 --> 1:06:36.280 last question. Has your cat Claudet Cookie Lion ever come 1:06:36.400 --> 1:06:38.400 up when you were working on seed art and just 1:06:38.520 --> 1:06:41.480 like knocked all the seasons. No, but she yes, she 1:06:41.600 --> 1:06:44.880 comes up because there are um I use some like 1:06:45.000 --> 1:06:48.040 grasses like um for hours called the terms of an 1:06:48.200 --> 1:06:51.800 f but like she likes some of the grasses and 1:06:51.840 --> 1:06:53.520 so she'll come up and like sniff them and like 1:06:53.560 --> 1:06:55.840 try to like lick them like please don't know, Claudet, 1:06:55.840 --> 1:06:57.600 and it don't mean I'm not doing the cat and 1:06:57.600 --> 1:07:00.360 the cat just yelling at me and her are just 1:07:00.400 --> 1:07:02.960 getting mad and then like pouting like eight feet away 1:07:03.000 --> 1:07:06.479 and just staring and like so yeah, she she doesn't 1:07:06.560 --> 1:07:08.600 knocked them over. She doesn't like climb on a lot 1:07:08.640 --> 1:07:09.760 of stuff, and I do a lot of work on 1:07:09.800 --> 1:07:13.080 like the bed sometimes, but she'll definitely like be like, oh, 1:07:13.120 --> 1:07:15.240 this is kind of like a new strain of cat nip. 1:07:15.440 --> 1:07:19.040 Like no, like my cat sees me doing something intricate, 1:07:19.200 --> 1:07:22.240 like a puzzle that's their cute to like hump on 1:07:22.280 --> 1:07:25.080 the table. Yeah, she doesn't climb on stuff unless it's 1:07:25.120 --> 1:07:26.800 just like a thing she normally climbs on. But she 1:07:26.960 --> 1:07:29.320 definitely like the grasses of it. Once I open up, 1:07:29.400 --> 1:07:31.880 because I have like those you know, like the tool 1:07:32.360 --> 1:07:34.760 box things for like people use like nuts and bolts. 1:07:35.080 --> 1:07:37.680 I have a whole elaborate I have like maybe fifty 1:07:37.760 --> 1:07:41.400 different grasses and seeds and like little canisters and stuff, 1:07:41.880 --> 1:07:44.920 and uh so I keep those like small samples are 1:07:45.120 --> 1:07:47.360 portable in totes, and then I have like my storage 1:07:47.400 --> 1:07:49.920 bin of all of that stuff. And once I opened 1:07:49.920 --> 1:07:53.480 that thing, you could just if you're smelling grasses and stuff. 1:07:53.840 --> 1:07:56.560 You know, there you go, I was I was actually asking. 1:07:56.560 --> 1:07:59.120 I asked the stayed arder because I'm doing this fundraiser 1:07:59.200 --> 1:08:02.560 for her and just thing about, um, if what happens 1:08:02.560 --> 1:08:06.840 if recreational marijuana becomes legal in Minnesota, because then you 1:08:06.960 --> 1:08:10.000 can it has to be grown in Minnesota legally, so 1:08:10.080 --> 1:08:12.640 hemp is fine. But I was like, well, do you 1:08:12.680 --> 1:08:15.800 think that more people will use marijuana in their crop art? 1:08:15.880 --> 1:08:19.000 And she's like no, because it's actually a terrible like 1:08:19.040 --> 1:08:22.320 the plant itself is not great for crop art. It 1:08:22.360 --> 1:08:26.120 crumbles too easily, it doesn't hold its shape um, and 1:08:26.280 --> 1:08:29.040 crop art also has rules where only a certain percentage 1:08:29.080 --> 1:08:32.920 can be like crushed or like ground seeds and stuff 1:08:32.960 --> 1:08:36.760 like that. So yeah, marijuana leaves are actually terrible. But 1:08:36.880 --> 1:08:38.880 if you can get like, you know, a little bit 1:08:38.880 --> 1:08:42.160 of the dust, I would love for every cool kind 1:08:42.200 --> 1:08:46.240 of folk art to like come come back, especially because 1:08:46.280 --> 1:08:50.880 we're all going to the land. We're all, we're all. Yeah, 1:08:50.920 --> 1:08:53.439 I do feel kind of terrible doing it sometimes. I 1:08:53.439 --> 1:08:56.280 feel kind of because I have like bags and bags 1:08:56.280 --> 1:08:59.320 of like lentils and beans and seeds, and I'm just 1:08:59.360 --> 1:09:03.599 like the is so like I feel bad. People are hungry, 1:09:03.640 --> 1:09:05.880 and I'm just like gluing this ship to a board 1:09:05.920 --> 1:09:08.400 for fun zies. And I actually think about that a 1:09:08.400 --> 1:09:10.840 little bit, and I'm just like, well, because there was 1:09:10.880 --> 1:09:13.800 a shortage of like Lintel's briefly during the pandemic, and 1:09:13.800 --> 1:09:15.639 I was like, well, if it goes down, I guess 1:09:15.680 --> 1:09:18.960 I can just eat my storage of seeds. But that's 1:09:18.960 --> 1:09:20.560 why I like, you just got to do everything with 1:09:20.800 --> 1:09:23.680 feed corn or like whatever is just the completely like 1:09:23.720 --> 1:09:26.120 whatever crop we have way too much of, Like corn 1:09:26.240 --> 1:09:31.000 is the only ethical corn is terrible. For jeweled corn 1:09:31.120 --> 1:09:33.479 is great, but like corn, it's an irregular, like weird 1:09:33.560 --> 1:09:36.240 wedge shape. It's my favorite seed. I'll just tell people this. 1:09:36.360 --> 1:09:39.599 My favorite tea right now was Pearl Barley. Oh yeah, 1:09:39.640 --> 1:09:42.880 that's nice. Use it's a texture. Yeah, I'm currently working 1:09:42.880 --> 1:09:45.120 on a piece where it's a polar Bear and Grizzly 1:09:45.200 --> 1:09:48.000 from Polar Bears Cafe and also an angry goose from 1:09:48.000 --> 1:09:50.120 the Untittled Goose Game. And it's a perfect it's like 1:09:50.120 --> 1:09:54.560 an oval shape. White um kind of this is safflower, 1:09:55.080 --> 1:09:59.320 which is a weirder wedge shape, but it's more uniform shape, 1:09:59.360 --> 1:10:01.639 so we you have to take um if you can 1:10:01.640 --> 1:10:04.320 take some pictures of your crop part and we'll still 1:10:04.400 --> 1:10:08.040 share it on where. Yeah, that would be great. The 1:10:08.040 --> 1:10:11.559 Tetris background behind the game Boy is something everybody has 1:10:11.600 --> 1:10:17.200 to see them. Yes, there's layers to this ship. It's great. Well, 1:10:17.240 --> 1:10:20.960 thank you so much, Brandy. This is awesome. Thank you 1:10:21.000 --> 1:10:23.599 for having me. I'm so happy. Oh it feels nice 1:10:23.640 --> 1:10:24.920 to be able to talk about the state Fair. I'm 1:10:24.960 --> 1:10:27.080 not going, but it's always my favorite thing to like 1:10:27.280 --> 1:10:31.040 dork out and introduce new people too. So yeah, it's 1:10:31.080 --> 1:10:33.920 it's awesome. So someday we'll do a war of the 1:10:33.960 --> 1:10:37.880 state Fairs, because I do unlike unlike Amy Klobucher, I 1:10:37.880 --> 1:10:40.040 will commit to the Iowa State Fair, even though I 1:10:40.080 --> 1:10:45.120 haven't been to the Minnesota State Fair before. Son, Like, 1:10:45.560 --> 1:10:48.800 here's my true thing. Minnesota's objectively better and Islands have 1:10:48.920 --> 1:10:52.160 told me that i Alas is just smaller because it's 1:10:52.160 --> 1:10:56.000 a smaller stak and it's it used to be the biggest. 1:10:57.000 --> 1:11:01.439 I was very dependent on the presidential campaign cycle and 1:11:01.520 --> 1:11:05.640 Minnesota's will stand alone always like we're just like politicians. 1:11:05.680 --> 1:11:08.200 Sure get in line, like Minnesota state fairs. Press really 1:11:08.320 --> 1:11:11.920 like their their PR team. They don't grant any special 1:11:11.920 --> 1:11:13.920 press passes. Like if you want to treat this like press, 1:11:13.920 --> 1:11:16.800 we'll treat everyone the same. You can come in, pay 1:11:16.840 --> 1:11:19.040 for a ticket and uh we might give you like 1:11:19.080 --> 1:11:22.160 special parking or security stuff, but like you're you're treated 1:11:22.240 --> 1:11:24.120 like just like a regular person at the State Fair. 1:11:24.200 --> 1:11:27.280 So no v I P. Unless you're performing or something 1:11:27.360 --> 1:11:28.960 you need to load in or out or something like 1:11:29.000 --> 1:11:31.640 that and you're here in the club and that's why 1:11:31.680 --> 1:11:34.480 it's called the State Fair and not the State Unfairy. 1:11:36.400 --> 1:11:38.559 Well that does it for this week's Nightcall. Thank you 1:11:38.640 --> 1:11:40.960 so much for listening. We will be back next week. 1:11:41.000 --> 1:11:43.040 If you're enjoying the show, won't you please leave us 1:11:43.120 --> 1:11:46.000 a review on iTunes or wherever you get your podcasts, 1:11:46.040 --> 1:11:49.200 and don't forget to subscribe. Um. 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