Speaker 1: It's ten twenty three pm at the Minnesota State Fair
Speaker 1: and you're listening Tonight Call, Hello, and welcome to Night Call,
Speaker 1: a call in show for our dystopian reality. I am
Speaker 1: Molly Lambert and with me our test Lynch and Emily Oshida.
Speaker 1: And later this episode we are going to bring on
Speaker 1: our guests Brandy Brown. She's a comedian from Minneapolis and
Speaker 1: an expert on the Minnesota State Fair. It's a really
Speaker 1: fun conversation. It'll make you wish you could go to
Speaker 1: a state fair, So stay tuned for that. But first
Speaker 1: we are going to jump into it with a Nightcall. Hi.
Speaker 1: My name is Morgan in Chicago, second time caller. UM,
Speaker 1: I have some evidence to add to the folder on
Speaker 1: Instagram listening to us and or mining all of our thoughts. Um,
Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure that Instagram can tell how long my
Speaker 1: eye lands on a particular image as I'm scrolling through
Speaker 1: the Explorer section of Instagram. Like if I'm scrolling through
Speaker 1: and I see something new to my algorithm and my
Speaker 1: eye lingers on it, it's a little bit I'm like,
Speaker 1: oh that thoughts like I haven't seen I've seen those
Speaker 1: coming up before, you know, like a new kind of
Speaker 1: dog or something, and then I noticed them growing, like
Speaker 1: more and more and more and more, where it's all
Speaker 1: within the same hour of scrolling. I can see the
Speaker 1: algorithm changing as I scroll through it, depending on like
Speaker 1: where my gaze lingers the longest. I'm almost positive the
Speaker 1: Instagram knows exactly where we're looking in for how many
Speaker 1: of my fort seconds And it's freaking me out. Okay, bye,
Speaker 1: I totally believe this as well, though I've had this
Speaker 1: thought before, believe it also continue to believe that it's Uh,
Speaker 1: the mic is on all the time, because last week
Speaker 1: we talked about milk a bunch. We'll talk about milk
Speaker 1: more later in the show, but I just started getting
Speaker 1: all these ads for milk afterwards that were like, perhaps
Speaker 1: you'd like some fresh milk. Milk. So weird. It never
Speaker 1: stops being We've been talking about it the entire time
Speaker 1: we've had a podcast. I think we started talking about
Speaker 1: this maybe even on Girls and Hoodies. Yeah. I wrote
Speaker 1: something about it like a few years ago for Night Gallery,
Speaker 1: this art gallery in l A, where I talked about
Speaker 1: just my first experience of like directly getting an ad
Speaker 1: for something that my friend had said out loud, which
Speaker 1: was mint chocolate chip ice cream sandwiches, which was so specific,
Speaker 1: but I was like clearly and I wasn't like searching
Speaker 1: for it before. Um, it feels like more people agree
Speaker 1: with us now, Yeah, definitely, yeah, I was. I I've
Speaker 1: talked about this before. I was. I was routinely mocked
Speaker 1: for believing in this. When I worked at the Verge,
Speaker 1: nobody thought that this was a thing, which is crazy
Speaker 1: because it's like, we know they scrape our data for everything.
Speaker 1: Why would we trust them to like not use these things? Right?
Speaker 1: And you're carrying an object has a camera and a
Speaker 1: front facing, a front facing and a back facing whatever
Speaker 1: you call it camera and a microphone? What why would
Speaker 1: it not be used at all times? And of course
Speaker 1: it just makes me think of all the times that
Speaker 1: I've just been likted Instagram all I'm on the toilet.
Speaker 1: I also think that, like, do you ever have the
Speaker 1: thought like when it comes to you know, because you
Speaker 1: know a lot of people put the tape over there,
Speaker 1: um their laptop and so that I don't know if
Speaker 1: you're like undressing in front of the camera or something
Speaker 1: to real see you, But I always feel like you
Speaker 1: should like do as many mundane like unsightly things in
Speaker 1: front of the camera in case anybody is buying on
Speaker 1: you because it's annoying, just just just to be annoying.
Speaker 1: I think I like all those memes that are like
Speaker 1: given the FBI agent assigned to watch me like a
Speaker 1: real show tonight, giving him a thrill. This call also
Speaker 1: reminded me of um Elon musk company neural Link, which
Speaker 1: is the brain computer interface that he founded in twenty sixteen,
Speaker 1: and it's been mentioned in the news recently because um
Speaker 1: they're supposed to be sharing an update in late August,
Speaker 1: and the last time they gave an update, it was
Speaker 1: to say that neural Link planned to use surgical robots
Speaker 1: to implant teeny tiny wires in our brains that just
Speaker 1: connect to an external computer processor because Elon Musk is
Speaker 1: concerned that, like we're not efficient enough at competing with AI.
Speaker 1: I guess. Um. But last year they said they they've
Speaker 1: already been do like performing these tests on mice and apes,
Speaker 1: which is very sad. UM. And then they said next
Speaker 1: year we're gonna start testing on humans. Yes, basically, um,
Speaker 1: it's I guess. Tech Crunch had reported on this recently
Speaker 1: and they said that, um, the goal was originally to
Speaker 1: use technology to help mitigate the effects that's to quote,
Speaker 1: mitigate the effects of neurological disorders patients with severe impacts
Speaker 1: to mobility and other daily functioning, which is great, but
Speaker 1: then it's you know, real intent is to like make
Speaker 1: humans two point oh yeah no thanks, yeah, no, thanks
Speaker 1: at all, huge note, thanks, especially from Elon Musk. I know,
Speaker 1: I gotta say that having Meredith Whittaker on last week though,
Speaker 1: was very comforting in a way because she reassured us
Speaker 1: that a lot of these things that they are marketing
Speaker 1: as being possible are not in fact possible yet. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and I think and I was thinking about this. We
Speaker 1: didn't get a chance to touch on this when we
Speaker 1: were talking to Meredith, But like, like Elon Musk and
Speaker 1: and Peter Teal and a couple other of the big
Speaker 1: tech dudes are kind of in this community of these thinkers.
Speaker 1: I use like heavy scare quotes there, who um who
Speaker 1: believe in like hostile AI, Like that's their number one concern. Um,
Speaker 1: It's like all these tech guys have their number one concern,
Speaker 1: whether it's like building like off worlds or combating the
Speaker 1: hostile AI. Like what it's like their doomsday scenarios are
Speaker 1: all um sadly different in stupid ways, and the hostile
Speaker 1: AI thing is like a real camp of thought among
Speaker 1: these guys. It's also very funny to me always that
Speaker 1: they refer to themselves as futurists, because like futurism was
Speaker 1: a movement of Italian fascism. Well yeah, just like when
Speaker 1: they started being like we're futurists, I was like, maybe
Speaker 1: call yourself something else, but then it's like, maybe that's
Speaker 1: what you met. Actually, maybe it's on purpose, because the
Speaker 1: original futurists are very obsessed with like machines and like
Speaker 1: the future as being and speed and efficiency and stuff. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I hear the word efficiency and my eyes are all
Speaker 1: into my head, you know. Well yeah, but I mean
Speaker 1: I think it's funny though, that that that Elon Musk
Speaker 1: in particularly so haunted by this threat of the robots
Speaker 1: turning on us, which, as Meredith explained, is like unlikely
Speaker 1: that they're going to become sent to it because it's
Speaker 1: all just a data collection. It's not there's not magic
Speaker 1: going on there. Uh, but it just it does feel
Speaker 1: kind of like a very classic like like Frankenstein type
Speaker 1: thing where it's just like his anxiety about like and
Speaker 1: his anxiety about like arming humans to be able to
Speaker 1: come conbat this potential AI threat just feels like a
Speaker 1: guilty conscience, like just just raging. I don't think he
Speaker 1: has a guilty conscience though, Dude, dude. He Uh. In
Speaker 1: the Werner Herzog documentary about the Internet that is not
Speaker 1: very good but has some interesting parts in it, um
Speaker 1: he entered, he interviews Musk at length and uh, and
Speaker 1: he just talks about how he has like nightmares all
Speaker 1: the time, and it's very interesting. It's like, really, I
Speaker 1: want to know what Elant Musk's nightmare. So I want
Speaker 1: to know why Elon Musk's nightmare. Isn't that when they
Speaker 1: put wires in your brain and hook you up to
Speaker 1: a computer that they could computer doesn't turn on you
Speaker 1: now that there are wires. Now, it doesn't make any
Speaker 1: It doesn't make sense, like you just made it easier
Speaker 1: for the machine to destroy you because now it's got
Speaker 1: like fingers in your brain, you know, yeah, my yeah.
Speaker 1: I mean it's also like having just rewatched the Matrix.
Speaker 1: I'm like, right, these are the people that want to
Speaker 1: build the matrix. They want to like put humans are
Speaker 1: the sentinels, like they're the squids coming to inslave us
Speaker 1: and put us in fats and slime, like that they
Speaker 1: want that for us. It does also feel like all
Speaker 1: the trans humanists are so specifically motivated by making trans
Speaker 1: humanism exists before they die. Well, I want to know
Speaker 1: and a and a broader like, I know that this
Speaker 1: is something that comes up a lot. How do you
Speaker 1: guys feel right now about being a brain in a jar? Um?
Speaker 1: I guess less good than I used to, right because
Speaker 1: now I'm like, well, I guess it's like, if you
Speaker 1: are the brain in the jar, are you having what
Speaker 1: feel like real experiences? Yeah? Is the is the sense
Speaker 1: needle being poked at you in a satisfactory We never
Speaker 1: said the brain in the jar had to like stay
Speaker 1: in a room. You know, someone could carry it around,
Speaker 1: just like the man with two brains a little boat, right,
Speaker 1: take it to the State Fair for sure. Not as
Speaker 1: big a fan of the I mean, it's not that
Speaker 1: I want to have a body either, though. I think
Speaker 1: for me, part of the appeal of being a brain
Speaker 1: in a jar wasn't just that like, you get some
Speaker 1: alone time, but also that you didn't have to worry
Speaker 1: about a body, and in a sense, I think being
Speaker 1: um in the middle of a pandemic has made me
Speaker 1: even more upset to have a body, you know, because
Speaker 1: we're kind of like, we're online a lot. Obviously we
Speaker 1: can't do anything without staring into a screen, and that
Speaker 1: is not fun at all. Like I, I don't enjoy this.
Speaker 1: But at the same time, if I were truly a
Speaker 1: brain in a jar, then I couldn't get coronavirus, could
Speaker 1: I because it couldn't permeate it's airborne. I'm in jelly right.
Speaker 1: The brain in the jar has to be in fluid.
Speaker 1: Why is the brain's going to dry out and get
Speaker 1: all cracked and not work. So I'm surrounded by protective fluid,
Speaker 1: I cannot be infected, Whereas now I have all the
Speaker 1: terrible things about being a brain in a jar, but
Speaker 1: I could get your vulnerable. Yeah, the worst of both worlds.
Speaker 1: I remain anti brain in a jar. I've I've That's
Speaker 1: been my position. Probody. I love. I love having a
Speaker 1: freaking body, you guys, it rules freaking bad. The thing
Speaker 1: that freaks me out the most, That is the most
Speaker 1: Philip K. Dick, which is like another level of it
Speaker 1: is when Instagram shows me something I was thinking about
Speaker 1: but did not see or search for which happened. Oh,
Speaker 1: that happens all the time. But it must be a
Speaker 1: subliminal Well, it's like they probably know like, Okay, you've
Speaker 1: looked up, um, you've looked up like you've been on
Speaker 1: real self. You've been looking at uh energy drinks and
Speaker 1: something else, and they can triangulate that and be like, therefore,
Speaker 1: you're going to be interested in this fourth thing. And like, yeah,
Speaker 1: if I'm thinking about Martha's If I'm like talking about
Speaker 1: Martha Stewart and it shows me a picture of Martha Stewart,
Speaker 1: that's one thing. But if I'm just like thinking about
Speaker 1: it and then it shows me the picture, then I
Speaker 1: go into this crazy mode where I'm like, it has
Speaker 1: to just be a coincidence because it can't possibly like
Speaker 1: no my thought patterns that well, can it? And then
Speaker 1: I want to throw my phone in the O. That's
Speaker 1: also like a chicken in the egg type of thing.
Speaker 1: Why are you thinking about Martha? Right? Like, there had
Speaker 1: to be steps there, and it can see the steps
Speaker 1: even if that even if those steps are not obvious,
Speaker 1: adds to the idea that humans are just collections of data.
Speaker 1: We are just ai contrary to uh what Bree Larson says,
Speaker 1: I don't believe in free will, that's true. Have you
Speaker 1: guys seen that? No? Oh my god. You know how
Speaker 1: Brie Larson like has dipped her toe into being a YouTuber.
Speaker 1: A YouTuber so like she does her sign off on
Speaker 1: her video, like at least on her first video O
Speaker 1: and like where most people would say, you know, like
Speaker 1: and subscribe, she says, like, I'm not going to tell
Speaker 1: you to subscribe because I believe in free will. Well,
Speaker 1: all right, it's the stupidest thing in the world. That's funny.
Speaker 1: But we are very predictable people in a lot of ways.
Speaker 1: I think, Well, because they're so we reveal ourselves so
Speaker 1: much now, yeah, yeah, we we put so much of that.
Speaker 1: So much of what goes on in our brains is
Speaker 1: actually like collected now in some way. That's why I
Speaker 1: love when an algorithm fails or doesn't actually know something
Speaker 1: about me. My TV commercial algorithm for whatever reason, is
Speaker 1: always like totally off in a way that's really funny.
Speaker 1: But it's the thing. It's like you can set it
Speaker 1: off to where you'll be, like, if you talk about parenting,
Speaker 1: it will start serving you ads about parenting. It doesn't
Speaker 1: know that you don't have kids. It just does it
Speaker 1: anyway in case you do. That's when the algorithm is weak,
Speaker 1: when it's just like looking at demographics and it's like, oh,
Speaker 1: this person willst have a child. It serves me ads
Speaker 1: in Spanah a lot, which I'm always really flattered by.
Speaker 1: I get that a lot too. I get a lot
Speaker 1: of Spanish ads. I'm always like, I wish algorithm only Well, guys,
Speaker 1: should we take a little vacation? Via a night email
Speaker 1: short guarding Key West? Um this we've been getting a
Speaker 1: lot of anonymous calls and emails because, um, we've been
Speaker 1: talking about a lot of sensitive topics. So this one
Speaker 1: is also an anonymous email. Hello from Key West. I
Speaker 1: feel weird for saying this because you guys are a
Speaker 1: fan of this place. But it hasn't been great here
Speaker 1: these past few months. Well, honestly, it hasn't been great
Speaker 1: here the past year and a half that I've lived here,
Speaker 1: but that's mostly on me. The big issue that we've
Speaker 1: seen is with opening the island back up to tourists,
Speaker 1: which happened way too soon, and now the mayor is
Speaker 1: working with the city council to try and figure out
Speaker 1: a way to regulate mask usage because of how prominent
Speaker 1: restaurant and bar attendance is for the island. The mayoral
Speaker 1: elections are next month and it seems to be very contentious,
Speaker 1: with many signs for the main three candidates displayed all
Speaker 1: over the island, mostly outside of people's homes. Multiple places,
Speaker 1: such as Charlie Matt since Salsa Loca have closed for good,
Speaker 1: the former having actually already been sold to an unknown end.
Speaker 1: My question for you all is do you think that
Speaker 1: Key West will survive all of this? Or rather, do
Speaker 1: you think that an isolated island that relies heavily on
Speaker 1: tourism and military for income should continue to thrive in
Speaker 1: this economy when all of this is eventually settled. My
Speaker 1: odds of leaving here anytime soon are slim, so I'm
Speaker 1: really just wondering about my next move down here. What
Speaker 1: do you guys think? Great? Great night, call night, you know,
Speaker 1: thank you. I'm glad to know that we have um
Speaker 1: at least day Listener and Key West. Yeah, I mean,
Speaker 1: I think anybody in a tourist, a tourism reliant place
Speaker 1: is in a total catch twenty two right now, where
Speaker 1: you need the tourism to come back for economic reasons,
Speaker 1: but you don't want it to come back because it's dangerous,
Speaker 1: or you know, we could have just paid everybody to
Speaker 1: stay home. They could have paid businesses to to not close.
Speaker 1: The fact that they were like, we're going to force
Speaker 1: a reopening and if you close, it's your fault. And
Speaker 1: I've seen there's a lot of lobbying happening right now
Speaker 1: to ensure that companies like don't have to be liable
Speaker 1: if their workers get COVID and die from going back
Speaker 1: to work. So it's very gross. Yeah, yeah, all the
Speaker 1: concern isn't exactly the wrong place, and kind of at
Speaker 1: the end of the day, it's hard. It's hard to
Speaker 1: blame especially in places like Key West or like I
Speaker 1: was just in Carolina Beach Share in North Carolina, UM
Speaker 1: a couple of days ago for a few nights, and UM,
Speaker 1: you know a lot of these places they're not they're
Speaker 1: not like the reason people go there is not at
Speaker 1: least four independent businesses is for independently owned restaurants and
Speaker 1: little bars and stuff like that. So they're not it's
Speaker 1: not like an Applebee's on the beach like, these are
Speaker 1: independent businesses, and if they have one location and it
Speaker 1: has to close, they're really, you know, kind of screwed.
Speaker 1: And if they're not getting any kind of help. It's like,
Speaker 1: as much as I cringe when I see people packing
Speaker 1: into a beach bar um or not even sacking in
Speaker 1: just go like going to one and one being open
Speaker 1: for business is just like, well, like it's hard to
Speaker 1: know what else they're supposed to do other than completely
Speaker 1: you know, like get out of the entire game. One
Speaker 1: thing I've seen suggested, I mean, I guess at least
Speaker 1: in Florida and like in Louisiana, you can take drinks
Speaker 1: away and take them to the beach. At least. I've
Speaker 1: seen people in New York talking about how it's a
Speaker 1: big issue for bars there and sort of encouraging them
Speaker 1: to let have been doing that. They're let people carry
Speaker 1: liquor around because they were temporarily letting people do it.
Speaker 1: It's like same in l A. Right, they were, that was,
Speaker 1: but it actually they don't seem to be very strict
Speaker 1: about it in l A still um. But for a
Speaker 1: while there was like a cart with cocktails roaming the streets,
Speaker 1: and I really enjoyed. Just no, I didn't order anything,
Speaker 1: but I was like, I like knowing that they're there.
Speaker 1: But yeah, I mean having some flexibility here to support
Speaker 1: businesses and ways that are safe seems pretty imperative. Yeah,
Speaker 1: if you can make it safer to support those businesses
Speaker 1: by you know, changing changing a law that is sort
Speaker 1: of silly anyway, like open alcohol carrying laws. Um. But yeah,
Speaker 1: I think the thing that's really a bummer is that
Speaker 1: this is hitting restaurants and bars, and I think that
Speaker 1: a lot of the places that aren't going to see
Speaker 1: that much of a downturn, in places like qus in
Speaker 1: in beach towns and tourist towns. Is real estate stuff.
Speaker 1: Is people who have airbnbs? Is that kind of thing
Speaker 1: because people are still going to these places and people
Speaker 1: still have you know, rental houses and stuff, and or
Speaker 1: they have, um, they have time shares or something. Although
Speaker 1: oh this is something there's so many ads when I
Speaker 1: was driving for um, like like lawyers that would get
Speaker 1: you out of your time share because the resort that
Speaker 1: it was at. I heard one in l A recently,
Speaker 1: too specific. It's very Yeah, it was like this entire
Speaker 1: cottage industry. And I guess because a lot of the
Speaker 1: resort it's in places where people have time shares, like
Speaker 1: the facilities of clothes, so like you know, if you
Speaker 1: can't go to the pool at your timeshare or whatever,
Speaker 1: then what's the point of having it. So people are
Speaker 1: trying to get out of it. It's very interesting. It
Speaker 1: was just like such a specific bit of world building
Speaker 1: for our dystopia right now. Yeah, I mean, I think
Speaker 1: that it's very disgusting, especially that the companies that have
Speaker 1: been build out are these big companies that nobody's using
Speaker 1: right now, like cruise ships. That's one of those things
Speaker 1: where you're like, well, who knows even when the cruise
Speaker 1: industry is going to come back, Like, wouldn't it make
Speaker 1: more sense to give money to workers and people who
Speaker 1: can't afford not to go back to work right now
Speaker 1: so that they don't die. Because I also just don't
Speaker 1: understand it from the business owner perspective. It's like you
Speaker 1: don't want your workers to die, then you need to
Speaker 1: hire more, and you're just assuming there's like an endlessly
Speaker 1: replenishable well. Also, it's such a horrible association for a brand.
Speaker 1: I mean, we just had in California to work deside
Speaker 1: it I think a mission tortilla plant. Um, yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean it's it's just endless and like it. You know,
Speaker 1: it really makes you not feel great about supporting a
Speaker 1: company that has created that problem, but so many of
Speaker 1: them have, you know. It's also it's it's a similar
Speaker 1: things with with landlords and evictions. It's like that same
Speaker 1: kind of failure of logic. It's like, Okay, you're gonna
Speaker 1: lose employees because they're either going to get very very
Speaker 1: sick or die, uh, and then you're just going to
Speaker 1: replace them, and you assume that people are going to
Speaker 1: still want to the people are still going to be
Speaker 1: able to work for you. Uh. In the same way,
Speaker 1: it's like, Okay, I'm just gonna evict people because they
Speaker 1: can't pay their rent because their entire livelihood has been destroyed,
Speaker 1: and I'm going to assume that there's an unlimited supply
Speaker 1: of people whose livelihoods haven't been destroyed that can take
Speaker 1: over their lease or whatever who's moving in. It's such
Speaker 1: a weird it's like, oh THEO, no, my my tenants
Speaker 1: who couldn't pay rent. They were a special failure case.
Speaker 1: Like right, I don't understand like not wanting poor people
Speaker 1: to exist when your whole model is based on exploiting
Speaker 1: them for labor. Yeah, it's just going back to Key West,
Speaker 1: I have to say that. So the other day we
Speaker 1: had a series of earthquakes in l a Um and
Speaker 1: it just was also a reminder that every the things
Speaker 1: that have been happening over the past uh year, ish,
Speaker 1: who expected any of this? And then there are so
Speaker 1: many other factors like earthquakes and fires, So it's also
Speaker 1: just so hard to predict, like what cities will you know,
Speaker 1: go under because of COVID related reasons and what cities
Speaker 1: I mean, I guess everything is kind of entangled, so
Speaker 1: everything could probably be COVID related. But I mean with
Speaker 1: Key West, it's like and and other places too, You're
Speaker 1: like you we just don't know. I mean, there's we're
Speaker 1: so focused on the pandemic and as we should be,
Speaker 1: but then there are also like all of these other
Speaker 1: factors that are going to continue happening. I hope Key
Speaker 1: West exists. I hope everyone's thinking about the way that
Speaker 1: the way money is spent and who gets to spend
Speaker 1: it and when you know, it's it's imaginary on some level.
Speaker 1: So it does seem crazy to me when you hear
Speaker 1: about like these big companies getting these like millions, you know,
Speaker 1: millions of dollar bailouts, and then they say, like and
Speaker 1: we have to stop unemployment because we can't you know,
Speaker 1: afford to pay people anymore. It's like again that thing
Speaker 1: of companies being treated more like people than people get treated.
Speaker 1: I do think that there's one thing that having been
Speaker 1: in a beach town recently and having also been in
Speaker 1: Galveston a couple of weeks back, like and even though
Speaker 1: there are like nightmares aspects to both of them, at
Speaker 1: the end of the day, like you're going. I mean,
Speaker 1: there are other reasons that are unique to every town,
Speaker 1: but you're going to these places for their position in nature,
Speaker 1: like their proximity to a peach or a park or
Speaker 1: whatever the case may be, and that stuff remains available,
Speaker 1: Like you can go to the beach. I mean, there
Speaker 1: are you know I did. We did this thing where
Speaker 1: we like went and walked out and I just wanted
Speaker 1: to like scope out what it looked like. And it's
Speaker 1: most crowded at like the high point. It's like, Okay,
Speaker 1: we won't go. Then we'll go to like the dead
Speaker 1: hours and you can go and it's fine. It's like
Speaker 1: totally safe, and I think it's like if it's available
Speaker 1: to you, it's something that you can do now, Like
Speaker 1: whether or not that keeps a town afloat of all
Speaker 1: you're doing is like going to the beach and not
Speaker 1: going to their bars and their hangouts, and you know,
Speaker 1: giving your money to local businesses, Like that's a whole
Speaker 1: other thing. But like I think that if you're responsible
Speaker 1: about it, it can be very good for your mental health. Eventually,
Speaker 1: you just have to consider your mental health and like,
Speaker 1: you know the fact that you're you're living your rare
Speaker 1: and precious life. You know, you gotta do something with
Speaker 1: your body. You're freaking body in your freaking body. But
Speaker 1: that's the thing. Like I was, like swimming in the ocean.
Speaker 1: I was like, God, damn, this is awesome. Like everything
Speaker 1: in the world is so shitty right now, but like
Speaker 1: I can be here right now, and like I know,
Speaker 1: the shart's very woo woo and yoga, but like it's
Speaker 1: anything that you can access, whether it's swimming in the
Speaker 1: ocean or going on a walk in nature somewhere, like
Speaker 1: I think is really important to do right now. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, even just like leaving your phone inside and
Speaker 1: just going outside for a while is very relaxing, like
Speaker 1: silly relaxing makes me realize how much having a phone
Speaker 1: on me makes me like betense all the time. Even
Speaker 1: if you just like go to the grocery store and
Speaker 1: don't bring your phone, Like garden stores open and allow
Speaker 1: you to like wander around with a bunch of plants outside.
Speaker 1: I find that to be a great free brain vacation.
Speaker 1: And then maybe you spend some money on plants as
Speaker 1: I did, and support your local garden store. It's a
Speaker 1: win wind. I have been so boarding my garden storeway
Speaker 1: too much. The guys, it's it's getting crazy. Well, my
Speaker 1: parents went to the garden store. That was like their
Speaker 1: first trip really out of the house. Um was there
Speaker 1: was like a senior hour where you can buy plants
Speaker 1: in the morning, and they went and I could just
Speaker 1: sense that it had like a huge effect on their
Speaker 1: mental health to be out for the first time since
Speaker 1: it started and see just you know, see nature. Yeah, well,
Speaker 1: we're gonna take a quick break and when we come back,
Speaker 1: we're going to bring on our guests, Brandy and go
Speaker 1: on another little vacation to the Minnesota State Fair. Welcome back.
Speaker 1: To Nightcall and welcome our very special guest, Brandy Brown.
Speaker 1: Brandy is a comedian for Minneapolis. She co hosted the
Speaker 1: podcast Bill Corbett's Fun House, and she regularly hosts at
Speaker 1: the Acne Comedy Company in Minneapolis. Welcome Brandy, Hello, Hello, Hi.
Speaker 1: Brandy is on Twitter as it's the Brandy Brandy with
Speaker 1: an Eye and was one of my best Twitter follows
Speaker 1: of all time. Thank you. I will say it. Brandy
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Speaker 1: So we hear that you've been Uh, you're a big
Speaker 1: fan of the Minnesota State Fair. I am am, And
Speaker 1: they have they've they've gone ahead with the Minnesota State
Speaker 1: Fair this way, but like in a very COVID specific way.
Speaker 1: And I was just like, from meeting your tweets, I
Speaker 1: was just like, how does a state fair even occur?
Speaker 1: Right now? Just feels like such a vector. But I'm
Speaker 1: sure that you have much first had experience, so well,
Speaker 1: I mean they're not doing it, They're doing it a
Speaker 1: pretty safe way, which I am not a fan of
Speaker 1: doing it this way. I mean I'm not like I
Speaker 1: just don't want to do it this way, But I'm
Speaker 1: not saying it's a bad idea. It's a great idea.
Speaker 1: Tickets one on sale today. UM, it's a drive through
Speaker 1: State Fair kind of experience. And UM. The thing you
Speaker 1: need to know about the State Fair rounds is that
Speaker 1: they're pretty big. I should have looked up how big
Speaker 1: they are. But it's square miles, um, and it's like
Speaker 1: a normal street situation in there with buildings and stuff.
Speaker 1: So what they're doing is they have I think twenty
Speaker 1: vendors and including the two dollar all you can drink milk,
Speaker 1: which I don't know how they're looking that, um, and
Speaker 1: people they stagger. They charge you twenty dollars per car,
Speaker 1: and then they stagger the you know entrance, so that's
Speaker 1: not too backed up and people can basically do a
Speaker 1: drive through. I didn't really look into it exaucep. I
Speaker 1: was just like, I don't I drive everywhere in Minneapolis,
Speaker 1: And so when I say I don't drive to the
Speaker 1: State Fair, that's pretty significant because we have a pretty
Speaker 1: robust park and ride situation normally. So I just leave
Speaker 1: my car at this lot and then you pay five
Speaker 1: bucks to get on a bus that'll take you straight
Speaker 1: there and it's free to get back um and at
Speaker 1: night you can just leave till up to midnight. So
Speaker 1: I don't want to drive and also want to go
Speaker 1: to stay Fair. I like to have beers and I
Speaker 1: share my food with other people and so I can't
Speaker 1: take anyone really, and so I'm just probably gonna skip
Speaker 1: it this year. But I mean the fair grounds open,
Speaker 1: I could just go have a picnic there, and they
Speaker 1: also it's open. The fair girls are open for other
Speaker 1: stuff there. They have car shows. They have another thing
Speaker 1: that's going on I think now, which is like a
Speaker 1: drive through dinosaur experience, which, yeah, it's the roller Derby.
Speaker 1: One of the roller Derby are several roller dirty teams
Speaker 1: play over there in the Colosseum. So it's a pretty
Speaker 1: big little area. So they've mostly just done aside from
Speaker 1: the dinosaurs, they've mostly just done a drive through for
Speaker 1: the food stuff. This is the first year. That's all
Speaker 1: I think they're doing. It's a drive through, um, so
Speaker 1: I mean it's it's safe, it's just stay Fair traffic.
Speaker 1: It's notoriously a nightmare. Yeah, so it's like, why would
Speaker 1: I want to do that for funzies? Yeah, But mostly
Speaker 1: the experiences walking around and sharing your food with people
Speaker 1: and totally like it's you can't leisurely do that. I
Speaker 1: mean it sounds cool if you have like a family,
Speaker 1: it's actually great, but you're paying toy dollars to get
Speaker 1: in for the car, so that's a flat fee, and
Speaker 1: then you're paying for the individual food. And a lot
Speaker 1: of these vendors are exist in the Twin Cities anyway,
Speaker 1: I'll just get the food, however, So it's not like
Speaker 1: where there's like the one people who make the turkey
Speaker 1: drumstick that you can only have like that that one
Speaker 1: time of the year. There's a place called Turkey to Go,
Speaker 1: which they make really great sandwiches and stuff, and they're
Speaker 1: in the Skyway system and they're they have like a
Speaker 1: storefront or something, so I could just go there. There's
Speaker 1: a giant egg roll um Vietnamese place. They have a store.
Speaker 1: They're over northeast. I mean, they're all sorts of place.
Speaker 1: All you can drink milk. I'm lactose intolerant. I'm not
Speaker 1: trying to do that. You could drink milk is insane.
Speaker 1: It sounds like punishment, like if you're if you do
Speaker 1: something terrible, it's like, now, sit down, and drink milk
Speaker 1: until you spew like smoke in the whole pack exactly.
Speaker 1: We were just talking about milk last week in the
Speaker 1: Midwest because Emily, Oh, yeah, because I was witnessing the
Speaker 1: rapid expanse of Culver's. I don't know, if you're a
Speaker 1: Culver's fan, maybe I am. Like my late grandmother would
Speaker 1: often guilt me into going to Culver's for her like
Speaker 1: a huge Culver's family here. Yeah, I was like, because
Speaker 1: I'm from I lived in Iowa for a lot of
Speaker 1: my childhood, and uh so it was a big there.
Speaker 1: It was big, like Wisconsin thing, Minnesota thing. And then
Speaker 1: I was shocked to see them in like Arizona when
Speaker 1: I was driving. So Colver's is taking over the country.
Speaker 1: It's funny that you both are cursed with lactose intolerant
Speaker 1: and like the place with the most milk products. That
Speaker 1: probably is what did it, though, I think if you're
Speaker 1: like like, because I drank milkshakes and frozen custards and
Speaker 1: everything all through my upbringing and then at some point
Speaker 1: in college was just like, no, I know exactly what
Speaker 1: it happened. It was. I remember it was in like
Speaker 1: cafeteria and I used to have every day with lunch,
Speaker 1: like chocolate milk, and it was like really thick, like
Speaker 1: school chocolate milk. Um. But like one day I was like,
Speaker 1: why am I farting so much? And then I was like, well,
Speaker 1: maybe it's a chocolate milk which is very thick. So
Speaker 1: I would cut it with like regular milk and that
Speaker 1: didn't help, and I was like, oh, I gotta stop
Speaker 1: doing this. And it's not super severe for me, but
Speaker 1: it was like it kicked in when I was like seventeen,
Speaker 1: and so I mean, I'll, you know, I'll eat ice
Speaker 1: cream and stuff, but at the fair, but I can't
Speaker 1: drink milk. Also, there was a big thing a few
Speaker 1: years ago where they doubled the price. It used to
Speaker 1: just be a dollar, and a Rudy Boschwitz who was
Speaker 1: like a politician here. I think he was like I
Speaker 1: don't forget what he was, but he was like the
Speaker 1: Rudy bosh Witz like milkstand and now it's just you know,
Speaker 1: the milkstand or whatever it's called. And they were like,
Speaker 1: we have to double the price to two dollars and
Speaker 1: I was like, yeah, it's fine, guys, no, But people
Speaker 1: were kind of just sad because they were nostalgic for
Speaker 1: the one dollar milk, but I think they had like
Speaker 1: different flavors they used to. Strawberry might still be around,
Speaker 1: but it's like plain chocolate straw berry if you can
Speaker 1: never get sick of milk. So I take it they're
Speaker 1: not doing the world famous butter cow as part of
Speaker 1: the drive through. Oh that's Iowa. Iowa doesn't. Actually they are.
Speaker 1: They are doing the Butter Sculpture. So what Minnesota has
Speaker 1: is something called Princess K of the Milky Way, of
Speaker 1: the Milky Way. It's a it's a pageant, but it's
Speaker 1: agriculture and dairy stuff and it's actually really not hard
Speaker 1: to get it, but you have to know your ship.
Speaker 1: So the people who get into the finals are all
Speaker 1: like you have m agg majors who I think the
Speaker 1: cut off is like twenty three or something, and they
Speaker 1: have to like know their dairy ship so to get
Speaker 1: to be a finalist for that, they all all the
Speaker 1: finalists get there, like you go into this one building.
Speaker 1: There's the dairy building, and then there's the cattle building,
Speaker 1: which is different, but the dairy building, Um, there's a
Speaker 1: giant like I don't know, like glass case. The it's
Speaker 1: refrigerated and the like the Milky the Milky Way finalists,
Speaker 1: they wear their little crowns in their sash and they
Speaker 1: wear like whatever heavy coats they do, and they get
Speaker 1: they sit there and get carved in the blocks of butter.
Speaker 1: The winner, Princess Kid of the Milky Way, who's the
Speaker 1: number one, gets carved first, and it's like on down
Speaker 1: the line, and it is a very very prestigious honor.
Speaker 1: Like these people will save their butter bust un till
Speaker 1: their wedding day. They'll put it in deep freeze and
Speaker 1: it'll be a thing where I think, you know, I
Speaker 1: think some there was like a big controversy years ago
Speaker 1: where like someone's sibling like like destroyed the butter sculpture.
Speaker 1: It's like it's a huge deal. And um, so what
Speaker 1: they're doing this year is I think the person who
Speaker 1: normally called carved the butter sculptures retired and handed over
Speaker 1: to somewhere else. And what they're gonna do is they're
Speaker 1: probably going to put the butter person in the cooler
Speaker 1: and then put the Princess k person outside of the
Speaker 1: cooler for social distancing. But they're gonna do it this year.
Speaker 1: I mean they're gonna get those sculptures. So yeah, the
Speaker 1: main butter artist in Minnesota is not the same lady
Speaker 1: is in Iowa? Is it? Do you know y'all have
Speaker 1: your own but Well. The other difference with the Iowa
Speaker 1: butter cow is one Iowa recycles that butter on that
Speaker 1: butter cow likes going to eat the seen a documentary, Well,
Speaker 1: they eat the Princess K like they'll put it as
Speaker 1: a centerpiece and just use it for because it's just
Speaker 1: a giant block of butter that's brand new. It's very
Speaker 1: quick question. How big are these? Is it like a
Speaker 1: life size thing or I would say it's a pretty
Speaker 1: standard size like bust Like they're pretty big. So we're
Speaker 1: talking like punds of butter. Oh yeah, I mean I
Speaker 1: don't know what your producers are doing. They can google
Speaker 1: how big the butter cow bus, the butter the Princess
Speaker 1: K bus. But the other thing about this bus is, um,
Speaker 1: my ex boyfriend who I'm still friends with, thought maybe
Speaker 1: it was like one of my friends we all go
Speaker 1: to the fair, and he thought that they were just
Speaker 1: carving over and over the same sculpture and I was like, no,
Speaker 1: that's each of the women and if you. You can
Speaker 1: see their pictures next to the thing, and they all
Speaker 1: look different. I mean they all look very like Minnesotan
Speaker 1: and like Scandinavian, but they have different you know, hair
Speaker 1: and looks. But you have to kind of make their
Speaker 1: hair a little longer because of their necks because if
Speaker 1: you don't, their neck will like fall over. The breaking
Speaker 1: news from Joel. Producer Joel chimes in, it's a ninety
Speaker 1: pound block of butter. Yeah, I think I think butter
Speaker 1: is um lighter than like human flesh, well pound of
Speaker 1: butter sticks, and it's frozen too. It's pretty ya. But
Speaker 1: the butter cow in Iowa, I think I saw a
Speaker 1: documentary about it. So basically what happens there is that
Speaker 1: there's a frame made um and then the butter is
Speaker 1: applied and then like shaped onto them because there's no
Speaker 1: way those skinny little cow legs holding up all that
Speaker 1: that mass. This kind of relates to the Drive Through Dinosaurs.
Speaker 1: I've seen the Dinosaurs Live show and it was a
Speaker 1: little disappointing just because they had to hold up the
Speaker 1: dinosaurs heads because the dinosaurs next couldn't support it because
Speaker 1: it wasn't a real dinosaur. Yeah, you'd have to do
Speaker 1: select kind of dinosaurs, Like you couldn't do a bronosaurs,
Speaker 1: t sterotops, you could do probably it's all get into
Speaker 1: butter carving. This sounds like the great Well I wanted
Speaker 1: to say. Also, you introduced me to another hobby that
Speaker 1: I knew nothing about, which is crop art. Yeah. I'm
Speaker 1: actually going to be hosting a fundraiser for the Minnesota
Speaker 1: State Auditor who's her name is Julie Blah. And I
Speaker 1: don't have the exact details, but I couldn't like pass
Speaker 1: them on you guys. But she is a crop artist herself,
Speaker 1: and she's really awesome. She's to be a mass teacher,
Speaker 1: just a really fun person. Um. She does crop art,
Speaker 1: and she figured out that like if you enter your
Speaker 1: crop art and it's not controversial, uh, they'll leave it
Speaker 1: up for the duration of the fair, which is twelve days.
Speaker 1: So what she did is she made her political sign
Speaker 1: like you know, Julie Blaha vote for her or whatever
Speaker 1: in crop art, and then she got free advertising for
Speaker 1: a total of eight dollars. And I've ever seen but yeah,
Speaker 1: behind me some of my crop art, my novice entry.
Speaker 1: Uh it's a shady panda from Polar Bears. Cafe, my
Speaker 1: favorite show. Oh my god. Yeah, and then um above
Speaker 1: that is I can show you guys later is the
Speaker 1: I entered the special Occasion category last year. Um, and
Speaker 1: I did the thirtieth anniversary of the Game Boy and
Speaker 1: then that pieces like sixty or twelve by like sixteen,
Speaker 1: I think, baby, Um yeah, so the wait, so what
Speaker 1: is it made of? Oh, it's made up a lot
Speaker 1: of stuff. So typically in crop art. So I guess
Speaker 1: I should back up the history of crop art. And
Speaker 1: I don't don't quote me on this because I'm very
Speaker 1: new to crop art. I'm in my like third year technically, well,
Speaker 1: to have new blood in the crops, the nicest people like,
Speaker 1: they're so talented and so nice. So crop arts started
Speaker 1: about fifty five years. Fifty anniversary was actually gonna be
Speaker 1: this year and I was gonna do crop art sneakers,
Speaker 1: but that's a different story. Um. But basically, um, you know,
Speaker 1: they they started the crop art they at the fair
Speaker 1: where you basically just have to use Minnesota crops. They
Speaker 1: have to grow in Minnesota. Doesn't have to be native
Speaker 1: to Minnesota, just has to grow there. So there's someone
Speaker 1: who is a um they're the woman who originally started
Speaker 1: crop art. There's a book I was reading called Seed Queen.
Speaker 1: She started that and then her daughter is now like
Speaker 1: royalty literally in crop art where she doesn't even enter
Speaker 1: anymore because like she destroyed everyone else, but she's still
Speaker 1: like shows her art or she'll enter something like that.
Speaker 1: So they have to grow in Minnesota, and so there's
Speaker 1: some really super competitive people who will watch the University
Speaker 1: of Minnesota UM experimental like agriculture thing and if they
Speaker 1: grow a seed hybrid, that's a that's a legal seed
Speaker 1: and you just ask you intend. Yeah, so what you
Speaker 1: have to do is you basically there are different categories.
Speaker 1: There's the novice category, which is just your first year UM.
Speaker 1: There's wearable crop art, and there's the amateur division and
Speaker 1: then the advanced and if you get a certain number
Speaker 1: of blue ribbons you have to go to Advanced UM.
Speaker 1: There's wearable crop art, there's flat floral arrangements where you
Speaker 1: can use plant parts beyond the seeds. Uh. There are
Speaker 1: UM crafts I think there you can make like dolls
Speaker 1: of stuff. There's a scare crow category which is kind
Speaker 1: of with the crop art but not the same thing.
Speaker 1: And at the state Fair there's a whole creative arts
Speaker 1: thing that's separate from this where people show their jams
Speaker 1: and stuff. And then there's fine arts, which is just
Speaker 1: the artist. But I think like crop art is showcase
Speaker 1: in the agriculture and horticulture building. Um, and it's it's cool.
Speaker 1: It's just like you basically have to turn in your
Speaker 1: seed guide where you have little samples of all the
Speaker 1: seeds you used so that you can you know, they
Speaker 1: can check it against to make sure it's legal. So
Speaker 1: my my panda here is the easiest one to see.
Speaker 1: It's pretty small as crop art goes. But I used
Speaker 1: flax um like regular flax. I think golden flax. Quene
Speaker 1: wa staff flower grows in Minnesota. Uh yeah, somebody's grown it,
Speaker 1: and somebody's grown it wild rice. Um. I think there's
Speaker 1: some lentils. All the lentils are legal, even though they
Speaker 1: technically shouldn't because like nobody in Minnesota really grows bloga lentel,
Speaker 1: but somebody did. Um n yeah, sorghum and then uh
Speaker 1: keenewa different kinds of quenua canola or rape seed. I
Speaker 1: don't have a story about that. Um. And like I think, um,
Speaker 1: a couple of like wild grasses and stuff for lines.
Speaker 1: But like some of the seeds you can't use. You
Speaker 1: can't use sesame seed, you can't use anything that's a weed.
Speaker 1: You can't use um white rice. You can use wild rice.
Speaker 1: But people get really creative, like I think somebody did
Speaker 1: a few years ago they did Bob Marley and hemp
Speaker 1: seed that's legal. Um. Somebody did a controversial one that
Speaker 1: stayed up for like three days where they did Bill
Speaker 1: Cosby and all canola seed um, which is also known
Speaker 1: as rape seed, and god that one was taken down
Speaker 1: that I think it's the same person who to the
Speaker 1: hemp seed. Just like people, it's very political to people
Speaker 1: tend to lean left in this, so there's a lot
Speaker 1: of political statements um, and a lot of it's pretty competitive.
Speaker 1: That the person who won Grand Champion two years ago
Speaker 1: whose starts basically her next year's project in her projects
Speaker 1: like thirty six inches by like twenty four inches, and
Speaker 1: she uses like tiny time like poppy seeds, So there's
Speaker 1: poppy seeds on that one too. Um. It was a
Speaker 1: Dr Seuss thing and I can send you guys pictures,
Speaker 1: but was gorgeous. It was about immigration, but it was
Speaker 1: like making fun of like anti immigration people using dr
Speaker 1: SEUs And in the prior year she did Swampy Town,
Speaker 1: which was just busy Town but about Trump with a
Speaker 1: busy town animals. But it was gorgeous and you could
Speaker 1: sell these for like thousands. It should be in the
Speaker 1: Fine Arts building. But yeah, well, we're going to take
Speaker 1: a quick break and we will be right back with
Speaker 1: another night email. We received a night call for Brandy
Speaker 1: about crop art. Um not to take this in a
Speaker 1: in a morbid direction, but I'm going to, uh, this
Speaker 1: person did not sign their email, so we're gonna let
Speaker 1: them be anonymous. I feel like when I watched Witness
Speaker 1: starring Harrison Ford and learned about grain entrapment, it completely
Speaker 1: changed my relationship to crop art. Imagine drowning in a
Speaker 1: vat of paint or being rushed by crayons. I haven't
Speaker 1: seen that, but I mean, yeah, you don't funk with silos.
Speaker 1: I mean that's Midwestern, like I'm from the city, but
Speaker 1: you yeah, you don't sunk around in those. Anything on
Speaker 1: a farm can kill you. So that's just like crop art.
Speaker 1: I just go to this farm and feed. I mean
Speaker 1: the most dangerous part of crop art for me is
Speaker 1: going a little too far outside the ninety four loop,
Speaker 1: which is I ninety four and like all the connecting
Speaker 1: things and going out to the farm and feed stores
Speaker 1: to pick up some you know, like sorghum and stuff,
Speaker 1: and they're just like, what are you doing? I was
Speaker 1: like crop art and then everyone's super nice, what are
Speaker 1: you doing? And then um, yeah, and I get a
Speaker 1: lot of the edible seeds and stuff from just coops
Speaker 1: and stuff like that. Did you guys see the story
Speaker 1: this week about the mystery seeds three seeds? I would
Speaker 1: love to talk about mystery seeds. What do you guys
Speaker 1: think is going on? Something I heard someone say that
Speaker 1: was actually like a scam to get ratings or something
Speaker 1: from something else. Can somebody explain the mystery seeds? I
Speaker 1: haven't seen this. People were getting mystery packages from companies
Speaker 1: like Wish and Ali Baba I think from from and
Speaker 1: there was just something going around being like, do not
Speaker 1: open the mystery seeds from China. They are unmarked seeds
Speaker 1: from China, unidentified And yeah, people were receiving them and
Speaker 1: then the FDA said don't plant them and send them
Speaker 1: to us so that we can figure out what they are. Um.
Speaker 1: But yeah, like Brandy said, I think, you know, it's
Speaker 1: it could be one of those things where it's sellers
Speaker 1: trying to just send um send packages to people who
Speaker 1: didn't order anything, and then they can use that address
Speaker 1: to make it a verified purchase and give themselves good reviews.
Speaker 1: But it seems kind of strange because there have been
Speaker 1: multiple reports. Someone someone actually a mutual on Twitter said
Speaker 1: that she got super high and saw that Wish had
Speaker 1: a thing for trees, and so she bought trees and
Speaker 1: she had forgotten she had done this while super high,
Speaker 1: that she got the seeds and she's like, oh, that's
Speaker 1: what it was. Like they were selling like trees and
Speaker 1: people thought they were getting trees, which at the State Fair,
Speaker 1: by the way, last year, I got a like an
Speaker 1: actual seedling for a tree if I went the first day,
Speaker 1: and like the Forest Service was like free trees, Like
Speaker 1: there's so much stuff, like they give away yardsticks and
Speaker 1: all sorts of great things. So, I mean people thought
Speaker 1: they were getting seedlings and they were just getting seeds
Speaker 1: seeds right, and two weeks ago people thought they were
Speaker 1: going to get children in cabinets, So gotta keep up.
Speaker 1: So going back to the crop art thing and like
Speaker 1: kind of the political statements and some of the more
Speaker 1: stunty crop art entries. That kind of made me curious
Speaker 1: because I haven't been to a state fair, big fair
Speaker 1: for a while. I did um go to the Iowa
Speaker 1: State Fair bit um growing up, but I also went
Speaker 1: to UM. It wasn't a state fair, but it basically
Speaker 1: was a scale of a state fair in UM in Washington,
Speaker 1: the Polut Fair, Um that one a lot too. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but uh but I was sort of wondering, like, you know,
Speaker 1: what is the political vibe of some of these different
Speaker 1: Like is the is the crop art scene more political
Speaker 1: than like say the quilty and scene or any of
Speaker 1: the other cars. I would say, yeah, I would say
Speaker 1: the crop arts se is more left leaning. And it's
Speaker 1: a lot of city people. There's some from Outstates, which
Speaker 1: is Outstates what we call its side of the metro area.
Speaker 1: So uh so that's just you know, greater Minnesota outside
Speaker 1: of the what we call seven county metro area, which
Speaker 1: also includes like far far western Wisconsin. But um, mostly
Speaker 1: like a lot of the people who win are like St.
Speaker 1: Paul Minneapolis people, And yeah, I mean the quilting people
Speaker 1: tend to just make gorgeous quilts and in the Creative
Speaker 1: Arts building. Like I said, it's not as political because yeah,
Speaker 1: it's just I mean the room for it. And the
Speaker 1: whimsy is just generally like stuff that's like always gonna
Speaker 1: be whimsical. But the crop art, you do new stuff
Speaker 1: every year, so you're just like and you can enter
Speaker 1: multiple categories if you want, so people are just kind
Speaker 1: of you know, I have my theories on the pandering.
Speaker 1: What would win with the judges who tend to skew
Speaker 1: older and you kind of if you do something like
Speaker 1: pandering to the state Fair in Minnesota, that would win
Speaker 1: my I mean my tetrissing. It's good, but it rightfully
Speaker 1: did not even place. I actually, um, I have an
Speaker 1: ongoing thing where my croppart is accidentally in the background
Speaker 1: of politicians taking pictures with other crop art. So two
Speaker 1: years ago, my panda was right behind someone's entry, which
Speaker 1: was a like a head a three D head of
Speaker 1: ilhan Omar out of seeds and they just used a
Speaker 1: base of like you know, styrofoam and then they made
Speaker 1: it out of seeds. So she's leaning in front of it,
Speaker 1: and then behind her is like the shady panda spying.
Speaker 1: That's great. Yeah, then last year Julie. Uh, Julie Blaha
Speaker 1: actually did a great She entered multiple things last year
Speaker 1: she entered she did a piece for Peggy Flanagan, who
Speaker 1: is our current lieutenant governor. Tom Weber was going to
Speaker 1: propose to her who he was, he's a journalist here
Speaker 1: and so she did a piece of crop art for
Speaker 1: their engagement um and like, because you can do like
Speaker 1: birthdays or themes or stuff with a special occasion category.
Speaker 1: And she said, and everyone was like, well, what if
Speaker 1: you know, they don't get engaged or he moves the
Speaker 1: date And she's like, well, I waited and saved the date.
Speaker 1: But also her anniversary was coming up anyway, She's like,
Speaker 1: I could easily just make it me and my husband.
Speaker 1: So it was fine, but it was a gorgeous piece
Speaker 1: at one first place, but it was also right my
Speaker 1: my tetrising was right below it. So I have a
Speaker 1: picture of Julie Blah i was a state auditor with that,
Speaker 1: I have a picture of Peggy flang and who's a
Speaker 1: lieutenant governor with that, and then Tim Wallace who's a
Speaker 1: governor with my pictures. So now it's just like an
Speaker 1: ongoing thing where I try to I'm gonna try to
Speaker 1: like get my crop art next to other politicians stuff,
Speaker 1: or just to have them stop by. Next time you
Speaker 1: have to put a secret message and that you can
Speaker 1: only see from very far away. I mean, I'll just
Speaker 1: put a blatant message, and like, I like there's like
Speaker 1: all sorts of stuff. I might actually just make a
Speaker 1: piece just to like make fun of amy Cloba Shar,
Speaker 1: because there's also the amy Cloba Shar ongoing state at
Speaker 1: fair feud um with me and her. Wait, what what happened?
Speaker 1: What's the amy? So Amy Klobascher is very very diplomatic,
Speaker 1: always like to the point where you're like comedically like
Speaker 1: centrist on stuff. You don't want to upset people, and like,
Speaker 1: so there was a news story before the state fair
Speaker 1: because everyone's down in Iowa pandering down there in Iowa,
Speaker 1: and of course you're in Iowa. You don't want to
Speaker 1: say the Minnesota State Fair is better. So somebody said
Speaker 1: which is better? And she, of course was very diplomatic
Speaker 1: about it. Fine, she's a guest in Iowa, who cares.
Speaker 1: But I saw that, and I'm just a huge state
Speaker 1: fair stand I was like, I'm gonna ask her which
Speaker 1: is better and make her say the Minnesota State Fair.
Speaker 1: So my good friend Hayley and I go on the
Speaker 1: first day and we were like you know what. We
Speaker 1: went at like it opens the gates open at six am.
Speaker 1: We were there at seven with like Hayley's mom drove
Speaker 1: us and I'm just like all right, thanks, Like her
Speaker 1: mom like picked me up. It was like high school
Speaker 1: or something. And uh we went and we were like, Okay,
Speaker 1: here's what we're gonna do. We're gonna go like run around.
Speaker 1: We got these plans. We're gonna go see the Baby Rabbits.
Speaker 1: We're gonna go to the three four h musical at
Speaker 1: eleven or something to find Amy Cloba Shar at two
Speaker 1: o'clock at the MPR stage where she's being interviewed and
Speaker 1: we're gonna ask her this question. It was like we
Speaker 1: totally weren't gonna do like it. It doesn't seem like
Speaker 1: a gotcha. All you have to do is say the
Speaker 1: mississ State Fair is better you're in Minnesota, but also
Speaker 1: objectively it is a better fair anyway. But so we
Speaker 1: were walking around and we were we here just yelling
Speaker 1: and I'm like, that's Amy Klobashar's voice. It was from
Speaker 1: the DFL like shack or like they're little like hut
Speaker 1: that they have. And I was like, well, let's go
Speaker 1: over there. And amy Clobshar is just like yelling, like
Speaker 1: the the joke I have an amy Ckloba Schar, which
Speaker 1: is not even a joke, It's true. It's that woman
Speaker 1: has no indoor voice. She will always yell, so like
Speaker 1: she's yelling, and so I was like, well, let's just
Speaker 1: do it now. So we kind of sneake our away
Speaker 1: to amy Kloba Shar after she's wrapping up her her
Speaker 1: big like ra ra speech and she was gonna go
Speaker 1: from the DFL booth to the MPR stage to be
Speaker 1: interviewed by the news. So I kind of like upstream
Speaker 1: salmon towards her. And I was a DFL R d
Speaker 1: fell by the way, is our Democrats the Democratic farmer
Speaker 1: labor thing, that's what it's called Minnesota. So I was
Speaker 1: a delegate to the DFL party and eighteen at the
Speaker 1: state convention, and I met amy Klobasher there. I walked
Speaker 1: into the DFL after party that night and there was
Speaker 1: a Prince Cover band playing, and I saw Amy Klobascher
Speaker 1: dancing with the michaelob Golden and just like toasting the
Speaker 1: the Prince Cover band in a in a skirt suit.
Speaker 1: It was I'm so glad my friends were there. I'm
Speaker 1: so glad. I'm like, holy sh it, this is the
Speaker 1: great thing. So we take a picture with her, and
Speaker 1: so I did meet her. So I walked up to
Speaker 1: her and I was like Senator Klobischer. Her name is
Speaker 1: Brandy Brown It she was kind of just gonna do
Speaker 1: the oh nice and I go I was a delegate
Speaker 1: in and she's like oh. And at that amount of
Speaker 1: time I talked to her like it was enough to
Speaker 1: slow her down. And then kind of people gathered around
Speaker 1: and say, I have a question. It's a fun question
Speaker 1: because I wasn't gonna do like a regular ambush because
Speaker 1: it's just venue wise, wasn't the time and place you
Speaker 1: couldn't really pull it off. And I go, uh, yeah,
Speaker 1: So you were in Iowa and you said the Iowa
Speaker 1: State Fair is better. And by the way, there's video
Speaker 1: of this. I can said it to you. I tweeted
Speaker 1: it and my friend Haley who was on the camera,
Speaker 1: and she's like and I said, which state Fair is better?
Speaker 1: And I'm by the way in this video because I
Speaker 1: went to the horticulture building, and there's the beer, like
Speaker 1: the craft brewers Guilty. You can get like a four
Speaker 1: pack of like Samplers. So I'm holding a four pack
Speaker 1: of like beer, and and I'm wearing my little buff
Speaker 1: around my neck and I'm just like, my skin looks
Speaker 1: amazing in this. But it's like the Blazing Sun. And
Speaker 1: she's like Amy Clover Show. Everyone's like circling around, like
Speaker 1: what is going on? Why did she stopped? Amy Clover Show.
Speaker 1: Was like she wants to know which is better the
Speaker 1: Minnesota State Fair the Iowa State Fair. I'm like, yeah,
Speaker 1: so which is better? And she's like, well, they have
Speaker 1: a butter cow and we have the butter Boss. And
Speaker 1: I go, yeah, but which is better? And then she's like,
Speaker 1: well we got to bring people together. I'm like, right,
Speaker 1: but which is better? I just get like and over
Speaker 1: again and then she like contestantly like pats me on
Speaker 1: the shower, was like and then like and then it
Speaker 1: cuts off on the video, but I have the full
Speaker 1: video of me going, well, I guess it's war in
Speaker 1: but like she didn't hear me, so it's just ongoing fude,
Speaker 1: And like our all city pages published something uh like
Speaker 1: called like um, because there's always a state Fair new
Speaker 1: foods and like the state Fair new thing is Amy
Speaker 1: Klobaschar's flip flop or something, and it's just like this
Speaker 1: ongoing thing where people would just tweet and black which
Speaker 1: is better? And I was on there's a local podcast
Speaker 1: here called Wrong About Everything, and I'm friends with the
Speaker 1: people on it, and they were doing a state Fair thing.
Speaker 1: Wrong about Everything is two Democrats and two Republicans one
Speaker 1: and they're all friends with each other and they're really cool.
Speaker 1: Given the Republicans um and I hung out with them,
Speaker 1: and you know, like Julie Blaha, the state auditor, was
Speaker 1: on this and a couple of other DFL people were
Speaker 1: on this live state Fair episode because radio records at
Speaker 1: the state Fair. It's just everything shuts down and everyone
Speaker 1: goes to State Fair. The news is all from there,
Speaker 1: the radio stations are all there. So I'm on this
Speaker 1: episode and I'm just sitting there, like I get to
Speaker 1: talk about it. I'm just like I would ask every
Speaker 1: politician I met, which is better? And of course the
Speaker 1: answer is even if you're running, the diplomatic answer is, well,
Speaker 1: they're both great, and they both have great things. But
Speaker 1: obviously I gotta go with the hometown st Fair. That's
Speaker 1: all you felt to your people. No one's gonna be
Speaker 1: mad if you fail for the home team. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's a like a state fair is one of the
Speaker 1: most low stakes things that like it's it's like lower
Speaker 1: stakes than sports. You can just be like, well that's
Speaker 1: my team and people would be like okay, okay. But
Speaker 1: she she she didn't. I don't know that. Wait, so
Speaker 1: this was last year. They used last year, so she
Speaker 1: was like still thought she had some kind of she won't.
Speaker 1: I'm convinced she won't admit it until like she gets
Speaker 1: in office, like her not winning this year or getting
Speaker 1: even the nomination, not being VP, she won't ever admit
Speaker 1: it until there's no chance she'll be president. So like
Speaker 1: we've got twenty years of her not doing this. I
Speaker 1: followed your journey last summer at the Minnesota State Fair
Speaker 1: just like it was the highlight of my summer because
Speaker 1: I've followed I've watched your your content for a couple
Speaker 1: of years now about the Minnesota State Fair, and it
Speaker 1: was just so funny because like you were posting, it
Speaker 1: was like you're walking around and going to all the
Speaker 1: different pavilions, and then sometimes you would pass stand and
Speaker 1: be like, I'm coming back for you, Amy. My other
Speaker 1: favorite thing is So there's a Minnesotan here. His name
Speaker 1: is Tony Webster. His Twitter handle is Webster, and he's
Speaker 1: a big foia guy. He's a journalist. He often sues
Speaker 1: people to get public data. He's just excellent and like
Speaker 1: definitely an important follow in general. But he's also like
Speaker 1: takes photos of things a lot. So he went to
Speaker 1: the state fair and Amy Kloba schars it's great because
Speaker 1: all the politicians at the state level have their own
Speaker 1: little booth and hers is like a little like house.
Speaker 1: It looks like an nice little house. It's it's cute,
Speaker 1: but it's also right in front of the my pillow
Speaker 1: Guy like building where they're selling stuff it so the
Speaker 1: thing has windows, and Tony Webster posted this picture where
Speaker 1: he's like, it looks like because of the way it's
Speaker 1: positioned that somebody in Amy Cloberhard's little like shack house
Speaker 1: thing hung up a picture of the my pillow Guy
Speaker 1: with a it's like the poster that says from crack
Speaker 1: Addict to CEO. She hung that up and so they
Speaker 1: took a picture of it, and I was like, this
Speaker 1: is incredible, this is funny. But also several of my
Speaker 1: friends have now broken this woman at the State fam.
Speaker 1: We weren't like trying to be malicious, but you know,
Speaker 1: whatever beyond your toes amy and uh. The next time
Speaker 1: I was at State Fair, because I went multiple times
Speaker 1: because I did some live podcasts there, I figure out
Speaker 1: how I can write off the State Fair, so like
Speaker 1: whatever people want to be for it's like your south
Speaker 1: by Southwest or something totally is myself by self West,
Speaker 1: thank you? Uh? I walk why was My friend was like,
Speaker 1: holy sh it. They boarded up the windows and the
Speaker 1: amy Culoba shar hut, So that can't be a thing anymore.
Speaker 1: You can't because I was gonna walk by and like
Speaker 1: hide behind it to like hold up a sign to
Speaker 1: be like Minnesota State Fair is better, and I couldn't
Speaker 1: do it. See this is like all making me so
Speaker 1: so so nostalgic for going to state fairs, and like
Speaker 1: it it makes me miss them and like, you know,
Speaker 1: kind of more and that we can't really do them
Speaker 1: right now in the same way because it is this
Speaker 1: sort of absurdity where the entire world gets so shrunken
Speaker 1: and there is like a little Amy. Amy Clobhar has
Speaker 1: a little house in a park. The thing about the
Speaker 1: State Fair, I was trying to figure out why I
Speaker 1: love it so much of other people who hate it
Speaker 1: because it's crowded and it's you know whatever. And that's fine.
Speaker 1: If you don't like it, I don't care. I just
Speaker 1: won't invite you to come along. That's it. Like, if
Speaker 1: you don't want to go, like, I don't judge you.
Speaker 1: There are a lot of things people like and don't like.
Speaker 1: That's fine. But for me, I have a website that
Speaker 1: I haven't updated in a while. I would only update
Speaker 1: it when I was born. At work during the State Fair,
Speaker 1: it was called Minnesota State Fair Cliches, and it was
Speaker 1: just all the cliches of the state Fair. And people
Speaker 1: were like, wait a minute, this is just everything of
Speaker 1: the state Fair. And I'm like, exactly, it's all. It's
Speaker 1: so comforting. You go there every year. It's the same thing.
Speaker 1: I went there with my grandpa and I when I
Speaker 1: was five. I remember being a little leash thing where
Speaker 1: like wrap around veil crom on my wrist so I
Speaker 1: could eat with both hands and my family could eat
Speaker 1: with both hands and still keep track of me. And
Speaker 1: there are just certain things you just go. I have
Speaker 1: friends who would spend a forty hour work week there.
Speaker 1: They'll just do different things because it's so big. You
Speaker 1: can go see the animal shows. You can go see
Speaker 1: the four age musical, which is I believe somebody called
Speaker 1: it Haystack Glee. Um I'm beer. Imagine you can be
Speaker 1: ship faced and go see a high school musical. It
Speaker 1: is the best thing in the world. All the kids
Speaker 1: are earnest um because four age kids, they're just like
Speaker 1: too pure for this world. You really, Brandy, you should
Speaker 1: be made uh Many Minnesota State Fair Ambassador, the queen
Speaker 1: or whatever it's called. Princess came. I'm too old and
Speaker 1: I'm not. I'm not on the dairy like expert, but hey,
Speaker 1: it's never too late, you know. They need an outsider's
Speaker 1: perspective on dairy sometimes, like somebody who can only appreciate
Speaker 1: it by looking at it. Yeah, it's also just fun
Speaker 1: because during certain political things you also see confused out
Speaker 1: of state politicians, Like there's one picture I have a
Speaker 1: Fred Thompson just being like, what the fund is happening here?
Speaker 1: And you know, celebrities come by. You have the Grand State.
Speaker 1: They have the free Stage, which last year or like
Speaker 1: two years ago, like or last year, I know Tony
Speaker 1: Tony Tony played uh invogued at the free stage, and
Speaker 1: then in the grand Stand you might have like Taylor
Speaker 1: Swift or something like that come through, or like I
Speaker 1: saw Patti LaBelle at the grand Stand stage. And it's
Speaker 1: just like I don't know, like it's there's just so
Speaker 1: much to do it so you can you run into
Speaker 1: people you don't normally see. And it's also all of
Speaker 1: Minnesota is there. It's interesting because it's not like a
Speaker 1: lot of state fairs, like the New York State Fair,
Speaker 1: for example, is in Albany or no, it's in Syracuse,
Speaker 1: and like that's gonna attract certain people. But it's in
Speaker 1: Falcon Heights, Minnesota. Unfortunately, you might know where it is.
Speaker 1: It's because that was just down the street from where
Speaker 1: Philando cast Steele was shot. But um, it's a place
Speaker 1: where you have all the city folk, but then also
Speaker 1: all the outstate people come down and it's just like
Speaker 1: a big melting pot of fuckory and I love it.
Speaker 1: And it's just it's every year, you know, you have
Speaker 1: your favorite food stands that you go to because your
Speaker 1: parents went there. And then someone has to be like, yo,
Speaker 1: that's not even the best cheese curd stand you have. Um,
Speaker 1: you get like free stuff in a bag. You're like, oh.
Speaker 1: Like you see adults be like, oh my god, free
Speaker 1: paper pig hats. Oh I gotta do this. I'll just
Speaker 1: wear like a pig hat all day. And you have
Speaker 1: the Lama costume contest, like I mean that kind of stuff.
Speaker 1: Like the four age kids are just like people thought
Speaker 1: I was just making fun of them by going to
Speaker 1: the musical every year. I'm like, no, I earnestly they
Speaker 1: love it. It's I went to pay camp every year
Speaker 1: for several years in high school, and they all like
Speaker 1: move into these dorms and they're just like barracks. They
Speaker 1: practiced to this show that's a musical and sometimes they're
Speaker 1: not the best musicians and not the best singers, but
Speaker 1: three times a day, for thirty minutes, they just do
Speaker 1: a medley of music in this hotass building and I
Speaker 1: am ship faced. And one year I was completely wasted
Speaker 1: and I saw the theme was and the themes are
Speaker 1: never anything complex. One time the theme was the kids
Speaker 1: woke up in the jungle and they had no idea
Speaker 1: how they got there. And then the opening scene was
Speaker 1: a medley of like welcome to the Jungle, like it's
Speaker 1: a jungle out there something else and like two years
Speaker 1: ago or last year was something about a candy shop.
Speaker 1: And of course they didn't do fifty cent because if
Speaker 1: they did, I would have just completely lost it. But
Speaker 1: it's I was just like stream. I was like, yeah,
Speaker 1: and each year we pick our our all star musician.
Speaker 1: Because you have the band up top, it's a really
Speaker 1: elaborate set. So there's always like one kid who's like
Speaker 1: too cool with their instruments. So there was a cool
Speaker 1: viola player. Last year, there's a cool s best but
Speaker 1: there's like the one kid and you're like, that's a
Speaker 1: cool kid at the air camp. Yeah, there he is
Speaker 1: right there. And so yeah, I mean I just I
Speaker 1: could go on on you know, I should I should
Speaker 1: do a State Fair podcast, but you totally should. We should,
Speaker 1: we should do it? Wait, I want one on right now? There?
Speaker 1: Did they go? All of them canceled, including Texas, but
Speaker 1: Minnesota went forward. Oh no, not I mean Minnesota. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but like I think the only one that did something
Speaker 1: limited was like North Dakota or like Nebraska. I don't know,
Speaker 1: but my friend Haley and I were going to do
Speaker 1: a thing this year. She lives in l A now,
Speaker 1: but she, you know, she comes back for the fair.
Speaker 1: And I mean people do that, They come back to
Speaker 1: visit their family, go to the fair. We were gonna
Speaker 1: do a thirty five w because all the state best
Speaker 1: state fairs are on thirty five, So we're gonna like
Speaker 1: Minnesota is always it's twelve days. It ends on the
Speaker 1: on Labor Day, the very last day, and I don't
Speaker 1: like to be there Labor Day because it's like people
Speaker 1: are tearing down moving. It's just sad I have to
Speaker 1: go pick up the property. Um So I went last
Speaker 1: year and there was shooting, so I was not cool.
Speaker 1: But um and on the on the grounds, well not
Speaker 1: on the ground. I mean there are the other thing
Speaker 1: about the state fair where I'm actually seriously glad it's
Speaker 1: not happening this year, is there are so many fucking
Speaker 1: cops in the state affair. Like it's like all the
Speaker 1: departments send their very like all over the states and
Speaker 1: there you know cops stays and their horse cops. And um,
Speaker 1: I have like a friend who's a I have a
Speaker 1: friend who's a police officer. She's really really cool. But um,
Speaker 1: like she was saying that, like that's not when you
Speaker 1: want to really work the fair. Um, but it's you know,
Speaker 1: all the outstate people get to you know, come down there.
Speaker 1: And then there was outside the ground. When it ended
Speaker 1: at ten o'clock, there was a shooting outside and I
Speaker 1: showed up from I'd driven up to International Falls like
Speaker 1: Canada basically to get my global entry card because it
Speaker 1: was so backed up that you couldn't get it anywhere
Speaker 1: in the city. So I just was like, well, I'll
Speaker 1: drive up there, take a leisurely trip back, come back
Speaker 1: to the State Fair because I couldn't get in until
Speaker 1: for free until after a certain point. And when I
Speaker 1: got there, I had no idea what was going on.
Speaker 1: It was just chaos. But it was also raining, so
Speaker 1: I thought people were running because of rain. But there
Speaker 1: were a lot of sirens, so what I thought had
Speaker 1: happened was either a stage collapse or lightning strike. Um,
Speaker 1: I didn't know what was going on. So I finally
Speaker 1: got into the grounds with my car, and I got
Speaker 1: into the agriculture building and got my crop art just
Speaker 1: in time, and I was really had to get it
Speaker 1: because there's a fee if you don't pick it up
Speaker 1: in time and they have to ship it um And
Speaker 1: I ended up staying in that building toil like two am,
Speaker 1: just hanging out with the like the operations staff for
Speaker 1: the state fair, and they were just telling me all
Speaker 1: their secrets, which I won't tell, but yeah, so, uh
Speaker 1: it was like I guess there was just like a
Speaker 1: beef and what happened. Someone was shooting someone else and
Speaker 1: then like people were running and then somebody got hit
Speaker 1: by a car running across a very busy street. And
Speaker 1: I don't know what happened to the woman man who
Speaker 1: got hit, but it was a whole thing and that sucked.
Speaker 1: But um, Minnesota's is like the last state fair until
Speaker 1: Texas is a little different because Texas runs like September October,
Speaker 1: but it's also thirty days and it's also nobody like
Speaker 1: wants to be outside in August and Texas right and
Speaker 1: in Texas does stuff like they have their football game,
Speaker 1: like I think Oklahoma ut as our football game at
Speaker 1: the state fair, so that one doesn't really count in
Speaker 1: the same way. But we're gonna do all of the
Speaker 1: state fairs. We're gonna go to Iowa, We're gonna go
Speaker 1: to Kansas. Missouri's is actually near Kansas City, so I
Speaker 1: was pretty we can do Kansas and Missouri's, um, Oklahoma,
Speaker 1: Texas and COVID like a lot of other people's dreams
Speaker 1: ruined our dreams. So yeah, well, I appreciate you taking
Speaker 1: us to the State Fair of the Mind for this episode.
Speaker 1: I um, now, I'm like really really craving a turkey
Speaker 1: leg and a deep fried Twinkie. Deep Fried twink was
Speaker 1: a big thing at the Iowa one. I don't know
Speaker 1: if that's Minnesota they have deep fried stuff, but I
Speaker 1: think it's the you know the Minnesota has a corn
Speaker 1: dog Pronto pop divide Um. One of them is made
Speaker 1: with corn meal. I think the other ones made was
Speaker 1: like wild rice, like well like honestly the Battle of
Speaker 1: Gluten Free Dogs. They honestly like taste the same to me, Like,
Speaker 1: I'll go to which everyone has a shorter line. I
Speaker 1: love corn dogs, so I'm just like whichever horn dogs
Speaker 1: are incredible. I'm very centrist on that. I'm so hungry
Speaker 1: for everything out. This is awesome. Thank you so much
Speaker 1: for your for coming on. I loved, Yeah, I love
Speaker 1: I love to have you back again. And yeah, we
Speaker 1: didn't even we didn't even talk about like the actual
Speaker 1: serious things happening in Minneapolis. That's fine, Well we can
Speaker 1: get back to that. You know, we'd love to have
Speaker 1: you back. Definitely. I love this. I listen this is
Speaker 1: one of my like mondays when all my favorite podcasts
Speaker 1: like Monday and two Day Drop and yours is definitely
Speaker 1: like yep, I listen to every one day. So I
Speaker 1: love this the Bill Corpet Podcast, and we look forward
Speaker 1: to your future podcasting efforts. And please follow Brandy. It's
Speaker 1: the Brandy on Twitter for not just amazing State Fair content,
Speaker 1: but also uh incredible close reads of newspaper comics. Yes, yes,
Speaker 1: and my cat was in Kittie Corner. Yeah, paper Claudet
Speaker 1: Cookie Lion, very famous cat. I'll ask you just one
Speaker 1: last question. Has your cat Claudet Cookie Lion ever come
Speaker 1: up when you were working on seed art and just
Speaker 1: like knocked all the seasons. No, but she yes, she
Speaker 1: comes up because there are um I use some like
Speaker 1: grasses like um for hours called the terms of an
Speaker 1: f but like she likes some of the grasses and
Speaker 1: so she'll come up and like sniff them and like
Speaker 1: try to like lick them like please don't know, Claudet,
Speaker 1: and it don't mean I'm not doing the cat and
Speaker 1: the cat just yelling at me and her are just
Speaker 1: getting mad and then like pouting like eight feet away
Speaker 1: and just staring and like so yeah, she she doesn't
Speaker 1: knocked them over. She doesn't like climb on a lot
Speaker 1: of stuff, and I do a lot of work on
Speaker 1: like the bed sometimes, but she'll definitely like be like, oh,
Speaker 1: this is kind of like a new strain of cat nip.
Speaker 1: Like no, like my cat sees me doing something intricate,
Speaker 1: like a puzzle that's their cute to like hump on
Speaker 1: the table. Yeah, she doesn't climb on stuff unless it's
Speaker 1: just like a thing she normally climbs on. But she
Speaker 1: definitely like the grasses of it. Once I open up,
Speaker 1: because I have like those you know, like the tool
Speaker 1: box things for like people use like nuts and bolts.
Speaker 1: I have a whole elaborate I have like maybe fifty
Speaker 1: different grasses and seeds and like little canisters and stuff,
Speaker 1: and uh so I keep those like small samples are
Speaker 1: portable in totes, and then I have like my storage
Speaker 1: bin of all of that stuff. And once I opened
Speaker 1: that thing, you could just if you're smelling grasses and stuff.
Speaker 1: You know, there you go, I was I was actually asking.
Speaker 1: I asked the stayed arder because I'm doing this fundraiser
Speaker 1: for her and just thing about, um, if what happens
Speaker 1: if recreational marijuana becomes legal in Minnesota, because then you
Speaker 1: can it has to be grown in Minnesota legally, so
Speaker 1: hemp is fine. But I was like, well, do you
Speaker 1: think that more people will use marijuana in their crop art?
Speaker 1: And she's like no, because it's actually a terrible like
Speaker 1: the plant itself is not great for crop art. It
Speaker 1: crumbles too easily, it doesn't hold its shape um, and
Speaker 1: crop art also has rules where only a certain percentage
Speaker 1: can be like crushed or like ground seeds and stuff
Speaker 1: like that. So yeah, marijuana leaves are actually terrible. But
Speaker 1: if you can get like, you know, a little bit
Speaker 1: of the dust, I would love for every cool kind
Speaker 1: of folk art to like come come back, especially because
Speaker 1: we're all going to the land. We're all, we're all. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I do feel kind of terrible doing it sometimes. I
Speaker 1: feel kind of because I have like bags and bags
Speaker 1: of like lentils and beans and seeds, and I'm just
Speaker 1: like the is so like I feel bad. People are hungry,
Speaker 1: and I'm just like gluing this ship to a board
Speaker 1: for fun zies. And I actually think about that a
Speaker 1: little bit, and I'm just like, well, because there was
Speaker 1: a shortage of like Lintel's briefly during the pandemic, and
Speaker 1: I was like, well, if it goes down, I guess
Speaker 1: I can just eat my storage of seeds. But that's
Speaker 1: why I like, you just got to do everything with
Speaker 1: feed corn or like whatever is just the completely like
Speaker 1: whatever crop we have way too much of, Like corn
Speaker 1: is the only ethical corn is terrible. For jeweled corn
Speaker 1: is great, but like corn, it's an irregular, like weird
Speaker 1: wedge shape. It's my favorite seed. I'll just tell people this.
Speaker 1: My favorite tea right now was Pearl Barley. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: that's nice. Use it's a texture. Yeah, I'm currently working
Speaker 1: on a piece where it's a polar Bear and Grizzly
Speaker 1: from Polar Bears Cafe and also an angry goose from
Speaker 1: the Untittled Goose Game. And it's a perfect it's like
Speaker 1: an oval shape. White um kind of this is safflower,
Speaker 1: which is a weirder wedge shape, but it's more uniform shape,
Speaker 1: so we you have to take um if you can
Speaker 1: take some pictures of your crop part and we'll still
Speaker 1: share it on where. Yeah, that would be great. The
Speaker 1: Tetris background behind the game Boy is something everybody has
Speaker 1: to see them. Yes, there's layers to this ship. It's great. Well,
Speaker 1: thank you so much, Brandy. This is awesome. Thank you
Speaker 1: for having me. I'm so happy. Oh it feels nice
Speaker 1: to be able to talk about the state Fair. I'm
Speaker 1: not going, but it's always my favorite thing to like
Speaker 1: dork out and introduce new people too. So yeah, it's
Speaker 1: it's awesome. So someday we'll do a war of the
Speaker 1: state Fairs, because I do unlike unlike Amy Klobucher, I
Speaker 1: will commit to the Iowa State Fair, even though I
Speaker 1: haven't been to the Minnesota State Fair before. Son, Like,
Speaker 1: here's my true thing. Minnesota's objectively better and Islands have
Speaker 1: told me that i Alas is just smaller because it's
Speaker 1: a smaller stak and it's it used to be the biggest.
Speaker 1: I was very dependent on the presidential campaign cycle and
Speaker 1: Minnesota's will stand alone always like we're just like politicians.
Speaker 1: Sure get in line, like Minnesota state fairs. Press really
Speaker 1: like their their PR team. They don't grant any special
Speaker 1: press passes. Like if you want to treat this like press,
Speaker 1: we'll treat everyone the same. You can come in, pay
Speaker 1: for a ticket and uh we might give you like
Speaker 1: special parking or security stuff, but like you're you're treated
Speaker 1: like just like a regular person at the State Fair.
Speaker 1: So no v I P. Unless you're performing or something
Speaker 1: you need to load in or out or something like
Speaker 1: that and you're here in the club and that's why
Speaker 1: it's called the State Fair and not the State Unfairy.
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