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10 - The Great Minnesota Get-together! (Should Amber Go Back?) · Arguing Ever After

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Hi and welcome to Arguing Ever After.
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I'm Luke and this is my fiery Irish bride, Amber.
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Hello together we are the Lord and Lady who lock horns.
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The counting Countess of contention.
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The Duke and Duchess of Disagreement.
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And the king and queen of quarrels.
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We have been together since the famous words were written in
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Perhaps this completely unscientific method of letting
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the masses decide who is right can settle your fight before you
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even have it. And so here we are, everyone yet
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again for an epic battle. And the number is. 10.
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It's not even 9 anymore. It's.
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Double digits. Wow, two hands.
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Yeah, we do the clap. Yeah.
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And that's pretty exciting for us because I don't know if
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that's a milestone in the metrics of Podcast world, but it
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feels like a big one. I think it could be, but yeah I
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agree 10 is a big number. Like when a kid turns 10, that's
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a big deal. It's huge.
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That's a whole nother birthday cake right there.
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I mean, that's and a themed birthday.
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That's what I'm saying. You're getting that's that's the
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real deal. Once you hit double numbers like
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you can't go back to small individual ones.
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Who? Wants to be 9 again.
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No, nobody. Not me.
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That's only for like the little people, I guess.
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If that's who they are. Oh perfect.
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Funny thing we were talking about that doesn't have anything
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to do with the podcast really, but we were introing ourselves
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and I remembered that one year Amber got me for a gift.
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They probably fake but maybe real plot of Scottish land
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because I am a Scott and that makes me a Lord technically as a
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landowner in the great country of Scotland.
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So I'm actually a Lord. So we really are the Lord and
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Lady who lock horns. Yeah.
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And at one time I had a nickname of Duke cause Luke.
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So we're also the Duke and Duchess of Disagreement.
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Are we count and Countess? I I Are you secretly a Countess
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the Contessa? I mean it, I have it maybe.
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Oh, I'm into it. OK, this is exciting.
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Well, we'll keep delving into our titles as well.
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I have. Done some accounting.
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Oh my, that's a joke. You do.
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Good jokes they do. I hope the people that can't see
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your face are smiling as big as you are.
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Yeah. Oh man, the pride you have for
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that. I almost didn't say it.
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You're like. But I couldn't hold it back
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anymore. You're like a Countess.
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I want you to do like Count Voice from Sesame Street next
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time 1. Yeah. 2 Anyway, enough about our
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titles. So here we are in Episode 10,
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our very 10th. Very 10th episode.
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It's fun to say that because even though it's not our very
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first, it still feels new. Yes, I I just thought it was
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really funny when I was like, why does everybody always say
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very first and then we're very 2nd and I'm like, you know what?
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It's our very yeah every. Time we're celebrating.
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So if you all get annoyed with it, you can blame me because I
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just thought it was a oh we could.
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Count ourselves like babies get counted in like weeks and
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months, years old. Like our podcast is 14 months
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old today. It's not.
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But I mean, if we got there, when we get there, I don't, I
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don't know. That wouldn't be a school.
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I mean, we're, we would be at like 10 weeks.
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That's, I mean, that's a lot, Yeah.
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If it was a puppy that's like old enough to be moved on into a
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House of it's it's forever home. Old enough to, yeah, move out
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and become a somebody's companion, family and family
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member. We got our most recent puppy I
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believe pretty close to that. Yeah, somewhere around that,
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maybe 11 weeks. He's no longer 10 weeks old,
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though. He's really big.
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No, no, I don't think he'll get there either.
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So. Well, you know what else he
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probably won't do, but maybe he could one year.
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He could go somewhere with us, like for instance, to a local
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attraction, even more specifically a fair of some
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sort. We have many here in the great
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state of Minnesota, The greatest.
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The greatest of all, of course, being the great Minnesota get
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together. That is a that is an event, but
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I don't think they allow dogs maybe service animals you're.
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Probably right? I don't, I didn't see, I, I
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don't ever recall. They do have a dog day at the
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Renaissance Festival. They do.
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He went to that. He did.
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Don't you remember? He was so happy to see every
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other dog. There.
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Oh yeah, and he spooned with another dog.
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Spooned with another dog. It was so cute.
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Yeah, I do remember that. It was adorable.
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It was. It was.
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We could use most of our titles there.
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Probably. Lord and lady, Count and
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Countess and Duchess. I'm just saying, King and Queen.
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That all fits at our Renaissance Festival.
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Probably does. But that's not that's not the
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fair we're talking about today. We're talking about the
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Minnesota State Fair. Yes.
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Which is the best State Fair in all 50 states?
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I'm gonna say it right now. I'm throwing down the gauntlet.
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Anybody that is listening from Texas?
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Yeah, Texas does not agree. Y'all lose 'cause they might
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outpace us in attendance but they do it in some ridiculous
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amount of time. Like there's three or four weeks
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long and they beat us by like a couple 100,000 people and ours
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is 10 days long. I, I will say it is well known
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the Minnesota State Fair. It's the best for sure.
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I don't, I don't know I haven't been to Texas State fair and I'm
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sorry Texas never will go to the State Fair in Texas.
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I'm in general I that's my feelings about state fairs so
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but I'm sure that that they think theirs is the best too.
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Now what about like a like a smaller one?
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Like a County Fair? City Fair.
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I don't know if I've never been to a city fair.
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In the last city that we lived in, they had like a what was it
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called? Summer days or something?
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Yeah, I guess they do. Is.
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It called Summerfest. I mean, OK, so I only ever went
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there because we had a kid and there's stuff for kids to do,
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but for me personally, I would not have gone.
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Funnel cake. It's really not worth it to me,
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but for our child it is. She likes funnel cake.
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She. Does.
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Yeah. I mean, who doesn't?
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I like funnel cake, but you know, I don't.
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It's not a big enough draw for me to go to what would.
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Be a big enough draw for you. You know, it has been a big
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enough draw for me. No certain concerts.
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Wait. We've seen some pretty great
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people at the Minnesota State Fair and then promptly left.
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And not just concerts, we've done lots of other great things
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there too. You might not think they're as
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great, but I do. Like what?
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Things like, I don't know, the food.
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I mean, that's one of the reasons it's like epically
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famous every year for like, I don't know, at least a month
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leading up to the fair. It's all over the news.
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It's all over the Internet. People are like, tweeting about
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it and put it on social media and talking about, oh, what new
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foods are going to be at the Minnesota State Fair this year?
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And the vendors like, actually compete to get into the list
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because they become like instantly famous.
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Locally. I mean, OK, you could say
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whatever you want, but if you get to put yourself at the top
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ten list of a new food to try for 2 million people in 10 days,
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I feel like that's not nothing. I feel like I actually just saw
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the attendance and it was 1.2. No you didn't.
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I saw the attendance, it was 1.9 something.
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Yep. You could be right.
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Oh I'm right 'cause I was actually interested.
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I was hoping to get the to beat the record from pre COVID.
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And we did not. We did not.
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We did not. We needed like one more day.
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It was like 150 or 250,000 people short.
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And it was the best weather for any fair ever.
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But I was caught. Yeah, 'cause it wasn't like been
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have rain stupid hot. Yeah, it's usually stupid hot
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for like two or three days. You don't still go there and
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just get sweaty. They do.
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Or it's rainy for several days, and I don't know that we had any
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right. We might have, but.
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I think we had a couple of like drizzles, but no one.
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Yeah, nothing to keep people away from the the fair.
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That's true. So after it would have been a
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year, this feels like the perfect year for that.
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I don't know I think that there's there while there is a
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lot of food to try, we actually do know people who will go
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multiple days. I know someone who camps out at
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the fair. Wow like that fair, the
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fairgrounds. I didn't know this until I met
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this person. You can have a camper and stay
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in the camper and essentially get into the fair every single
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day. I.
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Did not know that. I could not do that.
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I know we we both grew up near the State Fair.
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I have disdain for the traffic of the State Fair.
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You didn't. Even grow up that close.
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But you could hear it and it literally stopped traffic for a
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main thorough way for for me growing up as it must have for
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you as well for sure. And I didn't like that.
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Also we could hear all the concerts from the back deck, but
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not good. Like it just was noise and I
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mean even though I grew up a couple miles away not far.
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Did you watch the fireworks? I don't remember doing that.
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I don't really. I remember the sound of the
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fireworks. But honestly, I was a kid who
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went to bed early, so I probably wasn't even awake.
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I didn't. I didn't feel like staying up
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late anyhow, so. So we grew up so close that like
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people would park on or near our street and walk to the fair.
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Yeah, yeah. I, it wasn't like A2 block walk,
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but it was probably like, I don't know, a half a mile or
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something. And because of the amount of
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people, as we said, 2 million people in 10 days, it's
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literally the average attendance is like a couple 100,000 people.
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There's nowhere to park unless you want to pay a bunch of money
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to park like at the fair. Well, people make big money
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allowing people to park in their lawns.
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Oh, they made a new law this year, like the city of Falcon
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Heights made it so that you had to pay to park on city streets
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around the. Yeah, I don't think that was
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right. That just seems like an.
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I know it like took a for sure it's a money grab.
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It took away from the people who already own the property.
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Yeah. Who would like have people come
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park on their grass for 20 bucks and they just. 20 to 40 when we
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drove around one year. I mean like the closer you are,
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which makes sense. You know, you'd have people with
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a sign 40 bucks a car. I mean, that could have probably
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paid for their listen to me. It could have paid for their
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state taxes. Or their mortgage payment.
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Yeah, yeah. I mean in 10 days if you figure
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what if your lawn could fit two or three cars?
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And they'll shuffle them around like that was a big deal.
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I don't remember seeing signs like that when we went.
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Well, we didn't go like we normally would park in that
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area. And one of the reasons we didn't
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was because I read about this new law this year.
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I don't like that. So we actually just paid for
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State Fair parking. Not fair.
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Consequently, it didn't turn out so good because we had to go
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back twice. We could talk about that later,
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but no. I think it's like it's weird
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that they have made it so that you have to pay to park on the
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street. Like it's not like it's a
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downtown area. I don't.
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Know, right? There's nothing else going on.
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They just might. I don't know.
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I don't know it's it was greedy in my opinion.
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People been parking on those streets for however old the fair
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is. Did you do that research?
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I don't. I don't have any.
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Idea. Have any idea I mean?
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I feel like it's at least 40 years old.
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Oh, it's way older than that. It started for sure.
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It's older than that because it started originally.
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It wasn't like the big fair that it is today.
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It was like a lot of it started out with farmers.
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Yeah. And like the the Coliseum, they
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would like auction off like horses and cattle.
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And then the grandstand would have they actually car races
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back in the day. Yeah, the grandstand now has the
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concerts, but like, it used to be car races.
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So it's really old. Like it's, I, I would guess,
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although I have no idea, probably shortly after World War
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2 ended where America started doing all kinds of stuff and,
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you know, booming population and business and.
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Maybe it was like in line with the World Fair.
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Could be. But maybe that's.
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That's the old I think. I don't know.
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I mean, that still happens, I think.
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Did that recently just happen in like Japan or?
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I don't know. I've never been to the world
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fair either. Same.
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Yeah, I don't know. That was the Chicago 1.
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So like, that's as close as we ever.
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Well, and at the world fair, unlike the State Fair, but they
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would have huge inventions and things that they would show to
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people like it. It was There was a reason to
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pull people together and they. We have a reason.
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The great butter sculpture of that.
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So for you who don't know about Minnesota, and this is actually,
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I'm very excited to break all of the news about the Minnesota
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State Fair to people who don't attend.
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But every year there is literally a person who who is
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selected by some process that I don't know to be the official
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sculpture of the fair that year and a sculptor artist carves the
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person out of a monstrously large life sized block of
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butter. Isn't it always a woman or
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something? I don't.
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I don't actually know. I mean, I think I've seen a
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couple of the sculptures, but I don't know enough about it to
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say it's always. I don't think I've ever.
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Seen the Princess of dairy or something is what you're
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thinking. Well, but I can't imagine I'd be
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in Minnesota. We are, I mean.
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Dairy. We're right next to the cheese
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capital of the world. I know.
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Maybe that makes us the butter capital of the world.
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I don't. I don't know if we want that.
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Do we want that title? I don't know.
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Butter is delicious. Lots of things aren't fried
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there. I just put a bunch of it on my
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baked potato tonight. So interesting thing about like
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those the the butter. They would also have like arts
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competitions. Yes, they still do different
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types of like folk arts and things.
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I don't know if there's. Also made of butter.
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No, no, no. Just like no.
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Like there's a quilting contest, I want to say there's like some
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kind of baking contest but I don't know about that for sure.
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But interesting fact is my mom submitted a sewing thing to the
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State Fair and she got some price level for it.
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So what was this? I don't.
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I don't know if I was born. I probably was born, but yeah,
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yeah. So, so sometime in the last 27
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years. Yes, in the last 27 years, my
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mom submitted some embroidery piece that Yeah.
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That's. Pretty cool, yeah.
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And. So was it an embroidery of your
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face? No, how would she?
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You know, that's the thing, She wouldn't be able to do that
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because I do have a couple other sisters and you know.
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Maybe it was a cat. No, I think I know what it.
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Is well, I hope that she'll comment on this when she watches
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the what what the embroidery piece was.
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I'm pretty sure I know what it is, but I'll, I'll let her
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comment at some point. So, yeah, OK, so that's my,
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that's my own, not personal, but close to personal experience of
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State Fair competition. Nobody in my family ever got to
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do a State Fair competition. So is that what?
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It's called a competition. I don't know.
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Not if it's not a competition. I don't know, but yeah, there's,
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there's all those art buildings and as well as the cow.
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They still do have the cows and the horses.
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They still do have the arts buildings, we just don't ever
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walk into them. Yeah.
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Well, like this year when we went there in the Coliseum,
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there was what do they call the a barrel racer.
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Yeah, I don't know. All of my rodeo friends are
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gonna custom. Who did some sort of horse
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competition? Barrel Rider.
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Yeah. Anyway, there was there was a
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lady riding a horse real fast around some barrels and it was
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impressive, not gonna lie. Yeah, yeah.
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I would die if I tried that. Right.
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Well, you also aren't very. Or I'd be able to do it if you
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gave me about 20 minutes. What?
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Once you get around. There I was gonna say get around
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like 1. 20 minutes of trial with the horse.
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OK, got it. We're good.
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No. Then I'd be all right.
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No. Yeah.
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But I watched, I watched one of my cousins who did the some kind
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of horse thing. It was at the State Fairgrounds.
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I don't know if it was during the State Fair or not, but.
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One year also, this is one of the fun things about all the
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livestock and animals that they have.
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One year at the fair when our kid was a little here, I took
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her. You can go into this is one of
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the fun things about the fair. All the different animal barns,
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like they have a poultry 1 and they have a cattle or maybe it's
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called livestock, something like that.
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And they have a equine, which is horse, and you can go in them.
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And I took her in there and she was maybe like 6 or 7.
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So she was still pretty small. And I was, you know, the size of
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me. And we went to where they had
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the huge draft horses and there was a Clydesdale there.
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And it is absolutely amazing how enormous a creature that is.
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Yeah, 'cause like even you see it in a picture and you're like,
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Dang, that's big. Try seeing one in person like 2
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feet from you and you're like how does this even exist?
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It doesn't. Track what?
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Like what did? Oh my goodness, doesn't it?
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Because it doesn't track on the racetrack.
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You are so full of dad jokes today.
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It's amazing. Oh.
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Wow. Now I don't even know what I was
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talking about. Just the comedy took it right
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from me. You know, there's they're
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talking about there being a lot of animals.
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So that's that seems like. Oh yeah.
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Even though it's a part of the original portion of the State
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Fair, for me it feels like a small portion based on what is
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now the State Fair. Sure.
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However, the whole point is it's supposed to be, I don't know,
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the great get together. So we have lots of people
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outside of farming that live in Minnesota.
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So I guess maybe to represent the whole state, but there's
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just a lot of food and. There's so much food.
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And like you said, it is it is kind of well known.
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I've even heard people talk about it on like the large
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cooking shows. Oh, really?
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Like on real TV? Yeah.
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They're like, Oh yeah, on real TV.
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Wow. Yeah.
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They'll talk about, you know, something being through the
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State Fair and one of the master chef shows that I watched,
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someone, one of the three chefs said that he wanted to come to
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Minnesota State Fair and he might have.
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I don't. Know which?
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Chef Joe. OK, from Master Chef with Gordon
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Ramsay. Yeah, yeah, he is not the nicest
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person. Oh, I.
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Think he's great, I like him. He definitely lets people know
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when he's not pleased about their food.
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You know, if that's your job, if your job is to, I suppose, food,
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you know. I think he should come.
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Yeah, I don't know. I know that this.
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Is an invite from. Our local celebrity chef, Chef
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Andrew Zimmern. He's huge.
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He's a big deal. He's a huge deal.
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Actually lives very close to my mother.
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He did. I don't know if.
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Maybe he moved. He used to live like 2 blocks
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from my mom. Yeah, he did.
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We'd drive fast and he'd be out walking his dog and Amber would
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be like, it's Chef Zimmer, and then she'd roll down the window
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be like. Hi Chef Zimmer I I would and we
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was just on our local local morning newscast doing some and
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I would shout hi Chef Andrew cuz.
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That's what. He went by Chef Andrew and I
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think I embarrassed him. I didn't embarrass me.
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I might have embarrassed you. You.
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Embarrassed me, but I probably didn't care that much.
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Yeah, I just thought it was so great cuz he was a celebrity and
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now like he's huge. Well, huge.
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If you come from the land of 10,000 lakes and butter
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sculptures and the greatest State Fair in all the country, I
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feel like there's a good chance that you can, you know, get
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famous. Yeah, it worked for him and he
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was willing to eat all sorts of things or whatever.
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He. I don't know.
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Some of the things we ate this year, like we had the the new
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couple new things that were there, they had there was like
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was it Flauta's dippers, I think it was called.
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Those were delicious from El Burrito in West Saint Paul.
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Yeah, yeah. So future potential sponsor we
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love. Mexican This sauce was so good
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and it. Was so good.
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Their green tomatillo sauce was like who?
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I could have drank it. Yeah, I I would for sure
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recommend anyone who is. So good.
22:48
In the area and looking for some.
22:50
I guarantee you'll be on the menu.
22:52
After those six, they don't need us to recommend them, though
22:55
they're. They.
22:56
Are institute. But talk about like a win for a
23:00
business like some of these places.
23:02
And this is like from my memory, maybe like 10 years ago, there
23:06
was like a, there was like a financial tracker of who made
23:09
how much money at the fair and the numbers were bonkers.
23:12
So I mean like pre COVID, probably 10 years ago, the corn
23:16
stand, which is one of the things we always get when we go.
23:19
And we got. We got this year.
23:21
It's delicious. All they do is cook corn around
23:26
like wood smoke, wood fire and they serve literally nothing
23:31
else. So you can either get corn, corn
23:33
with butter, corn with butter and salt.
23:36
Oh no, you salt it yourself. Yeah, you salt it and that's it.
23:38
That's all they do. They like 10 years ago.
23:40
I think we're making something like $2,000,000 is.
23:44
It like 5 bucks part your corn or something.
23:46
It is now, I think it was like 3 then, but so $2,000,000 in 10
23:50
days and then that was like the number three position of high
23:53
earners. There is the well loved cookies
23:58
from Sweet Martha's. Amber just gave a roll eyes
24:01
because, well. I think they're trash.
24:03
Well, I know that it's one of the most unpopular opinion for
24:08
anyone, but they are super, super awful.
24:13
And then I don't know what the first one is.
24:15
The first one, mini Donuts or corn dogs or cheese curds.
24:19
I actually don't know. Oh, it's got to be cheese curds.
24:21
It's got to be yeah, but I don't know the numbers.
24:25
I think. I think Sweet Martha's was
24:27
something like $5,000,000 in 10 days.
24:30
Yeah, I think they are the top earner, but you also tried
24:34
something which I thought was, oh, I didn't like it at all.
24:37
Lemon, strawberry basil lemonade, something like that.
24:42
Oh yeah, yeah, it was it. Tasted kind of like.
24:45
Strawberry. That's right, pizza to me.
24:46
Cold pizza. Yeah, it was not good.
24:49
That is very the basil was too. Strong tastes like that.
24:51
I also had. I was I was also carrying cold
24:55
brew coffee that was Maple Maple syrup, something from the same
24:59
stand. It was a farmer stand and I
25:02
thought they were both delicious.
25:04
I like lemon and basil together. That checks out.
25:08
I like strawberry and lemon. Together, but not strawberry and
25:12
Basil. I didn't think I disliked it,
25:15
but the whole thing combined just really was like, no, I
25:18
never want to have that again. We did have cheese fruits, Yeah,
25:23
because you have to have cheese curds if you're going and you.
25:25
Have to go to the right spot. The mouth trap.
25:28
The Mousetrap. Which we didn't know was not
25:30
called the mousetrap. We have it's mouth.
25:33
MOUTH. Pretty clever.
25:35
I like. That it is smart.
25:37
When I realized that was the name, I was like, yeah, you did.
25:40
Yep. Yeah, you did.
25:42
Yep, and they start. That's another one.
25:44
They don't deviate like the big ones that are staples.
25:47
They just make the one thing like corn is corn on the cob,
25:51
cheese curds is. Do you want large or small?
25:52
They don't have different flavors.
25:54
Sweet Martha's just makes chocolate chip cookies, no
25:57
other. It's always the same.
25:58
I think that works for a lot of them, though.
26:00
To have just like this is the one thing we do.
26:03
Unless you're already a restaurant, Right?
26:05
Like I'm gonna say I've never heard of a Sweet Martha bakery
26:10
outside there. Now, you can buy those cookies
26:12
at some grocery store. So if anyone's in Minnesota, not
26:15
during State Fair time, yeah, they sell them frozen.
26:19
You can bake them yourself. You could do that.
26:22
You could, but I mean chocolate chip cookies aren't that
26:25
complicated. No, they're not but you.
26:28
Make the world's best chocolate chip cookies.
26:31
I'm not kidding. And no hate or shade to anyone
26:34
out there that makes chocolate chip cookies that thinks they're
26:36
the best, you're wrong. Amber's are literally the best.
26:40
And I am a cookie connoisseur. You are.
26:43
I have had all the cookies everywhere and they're the best.
26:46
Thank you. Thank you.
26:48
By far, Yeah, I mean, but it would be a problem if we had
26:51
them all the time. As a matter of fact, sometimes
26:53
when you make them, I eat them so fast you can't even believe
26:55
your eyes. That wasn't my cookies, but you
26:58
do eat cookies so fast that it is.
27:01
It is unbelievable that you can eat stuff that fast.
27:04
And that's part of the the thing with the State Fair for most
27:09
people. I don't know anyone who isn't
27:11
going there to eat stuff. Yes, and for me what I I always
27:20
like the the amount of food and the grease in the air is super
27:24
difficult for me and the. Grease in the air.
27:27
It's. In the air you find it's just
27:31
it's it's overwhelming and gross and the corn is the refreshing
27:36
thing. There it is.
27:38
So that's where one of those times you eat something, you're
27:41
like, Oh, my stomach actually isn't mad at me.
27:44
But the thing I felt the fair that I mean, there's many things
27:46
about the fair I don't like, but the overall thing about the fair
27:50
is that I feel worse leaving than I did going in.
27:56
And I feel like that's, you know, like I felt good going in
28:01
and I left feeling terrible. Is that because your stomach was
28:05
upset with you? I'm.
28:06
Just saying in general, my overall mood, everything stomach
28:10
exhaustion. I mean, you're not known to be a
28:13
very extra extrovert. Yeah, it's too many.
28:16
There's a lot of people. As we said, there's a.
28:18
Lot of people and they're all right there, which just makes
28:22
sense. That's where they wanna be.
28:25
But I don't wanna be there. I love it.
28:28
I love the demo. I get excited when that many
28:30
people are doing something together.
28:32
I'm not even kidding. I'm like, I love the socialness
28:36
of it. Like when I go to a concert or a
28:39
comedy event or like anything that draws wide swaths of people
28:46
and demographics into a single place for semi singular
28:52
enjoyment, I'm like, look at what we can do together.
28:55
I'm not even kidding. That's the altruisticness that I
28:58
feel sometimes. Like I'm like, well, look at us.
29:01
We're all just here to eat food and go on some rides and look at
29:05
some animals and have a good time.
29:08
And I think it's wonderful. Well, I think food being a great
29:14
sense of creating a great sense of community is important.
29:17
Yes. I don't get warm and fuzzies
29:20
about the food at the State Fair and all the people getting
29:23
together at for the food at the State Fair.
29:25
Deep fried everything. Oh.
29:27
Yeah, I mean like we. Have literally, I think in our
29:29
fair deep fried all the stuff like the stuff they do.
29:32
I'm like, why? Like deep fried Pickles?
29:34
And I'm sorry for all you deep fried Pickles lover.
29:36
I like a pickle. I like a pickle.
29:38
I like a pickle chip. I don't want a deep fried.
29:41
I feel like though it's the only relief is the fact that there is
29:45
a pickle inside. There's sure there's a vegetable
29:49
in there somewhere. Right, right.
29:50
And some vinegar, some of the the acidity offset.
29:53
When we decided to deep fry candy bars, we're like, Oh yeah,
29:57
you think a Snickers bar is bad for you?
29:59
How about we deep fry that Snickers?
30:01
Bar the popular thing one year for actually a while is the deep
30:04
fried Twinkies and I, I never had those.
30:07
I never had a deep fried candy bar.
30:09
But you know what I was excited about one year?
30:11
What they had on a stick. What?
30:15
Deep fried cookie dough. On a stick.
30:19
On a stick, That's the other little.
30:20
Everything's on a stick. Thing we got at the fairs,
30:23
everything's on a stick. Now ask me about deep fried
30:28
cookie dough. Will you please tell me about
30:30
deep fried cookie dough? Well, I like cookie dough.
30:35
Yeah, we know this in this House.
30:36
Cookie dough is one of my favorite favorite guilty
30:40
pleasures. I enjoy that it leads to
30:41
cookies. Yeah, you know what happens when
30:44
you fry it? What?
30:45
It almost becomes a cookie. Oh, that makes sense.
30:48
Yeah. I don't know why I didn't jump
30:49
to that conclusion. Reason I didn't come to that
30:52
conclusion. I was thinking what I was
30:53
thinking, which was it's gonna be cookie dough with like a
30:56
fried shell, Yeah. I was so angry I think I stung.
31:01
Bite and cook it out garbage. It's hilarious.
31:04
Yeah, yeah. Don't they do?
31:06
Don't they do deep fried ice cream?
31:09
Not like like Mexican fried ice cream, but I don't do like a.
31:12
It's probably like a state. Fair version of fried ice cream
31:15
on a stick or something. Yeah, I mean, if you're frying
31:18
anything at a high temperature, but I've learned well, although
31:20
somehow that Mexican fried ice cream doesn't.
31:23
I don't know how they do that. I don't know but when you throw
31:26
I would assume it would probably melt and just be like a liquid
31:30
bomb or something. But I won't ever have it because
31:33
dairy is is a no go for me for the most part.
31:37
So I'll never try deep fried ice cream if that's the thing.
31:40
It's not worth it. I always have deep fried French
31:43
fries, which weirdly enough you can get everywhere all the time.
31:46
I know, but they're they are but.
31:47
The fries at the the fresh French fries stand at the State
31:51
Fair is also a tradition and probably one of the high earners
31:57
because that's all they do. They just make French fries and
31:59
they pump them out. And I think there's there's two
32:02
or there are three locations. There's 2 for sure.
32:04
Yeah. I don't know.
32:06
I don't know. I like French.
32:07
Fries and of course the mini Donuts.
32:09
Oh, you gotta have mini thumb. And then there's a whole debate
32:11
about all of these things. If there's a competitor like
32:14
which one's better? There's Tiny Tim's mini Donuts,
32:17
and then there's Tom Thumbs Mini.
32:19
There's. Tiny Tim.
32:20
'S right And there's people who are like Tiny Tim's is the one.
32:22
No, it's Tom Thumb. I agree Tom Thumb is where it's
32:25
at, but I've had both and I couldn't tell you because I
32:29
didn't have both this year. I couldn't tell you what the
32:31
difference is. I bet if you did one of them
32:33
blind taste test nobody would know the difference.
32:36
I doubt it, because there. Are people who would fight over
32:38
this the. Ones we had were super skinny,
32:42
yeah, and I feel like I've seen them and had them where they
32:46
were fat, so maybe that's the difference.
32:48
Do you like a skinny mini doughnut or fat 1?
32:53
OK we did have a whole episode on Donuts.
32:56
We did. So we don't we like Donuts.
32:58
We do. We do.
33:00
But yeah, I don't know. That was the one we got and I
33:02
thought it was good. And the other relief, before we
33:05
even got into the fair, I was super hungry, which is you
33:08
shouldn't do. But also, I don't know, maybe
33:10
you should. I.
33:11
Sure, should go there hungry. Yeah, because, well, maybe if if
33:14
your plan is to eat, maybe. That was my plan.
33:17
But the problem is, like I said, I always feel awful after eating
33:21
all of the food that you shouldn't really be maybe 1.
33:25
Well, but that's just due to your stomach's weak
33:27
constituency. No, I think this is, I feel like
33:30
maybe there's some good, I don't know, warning signs or whatever
33:34
it is, like your body should stop.
33:37
Yeah, it's like grab this much. So beforehand I was like, right,
33:40
we'll get kettle corn because that feels it's a healthier
33:44
solution. It's probably not, but it was
33:46
definitely healthier than everything deep.
33:48
Fried, you recently discovered that you like to get.
33:51
Food. How many years did it take?
33:53
I never 27 years. 27 years, yeah.
33:59
It's delicious stuff. It is.
34:01
I was there to eat and I ate all the things.
34:05
Yeah, so many. I just kept eating.
34:07
And our child was like, how is he still eating?
34:10
Yeah, yeah, she felt sick. For you?
34:14
Well, that's unfortunate. I didn't feel sick for myself.
34:18
Yeah, I felt very full when we left.
34:20
I'm sure it was uncomfortable. I had so many.
34:24
I think I had like 3 different coffee drinks and the lemonade
34:29
and all the things we've said. I don't know.
34:31
I think I had most of the no. It's a lot of food.
34:35
It's a lot. And the corn, all of that too.
34:36
I don't think you've had anything.
34:38
Oh, we had some deep fried. What was that stuff?
34:44
I deep fried tofu I like. Tofu.
34:46
But I don't like deep fried. Tofu.
34:48
They also said it was tofuego. It's no offense if any of you
34:51
watched this that liked it or made it, but Fuego, if you're
34:55
going to use that word. I think spicy.
34:57
You need to have some spice and really it was like sweet and
34:59
sour sauce. Yeah, there was no fire.
35:02
There was supposed to be. Maybe we misunderstood it,
35:05
Maybe. But it was maybe.
35:07
Maybe Fuego as in fire like it's hot.
35:09
Like it's not cold tofu. Oh, maybe or or like that's
35:15
fire. Not like that spicy.
35:18
I see. Yeah, I don't know.
35:20
It was to me not good. But yeah, we had lots of food.
35:25
And the the reality is, so hearing all of these, what did
35:29
we say? Like 15 items or something
35:31
boners. This was in three hours.
35:35
Yeah. So again, I don't think, I think
35:39
the evolution of my body saying that that's wrong is is right
35:44
because you also had some ice cream thing too.
35:46
I did. Oh, that's right.
35:48
That was one of the new things this year.
35:50
Yeah. I didn't like that at all.
35:51
It was called sour apple sucker ice cream or something.
35:56
Also, again not fair 'cause I can't do dairy but I was it was
36:00
immediately some things that no not worth.
36:03
It I liked it a lot. It had caramel in it.
36:04
It was delicious. I like caramel.
36:06
Caramel's good, but well. So long as you don't say
36:10
caramel. OK, now they're debates for.
36:17
We could debate that, probably. We could add it.
36:20
I don't know why it's not on our list.
36:25
Yeah, I don't know. I mean, I'm.
36:26
I'm glad you got to go. I'm a little bummed we didn't do
36:30
any rides. I understand though, because you
36:33
know, everyone had too much food and the.
36:36
Rides. Sick The rides at the fair are
36:39
are like I feel like they're more intense even if they're not
36:44
as big as they would be at like our bigger fair valley fair
36:48
which has like big roller coasters for you out of Staters
36:51
like Six Flags would be a similar comparison.
36:55
Those rides are super fun but they also last longer so they
36:59
don't have to be as quickly dramatic as like a fair ride
37:02
does. Cuz these fair rides are like, I
37:06
mean within 30 seconds you're like drunk like what happened to
37:10
me. You break.
37:11
It's all struck around. And also, I don't trust those
37:13
things. They're getting put up and taken
37:15
down. There was one like some County
37:17
Fair where one of the the, I think it's called the zipper,
37:20
which I used to love. Like someone either got severely
37:24
injured or died like in some other state years ago.
37:28
This is probably 10 years ago. I had a panic attack on the
37:30
zipper ride. I know it was awful.
37:33
I'm never and I've never. Wanted to do it almost puked
37:36
from going on the zipper cuz it was like you know how like when
37:39
you go to I mean I think probably most, well maybe not
37:43
maybe I'm crazy. So I feel like this is a most
37:46
people, but it could be a just me situation.
37:47
Like, if you go on enough rides that, like, do crazy things to
37:51
your equilibrium and spin you in circles and flip you around, if
37:54
you go on enough rides in succession, your body is like,
37:59
hey, bro, yeah, you should stop because we're going to fall
38:03
apart soon. That's what happened to me.
38:04
And that's actually probably one of the last times I went on a
38:06
bunch of rides in a row because I felt like I was very close to
38:10
vomiting. Well, and there's something at
38:13
the back of your head now there's any scientist listening
38:17
could probably explain this. Oh.
38:19
I have some cousins that are sciency.
38:21
Yeah, maybe they know this, but as you get older, there's like a
38:25
ball at the back of your head. Like a bone.
38:28
I think it's a bone but it gets harder and that thing makes it.
38:32
This is what I've heard. Wow, watch just be completely
38:34
wrong. I hope it's like a diamond
38:36
legend. But, and I'm just spreading the
38:41
misinformation for sure, but one of the reasons why rides are
38:44
harder as you get older is because the thing gets harder.
38:49
I know you're more liquid. Now I want to know, and I hope
38:52
that someone listening says here's what it is.
38:55
Either that's totally made-up or here's the truth about it.
38:58
Yeah. Yeah, I feel like whoever told
39:00
me I felt like must have had a strong enough bit of influence
39:04
over me that I thought they were right.
39:07
Because I, I do recall that. And I was like, that makes some
39:09
sense because I used to love rice as a kid.
39:11
And now as an adult, I'm like, no, the whipping around is no
39:15
longer enjoyable. I do hear that from most people
39:18
that as they get older, like I can't do that anymore, yeah.
39:22
Yeah, it's sad. It makes me want to go ride a
39:24
bunch of rides and see how long I can last.
39:28
It does like maybe we should do that later this year we'll go to
39:31
Valley Fair. Look, I'm dead.
39:34
Well, Valley Scare. Valley Scare is fun.
39:37
You like that Halloween themed stuff that is.
39:40
Very niche for the Minnesota market.
39:41
But it's true, I bet you we can have some Halloween themed
39:46
episode coming up soon as the fall season.
39:50
Gets upon us. I think I have probably a month
39:52
of Spooky A. Whole month.
39:55
Yeah. I think our house decorations.
39:57
I don't. Well, hey, we'll let them.
39:59
That's a month away. That's true.
40:01
We'll figure it out. I don't know what's.
40:03
That promise? What's not spooky?
40:06
Agree. Minnesota get together, I just
40:09
love it. I just hate it.
40:10
Oh oh, if I never have to go again, it would be perfect.
40:16
So, Amber, let me ask you a question.
40:22
Curveballs on episode 10. And now the moment you've all
40:27
been waiting for in this corner, we have Luke sporting his red
40:31
beard. And for those who are watching,
40:33
he's done a little different shaping, which I think is very
40:37
nice. And he has come today with three
40:42
wins and four losses. We have a tie and our last
40:48
episode's still out there. But Luke, you're going to need
40:51
all of the fighting today in you because I don't know what your
40:56
question is going to be. No, you don't.
41:00
Anything about the State Fair. I'm so over it.
41:04
So there you go. Well, in this corner we have
41:09
Amber claiming to weigh in at 135 lbs, who has somehow, yet
41:14
again today, brought all of that beauty and hotness that just
41:19
knocks me out all the time. And I think you're going to need
41:23
that even to win over some of the listeners in this one
41:26
because the State Fair is a big deal.
41:28
So here's the question, should you go back to the great
41:33
Minnesota get together? No, no, no, I should not go back
41:39
to the great Minnesota get together.
41:42
And I'll see you try to convince our audience.
41:44
I'll tell you why. So walk in the door or gate,
41:50
it's like 60 bucks for three people.
41:53
That's $20 per person. That's a lot of money to just
41:56
walk in. What do you get for free?
41:58
I don't remember getting anything for free in the State
42:01
Fair, so I'm spending money to walk in and spend a ton more
42:07
money. I said a year of corn, $5.
42:11
I think that is probably the most economical item out there,
42:15
but I could be wrong. Oh no, they have milk for what,
42:18
$3? Is it $3?
42:21
What it? Yeah.
42:21
And it was refillable milk for last week and $30.
42:24
Yes, it was. Yes.
42:26
It was. Now, I do know that the price of
42:28
food has gone up, but it's always been high-priced.
42:31
I got a grandpa line for you when I was a little boy.
42:35
The milk was 1/4. And it probably was, I think
42:40
when we brought our child there the first time, it was a dollar.
42:43
But now, yeah, $3. And I'm not surprised because
42:47
like the price of milk, like everything, whatever, whatever
42:50
you're thinking, I think we all can agree that the price of food
42:53
has gone up. However, it is so astronomically
42:58
high, I don't even want to look at our account to see how much
43:03
we spent between the seven places.
43:06
I bet we spent $200 on three hours worth of food.
43:10
So we spent $60 to get in to spend $200 on food, which made
43:17
me feel sick, made our child feel sick, made you OK.
43:23
But it was just crowded and the oh loud and people and a bunch
43:30
of stuff I didn't want to do anyhow.
43:33
And that makes me not want to go back because I know that that's
43:37
always going to be the scenario I have.
43:39
Seriously, like I said before, never felt better leaving than I
43:44
did when I got there. And there's so many things in
43:47
life that I could spend $20 on and feel better after I leave,
43:51
so even if it were free, I still don't know that I would.
43:55
I know I wouldn't want to. I feel like I could easily get a
43:58
free ticket one way or another. And I still don't want to go
44:01
because it's still going to be crowded, still going to be
44:03
expensive. I'm still going to be waiting in
44:05
line. I'm still going to be sick to my
44:07
stomach. I'm still definitely not going
44:09
to want to ride any rides. I don't want to go in the animal
44:12
buildings because while I love animals, they smell terrible.
44:15
And terrible smell on a full stomach is not a good.
44:19
A full sick feeling stomach is not awesome.
44:23
Let's see the stuff that they also sell there for a lot of
44:26
those vendors. I, I, I really personally can't
44:30
afford a hot tub, but I know that that's one of the, you
44:32
know, that's a common stand there every year.
44:35
Hot tub. Great if you can.
44:36
And if that's where you're going to look for it, I feel like that
44:39
probably wouldn't be the draw. Let's go to the State Fair to
44:42
buy a hot tub. But works for somebody or
44:44
windows or all sorts of things. And there's a lot of things I
44:49
just like, you just see people and they do things that you
44:54
don't like. There's stands that maybe don't,
44:57
you know, you're like, cool, I would totally be fine.
44:59
Everybody's entitled to their own opinion, but there's a lot
45:02
of political stuff there. And if it's something you agree
45:05
with, you're like, woohoo. If it's something you don't,
45:07
you're like, all of you people are awful, you know, So like
45:10
there's so much generalization, at least for me, because I am a
45:13
judgy person and I just, it's, it's I'm, it's too much for me,
45:20
someone like me who just judges and hates crowds and really
45:26
like, I prefer, I don't always eat well.
45:30
OK, so I'll take that. Like I, I know I eat pretty
45:33
horribly, but I really try to avoid eating in a way that hurts
45:41
my stomach all the time. It's just not fun.
45:45
So really, I can't think of a fun thing at the fair except for
45:51
that you enjoy going. But I feel like I don't need to
45:55
be there for that because we just spent more money because
46:00
getting someone who's just going to be cranky.
46:02
And by the way, the last time we went to the fair, just the other
46:06
day, you said something about the parking lot.
46:08
And I am going to say I the whole time we were there, I was
46:12
in AI was I think I was being a good.
46:17
I don't know what the word is. I'm looking for companion.
46:20
I don't think it was raining on your parade.
46:21
I was trying to keep all the rain on the inside.
46:23
He's going to probably disagree. With that I was trying to keep
46:26
it. All and just be like happy.
46:28
Forever keep the rain on the inside.
46:30
Keep the rain on the inside. And you know, I don't know, I
46:34
was trying to be cooperative and all that stuff, but one of the
46:38
things, and you said we were going to talk about a little bit
46:39
later and we did it, but I dropped my wallet at the very
46:44
end. And the second I realized, I
46:49
said to myself, self, you know, if you're ever reunited with
46:54
your wallet, it will be empty of cash, of course.
46:58
And that just seemed factual to me.
47:00
But I was really hoping that I'd be able to find it and at least
47:05
have my card and my ID 'cause I bring very little.
47:08
Again, knowing that things easily fall.
47:11
And so we had to go back in. So we had already paid the park.
47:14
Then we had to go back through the crowded like.
47:17
We didn't pay again. No, we didn't have to pay again.
47:20
There was a very nice, I don't know what her job was, but there
47:24
was a very nice woman who let us go back to the parking lot and
47:28
we told her, hey, I lost my wallet.
47:31
It might be in the parking lot. And she looked at us.
47:33
She's like, I'm not gonna spoil your day, but you're not finding
47:36
your luck. Good luck.
47:38
We were out there with flashlights.
47:40
Thank you. I will say thank you.
47:42
I didn't did not ask Luke to come out with me.
47:45
I didn't expect that he would. And he's like, of course I'm
47:48
going. And that was, that was.
47:50
Nice and. Well, I was we.
47:53
Were like maybe I should go back and I'm like let's go.
47:57
Yeah, Well, yeah. But Long story short about all
48:01
of that, I did say thank you, didn't I?
48:03
OK, Long story short about all of that, I I called the State
48:08
Fair, lost and found, you know, that night.
48:10
And they're like, Nope, nothing showed up.
48:13
And I thought I don't want to go back in the morning, but
48:16
cancelled my credit card. I called the next morning,
48:19
'cause this we went on the last day, called the next morning and
48:22
they said, well, no, nothing's turned up.
48:24
And so then I'm like, oh great, you know, whatever, get ready to
48:27
go do the things you need to do once you've lost your wallet, IE
48:30
get a new ID, get your a new credit card, all of that check
48:34
card. Check card.
48:35
Yeah, you're ready. Yeah, whatever.
48:37
They don't care, but I don't think they do.
48:41
But then as I was going to leave, I get a phone call and
48:45
they say we found your wallet. It doesn't have everything you
48:49
were expecting in it. But you know what, honestly, I
48:52
am so grateful because even though I didn't have the cash in
48:56
there, which is kind of, I mean, what I didn't expect it to be in
48:59
there. I mean, we were looking in trash
49:00
bins. We really did.
49:01
We thought someone would take the money and just dump it, and
49:05
I think that's probably what happened.
49:07
But for me, like getting a new ID, just like thinking about how
49:10
awful that would be. But also the wallet, well, it
49:13
wasn't the most expensive thing in the world for me.
49:18
I really liked my wallet. I got it in Mexico and it was
49:22
very bright. It was yes, that.
49:25
The shipping was expensive. Yeah, I sell very cheap, but
49:29
also to me very one-of-a-kind and convenient.
49:32
So I was most excited about getting that or my ID, I don't
49:35
know which. So that was kind of the final
49:37
damper, but I didn't think it was awful going back and walking
49:43
around when there weren't people around.
49:45
So I don't know. So an empty fair is a good fair.
49:48
An empty fair is a happy fair for me.
49:52
So for you I. Don't want to relive in that
49:53
experience the. Answer should you go back is no,
49:56
no. OK, Well for me the answer is
50:00
obvious at this point it's yes. And I guess I'll just counter
50:05
because I can't remember all the things you said.
50:06
You said many things but you actually do like going to the
50:11
mouth trap and getting that fine bucket O cheese curds, which is
50:15
probably the one thing that messes up your stomach because
50:19
of all the cheese and the fries and the fry.
50:23
But as a person who is lactose intolerant, I imagine cheese
50:27
while it is not the same level of problem for you as like milk,
50:31
it's still dairy. So, you know, that might have
50:34
something to do with it. I mean, and I've already
50:37
illustrated many of the reasons to go to the fair.
50:41
I missed out on a lot because our State Fair is so big and so
50:45
full of content. There's like a lot of local like
50:49
organizations and out state organizations that you can learn
50:53
more about there. There's like little booths where
50:55
you can interact with like people from the Farmers Union
50:59
and well, I mean, seriously, people do this.
51:03
That's one of the reasons it's popular.
51:05
I You can buy not just hot tubs, but you can buy tractors at the
51:09
state. Paris Neither are you.
51:12
But people do go there for that. And you don't.
51:15
We're not have farmers. There's lots of like, like fun
51:19
other stuff. One of the things that our
51:21
daughter and I did together was go to the haunted house.
51:24
That's a staple at the Minnesota State Fair.
51:26
It's been there forever. And it's like, you know, any
51:29
haunted house, it's, it's dark and it's got spooky music and
51:32
there's people that jump out of corners they're not supposed to
51:35
be in. And there's like, you know,
51:37
creepy things and gory things. And it was fun to go through
51:41
that with her. We have a friend who's worked at
51:44
every year for, I want to say 20 years.
51:46
OK, that's pretty cool. Shout out to you.
51:49
If you listen, you know who you are.
51:51
I will say there's every day for large portions of the day, there
51:56
is music at many of the different like they have, I want
52:02
to say it's like 8 different music venues, the grandstands,
52:06
the big one where like the, you know, the big name people go.
52:09
But there's also like, I think I think there is maybe like 5 or 6
52:13
or seven other little like kind of a little bandstand where they
52:18
have regional and smaller acts come and play and those are
52:23
free. And the well, the the the babies
52:31
where they do the whole where they have like the the cow
52:34
babies. Miracle of birth.
52:35
Miracle of birth center and like sheep babies and pig babies and
52:39
all these little farm animals they have like in a exhibit
52:45
where they have either given birth live, which is gross but
52:50
cool, or you get to see them, you know, like a day or two
52:55
later. And then these little cute
52:56
little creatures that's free also to go into and educational.
53:01
I've known people who've worked at that building, veterinarians.
53:05
And there's the Coliseum where you can go watch different types
53:09
of competitions like horse and I bet you they have like full
53:13
blown rodeos where people are getting chased by bulls and
53:16
stuff. So there's lots of stuff you
53:19
could do for free there. And then like you said, I think
53:24
one of the reasons that people go is to spend time with each
53:27
other. And it's something that only
53:29
lasts for 10 days. So, you know, it's not like you
53:33
know, you could do it whenever you want and it and it is a big
53:37
deal. It's a place where you can try
53:39
stuff that isn't stuff you can try a lot of times the rest of
53:42
the year with the weird foods. But it's one of the kitschy
53:46
little fun things to do at the fair.
53:48
And there's a lot of stuff for like smaller kids and bigger
53:54
kids and adults as far as like rides and entertainment go.
53:58
They have so that where the main rides are, we call it the midway
54:03
because I don't know why it's called that, but that's what
54:05
it's called. They also have kid way there
54:08
which has like real small versions of the same rides in
54:12
some cases where like the little you know, the little I don't
54:17
know how big little 2 foot 3 foot humans can go have a little
54:21
fun time. Did you see those rides?
54:24
They're actually. Pretty big.
54:26
Well, that's not kid way. No kid way.
54:28
There's an in between 1:00, there's like an even smaller one
54:31
anyway, So for all sizes, there's like fun stuff to do,
54:35
kid. The little kids are free.
54:38
You have to buy tickets obviously for any of the big
54:40
stuff. But so I mean, that's just some
54:43
of the stuff like off the top of my head.
54:44
They also have like history exhibits there of like Minnesota
54:48
in general and they have history of the State Fair.
54:52
I've heard people talk about that.
54:54
And I also have, like you said, I mean like there's so much to
54:57
do. It's a really big space.
54:59
It's gotta be. I don't think it's a square
55:02
mile, but it's probably like a square half a mile maybe.
55:04
I have no idea. It's a pretty big area and so
55:08
there's a lot of walking, which is technically good for you, but
55:12
yeah, but you're probably eating, eating the food to
55:16
overtake the good walking habits.
55:18
Yeah, like I. Am for sure.
55:21
Yeah, I don't think that you get to walk off the calories, no, at
55:25
the fair. It's, I mean, anyway, so there's
55:28
a reason that it's the biggest daily attendance fair in the
55:34
country. There's a reason that it's
55:36
called the Great Minnesota Get Together.
55:39
There is a reason that people just go back year after year
55:43
after year. It's because there's a lot to do
55:46
and it's a lot of fun. And sure, it's expensive, but
55:51
anything today, if you're going to spend a day with your family
55:54
doing something at an event, it's going to cost you some
55:56
money. It might not cost you that much,
55:58
but if you figure in like let's say it was, you're going to go
56:02
have a meal out and go to some attraction.
56:06
If you added the expense of those, it's probably less than
56:09
the State Fair, but it's also nowhere near the breadth of an
56:14
experience. Like you're not going to go to
56:16
like like a, like a, like a petting zoo and a restaurant,
56:20
which is going to cost you. Who knows?
56:22
It's going to cost you a hundred $150.00 or something.
56:25
But you can't also go see live animals, live shows, live music.
56:31
I hope the animals are live at a petting zoo.
56:34
No, no, the I'm sorry, live birth.
56:36
I'm sorry, like so and like all the other stuff and the rides
56:41
and like you can't you can't do all that stuff there.
56:45
And that's one of the reasons the State Fair is so popular as
56:48
you can do everything at the fair your face right now.
56:53
I went to a dark place. You sent me to a dark place of.
56:55
Course you did. Yeah.
56:56
Yeah. Thankfully, you've withheld the
56:59
joke that might be lying in there somewhere.
57:01
In any event, I think that most of our Minnesota viewers
57:06
probably will agree that you should go back to the fair
57:09
because it changes a little bit every year.
57:12
But there's also tradition. And our family has gone there
57:16
not every year because you don't love it, but many years we've
57:20
gone there. Even though you and I grew up,
57:22
you know, blocks or short distances away from there and
57:25
went a lot as kids, It's still. I didn't call a.
57:29
Lot Oh, I went a lot. It's probably because I was so
57:31
close anyway, so it's a great experience.
57:35
There's there's nothing like it that I know of like anywhere all
57:41
year. And if you went to all those
57:43
places you talked about expense, if you went to like a
57:47
veterinarian place where they deal with livestock and you went
57:50
to a live concert and you went to a petting zoo and you went
57:54
out for a meal or two and you went to a place that had rides,
57:58
you would spend well over what you would spend in a day at the
58:01
fair. That is for sure accurate.
58:05
And most importantly, and the reason I like to go back, aside
58:09
from the the food stuff, I wouldn't go on my own, is
58:12
because I like spending time with you and our child where we
58:16
could do something special and different together as a family.
58:20
So I think that's the argument for me really.
58:27
I really have like 75,000,000 more things that I want.
58:31
Let's keep it to 1. The other thing I.
58:40
Wow, you're really struggling over there.
58:41
No I mean it's cuz there's so many things I just I just
58:44
dislike the fair. Oh, they know.
58:47
And and like, just because it's called the Great Minnesota gets.
58:52
The Great Minnesota get together.
58:54
But like, things that are great aren't always good.
58:58
Sure. So I mean, like, you hear it as
59:03
great. It's fun.
59:04
I hear it as great. Like Great Depression, you know.
59:07
Oh. My goodness.
59:08
Huge. There's a lot for any of.
59:10
Our viewers out there that are in the 100 plus year old
59:14
demographic, I'm sorry to have offended you.
59:18
That you lived. Through this.
59:20
No, I'm just saying I see it as great as just as large.
59:23
Not that it's good, but I know people love it and I'm happy for
59:27
those who love it. And I think people who love it
59:29
should go, yeah, I think people who don't love it shouldn't
59:35
because I feel like we take away from your experience.
59:38
You don't, you add to it. Is that your last little little
59:43
jab you had to throw in I? Don't want to go again.
59:45
Ever again, ever again. Ever again.
59:47
Ever again, ever again. Yes, that.
59:50
Now it is. Thank you.
59:51
Wait. I really don't want to go back.
59:54
I imagine there's things that I do in the interests of you want
1:00:00
to do it. That being said, it would be on
1:00:03
a future debate. This one is wrapped up lady.
1:00:06
It's. Over thankfully, like the State
1:00:09
Fair for the year. The State Fair is over, just
1:00:12
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