121: Brains In Jars Go To The Minnesota State Fair

we are going to jump into it with a Nightcall. Hi. My name is Morgan in Chicago, second time caller. UM, I have some evidence to add to the folder on Instagram listening to us and or mining all of our thoughts. Um, I'm pretty sure that Instagram can tell how long my eye lands on a particular image as I'm scrolling through

the Explorer section of Instagram. Like if I'm scrolling through and I see something new to my algorithm and my eye lingers on it, it's a little bit I'm like, oh that thoughts like I haven't seen I've seen those coming up before, you know, like a new kind of dog or something, and then I noticed them growing, like more and more and more and more, where it's all within the same hour of scrolling. I can see the algorithm changing as I scroll through it, depending on like

where my gaze lingers the longest. I'm almost positive the Instagram knows exactly where we're looking in for how many of my fort seconds And it's freaking me out. Okay, bye, I totally believe this as well, though I've had this thought before, believe it also continue to believe that it's Uh, the mic is on all the time, because last week we talked about milk a bunch. We'll talk about milk more later in the show, but I just started getting all these ads for milk afterwards that were like, perhaps

you'd like some fresh milk. Milk. So weird. It never stops being We've been talking about it the entire time we've had a podcast. I think we started talking about

this maybe even on Girls and Hoodies. Yeah. I wrote something about it like a few years ago for Night Gallery, this art gallery in l A, where I talked about just my first experience of like directly getting an ad for something that my friend had said out loud, which was mint chocolate chip ice cream sandwiches, which was so specific, but I was like clearly and I wasn't like searching for it before. Um, it feels like more people agree with us now, Yeah, definitely, yeah, I was. I I've

talked about this before. I was. I was routinely mocked for believing in this. When I worked at the Verge, nobody thought that this was a thing, which is crazy because it's like, we know they scrape our data for everything. Why would we trust them to like not use these things? Right? And you're carrying an object has a camera and a front facing, a front facing and a back facing whatever you call it camera and a microphone? What why would

it not be used at all times? And of course it just makes me think of all the times that I've just been likted Instagram all I'm on the toilet.

I also think that, like, do you ever have the thought like when it comes to you know, because you know a lot of people put the tape over there, um their laptop and so that I don't know if you're like undressing in front of the camera or something to real see you, But I always feel like you should like do as many mundane like unsightly things in front of the camera in case anybody is buying on you because it's annoying, just just just to be annoying.

I think I like all those memes that are like given the FBI agent assigned to watch me like a

real show tonight, giving him a thrill. This call also reminded me of um Elon musk company neural Link, which is the brain computer interface that he founded in twenty sixteen, and it's been mentioned in the news recently because um they're supposed to be sharing an update in late August, and the last time they gave an update, it was to say that neural Link planned to use surgical robots to implant teeny tiny wires in our brains that just

connect to an external computer processor because Elon Musk is concerned that, like we're not efficient enough at competing with AI. I guess. Um. But last year they said they they've already been do like performing these tests on mice and apes, which is very sad. UM. And then they said next year we're gonna start testing on humans. Yes, basically, um,

it's I guess. Tech Crunch had reported on this recently and they said that, um, the goal was originally to use technology to help mitigate the effects that's to quote, mitigate the effects of neurological disorders patients with severe impacts to mobility and other daily functioning, which is great, but then it's you know, real intent is to like make humans two point oh yeah no thanks, yeah, no, thanks

at all, huge note, thanks, especially from Elon Musk. I know, I gotta say that having Meredith Whittaker on last week though, was very comforting in a way because she reassured us that a lot of these things that they are marketing as being possible are not in fact possible yet. Yeah,

and I think and I was thinking about this. We didn't get a chance to touch on this when we were talking to Meredith, But like, like Elon Musk and and Peter Teal and a couple other of the big tech dudes are kind of in this community of these thinkers. I use like heavy scare quotes there, who um who believe in like hostile AI, Like that's their number one concern. Um, It's like all these tech guys have their number one concern, whether it's like building like off worlds or combating the

hostile AI. Like what it's like their doomsday scenarios are all um sadly different in stupid ways, and the hostile AI thing is like a real camp of thought among these guys. It's also very funny to me always that they refer to themselves as futurists, because like futurism was a movement of Italian fascism. Well yeah, just like when they started being like we're futurists, I was like, maybe call yourself something else, but then it's like, maybe that's

what you met. Actually, maybe it's on purpose, because the original futurists are very obsessed with like machines and like the future as being and speed and efficiency and stuff. Yeah. I hear the word efficiency and my eyes are all

into my head, you know. Well yeah, but I mean I think it's funny though, that that that Elon Musk in particularly so haunted by this threat of the robots turning on us, which, as Meredith explained, is like unlikely that they're going to become sent to it because it's all just a data collection. It's not there's not magic

going on there. Uh, but it just it does feel kind of like a very classic like like Frankenstein type thing where it's just like his anxiety about like and his anxiety about like arming humans to be able to come conbat this potential AI threat just feels like a guilty conscience, like just just raging. I don't think he

has a guilty conscience though, Dude, dude. He Uh. In the Werner Herzog documentary about the Internet that is not very good but has some interesting parts in it, um he entered, he interviews Musk at length and uh, and he just talks about how he has like nightmares all the time, and it's very interesting. It's like, really, I want to know what Elant Musk's nightmare. So I want

to know why Elon Musk's nightmare. Isn't that when they put wires in your brain and hook you up to a computer that they could computer doesn't turn on you now that there are wires. Now, it doesn't make any It doesn't make sense, like you just made it easier for the machine to destroy you because now it's got like fingers in your brain, you know, yeah, my yeah. I mean it's also like having just rewatched the Matrix. I'm like, right, these are the people that want to

build the matrix. They want to like put humans are the sentinels, like they're the squids coming to inslave us and put us in fats and slime, like that they want that for us. It does also feel like all the trans humanists are so specifically motivated by making trans humanism exists before they die. Well, I want to know and a and a broader like, I know that this is something that comes up a lot. How do you guys feel right now about being a brain in a jar? Um?

I guess less good than I used to, right because now I'm like, well, I guess it's like, if you are the brain in the jar, are you having what feel like real experiences? Yeah? Is the is the sense needle being poked at you in a satisfactory We never said the brain in the jar had to like stay in a room. You know, someone could carry it around, just like the man with two brains a little boat, right, take it to the State Fair for sure. Not as big a fan of the I mean, it's not that

I want to have a body either, though. I think for me, part of the appeal of being a brain in a jar wasn't just that like, you get some alone time, but also that you didn't have to worry about a body, and in a sense, I think being um in the middle of a pandemic has made me even more upset to have a body, you know, because we're kind of like, we're online a lot. Obviously we can't do anything without staring into a screen, and that is not fun at all. Like I, I don't enjoy this.

But at the same time, if I were truly a brain in a jar, then I couldn't get coronavirus, could I because it couldn't permeate it's airborne. I'm in jelly right. The brain in the jar has to be in fluid. Why is the brain's going to dry out and get all cracked and not work. So I'm surrounded by protective fluid, I cannot be infected, Whereas now I have all the terrible things about being a brain in a jar, but I could get your vulnerable. Yeah, the worst of both worlds.

I remain anti brain in a jar. I've I've That's been my position. Probody. I love. I love having a freaking body, you guys, it rules freaking bad. The thing that freaks me out the most, That is the most Philip K. Dick, which is like another level of it is when Instagram shows me something I was thinking about but did not see or search for which happened. Oh,

that happens all the time. But it must be a subliminal Well, it's like they probably know like, Okay, you've looked up, um, you've looked up like you've been on real self. You've been looking at uh energy drinks and something else, and they can triangulate that and be like, therefore, you're going to be interested in this fourth thing. And like, yeah, if I'm thinking about Martha's If I'm like talking about Martha Stewart and it shows me a picture of Martha Stewart,

that's one thing. But if I'm just like thinking about it and then it shows me the picture, then I go into this crazy mode where I'm like, it has to just be a coincidence because it can't possibly like no my thought patterns that well, can it? And then I want to throw my phone in the O. That's also like a chicken in the egg type of thing.

Why are you thinking about Martha? Right? Like, there had to be steps there, and it can see the steps even if that even if those steps are not obvious, adds to the idea that humans are just collections of data. We are just ai contrary to uh what Bree Larson says, I don't believe in free will, that's true. Have you guys seen that? No? Oh my god. You know how Brie Larson like has dipped her toe into being a YouTuber.

A YouTuber so like she does her sign off on her video, like at least on her first video O and like where most people would say, you know, like and subscribe, she says, like, I'm not going to tell you to subscribe because I believe in free will. Well, all right, it's the stupidest thing in the world. That's funny. But we are very predictable people in a lot of ways. I think, Well, because they're so we reveal ourselves so much now, yeah, yeah, we we put so much of that.

So much of what goes on in our brains is actually like collected now in some way. That's why I love when an algorithm fails or doesn't actually know something about me. My TV commercial algorithm for whatever reason, is always like totally off in a way that's really funny. But it's the thing. It's like you can set it off to where you'll be, like, if you talk about parenting, it will start serving you ads about parenting. It doesn't know that you don't have kids. It just does it

anyway in case you do. That's when the algorithm is weak, when it's just like looking at demographics and it's like, oh, this person willst have a child. It serves me ads in Spanah a lot, which I'm always really flattered by. I get that a lot too. I get a lot of Spanish ads. I'm always like, I wish algorithm only Well, guys, should we take a little vacation? Via a night email short guarding Key West? Um this we've been getting a lot of anonymous calls and emails because, um, we've been

talking about a lot of sensitive topics. So this one is also an anonymous email. Hello from Key West. I feel weird for saying this because you guys are a fan of this place. But it hasn't been great here these past few months. Well, honestly, it hasn't been great here the past year and a half that I've lived here,

but that's mostly on me. The big issue that we've seen is with opening the island back up to tourists, which happened way too soon, and now the mayor is working with the city council to try and figure out a way to regulate mask usage because of how prominent restaurant and bar attendance is for the island. The mayoral elections are next month and it seems to be very contentious, with many signs for the main three candidates displayed all

over the island, mostly outside of people's homes. Multiple places, such as Charlie Matt since Salsa Loca have closed for good, the former having actually already been sold to an unknown end. My question for you all is do you think that Key West will survive all of this? Or rather, do you think that an isolated island that relies heavily on tourism and military for income should continue to thrive in

this economy when all of this is eventually settled. My odds of leaving here anytime soon are slim, so I'm really just wondering about my next move down here. What do you guys think? Great? Great night, call night, you know, thank you. I'm glad to know that we have um

at least day Listener and Key West. Yeah, I mean, I think anybody in a tourist, a tourism reliant place is in a total catch twenty two right now, where you need the tourism to come back for economic reasons, but you don't want it to come back because it's dangerous, or you know, we could have just paid everybody to stay home. They could have paid businesses to to not close. The fact that they were like, we're going to force

a reopening and if you close, it's your fault. And I've seen there's a lot of lobbying happening right now to ensure that companies like don't have to be liable if their workers get COVID and die from going back to work. So it's very gross. Yeah, yeah, all the concern isn't exactly the wrong place, and kind of at

the end of the day, it's hard. It's hard to blame especially in places like Key West or like I was just in Carolina Beach Share in North Carolina, UM a couple of days ago for a few nights, and UM, you know a lot of these places they're not they're not like the reason people go there is not at least four independent businesses is for independently owned restaurants and

little bars and stuff like that. So they're not it's not like an Applebee's on the beach like, these are independent businesses, and if they have one location and it has to close, they're really, you know, kind of screwed.

And if they're not getting any kind of help. It's like, as much as I cringe when I see people packing into a beach bar um or not even sacking in just go like going to one and one being open for business is just like, well, like it's hard to know what else they're supposed to do other than completely you know, like get out of the entire game. One thing I've seen suggested, I mean, I guess at least in Florida and like in Louisiana, you can take drinks

away and take them to the beach. At least. I've seen people in New York talking about how it's a big issue for bars there and sort of encouraging them to let have been doing that. They're let people carry liquor around because they were temporarily letting people do it. It's like same in l A. Right, they were, that was, but it actually they don't seem to be very strict about it in l A still um. But for a while there was like a cart with cocktails roaming the streets,

and I really enjoyed. Just no, I didn't order anything, but I was like, I like knowing that they're there. But yeah, I mean having some flexibility here to support businesses and ways that are safe seems pretty imperative. Yeah, if you can make it safer to support those businesses by you know, changing changing a law that is sort

of silly anyway, like open alcohol carrying laws. Um. But yeah, I think the thing that's really a bummer is that this is hitting restaurants and bars, and I think that a lot of the places that aren't going to see that much of a downturn, in places like qus in in beach towns and tourist towns. Is real estate stuff. Is people who have airbnbs? Is that kind of thing because people are still going to these places and people still have you know, rental houses and stuff, and or

they have, um, they have time shares or something. Although oh this is something there's so many ads when I was driving for um, like like lawyers that would get you out of your time share because the resort that it was at. I heard one in l A recently, too specific. It's very Yeah, it was like this entire

cottage industry. And I guess because a lot of the resort it's in places where people have time shares, like the facilities of clothes, so like you know, if you can't go to the pool at your timeshare or whatever, then what's the point of having it. So people are trying to get out of it. It's very interesting. It was just like such a specific bit of world building

for our dystopia right now. Yeah, I mean, I think that it's very disgusting, especially that the companies that have been build out are these big companies that nobody's using right now, like cruise ships. That's one of those things where you're like, well, who knows even when the cruise industry is going to come back, Like, wouldn't it make more sense to give money to workers and people who can't afford not to go back to work right now so that they don't die. Because I also just don't

understand it from the business owner perspective. It's like you don't want your workers to die, then you need to hire more, and you're just assuming there's like an endlessly replenishable well. Also, it's such a horrible association for a brand. I mean, we just had in California to work deside it I think a mission tortilla plant. Um, yeah, I

mean it's it's just endless and like it. You know, it really makes you not feel great about supporting a company that has created that problem, but so many of them have, you know. It's also it's it's a similar things with with landlords and evictions. It's like that same

kind of failure of logic. It's like, Okay, you're gonna lose employees because they're either going to get very very sick or die, uh, and then you're just going to replace them, and you assume that people are going to still want to the people are still going to be

able to work for you. Uh. In the same way, it's like, Okay, I'm just gonna evict people because they can't pay their rent because their entire livelihood has been destroyed, and I'm going to assume that there's an unlimited supply of people whose livelihoods haven't been destroyed that can take over their lease or whatever who's moving in. It's such a weird it's like, oh THEO, no, my my tenants who couldn't pay rent. They were a special failure case.

Like right, I don't understand like not wanting poor people to exist when your whole model is based on exploiting them for labor. Yeah, it's just going back to Key West, I have to say that. So the other day we had a series of earthquakes in l a Um and it just was also a reminder that every the things that have been happening over the past uh year, ish,

who expected any of this? And then there are so many other factors like earthquakes and fires, So it's also just so hard to predict, like what cities will you know, go under because of COVID related reasons and what cities I mean, I guess everything is kind of entangled, so everything could probably be COVID related. But I mean with Key West, it's like and and other places too, You're

like you we just don't know. I mean, there's we're so focused on the pandemic and as we should be, but then there are also like all of these other factors that are going to continue happening. I hope Key West exists. I hope everyone's thinking about the way that the way money is spent and who gets to spend it and when you know, it's it's imaginary on some level.

So it does seem crazy to me when you hear about like these big companies getting these like millions, you know, millions of dollar bailouts, and then they say, like and we have to stop unemployment because we can't you know, afford to pay people anymore. It's like again that thing of companies being treated more like people than people get treated.

I do think that there's one thing that having been in a beach town recently and having also been in Galveston a couple of weeks back, like and even though there are like nightmares aspects to both of them, at the end of the day, like you're going. I mean, there are other reasons that are unique to every town, but you're going to these places for their position in nature, like their proximity to a peach or a park or whatever the case may be, and that stuff remains available,

Like you can go to the beach. I mean, there are you know I did. We did this thing where we like went and walked out and I just wanted to like scope out what it looked like. And it's most crowded at like the high point. It's like, Okay, we won't go. Then we'll go to like the dead

hours and you can go and it's fine. It's like totally safe, and I think it's like if it's available to you, it's something that you can do now, Like whether or not that keeps a town afloat of all you're doing is like going to the beach and not going to their bars and their hangouts, and you know, giving your money to local businesses, Like that's a whole other thing. But like I think that if you're responsible

about it, it can be very good for your mental health. Eventually, you just have to consider your mental health and like, you know the fact that you're you're living your rare and precious life. You know, you gotta do something with your body. You're freaking body in your freaking body. But that's the thing. Like I was, like swimming in the ocean.

I was like, God, damn, this is awesome. Like everything in the world is so shitty right now, but like I can be here right now, and like I know, the shart's very woo woo and yoga, but like it's anything that you can access, whether it's swimming in the ocean or going on a walk in nature somewhere, like

I think is really important to do right now. Yeah, I mean, even just like leaving your phone inside and just going outside for a while is very relaxing, like silly relaxing makes me realize how much having a phone on me makes me like betense all the time. Even if you just like go to the grocery store and don't bring your phone, Like garden stores open and allow you to like wander around with a bunch of plants outside. I find that to be a great free brain vacation.

And then maybe you spend some money on plants as I did, and support your local garden store. It's a win wind. I have been so boarding my garden storeway too much. The guys, it's it's getting crazy. Well, my parents went to the garden store. That was like their first trip really out of the house. Um was there was like a senior hour where you can buy plants in the morning, and they went and I could just sense that it had like a huge effect on their mental health to be out for the first time since

it started and see just you know, see nature. Yeah, well, we're gonna take a quick break and when we come back, we're going to bring on our guests, Brandy and go on another little vacation to the Minnesota State Fair. Welcome back. To Nightcall and welcome our very special guest, Brandy Brown. Brandy is a comedian for Minneapolis. She co hosted the podcast Bill Corbett's Fun House, and she regularly hosts at the Acne Comedy Company in Minneapolis. Welcome Brandy, Hello, Hello, Hi.

Brandy is on Twitter as it's the Brandy Brandy with an Eye and was one of my best Twitter follows of all time. Thank you. I will say it. Brandy is highly influential to the Night Called Twitter to somebody who may or may not be behind good follow in general. So we hear that you've been Uh, you're a big fan of the Minnesota State Fair. I am am, And they have they've they've gone ahead with the Minnesota State Fair this way, but like in a very COVID specific way.

And I was just like, from meeting your tweets, I was just like, how does a state fair even occur? Right now? Just feels like such a vector. But I'm sure that you have much first had experience, so well, I mean they're not doing it, They're doing it a pretty safe way, which I am not a fan of doing it this way. I mean I'm not like I just don't want to do it this way, But I'm not saying it's a bad idea. It's a great idea. Tickets one on sale today. UM, it's a drive through

State Fair kind of experience. And UM. The thing you need to know about the State Fair rounds is that they're pretty big. I should have looked up how big they are. But it's square miles, um, and it's like a normal street situation in there with buildings and stuff. So what they're doing is they have I think twenty vendors and including the two dollar all you can drink milk, which I don't know how they're looking that, um, and

people they stagger. They charge you twenty dollars per car, and then they stagger the you know entrance, so that's not too backed up and people can basically do a drive through. I didn't really look into it exaucep. I was just like, I don't I drive everywhere in Minneapolis, And so when I say I don't drive to the State Fair, that's pretty significant because we have a pretty

robust park and ride situation normally. So I just leave my car at this lot and then you pay five bucks to get on a bus that'll take you straight there and it's free to get back um and at night you can just leave till up to midnight. So I don't want to drive and also want to go to stay Fair. I like to have beers and I share my food with other people and so I can't take anyone really, and so I'm just probably gonna skip

it this year. But I mean the fair grounds open, I could just go have a picnic there, and they also it's open. The fair girls are open for other stuff there. They have car shows. They have another thing that's going on I think now, which is like a drive through dinosaur experience, which, yeah, it's the roller Derby. One of the roller Derby are several roller dirty teams play over there in the Colosseum. So it's a pretty

big little area. So they've mostly just done aside from the dinosaurs, they've mostly just done a drive through for the food stuff. This is the first year. That's all I think they're doing. It's a drive through, um, so I mean it's it's safe, it's just stay Fair traffic. It's notoriously a nightmare. Yeah, so it's like, why would I want to do that for funzies? Yeah, But mostly the experiences walking around and sharing your food with people

and totally like it's you can't leisurely do that. I mean it sounds cool if you have like a family, it's actually great, but you're paying toy dollars to get in for the car, so that's a flat fee, and then you're paying for the individual food. And a lot of these vendors are exist in the Twin Cities anyway, I'll just get the food, however, So it's not like where there's like the one people who make the turkey drumstick that you can only have like that that one

time of the year. There's a place called Turkey to Go, which they make really great sandwiches and stuff, and they're in the Skyway system and they're they have like a storefront or something, so I could just go there. There's a giant egg roll um Vietnamese place. They have a store. They're over northeast. I mean, they're all sorts of place. All you can drink milk. I'm lactose intolerant. I'm not trying to do that. You could drink milk is insane.

It sounds like punishment, like if you're if you do something terrible, it's like, now, sit down, and drink milk until you spew like smoke in the whole pack exactly. We were just talking about milk last week in the Midwest because Emily, Oh, yeah, because I was witnessing the rapid expanse of Culver's. I don't know, if you're a Culver's fan, maybe I am. Like my late grandmother would often guilt me into going to Culver's for her like

a huge Culver's family here. Yeah, I was like, because I'm from I lived in Iowa for a lot of my childhood, and uh so it was a big there. It was big, like Wisconsin thing, Minnesota thing. And then I was shocked to see them in like Arizona when I was driving. So Colver's is taking over the country. It's funny that you both are cursed with lactose intolerant

and like the place with the most milk products. That probably is what did it, though, I think if you're like like, because I drank milkshakes and frozen custards and everything all through my upbringing and then at some point in college was just like, no, I know exactly what it happened. It was. I remember it was in like cafeteria and I used to have every day with lunch, like chocolate milk, and it was like really thick, like school chocolate milk. Um. But like one day I was like,

why am I farting so much? And then I was like, well, maybe it's a chocolate milk which is very thick. So I would cut it with like regular milk and that didn't help, and I was like, oh, I gotta stop doing this. And it's not super severe for me, but it was like it kicked in when I was like seventeen, and so I mean, I'll, you know, I'll eat ice cream and stuff, but at the fair, but I can't drink milk. Also, there was a big thing a few

years ago where they doubled the price. It used to just be a dollar, and a Rudy Boschwitz who was like a politician here. I think he was like I don't forget what he was, but he was like the Rudy bosh Witz like milkstand and now it's just you know,

the milkstand or whatever it's called. And they were like, we have to double the price to two dollars and I was like, yeah, it's fine, guys, no, But people were kind of just sad because they were nostalgic for the one dollar milk, but I think they had like different flavors they used to. Strawberry might still be around, but it's like plain chocolate straw berry if you can never get sick of milk. So I take it they're not doing the world famous butter cow as part of

the drive through. Oh that's Iowa. Iowa doesn't. Actually they are. They are doing the Butter Sculpture. So what Minnesota has is something called Princess K of the Milky Way, of the Milky Way. It's a it's a pageant, but it's agriculture and dairy stuff and it's actually really not hard to get it, but you have to know your ship.

So the people who get into the finals are all like you have m agg majors who I think the cut off is like twenty three or something, and they have to like know their dairy ship so to get to be a finalist for that, they all all the finalists get there, like you go into this one building. There's the dairy building, and then there's the cattle building, which is different, but the dairy building, Um, there's a

giant like I don't know, like glass case. The it's refrigerated and the like the Milky the Milky Way finalists, they wear their little crowns in their sash and they wear like whatever heavy coats they do, and they get they sit there and get carved in the blocks of butter. The winner, Princess Kid of the Milky Way, who's the number one, gets carved first, and it's like on down the line, and it is a very very prestigious honor. Like these people will save their butter bust un till

their wedding day. They'll put it in deep freeze and it'll be a thing where I think, you know, I think some there was like a big controversy years ago where like someone's sibling like like destroyed the butter sculpture. It's like it's a huge deal. And um, so what they're doing this year is I think the person who normally called carved the butter sculptures retired and handed over

to somewhere else. And what they're gonna do is they're probably going to put the butter person in the cooler and then put the Princess k person outside of the cooler for social distancing. But they're gonna do it this year. I mean they're gonna get those sculptures. So yeah, the main butter artist in Minnesota is not the same lady is in Iowa? Is it? Do you know y'all have

your own but Well. The other difference with the Iowa butter cow is one Iowa recycles that butter on that butter cow likes going to eat the seen a documentary, Well, they eat the Princess K like they'll put it as a centerpiece and just use it for because it's just a giant block of butter that's brand new. It's very quick question. How big are these? Is it like a life size thing or I would say it's a pretty standard size like bust Like they're pretty big. So we're

talking like punds of butter. Oh yeah, I mean I don't know what your producers are doing. They can google how big the butter cow bus, the butter the Princess K bus. But the other thing about this bus is, um, my ex boyfriend who I'm still friends with, thought maybe it was like one of my friends we all go to the fair, and he thought that they were just carving over and over the same sculpture and I was like, no,

that's each of the women and if you. You can see their pictures next to the thing, and they all look different. I mean they all look very like Minnesotan and like Scandinavian, but they have different you know, hair and looks. But you have to kind of make their hair a little longer because of their necks because if you don't, their neck will like fall over. The breaking news from Joel. Producer Joel chimes in, it's a ninety

pound block of butter. Yeah, I think I think butter is um lighter than like human flesh, well pound of butter sticks, and it's frozen too. It's pretty ya. But the butter cow in Iowa, I think I saw a documentary about it. So basically what happens there is that there's a frame made um and then the butter is applied and then like shaped onto them because there's no way those skinny little cow legs holding up all that that mass. This kind of relates to the Drive Through Dinosaurs.

I've seen the Dinosaurs Live show and it was a little disappointing just because they had to hold up the dinosaurs heads because the dinosaurs next couldn't support it because it wasn't a real dinosaur. Yeah, you'd have to do select kind of dinosaurs, Like you couldn't do a bronosaurs, t sterotops, you could do probably it's all get into butter carving. This sounds like the great Well I wanted to say. Also, you introduced me to another hobby that

I knew nothing about, which is crop art. Yeah. I'm actually going to be hosting a fundraiser for the Minnesota State Auditor who's her name is Julie Blah. And I don't have the exact details, but I couldn't like pass them on you guys. But she is a crop artist herself, and she's really awesome. She's to be a mass teacher,

just a really fun person. Um. She does crop art, and she figured out that like if you enter your crop art and it's not controversial, uh, they'll leave it up for the duration of the fair, which is twelve days. So what she did is she made her political sign like you know, Julie Blaha vote for her or whatever in crop art, and then she got free advertising for a total of eight dollars. And I've ever seen but yeah, behind me some of my crop art, my novice entry.

Uh it's a shady panda from Polar Bears. Cafe, my favorite show. Oh my god. Yeah, and then um above that is I can show you guys later is the I entered the special Occasion category last year. Um, and I did the thirtieth anniversary of the Game Boy and then that pieces like sixty or twelve by like sixteen, I think, baby, Um yeah, so the wait, so what is it made of? Oh, it's made up a lot of stuff. So typically in crop art. So I guess

I should back up the history of crop art. And I don't don't quote me on this because I'm very new to crop art. I'm in my like third year technically, well, to have new blood in the crops, the nicest people like, they're so talented and so nice. So crop arts started about fifty five years. Fifty anniversary was actually gonna be this year and I was gonna do crop art sneakers, but that's a different story. Um. But basically, um, you know, they they started the crop art they at the fair

where you basically just have to use Minnesota crops. They have to grow in Minnesota. Doesn't have to be native to Minnesota, just has to grow there. So there's someone who is a um they're the woman who originally started crop art. There's a book I was reading called Seed Queen.

She started that and then her daughter is now like royalty literally in crop art where she doesn't even enter anymore because like she destroyed everyone else, but she's still like shows her art or she'll enter something like that. So they have to grow in Minnesota, and so there's some really super competitive people who will watch the University of Minnesota UM experimental like agriculture thing and if they grow a seed hybrid, that's a that's a legal seed

and you just ask you intend. Yeah, so what you have to do is you basically there are different categories. There's the novice category, which is just your first year UM. There's wearable crop art, and there's the amateur division and then the advanced and if you get a certain number of blue ribbons you have to go to Advanced UM. There's wearable crop art, there's flat floral arrangements where you can use plant parts beyond the seeds. Uh. There are UM crafts I think there you can make like dolls

of stuff. There's a scare crow category which is kind of with the crop art but not the same thing. And at the state Fair there's a whole creative arts thing that's separate from this where people show their jams and stuff. And then there's fine arts, which is just the artist. But I think like crop art is showcase in the agriculture and horticulture building. Um, and it's it's cool.

It's just like you basically have to turn in your seed guide where you have little samples of all the seeds you used so that you can you know, they can check it against to make sure it's legal. So my my panda here is the easiest one to see. It's pretty small as crop art goes. But I used flax um like regular flax. I think golden flax. Quene wa staff flower grows in Minnesota. Uh yeah, somebody's grown it, and somebody's grown it wild rice. Um. I think there's

some lentils. All the lentils are legal, even though they technically shouldn't because like nobody in Minnesota really grows bloga lentel, but somebody did. Um n yeah, sorghum and then uh keenewa different kinds of quenua canola or rape seed. I don't have a story about that. Um. And like I think, um, a couple of like wild grasses and stuff for lines. But like some of the seeds you can't use. You can't use sesame seed, you can't use anything that's a weed.

You can't use um white rice. You can use wild rice. But people get really creative, like I think somebody did a few years ago they did Bob Marley and hemp seed that's legal. Um. Somebody did a controversial one that stayed up for like three days where they did Bill Cosby and all canola seed um, which is also known as rape seed, and god that one was taken down that I think it's the same person who to the

hemp seed. Just like people, it's very political to people tend to lean left in this, so there's a lot of political statements um, and a lot of it's pretty competitive. That the person who won Grand Champion two years ago whose starts basically her next year's project in her projects like thirty six inches by like twenty four inches, and she uses like tiny time like poppy seeds, So there's poppy seeds on that one too. Um. It was a Dr Seuss thing and I can send you guys pictures,

but was gorgeous. It was about immigration, but it was like making fun of like anti immigration people using dr SEUs And in the prior year she did Swampy Town, which was just busy Town but about Trump with a busy town animals. But it was gorgeous and you could sell these for like thousands. It should be in the Fine Arts building. But yeah, well, we're going to take a quick break and we will be right back with another night email. We received a night call for Brandy

about crop art. Um not to take this in a in a morbid direction, but I'm going to, uh, this person did not sign their email, so we're gonna let them be anonymous. I feel like when I watched Witness starring Harrison Ford and learned about grain entrapment, it completely changed my relationship to crop art. Imagine drowning in a vat of paint or being rushed by crayons. I haven't seen that, but I mean, yeah, you don't funk with silos. I mean that's Midwestern, like I'm from the city, but

you yeah, you don't sunk around in those. Anything on a farm can kill you. So that's just like crop art. I just go to this farm and feed. I mean the most dangerous part of crop art for me is going a little too far outside the ninety four loop, which is I ninety four and like all the connecting things and going out to the farm and feed stores to pick up some you know, like sorghum and stuff, and they're just like, what are you doing? I was like crop art and then everyone's super nice, what are

you doing? And then um, yeah, and I get a lot of the edible seeds and stuff from just coops and stuff like that. Did you guys see the story this week about the mystery seeds three seeds? I would love to talk about mystery seeds. What do you guys think is going on? Something I heard someone say that was actually like a scam to get ratings or something from something else. Can somebody explain the mystery seeds? I

haven't seen this. People were getting mystery packages from companies like Wish and Ali Baba I think from from and there was just something going around being like, do not open the mystery seeds from China. They are unmarked seeds from China, unidentified And yeah, people were receiving them and then the FDA said don't plant them and send them

to us so that we can figure out what they are. Um. But yeah, like Brandy said, I think, you know, it's it could be one of those things where it's sellers trying to just send um send packages to people who didn't order anything, and then they can use that address to make it a verified purchase and give themselves good reviews. But it seems kind of strange because there have been

multiple reports. Someone someone actually a mutual on Twitter said that she got super high and saw that Wish had a thing for trees, and so she bought trees and she had forgotten she had done this while super high, that she got the seeds and she's like, oh, that's

what it was. Like they were selling like trees and people thought they were getting trees, which at the State Fair, by the way, last year, I got a like an actual seedling for a tree if I went the first day, and like the Forest Service was like free trees, Like there's so much stuff, like they give away yardsticks and

all sorts of great things. So, I mean people thought they were getting seedlings and they were just getting seeds seeds right, and two weeks ago people thought they were going to get children in cabinets, So gotta keep up. So going back to the crop art thing and like kind of the political statements and some of the more stunty crop art entries. That kind of made me curious because I haven't been to a state fair, big fair

for a while. I did um go to the Iowa State Fair bit um growing up, but I also went to UM. It wasn't a state fair, but it basically was a scale of a state fair in UM in Washington, the Polut Fair, Um that one a lot too. Yeah, but uh but I was sort of wondering, like, you know, what is the political vibe of some of these different Like is the is the crop art scene more political than like say the quilty and scene or any of the other cars. I would say, yeah, I would say

the crop arts se is more left leaning. And it's a lot of city people. There's some from Outstates, which is Outstates what we call its side of the metro area. So uh so that's just you know, greater Minnesota outside of the what we call seven county metro area, which also includes like far far western Wisconsin. But um, mostly like a lot of the people who win are like St. Paul Minneapolis people, And yeah, I mean the quilting people tend to just make gorgeous quilts and in the Creative

Arts building. Like I said, it's not as political because yeah, it's just I mean the room for it. And the whimsy is just generally like stuff that's like always gonna be whimsical. But the crop art, you do new stuff every year, so you're just like and you can enter multiple categories if you want, so people are just kind of you know, I have my theories on the pandering.

What would win with the judges who tend to skew older and you kind of if you do something like pandering to the state Fair in Minnesota, that would win my I mean my tetrissing. It's good, but it rightfully did not even place. I actually, um, I have an ongoing thing where my croppart is accidentally in the background

of politicians taking pictures with other crop art. So two years ago, my panda was right behind someone's entry, which was a like a head a three D head of ilhan Omar out of seeds and they just used a base of like you know, styrofoam and then they made it out of seeds. So she's leaning in front of it, and then behind her is like the shady panda spying.

That's great. Yeah, then last year Julie. Uh, Julie Blaha actually did a great She entered multiple things last year she entered she did a piece for Peggy Flanagan, who is our current lieutenant governor. Tom Weber was going to propose to her who he was, he's a journalist here and so she did a piece of crop art for their engagement um and like, because you can do like birthdays or themes or stuff with a special occasion category.

And she said, and everyone was like, well, what if you know, they don't get engaged or he moves the date And she's like, well, I waited and saved the date. But also her anniversary was coming up anyway, She's like, I could easily just make it me and my husband. So it was fine, but it was a gorgeous piece at one first place, but it was also right my

my tetrising was right below it. So I have a picture of Julie Blah i was a state auditor with that, I have a picture of Peggy flang and who's a lieutenant governor with that, and then Tim Wallace who's a governor with my pictures. So now it's just like an ongoing thing where I try to I'm gonna try to like get my crop art next to other politicians stuff, or just to have them stop by. Next time you have to put a secret message and that you can

only see from very far away. I mean, I'll just put a blatant message, and like, I like there's like all sorts of stuff. I might actually just make a piece just to like make fun of amy Cloba Shar, because there's also the amy Cloba Shar ongoing state at fair feud um with me and her. Wait, what what happened? What's the amy? So Amy Klobascher is very very diplomatic, always like to the point where you're like comedically like

centrist on stuff. You don't want to upset people, and like, so there was a news story before the state fair because everyone's down in Iowa pandering down there in Iowa, and of course you're in Iowa. You don't want to say the Minnesota State Fair is better. So somebody said which is better? And she, of course was very diplomatic about it. Fine, she's a guest in Iowa, who cares.

But I saw that, and I'm just a huge state fair stand I was like, I'm gonna ask her which is better and make her say the Minnesota State Fair. So my good friend Hayley and I go on the first day and we were like you know what. We went at like it opens the gates open at six am. We were there at seven with like Hayley's mom drove us and I'm just like all right, thanks, Like her mom like picked me up. It was like high school or something. And uh we went and we were like, Okay,

here's what we're gonna do. We're gonna go like run around. We got these plans. We're gonna go see the Baby Rabbits. We're gonna go to the three four h musical at eleven or something to find Amy Cloba Shar at two o'clock at the MPR stage where she's being interviewed and we're gonna ask her this question. It was like we totally weren't gonna do like it. It doesn't seem like a gotcha. All you have to do is say the mississ State Fair is better you're in Minnesota, but also

objectively it is a better fair anyway. But so we were walking around and we were we here just yelling and I'm like, that's Amy Klobashar's voice. It was from the DFL like shack or like they're little like hut that they have. And I was like, well, let's go over there. And amy Clobshar is just like yelling, like the the joke I have an amy Ckloba Schar, which is not even a joke, It's true. It's that woman

has no indoor voice. She will always yell, so like she's yelling, and so I was like, well, let's just do it now. So we kind of sneake our away to amy Kloba Shar after she's wrapping up her her big like ra ra speech and she was gonna go from the DFL booth to the MPR stage to be interviewed by the news. So I kind of like upstream salmon towards her. And I was a DFL R d fell by the way, is our Democrats the Democratic farmer

labor thing, that's what it's called Minnesota. So I was a delegate to the DFL party and eighteen at the state convention, and I met amy Klobasher there. I walked into the DFL after party that night and there was a Prince Cover band playing, and I saw Amy Klobascher dancing with the michaelob Golden and just like toasting the the Prince Cover band in a in a skirt suit. It was I'm so glad my friends were there. I'm so glad. I'm like, holy sh it, this is the

great thing. So we take a picture with her, and so I did meet her. So I walked up to her and I was like Senator Klobischer. Her name is Brandy Brown It she was kind of just gonna do the oh nice and I go I was a delegate in and she's like oh. And at that amount of time I talked to her like it was enough to slow her down. And then kind of people gathered around

and say, I have a question. It's a fun question because I wasn't gonna do like a regular ambush because it's just venue wise, wasn't the time and place you couldn't really pull it off. And I go, uh, yeah, So you were in Iowa and you said the Iowa State Fair is better. And by the way, there's video of this. I can said it to you. I tweeted it and my friend Haley who was on the camera, and she's like and I said, which state Fair is better?

And I'm by the way in this video because I went to the horticulture building, and there's the beer, like the craft brewers Guilty. You can get like a four pack of like Samplers. So I'm holding a four pack of like beer, and and I'm wearing my little buff around my neck and I'm just like, my skin looks amazing in this. But it's like the Blazing Sun. And she's like Amy Clover Show. Everyone's like circling around, like what is going on? Why did she stopped? Amy Clover Show.

Was like she wants to know which is better the Minnesota State Fair the Iowa State Fair. I'm like, yeah, so which is better? And she's like, well, they have a butter cow and we have the butter Boss. And I go, yeah, but which is better? And then she's like, well we got to bring people together. I'm like, right,

but which is better? I just get like and over again and then she like contestantly like pats me on the shower, was like and then like and then it cuts off on the video, but I have the full video of me going, well, I guess it's war in but like she didn't hear me, so it's just ongoing fude, And like our all city pages published something uh like called like um, because there's always a state Fair new foods and like the state Fair new thing is Amy

Klobaschar's flip flop or something, and it's just like this ongoing thing where people would just tweet and black which is better? And I was on there's a local podcast here called Wrong About Everything, and I'm friends with the people on it, and they were doing a state Fair thing. Wrong about Everything is two Democrats and two Republicans one and they're all friends with each other and they're really cool.

Given the Republicans um and I hung out with them, and you know, like Julie Blaha, the state auditor, was on this and a couple of other DFL people were on this live state Fair episode because radio records at the state Fair. It's just everything shuts down and everyone goes to State Fair. The news is all from there, the radio stations are all there. So I'm on this episode and I'm just sitting there, like I get to talk about it. I'm just like I would ask every

politician I met, which is better? And of course the answer is even if you're running, the diplomatic answer is, well, they're both great, and they both have great things. But obviously I gotta go with the hometown st Fair. That's all you felt to your people. No one's gonna be mad if you fail for the home team. I mean, it's a like a state fair is one of the most low stakes things that like it's it's like lower stakes than sports. You can just be like, well that's

my team and people would be like okay, okay. But she she she didn't. I don't know that. Wait, so this was last year. They used last year, so she was like still thought she had some kind of she won't. I'm convinced she won't admit it until like she gets in office, like her not winning this year or getting even the nomination, not being VP, she won't ever admit it until there's no chance she'll be president. So like

we've got twenty years of her not doing this. I followed your journey last summer at the Minnesota State Fair just like it was the highlight of my summer because I've followed I've watched your your content for a couple of years now about the Minnesota State Fair, and it was just so funny because like you were posting, it was like you're walking around and going to all the different pavilions, and then sometimes you would pass stand and be like, I'm coming back for you, Amy. My other

favorite thing is So there's a Minnesotan here. His name is Tony Webster. His Twitter handle is Webster, and he's a big foia guy. He's a journalist. He often sues people to get public data. He's just excellent and like definitely an important follow in general. But he's also like takes photos of things a lot. So he went to the state fair and Amy Kloba schars it's great because all the politicians at the state level have their own little booth and hers is like a little like house.

It looks like an nice little house. It's it's cute, but it's also right in front of the my pillow Guy like building where they're selling stuff it so the thing has windows, and Tony Webster posted this picture where he's like, it looks like because of the way it's positioned that somebody in Amy Cloberhard's little like shack house thing hung up a picture of the my pillow Guy with a it's like the poster that says from crack

Addict to CEO. She hung that up and so they took a picture of it, and I was like, this is incredible, this is funny. But also several of my friends have now broken this woman at the State fam. We weren't like trying to be malicious, but you know,

whatever beyond your toes amy and uh. The next time I was at State Fair, because I went multiple times because I did some live podcasts there, I figure out how I can write off the State Fair, so like whatever people want to be for it's like your south by Southwest or something totally is myself by self West, thank you? Uh? I walk why was My friend was like, holy sh it. They boarded up the windows and the amy Culoba shar hut, So that can't be a thing anymore.

You can't because I was gonna walk by and like hide behind it to like hold up a sign to be like Minnesota State Fair is better, and I couldn't do it. See this is like all making me so so so nostalgic for going to state fairs, and like it it makes me miss them and like, you know, kind of more and that we can't really do them right now in the same way because it is this sort of absurdity where the entire world gets so shrunken and there is like a little Amy. Amy Clobhar has

a little house in a park. The thing about the State Fair, I was trying to figure out why I love it so much of other people who hate it because it's crowded and it's you know whatever. And that's fine. If you don't like it, I don't care. I just won't invite you to come along. That's it. Like, if you don't want to go, like, I don't judge you. There are a lot of things people like and don't like. That's fine. But for me, I have a website that I haven't updated in a while. I would only update

it when I was born. At work during the State Fair, it was called Minnesota State Fair Cliches, and it was just all the cliches of the state Fair. And people were like, wait a minute, this is just everything of the state Fair. And I'm like, exactly, it's all. It's so comforting. You go there every year. It's the same thing. I went there with my grandpa and I when I

was five. I remember being a little leash thing where like wrap around veil crom on my wrist so I could eat with both hands and my family could eat with both hands and still keep track of me. And there are just certain things you just go. I have friends who would spend a forty hour work week there. They'll just do different things because it's so big. You can go see the animal shows. You can go see the four age musical, which is I believe somebody called

it Haystack Glee. Um I'm beer. Imagine you can be ship faced and go see a high school musical. It is the best thing in the world. All the kids are earnest um because four age kids, they're just like too pure for this world. You really, Brandy, you should be made uh Many Minnesota State Fair Ambassador, the queen or whatever it's called. Princess came. I'm too old and I'm not. I'm not on the dairy like expert, but hey,

it's never too late, you know. They need an outsider's perspective on dairy sometimes, like somebody who can only appreciate it by looking at it. Yeah, it's also just fun because during certain political things you also see confused out of state politicians, Like there's one picture I have a Fred Thompson just being like, what the fund is happening here? And you know, celebrities come by. You have the Grand State.

They have the free Stage, which last year or like two years ago, like or last year, I know Tony Tony Tony played uh invogued at the free stage, and then in the grand Stand you might have like Taylor Swift or something like that come through, or like I saw Patti LaBelle at the grand Stand stage. And it's just like I don't know, like it's there's just so much to do it so you can you run into people you don't normally see. And it's also all of

Minnesota is there. It's interesting because it's not like a lot of state fairs, like the New York State Fair, for example, is in Albany or no, it's in Syracuse, and like that's gonna attract certain people. But it's in Falcon Heights, Minnesota. Unfortunately, you might know where it is. It's because that was just down the street from where

Philando cast Steele was shot. But um, it's a place where you have all the city folk, but then also all the outstate people come down and it's just like a big melting pot of fuckory and I love it. And it's just it's every year, you know, you have your favorite food stands that you go to because your parents went there. And then someone has to be like, yo, that's not even the best cheese curd stand you have. Um, you get like free stuff in a bag. You're like, oh.

Like you see adults be like, oh my god, free paper pig hats. Oh I gotta do this. I'll just wear like a pig hat all day. And you have the Lama costume contest, like I mean that kind of stuff. Like the four age kids are just like people thought I was just making fun of them by going to the musical every year. I'm like, no, I earnestly they love it. It's I went to pay camp every year for several years in high school, and they all like

move into these dorms and they're just like barracks. They practiced to this show that's a musical and sometimes they're not the best musicians and not the best singers, but three times a day, for thirty minutes, they just do a medley of music in this hotass building and I am ship faced. And one year I was completely wasted and I saw the theme was and the themes are never anything complex. One time the theme was the kids woke up in the jungle and they had no idea

how they got there. And then the opening scene was a medley of like welcome to the Jungle, like it's a jungle out there something else and like two years ago or last year was something about a candy shop. And of course they didn't do fifty cent because if they did, I would have just completely lost it. But it's I was just like stream. I was like, yeah, and each year we pick our our all star musician. Because you have the band up top, it's a really

elaborate set. So there's always like one kid who's like too cool with their instruments. So there was a cool viola player. Last year, there's a cool s best but there's like the one kid and you're like, that's a cool kid at the air camp. Yeah, there he is right there. And so yeah, I mean I just I could go on on you know, I should I should do a State Fair podcast, but you totally should. We should, we should do it? Wait, I want one on right now? There?

Did they go? All of them canceled, including Texas, but Minnesota went forward. Oh no, not I mean Minnesota. Yeah, but like I think the only one that did something limited was like North Dakota or like Nebraska. I don't know, but my friend Haley and I were going to do a thing this year. She lives in l A now, but she, you know, she comes back for the fair. And I mean people do that, They come back to

visit their family, go to the fair. We were gonna do a thirty five w because all the state best state fairs are on thirty five, So we're gonna like Minnesota is always it's twelve days. It ends on the on Labor Day, the very last day, and I don't like to be there Labor Day because it's like people are tearing down moving. It's just sad I have to go pick up the property. Um So I went last year and there was shooting, so I was not cool. But um and on the on the grounds, well not

on the ground. I mean there are the other thing about the state fair where I'm actually seriously glad it's not happening this year, is there are so many fucking cops in the state affair. Like it's like all the departments send their very like all over the states and there you know cops stays and their horse cops. And um, I have like a friend who's a I have a friend who's a police officer. She's really really cool. But um, like she was saying that, like that's not when you

want to really work the fair. Um, but it's you know, all the outstate people get to you know, come down there. And then there was outside the ground. When it ended at ten o'clock, there was a shooting outside and I showed up from I'd driven up to International Falls like Canada basically to get my global entry card because it was so backed up that you couldn't get it anywhere

in the city. So I just was like, well, I'll drive up there, take a leisurely trip back, come back to the State Fair because I couldn't get in until for free until after a certain point. And when I got there, I had no idea what was going on. It was just chaos. But it was also raining, so I thought people were running because of rain. But there were a lot of sirens, so what I thought had happened was either a stage collapse or lightning strike. Um,

I didn't know what was going on. So I finally got into the grounds with my car, and I got into the agriculture building and got my crop art just in time, and I was really had to get it because there's a fee if you don't pick it up in time and they have to ship it um And I ended up staying in that building toil like two am, just hanging out with the like the operations staff for the state fair, and they were just telling me all their secrets, which I won't tell, but yeah, so, uh

it was like I guess there was just like a beef and what happened. Someone was shooting someone else and then like people were running and then somebody got hit by a car running across a very busy street. And I don't know what happened to the woman man who got hit, but it was a whole thing and that sucked.

But um, Minnesota's is like the last state fair until Texas is a little different because Texas runs like September October, but it's also thirty days and it's also nobody like wants to be outside in August and Texas right and in Texas does stuff like they have their football game, like I think Oklahoma ut as our football game at the state fair, so that one doesn't really count in the same way. But we're gonna do all of the state fairs. We're gonna go to Iowa, We're gonna go

to Kansas. Missouri's is actually near Kansas City, so I was pretty we can do Kansas and Missouri's, um, Oklahoma, Texas and COVID like a lot of other people's dreams ruined our dreams. So yeah, well, I appreciate you taking us to the State Fair of the Mind for this episode. I um, now, I'm like really really craving a turkey leg and a deep fried Twinkie. Deep Fried twink was

a big thing at the Iowa one. I don't know if that's Minnesota they have deep fried stuff, but I think it's the you know the Minnesota has a corn dog Pronto pop divide Um. One of them is made with corn meal. I think the other ones made was like wild rice, like well like honestly the Battle of Gluten Free Dogs. They honestly like taste the same to me, Like, I'll go to which everyone has a shorter line. I love corn dogs, so I'm just like whichever horn dogs

are incredible. I'm very centrist on that. I'm so hungry for everything out. This is awesome. Thank you so much for your for coming on. I loved, Yeah, I love I love to have you back again. And yeah, we didn't even we didn't even talk about like the actual serious things happening in Minneapolis. That's fine, Well we can get back to that. You know, we'd love to have

you back. Definitely. I love this. I listen this is one of my like mondays when all my favorite podcasts like Monday and two Day Drop and yours is definitely like yep, I listen to every one day. So I love this the Bill Corpet Podcast, and we look forward to your future podcasting efforts. And please follow Brandy. It's the Brandy on Twitter for not just amazing State Fair content, but also uh incredible close reads of newspaper comics. Yes, yes,

and my cat was in Kittie Corner. Yeah, paper Claudet Cookie Lion, very famous cat. I'll ask you just one last question. Has your cat Claudet Cookie Lion ever come up when you were working on seed art and just

like knocked all the seasons. No, but she yes, she comes up because there are um I use some like grasses like um for hours called the terms of an f but like she likes some of the grasses and so she'll come up and like sniff them and like try to like lick them like please don't know, Claudet, and it don't mean I'm not doing the cat and the cat just yelling at me and her are just getting mad and then like pouting like eight feet away and just staring and like so yeah, she she doesn't

knocked them over. She doesn't like climb on a lot of stuff, and I do a lot of work on like the bed sometimes, but she'll definitely like be like, oh, this is kind of like a new strain of cat nip. Like no, like my cat sees me doing something intricate, like a puzzle that's their cute to like hump on the table. Yeah, she doesn't climb on stuff unless it's just like a thing she normally climbs on. But she

definitely like the grasses of it. Once I open up, because I have like those you know, like the tool box things for like people use like nuts and bolts. I have a whole elaborate I have like maybe fifty different grasses and seeds and like little canisters and stuff, and uh so I keep those like small samples are portable in totes, and then I have like my storage bin of all of that stuff. And once I opened that thing, you could just if you're smelling grasses and stuff.

You know, there you go, I was I was actually asking. I asked the stayed arder because I'm doing this fundraiser for her and just thing about, um, if what happens if recreational marijuana becomes legal in Minnesota, because then you can it has to be grown in Minnesota legally, so hemp is fine. But I was like, well, do you think that more people will use marijuana in their crop art? And she's like no, because it's actually a terrible like

the plant itself is not great for crop art. It crumbles too easily, it doesn't hold its shape um, and crop art also has rules where only a certain percentage can be like crushed or like ground seeds and stuff like that. So yeah, marijuana leaves are actually terrible. But if you can get like, you know, a little bit of the dust, I would love for every cool kind of folk art to like come come back, especially because we're all going to the land. We're all, we're all. Yeah,

I do feel kind of terrible doing it sometimes. I feel kind of because I have like bags and bags of like lentils and beans and seeds, and I'm just like the is so like I feel bad. People are hungry, and I'm just like gluing this ship to a board for fun zies. And I actually think about that a little bit, and I'm just like, well, because there was a shortage of like Lintel's briefly during the pandemic, and I was like, well, if it goes down, I guess

I can just eat my storage of seeds. But that's why I like, you just got to do everything with feed corn or like whatever is just the completely like whatever crop we have way too much of, Like corn is the only ethical corn is terrible. For jeweled corn is great, but like corn, it's an irregular, like weird wedge shape. It's my favorite seed. I'll just tell people this. My favorite tea right now was Pearl Barley. Oh yeah,

that's nice. Use it's a texture. Yeah, I'm currently working on a piece where it's a polar Bear and Grizzly from Polar Bears Cafe and also an angry goose from the Untittled Goose Game. And it's a perfect it's like an oval shape. White um kind of this is safflower, which is a weirder wedge shape, but it's more uniform shape, so we you have to take um if you can take some pictures of your crop part and we'll still

share it on where. Yeah, that would be great. The Tetris background behind the game Boy is something everybody has to see them. Yes, there's layers to this ship. It's great. Well, thank you so much, Brandy. This is awesome. Thank you for having me. I'm so happy. Oh it feels nice to be able to talk about the state Fair. I'm not going, but it's always my favorite thing to like dork out and introduce new people too. So yeah, it's

it's awesome. So someday we'll do a war of the state Fairs, because I do unlike unlike Amy Klobucher, I will commit to the Iowa State Fair, even though I haven't been to the Minnesota State Fair before. Son, Like, here's my true thing. Minnesota's objectively better and Islands have told me that i Alas is just smaller because it's a smaller stak and it's it used to be the biggest.

I was very dependent on the presidential campaign cycle and Minnesota's will stand alone always like we're just like politicians. Sure get in line, like Minnesota state fairs. Press really like their their PR team. They don't grant any special press passes. Like if you want to treat this like press,

we'll treat everyone the same. You can come in, pay for a ticket and uh we might give you like special parking or security stuff, but like you're you're treated like just like a regular person at the State Fair. So no v I P. Unless you're performing or something you need to load in or out or something like that and you're here in the club and that's why it's called the State Fair and not the State Unfairy. Well that does it for this week's Nightcall. Thank you

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