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Helping me to win the fight.
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Yeah.
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Hey, how you doing, Mike Hammer?
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Carlos Figaroa, guess what?
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What?
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Whose state fair is the best state fair?
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Don't miss it.
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Don't even be late.
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That's a dumbass question, because everybody knows the Minnesota State Fair is the best state fair.
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Have you ever been to a different state fair?
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I have not.
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I don't need to.
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I've been to the best state fair.
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Yeah?
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Yes, yes, I have, and it's quite flying around the country.
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Not that I am a frequent flyer or in the million mile club or the mile high club.
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Yeah.
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Still time though.
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Still time.
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The Minneapolis St.
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Paul International Airport.
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Yes, it is.
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It's one of the nicest airports.
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It is, for sure.
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Its rankings on Forbes is it's like you walk in there, you're like, this is a nice airport.
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I was in Miami's couple years ago.
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That thing's just Dallas, Dallas, Dallas is ugly and inconvenient and not friendly.
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LaGuardia is a damn toilet.
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Logan is a garbage, is a garbage dump.
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There's some crappy airports.
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Yeah, it was just at the John Wayne airport, and that was cool.
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Actually, it's small and quaint.
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Little Orange County.
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Yep.
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And then Kansas City's airport was great.
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It was like basically you get out of the Uber, you get up on the sidewalk, you walk through the door, you take 10 steps, you're in security, you take 10 more steps, you're on the plane.
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It was a big horseshoe that was but Kansas City is an awesome city.
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But uh so that analogy is yeah, the Minnesota State Fair is really nice.
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It's cool, it's nice.
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It's and I'm going there in a little bit here because are yeah, no, it's today's opening day, right?
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Today's opening day.
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It's who's throwing out the first pitch.
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Yeah.
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Uh Sister Dearest Michelle goes every day every year, first day, but she's now is she walking it?
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Is she scootering it?
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What's she how is she maneuvering this year?
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She's been told that if need be, they'll get her a scooter.
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I'm like, that or just say, screw you guys, I'm getting a scooter.
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Yeah, exactly.
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Yeah.
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She doesn't, she's gotten a lot better.
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She's walking without any from her uh but it's a lot of walking at the fair.
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That's not that's a commitment.
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It it is a commitment, and I would be saying I did get the scooter just because we did that with my mom the first year.
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This was hilarious.
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We uh we go there, and this was uh one of the last years my mom went, and it was me and my mom, my sister, and it was a weekday, and that might have been like a day like today, and we get we get it and get her the scooter, and she starts going, and she really hadn't had a scooter.
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I had almost sold them at one time, so I had one that I was using, and it was a little bit higher seated up, and it was a three-wheeler, but she rode that around a bit.
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But it all changes when you get into traffic.
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At first, when she got it, we're going from the place and there wasn't a lot of people, and all of a sudden we watched and she just took off.
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She's all of a sudden 10 yards in front of us, 20, 30, 40, not looking back.
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Just we could see her head moving, looking side to side.
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Yeah, I'm I'm in my new T bird with convertible, just cruising down the street.
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And I'm looking at Michelle, I'm like, look at our little girl go.
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She's just she's doing she just found her wings, and yeah, so during the day I could see the nervousness when she was trying to get through traffic and and go and not be a nuisance.
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And and me working shows selling the products over the years I watched as mobility scooters got more and more popular, and then they got less and less popular because people come wheeling around, they're running people over.
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This and that.
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And a lot of my here's the problem with a state fair is I get anxiety ridden just figuring out how to walk with all those people.
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I can't imagine how anxious it must be trying to ride or be in a scooter going through that.
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It's a young, it's funny, it's for older people, but as younger persons game, because like my daughter or boys will get at it, and they just but they have an easier way of measuring, calculating distance, space, travel time, who's moving what I'm just I'm thinking about some of those moments at the fair where they're just they know nothing.
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You're just no you're just moving along in the blob of humanity.
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And it's tough too, like when people bring strollers because you don't see it sometimes because your vision's up here, and all of a sudden you're running into a stroller.
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And I always when my kids were little, strollers were great because they you could pack everything in there, bring your own stuff that you don't want to spend, you don't want to buy five-dollar waters, you bring your own bottles of water, they don't check.
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But but you gave yourself a buffer, but then you had to wait for people to clear because they're not looking down, and then you're like either pushing the situation, like oh, bumping into them and saying, excuse me after the fact.
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But so my mom, we're going, we're in front of the giant slide.
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We meet my some other people there, and she was turning around, and the curb was the curb there, is uh not a straight up curb like a lot of the state fairs because it's old, it's one of those newer ones that's planted at a 45 degree, but she's trying to move, and this lady's carrying a child about two years old, and my mom confuses brakes with oh give it gas, and she happened.
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She didn't hit this lady hard, but she didn't back off the throttle, and it was like watching a monster truck try to climb up a hill slowly, and I catch it right away, and I'm trying to pull the scooter off this girl who goes down, not like she's but like slowly goes to the ground, protecting the kid, putting her hand down, and I'm trying to hold her, pull the scooter away, and I'm looking at my mom and the terror in her eyes, the fear of what she's doing, and at the same time, she's just giving a gas.
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And I'm like going, oof dah.
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Finally, we get we get it all situated.
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I don't know if somebody grabbed her hand and the sandlebars because I could only grab one part and try to it was like trying to break up a fight between two people, one a machine, and one a girl getting going down with the baby in her hands.
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And uh and the girl got up, and she could not be more apologize.
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She was apologizing to my mom for basically holding a child at the fair.
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I don't know what I was thinking.
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I shouldn't have been like I shouldn't have been standing here.
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Judy's a sweetheart, she is the salt of the earth.
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But I'm gonna tell you, she was the one giving a gas.
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It was like Scotty on the Enterprise.
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That's funny.
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That's funny.
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Scotty, just open up all the ports and fire away with everything we got, yeah.
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Like you've said before.
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Push the print button and do it till we run out of ink.
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So we're talking about the great Minnesota get together.
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Let me ask you this.
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What's a Mike Hammer strategy for the fair?
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Do you have a strategy like when you go to the fair?
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These are my must-dos, these are the things I love to do.
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It kind of changes with the age you're at, but I remember when I was that's very true.
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When I was young, I just wanted to get there.
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And then when I was young, it was something about the glass of milk for a dime.
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That was big when we were kids, and it's not as an adult, I just don't do that.
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I don't do milk, and then the milkshakes, if you went into the carving, the butter carving, and you got the yeah, the cheap, the very inexpensive, I don't say cheap, the dollar milkshakes or whatever, because they were done right and churned right.
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But and and we reach a certain age, and then the midway is all we care about, right?
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And when I was a little kid, the midway was cool, but I just remember it wasn't a given that you were going, but my grandma would push for it, my mom's mom.
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And I remember my grandpa would like to go for a while, and yeah, and it was just not a given.
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So if you got to go to the state fair, yeah, it was like, yes, we're going.
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This is the big day.
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And it was right around school starting, so yeah, it was it was cool.
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But then as I got, yeah, as we got a little older, it was cool when you were young, but you'd have to how much is your mom gonna spend on you when you got a little teenager?
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If you go there, and then how much money is that?
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But here's the the thing is the the the one thing about the fair is not uh yes, there are lots of ways to spend your money, but there are also ways to entertain yourself, you know what I mean?
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Are you there's stuff to watch and do without spending money at the fair?
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There's plenty of stuff to do, including my favorite activity, which is watching my fellow humans in their in their glory.
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And people always like, oh that l I hear it.
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I'm not gonna point out to anybody myself.
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Do you go to the fair casting on too many people?
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I'm like, Yeah, that's the point of the fair.
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A lot of people showed them on listen, I'm somebody that doesn't leave my house because it's too people-y, and I still find certain things I enjoy at the fair.
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For me, I always like to go look at the big pig, like to see the big the big boy, and then I will wander around in that same building and they have the sheep.
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So I like to find the black sheep and say, Hey, buddy, it's okay.
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You know what I mean?
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And get a little you know, let the black sheep know it's okay.
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And then I one of my favorite things, and you did it, you worked state fairs ever since I was a very young adult.
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I read the biography of Ron Popeel.
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If you remember Ron Popeel, the pocket fisherman, you know, he was the infomercial guy, invented all of the things and this and that, but he got his career started carnival varking, like at the state fair.
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The guys selling the vegematics at the fair, those are the best salesmen in the world.
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You just watch them with their pattern, they're so good.
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So, did you ever get observation of that kind of stuff when you were there, or just you were in your own?
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Oh, when I got into it.
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When I used to do booths and stuff, I would sit there and say, Yes, I'm a carney.
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I would tell what do you do for a living?
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I'm a carney.
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Uh just have my whatever, I just take a shower more often.
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But it does they are good.
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It said the the fairs are long hours, and you gotta have that energy.
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Yes, if you're goal driven and and performance driven, yeah, when the fair is 12 hours, you're bringing yeah, you're swinging for 12 hours, and if you don't, you feel but for a lot of people, the a fair like Minnesota is so lucrative that it's like your Super Bowl.
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Oh, it's very lucrative.
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You've been a couple of months of 17-hour days, and that's it, you're done for the year.
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Yep.
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A few people I know, and what I'm gonna give uh a shout out to Vestios Fried Raviolis, and it's from the old Vestios restaurant.
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It's I know the the grandson he owns it, so they have the booth out there, the grandson, you know, and then his wife and uh a St.
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Louis Park, a St.
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Louis Park institution.
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I loved Vessios.
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Vestios was great.
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They went uptown, they had a couple of them at their wedding.
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They had the I still remember the one there along Highway 7 there.
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Highway 7 was the original, yeah.
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Every time Bobby Knight was in town, he him and Sid would uh go to Vessios.
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It was tradition.
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The the friend of mine, John and Allison, they their wedding behind the the head table for the reception, they had the big marquee because they had closed the restaurant.
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So the big marquee was right behind it.
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It was really cool.
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Very cool.
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So they had the I know another guy that went to St.
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Louis Park with Bobby Sitzer.
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He saw t-shirts there, and he would talk about some of these people.
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I remember talking to a lemonade stand, and they said, Yeah, basically, I make enough in those 12 days to not work the rest of the year.
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Yeah, like I'm not living rich, but yeah, I'm living like a blue-collar worker.
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The the problem is that was a land rush, right?
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And you've tried to be part of that land rush for how many years were you on the waiting list to try to get in there?
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Oh God, I uh 10 years I tried to get in, and it just if you're not a new sexy concept or whatever, foot products.
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Foot products are like they're not excited, they don't get excited about feet.
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Can you believe that?
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What about it?
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And I'm like, on, but everybody here is bringing one or two feet.
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Yeah, if they if their feet felt better, they might stay longer or shop more, and they're kind of like they kind of we don't care if they stay longer, we just want people to come more often, turning tables at a restaurant.
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Sure, exactly, exactly.
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That's it, that's a do you remember when you were young?
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Do you remember anything about the cost?
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Because I it's 20 bucks to get in for an adult.
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No, no, and I'm like, and people are like, State fair prices went up, and I'm like, oh my god, like how much?
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50 cents.
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You're like, yeah, get over it.
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The state fair at 20 bucks is a bargain.
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What is a day at Disneyland nowadays?
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200 bucks, 250 bucks, 300 bucks?
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Come on.
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Exactly.
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God, what comedians just talk about do they have machinery hill?
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No.
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I like going to machinery hill when I was done.
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I still do.
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You're like, that's a big ass tractor.
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Do you do you know what I miss back in the good old days?
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You used to be able to go to the AFL CIO, the labor thing, and you used to be able to get the thick yardstick, but it was like it was not like a yard, it was like one inch, it was like almost like a walking stick.
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It was a one-inch square stick or ruler, but it was like it was a yardstick.
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It was awesome because it was great, because it's got windows, windows in the old house that wouldn't go down, and you would try to use the paint stirrers and those wouldn't stand up.
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You get one of those bad boys, you solve it, but no, they don't care, they don't give those away.
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Those were a solid gift that you could get.
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Yeah.
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I'm trying to think of the comedian who got I can't remember the product when they talk about old people talking about yeah, some price going up, and he's oh god, yeah, what did it go up?
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And they're like 80 cents, and he's like, Really?
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That that's that's the whole that's the the hubbub, the whole the whole people getting all flustered is but so do you have a go ahead.
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Sorry, I was gonna say another favorite thing about the state fair was not favorite, but as is my kids got older, the birthing center.
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Now, sometimes you can see it.
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Yeah, that's too crowded.
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That's too damn crowded.
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It's just I can't even happen.
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I did see it once happen, and I'm like, okay, can we be done?
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Yeah.
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Well, you know what a miracle it is educational, right?
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The Heritage Village is pretty cool.
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I always like the Heritage.
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I like that.
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I that's a they don't call it that anymore.
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I don't know what they call it, but there's a I'll let you know what about five hours.
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That's a good that's a good stage.
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That's a good place to hang out because you can see usually it's not that crowded, and so if it's a place to kind of get off your feet and just chill and listen to the hey, Minnesota's best high school polka stars, that kind of stuff.
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So it's like, yeah, all right, cool.
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The free music stages are cool, the the walleye's the walleye fingers, and is that your go-to?
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I was gonna ask, what's your go-to food?
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What's do you it's not really it's what's right in front of me.
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I mean, I I like I we used to go when the kids were little, we'd go, oh, shout out to Michelle Pishko.
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We'd go and she'd be like in charge.
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She'd like, everybody give me 20, 30 bucks, and we're gonna buy a bunch of food, but you don't that's the hard part.
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If you buy one thing, it's like yeah, if I eat this, no, I don't I won't want it, yeah.
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So she would be smart, and we get a bunch of stuff and basically sampler platters where you just try a bite and you pass it around.
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You try a bite, you pass around, so you're getting a variety because you're getting the to try all the things, but if you get a Promptop and you buy cheese curds, yeah, I'm done.
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That's a meal for me.
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That's true, that's true.
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And then they're like, it's so tiring, and whatever.
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I go, because you gorge yourself with food.
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Yes, yes.
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If corn of com's great, yeah, but it's you got butter, and I do get the raviolis because they're my friends, and I like it, and they're good, and you don't get that many, it's not like eating a whole Italian meal.
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I just try to think something.
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When I was a little kid, when I was a little kid, it was mini donuts.
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That was the biggest thing in the world.
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Yeah, mini donuts, and then it's like yeah, tiny Tim, and then that was cool, and then obviously sweet Martha's, but it's sour done sweet Martha's just because I just don't need to get into another diabetic coma.
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You know what I mean?
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Where it's just like people walking out, they're walking out with a gallon bucket of cookies, and you're like, those cookies are best when hot right there, right there.
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Yeah, so I'm like, give me three or four cookies, we'll call it a day.
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I'm not gonna go home and try to read the country.
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So here's the thing is you know we talked about it earlier, but these are the geniuses who take their hot cookies and then go over to the dime milk and then go to fucking town.
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I'm sorry, go to town, sorry.
00:17:47.839 --> 00:17:48.720
Exactly.
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Now it I'd ride the the the the the sky view, the skyline where you go across and I do that especially the last few years with my mom because she obviously it was we'd have to one time it was kind of cool because we had the scooter, we had a couple years there.
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After she got done running people over, we we put some bumpers on.
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No, we had she figured it out, but yeah.
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Well, I remember one of the years, one maybe the last year, she gets up in front of the line because it's hard to be either, and she gets on, and we're like, Well, before we've done it, where we go there and then we just come back to get back to the scooter.
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One year they drove somebody drove it over there and I was there waiting when we got uh got down.
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I'm like, that's cool.
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I do like to go see the puppies, the dogs that do uh just because that's interesting.
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I like I like the art building because I like to see the art the kids make.
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That's kind of cool.
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Actually, it's usually really good.
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I don't always kids sometimes as teachers too.
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Yeah, there's that one.
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What there's the one where I don't know what they call it, but they've got like the 50 different kinds of apples.
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Yeah, oh that's the horticulture building.
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Horticulture.
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Horticulture.
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There you go.
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Big word, picking out the big words.
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Hey, since Mike Hammer knows everybody and I'm curious about everything, do you have any friends that ever did the overnight 4-H state fair thing?
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Because I gotta believe there's some wild stories.
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No, but I'm about about farm kids being there overnight.
00:19:13.839 --> 00:19:16.400
Oh, yeah, there's gotta be some good stuff that happens.
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I I there's yeah, no, and I didn't know really any 4-H's, but I do do did know some Carnies in the sense that talked about the dishevelry that went on when the fair was closed and why they all looked so rough in the morning.
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I can imagine, I can imagine.
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But that yeah, can we take a quick break here from talking about the fair before we go on?
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We have a listener out in California that I wanted to give a shout-out to.
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You were telling me about Fred.
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Oh, Freddie slacked her.
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Yes, he was in town for a few things back in town, but he was at ran into my sister at her friend Julie's celebration of life.
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Sad story, Julie was taken too soon in life.
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But wait too young.
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There you go.
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There's your shout-out, Fred.
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Thanks for listening.
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And tell all your friends.
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If you're willing, give us a shout back and we'll we'll call you up and have you on the on the program.
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So is today just a first day, a first day of the fair thing, or are you going for an event or just something like that?
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No, like I said, my sister goes a first date, and okay, her youngest hunter is he lives out in California, and he's back for the fair, and they're going today.
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And I think both my kids are going too.
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I know one's going, I know two of them, but hold on.
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Did you lose one?
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No, I don't know if the one might not be going, but I know my my sister.
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Well, both of them, and I was like going the map, that's going back to the map.
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I know I mean I was gonna say both of them I know two of them I know for sure are going.
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Okay, all right, that's better.
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That's better, yes.
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I haven't I haven't misplaced one.
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All right, okay, so you're going.
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It's a family thing.
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I am going this year.
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I am gonna go see TLC and Vogue and Salt and Peppa.
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And I sure hope they bring DJ Spinderella because I will be disappointed if they do not.
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But I'm excited.
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I've seen a lot of good shows at the fair.
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There is a lot of good shows.
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I just ran into a guy that used to be a flag waiver at the at the when the races were going on.
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Okay, he quit because he got hit by a car and he quit.
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Oh, that that'll put a damper on it for sure.
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The races, the the shows were good.
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I remember a lot of times you could just sit outside and listen to the show.
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You can actually do you bus in or do you car?
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I take the show bus and then you and then you bus area thing, the bus area they got is kind of behind the grandstand, and you can hear them.
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You can hear them doing the sound checks.
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You can hear them, but you can hear him right in front of them, too.
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But yeah, I'm a parker.
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I park on one of these.
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You want to have control, you don't want to be waiting for the city.
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I, in case you want to go, I've done the bus ride.
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There the one from Rosedale's not bad, but you're waiting.
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You're sitting there going, all right, I'm gonna pretend like I can.
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It's usually not bad.
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I'll tell you that much.
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It's usually not bad.
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No, it's not bad, but it's just busy.
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And then it gets busier, and then you're anything else.
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What's the worst part of traveling?
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The day coming back home.
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You know what I mean?
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And so taking the bus back at the end of the day is like that travel back home day.
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Everything's an inconvenience.
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Everything's a pain.
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I don't sometimes I don't want to be like herded cattle.
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I just want to be a renegade and get in.
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But so I usually do that.
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And I I've seen several shows there.
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So what other which shows I saw a couple years ago, not last year, before I saw Duran, and I actually we sat pretty close.
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Did you uh on certain days you can get go there or tick pick or whatever, you can find seats, people just couldn't make it, and you could get them basically face value and good seats.
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But a couple years before that, I went and saw Kevin Costner's band was there, and they were replacing somebody.
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They were replacing somebody, and Butch, a friend of mine, Butch got said, Hammer, you want to go?
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I got tickets.
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And he was like, We were second row center stage because it was raining and people just bailed, didn't go.
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Yeah.
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And he's a movie star trying to be a rocker, you know, greater, but he had good musicians around him.
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Yeah, he could afford to have a good uh backup band.
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And you said that was Costner, not Bacon?
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Costner?
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It was Kevin Costner.
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Oh wow, okay.
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I know Kevin Bacon as a band, too.
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Yeah, and uh a lot of those actors and whatever, but they want they've all got that rock star dream we've all had, right?
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Yep, and he was good enough.
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He was he'd play, he ain't going on tour nowhere, but he's good enough to sit in a place like that and do it.
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But it was funny, in between these songs, he would tell stories about his acting and how movies came about and this and that.
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And it was cool.
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I was like going, oh, I didn't have a little man crush on him, but I said it was kind of cool just sitting there listening to him chit-chat.
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Very cool.
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And then considering I just watched him again in the field of dreams of the Ulster game last week.
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Yeah.
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In the game last week, and in that movie, he looks like he's 12.
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And I get it.
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It was a long time ago.
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We get it, and I get that wanna have a catch, and you're like, no, it's play catch.
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But you know what?
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When you say play catch in a line in the movie, it doesn't sing like wanna have a catch.
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It's just it's interesting, and I'm sure maybe some more.
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That's not the that's not how it's said.
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It bugs that bugs me probably more than any other.
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I don't know why that bugs me.
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We get it because for me, baseball is entwined with my heart.
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And anything that kind of changes the relationship with my dad or that history, I'm like, no, no, that's not how the story goes.
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We played catch because it was fun to play catch.
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Yeah, they were having a catch because it's a nostalgic moment.
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And people that didn't play baseball, we played baseball, but having a catch was like a uh activity.
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We did it, but we played hotbox in your backyard.
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Hotbox! Hotbox forever without helmets, yeah, and the patches the the five-foot diameter patches that were the bases, that was great.
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Hotbox is great.
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And you know what?
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If anybody complained, the parents would say, hey, we're not raising grass, we're raising boys.
00:25:16.319 --> 00:25:17.440
Exactly, Mr.
00:25:17.519 --> 00:25:18.160
Killerbrook.
00:25:18.400 --> 00:25:34.240
Hey, Mike, Mike Hammer, I th I don't want to step on you and feel free to finish your thought, but at this point, I wanted to kind of we can pick up state fair stuff as a follow-up to what happened, but I want to spend a few minutes talking about some sad news that just happened that I think it devotes deserves a bunch of.
00:25:34.400 --> 00:25:36.160
Oh, yeah, at least five minutes.
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I can't you can't help but turn on a channel and see somebody another network did a one-hour special about the Miss Dolly.
00:25:45.440 --> 00:25:52.559
The I was just talking to somebody, my son, Brady, talking about in school that was like in middle school, they had a crush on her.
00:25:52.720 --> 00:25:56.720
I had a crush on, and it wasn't one where you could say you felt stupid saying to your friend.
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You're like Dolly Part, she and everybody go, You're right.
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Yeah, she they get it.
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She was just pretty and cool.
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Her personality was just so engaging.
00:26:07.440 --> 00:26:18.720
We were talking yesterday about I think a scene from The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, which is not an Oscar-winning movie, but it's a fun movie, and her character and her chemistry with Burt Reynolds is palpable in that movie.
00:26:18.799 --> 00:26:22.799
And it's just I Dolly's like, Man, I'd love to sit down and hang out with Dolly.
00:26:22.960 --> 00:26:23.759
Yeah, he it's funny.
00:26:23.839 --> 00:26:28.720
He Brady was saying with this other friend going, She's been married to her husband a long time.
00:26:28.799 --> 00:26:29.359
He's older.
00:26:29.440 --> 00:26:35.759
He's old when he goes, it's not improbable to do the math, and possibly she might be looking for a young boy.
00:26:36.079 --> 00:26:41.119
But she always had that, she always was pretty, and you didn't look like, oh god, she's old.
00:26:41.359 --> 00:26:43.680
Even the face work she got done looked right.
00:26:43.839 --> 00:26:46.880
But she wasn't terrible, it was not terrible for her.
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She aged pretty gracefully.
00:26:48.480 --> 00:26:54.319
She was god, just watching it through the years, you're like, Yeah, to be nice, her young pictures.
00:26:54.559 --> 00:27:00.319
It wasn't like she was an ugly duckling swan, but she blasted into something clearly.
00:27:00.400 --> 00:27:06.960
She was blessed with amazing talent, which just it's forget as a performer, as a songwriter, just an amazing songwriter.
00:27:07.200 --> 00:27:12.880
But she also showed that you can be very successful in this life and also be a really good human being.
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You know what I mean?
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Not a single person is a bad thing.
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Everybody, every celebrity in America is looking for a photo they might have taken with her to put up there.
00:27:22.000 --> 00:27:35.200
Everybody said that, you said that, and they're like, I said it, and you said they're looking for look, I got a photo, but I was like, when I was looking at Mick Jagger, yeah, Elton John, Paul McCartney, all these stars.
00:27:35.279 --> 00:27:38.720
Yeah, and they look like the giddy one in the picture.
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Yes, and she's yeah, she's not sitting there going, This is my moment.
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She's like, do you want that?
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Come on, inner sweetheart.
00:27:46.240 --> 00:27:47.279
Yeah, let's get a picture with me.
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Come on, inner.
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Oh no, I'll give you a hug.
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Sincerity.
00:27:50.720 --> 00:27:54.160
She really did give off that kind of mom caretaker vibe.
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You know what I mean?
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She wanted to take care of her.
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Like, but listen, be a dolly.
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If you have a choice in life, be a good human being and share for Christ's sake.
00:28:02.160 --> 00:28:02.640
You know what I mean?
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It's such a loss.
00:28:05.279 --> 00:28:06.480
She did she cure cancer.
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No.
00:28:06.960 --> 00:28:07.359
You know what?
00:28:07.440 --> 00:28:10.480
She said, hey, why don't we get some books to kids so they read?
00:28:10.720 --> 00:28:13.200
300 million books of yeah.
00:28:14.000 --> 00:28:16.240
The David Beers, the is it Lester Holt.
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The everybody couldn't get fast enough to the microphone to do a documentary on her.
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ABC was out that night with an R01.
00:28:24.799 --> 00:28:25.440
I was amazed.
00:28:25.519 --> 00:28:27.119
They must have had some of that in queue.
00:28:27.279 --> 00:28:41.279
But it's I'm like, in terms of beloved, I'm like, I the example that comes to my mind is Betty White, but even Betty White didn't have this level of Betty White was beloved, but she was not she had some tips about her.
00:28:42.000 --> 00:28:42.480
Yeah.
00:28:42.799 --> 00:28:52.960
You didn't hear much about Dolly Parton drinking, smoking, doing drugs, bad mouthing, trash talking, destroying hotel rooms, doing whatever.
00:28:53.279 --> 00:28:54.079
You said it.
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If there's a Mount Rushmore of American icons or just American good, wholesome people, yeah.
00:29:01.039 --> 00:29:02.400
I don't know who you put up there with her.
00:29:02.480 --> 00:29:11.599
Well, until you know if go ahead until it came across something that I saw, and I just watched the documentary on him.
00:29:12.079 --> 00:29:17.759
Dick Van Tyck is the kind of guy you could probably put up there with her because they just did a thing on him.
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He's still alive.
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He's a hundred.
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He's still kicking.
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He's still kicking.
00:29:23.039 --> 00:29:26.799
And when he did Mary Poppins 2 in his 80s, he danced.
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I was telling my kids the dance gig from Mary Poppins 1, Step in Line, Step in Time.
00:29:32.000 --> 00:29:34.160
Yeah, he could dance and he still did it.
00:29:34.240 --> 00:29:38.640
And he he just he had that smile, that big chip, that smile.
00:29:39.119 --> 00:29:47.039
And everybody said the same thing about just a nice guy, just someone when he said how you doing, you're like, Wow, you met it.
00:29:47.119 --> 00:29:49.599
And one of the things we don't do this on this show.
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I've been really good.
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I'll just say, you know what?
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Live your life in a way where people aren't gonna celebrate when you die.
00:29:55.759 --> 00:29:58.480
You know, yeah, nobody's celebrating Dolly dying.
00:29:58.559 --> 00:30:01.920
Every people are saying celebrate her life.
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Nobody, I everybody like the old this thing going around.
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There's not much the world can decide on right now, but everybody can decide on Dolly Park.
00:30:12.079 --> 00:30:14.720
I have a work story to share just because it fits right here.
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Oh, about 10 years ago, I was working at Thompson Reuters.
00:30:18.559 --> 00:30:20.480
Great company to work for, great team.
00:30:20.720 --> 00:30:28.640
And we decided to do a Deadpool where you would do a draft of people, and if they died in that year, you would win a prize or win money.
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So the very first one, my boss, who was a sweetheart of a guy.
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Love you, Joel.
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Hope you're doing well.
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That morning comes in, he's the first one to win one.
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He goes, Yes, Mary Tyler Moore died.
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And I'm like, you have to be the only human being who has ever said those words.
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Because everybody loves Mary Tyler Moore.
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Because she could put she could turn the world on with her smile.
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She could, she could.
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So you take a nothing day and suddenly make it.
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All seem worthwhile.
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But Dolly, Dolly was a tremendous human being, and it's sad that she's gone.
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We jump on the bandwagon, but it's an easy bad, it's a big bandwagon, and there's room for everybody.
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And I don't know.
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I saw something this morning about a standoff between her and Joy on the view, and I can't tell if it was clickbait.
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I can't tell if it was set up because I can't find a live thing.
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It's always a commentator telling about what happened.
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So I think it was set up, but it was basically Joy.
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Joy trying to cut down Dolly for putting a persona on what little girls think they have to be.
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And she goes, I never put a person.
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I did this because this is who I wanted to be, and I enjoy it.
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And if anything, I I never saw Dolly sell herself that this is the way to live your life.
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I would put it like this.
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You know what?
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If a dog doesn't like you, you know what?
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If Dolly doesn't like you, I'm gonna think twice.
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Yeah, she made comments and she was quick without her humor and dropped one like and self-depreciating humor about one of 12 kids.
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My mom always had one in her arm or had one inside her.
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And she goes, I'm not trying to be this, I'm not trying to be disgraceful or whatever, but that's just the way it is.
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And people say, Were you Catholic?
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No, we were just horny hillbillies.
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Yeah, birth control hadn't come to town yet.
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She could say the truth and make fun of herself and get away with it because she wasn't degrading anybody.
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No, she was she's I mean you you want to know a good word for Dolly?
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Authentic.
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Authentic.
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She was herself.
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She was not putting.
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I really feel like that's the person.
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It wasn't a character, it wasn't like Pee Wee Herman and Paul Rubens.
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Dolly was Dolly.
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That's the impression I had.
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She did like to play up with the Rhinos and everything.
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She goes, but that made her that made her.
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But that was her.
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But that was her.
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Yeah, that's so, anyways.
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Yeah, I can't remember the guy.
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He's on Dateline or whatever's on C NBC.
00:32:53.039 --> 00:32:54.880
Because last night he was NBC with Lester Holt.
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The day before was David Muir.
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And there's another one I taped on something, but uh it was the one guy that sits there and asked the questions.
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Okay.
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Can't remember the but he said the one time he was it was 20, 25 years ago or something in LA.
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In LA, it's kind of like you're at a restaurant, you don't sit there and go keep going bugging the celebrity that's at dinner, you're having a meal there.
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You just don't shouldn't be.
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And so he goes, I didn't, but a lot of these people were coming up to Dolly real real quietly and whatever, going, I just can't believe.
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And she goes, Each and everyone, she stood up, shaked their hands, said, I glad you came over.
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What do you do?
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What's your name?
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What do you do?
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or whatever, like that.
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Each and every time.
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And it wasn't for no cameras on or nothing, it was just the person she was.
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She gave a dang about everybody, and she wrote a song to everybody in the world about her feelings for you.
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She did, she did.
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It's a very thing I liked about a unique and special human being.
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Just put it like that.
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She could relate to everybody, especially the ones when her coat of many colors tells a story of people pick on you not because they really are trying to pick out your weaknesses.
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They're jealous of you or envious.
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The ones that made fun of her clothes were just too jealous to go out and wear those clothes themselves.
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Because she's happy.
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This is the thing.
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It's why should what somebody else wears bother you if you just don't look problem-solving?
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I'll just say this too, and this is just one off the cuff.
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Why do they grab the wrong ones?
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Yeah.
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You know what?
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I try to try to engage in the philosophy my dad has, which is nobody dies the day before.
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Your day is written in a book, and then that day comes out.
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Oh, I like that one.
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Nobody dies the day before.
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Yeah.
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Classic.
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You know what?
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That somehow pairs together with today or not today.
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Yeah.
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But Sean, I it's uh I sat down and decided no one was gotta run up.
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Still Magnolia's good, and I'm like, it's good.
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I think I think I remember it, and I was watching it yesterday.
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Don't remember much about it.
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You have to remember the mirror scene.
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The mirror scene is memorable if you're a guy.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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You don't know what I'm talking about.
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But anyway, we'll catch it off the air.
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Michael Hammer, have fun at the state fair today.
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If you want to have your hammer family traditions, give say hello, give a hug to Sister Christian for me.
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I will do that.
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I will do that.
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You you enjoy your day there, young man.
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And we'll see you next week on the bench.
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Carl.
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We are out.
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Bye.
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Bye.
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Watching the world spinning slow.
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Another day, strange afterglow.
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From the comfort of this wooden seat, a symphony for tired feet.
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Yeah.
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Helping me to win the fight.
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Yeah.
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Hey, how you doing, Mike Hammer?
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Carlos Figaroa, guess what?
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What?
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Whose state fair is the best state fair?
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Don't miss it.
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Don't even be late.
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That's a dumbass question, because everybody knows the Minnesota State Fair is the best state fair.
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Have you ever been to a different state fair?
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I have not.
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I don't need to.
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I've been to the best state fair.
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Yeah?
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Yes, yes, I have, and it's quite flying around the country.
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Not that I am a frequent flyer or in the million mile club or the mile high club.
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Yeah.
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Still time though.
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Still time.
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The Minneapolis St.
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Paul International Airport.
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Yes, it is.
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It's one of the nicest airports.
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It is, for sure.
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Its rankings on Forbes is it's like you walk in there, you're like, this is a nice airport.
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I was in Miami's couple years ago.
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That thing's just Dallas, Dallas, Dallas is ugly and inconvenient and not friendly.
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LaGuardia is a damn toilet.
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Logan is a garbage, is a garbage dump.
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There's some crappy airports.
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Yeah, it was just at the John Wayne airport, and that was cool.
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Actually, it's small and quaint.
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Little Orange County.
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Yep.
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And then Kansas City's airport was great.
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It was like basically you get out of the Uber, you get up on the sidewalk, you walk through the door, you take 10 steps, you're in security, you take 10 more steps, you're on the plane.
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It was a big horseshoe that was but Kansas City is an awesome city.
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But uh so that analogy is yeah, the Minnesota State Fair is really nice.
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It's cool, it's nice.
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It's and I'm going there in a little bit here because are yeah, no, it's today's opening day, right?
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Today's opening day.
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It's who's throwing out the first pitch.
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Yeah.
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Uh Sister Dearest Michelle goes every day every year, first day, but she's now is she walking it?
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Is she scootering it?
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What's she how is she maneuvering this year?
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She's been told that if need be, they'll get her a scooter.
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I'm like, that or just say, screw you guys, I'm getting a scooter.
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Yeah, exactly.
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Yeah.
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She doesn't, she's gotten a lot better.
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She's walking without any from her uh but it's a lot of walking at the fair.
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That's not that's a commitment.
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It it is a commitment, and I would be saying I did get the scooter just because we did that with my mom the first year.
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This was hilarious.
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We uh we go there, and this was uh one of the last years my mom went, and it was me and my mom, my sister, and it was a weekday, and that might have been like a day like today, and we get we get it and get her the scooter, and she starts going, and she really hadn't had a scooter.
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I had almost sold them at one time, so I had one that I was using, and it was a little bit higher seated up, and it was a three-wheeler, but she rode that around a bit.
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But it all changes when you get into traffic.
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At first, when she got it, we're going from the place and there wasn't a lot of people, and all of a sudden we watched and she just took off.
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She's all of a sudden 10 yards in front of us, 20, 30, 40, not looking back.
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Just we could see her head moving, looking side to side.
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Yeah, I'm I'm in my new T bird with convertible, just cruising down the street.
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And I'm looking at Michelle, I'm like, look at our little girl go.
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She's just she's doing she just found her wings, and yeah, so during the day I could see the nervousness when she was trying to get through traffic and and go and not be a nuisance.
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And and me working shows selling the products over the years I watched as mobility scooters got more and more popular, and then they got less and less popular because people come wheeling around, they're running people over.
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This and that.
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And a lot of my here's the problem with a state fair is I get anxiety ridden just figuring out how to walk with all those people.
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I can't imagine how anxious it must be trying to ride or be in a scooter going through that.
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It's a young, it's funny, it's for older people, but as younger persons game, because like my daughter or boys will get at it, and they just but they have an easier way of measuring, calculating distance, space, travel time, who's moving what I'm just I'm thinking about some of those moments at the fair where they're just they know nothing.
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You're just no you're just moving along in the blob of humanity.
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And it's tough too, like when people bring strollers because you don't see it sometimes because your vision's up here, and all of a sudden you're running into a stroller.
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And I always when my kids were little, strollers were great because they you could pack everything in there, bring your own stuff that you don't want to spend, you don't want to buy five-dollar waters, you bring your own bottles of water, they don't check.
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But but you gave yourself a buffer, but then you had to wait for people to clear because they're not looking down, and then you're like either pushing the situation, like oh, bumping into them and saying, excuse me after the fact.
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But so my mom, we're going, we're in front of the giant slide.
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We meet my some other people there, and she was turning around, and the curb was the curb there, is uh not a straight up curb like a lot of the state fairs because it's old, it's one of those newer ones that's planted at a 45 degree, but she's trying to move, and this lady's carrying a child about two years old, and my mom confuses brakes with oh give it gas, and she happened.
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She didn't hit this lady hard, but she didn't back off the throttle, and it was like watching a monster truck try to climb up a hill slowly, and I catch it right away, and I'm trying to pull the scooter off this girl who goes down, not like she's but like slowly goes to the ground, protecting the kid, putting her hand down, and I'm trying to hold her, pull the scooter away, and I'm looking at my mom and the terror in her eyes, the fear of what she's doing, and at the same time, she's just giving a gas.
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And I'm like going, oof dah.
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Finally, we get we get it all situated.
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I don't know if somebody grabbed her hand and the sandlebars because I could only grab one part and try to it was like trying to break up a fight between two people, one a machine, and one a girl getting going down with the baby in her hands.
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And uh and the girl got up, and she could not be more apologize.
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She was apologizing to my mom for basically holding a child at the fair.
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I don't know what I was thinking.
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I shouldn't have been like I shouldn't have been standing here.
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Judy's a sweetheart, she is the salt of the earth.
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But I'm gonna tell you, she was the one giving a gas.
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It was like Scotty on the Enterprise.
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That's funny.
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That's funny.
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Scotty, just open up all the ports and fire away with everything we got, yeah.
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Like you've said before.
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Push the print button and do it till we run out of ink.
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So we're talking about the great Minnesota get together.
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Let me ask you this.
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What's a Mike Hammer strategy for the fair?
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Do you have a strategy like when you go to the fair?
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These are my must-dos, these are the things I love to do.
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It kind of changes with the age you're at, but I remember when I was that's very true.
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When I was young, I just wanted to get there.
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And then when I was young, it was something about the glass of milk for a dime.
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That was big when we were kids, and it's not as an adult, I just don't do that.
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I don't do milk, and then the milkshakes, if you went into the carving, the butter carving, and you got the yeah, the cheap, the very inexpensive, I don't say cheap, the dollar milkshakes or whatever, because they were done right and churned right.
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But and and we reach a certain age, and then the midway is all we care about, right?
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And when I was a little kid, the midway was cool, but I just remember it wasn't a given that you were going, but my grandma would push for it, my mom's mom.
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And I remember my grandpa would like to go for a while, and yeah, and it was just not a given.
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So if you got to go to the state fair, yeah, it was like, yes, we're going.
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This is the big day.
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And it was right around school starting, so yeah, it was it was cool.
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But then as I got, yeah, as we got a little older, it was cool when you were young, but you'd have to how much is your mom gonna spend on you when you got a little teenager?
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If you go there, and then how much money is that?
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But here's the the thing is the the the one thing about the fair is not uh yes, there are lots of ways to spend your money, but there are also ways to entertain yourself, you know what I mean?
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Are you there's stuff to watch and do without spending money at the fair?
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There's plenty of stuff to do, including my favorite activity, which is watching my fellow humans in their in their glory.
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And people always like, oh that l I hear it.
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I'm not gonna point out to anybody myself.
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Do you go to the fair casting on too many people?
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I'm like, Yeah, that's the point of the fair.
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A lot of people showed them on listen, I'm somebody that doesn't leave my house because it's too people-y, and I still find certain things I enjoy at the fair.
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For me, I always like to go look at the big pig, like to see the big the big boy, and then I will wander around in that same building and they have the sheep.
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So I like to find the black sheep and say, Hey, buddy, it's okay.
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You know what I mean?
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And get a little you know, let the black sheep know it's okay.
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And then I one of my favorite things, and you did it, you worked state fairs ever since I was a very young adult.
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I read the biography of Ron Popeel.
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If you remember Ron Popeel, the pocket fisherman, you know, he was the infomercial guy, invented all of the things and this and that, but he got his career started carnival varking, like at the state fair.
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The guys selling the vegematics at the fair, those are the best salesmen in the world.
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You just watch them with their pattern, they're so good.
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So, did you ever get observation of that kind of stuff when you were there, or just you were in your own?
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Oh, when I got into it.
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When I used to do booths and stuff, I would sit there and say, Yes, I'm a carney.
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I would tell what do you do for a living?
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I'm a carney.
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Uh just have my whatever, I just take a shower more often.
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But it does they are good.
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It said the the fairs are long hours, and you gotta have that energy.
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Yes, if you're goal driven and and performance driven, yeah, when the fair is 12 hours, you're bringing yeah, you're swinging for 12 hours, and if you don't, you feel but for a lot of people, the a fair like Minnesota is so lucrative that it's like your Super Bowl.
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Oh, it's very lucrative.
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You've been a couple of months of 17-hour days, and that's it, you're done for the year.
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Yep.
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A few people I know, and what I'm gonna give uh a shout out to Vestios Fried Raviolis, and it's from the old Vestios restaurant.
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It's I know the the grandson he owns it, so they have the booth out there, the grandson, you know, and then his wife and uh a St.
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Louis Park, a St.
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Louis Park institution.
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I loved Vessios.
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Vestios was great.
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They went uptown, they had a couple of them at their wedding.
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They had the I still remember the one there along Highway 7 there.
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Highway 7 was the original, yeah.
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Every time Bobby Knight was in town, he him and Sid would uh go to Vessios.
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It was tradition.
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The the friend of mine, John and Allison, they their wedding behind the the head table for the reception, they had the big marquee because they had closed the restaurant.
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So the big marquee was right behind it.
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It was really cool.
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Very cool.
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So they had the I know another guy that went to St.
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Louis Park with Bobby Sitzer.
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He saw t-shirts there, and he would talk about some of these people.
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I remember talking to a lemonade stand, and they said, Yeah, basically, I make enough in those 12 days to not work the rest of the year.
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Yeah, like I'm not living rich, but yeah, I'm living like a blue-collar worker.
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The the problem is that was a land rush, right?
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And you've tried to be part of that land rush for how many years were you on the waiting list to try to get in there?
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Oh God, I uh 10 years I tried to get in, and it just if you're not a new sexy concept or whatever, foot products.
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Foot products are like they're not excited, they don't get excited about feet.
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Can you believe that?
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What about it?
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And I'm like, on, but everybody here is bringing one or two feet.
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Yeah, if they if their feet felt better, they might stay longer or shop more, and they're kind of like they kind of we don't care if they stay longer, we just want people to come more often, turning tables at a restaurant.
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Sure, exactly, exactly.
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That's it, that's a do you remember when you were young?
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Do you remember anything about the cost?
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Because I it's 20 bucks to get in for an adult.
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No, no, and I'm like, and people are like, State fair prices went up, and I'm like, oh my god, like how much?
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50 cents.
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You're like, yeah, get over it.
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The state fair at 20 bucks is a bargain.
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What is a day at Disneyland nowadays?
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200 bucks, 250 bucks, 300 bucks?
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Come on.
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Exactly.
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God, what comedians just talk about do they have machinery hill?
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No.
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I like going to machinery hill when I was done.
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I still do.
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You're like, that's a big ass tractor.
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Do you do you know what I miss back in the good old days?
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You used to be able to go to the AFL CIO, the labor thing, and you used to be able to get the thick yardstick, but it was like it was not like a yard, it was like one inch, it was like almost like a walking stick.
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It was a one-inch square stick or ruler, but it was like it was a yardstick.
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It was awesome because it was great, because it's got windows, windows in the old house that wouldn't go down, and you would try to use the paint stirrers and those wouldn't stand up.
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You get one of those bad boys, you solve it, but no, they don't care, they don't give those away.
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Those were a solid gift that you could get.
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Yeah.
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I'm trying to think of the comedian who got I can't remember the product when they talk about old people talking about yeah, some price going up, and he's oh god, yeah, what did it go up?
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And they're like 80 cents, and he's like, Really?
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That that's that's the whole that's the the hubbub, the whole the whole people getting all flustered is but so do you have a go ahead.
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Sorry, I was gonna say another favorite thing about the state fair was not favorite, but as is my kids got older, the birthing center.
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Now, sometimes you can see it.
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Yeah, that's too crowded.
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That's too damn crowded.
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It's just I can't even happen.
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I did see it once happen, and I'm like, okay, can we be done?
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Yeah.
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Well, you know what a miracle it is educational, right?
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The Heritage Village is pretty cool.
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I always like the Heritage.
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I like that.
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I that's a they don't call it that anymore.
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I don't know what they call it, but there's a I'll let you know what about five hours.
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That's a good that's a good stage.
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That's a good place to hang out because you can see usually it's not that crowded, and so if it's a place to kind of get off your feet and just chill and listen to the hey, Minnesota's best high school polka stars, that kind of stuff.
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So it's like, yeah, all right, cool.
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The free music stages are cool, the the walleye's the walleye fingers, and is that your go-to?
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I was gonna ask, what's your go-to food?
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What's do you it's not really it's what's right in front of me.
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I mean, I I like I we used to go when the kids were little, we'd go, oh, shout out to Michelle Pishko.
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We'd go and she'd be like in charge.
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She'd like, everybody give me 20, 30 bucks, and we're gonna buy a bunch of food, but you don't that's the hard part.
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If you buy one thing, it's like yeah, if I eat this, no, I don't I won't want it, yeah.
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So she would be smart, and we get a bunch of stuff and basically sampler platters where you just try a bite and you pass it around.
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You try a bite, you pass around, so you're getting a variety because you're getting the to try all the things, but if you get a Promptop and you buy cheese curds, yeah, I'm done.
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That's a meal for me.
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That's true, that's true.
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And then they're like, it's so tiring, and whatever.
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I go, because you gorge yourself with food.
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Yes, yes.
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If corn of com's great, yeah, but it's you got butter, and I do get the raviolis because they're my friends, and I like it, and they're good, and you don't get that many, it's not like eating a whole Italian meal.
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I just try to think something.
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When I was a little kid, when I was a little kid, it was mini donuts.
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That was the biggest thing in the world.
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Yeah, mini donuts, and then it's like yeah, tiny Tim, and then that was cool, and then obviously sweet Martha's, but it's sour done sweet Martha's just because I just don't need to get into another diabetic coma.
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You know what I mean?
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Where it's just like people walking out, they're walking out with a gallon bucket of cookies, and you're like, those cookies are best when hot right there, right there.
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Yeah, so I'm like, give me three or four cookies, we'll call it a day.
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I'm not gonna go home and try to read the country.
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So here's the thing is you know we talked about it earlier, but these are the geniuses who take their hot cookies and then go over to the dime milk and then go to fucking town.
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I'm sorry, go to town, sorry.
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Exactly.
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Now it I'd ride the the the the the sky view, the skyline where you go across and I do that especially the last few years with my mom because she obviously it was we'd have to one time it was kind of cool because we had the scooter, we had a couple years there.
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After she got done running people over, we we put some bumpers on.
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No, we had she figured it out, but yeah.
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Well, I remember one of the years, one maybe the last year, she gets up in front of the line because it's hard to be either, and she gets on, and we're like, Well, before we've done it, where we go there and then we just come back to get back to the scooter.
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One year they drove somebody drove it over there and I was there waiting when we got uh got down.
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I'm like, that's cool.
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I do like to go see the puppies, the dogs that do uh just because that's interesting.
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I like I like the art building because I like to see the art the kids make.
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That's kind of cool.
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Actually, it's usually really good.
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I don't always kids sometimes as teachers too.
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Yeah, there's that one.
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What there's the one where I don't know what they call it, but they've got like the 50 different kinds of apples.
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Yeah, oh that's the horticulture building.
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Horticulture.
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Horticulture.
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There you go.
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Big word, picking out the big words.
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Hey, since Mike Hammer knows everybody and I'm curious about everything, do you have any friends that ever did the overnight 4-H state fair thing?
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Because I gotta believe there's some wild stories.
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No, but I'm about about farm kids being there overnight.
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Oh, yeah, there's gotta be some good stuff that happens.
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I I there's yeah, no, and I didn't know really any 4-H's, but I do do did know some Carnies in the sense that talked about the dishevelry that went on when the fair was closed and why they all looked so rough in the morning.
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I can imagine, I can imagine.
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But that yeah, can we take a quick break here from talking about the fair before we go on?
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We have a listener out in California that I wanted to give a shout-out to.
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You were telling me about Fred.
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Oh, Freddie slacked her.
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Yes, he was in town for a few things back in town, but he was at ran into my sister at her friend Julie's celebration of life.
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Sad story, Julie was taken too soon in life.
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But wait too young.
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There you go.
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There's your shout-out, Fred.
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Thanks for listening.
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And tell all your friends.
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If you're willing, give us a shout back and we'll we'll call you up and have you on the on the program.
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So is today just a first day, a first day of the fair thing, or are you going for an event or just something like that?
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No, like I said, my sister goes a first date, and okay, her youngest hunter is he lives out in California, and he's back for the fair, and they're going today.
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And I think both my kids are going too.
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I know one's going, I know two of them, but hold on.
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Did you lose one?
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No, I don't know if the one might not be going, but I know my my sister.
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Well, both of them, and I was like going the map, that's going back to the map.
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I know I mean I was gonna say both of them I know two of them I know for sure are going.
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Okay, all right, that's better.
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That's better, yes.
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I haven't I haven't misplaced one.
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All right, okay, so you're going.
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It's a family thing.
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I am going this year.
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I am gonna go see TLC and Vogue and Salt and Peppa.
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And I sure hope they bring DJ Spinderella because I will be disappointed if they do not.
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But I'm excited.
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I've seen a lot of good shows at the fair.
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There is a lot of good shows.
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I just ran into a guy that used to be a flag waiver at the at the when the races were going on.
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Okay, he quit because he got hit by a car and he quit.
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Oh, that that'll put a damper on it for sure.
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The races, the the shows were good.
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I remember a lot of times you could just sit outside and listen to the show.
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You can actually do you bus in or do you car?
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I take the show bus and then you and then you bus area thing, the bus area they got is kind of behind the grandstand, and you can hear them.
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You can hear them doing the sound checks.
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You can hear them, but you can hear him right in front of them, too.
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But yeah, I'm a parker.
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I park on one of these.
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You want to have control, you don't want to be waiting for the city.
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I, in case you want to go, I've done the bus ride.
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There the one from Rosedale's not bad, but you're waiting.
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You're sitting there going, all right, I'm gonna pretend like I can.
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It's usually not bad.
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I'll tell you that much.
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It's usually not bad.
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No, it's not bad, but it's just busy.
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And then it gets busier, and then you're anything else.
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What's the worst part of traveling?
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The day coming back home.
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You know what I mean?
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And so taking the bus back at the end of the day is like that travel back home day.
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Everything's an inconvenience.
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Everything's a pain.
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I don't sometimes I don't want to be like herded cattle.
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I just want to be a renegade and get in.
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But so I usually do that.
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And I I've seen several shows there.
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So what other which shows I saw a couple years ago, not last year, before I saw Duran, and I actually we sat pretty close.
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Did you uh on certain days you can get go there or tick pick or whatever, you can find seats, people just couldn't make it, and you could get them basically face value and good seats.
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But a couple years before that, I went and saw Kevin Costner's band was there, and they were replacing somebody.
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They were replacing somebody, and Butch, a friend of mine, Butch got said, Hammer, you want to go?
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I got tickets.
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And he was like, We were second row center stage because it was raining and people just bailed, didn't go.
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Yeah.
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And he's a movie star trying to be a rocker, you know, greater, but he had good musicians around him.
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Yeah, he could afford to have a good uh backup band.
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And you said that was Costner, not Bacon?
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Costner?
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It was Kevin Costner.
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Oh wow, okay.
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I know Kevin Bacon as a band, too.
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Yeah, and uh a lot of those actors and whatever, but they want they've all got that rock star dream we've all had, right?
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Yep, and he was good enough.
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He was he'd play, he ain't going on tour nowhere, but he's good enough to sit in a place like that and do it.
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But it was funny, in between these songs, he would tell stories about his acting and how movies came about and this and that.
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And it was cool.
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I was like going, oh, I didn't have a little man crush on him, but I said it was kind of cool just sitting there listening to him chit-chat.
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Very cool.
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And then considering I just watched him again in the field of dreams of the Ulster game last week.
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Yeah.
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In the game last week, and in that movie, he looks like he's 12.
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And I get it.
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It was a long time ago.
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We get it, and I get that wanna have a catch, and you're like, no, it's play catch.
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But you know what?
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When you say play catch in a line in the movie, it doesn't sing like wanna have a catch.
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It's just it's interesting, and I'm sure maybe some more.
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That's not the that's not how it's said.
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It bugs that bugs me probably more than any other.
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I don't know why that bugs me.
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We get it because for me, baseball is entwined with my heart.
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And anything that kind of changes the relationship with my dad or that history, I'm like, no, no, that's not how the story goes.
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We played catch because it was fun to play catch.
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Yeah, they were having a catch because it's a nostalgic moment.
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And people that didn't play baseball, we played baseball, but having a catch was like a uh activity.
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We did it, but we played hotbox in your backyard.
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Hotbox! Hotbox forever without helmets, yeah, and the patches the the five-foot diameter patches that were the bases, that was great.
00:25:08.880 --> 00:25:09.759
Hotbox is great.
00:25:10.079 --> 00:25:10.640
And you know what?
00:25:10.799 --> 00:25:16.000
If anybody complained, the parents would say, hey, we're not raising grass, we're raising boys.
00:25:16.319 --> 00:25:17.440
Exactly, Mr.
00:25:17.519 --> 00:25:18.160
Killerbrook.
00:25:18.400 --> 00:25:34.240
Hey, Mike, Mike Hammer, I th I don't want to step on you and feel free to finish your thought, but at this point, I wanted to kind of we can pick up state fair stuff as a follow-up to what happened, but I want to spend a few minutes talking about some sad news that just happened that I think it devotes deserves a bunch of.
00:25:34.400 --> 00:25:36.160
Oh, yeah, at least five minutes.
00:25:36.319 --> 00:25:45.200
I can't you can't help but turn on a channel and see somebody another network did a one-hour special about the Miss Dolly.
00:25:45.440 --> 00:25:52.559
The I was just talking to somebody, my son, Brady, talking about in school that was like in middle school, they had a crush on her.
00:25:52.720 --> 00:25:56.720
I had a crush on, and it wasn't one where you could say you felt stupid saying to your friend.
00:25:56.799 --> 00:25:59.440
You're like Dolly Part, she and everybody go, You're right.
00:25:59.599 --> 00:26:01.039
Yeah, she they get it.
00:26:01.279 --> 00:26:03.440
She was just pretty and cool.
00:26:04.319 --> 00:26:07.119
Her personality was just so engaging.
00:26:07.440 --> 00:26:18.720
We were talking yesterday about I think a scene from The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, which is not an Oscar-winning movie, but it's a fun movie, and her character and her chemistry with Burt Reynolds is palpable in that movie.
00:26:18.799 --> 00:26:22.799
And it's just I Dolly's like, Man, I'd love to sit down and hang out with Dolly.
00:26:22.960 --> 00:26:23.759
Yeah, he it's funny.
00:26:23.839 --> 00:26:28.720
He Brady was saying with this other friend going, She's been married to her husband a long time.
00:26:28.799 --> 00:26:29.359
He's older.
00:26:29.440 --> 00:26:35.759
He's old when he goes, it's not improbable to do the math, and possibly she might be looking for a young boy.
00:26:36.079 --> 00:26:41.119
But she always had that, she always was pretty, and you didn't look like, oh god, she's old.
00:26:41.359 --> 00:26:43.680
Even the face work she got done looked right.
00:26:43.839 --> 00:26:46.880
But she wasn't terrible, it was not terrible for her.
00:26:46.960 --> 00:26:48.240
She aged pretty gracefully.
00:26:48.480 --> 00:26:54.319
She was god, just watching it through the years, you're like, Yeah, to be nice, her young pictures.
00:26:54.559 --> 00:27:00.319
It wasn't like she was an ugly duckling swan, but she blasted into something clearly.
00:27:00.400 --> 00:27:06.960
She was blessed with amazing talent, which just it's forget as a performer, as a songwriter, just an amazing songwriter.
00:27:07.200 --> 00:27:12.880
But she also showed that you can be very successful in this life and also be a really good human being.
00:27:13.119 --> 00:27:13.759
You know what I mean?
00:27:14.000 --> 00:27:15.839
Not a single person is a bad thing.
00:27:16.079 --> 00:27:21.920
Everybody, every celebrity in America is looking for a photo they might have taken with her to put up there.
00:27:22.000 --> 00:27:35.200
Everybody said that, you said that, and they're like, I said it, and you said they're looking for look, I got a photo, but I was like, when I was looking at Mick Jagger, yeah, Elton John, Paul McCartney, all these stars.
00:27:35.279 --> 00:27:38.720
Yeah, and they look like the giddy one in the picture.
00:27:39.039 --> 00:27:43.680
Yes, and she's yeah, she's not sitting there going, This is my moment.
00:27:43.759 --> 00:27:44.880
She's like, do you want that?
00:27:44.960 --> 00:27:46.160
Come on, inner sweetheart.
00:27:46.240 --> 00:27:47.279
Yeah, let's get a picture with me.
00:27:47.359 --> 00:27:47.839
Come on, inner.
00:27:48.000 --> 00:27:49.039
Oh no, I'll give you a hug.
00:27:49.359 --> 00:27:50.240
Sincerity.
00:27:50.720 --> 00:27:54.160
She really did give off that kind of mom caretaker vibe.
00:27:54.240 --> 00:27:54.720
You know what I mean?
00:27:54.960 --> 00:27:55.920
She wanted to take care of her.
00:27:56.079 --> 00:27:57.759
Like, but listen, be a dolly.
00:27:57.920 --> 00:28:02.079
If you have a choice in life, be a good human being and share for Christ's sake.
00:28:02.160 --> 00:28:02.640
You know what I mean?
00:28:03.839 --> 00:28:04.720
It's such a loss.
00:28:05.279 --> 00:28:06.480
She did she cure cancer.
00:28:06.559 --> 00:28:06.799
No.
00:28:06.960 --> 00:28:07.359
You know what?
00:28:07.440 --> 00:28:10.480
She said, hey, why don't we get some books to kids so they read?
00:28:10.720 --> 00:28:13.200
300 million books of yeah.
00:28:14.000 --> 00:28:16.240
The David Beers, the is it Lester Holt.
00:28:16.480 --> 00:28:21.839
The everybody couldn't get fast enough to the microphone to do a documentary on her.
00:28:22.240 --> 00:28:24.720
ABC was out that night with an R01.
00:28:24.799 --> 00:28:25.440
I was amazed.
00:28:25.519 --> 00:28:27.119
They must have had some of that in queue.
00:28:27.279 --> 00:28:41.279
But it's I'm like, in terms of beloved, I'm like, I the example that comes to my mind is Betty White, but even Betty White didn't have this level of Betty White was beloved, but she was not she had some tips about her.
00:28:42.000 --> 00:28:42.480
Yeah.
00:28:42.799 --> 00:28:52.960
You didn't hear much about Dolly Parton drinking, smoking, doing drugs, bad mouthing, trash talking, destroying hotel rooms, doing whatever.
00:28:53.279 --> 00:28:54.079
You said it.
00:28:54.160 --> 00:29:00.880
If there's a Mount Rushmore of American icons or just American good, wholesome people, yeah.
00:29:01.039 --> 00:29:02.400
I don't know who you put up there with her.
00:29:02.480 --> 00:29:11.599
Well, until you know if go ahead until it came across something that I saw, and I just watched the documentary on him.
00:29:12.079 --> 00:29:17.759
Dick Van Tyck is the kind of guy you could probably put up there with her because they just did a thing on him.
00:29:17.920 --> 00:29:18.880
He's still alive.
00:29:19.039 --> 00:29:19.680
He's a hundred.
00:29:20.960 --> 00:29:22.000
He's still kicking.
00:29:22.240 --> 00:29:22.960
He's still kicking.
00:29:23.039 --> 00:29:26.799
And when he did Mary Poppins 2 in his 80s, he danced.
00:29:26.960 --> 00:29:31.920
I was telling my kids the dance gig from Mary Poppins 1, Step in Line, Step in Time.
00:29:32.000 --> 00:29:34.160
Yeah, he could dance and he still did it.
00:29:34.240 --> 00:29:38.640
And he he just he had that smile, that big chip, that smile.
00:29:39.119 --> 00:29:47.039
And everybody said the same thing about just a nice guy, just someone when he said how you doing, you're like, Wow, you met it.
00:29:47.119 --> 00:29:49.599
And one of the things we don't do this on this show.
00:29:49.759 --> 00:29:50.799
I've been really good.
00:29:50.960 --> 00:29:52.000
I'll just say, you know what?
00:29:52.160 --> 00:29:55.200
Live your life in a way where people aren't gonna celebrate when you die.
00:29:55.759 --> 00:29:58.480
You know, yeah, nobody's celebrating Dolly dying.
00:29:58.559 --> 00:30:01.920
Every people are saying celebrate her life.
00:30:02.400 --> 00:30:05.680
Nobody, I everybody like the old this thing going around.
00:30:06.720 --> 00:30:10.640
There's not much the world can decide on right now, but everybody can decide on Dolly Park.
00:30:12.079 --> 00:30:14.720
I have a work story to share just because it fits right here.
00:30:14.960 --> 00:30:18.240
Oh, about 10 years ago, I was working at Thompson Reuters.
00:30:18.559 --> 00:30:20.480
Great company to work for, great team.
00:30:20.720 --> 00:30:28.640
And we decided to do a Deadpool where you would do a draft of people, and if they died in that year, you would win a prize or win money.
00:30:29.279 --> 00:30:33.839
So the very first one, my boss, who was a sweetheart of a guy.
00:30:34.000 --> 00:30:34.720
Love you, Joel.
00:30:34.799 --> 00:30:36.000
Hope you're doing well.
00:30:36.319 --> 00:30:38.640
That morning comes in, he's the first one to win one.
00:30:38.720 --> 00:30:41.119
He goes, Yes, Mary Tyler Moore died.
00:30:41.359 --> 00:30:45.759
And I'm like, you have to be the only human being who has ever said those words.
00:30:45.920 --> 00:30:47.920
Because everybody loves Mary Tyler Moore.
00:30:49.680 --> 00:30:52.480
Because she could put she could turn the world on with her smile.
00:30:52.720 --> 00:30:53.440
She could, she could.
00:30:53.519 --> 00:30:56.480
So you take a nothing day and suddenly make it.
00:30:57.039 --> 00:30:58.880
All seem worthwhile.
00:30:59.599 --> 00:31:04.079
But Dolly, Dolly was a tremendous human being, and it's sad that she's gone.
00:31:04.400 --> 00:31:10.079
We jump on the bandwagon, but it's an easy bad, it's a big bandwagon, and there's room for everybody.
00:31:10.160 --> 00:31:11.039
And I don't know.
00:31:11.119 --> 00:31:19.119
I saw something this morning about a standoff between her and Joy on the view, and I can't tell if it was clickbait.
00:31:19.759 --> 00:31:23.680
I can't tell if it was set up because I can't find a live thing.
00:31:23.759 --> 00:31:26.160
It's always a commentator telling about what happened.
00:31:26.240 --> 00:31:29.200
So I think it was set up, but it was basically Joy.
00:31:29.440 --> 00:31:35.200
Joy trying to cut down Dolly for putting a persona on what little girls think they have to be.
00:31:35.279 --> 00:31:36.480
And she goes, I never put a person.
00:31:37.200 --> 00:31:41.359
I did this because this is who I wanted to be, and I enjoy it.
00:31:41.519 --> 00:31:46.160
And if anything, I I never saw Dolly sell herself that this is the way to live your life.
00:31:47.200 --> 00:31:48.000
I would put it like this.
00:31:48.160 --> 00:31:48.640
You know what?
00:31:48.799 --> 00:31:51.359
If a dog doesn't like you, you know what?
00:31:51.440 --> 00:31:53.920
If Dolly doesn't like you, I'm gonna think twice.
00:31:54.079 --> 00:32:01.200
Yeah, she made comments and she was quick without her humor and dropped one like and self-depreciating humor about one of 12 kids.
00:32:01.279 --> 00:32:04.160
My mom always had one in her arm or had one inside her.
00:32:04.319 --> 00:32:09.680
And she goes, I'm not trying to be this, I'm not trying to be disgraceful or whatever, but that's just the way it is.
00:32:09.839 --> 00:32:11.599
And people say, Were you Catholic?
00:32:11.759 --> 00:32:13.920
No, we were just horny hillbillies.
00:32:14.000 --> 00:32:17.039
Yeah, birth control hadn't come to town yet.
00:32:17.440 --> 00:32:23.440
She could say the truth and make fun of herself and get away with it because she wasn't degrading anybody.
00:32:23.839 --> 00:32:28.799
No, she was she's I mean you you want to know a good word for Dolly?
00:32:29.039 --> 00:32:29.839
Authentic.
00:32:30.480 --> 00:32:31.119
Authentic.
00:32:31.440 --> 00:32:32.160
She was herself.
00:32:32.240 --> 00:32:33.039
She was not putting.
00:32:33.279 --> 00:32:35.200
I really feel like that's the person.
00:32:35.279 --> 00:32:38.640
It wasn't a character, it wasn't like Pee Wee Herman and Paul Rubens.
00:32:38.880 --> 00:32:39.839
Dolly was Dolly.
00:32:40.000 --> 00:32:40.799
That's the impression I had.
00:32:42.079 --> 00:32:44.160
She did like to play up with the Rhinos and everything.
00:32:44.240 --> 00:32:45.759
She goes, but that made her that made her.
00:32:45.920 --> 00:32:46.559
But that was her.
00:32:46.720 --> 00:32:47.519
But that was her.
00:32:47.759 --> 00:32:49.279
Yeah, that's so, anyways.
00:32:49.519 --> 00:32:50.640
Yeah, I can't remember the guy.
00:32:50.720 --> 00:32:52.960
He's on Dateline or whatever's on C NBC.
00:32:53.039 --> 00:32:54.880
Because last night he was NBC with Lester Holt.
00:32:55.039 --> 00:32:56.720
The day before was David Muir.
00:32:56.880 --> 00:33:01.359
And there's another one I taped on something, but uh it was the one guy that sits there and asked the questions.
00:33:03.200 --> 00:33:03.440
Okay.
00:33:03.680 --> 00:33:11.599
Can't remember the but he said the one time he was it was 20, 25 years ago or something in LA.
00:33:12.079 --> 00:33:17.920
In LA, it's kind of like you're at a restaurant, you don't sit there and go keep going bugging the celebrity that's at dinner, you're having a meal there.
00:33:18.000 --> 00:33:19.279
You just don't shouldn't be.
00:33:19.920 --> 00:33:26.880
And so he goes, I didn't, but a lot of these people were coming up to Dolly real real quietly and whatever, going, I just can't believe.
00:33:27.119 --> 00:33:33.039
And she goes, Each and everyone, she stood up, shaked their hands, said, I glad you came over.
00:33:33.119 --> 00:33:33.680
What do you do?
00:33:33.759 --> 00:33:34.240
What's your name?
00:33:34.319 --> 00:33:34.720
What do you do?
00:33:34.799 --> 00:33:35.759
or whatever, like that.
00:33:36.000 --> 00:33:37.039
Each and every time.
00:33:37.119 --> 00:33:42.640
And it wasn't for no cameras on or nothing, it was just the person she was.
00:33:42.799 --> 00:33:48.880
She gave a dang about everybody, and she wrote a song to everybody in the world about her feelings for you.
00:33:49.440 --> 00:33:50.160
She did, she did.
00:33:50.240 --> 00:33:54.160
It's a very thing I liked about a unique and special human being.
00:33:54.240 --> 00:33:54.880
Just put it like that.
00:33:55.279 --> 00:34:08.000
She could relate to everybody, especially the ones when her coat of many colors tells a story of people pick on you not because they really are trying to pick out your weaknesses.
00:34:08.159 --> 00:34:09.840
They're jealous of you or envious.
00:34:10.000 --> 00:34:16.800
The ones that made fun of her clothes were just too jealous to go out and wear those clothes themselves.
00:34:16.960 --> 00:34:18.320
Because she's happy.
00:34:18.480 --> 00:34:18.960
This is the thing.
00:34:19.039 --> 00:34:24.159
It's why should what somebody else wears bother you if you just don't look problem-solving?
00:34:24.400 --> 00:34:27.360
I'll just say this too, and this is just one off the cuff.
00:34:27.599 --> 00:34:29.760
Why do they grab the wrong ones?
00:34:30.239 --> 00:34:30.880
Yeah.
00:34:31.280 --> 00:34:31.920
You know what?
00:34:32.000 --> 00:34:36.960
I try to try to engage in the philosophy my dad has, which is nobody dies the day before.
00:34:37.440 --> 00:34:39.599
Your day is written in a book, and then that day comes out.
00:34:39.679 --> 00:34:40.400
Oh, I like that one.
00:34:41.599 --> 00:34:43.519
Nobody dies the day before.
00:34:43.760 --> 00:34:44.400
Yeah.
00:34:44.880 --> 00:34:45.440
Classic.
00:34:45.760 --> 00:34:46.159
You know what?
00:34:46.239 --> 00:34:48.800
That somehow pairs together with today or not today.
00:34:49.039 --> 00:34:49.199
Yeah.
00:34:49.360 --> 00:34:55.679
But Sean, I it's uh I sat down and decided no one was gotta run up.
00:34:56.079 --> 00:34:59.280
Still Magnolia's good, and I'm like, it's good.
00:34:59.440 --> 00:35:02.800
I think I think I remember it, and I was watching it yesterday.
00:35:03.519 --> 00:35:05.199
Don't remember much about it.
00:35:05.599 --> 00:35:07.199
You have to remember the mirror scene.
00:35:07.360 --> 00:35:09.599
The mirror scene is memorable if you're a guy.
00:35:10.159 --> 00:35:10.719
Yeah.
00:35:10.960 --> 00:35:11.360
Yeah.
00:35:11.920 --> 00:35:13.039
You don't know what I'm talking about.
00:35:13.679 --> 00:35:15.280
But anyway, we'll catch it off the air.
00:35:15.519 --> 00:35:19.440
Michael Hammer, have fun at the state fair today.
00:35:20.079 --> 00:35:26.320
If you want to have your hammer family traditions, give say hello, give a hug to Sister Christian for me.
00:35:27.280 --> 00:35:27.920
I will do that.
00:35:28.079 --> 00:35:28.880
I will do that.
00:35:29.119 --> 00:35:31.039
You you enjoy your day there, young man.
00:35:31.119 --> 00:35:33.440
And we'll see you next week on the bench.
00:35:34.639 --> 00:35:34.880
Carl.
00:35:36.719 --> 00:35:38.559
We are out.
00:35:39.920 --> 00:35:40.400
Bye.
00:35:41.039 --> 00:35:41.519
Bye.
00:35:45.119 --> 00:35:48.000
Watching the world spinning slow.
00:35:49.519 --> 00:35:52.480
Another day, strange afterglow.
00:35:53.760 --> 00:36:01.599
From the comfort of this wooden seat, a symphony for tired feet.
00:36:07.440 --> 00:36:07.920
Yeah.
