MPR’s Dale Connelly visits the Minnesota State Fair on opening day. He records the sounds and voices that make up the ‘Minnesota Great Get Together.’

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(00:00:00) Littler be was captured off the coast of San Francisco. Now, you have the opportunity when to view one of Nature's most amazing mammals from the deep at close range 20 tons of 40,000 pounds 7 feet high 38 feet long. Don't miss seeing this amazing 20-ton whale in the big beautiful $80,000 show truck and trailer folks a whale is not real. We'll give you the truck this whale I was caught by authorization of the United States government. We're not going to have to worry about it cracking or

(00:00:35) breaking. It's not going to

(00:00:37) the only thing that they tell you not to do with the machine and

(00:00:40) it's right on your guarantee. And that's put it in the dishwasher. This is a plastic I suppose it could warp from the high heat this little thing here.

(00:00:49) We will go. What is that a

(00:00:50) potato peeler an apple corer? No, this is your patented safety holder and believe me you want to use this at all times. This is what keeps your fingers away from that. Blaine on your hand where they belong now, it works like a plunger insert your food on

(00:01:05) those three ponds. What are the judges look for

(00:01:20) well, it's about how

(00:01:21) big they are for their size. You know, they're all judged in different classes starting with all you can last year. You know, some of the boards will come up and then up until March probably how good they walk how big they are what kind of muscling they have. How can you have any effect on the way they walk or the muscling? You know, you just drained pick it out at home, you know and pick out a good for

(00:01:48) I try and guess this little lady's wait. Am I right? I'm gonna guess your weight how much you weigh? All right, I'm gonna try and get some sort of lady's weight within three pounds. I want you to stand here and face the scale. I'm going to look you over. Yes long as I don't touch. Okay. I'm going to say that your weight or to be about that's try about a hundred and twenty three people have that. The idea that we come in and we take all this money out of the town and go away with it. And it's not true. We only take a small portion of the way this most of its put right back in the town where we are in motels and in food, everybody has to eat everybody has to have a place to sleep laundry dry cleaning buying parts spare parts having Machinery fixed all those fixed just all the different things that happen and nobody really understands that they think that we come in and we're just going to take all this money out of their town and we're going to bleed Your town joy that you know, what all we are is a ripoff and it's not true. There are people that that are I mean you get that in any kind of business that you get into I don't care if you got a dry cleaners or an auto body shop you always get the guy that's going to rip somebody off but there are a lot of other people that are just trying to make a living they want to give something for the dollar that they were and they try and give people the best prize that they can put it up there. Yeah, I forgot that breadbasket. Look at that. You got me go get you one any prize. You like Darlin pick it out anything at all. And you don't find no way out.

(00:03:49) Well, we gave them all a bath yesterday. And if any of them get dirty by tomorrow morning, we'll give them another bath and then we will spray stuff on their hair and brush them and make their tails into a ball on the end and put stuff on their legs. So the hair stands up and what do you make their tails into a ball? That's a good question. They say that it makes them. Taller and it does look kind of sharp out there on the show ring all these animals with their tails up I talk to another guy before who is making is his cow look taller to by combing the hair in a certain way. Yes, the direction your comb the hair makes them look different. There are a lot of tricks aren't there.

(00:04:32) Yes, there are I'd say

(00:04:53) Revolution we've all learned in the very small region legal name 110 feet below him we all Be a pain this 52-year take a ride on the world's fastest roller coaster. You're gonna yell. You're gonna scream. You got a heck of a time. You're gonna hang gliding before you're going to do it in here. You can go swimming with them 1200 pound tiger shark. But we're going to fly you to of Bernie volcano Louise not call your attention to that. But that's my favorite out of them all. You're gonna fly a helicopter to a burning volcano. Nobody rocks playing past your head. You're going to duck.