Every year about this time, this becomes a place of work and excitement for they're getting ready to hold the fair Dear future self Good morning.

The first thing that I did when I woke up was go see the little black baby cow cupcake this summer I am showing my Black Angus cow named Sonny.

This will be the first time that I am showing him for years.

I am excited to start showing again because it makes me happy seeing how much enjoyment it brings to my twin sister Mara.

I am so proud of my twin for everything that she has accomplished showing over the past few years.

Love yourself.

Hey Dan, this is Dave with the Cincinnati circus company.

I have got a gig for you and I am hoping that you can do it is performing at the Champaign County Fair.

And I know you're gonna rock this out.

I know you're gonna love it.

So call me back.

Let me know if you can do it right away.

Okay, thanks, guys, a demolition derby at the county fair.

Yeah.

Okay, so what's my lineup here?

Okay, demolition derby at seven o'clock.

gates open at 10 Carnival five and then things kind of wrap up here the fun of the fairies in the making all the shows and rides and make believe of the Midway I kind of like this one better because it's got the little ladybugs.

I liked the green color on it.

So the french fries are probably all getting ready.

They're warming up the good grease that colors.

Here's the part I hate the bill.

Everyone ready, it's time to go.

And now they're off to have a day of work and have fun at the fair today Dear future self.

It's finally summer break.

When dad picked us up after school today.

I felt like a weight had been lifted off me.

Mara and I are really looking forward to showing at the county fairs this summer.

There's a lot of work to do to get ready.

We wouldn't be able to do it without my dad took some time and unwanted down the twilight here at the Olsen's farm.

They're getting ready for the fair too.

This is Johnny, this is bigger brother Bob.

Sister Ann is going to each of the boys he's taking his finest calf to the fair.

I'm Mara Turner and I'm 15 I Meg Turner and I'm 15 my dad always went on the farm and his dad.

And I think we're the fourth generation living on a farm.

Dad raised Angus cattle his whole life grandpa had him his whole life.

So since I was walking, I think I started grew up across the road from this place.

Probably in the early 90s.

My brother got into short horns a little bit.

We both showed my sister showed a little bit back when I was six or seven.

We had a few cows here and I really wanted to do something with it.

So then my dad told me the idea of showing and then I watched some my older cousins.

And then I just really wanted to do it and that's kind of how I got into it just so you watched the sun so this is my room.

And then in here is my big bucket of ribbons.

This is our like main one that we use, not ones from when my dad showed that I decided to keep here is the quilt I have been working on.

And I finally finished about two weeks ago I started interest the same way we cheated but then back in my sixth grade year in junior high.

I decided I wanted to quit because like I really wasn't that interested in.

I didn't want the commitment to take all that time to just work with an animal.

You ran all junior high and then someone would have I'm starting my second season of cross country.

And then I do drama.

This one I got in 2018, when I were in junior high cross country and I got this spirit award, I have this from drama this year, from the musicals, little shop, of course.

And then you have all my important valuable stuff that I always hang up here.

You watch the sun as a crew, from the, to the place.

As a freshman in high school, I realized that I like seeing what my sister does, and then the enjoyment it gets from her and her animals.

It made me want to show again, we spent countless hours in the bar and getting ready for one of these, we're in our year round.

It's not just to come to the county fair and go home, it takes like weeks and months ahead of time to be ready for one.

It is a 24 hour day job, I wake up around 630 Then I come out to the barn at like 645 ish, get the show cows and feed them, feed all the cows out there, come back around 730, collect the feed pans feed hay, and then go to school on like a school day and then come back home.

Around five o'clock, I come and do chores and then let them eat and then let them back outside for the night.

I would love for them.

And then if you treat them correctly, they love you back.

This special teaches the kids such a work ethic and responsibility.

And I don't know that you can put a price on that as a parent, yes, you got there is a budget, you can only spend what you can spend but you put everything into it, you can and then still survive.

But it's a lot of work that I've gotten to kids want to do it kind of carrying on what I've always done.

First agricultural fair, the Champaign County agricultural society was held at this place yesterday, and came off the spirit decidedly creditable into the society and the county, Urbana union, October 21 1852.

When the human race first walked the face of this earth, they needed food.

And they needed fiber to make the clothing that they wear.

And as they started searching, they needed eyes, they had to be to a degree maybe even competitive about picking that right kernel of corn to grow the right stock or the right pig to make the best bacon, then they will provide more and more food for humanity.

So when humanity had more food, they had more time.

With that time, then they could be competitive and making apple pie or they could make more time doing sports activities, or reading or competing.

And so county fairs kind of a result of competition, if you will, in the agriculture side because they now had time that didn't need to spend looking for food and fiber.

The word fair is a Latin words, I think it was spelled F ar e and that basically was a meaning a gathering of people to observe and maybe to assemble.

Usually it was done around the holy day.

And so while people were there to worship, then you had vendors there selling food and selling scarves, perhaps that sort of The first fair in North America was in 1775.

And it was it was thing.

as a result of all this fairs that happened in biblical times moving across into Europe, and then coming across the ocean.

That fair 250 years later is still running the first fair and the actual what we would call United States was started in 1811, the concept of county fair by a gentleman named a laka.

Watson and he was a well today we would call a farmer and a politician, but he was a an organizer, if you will.

And he organized the fair in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, which they called the Berkshire agricultural society.

It was basically known as a cattle show that evolved over the next several years in that part of of New England, if you will work.

Every county was having county fairs just in a matter of three or four years.

A fair we must have our relaxation.

Here is the spot for that.

The shows are here.

The nuts everything that goes with a fair we have the oldest continuous fair in Illinois is the Coles County Fair down at Charleston.

And originally it was just a one day fair.

But they had maybe 10,000 people show up or I don't know how they got so many people into these events.

As they did 1841 There was another organization called the union agricultural society, this group in 1841.

They started a fair at Naperville.

That fair evolved into a lot of other northern Illinois fairs.

That's kind of how county fairs kind of boomed in Illinois.

years ago, county fairs and state fairs worthy events.

I mean, it was the place to be seen so to speak and social gatherings people would I mean, there were not that many vendors Stephen so people would pack picnic lunches and you know, I remember my grandma talking about making you know fried chicken just to have some type of different you know, meal most of the visitors at the fair have a quick bite at one of the lunch downs and footlong hot dog looks mighty good boy.

I'm Jim Cullers, I own and operate cullers rench fries.

The famous cullers fries and forrest culler has been doing this for I don't know how many years four years how many years been doing the french fries.

My uncle started the business in 1945.

He had just got home from the Second World War.

And him and some of his buddies decided to go on a road trip and we're driving through Pennsylvania and they came across this lady rolling paper cones and selling french fries.

Oh, I went to Pennsylvania and seeing some woman selling a beer going out through a little hole.

Well, I figure if she could sell them in a beer joint, I could sell them in Fairs.

Even if I met you in their lie, I still feel like I would end up with you.

You've got this kind of energy that makes me smile.

I just want to settle down with he had the idea.

But he didn't really have the money.

So he had a friend of his that was in the jewelry business named Howie Fisk and he ran the idea by him and he said sounds like a pretty good idea and started hitting the carnival circuit and build a business out of it first time I've worked french fry stand was in 1974.

I was 10 years old.

And he needed a little bit of help at The Ohio State Fair.

And I went over there and hung out with him and was hooked ever since but he made me finish high school for let me go to work for him.

This is my 41st year and trying to keep his legacy going.

Leaving if I met you in in there lie still with you.

You've got this candidate and it makes me smile.

I just want to settle down with you young man was simple.

He bought a bunch of potatoes and he told me I buy the best grease is the best grease.

If you get too many items in your in your stand.

Something's going to get compromised.

And that's why my uncle always sold fries in One size that way we got one thing to concentrate on and make it right.

I want people to come to my uncles stand and get french fries and say that's how your uncle used to do you know, you don't take the country out of the boy I love this farm country here in Illinois well in Ohio is a lot the same you know where I was born and raised and that's why I guess I enjoyed every lady attending this famous fair will make an appointment to hear the famous Mrs. Roher give her famous cooking lectures on the famous Detroit jewels gas cookstove Mrs Roher will explain the many advantages conveniences and economies of gas cook stoves for it is her opinion that there is no stove in the world like a gas cooker in 1879 Joseph Kuhn and Son best made and finest fitting wearing apparel in the world.

Our boys safe combination suits where you get twice the value for only half price is a blessing for the youngsters.

Mothers have appreciated this line and consequently our enormous sale 1879 They say she looks for long walks the world, she'll find herself as she looks for long enough I started when my oldest was a baby.

So probably close to 35 years now, I took the one home ec class first semester in eighth grade.

And that's the only real sewing class I've ever had.

I had a friend whose husband was in the Air Force and and so she was stationed in Rantoul for a while.

And so she showed me what to do and how to get started.

And I've pretty well taught myself otherwise what to do.

I graduated in December of 85, and had my daughter in January of 86.

So right away, I did homeschooling and added three more children after that.

So we I stayed home with kids for quite a while, my oldest daughter, you know, when she was younger, we didn't have a lot of money.

And she knew that so she would let me make things for her and, and she never complained about what she had to wear.

When we we did a lot of our shopping at the thrift store and the resale shops.

And it seems like a different lifetime ago, looking at all of these, though, was such a long time ago.

They grow so fast.

I mean, it's just amazing to me.

And people always told me that cherish each moment, there's so much in the day to day that you don't appreciate.

I've been teaching special ed for 17 years, and I I try hard to be loving and kind and show I pray for my students every morning before I go to work that I can I can be the kind of person they need to see.

I have nine grandkids former Lord Jesus.

These I guess, see was I mean, we've seen our family, our children through some really difficult things over the years, I made a dress for my son's daughter to come home from the hospital and my daughter in law had cancer at 22.

And they said she probably would never have any children.

So now she has two beautiful children.

So I wanted it to be extra special.

And I think it's one of the most precious and most beautiful things I've ever made.

Doing things for the Fair has become a family tradition.

My children always enjoyed, you know, entering things at the fair and look forward to go into the fair and now my grandchildren are starting that too.

I think it's wonderful to have that time with them and then to pass that on and it is kind of a lost art though.

I truly hope that my legacy is just my love for my family and for God and for the children that they know that that I love them very much and that's why I did the sewing I did.

I think that's one of the main reasons I do this is just to give people something that's special Just for me and from my heart.

And now the midway on the pony ride, the airplane ride the Ferris wheel to fill the world.

Everything for us hilarious time for young and old from six to 60.

Dear Harold, I wish to recount to you the ill fated showing of the circus at the Champaign County Fair in 1918.

It was a dreary time nationally, World War One was on and we were sure it would last for years.

And to add to it.

The streetcar employees went out on strike.

We were dependent on streetcars in 1918.

Then it rained that week.

It really rained.

Not a drizzle of a Presbyterian rain, but an outpouring of real candlelight water.

The day of the circus was a terrible day, the big 10 It collapsed the racetrack resembled Crystal Lake, horse drawn vehicles got stuck in the mire.

The fair took one terrible financial meeting.

That was a dismal Day of Days in this community.

Yours truly, Burford August 15 1956. doesn't get easier the further i run I'm pretty unique in that.

My father is not a performer.

My mother was not a performer.

But they were highly encouraging.

My father definitely wanted me to be more into sports.

But as I got older, he realized that wasn't going to be the case.

I actually didn't start doing circus until I was 18 years old.

And my high school girlfriend she actually broke my heart as I graduated high school.

But we worked at the same ice cream shop it was a graters ice cream, I would have to see her every day.

And it was difficult time for me a lot of transition leaving high school going into college.

And so I remembered actually a car trick that my dad showed me.

And I would start doing that when people would come through the ice cream line.

And a lot of people really loved it.

And I was like, There's something here.

Eventually, people started to come into the ice cream shop where it worked.

And say is the magic guy working?

Seems to me see.

Eventually, we hired a balloon artist, and he came in, he did balloon animals.

And he saw me serving ice cream and then doing a trigger to and he said you should check out my circus.

A week later, I had my first practice at the circus.

They hired me on the spot.

And a week later, I quit graders and this became my full time I became within a year, one of the best magicians in Cincinnati, I would spend hours and hours every night, I just was like drinking knowledge of how to do tricks.

Same thing happened with juggling, I couldn't stop myself.

I'm taking all these gigs.

I'm working this much.

I'm really here.

I'm a part of this circus.

In my early 20s, my mom passed away.

And that was very difficult for me.

Six months after my mom passed away.

My my stepmother was diagnosed with a malignant brain tumor.

And about a year after that she passed away soon as you can imagine, that was a very, very tough two years.

And especially when I was like 2223, there's a very formidable years and kind of discovering who you are.

So he was having a very difficult time.

And a lot of ways personally, but the circus was like my rock, it was always there.

There were always gigs, there were always things that I could go to, to make people happy.

And to be part of like a joyous occasion for my true role model to my father.

And when when I was able to see what he was able to do emotionally and just being at the right place at the right time to see the doctor to get the to get the correct diagnosis to to check everything that he possibly could, I was able to kind of say, Okay, I want to be that kind of man.

If I was married, and my wife was terminally ill could I be as strong for her as he was for Gail?

And I thought How do I even begin?

I wanted to do something with my life.

So that I didn't feel like the only time I was worthwhile was at a gig.

And so shortly after Gil passed away, I applied to UC.

They said your grades are too low.

You flunked out of your last college for a reason.

And so I applied to Cincinnati State which is community college here and they took me in and I did well of course then right went right there to the University of Cincinnati and I crushed it there are so many moments I couldn't even tell you but I'll perform at maybe county fair or maybe a gig one year and I'll just amaze somebody and oftentimes it's like a young kid they'll just be like, Oh my God, how did you do that?

And to know that I took a moment for them and literally made it magical mean so much.

I really got to find my place in this world.

I really got to find my place in society I got to find my place in who I am through the circus AP Tucker dentist while I am not a Dental College nor a so called company of experts specialist I can and will do all kinds of first class dental work for a small amount of your gold, silver or greenbacks as any other dentist or company in central Illinois.

You can find my office upstairs over fk Roberson and brothers big store, champagne Donnell 1879 old timers who attend the local fair in 1911 or so remember that it was on the local fairgrounds.

The county residents first saw it close up view of their first aeroplanes.

The plane was kept in a closely guarded tent.

And much publicity was made over Rene Simon, a Frenchman making the first flocked the fairgrounds were packed at 50 cents ahead just to see this freak of travel.

And there was an overflow crowd of several 1000 curious at the adjoining park after hours of waiting for an A took off and flew East several 100 feet past a packed grandstand and back again, the noise been terrific.

The trouble came afterwards when people at Crystal Lake Park claimed they had seen an exhibition for free which caused a fair bit of grumbling for those who paid 50 cents to enter the fairgrounds.

All righty, we're ready to go.

My name is Taylor Feldkamp and I drive a tow truck.

I own feldkamps towing in Champaign Urbana.

My dad's ran it before I did.

And then I took over about six years ago went from you know, just your basic one or two tow trucks to a fleet of 30 or 40 trucks Hello Hello.

I'm passionate about it and helping customers in the middle of the night in the winter winter you know summer whatever the weather conditions are and just let them know we're on our way you've had fails you know day and night and weeks are better than others but that's kind of part of growth is failing and learning from what you need to do and you know what you don't need to do No, it does.

No, it does not end when you're in business, that's 24/7 365 it was a little time to play here and there are T four seven, some Urbana Illinois Taylor fell out in the garage as a family and working on cars and go into the demo and pretty much been in my blood so my dad used to demo back when he was younger and then my grandfather helped him out.

And I was just pretty much around it from a young age and then I was just kind of hooked from there.

Once you've been doing something for a while and you get good at it, it's kind of hard to get away from it.

When I was younger, I probably ran probably 20 or 30 derbies a year.

I'd be in here every night like it was a full time job Weldon and torchin and I'd have 10 cars built for the summer as I got older and had more responsibilities and work got bigger just kind of taking a toll I have a three and a half year old son his name is Tyson Tyson be here all day every day in the tow trucks out of the tow trucks give your truck a hug and kiss goodnight say good night.

I think going to the county fair I'm just gonna go and have a good time win or lose it'll be for him.

Here too, from far and near farm folks are bringing in the products of the harvest the choices to their animals, the finest of the things that are grown on the farm.

The real basis for a county fair is to learn about agriculture in some way, kids can come and learn about how a pig is born, or about how a cow's milk they can actually physically go up and milk a cow.

Maybe what means walking through the barn and getting a little bit of manure on your shoe?

What is that it's life.

That's what it is.

Dear future self Today I'm showing that the Fisher fair.

This is my first time showing in about four years, Meg gets tense but Meg gets nervous about a lot of things.

And that's fine.

I mean, she doesn't want to forget when she's out there what she's doing.

So Meg, just go do it.

It's a county fair.

Just enjoy yourself.

That's what you're here for.

If you mess up, you mess up.

It's not a big deal.

The livestock has changed a lot simply because there's fewer farmers and there's fewer livestock farmers back then when I was was a kid, the farmer would bring in a large number.

But now that's all changed the usual hoping to make money and frequently they do make good money because they show him a lot of places and usually end up selling for good price.

You make money maybe a couple years and lose money the third year but crop farming is the same way you don't make money every year on it.

I mean, there's years there's years you were hoping you can break even there's years you do okay in my first class that I showed and I was first because I was the only one in the class, which means I go back in the ring for champion she puts her mind to it, she's committed to it.

She's always been that way.

Meg doesn't really care how she gets along in the show ring she's just happy to go out there and be here to talk to other kids and hang out and that's perfectly fine.

When I went back in the ring for champion I got reserved pepper I was not expecting to get reserved but I did and I am so proud of myself.

Remember you are beautiful and one of a kind Love Yourself we're gonna start letting people off Champaign County Fairs We hope you have a good time and come back again.

They retire maybe on that What's the secret to your success?

Is it no I've heard it's the potato.

I've heard it's the oil I guess maybe it's both.

Or is it the guy back here it's making it takes all three French fries for sale you can have the best day it is worse try don't use nothing but the best and same way with the oil when the potatoes come in in the back door of the trailer you wash them then peel em.

We run them through an automatic potato slicer that my uncle built himself.

Hold them on water drain the water get some of the starch out of them and bring them right to the fryers serve them fresh out of the fryer we started out with ketchup but it's so messy to I used to have some laundry bills or now I seen that the fish and chips I use vinegar and then went over good with the British so I tried it and it's taken me years but now I bring them away from ketchup and yes we have had people that go you need to provide drinks and you need to do this and what if you did Cheesy fries and all this but we are keeping tradition alive by doing it the way it is you know what for smoothies talking about creating an event something good come in because you go to the county fair now very rarely are not aligned there still remember one time he said yeah.

When I see that line getting shorter I tell my boys slow down be your health is not courteous and friendly to the public.

They're the ones that regardless of what they say to you they're always right one of my main guys now that's been with me for quite a while now is is my nephew We usually don't have a hard time keeping our employees because we you know we take pretty good care.

That's the key take care of your employees and they'll take care of you.

I'm usually within 100 miles of home.

Typically we call each other every single day mindsphere I'm doing great, everything's fine.

I'm really tired.

I'm going to bed love you see you later so but but that's nice to get that phone call every day.

It's fine all summer.

But you know where you're going next and stuff like that.

But when you get to that last class bear in November, it's time to go home.

You never see any old carnival people in a retirement home because you don't retire from this business.

You die demonstrations are given in the arts and crafts in which the women Excel.

Both drugs, quilts, candy and baked goods.

All show the results of the handiwork of the Ohio farm with exquisitely.

We go I can feel something I just try to make sure everything else is perfect as possible.

Sometimes that works and sometimes it does.

To link to our routes and what we find valuable what we find are the best of the best what you know whether it be a quilt whether it be a jelly a you know a cake recipe an animal that we've raised smocking isn't that cute?

Oh and piping.

She's done piping on the bias here too.

That's a great detail.

Here in the big cattle barn on the fairgrounds, folks are at work early, tending and grooming their cattle.

Bob and Johnny are there early to they're getting their calves ready for the show.

I had it figured out which row I would go down.

I could do a mile the people that aren't used to the farm don't really know what we do.

Mara, it's kind of came natural to her.

Mara has always enjoyed it and that's what it takes.

It's not like it's a luxury lifestyle.

boredom, pure boredom.

It does get it can get bored just a little when you're doing the same thing every single day.

But I enjoy pretty much most of it.

It's like getting her up at 430 in the morning to wash cattle she never says a word she doesn't she gets up I tell her wants to get up she gets up was Mara is committed to doing the best she can do.

She'll get upset at times but she knows that you got to continue on.

You can't just give up there is an option to lose in life.

No, the boys take their calves to the arena where the show is beginning.

Right you just start this thing.

Yes Im ready.

Into the big shadowy arena.

Many other boys and girls are leading their calves thank you and the four age groups are the ones that end up getting kids involved in showing and working with livestock.

And so those feed into the county fairs and then the county fairs feed into the state Bear.

It is a wonderful thing to be able to say yes, I started out in this county and I represented my dad's or my grandpa's or somebody's various breed that they have been raising for a long, long time, so they have a lot of pride.

Now the judge is coming down the line, he looks at each path closely with a practiced eye and quickly sees the best and the weakest points, but we're not meant to be isolated.

We're not meant to be alone we're meant to be with others.

And so to bring it together and Seto Americana, I'm showing my pig today.

I'm showing my sheep today that's just good it takes careful work to choose the calf with just the right size, build weight and firmness the judges work is done he has picked the winners well the champion is blue ribbon goes to a girl Johnny gets a ribbon to his cat was Dear future self.

We've had two great show days at the county fair, I was so nervous but I got through it I won first place in my division and Mara one show and Chip I'm so proud of her showing her heifers again has given me a real boost of confidence there's only one thing left to do water balloon fight stay tuned young man not much younger than I Don't you know that you got your whole life to be worried about all these things out up bring you down with a driving technique there's a building technique and you're gonna have the best parts in the world and if you don't have the know how to drive the car and make good hits you're not going to win pass what every car back together the same now and me and Dad tune the car for three or four hours you know, days and days before the derby so I know when I run the I'm gonna have to break something or lose a wheel to lose dont go thinking thats how it has to be when I'm behind the wheel I kind of just doing my own thing and I'm kind of in my own little world and I don't have to worry about work and I've spent the last month and if I get 10 minutes to figure out what I've built it's gonna win or lose you know kind of a stress reliever and a good feeling for now be monsters and beggars will be at your door.

It's hard to tell who you not anymore.

Don't watch it in number three.

Y'all last for a long time.

Still a little bit to this day.

I'm such a yes man.

Because I just want to get out there in front of people.

And just crush these shows and learn new stuff.

And when the show goes bad learn from that too, or just cringe daring, dashing, dashingly daring he abnormally tall.

I am Dan.

Being involved in live performance, I know how important it is to have that real personal connection.

And when I perform for a magic trick for a kid that isn't already surrounded in their own head with technology.

They experienced I think something that was being experienced 100 years ago, 200 years ago, this kind of amazement and joy.

And you realize like when I swallow the balloon or the sword or whatever it might be, it's really, really happening.

This isn't YouTube.

This isn't Facebook isn't Instagram.

You know, I want to have a conversation and connection with the people in the audience right here right now.

You got everybody says it passes by.

Don't go thinking that's how it has to be.

Your last bye.

Learn by baking your bones.

15 years ago, there was a demo Derby every Friday and Saturday at every fair period.

That's just that was just part of it.

But nowadays, there some fairs that don't even have demo derby.

I've promoted some fairs for two or three years that had a demo.

And you know, they called and said, hey, you know, we're not having a demo next year and we're cutting bareback for three days and it's like, holy cow.

It was seven.

I think that's the challenge.

And I think that will constantly be the challenge for county fairs as well as state fairs to try to find something that people want to see, with the growing proclivity of people to just use technology to communicate with one another, less people feel the need to go anywhere and do anything.

It used to be a lot of families and, you know, small children and mothers with little kids that were home during the day.

And so they could take children to the fair, and it's not uncommon to go to some county fairs.

And there are more people working rides and selling food than there are people there.

As guests of the county fair.

It's a strange decline.

And I don't think it has to happen and I don't think it should happen.

Parents are working and busy and there's so many other things people do now.

I remember when I was a kid, if I wanted to hang out with my friend, I had to call his house hope that he picked up and not his mother or father, or I had just walked with you and your five buddies got on your bikes and rode to the fair.

And you had to mow the yard all day Saturday to get 20 bucks from your parents to go to the fair, the whole neighborhood lived outside in the summer and they would wait for my husband to get home from work and they had a good time they'd go on bike rides we'd play hide and seek and kick the can and all of that in the evenings and nothing that just reflects what our world is changing into people have moved on from the farm people have moved on into suburbs and cities and they'll have to raise our own animals we don't have to you know we can go to the grocery store and get access to a lot of these items that we didn't have to raise ourselves for sure a wonderful memory for me to have that and I think that's just part of summer.

You got nevermind he says he passes you by don't go take not how we has to be.

For now we look out there Taylor new.

Demo demo demo tonight at the Champaign County Fair.

Join us for a smashing good time.

This year's demolition derby features mod wire compact at stock cars and vans.

Watch the mud fly as your favorite drivers crash their hunks of junk to victory for cash prizes up to $11,800.

And don't forget your earplugs seven o'clock tonight only at the Champaign County Fairgrounds in Urbana.

I've had booze I've had beer cans thrown at me.

I've had police escorted out I've had knockout drag out.

So I mean, it's been a real treat sometimes.

I've been doing it all my life.

So it's kind of hard to beat someone that's been doing the same thing over and over and over and over.

But that's just part of the sport that'll never go away.

That's in any sport.

You know whether you're playing baseball, it's because you went to a better baseball camp than I did.

Well, no, it's because I practiced every night for seven days a week and you chose to go party in and practice once a month.

Well, what's the outcome of that gonna be?

Champion sandwich winner on a delicious, mild, tender and juicy yellow band winners will bring to your table and hold the same meat rich savory goodness that you enjoyed the races.

So good.

Everyone's saying Oscar Meyer.

yellow band wiener.

Thank you One like a bird on a tree I'm just sitting here.

I got it's clear to see from up here the world's first second Emma Rosa, very nice.

granddaughters gonna be thrilled.

That's her lady bow dress for her birthday and she wants the ribbons.

I get the ribbons I said great outdoors, forever free I meet so many interesting people and you get to hear their story and hear how their story is different from your story.

And then you build relationships that you will never forget.

I think that's a lot of just hanging out with people and talking and everybody gets along.

And I think that friendships you make and over the years I still talk to a lot of the people that I met when I was little showing cattle.

How're you doing, buddy?

Not too bad.

How are you good.

Living the dream?

I think a fair and whether it's your in concessions or four h or any of those kinds of events that take place.

There's a camaraderie you shake hands with people you want to do right by them.

There are certain times that you think that everybody needs to go to therapy.

When when everybody gets tired and hot and all that stuff.

And you just got to get away from each other for a little bit.

Go take a walk or something.

And when you go from fair to fair, it's like going home again.

You see your old friends and neighbors people you haven't seen all year and it's like getting reacquainted.

I imagine that I've got as many friends out here on a fairground as I have at home, and I know it's maybe maybe more.

Dear future self.

Well, summer is officially over.

It went so fast.

I'm so glad I decided to show our hovers again.

It was hard work, but a ton of fun.

Most of all, I love being with my family and friends at the fair.

There's nothing like it.

I know we're making great memories for years to come.

Until next year love yourself.

People come to the county fair to really show their strength as a community.

It kind of brings people together in one common fun thing that isn't rocket science.

It's just enjoyment.

And I've gotten to see so many amazing, wonderful communities with all different kinds of people coming together, sometimes for just the shared experience of being on a tilted world.

Sometimes it's to check out the livestock sometimes it's just to be with one another.

But it's more than that.

It's a whole community of support.

Wanting to be a part of helping a community be close knit and helping their kids grow and understand what it means to live in our world today.

Oh I mean it looks so pretty on you.

appreciate everybody coming out in the Champaign County Fair and I've been working a lot I haven't been running over the years but I decided to dig a car out of the weeds and pull it down and put a couple plates on it and come have some fun and my luck turned out of my favorite and I too soon, all the fun comes to but our friends are very happy.

They've had a wonderful day at the Fair