August 17, 2025 • 53 mins
Step into the vibrant world of the 76th Annual Montgomery County Agricultural Fair as we take you behind the scenes of this cherished summer tradition. Through conversations with dedicated volunteers, passionate 4-H members, and innovative vendors, we discover the heart and soul of what makes this nine-day celebration so special.
Whether you're planning your visit or simply curious about this cornerstone of Montgomery County culture, this episode captures the educational value, family traditions, and pure fun that have made the Agricultural Fair a beloved institution for over seven decades. Come experience the "endless fun included" at this celebration of our County's agricultural heritage!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
What Good day and welcome to what's Happening,
MoCo.
This episode was recorded livefrom the Montgomery County
Agricultural Fairgrounds duringthe 76th annual Montgomery
County Fair.
We've talked to some of theindividuals that made this
year's Ag Fair quite memorable.
Take a listen.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Good day and welcome to what's Happening MoCo, an
authentic unscripted podcastfrom your Montgomery County
government.
Now here's your host, derekKenney.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
Good day and welcome to what's Happening, moco, we
are live at the MontgomeryCounty Agricultural Fairgrounds
and we are here with none otherthan the powerhouse, the
workhorse, the brains behind thesocial media and many of the
operations of Ag FairFairgrounds, christy Geary.
How are you, christy?
Speaker 3 (00:48):
I'm great, Derek.
How are you doing today?
Speaker 1 (00:50):
I'm great now because whenever I'm in the presence of
people that really make thingshappen I mean really make things
happen Think about it all yearlong, add the plans together,
bring people together, inspirethem, train them and then, when
the action starts happening,feet on the ground fire them,
train them and then, when theaction starts happening, beat on
the ground.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
I love being here.
The fair is my favorite time ofyear.
I love.
I love interacting.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
And it's great to talk with you today.
Well, I love the fair and Iwant to talk to you about all
the things that you do and someof the things that people want
to really learn about the fair,all the educational
opportunities, the rides and allthat.
But you know, know, I'm a bigguy and I have a sweet tooth but
I can't eat everything.
I wanted to eat like I used to,but I I love it's like.
It's like netflix, like towatch on netflix people eating,
(01:33):
uh, good food.
What is your food of choiceeach year at the ag fair?
What do you come to the ag fairand need to have?
Speaker 3 (01:41):
well, I can't anything if I didn't have any
other answer.
It's got to be the grilledcheese.
You know the world famousgrilled cheese.
I think everybody would give mea hard time if I didn't say
that.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
And you're talking about the grilled cheese.
Well, you can actually go tothe big cheese.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
The big cheese and get my grilled cheese.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
All right.
And so if you're in thecarnival area, which is the
south, and then you walk downand you walk away from the
carnival, you walk into thisarea near the garand stands, you
keep walking and on your leftyou will have a building filled
with wisconsin cheese, and theyactually bring the cheese from
(02:19):
wisconsin yep, it's like a 650pound wheel.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
They come, they bring it in, they, they cut it up
here.
You can, you can purchasecheese to go home with you.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
You can and they make it make their grilled cheese
right here.
Say, literally, say cheese, anda smile on your face because you
have the best grilled cheesethis side of the Mississippi.
Oh, definitely, all right, allright.
So her favorite is the grilledcheese.
I will say the deep fried Oreomight be one of mine, but as I
sit in my booth, I see churros,I see root beer, I see all types
(02:49):
of good things and I even seesomething that says stuffed
cookies and dirty drinks.
I don't know what that is, butI'm going to find out.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
Yeah, I haven't been over there yet.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
Dirty drinks.
I get dirty looks all the time.
I don't know what the dirtydrinks are.
I'm going.
I don't know about the dirtydrinks.
I'm going to try that out, allright, so now, what are some of
the things that people shouldlook forward to when it comes to
the fair this year?
What's?
Speaker 3 (03:09):
unique, unique.
We have all kinds of animals,which are not unique, but we
love our animals.
We love our 4-H'ers that get toshow off their projects every
year, and so it's just great tointeract with our 4-H'ers and be
able to see all those type ofthings.
But of course, we have all thegrandstand events.
We've got the monster truckscoming back again, We've got the
(03:31):
rodeo, we've got demolitionderby Whoa a rodeo, a rodeo, yes
, a real live.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
Cowboys rodeo, bulls rodeo, horses rodeo, definitely
Okay.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
Second year in a row.
They were rodeo horses rodeodefinitely okay, second year in
a row.
They were here last year.
They're going back again thisyear on a different night,
friday night, um, and we've gotum a demolition derby again.
But wow, we've got all kind ofa new like um magician show over
on the pepco stage to go alongwith their hypnotist, okay
there's all kind of thingsaround here.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
There's a lot of good things going on here at the
county fair.
Uh, many of them are free, someof them in the grandstand you
have to pay for, but they'rewell worth it, like the rodeo.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
Yeah, the big events in the grandstand do have a fee
with them, but we have so muchstuff we're advertised as
endless fun included.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
Yes, yes, yes.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
Which is great, which is the magician show and the
hypnotist and the, the rock andcircus up on the upper ground.
There's so many things all thekids own, things are all free.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
Wow, they're all free free for as soon as you pay
your admission, you're in here.
There's so many things you andyour family can do, a lot of
educational things.
So as your kids get ready to goback to school, you can bring
them to the ag fair.
You can learn about the bunnyrabbits, you can learn about the
bovine, you learn about thepigs, you learn about what are
the raptors all the differentanimals that you can learn about
firsthand and see firsthandhere at the Coastal Fairgrounds,
(04:52):
montgomery County, maryland.
Let's talk about you a bit.
Your family's been involvedwith the fair for quite some
time.
Let's talk about that.
How long has your family beeninvolved with the fair and who
all in your family contributesto the fair?
Uh, normally pretty much.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
It's a my entire family's involved.
My, my grandparents helped to,were pioneers and helped to
build some of the grounds here.
Okay my mom was a pastpresident during the 50 and 51st
fair, so it is an.
It is a family fair.
My, my dad's involved, my sonand my niece, everybody, my
brother, everybody is ourlifetime members and we just we
love the fair and enjoy givingback to the community.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
That's awesome.
That's awesome.
And you mentioned lifetimemembers.
What does it take if someone'slistening right now and they say
look, I want to contribute tothe fair.
I love it.
I'd love to be a member too.
I want to support the fair.
How do they do that?
Speaker 3 (05:40):
Which is great.
Our fair is a little bitdifferent, probably different
than most fairs that I interactwith, where we we we love having
volunteers come in and youvolunteer over 200 hours.
You hit 200 hours and youbecome a lifetime member and
that allows you to have accessto the fair all the time.
You get voting rights and inour, in our annual elections and
(06:01):
that kind of stuff.
So you know it's, it's great,it's a great community.
We call them our fair family.
They people love coming in andbeing volunteers here at the
fair and we're appreciative ofall the work that they do,
because we could not put on thisfair without our volunteers.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
And I will say there's a lot of sweat here at
the fair, a lot of hard work,and it starts not just this week
.
It didn't start last week or theweek before it starts early on
in the year, I guess guesscontinues along with good people
like yourself helping to planthings and make decisions, but
then also hands on the groundmaking things happen.
There you go, that's right, allright, that's what's happening,
(06:33):
moco.
There's so many more things tosee than the carnival.
Who knew, we knew, and now youknow.
And that's what's happening,moco.
Thanks for being here, christy.
Good day and welcome to what'sHappening, moco.
Today we're talking to LilyLuther.
Live at the Montgomery CountyAgricultural Fairgrounds.
Lily Lily, lily Luther, how areyou today?
Speaker 8 (06:49):
I am wonderful, thank you.
How are you?
Speaker 1 (06:51):
I am fantastic.
It's great to be here at the AgFair Another sunny, beautiful
day.
Sunny hot day there's cloudsevery once in a while to give
you a break from the sunlight.
Then there's a cool breeze.
Speaker 8 (07:05):
Every once in a while , yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
Yeah, so we're having a pretty good August.
I would say this is a greatAugust.
To come to the fair, what doyou think?
Speaker 8 (07:10):
I agree, this has been a nice cool one for sure,
all right, all right, I've beenenjoying it.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
Now, this is not your first fair, though, right.
Speaker 8 (07:19):
No, how long life.
My entire family has been apart of this fair for about 40
years now, I would say 40 years.
Yes.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
Oh, wow.
So all the beautiful Ag Fairactivity that you contribute as
a volunteer or as a 4-H-erdidn't start with you.
Speaker 8 (07:36):
No no.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
But it started 40 years ago.
How did it start for yourfamily?
Speaker 8 (07:41):
So my grandfather has been and my grandma have been a
part of 4-H since they were init as well.
They were um of youth age Um,my grandpa in Arkansas, my
grandma in Iowa, um, and theyeventually moved to Maryland and
got my um dad and his sistersall in it Um mostly showing beef
(08:01):
cattle Um, and so we have abeef farm of about 150 head
currently.
It's our pride and joy andwe've just left If it was
uninitiated.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
150 head means 150 cows 150 cows, that's correct.
Are the male cows and femalecows cows or like the male
something and the femalesomething?
What's the terminology?
Speaker 8 (08:25):
they are all called something different, so cows
actually aren't all girls.
The cow, an animal, is not acow until she's had a cow okay
before that, the girls arecalled heifers wow.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
So, in order to be qualified as a cow, they have to
be mama they have to be mamas.
Yeah, what are they before that?
You say they have the heifers,heifers, heif mamas.
Yes, what are they before that?
You said they're heifers,heifers, heifers, heifers.
Before they have the babies.
When they have the babies, theygraduate becoming cows.
Speaker 8 (08:50):
That's right, that's right, all right so what are the
boys?
Speaker 1 (09:06):
The boys?
They start out as bulls, but alot of different exhibits and
places where people can learn onsite.
But they also can learn rightnow from talking to lily, luther
and lily.
So you have experience.
Let's talk about you now.
We talked about the uh, thehistory of your family and all
the great things your family'sdone over the years in terms of
4-h and how big your farm is.
But let's talk about you.
What do you do at the ag fair?
What do you?
What's your focus?
Speaker 8 (09:26):
so my focus has mainly been rooting, rooted in
um showing cattle and then alsojudging livestock in general.
Um I have, I show, purebredangus and that's just a breed of
cattle okay um, and so I don'tjust show at the fair, I show
year rounds um.
These cattle have gone to umanywhere from five to ten shows
a year um yeah, they get get offthe farm and they just get
(09:50):
shown off.
The purebred ones do anyhow.
And then um the commercial herdwe have at home, um, the
different breed, just, you know,regular cattle, not anything
special and expensive.
Um, they uh, we raise and workwith for market and so we raise
those separately.
We call them those money-makingherd.
And then we have fun with ourpurebreds.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
And those are the ones that I like to call mmm.
Mmm, moo good, Okay, all right,Yummy hamburgers.
We're not going to delve intothat too deeply, we're going to
go back there, we're not goingto go there too deeply, all
right, but you you are when yousay show.
So a lot of people aren'tfamiliar with showing cattle,
what is involved in showingcattle and what makes a good
showing for cattle?
(10:30):
That's true.
Speaker 8 (10:31):
Yeah, there's a lot that goes into it.
For sure, it starts out at thebeginning of the year around, or
, I guess, in the 4-H year.
So September, october, is whenyou select your animals for the
year, for 4-H wise, anyway.
So we visit several farms andyou judge your cattle.
So this is something that kidscompete for a lot throughout 4-H
(10:54):
nationally, and basically whatyou're looking for is the
muscling of the animal, thestructure, condition, degree,
and so you're just kind ofseeing the ones, particularly
the particular ones, want toraise yourself, um, when you're
going to look at these cattle,that's awesome so that's the
beginning process, um.
And then, once you get youranimal, you raise it um year
(11:16):
round up until august, nextaugust to the fair.
So you, every day, these kidsare out feeding their animals,
working with them, making surethey're well behaved, um,
rinsing them in the summertimeevery day, getting their hair to
grow, putting in products andgetting that, getting them ready
oh, hold on, hold on you.
Speaker 1 (11:32):
Uh, the cows get their hair done hair treatment
hair did they?
Yeah, they get the chemicalsthat they get stuff in their
hair.
Speaker 8 (11:42):
They get more hair product than I do.
Oh wow, okay, um by landslideyes, who knew that cows?
Speaker 1 (11:47):
well, you say cows were uh I guess they're steers
mostly.
Speaker 8 (11:51):
Steers and heifers are normally the ones to get the
most treatment, you get thebeautified you get beautified
okay okay, that's good to knowokay um, yeah, so the ones that
are getting shown are, um,getting prepped far beyond show
day they are.
They have there's a lot of workthat goes into it, for sure
Several hours in the barn.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
And you rinse them off on hot days, yeah give them
a nice cool-down bath to keepthem.
Speaker 8 (12:14):
Yeah, lots of phanto in the barn.
You've got to keep them cool,to keep them contained.
So these are like divas.
Speaker 1 (12:20):
There's the rest of the animals on the farm, and
then these guys are walkingaround.
These guys get the farm andthen these guys are walking
around.
They're prim, they're proper.
Speaker 8 (12:26):
They get to turn around yeah Special attention.
Yeah, they're like the farm'spride and joy.
They get showed off.
This is like yeah, theyrepresent the farm for the
farmer.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
So these are the stars.
So when people come to the AgFair and they see the
competitions, they get to seethe stars from each farm.
Speaker 8 (12:42):
They're not just animals, these are the animals
from each farm, each family,each forager, yes, yes, every
forager you know, foragers thatcome from farms will definitely
be breeding their, bringingtheir highest quality cattle to
show off.
And then a lot of foragersdon't even have a farm, but they
get to experience that byraising steers, um, which is
(13:03):
really really cool as well.
Um, they just saw other farmersand they get to learn.
They just get a nice littleglimpse into what, um, raising
cattle entails by just raisingout a seer and just really
getting digging deep into whatthat animal needs feed wise, and
you know just quality, yeah howmany hours a week do you think
(13:24):
uh takes to care for a, a showanimal?
so if the type of show animalsyou deal with if it was just a
show animal, I would say I.
In the summertime I spent aboutfour hours a day in the barn
okay in the winter it's probablycloser to one or two hours a
day, um, just because you don'treally rinse them as much.
(13:45):
Um, then it's cold enough theycan grow their hair on their own
and everything they can dotheir own hair in the winter,
like, okay, we don't care aboutyour hair yeah, so, um, but yeah
, it's definitely.
It's not a?
Um easy process, for sure, butit's.
It's very rewarding, it's veryhigh reward, um, to be able to
come, come to the fair and showoff my projects.
That I'm right and you're not.
Speaker 1 (14:06):
You're not competing just with other other animals,
like just the regular animals.
You're competing with the bestof the best, uh, from around the
area.
Yeah, and then from that you'reable to generate some type of
revenue, of course, maybe, orprestige for your family yeah,
so, um, yeah, for generalshowing just just outside
(14:26):
jackpot shows and everything.
Speaker 8 (14:28):
A lot of the family farms are, yeah, bringing up
prestige for their name andeverything.
Speaker 6 (14:34):
Wow.
Speaker 8 (14:35):
But then at this fair we do have an auction at the
end of the week and, yeah, thegrand champions, dr, goes in the
ring first and everything andit's very exciting.
So that is a big moment for the4-H'ers at the end of the week
is, yeah, doing?
Speaker 1 (14:50):
the best at the auction after showing off.
And so you spent many yearshere at the fair and now you're
helping others kind of learn howto do what you've done for
years.
Speaker 4 (14:59):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (14:59):
What's next for you as you move forward?
Speaker 8 (15:06):
Well, yeah, I really had an incredible time because
I've learned so much as a 4-H'erhere and I've gotten to reflect
that on the younger generation.
I'm the president of the BeefClub now, so I've gotten to oh
the president, La presidenta.
Speaker 1 (15:16):
Okay, there you go, yeah.
Speaker 8 (15:17):
So I have gotten to just teach the younger
generation what I have learnedand it's just just, it's a very
full circle moment to supportone another and have that
connection.
And so hopefully in the next,in the next step, like you were
asking, I'll get to use all nutprep to continue in the
agriculture industry.
(15:37):
Okay, there's a lot ofstruggles currently you, with
our population expanding and ourenvironmental struggles, to be
able to sustain the agriculturethat we have.
Um, and to just publicize thatto especially everyone in
Montgomery County, these urbanareas, they're not entirely sure
Um.
So that's my goal as um ofgraduating 4-H'er.
(16:00):
That hopefully, um, I can dothat and with my college degree,
um, I'll go into.
That's my plan as well.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
I'm hoping to work in genetic research, but within
agriculture oh, wow, wow, toensure that we have uh ways to
sustain ourselves for years tocome.
And that's not just some people, it's like all people um have a
way to sustain themselves andtheir families and their
children and children's childrendepend on a lot of the
agricultural education andscience and technology and all
(16:28):
that goes into some of thethings we see at the MoCal Fair.
Speaker 8 (16:32):
Yes, yes, absolutely so.
The fair.
Its whole purpose, essentially,is to project the value of
agriculture that we have.
A lot of people don't know orunderstand agriculture because
it's become so centralized.
Yeah, in that, yeah, not manypeople are going out to their
own barns every day like theyused to in like the 1800s, and
(16:54):
having their own small, small,self-sustained farm.
But it's very, it's much moreefficient.
In order to just yield thequality food that we have today,
it has to be done by theselarge-grade commercial farms,
and so the fact that peopledon't know and understand quite
about how that works isdifficult.
(17:18):
just to communicate kind of theneeds and the needs for support,
the needs for continuity, theneeds for support, the needs for
continuity, the need foreducation and all the other
things that uh you may find, uhin places like 4-h and the actor
yeah, so we're all here to justum advocate for, for
agriculture, and to continue, uh, doing what we're doing and
(17:39):
keep, keep researching and keep,keep it going, and you know and
you're and you're from andyou're from what you are from ad
County and you're from well,you are from Montgomery County
and you live here now currently.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
So we love to celebrate Montgomery County.
We love to celebrate people inMontgomery County doing great
things.
So, wow, that's what's going onright now for you, lily Luther.
That's what's happening.
Moco.
President of the Beef Club.
Speaker 8 (18:03):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (18:04):
Future agricultural scientist.
Speaker 8 (18:06):
Is that a scientist?
That's the plan, yeah.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
All right, looking forward to great things from you
, yeah.
Speaker 8 (18:10):
I'm off to study biochemistry and animal science.
Speaker 1 (18:12):
Wonderful, wonderful and good luck to your animal as
it goes forth and competes hereat the Ag Fair.
What day are you competing?
Speaker 8 (18:22):
I am going to compete .
The market show is thursday andthen showmanship is friday,
okay, and where can people seethat?
So that's gonna be in thecattle pavilion.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
So when you go to the fair, it's up towards all the
ag barns, and so when people seethose things going on, because
the kids are wearing what?
White pants and stuff, butthey're wearing jackie pants and
our white shirts the whiteshirts?
Yeah, so when you see thosekids out there walking those
animals around, you're lookingat a high pressure intense oh my
goodness, those are some of themost you don't even realize.
(18:53):
Yeah there you go all right.
So be sure to check it out,like the same way we check out
the basketball game or football,hockey, anything else.
Check out these cattlecompetitions or these different
animal competitions at the MoCoFair.
They are free to see and it'sfree education.
So thank you, lily Luther.
Speaker 9 (19:09):
If you see her, give her a high five, and that's what
happened to.
Moco Awesome.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
What's happening?
What's up, doc?
We're talking about rabbits andwe're here with folks from the
4-H Rabbit Barn and we're herewith Amelia Martin and Eva
Martin and Zoe Tepper.
All right, all right.
So what is it about rabbitsthat have you guys so excited
that you wanted to work withrabbits in the Rabbit Barn?
Speaker 6 (19:34):
Me and my family have been coming for quite a long
time, even before we wereofficial 4-H'ers.
My dad did a lot of stuff inhis teen years for 4-H, and so
we were always fair attendersand we just would sit and watch
the rabbits.
Speaker 1 (19:47):
Oh, wow, wow, Okay.
And what kind of rabbits arethere for people that aren't
aware of rabbits?
What are some of the differenttypes of rabbit?
Speaker 6 (19:56):
In Arva there are 51 different breeds of rabbit 51?
.
Yeah, oh, wow, and there arerabbits that range big enough to
be almost 20 pounds and somesmaller, like one and a half
pounds.
So big variety.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
Okay, and what's your favorite rabbit?
My favorite rabbit is the Dutch, the Dutch rabbit.
And why is that?
Speaker 4 (20:17):
Because they don't shed a lot.
So they're like a good housepet and they're a lot gentler
and they're not too small.
Like Minirex is a really smallbreed but Dutch is like a like
they're bigger than Minirex butthey're not as big as like I
like New Zealand's.
Speaker 1 (20:37):
Okay, all right, great, great.
Now what about you?
What is your favorite rabbit?
My favorite breed of rabbit isHolland Lops.
I love the floppy ears.
Oh, I'm sorry, say that again.
A Holland Lop, holland, lop,holland, lop.
Okay, and why do you like them?
They have floppy ears andthey're super fluffy and small.
They sound adorable and cute.
(21:03):
Oh, my gosh.
Now, if we wanted to, we're atthe Montgomery County
Agricultural Fairgrounds.
If we wanted to see rabbitsthat are cute, with floppy ears,
or rabbits that don't shed toomuch, where can we go?
Speaker 6 (21:09):
You can come to the rabbit barn.
It's across from the sheep andswine pavilion.
Speaker 1 (21:17):
And so not not only are you able to see rabbits, but
I noticed that there's a table.
There Are people able to seerabbits up close and maybe touch
them?
Speaker 6 (21:25):
There are two touch tables in the barn where there
are oftentimes rabbits out forpetting and learning about, and
then you'll also find peoplesitting around the barn who will
have rabbits in their lap andyou can ask them all sorts of
questions and pet the rabbits.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
Oh wow, that's great.
Speaker 6 (21:46):
Now, what are some fun facts that people should
know about rabbits?
Um, uh, I have one from theother day, so um, in 138 ce,
spain originally had rabbits onboth gold and silver coins oh
wow, rabbits on coins yeah, justlike presidents, yeah.
Speaker 1 (21:59):
Or bugs bunny just as important.
Yeah, just as important.
There we go, there we go, allright.
How about a fun fact from you?
Um, what's the cutest thing,what's the best thing about a
rabbit?
Speaker 4 (22:14):
not all bunnies like to hop.
Speaker 1 (22:23):
Not all bunnies like to hop.
Not all rabbits like to hop.
You heard it here on the what'sHappening MoCo podcast Not all
rabbits like to hop.
Now, each of you have your ownrabbits, so let's talk about
your rabbits Now.
What rabbits do you have, whatare their names and what are
they like?
Speaker 4 (22:42):
So we have three Dutch rabbits and one Holland
Lock.
Their names are Clover, maple,sienna and Brie.
Speaker 1 (22:50):
Oh, wow, okay, Very nice.
Speaker 4 (22:53):
And we just got our Holland Lock, like a few days
ago at this fair At this fair.
Speaker 1 (22:58):
Okay, cool.
And so when people come to thefairgrounds, will they be able
to see your rabbits too?
Speaker 6 (23:02):
Yes, they are.
We take our rabbits out a lot,so people often find them
sitting with us or on the table.
We love to show people and letthem learn about them.
Speaker 1 (23:12):
Now, if there's other people out there that would
like to work with rabbits,children or others, how do they
get involved in 4-h?
Speaker 6 (23:20):
um, well, they can join 4-h, obviously, and just
start attending meetings.
It's super simple, um, we meeton the third tuesday of every
month.
So if you come to the 4-hbuilding here at the fairgrounds
, we can give all the info andyou can join the club, right?
Speaker 1 (23:35):
join the club, play with the rabbits and guess what?
They don't all hop.
No, they don't Not if you makethem.
Oh my gosh.
Yeah, oh my gosh.
All right, so that's what'shappening, MoCo.
We're here with these fineyoung ladies.
You can find them in the rabbitbarn and they can introduce you
to their rabbits and otherrabbits and all sorts of nice
animals over there.
Good day, Welcome to.
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We are still live at theMontgomery County Agricultural
Fairgrounds and we can't getenough information about bovines
, and so we've gotten a goodfriend here.
Speaker 9 (24:05):
Sophia.
Speaker 1 (24:06):
German, who's the vice president of the Montgomery
County Jersey Calf Club.
All right, say that three timesfast.
All right.
What is a Jersey calf?
It is a type of dairy animal.
Ok, what's unique?
Speaker 9 (24:18):
about calf.
It is a type of dairy animal.
Speaker 1 (24:20):
Okay, what's unique about it?
How is it different from othertypes of calf?
Speaker 9 (24:24):
Well, like there's definitely it's like one of the
shorter breeds.
Speaker 1 (24:30):
Okay.
Speaker 9 (24:31):
And it's on like the slimmer side of breeds and their
milk production.
Speaker 1 (24:35):
Fantastic, and you are one of the competitors today
, right?
Speaker 9 (24:37):
Yes, I am.
Speaker 1 (24:38):
All right, and you are one of the competitors today
, right?
Yes, I am All right.
And you saw a good friend ofyours on here earlier yeah.
Speaker 9 (24:54):
Lily, okay, and you thought perhaps you might want
to be on here.
What do we have to make?
A top line on the top ofheifers, which is in which
perfects any imperfections onthe cow's top line, oh wow and
what's the top line?
It's like the back of the cow.
Speaker 1 (25:10):
Okay, wow so you know a whole lot about cows yeah all
right, and so what were youdoing?
So what were you doing today?
As you got got ready for thecompetition and I believe you
compete today.
What time do you compete?
Speaker 9 (25:20):
today Six o'clock.
Speaker 1 (25:22):
All right, so this may come out after six o'clock,
but for people that want tosupport you, what's the best way
to support people when they'recompeting live?
Do you want people to stay veryquiet?
Do you want them to cheer?
Speaker 9 (25:34):
Well, cheer when it's necessary.
Sometimes people can get in theway, oh, wow.
Like when you're walking downthe alleyway or in the barn, so
try to keep your distance.
But, yeah, definitely coming tothe show ring to support is the
best thing.
Speaker 1 (25:49):
Wow, very nice.
And so tell me what's going oninside the ring.
I've noticed that you'rewalking your animal and there's
a judge there and he's makingdecisions about the quality of
the animal.
What are you thinking aboutwhen you're walking the animal?
Speaker 9 (26:04):
um, what I'm thinking about is uh, don't act up like
please are you telling yourselfthat?
Speaker 1 (26:10):
you're telling that to the cow?
The cow, okay.
Speaker 9 (26:11):
I was like please stay calm and collected.
Okay and just Right.
Speaker 1 (26:19):
And so the cow is being judged on its behavior as
well as its composition.
Speaker 9 (26:24):
So there's two classes in 4-H.
There's fitting and showingwhich is all about you and how
well your animal is trained andhow well you fit in it and how
well you show your animal andhow well, you know it.
Speaker 4 (26:37):
Wow.
Speaker 9 (26:38):
But then there's your breed classes and your age
classes that are based off thecow's looks.
Speaker 1 (26:43):
Okay, fantastic, fantastic.
And which ones are you doingtoday?
Speaker 9 (26:47):
Today, earlier today, there was milking, short horns
and brown Swiss, and tonightthere's Holsteins.
Speaker 1 (26:54):
Wow, brown Swiss.
Are those the ones that makechocolate milk?
Speaker 6 (26:57):
No, they all make normal milk.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
It sounds like it makes chocolate milk, you sure
it doesn't.
They're actually gray, they'reactually red, okay, okay, all
right, brown swiss does not makechocolate milk.
You already did first, when itwas happening.
Milk hill podcast, all right.
So we're here, the ag fairrounds, and you're competing and
you're a 4-h, but you're also aregular person yeah, that likes
the ag fair.
What are some of the things youlike best about the Montgomery
County Agricultural Fair?
Speaker 9 (27:21):
Definitely the animals.
That's my top thing.
Speaker 1 (27:23):
Oh, yeah, okay.
Speaker 9 (27:25):
I enjoy all the people that come and ask
questions about it and they getto learn, and I also enjoy the
food.
Speaker 1 (27:32):
All right, and what's your favorite food?
Speaker 9 (27:34):
The corn dogs, the corn dogs oh yeah, corn dogs are
delicious.
Speaker 1 (27:40):
What is it?
Is it corn bread?
The corn dogs?
Oh yeah, corn dogs aredelicious.
Was it?
Is a cornbread on top of adelicious hot dog on a stick?
Speaker 9 (27:45):
Yep.
Speaker 1 (27:46):
And what do you put mustard anything on there?
No, I eat a plain either.
Plain, all right, fantastic.
Now what are you going to drinkwith your?
With the corn dog?
Speaker 9 (27:53):
Well, I've been a big fan of Gatorade recently.
Speaker 1 (27:56):
OK, all right.
Speaker 9 (28:00):
That's like a Gatorade I'm down like six
Gatorade in a day, oh wow, Everyday.
Speaker 1 (28:02):
So.
So I guess a lot of what you dois exhausting and it really,
you get a bit dehydrated then,Okay, cool.
So what are some of the um, themore demanding aspects?
Going back to the competitionand preparing your animal.
How, how physically demandingis it?
Um, moving and feeding anddoing all the things you need to
do with your cattle?
Speaker 9 (28:21):
Well, every morning we have to watch them for the
fair to be nice and pretty forthe people.
Speaker 10 (28:27):
OK.
Speaker 9 (28:28):
Which it takes a lot of work because they get dirty
in 12 hours.
Speaker 10 (28:32):
Wow OK.
Speaker 9 (28:34):
Fitting wise it's, it's all right.
It's definitely exhaustingafter a while, but I kind of
enjoy it fantastic, fantastic.
Speaker 1 (28:44):
Now what about other people?
I noticed you are all in, likeyou are a professional, well,
what I would consider someone'swell adept to the uh, the
competition and preparing theanimals and, uh, you know a lot
about the animals and all thosethings, but there are some
children out there that wouldlike to know more, like to do
more with the animals.
(29:05):
How do they get involved, likeyou've been involved?
Speaker 9 (29:08):
well, if you don't live on a dairy farm I
personally don't live on a dairyfarm okay, um, our cows are
somewhere else, but you canlease from someone and show them
in open oh, that's great, or?
If you're leased, you can putthem in your name and show them
in 4-H, as well.
Yeah, all right.
Speaker 1 (29:28):
So just to say that again, you can.
If you're a regular person, achild that wants to be in 4-H,
you can lease an animal.
You don't have to actually havean animal in your backyard, so
you don't have to go get a cowand bring it to Bethesda and put
it in your backyard.
No, okay.
Speaker 9 (29:51):
You can lease one and you go out to the farm or
wherever the animal's located.
It all depends on your leaserif they want you to do more or
they want you to do less.
It all depends who you leasefrom.
Speaker 1 (29:57):
Fantastic, fantastic.
That's what's happening in MoCo.
We're learning more and moreabout 4-Hers.
We're learning more and moreabout people that have ambition
and the know-how and thecompetitive juices flowing, like
Sophia German, here from theJersey.
What was it?
Jersey?
Speaker 9 (30:14):
Montgomery County, jersey, calf.
Speaker 1 (30:15):
Club, montgomery County, jersey Calf Club.
So there you have it, so let'swish her the best of luck today
and hope that she does the verybest she can, and wish her the
best in the future as well,because this won't be the last
year you're competing is it.
Speaker 9 (30:28):
No, I have four more years.
Speaker 1 (30:31):
Fantastic, all right, looking forward to big things
from Sophia.
Thank you, sophia, take care.
Speaker 9 (30:35):
Thank you All right.
Speaker 1 (30:36):
Good day.
And what was what's happening?
Moco, we are still live here inMontgomery County Agricultural
Fairgrounds and we're delving alittle bit more into this
competitive nature of cowscompeting against one another,
sheep competing against oneanother, just figuring out the
whole science behind theagriculture.
(30:58):
Yeah, in some ways, and help medo that I'm not going to do
that by myself.
To help me do that, we haveMichael Creek.
He is a judge for the OpenDairy Cow Show.
He also knows a lot about thescience behind agriculture.
He's going to help walk usthrough what we're looking at
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when we look at a dairy cowcompetition.
Speaker 7 (31:23):
Oh yeah.
So you know Marylandhistorically has a rich history
in dairy cattle and the qualityof dairy cattle really in
agriculture in general, likeMaryland.
There's a lot of leaders in theagriculture industry that have
started in Maryland.
Come out of Maryland, not justin dairy in the beef sector,
crop sector, swine and poultry.
(31:44):
It's it's a very diversifiedagricultural state, but we
really, really like to gettogether and show cows.
Historically in the state andand I'm personally, I'm from
Washington County but it'sspread across the state, but
Montgomery County here has arich history and at Montgomery
County Fair in particular, it'slike the lead up to Maryland
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State Fair, so it's reallyimportant.
Speaker 6 (32:09):
So yeah, when we go to judge cows, Local fair.
Speaker 7 (32:12):
No, it's OK, but when we go to judge cows or
livestock, you know there'sthings we look for.
Speaker 1 (32:18):
All right.
So, as we judge these thingsand this is a this is a full
competition, right?
There's not?
There's.
It's really literally eachindividual with their cow.
Yes, the cow is being judged oncertain qualities that has it
stand one hidden shoulders abovethe other cows.
Correct In terms of, and tohelp you select winners or a
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hierarchy of which cows are thebest, how do you determine what
are some of the characteristicsof a winning cow?
Speaker 7 (32:46):
Well, so each and this goes for any livestock
breed, but cows in particular,which is my specialty so any
breed or species they come upwith what they would call an
ideal, you know, or what they'relooking for.
As far as characteristics, eachbreed in the cattle industry
looks for a little bit differentthings, you know, because there
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are different.
They each have characteristicsthat make each breed individuals
in there.
So there's an ideal out therethat we're comparing every cow
against.
As she comes in the ring and asyou place them, the cow that's
closest to that ideal,confirmation, or how she's built
, works her way up to the top ofthe ring, and then so on and so
forth.
So second is the next closestto that ideal, and then third.
(33:30):
So what we have is someone likeme and our state, and dairy
cattle in particular.
Our 4-H program in the state ofmaryland is extremely strong.
Um, and historically um, thedairy cattle 4-h, dairy cattle
judging team, so the youthjudging teams, where we teach
kids how to evaluate cattle umhas won more national
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championships than any otherstate.
In fact, it's one, wow, nearly30, okay, maybe more than 30.
Speaker 2 (33:58):
It's a crazy number.
Speaker 7 (34:00):
It's a big number, much larger than any other state
.
So I was lucky enough to comethrough that program.
A lot of our youth come throughthat program and you're trained
over the years as far as whatwe're looking for.
And as cattle develop and asgenetics make our cattle change,
they get better at their jobs.
They get to live longer.
They get to be prettier thosetype of things they get to at
their jobs.
They get to live longer.
They get to be prettier thosetype of things they get to make
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more milk.
Speaker 1 (34:23):
As cattle change, we change the demographic.
I've noticed this one thingabout cows when you see them and
you're walking by cows, thefemale, what are they called?
Bowbines?
Bowbines, their eyes aregorgeous.
That's a big eyelash.
They'reines, their eyes arewhat's the big eyelashes
gorgeous it's like they, it'slike someone went by with some
(34:45):
mascara or something, right yeah, and like really did their eyes
.
Is that like?
Is that like natural?
Speaker 7 (34:50):
yeah, oh yeah I mean, uh, I, I guess it's just
something about the bovinespecies, right, okay, but just
you know those big brown, youknow brown eyes.
Sometimes they can even have adifferent color tone, but
there's big brown, hazel eyesyeah, but the big, it's big
eyelashes, I think.
I think cows have those bigeyelashes up there, you know,
and uh so wow, they just look.
Speaker 1 (35:11):
Uh, they look a little gentle yeah it's like,
it's like I wouldn't mind havingthis cow in my backyard hanging
out.
Speaker 7 (35:16):
You know, that's right, that's right, that's
right yeah, so I, when I'mjudging the cow though that's
not exactly what I'm looking at,but it does come into play when
I say, uh, if you were to cometo montgomery county fair
tonight or tomorrow night forsupreme champion, you hear me
say a cow has style.
I'm talking about how prettyshe is to the appearance so when
I say style, that's what I'msaying.
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I'm saying this this cow is sopretty that even you can tell
All right, yeah, even I cancheck it out.
That's right, and I'm a novice.
Speaker 1 (35:45):
I'm not like an agro-scientist, yeah, I don't
know all the nuances, but I doknow a pretty cow when I see it,
you know.
Speaker 7 (35:51):
All right, yeah, absolutely.
Speaker 1 (36:00):
Now see, that's your role as a judge, but you also
have, um, you're also into the,the business of agriculture as
well, and some, many people meincluded uh, I included, uh, not
not aware not so much aware ofsome of the different ways, or
innovative ways that um cows arebeing bred these days or, um
how efficiencies are beingbrought forth through science.
Speaker 7 (36:17):
Yeah, I mean um, um.
The truth.
The truth of the matter is iswe're having to learn, and it's
important for us to learn as ayou know, as a society, a
country society really to how todo to get more with less.
But there is a genuine andrightfully so, because this is
part of the farmer's concernalso, there's a general concern
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for the well-being of the animalalso.
So these cattlemen here thatare exhibiting their cows,
they're here to show off theirprettiest animals.
But, when they get home and theywork with guys like me that
will come in and say you knowlike I'd like to see my cow be
able to to stay and produce forme for as long as possible to
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live a productive but a a goodlife.
You know, as far as you knowthey stay.
You know they're eight, tenyears old, which in a dairy cow
that's.
That's a really long lifespanin a dairy cow compared to other
cattle and, um, you know, I'dlike to see them last eight to
ten years.
I'd like to see them live abeautiful life, make halves
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calves, make milk we work withthat to make them more efficient
.
As they go, farmers think aboutthose things as well as how
they handle their crops or howthey maintain their buildings or
manage their operations.
They use a lot of science tofigure that out.
Luckily, the USDA and thecollege agriculture at the
(37:44):
University of Maryland andcolleges like that across the
country do a lot of work and doa lot of research to help us get
better at our jobs.
Speaker 1 (37:51):
Fantastic and for some people that may not be
fully aware that dairy cows havea major role in our food.
When you go to the grocerystore, what are some of the
things that are associated thatcome from what's produced by the
cows?
Speaker 7 (38:04):
well, I mean you can go down that dairy aisle right
and actually that's the easyanswer is all that fun cheese?
I, my family, makes cheese, soI'm a cheese snob kind of.
But as far as that I like tojust you know, collect it kind
of my my wife and my.
I have a drawer in my fridge mywife's just.
Yeah, like to just you knowcollect it kind of my wife.
I have a drawer in my fridge mywife's just you know but just
you know that cheese and thosedairy products.
(38:25):
But you know dairy cows are alarge part of the beef process
as well.
That is, as some of these farms, uh, you know, have grown in
size, or even the smallerfarmers, they're choosing to, um
, to use some beef bowls ontheir dairy cows to make some
(38:49):
beef, you know, to help moveinto the food, the food system.
Um, and also, when you talkabout a dairy cow, you know you
really are talking about ananimal that not only is she
producing all that milk and thenall that cheese and all that
yogurt, but she can use feed.
And this is the thing aboutcows that are amazing.
(39:09):
All right, they eat things thatwe can't eat, like if you and I
ate it, we would have a hardtime you, you know, like really
upset stomach and a cow can usethat and and you can take ground
that maybe can only growsomething like that.
And a cow can take that and useit and turn it into something,
then that that dairy productthat we can use, and uh, it's a
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really, it's a really amazingthing what they do with this,
with those four stomachs.
Speaker 1 (39:37):
That's amazing, and so when you come to Montgomery
County agricultural fairgrounds,you can see cows up close and
personal.
As a matter of fact, you evensee cows giving birth.
There's a birthing center uphere, yeah.
Speaker 7 (39:48):
Yeah, and I and I, you know county fairs continue
to decline a little bit inparticipation as far as
livestock exhibitors and becausetime of the year and crops and
et cetera.
But at the same time, if youcome down here, there's some
world-class animals still insidethese barns.
Here Just some amazing animalshere.
Speaker 1 (40:08):
Fantastic and you've heard that.
That's what's happening, mocoAmazing animals that you and
your family can come see and seeup close and personal and also
see compete one against anotherand you can see the judge here.
He'll tell you all about thegreat things, the reason why one
won over the other.
Good day, welcome to what'sHappening, moco.
We are back live at theMontgomery County Agricultural
(40:30):
Fairground and earlier at thestart of the fair, there was a
competition, a food competition,and you know I like food, so
you're probably curious as towho won, and you already know
who won.
But now you get to meet the manbehind the sandwich that won
this, reuben.
Right here is the Ag Fairnumber one blue ribbon food for
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this year's fair, and we're herewith the Deli-ish owner from
Dundalk, maryland.
Speaker 5 (41:03):
Yep.
Speaker 1 (41:05):
Welcome, Eric.
Speaker 5 (41:06):
Thank you, thanks for having me Great.
Speaker 1 (41:07):
Tell us about your business.
What's the name of yourbusiness?
I think I mentioned it, and whydid you name it Deli-ish?
Speaker 5 (41:15):
So yeah, deli-ish and we named it, so it's sort of a
deli.
It's not the old-fashioned deliwhere we're kind of stuck to
just your traditional delisandwiches or corned beef.
You know, we branch out, we doall kinds of things.
We run different dinnerspecials, you know, with filet
(41:38):
mignon and crab cakes andsteamed shrimp.
We do all those types of things.
That that you're no moretypical, your typical deli don't
won't normally do.
Speaker 1 (41:49):
Okay, great, great.
So this is your first year atthe Ag Fair.
What can people expect fromyour booth here at the Ag Fair
in terms of what you're offeringto people visiting?
Speaker 5 (42:01):
So we have kind of our standard event stand food
truck menu, which is, of course,our Reuben, which you're having
now.
Hope you're enjoying it.
The Reuben is delicious.
I didn't want to say, of course, our Reuben, which you're
having now.
Speaker 1 (42:10):
Hope you're enjoying it.
The Reuben is delicious.
I didn't want to say anythingabout the Reuben because I
couldn't wait and I ate likehalf of the sandwich, but it's
delicious and even if you don'ttypically like Reuben, oh my
gosh, this sandwich is deliciousand it's freshly made.
And you grill it.
Yep, we grill it, it's reallygood.
(42:31):
It's always great to hear Okay,yes.
And again, I don't endorse anyone business or product, but I
have enjoyed this sandwich.
I'm not ashamed to say Ienjoyed this sandwich so much
I'm ready to eat it now, whileit's still hot.
But okay, yeah, go ahead.
All right, eric, are some youwere getting ready to say some
of the other food items that youhave in your truck today?
Speaker 5 (42:52):
yeah.
So besides the Reuben, we haveour shrimp salad, you know,
which was steamed, small batch,steamed fresh shrimp mixed with
Old Bay, plenty of Old Bay andblack pepper.
So it's a little spice, butit's, it seems to be pretty
popular, wow.
Um, we have our chicken saladwrap.
Um, wrap comes in a wrap withlettuce and tomato.
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Um, and we, we, we spice thatup a little bit with old bay as
well, okay, and then we have, uh, our classic new yorker, which
is a combination of corned beefand pastrami, uh, and swiss
cheese, coleslaw, russiandressing on three pieces of rye.
So you can imagine it's a bigsandwich, oh yeah.
And then we have jumbo kosherhot dogs, chicken tenders and
(43:35):
french fries, and then you canget a plain corned beef sandwich
and a plain patrongi sandwichalso, and I think I covered all
of our A lot of great items.
Speaker 1 (43:47):
Oh, I'm sorry, I'm forgetting one.
Speaker 5 (43:49):
The crab cake egg rolls.
Speaker 1 (43:51):
Crab cake, egg rolls.
Okay, wow, wow.
Sounds like you have a nicebroad array of items there on
your menu and it's all here andit's cooked fresh.
Oh, yeah, fresh, okay, rightthere in the truck.
So, unlike some Well, I'm notgoing to say unlike anything
else, but we do know that whenyou come to Erickstruck you will
have freshly made items andthey are quite, I would say, at
least one of them is quitedelicious.
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Oh my gosh, this boobin is verygood, very, very good.
Now, what started you into thebusiness of deli, the deli-ish
business?
Speaker 5 (44:21):
Yeah, so I've just been in delis all my life as a
kid.
In high school started workingat a deli in Baltimore City, a
popular deli.
School started working at adeli in Baltimore city popular
deli, um, and I it's sort ofstuck with it.
You know, um, I actually openedup um my first deli.
It was called the corn beeffactory and opened that up in
(44:43):
2010.
Um, you know, did that for afew years and uh, had two
locations, with that onebranched off to do some other
things, but eventually I foundmy way back to the deli and it
opened deli-ish in 2010 and nowwe have uh three food trucks, a
food stand and our brick andmortar store, which is in dundon
fantastic, fantastic.
Speaker 1 (45:01):
So what can we look forward to in the future from
eric uh, the wife and your sonis here as well yeah, yeah, my
son's here working today, firstyear helping out.
Uh, yeah, doing a great jobyeah, so what can we look
forward to in the future fromyour family um your business?
Speaker 5 (45:17):
well, we're going to keep keep doing what we do.
We're going to keep putting outgood product, hopefully win a
couple more awards, like like wedid at this one.
Yeah, um, yeah, you know we'rehappy with what we got.
Um, you know, maybe expand toanother, another trailer or food
truck and and start kind ofbranching further into the state
and a little bit out of thestate.
This was the first year weactually branched a little bit
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out of the state intopennsylvania a little bit, um.
So you know, that's that'ssomething that that may be on
the on the radar well, that'swhat's happening loco.
Speaker 1 (45:47):
Uh, family business growing um and doing well,
offering really good food atthis year's Montgomery County
Agricultural Fairground.
Thank you so much, eric, forstopping by.
Speaker 5 (45:59):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (46:02):
Good day.
Welcome to what's Happening,MoCo.
We're still here at theAgricultural Fairgrounds.
It's the nine best days ofsummer.
It's the fourth day and we'rehere talking about sweet things,
good things, tasty things.
We're talking about Dirty Dough.
Speaker 10 (46:17):
Dirty Dough.
Speaker 1 (46:18):
Dirty Dough with Scott Scott Love.
Scott Love, welcome to the show.
Speaker 10 (46:22):
Scott, how are you today?
I'm doing great.
I'm glad to be here and it isthe fifth day.
The fifth day of the nine bestdays of summer.
Speaker 1 (46:28):
Yes, so we're about.
This is kind of a hump day, Iguess you would think so so,
guys, come on out here, enjoy,come out, enjoy the ag fair.
The weather is fantastic and,of course, we have things that
you should come out and try,like dirty dough.
Speaker 10 (46:41):
Tell us about dirty dough so so dirty dough actually
got started in utah, um, wheremany sweet type companies get
started Okay, and the concept ofdirty is blended, mixed or
stuffed.
So, it's something that youtake as a whole like a cookie,
but if you stuff it now it's adirty cookie, okay.
Wow you take a drink and it's asoda.
(47:02):
But if you add creamers andsyrups and juices, now it's a
dirty soda, All right.
Speaker 1 (47:12):
So you know dirty rice, rice, dirty martinis
whatever it's, taking the holeand mixing it with something
else.
I've never realized that whenyou mention dirty, that you're
adding an element to somethingto make something new, right?
So, like a blizzard's, a dirtyice cream all right, and the
reason why we're talking uh withscott today is because he and
his business is here at themontgomery county agricultural
fairground and he has stuffedcookies and dirty drinks
available to people passing by.
Is this your first?
Speaker 10 (47:32):
year as a vendor, so this is our first year as a
vendor.
We just opened our retail storein Rockville.
We're at the Rockville TownSquare.
Speaker 1 (47:38):
Oh wow.
Well, we love, I will say welove Montgomery County
businesses.
So hold on, let's see if I canfind that applause button In
Montgomery County, maryland,hooray, all right.
Speaker 10 (47:51):
Scott, thank you.
Yeah, so we're right next tothe Science Center, across from
Buffalo, wild Wings and thelibrary.
Wow, we've been there sincelate, late December.
We're doing great.
People love us.
We're happy to be here.
Speaker 1 (48:03):
Fantastic, fantastic, scott, all right, so your last
name is Love, right, scott?
My last name is Love, all right.
So let's talk about some ofyour treats here.
Yes, what is this?
You brought over some orangeconcoction.
Speaker 10 (48:18):
What is that?
So this is one of our dirtydrinks.
Our dirty drinks, primarily,are soda-based.
Okay, so we take an orange soda, we mix it, in this case with
vanilla and some creamers, andit tastes just like an orange
cream.
So oh wow we have what we call acaribbean crush, which starts
with spray and then we addpineapple juice and we add
coconut.
Tastes just like a pina coladaa mocktail but just like a pina
(48:39):
colada.
And we have root beer, floatsand we do uh, hibiscus drinks
and strawberry drinks and weblend them together.
Drinks are extremely popularokay coming real soon.
We're going to be doing ricecrispy treats and waffle treats
and cinnamon buns and we have somuch to offer montgomery county
and rockville specifically alltypes of tasty items to drink
(49:00):
and to eat.
Speaker 1 (49:01):
Yes, you know, I don't know if you always find
tasty creative drinks and uh,things to eat in one place.
Speaker 10 (49:09):
Right, we like to consider ourselves a tree shop,
okay, but at the same time, youknow, our cookies are big.
Our cookies are almost sixounces each.
Speaker 1 (49:16):
Wow as far as our competitors go, we're also about
20% your calories.
Speaker 10 (49:21):
Can I try this?
Absolutely, it's looking at meit's looking at me in.
Speaker 1 (49:26):
This it's calling is a temptation guy.
The guys.
It's a temptation in action.
If you're on the Ag Fairgroundsand you go walk past the Dirty
Dough booth and not stop by tosay hi to Scott, you have a very
strong what do you call it?
They have a lot of discipline.
Yes, You're at the AgFairgrounds, so indulge yourself
.
I'm going to try this out here.
(49:46):
Scott, thank you very much forthis.
Speaker 10 (49:48):
I'll have to taste this oh wow, you like that oh
wow, that's just like an orangecream sickle that's amazing.
Speaker 1 (49:59):
That is like drinking an orange cream sickle, um, if
the consistency is very smooth,uh, with some ice in it, but
it's so smooth you wouldn't.
You wouldn't think that itwould be so smooth to drink.
And it's easy.
It's an easy, refreshing drink.
As soon as I drank it, I feltlike a few degrees of heat uh,
come off of my body.
So that's good, all right,that's that's unbiased and I'm
(50:19):
not endorsing scott or hisproduct by any means, but it is
delicious, that's honest.
Speaker 10 (50:23):
Okay, wonderful, okay scott, and our cookies are
a little bit different, so thisis a cookies, cookies and cream.
Speaker 1 (50:28):
I don't know, oh wow, yeah, we can see that.
Oh, that looks delicious, okay.
Speaker 10 (50:31):
This is a vanilla cookie that's blended with a
chocolate cookie.
Speaker 1 (50:34):
Okay, and it's stuffed with an Oreo cream.
Speaker 10 (50:37):
And it tastes like a big soft Oreo cookie.
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 1 (50:40):
Again six ounces.
Oh my gosh, Six ounces.
Okay, I guess what is.
What is a pound?
Speaker 10 (50:51):
yeah, so 16 ounces so you're, it's a quarter pound
cookie basically more or less, alittle more, a little more than
a quarter pounder.
Speaker 1 (50:54):
So you have a quarter pound cookie here.
So stop over by dirty doughwith scott love.
Check out the stuffed cookies,the dirty drinks and the dirty
drinks actually beautiful, theylook good, they taste fantastic.
So he's a bent.
He's a vendor here supportingMontgomery County at Coastal
Fairground, so please come outsupport him.
But he's also a Rockville TownCenter Montgomery County-owned
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business, so check him out there, rockville Town Center, which
is very close to where I work atthe council office building.
So I want to stop by there andcheck you guys out.
Thanks for being here, thankyou.
Anything else you want to tellpeople?
Do you have any type of cookiesyou want to recommend when
people come by?
Speaker 10 (51:29):
So the cookie and cream is my favorite.
Speaker 1 (51:31):
Okay.
Speaker 10 (51:31):
We have another cookie, that's a red velvet
cookie stuffed with cheesecake.
That's my daughter's favorite.
Okay, we have a chocolatecookie stuffed with a defattened
peanut butter.
I'm sorry what.
They remove the oils from thepeanut butter, okay, and then
they add protein, so it hasabout 23 grams of protein.
Okay, there we go.
(51:52):
Great for people that want towork out, all right.
Uh, our chocolate chip is evenstuffed.
It's stuffed with an ediblecookie dough.
Oh, gosh and we have gluten-freeor gluten-friendly, because
technically there are glutenproducts in the air around here,
so yeah, but we have agluten-friendly chocolate chip
which is made with a rice flour,and it's an excellent cookie
all right.
Speaker 1 (52:07):
well, you heard it here on the what's Happening
MoCo podcast.
We're live at the MontgomeryCounty Ecological Fairgrounds.
Be sure to check out DirtyDough.
Dirty Dough and I will saythat's the most gangster dessert
name I've ever heard.
So good luck to you and yourbrother who's from Potomac,
maryland.
Speaker 10 (52:21):
Yep, my brother's from Potomac.
This is our second oh wonderful, we were in the spa business in
Gaithersburg prior to this?
Speaker 1 (52:29):
Oh, fantastic.
Well, thanks for being here,scott.
Have a great rest of the day, Iappreciate it.
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What Good day and welcome to what's Happening,
MoCo.
This episode was recorded livefrom the Montgomery County
Agricultural Fairgrounds duringthe 76th annual Montgomery
County Fair.
We've talked to some of theindividuals that made this
year's Ag Fair quite memorable.
Take a listen.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Good day and welcome to what's Happening MoCo, an
authentic unscripted podcastfrom your Montgomery County
government.
Now here's your host, derekKenney.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
Good day and welcome to what's Happening, moco, we
are live at the MontgomeryCounty Agricultural Fairgrounds
and we are here with none otherthan the powerhouse, the
workhorse, the brains behind thesocial media and many of the
operations of Ag FairFairgrounds, christy Geary.
How are you, christy?
Speaker 3 (00:48):
I'm great, Derek.
How are you doing today?
Speaker 1 (00:50):
I'm great now because whenever I'm in the presence of
people that really make thingshappen I mean really make things
happen Think about it all yearlong, add the plans together,
bring people together, inspirethem, train them and then, when
the action starts happening,feet on the ground fire them,
train them and then, when theaction starts happening, beat on
the ground.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
I love being here.
The fair is my favorite time ofyear.
I love.
I love interacting.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
And it's great to talk with you today.
Well, I love the fair and Iwant to talk to you about all
the things that you do and someof the things that people want
to really learn about the fair,all the educational
opportunities, the rides and allthat.
But you know, know, I'm a bigguy and I have a sweet tooth but
I can't eat everything.
I wanted to eat like I used to,but I I love it's like.
It's like netflix, like towatch on netflix people eating,
(01:33):
uh, good food.
What is your food of choiceeach year at the ag fair?
What do you come to the ag fairand need to have?
Speaker 3 (01:41):
well, I can't anything if I didn't have any
other answer.
It's got to be the grilledcheese.
You know the world famousgrilled cheese.
I think everybody would give mea hard time if I didn't say
that.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
And you're talking about the grilled cheese.
Well, you can actually go tothe big cheese.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
The big cheese and get my grilled cheese.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
All right.
And so if you're in thecarnival area, which is the
south, and then you walk downand you walk away from the
carnival, you walk into thisarea near the garand stands, you
keep walking and on your leftyou will have a building filled
with wisconsin cheese, and theyactually bring the cheese from
(02:19):
wisconsin yep, it's like a 650pound wheel.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
They come, they bring it in, they, they cut it up
here.
You can, you can purchasecheese to go home with you.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
You can and they make it make their grilled cheese
right here.
Say, literally, say cheese, anda smile on your face because you
have the best grilled cheesethis side of the Mississippi.
Oh, definitely, all right, allright.
So her favorite is the grilledcheese.
I will say the deep fried Oreomight be one of mine, but as I
sit in my booth, I see churros,I see root beer, I see all types
(02:49):
of good things and I even seesomething that says stuffed
cookies and dirty drinks.
I don't know what that is, butI'm going to find out.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
Yeah, I haven't been over there yet.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
Dirty drinks.
I get dirty looks all the time.
I don't know what the dirtydrinks are.
I'm going.
I don't know about the dirtydrinks.
I'm going to try that out, allright, so now, what are some of
the things that people shouldlook forward to when it comes to
the fair this year?
What's?
Speaker 3 (03:09):
unique, unique.
We have all kinds of animals,which are not unique, but we
love our animals.
We love our 4-H'ers that get toshow off their projects every
year, and so it's just great tointeract with our 4-H'ers and be
able to see all those type ofthings.
But of course, we have all thegrandstand events.
We've got the monster truckscoming back again, We've got the
(03:31):
rodeo, we've got demolitionderby Whoa a rodeo, a rodeo, yes
, a real live.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
Cowboys rodeo, bulls rodeo, horses rodeo, definitely
Okay.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
Second year in a row.
They were rodeo horses rodeodefinitely okay, second year in
a row.
They were here last year.
They're going back again thisyear on a different night,
friday night, um, and we've gotum a demolition derby again.
But wow, we've got all kind ofa new like um magician show over
on the pepco stage to go alongwith their hypnotist, okay
there's all kind of thingsaround here.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
There's a lot of good things going on here at the
county fair.
Uh, many of them are free, someof them in the grandstand you
have to pay for, but they'rewell worth it, like the rodeo.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
Yeah, the big events in the grandstand do have a fee
with them, but we have so muchstuff we're advertised as
endless fun included.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
Yes, yes, yes.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
Which is great, which is the magician show and the
hypnotist and the, the rock andcircus up on the upper ground.
There's so many things all thekids own, things are all free.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
Wow, they're all free free for as soon as you pay
your admission, you're in here.
There's so many things you andyour family can do, a lot of
educational things.
So as your kids get ready to goback to school, you can bring
them to the ag fair.
You can learn about the bunnyrabbits, you can learn about the
bovine, you learn about thepigs, you learn about what are
the raptors all the differentanimals that you can learn about
firsthand and see firsthandhere at the Coastal Fairgrounds,
(04:52):
montgomery County, maryland.
Let's talk about you a bit.
Your family's been involvedwith the fair for quite some
time.
Let's talk about that.
How long has your family beeninvolved with the fair and who
all in your family contributesto the fair?
Uh, normally pretty much.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
It's a my entire family's involved.
My, my grandparents helped to,were pioneers and helped to
build some of the grounds here.
Okay my mom was a pastpresident during the 50 and 51st
fair, so it is an.
It is a family fair.
My, my dad's involved, my sonand my niece, everybody, my
brother, everybody is ourlifetime members and we just we
love the fair and enjoy givingback to the community.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
That's awesome.
That's awesome.
And you mentioned lifetimemembers.
What does it take if someone'slistening right now and they say
look, I want to contribute tothe fair.
I love it.
I'd love to be a member too.
I want to support the fair.
How do they do that?
Speaker 3 (05:40):
Which is great.
Our fair is a little bitdifferent, probably different
than most fairs that I interactwith, where we we we love having
volunteers come in and youvolunteer over 200 hours.
You hit 200 hours and youbecome a lifetime member and
that allows you to have accessto the fair all the time.
You get voting rights and inour, in our annual elections and
(06:01):
that kind of stuff.
So you know it's, it's great,it's a great community.
We call them our fair family.
They people love coming in andbeing volunteers here at the
fair and we're appreciative ofall the work that they do,
because we could not put on thisfair without our volunteers.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
And I will say there's a lot of sweat here at
the fair, a lot of hard work,and it starts not just this week
.
It didn't start last week or theweek before it starts early on
in the year, I guess guesscontinues along with good people
like yourself helping to planthings and make decisions, but
then also hands on the groundmaking things happen.
There you go, that's right, allright, that's what's happening,
(06:33):
moco.
There's so many more things tosee than the carnival.
Who knew, we knew, and now youknow.
And that's what's happening,moco.
Thanks for being here, christy.
Good day and welcome to what'sHappening, moco.
Today we're talking to LilyLuther.
Live at the Montgomery CountyAgricultural Fairgrounds.
Lily Lily, lily Luther, how areyou today?
Speaker 8 (06:49):
I am wonderful, thank you.
How are you?
Speaker 1 (06:51):
I am fantastic.
It's great to be here at the AgFair Another sunny, beautiful
day.
Sunny hot day there's cloudsevery once in a while to give
you a break from the sunlight.
Then there's a cool breeze.
Speaker 8 (07:05):
Every once in a while , yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
Yeah, so we're having a pretty good August.
I would say this is a greatAugust.
To come to the fair, what doyou think?
Speaker 8 (07:10):
I agree, this has been a nice cool one for sure,
all right, all right, I've beenenjoying it.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
Now, this is not your first fair, though, right.
Speaker 8 (07:19):
No, how long life.
My entire family has been apart of this fair for about 40
years now, I would say 40 years.
Yes.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
Oh, wow.
So all the beautiful Ag Fairactivity that you contribute as
a volunteer or as a 4-H-erdidn't start with you.
Speaker 8 (07:36):
No no.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
But it started 40 years ago.
How did it start for yourfamily?
Speaker 8 (07:41):
So my grandfather has been and my grandma have been a
part of 4-H since they were init as well.
They were um of youth age Um,my grandpa in Arkansas, my
grandma in Iowa, um, and theyeventually moved to Maryland and
got my um dad and his sistersall in it Um mostly showing beef
(08:01):
cattle Um, and so we have abeef farm of about 150 head
currently.
It's our pride and joy andwe've just left If it was
uninitiated.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
150 head means 150 cows 150 cows, that's correct.
Are the male cows and femalecows cows or like the male
something and the femalesomething?
What's the terminology?
Speaker 8 (08:25):
they are all called something different, so cows
actually aren't all girls.
The cow, an animal, is not acow until she's had a cow okay
before that, the girls arecalled heifers wow.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
So, in order to be qualified as a cow, they have to
be mama they have to be mamas.
Yeah, what are they before that?
You say they have the heifers,heifers, heif mamas.
Yes, what are they before that?
You said they're heifers,heifers, heifers, heifers.
Before they have the babies.
When they have the babies, theygraduate becoming cows.
Speaker 8 (08:50):
That's right, that's right, all right so what are the
boys?
Speaker 1 (09:06):
The boys?
They start out as bulls, but alot of different exhibits and
places where people can learn onsite.
But they also can learn rightnow from talking to lily, luther
and lily.
So you have experience.
Let's talk about you now.
We talked about the uh, thehistory of your family and all
the great things your family'sdone over the years in terms of
4-h and how big your farm is.
But let's talk about you.
What do you do at the ag fair?
What do you?
What's your focus?
Speaker 8 (09:26):
so my focus has mainly been rooting, rooted in
um showing cattle and then alsojudging livestock in general.
Um I have, I show, purebredangus and that's just a breed of
cattle okay um, and so I don'tjust show at the fair, I show
year rounds um.
These cattle have gone to umanywhere from five to ten shows
a year um yeah, they get get offthe farm and they just get
(09:50):
shown off.
The purebred ones do anyhow.
And then um the commercial herdwe have at home, um, the
different breed, just, you know,regular cattle, not anything
special and expensive.
Um, they uh, we raise and workwith for market and so we raise
those separately.
We call them those money-makingherd.
And then we have fun with ourpurebreds.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
And those are the ones that I like to call mmm.
Mmm, moo good, Okay, all right,Yummy hamburgers.
We're not going to delve intothat too deeply, we're going to
go back there, we're not goingto go there too deeply, all
right, but you you are when yousay show.
So a lot of people aren'tfamiliar with showing cattle,
what is involved in showingcattle and what makes a good
showing for cattle?
(10:30):
That's true.
Speaker 8 (10:31):
Yeah, there's a lot that goes into it.
For sure, it starts out at thebeginning of the year around, or
, I guess, in the 4-H year.
So September, october, is whenyou select your animals for the
year, for 4-H wise, anyway.
So we visit several farms andyou judge your cattle.
So this is something that kidscompete for a lot throughout 4-H
(10:54):
nationally, and basically whatyou're looking for is the
muscling of the animal, thestructure, condition, degree,
and so you're just kind ofseeing the ones, particularly
the particular ones, want toraise yourself, um, when you're
going to look at these cattle,that's awesome so that's the
beginning process, um.
And then, once you get youranimal, you raise it um year
(11:16):
round up until august, nextaugust to the fair.
So you, every day, these kidsare out feeding their animals,
working with them, making surethey're well behaved, um,
rinsing them in the summertimeevery day, getting their hair to
grow, putting in products andgetting that, getting them ready
oh, hold on, hold on you.
Speaker 1 (11:32):
Uh, the cows get their hair done hair treatment
hair did they?
Yeah, they get the chemicalsthat they get stuff in their
hair.
Speaker 8 (11:42):
They get more hair product than I do.
Oh wow, okay, um by landslideyes, who knew that cows?
Speaker 1 (11:47):
well, you say cows were uh I guess they're steers
mostly.
Speaker 8 (11:51):
Steers and heifers are normally the ones to get the
most treatment, you get thebeautified you get beautified
okay okay, that's good to knowokay um, yeah, so the ones that
are getting shown are, um,getting prepped far beyond show
day they are.
They have there's a lot of workthat goes into it, for sure
Several hours in the barn.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
And you rinse them off on hot days, yeah give them
a nice cool-down bath to keepthem.
Speaker 8 (12:14):
Yeah, lots of phanto in the barn.
You've got to keep them cool,to keep them contained.
So these are like divas.
Speaker 1 (12:20):
There's the rest of the animals on the farm, and
then these guys are walkingaround.
These guys get the farm andthen these guys are walking
around.
They're prim, they're proper.
Speaker 8 (12:26):
They get to turn around yeah Special attention.
Yeah, they're like the farm'spride and joy.
They get showed off.
This is like yeah, theyrepresent the farm for the
farmer.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
So these are the stars.
So when people come to the AgFair and they see the
competitions, they get to seethe stars from each farm.
Speaker 8 (12:42):
They're not just animals, these are the animals
from each farm, each family,each forager, yes, yes, every
forager you know, foragers thatcome from farms will definitely
be breeding their, bringingtheir highest quality cattle to
show off.
And then a lot of foragersdon't even have a farm, but they
get to experience that byraising steers, um, which is
(13:03):
really really cool as well.
Um, they just saw other farmersand they get to learn.
They just get a nice littleglimpse into what, um, raising
cattle entails by just raisingout a seer and just really
getting digging deep into whatthat animal needs feed wise, and
you know just quality, yeah howmany hours a week do you think
(13:24):
uh takes to care for a, a showanimal?
so if the type of show animalsyou deal with if it was just a
show animal, I would say I.
In the summertime I spent aboutfour hours a day in the barn
okay in the winter it's probablycloser to one or two hours a
day, um, just because you don'treally rinse them as much.
(13:45):
Um, then it's cold enough theycan grow their hair on their own
and everything they can dotheir own hair in the winter,
like, okay, we don't care aboutyour hair yeah, so, um, but yeah
, it's definitely.
It's not a?
Um easy process, for sure, butit's.
It's very rewarding, it's veryhigh reward, um, to be able to
come, come to the fair and showoff my projects.
That I'm right and you're not.
Speaker 1 (14:06):
You're not competing just with other other animals,
like just the regular animals.
You're competing with the bestof the best, uh, from around the
area.
Yeah, and then from that you'reable to generate some type of
revenue, of course, maybe, orprestige for your family yeah,
so, um, yeah, for generalshowing just just outside
(14:26):
jackpot shows and everything.
Speaker 8 (14:28):
A lot of the family farms are, yeah, bringing up
prestige for their name andeverything.
Speaker 6 (14:34):
Wow.
Speaker 8 (14:35):
But then at this fair we do have an auction at the
end of the week and, yeah, thegrand champions, dr, goes in the
ring first and everything andit's very exciting.
So that is a big moment for the4-H'ers at the end of the week
is, yeah, doing?
Speaker 1 (14:50):
the best at the auction after showing off.
And so you spent many yearshere at the fair and now you're
helping others kind of learn howto do what you've done for
years.
Speaker 4 (14:59):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (14:59):
What's next for you as you move forward?
Speaker 8 (15:06):
Well, yeah, I really had an incredible time because
I've learned so much as a 4-H'erhere and I've gotten to reflect
that on the younger generation.
I'm the president of the BeefClub now, so I've gotten to oh
the president, La presidenta.
Speaker 1 (15:16):
Okay, there you go, yeah.
Speaker 8 (15:17):
So I have gotten to just teach the younger
generation what I have learnedand it's just just, it's a very
full circle moment to supportone another and have that
connection.
And so hopefully in the next,in the next step, like you were
asking, I'll get to use all nutprep to continue in the
agriculture industry.
(15:37):
Okay, there's a lot ofstruggles currently you, with
our population expanding and ourenvironmental struggles, to be
able to sustain the agriculturethat we have.
Um, and to just publicize thatto especially everyone in
Montgomery County, these urbanareas, they're not entirely sure
Um.
So that's my goal as um ofgraduating 4-H'er.
(16:00):
That hopefully, um, I can dothat and with my college degree,
um, I'll go into.
That's my plan as well.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
I'm hoping to work in genetic research, but within
agriculture oh, wow, wow, toensure that we have uh ways to
sustain ourselves for years tocome.
And that's not just some people, it's like all people um have a
way to sustain themselves andtheir families and their
children and children's childrendepend on a lot of the
agricultural education andscience and technology and all
(16:28):
that goes into some of thethings we see at the MoCal Fair.
Speaker 8 (16:32):
Yes, yes, absolutely so.
The fair.
Its whole purpose, essentially,is to project the value of
agriculture that we have.
A lot of people don't know orunderstand agriculture because
it's become so centralized.
Yeah, in that, yeah, not manypeople are going out to their
own barns every day like theyused to in like the 1800s, and
(16:54):
having their own small, small,self-sustained farm.
But it's very, it's much moreefficient.
In order to just yield thequality food that we have today,
it has to be done by theselarge-grade commercial farms,
and so the fact that peopledon't know and understand quite
about how that works isdifficult.
(17:18):
just to communicate kind of theneeds and the needs for support,
the needs for continuity, theneeds for support, the needs for
continuity, the need foreducation and all the other
things that uh you may find, uhin places like 4-h and the actor
yeah, so we're all here to justum advocate for, for
agriculture, and to continue, uh, doing what we're doing and
(17:39):
keep, keep researching and keep,keep it going, and you know and
you're and you're from andyou're from what you are from ad
County and you're from well,you are from Montgomery County
and you live here now currently.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
So we love to celebrate Montgomery County.
We love to celebrate people inMontgomery County doing great
things.
So, wow, that's what's going onright now for you, lily Luther.
That's what's happening.
Moco.
President of the Beef Club.
Speaker 8 (18:03):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (18:04):
Future agricultural scientist.
Speaker 8 (18:06):
Is that a scientist?
That's the plan, yeah.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
All right, looking forward to great things from you
, yeah.
Speaker 8 (18:10):
I'm off to study biochemistry and animal science.
Speaker 1 (18:12):
Wonderful, wonderful and good luck to your animal as
it goes forth and competes hereat the Ag Fair.
What day are you competing?
Speaker 8 (18:22):
I am going to compete .
The market show is thursday andthen showmanship is friday,
okay, and where can people seethat?
So that's gonna be in thecattle pavilion.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
So when you go to the fair, it's up towards all the
ag barns, and so when people seethose things going on, because
the kids are wearing what?
White pants and stuff, butthey're wearing jackie pants and
our white shirts the whiteshirts?
Yeah, so when you see thosekids out there walking those
animals around, you're lookingat a high pressure intense oh my
goodness, those are some of themost you don't even realize.
(18:53):
Yeah there you go all right.
So be sure to check it out,like the same way we check out
the basketball game or football,hockey, anything else.
Check out these cattlecompetitions or these different
animal competitions at the MoCoFair.
They are free to see and it'sfree education.
So thank you, lily Luther.
Speaker 9 (19:09):
If you see her, give her a high five, and that's what
happened to.
Moco Awesome.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
What's happening?
What's up, doc?
We're talking about rabbits andwe're here with folks from the
4-H Rabbit Barn and we're herewith Amelia Martin and Eva
Martin and Zoe Tepper.
All right, all right.
So what is it about rabbitsthat have you guys so excited
that you wanted to work withrabbits in the Rabbit Barn?
Speaker 6 (19:34):
Me and my family have been coming for quite a long
time, even before we wereofficial 4-H'ers.
My dad did a lot of stuff inhis teen years for 4-H, and so
we were always fair attendersand we just would sit and watch
the rabbits.
Speaker 1 (19:47):
Oh, wow, wow, Okay.
And what kind of rabbits arethere for people that aren't
aware of rabbits?
What are some of the differenttypes of rabbit?
Speaker 6 (19:56):
In Arva there are 51 different breeds of rabbit 51?
.
Yeah, oh, wow, and there arerabbits that range big enough to
be almost 20 pounds and somesmaller, like one and a half
pounds.
So big variety.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
Okay, and what's your favorite rabbit?
My favorite rabbit is the Dutch, the Dutch rabbit.
And why is that?
Speaker 4 (20:17):
Because they don't shed a lot.
So they're like a good housepet and they're a lot gentler
and they're not too small.
Like Minirex is a really smallbreed but Dutch is like a like
they're bigger than Minirex butthey're not as big as like I
like New Zealand's.
Speaker 1 (20:37):
Okay, all right, great, great.
Now what about you?
What is your favorite rabbit?
My favorite breed of rabbit isHolland Lops.
I love the floppy ears.
Oh, I'm sorry, say that again.
A Holland Lop, holland, lop,holland, lop.
Okay, and why do you like them?
They have floppy ears andthey're super fluffy and small.
They sound adorable and cute.
(21:03):
Oh, my gosh.
Now, if we wanted to, we're atthe Montgomery County
Agricultural Fairgrounds.
If we wanted to see rabbitsthat are cute, with floppy ears,
or rabbits that don't shed toomuch, where can we go?
Speaker 6 (21:09):
You can come to the rabbit barn.
It's across from the sheep andswine pavilion.
Speaker 1 (21:17):
And so not not only are you able to see rabbits, but
I noticed that there's a table.
There Are people able to seerabbits up close and maybe touch
them?
Speaker 6 (21:25):
There are two touch tables in the barn where there
are oftentimes rabbits out forpetting and learning about, and
then you'll also find peoplesitting around the barn who will
have rabbits in their lap andyou can ask them all sorts of
questions and pet the rabbits.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
Oh wow, that's great.
Speaker 6 (21:46):
Now, what are some fun facts that people should
know about rabbits?
Um, uh, I have one from theother day, so um, in 138 ce,
spain originally had rabbits onboth gold and silver coins oh
wow, rabbits on coins yeah, justlike presidents, yeah.
Speaker 1 (21:59):
Or bugs bunny just as important.
Yeah, just as important.
There we go, there we go, allright.
How about a fun fact from you?
Um, what's the cutest thing,what's the best thing about a
rabbit?
Speaker 4 (22:14):
not all bunnies like to hop.
Speaker 1 (22:23):
Not all bunnies like to hop.
Not all rabbits like to hop.
You heard it here on the what'sHappening MoCo podcast Not all
rabbits like to hop.
Now, each of you have your ownrabbits, so let's talk about
your rabbits Now.
What rabbits do you have, whatare their names and what are
they like?
Speaker 4 (22:42):
So we have three Dutch rabbits and one Holland
Lock.
Their names are Clover, maple,sienna and Brie.
Speaker 1 (22:50):
Oh, wow, okay, Very nice.
Speaker 4 (22:53):
And we just got our Holland Lock, like a few days
ago at this fair At this fair.
Speaker 1 (22:58):
Okay, cool.
And so when people come to thefairgrounds, will they be able
to see your rabbits too?
Speaker 6 (23:02):
Yes, they are.
We take our rabbits out a lot,so people often find them
sitting with us or on the table.
We love to show people and letthem learn about them.
Speaker 1 (23:12):
Now, if there's other people out there that would
like to work with rabbits,children or others, how do they
get involved in 4-h?
Speaker 6 (23:20):
um, well, they can join 4-h, obviously, and just
start attending meetings.
It's super simple, um, we meeton the third tuesday of every
month.
So if you come to the 4-hbuilding here at the fairgrounds
, we can give all the info andyou can join the club, right?
Speaker 1 (23:35):
join the club, play with the rabbits and guess what?
They don't all hop.
No, they don't Not if you makethem.
Oh my gosh.
Yeah, oh my gosh.
All right, so that's what'shappening, MoCo.
We're here with these fineyoung ladies.
You can find them in the rabbitbarn and they can introduce you
to their rabbits and otherrabbits and all sorts of nice
animals over there.
Good day, Welcome to.
(23:55):
We are still live at theMontgomery County Agricultural
Fairgrounds and we can't getenough information about bovines
, and so we've gotten a goodfriend here.
Speaker 9 (24:05):
Sophia.
Speaker 1 (24:06):
German, who's the vice president of the Montgomery
County Jersey Calf Club.
All right, say that three timesfast.
All right.
What is a Jersey calf?
It is a type of dairy animal.
Ok, what's unique?
Speaker 9 (24:18):
about calf.
It is a type of dairy animal.
Speaker 1 (24:20):
Okay, what's unique about it?
How is it different from othertypes of calf?
Speaker 9 (24:24):
Well, like there's definitely it's like one of the
shorter breeds.
Speaker 1 (24:30):
Okay.
Speaker 9 (24:31):
And it's on like the slimmer side of breeds and their
milk production.
Speaker 1 (24:35):
Fantastic, and you are one of the competitors today
, right?
Speaker 9 (24:37):
Yes, I am.
Speaker 1 (24:38):
All right, and you are one of the competitors today
, right?
Yes, I am All right.
And you saw a good friend ofyours on here earlier yeah.
Speaker 9 (24:54):
Lily, okay, and you thought perhaps you might want
to be on here.
What do we have to make?
A top line on the top ofheifers, which is in which
perfects any imperfections onthe cow's top line, oh wow and
what's the top line?
It's like the back of the cow.
Speaker 1 (25:10):
Okay, wow so you know a whole lot about cows yeah all
right, and so what were youdoing?
So what were you doing today?
As you got got ready for thecompetition and I believe you
compete today.
What time do you compete?
Speaker 9 (25:20):
today Six o'clock.
Speaker 1 (25:22):
All right, so this may come out after six o'clock,
but for people that want tosupport you, what's the best way
to support people when they'recompeting live?
Do you want people to stay veryquiet?
Do you want them to cheer?
Speaker 9 (25:34):
Well, cheer when it's necessary.
Sometimes people can get in theway, oh, wow.
Like when you're walking downthe alleyway or in the barn, so
try to keep your distance.
But, yeah, definitely coming tothe show ring to support is the
best thing.
Speaker 1 (25:49):
Wow, very nice.
And so tell me what's going oninside the ring.
I've noticed that you'rewalking your animal and there's
a judge there and he's makingdecisions about the quality of
the animal.
What are you thinking aboutwhen you're walking the animal?
Speaker 9 (26:04):
um, what I'm thinking about is uh, don't act up like
please are you telling yourselfthat?
Speaker 1 (26:10):
you're telling that to the cow?
The cow, okay.
Speaker 9 (26:11):
I was like please stay calm and collected.
Okay and just Right.
Speaker 1 (26:19):
And so the cow is being judged on its behavior as
well as its composition.
Speaker 9 (26:24):
So there's two classes in 4-H.
There's fitting and showingwhich is all about you and how
well your animal is trained andhow well you fit in it and how
well you show your animal andhow well, you know it.
Speaker 4 (26:37):
Wow.
Speaker 9 (26:38):
But then there's your breed classes and your age
classes that are based off thecow's looks.
Speaker 1 (26:43):
Okay, fantastic, fantastic.
And which ones are you doingtoday?
Speaker 9 (26:47):
Today, earlier today, there was milking, short horns
and brown Swiss, and tonightthere's Holsteins.
Speaker 1 (26:54):
Wow, brown Swiss.
Are those the ones that makechocolate milk?
Speaker 6 (26:57):
No, they all make normal milk.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
It sounds like it makes chocolate milk, you sure
it doesn't.
They're actually gray, they'reactually red, okay, okay, all
right, brown swiss does not makechocolate milk.
You already did first, when itwas happening.
Milk hill podcast, all right.
So we're here, the ag fairrounds, and you're competing and
you're a 4-h, but you're also aregular person yeah, that likes
the ag fair.
What are some of the things youlike best about the Montgomery
County Agricultural Fair?
Speaker 9 (27:21):
Definitely the animals.
That's my top thing.
Speaker 1 (27:23):
Oh, yeah, okay.
Speaker 9 (27:25):
I enjoy all the people that come and ask
questions about it and they getto learn, and I also enjoy the
food.
Speaker 1 (27:32):
All right, and what's your favorite food?
Speaker 9 (27:34):
The corn dogs, the corn dogs oh yeah, corn dogs are
delicious.
Speaker 1 (27:40):
What is it?
Is it corn bread?
The corn dogs?
Oh yeah, corn dogs aredelicious.
Was it?
Is a cornbread on top of adelicious hot dog on a stick?
Speaker 9 (27:45):
Yep.
Speaker 1 (27:46):
And what do you put mustard anything on there?
No, I eat a plain either.
Plain, all right, fantastic.
Now what are you going to drinkwith your?
With the corn dog?
Speaker 9 (27:53):
Well, I've been a big fan of Gatorade recently.
Speaker 1 (27:56):
OK, all right.
Speaker 9 (28:00):
That's like a Gatorade I'm down like six
Gatorade in a day, oh wow, Everyday.
Speaker 1 (28:02):
So.
So I guess a lot of what you dois exhausting and it really,
you get a bit dehydrated then,Okay, cool.
So what are some of the um, themore demanding aspects?
Going back to the competitionand preparing your animal.
How, how physically demandingis it?
Um, moving and feeding anddoing all the things you need to
do with your cattle?
Speaker 9 (28:21):
Well, every morning we have to watch them for the
fair to be nice and pretty forthe people.
Speaker 10 (28:27):
OK.
Speaker 9 (28:28):
Which it takes a lot of work because they get dirty
in 12 hours.
Speaker 10 (28:32):
Wow OK.
Speaker 9 (28:34):
Fitting wise it's, it's all right.
It's definitely exhaustingafter a while, but I kind of
enjoy it fantastic, fantastic.
Speaker 1 (28:44):
Now what about other people?
I noticed you are all in, likeyou are a professional, well,
what I would consider someone'swell adept to the uh, the
competition and preparing theanimals and, uh, you know a lot
about the animals and all thosethings, but there are some
children out there that wouldlike to know more, like to do
more with the animals.
(29:05):
How do they get involved, likeyou've been involved?
Speaker 9 (29:08):
well, if you don't live on a dairy farm I
personally don't live on a dairyfarm okay, um, our cows are
somewhere else, but you canlease from someone and show them
in open oh, that's great, or?
If you're leased, you can putthem in your name and show them
in 4-H, as well.
Yeah, all right.
Speaker 1 (29:28):
So just to say that again, you can.
If you're a regular person, achild that wants to be in 4-H,
you can lease an animal.
You don't have to actually havean animal in your backyard, so
you don't have to go get a cowand bring it to Bethesda and put
it in your backyard.
No, okay.
Speaker 9 (29:51):
You can lease one and you go out to the farm or
wherever the animal's located.
It all depends on your leaserif they want you to do more or
they want you to do less.
It all depends who you leasefrom.
Speaker 1 (29:57):
Fantastic, fantastic.
That's what's happening in MoCo.
We're learning more and moreabout 4-Hers.
We're learning more and moreabout people that have ambition
and the know-how and thecompetitive juices flowing, like
Sophia German, here from theJersey.
What was it?
Jersey?
Speaker 9 (30:14):
Montgomery County, jersey, calf.
Speaker 1 (30:15):
Club, montgomery County, jersey Calf Club.
So there you have it, so let'swish her the best of luck today
and hope that she does the verybest she can, and wish her the
best in the future as well,because this won't be the last
year you're competing is it.
Speaker 9 (30:28):
No, I have four more years.
Speaker 1 (30:31):
Fantastic, all right, looking forward to big things
from Sophia.
Thank you, sophia, take care.
Speaker 9 (30:35):
Thank you All right.
Speaker 1 (30:36):
Good day.
And what was what's happening?
Moco, we are still live here inMontgomery County Agricultural
Fairgrounds and we're delving alittle bit more into this
competitive nature of cowscompeting against one another,
sheep competing against oneanother, just figuring out the
whole science behind theagriculture.
(30:58):
Yeah, in some ways, and help medo that I'm not going to do
that by myself.
To help me do that, we haveMichael Creek.
He is a judge for the OpenDairy Cow Show.
He also knows a lot about thescience behind agriculture.
He's going to help walk usthrough what we're looking at
(31:21):
when we look at a dairy cowcompetition.
Speaker 7 (31:23):
Oh yeah.
So you know Marylandhistorically has a rich history
in dairy cattle and the qualityof dairy cattle really in
agriculture in general, likeMaryland.
There's a lot of leaders in theagriculture industry that have
started in Maryland.
Come out of Maryland, not justin dairy in the beef sector,
crop sector, swine and poultry.
(31:44):
It's it's a very diversifiedagricultural state, but we
really, really like to gettogether and show cows.
Historically in the state andand I'm personally, I'm from
Washington County but it'sspread across the state, but
Montgomery County here has arich history and at Montgomery
County Fair in particular, it'slike the lead up to Maryland
(32:06):
State Fair, so it's reallyimportant.
Speaker 6 (32:09):
So yeah, when we go to judge cows, Local fair.
Speaker 7 (32:12):
No, it's OK, but when we go to judge cows or
livestock, you know there'sthings we look for.
Speaker 1 (32:18):
All right.
So, as we judge these thingsand this is a this is a full
competition, right?
There's not?
There's.
It's really literally eachindividual with their cow.
Yes, the cow is being judged oncertain qualities that has it
stand one hidden shoulders abovethe other cows.
Correct In terms of, and tohelp you select winners or a
(32:40):
hierarchy of which cows are thebest, how do you determine what
are some of the characteristicsof a winning cow?
Speaker 7 (32:46):
Well, so each and this goes for any livestock
breed, but cows in particular,which is my specialty so any
breed or species they come upwith what they would call an
ideal, you know, or what they'relooking for.
As far as characteristics, eachbreed in the cattle industry
looks for a little bit differentthings, you know, because there
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are different.
They each have characteristicsthat make each breed individuals
in there.
So there's an ideal out therethat we're comparing every cow
against.
As she comes in the ring and asyou place them, the cow that's
closest to that ideal,confirmation, or how she's built
, works her way up to the top ofthe ring, and then so on and so
forth.
So second is the next closestto that ideal, and then third.
(33:30):
So what we have is someone likeme and our state, and dairy
cattle in particular.
Our 4-H program in the state ofmaryland is extremely strong.
Um, and historically um, thedairy cattle 4-h, dairy cattle
judging team, so the youthjudging teams, where we teach
kids how to evaluate cattle umhas won more national
(33:52):
championships than any otherstate.
In fact, it's one, wow, nearly30, okay, maybe more than 30.
Speaker 2 (33:58):
It's a crazy number.
Speaker 7 (34:00):
It's a big number, much larger than any other state
.
So I was lucky enough to comethrough that program.
A lot of our youth come throughthat program and you're trained
over the years as far as whatwe're looking for.
And as cattle develop and asgenetics make our cattle change,
they get better at their jobs.
They get to live longer.
They get to be prettier thosetype of things they get to at
their jobs.
They get to live longer.
They get to be prettier thosetype of things they get to make
(34:21):
more milk.
Speaker 1 (34:23):
As cattle change, we change the demographic.
I've noticed this one thingabout cows when you see them and
you're walking by cows, thefemale, what are they called?
Bowbines?
Bowbines, their eyes aregorgeous.
That's a big eyelash.
They'reines, their eyes arewhat's the big eyelashes
gorgeous it's like they, it'slike someone went by with some
(34:45):
mascara or something, right yeah, and like really did their eyes
.
Is that like?
Is that like natural?
Speaker 7 (34:50):
yeah, oh yeah I mean, uh, I, I guess it's just
something about the bovinespecies, right, okay, but just
you know those big brown, youknow brown eyes.
Sometimes they can even have adifferent color tone, but
there's big brown, hazel eyesyeah, but the big, it's big
eyelashes, I think.
I think cows have those bigeyelashes up there, you know,
and uh so wow, they just look.
Speaker 1 (35:11):
Uh, they look a little gentle yeah it's like,
it's like I wouldn't mind havingthis cow in my backyard hanging
out.
Speaker 7 (35:16):
You know, that's right, that's right, that's
right yeah, so I, when I'mjudging the cow though that's
not exactly what I'm looking at,but it does come into play when
I say, uh, if you were to cometo montgomery county fair
tonight or tomorrow night forsupreme champion, you hear me
say a cow has style.
I'm talking about how prettyshe is to the appearance so when
I say style, that's what I'msaying.
(35:37):
I'm saying this this cow is sopretty that even you can tell
All right, yeah, even I cancheck it out.
That's right, and I'm a novice.
Speaker 1 (35:45):
I'm not like an agro-scientist, yeah, I don't
know all the nuances, but I doknow a pretty cow when I see it,
you know.
Speaker 7 (35:51):
All right, yeah, absolutely.
Speaker 1 (36:00):
Now see, that's your role as a judge, but you also
have, um, you're also into the,the business of agriculture as
well, and some, many people meincluded uh, I included, uh, not
not aware not so much aware ofsome of the different ways, or
innovative ways that um cows arebeing bred these days or, um
how efficiencies are beingbrought forth through science.
Speaker 7 (36:17):
Yeah, I mean um, um.
The truth.
The truth of the matter is iswe're having to learn, and it's
important for us to learn as ayou know, as a society, a
country society really to how todo to get more with less.
But there is a genuine andrightfully so, because this is
part of the farmer's concernalso, there's a general concern
(36:39):
for the well-being of the animalalso.
So these cattlemen here thatare exhibiting their cows,
they're here to show off theirprettiest animals.
But, when they get home and theywork with guys like me that
will come in and say you knowlike I'd like to see my cow be
able to to stay and produce forme for as long as possible to
(37:02):
live a productive but a a goodlife.
You know, as far as you knowthey stay.
You know they're eight, tenyears old, which in a dairy cow
that's.
That's a really long lifespanin a dairy cow compared to other
cattle and, um, you know, I'dlike to see them last eight to
ten years.
I'd like to see them live abeautiful life, make halves
(37:22):
calves, make milk we work withthat to make them more efficient
.
As they go, farmers think aboutthose things as well as how
they handle their crops or howthey maintain their buildings or
manage their operations.
They use a lot of science tofigure that out.
Luckily, the USDA and thecollege agriculture at the
(37:44):
University of Maryland andcolleges like that across the
country do a lot of work and doa lot of research to help us get
better at our jobs.
Speaker 1 (37:51):
Fantastic and for some people that may not be
fully aware that dairy cows havea major role in our food.
When you go to the grocerystore, what are some of the
things that are associated thatcome from what's produced by the
cows?
Speaker 7 (38:04):
well, I mean you can go down that dairy aisle right
and actually that's the easyanswer is all that fun cheese?
I, my family, makes cheese, soI'm a cheese snob kind of.
But as far as that I like tojust you know, collect it kind
of my my wife and my.
I have a drawer in my fridge mywife's just.
Yeah, like to just you knowcollect it kind of my wife.
I have a drawer in my fridge mywife's just you know but just
you know that cheese and thosedairy products.
(38:25):
But you know dairy cows are alarge part of the beef process
as well.
That is, as some of these farms, uh, you know, have grown in
size, or even the smallerfarmers, they're choosing to, um
, to use some beef bowls ontheir dairy cows to make some
(38:49):
beef, you know, to help moveinto the food, the food system.
Um, and also, when you talkabout a dairy cow, you know you
really are talking about ananimal that not only is she
producing all that milk and thenall that cheese and all that
yogurt, but she can use feed.
And this is the thing aboutcows that are amazing.
(39:09):
All right, they eat things thatwe can't eat, like if you and I
ate it, we would have a hardtime you, you know, like really
upset stomach and a cow can usethat and and you can take ground
that maybe can only growsomething like that.
And a cow can take that and useit and turn it into something,
then that that dairy productthat we can use, and uh, it's a
(39:32):
really, it's a really amazingthing what they do with this,
with those four stomachs.
Speaker 1 (39:37):
That's amazing, and so when you come to Montgomery
County agricultural fairgrounds,you can see cows up close and
personal.
As a matter of fact, you evensee cows giving birth.
There's a birthing center uphere, yeah.
Speaker 7 (39:48):
Yeah, and I and I, you know county fairs continue
to decline a little bit inparticipation as far as
livestock exhibitors and becausetime of the year and crops and
et cetera.
But at the same time, if youcome down here, there's some
world-class animals still insidethese barns.
Here Just some amazing animalshere.
Speaker 1 (40:08):
Fantastic and you've heard that.
That's what's happening, mocoAmazing animals that you and
your family can come see and seeup close and personal and also
see compete one against anotherand you can see the judge here.
He'll tell you all about thegreat things, the reason why one
won over the other.
Good day, welcome to what'sHappening, moco.
We are back live at theMontgomery County Agricultural
(40:30):
Fairground and earlier at thestart of the fair, there was a
competition, a food competition,and you know I like food, so
you're probably curious as towho won, and you already know
who won.
But now you get to meet the manbehind the sandwich that won
this, reuben.
Right here is the Ag Fairnumber one blue ribbon food for
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this year's fair, and we're herewith the Deli-ish owner from
Dundalk, maryland.
Speaker 5 (41:03):
Yep.
Speaker 1 (41:05):
Welcome, Eric.
Speaker 5 (41:06):
Thank you, thanks for having me Great.
Speaker 1 (41:07):
Tell us about your business.
What's the name of yourbusiness?
I think I mentioned it, and whydid you name it Deli-ish?
Speaker 5 (41:15):
So yeah, deli-ish and we named it, so it's sort of a
deli.
It's not the old-fashioned deliwhere we're kind of stuck to
just your traditional delisandwiches or corned beef.
You know, we branch out, we doall kinds of things.
We run different dinnerspecials, you know, with filet
(41:38):
mignon and crab cakes andsteamed shrimp.
We do all those types of things.
That that you're no moretypical, your typical deli don't
won't normally do.
Speaker 1 (41:49):
Okay, great, great.
So this is your first year atthe Ag Fair.
What can people expect fromyour booth here at the Ag Fair
in terms of what you're offeringto people visiting?
Speaker 5 (42:01):
So we have kind of our standard event stand food
truck menu, which is, of course,our Reuben, which you're having
now.
Hope you're enjoying it.
The Reuben is delicious.
I didn't want to say, of course, our Reuben, which you're
having now.
Speaker 1 (42:10):
Hope you're enjoying it.
The Reuben is delicious.
I didn't want to say anythingabout the Reuben because I
couldn't wait and I ate likehalf of the sandwich, but it's
delicious and even if you don'ttypically like Reuben, oh my
gosh, this sandwich is deliciousand it's freshly made.
And you grill it.
Yep, we grill it, it's reallygood.
(42:31):
It's always great to hear Okay,yes.
And again, I don't endorse anyone business or product, but I
have enjoyed this sandwich.
I'm not ashamed to say Ienjoyed this sandwich so much
I'm ready to eat it now, whileit's still hot.
But okay, yeah, go ahead.
All right, eric, are some youwere getting ready to say some
of the other food items that youhave in your truck today?
Speaker 5 (42:52):
yeah.
So besides the Reuben, we haveour shrimp salad, you know,
which was steamed, small batch,steamed fresh shrimp mixed with
Old Bay, plenty of Old Bay andblack pepper.
So it's a little spice, butit's, it seems to be pretty
popular, wow.
Um, we have our chicken saladwrap.
Um, wrap comes in a wrap withlettuce and tomato.
(43:13):
Um, and we, we, we spice thatup a little bit with old bay as
well, okay, and then we have, uh, our classic new yorker, which
is a combination of corned beefand pastrami, uh, and swiss
cheese, coleslaw, russiandressing on three pieces of rye.
So you can imagine it's a bigsandwich, oh yeah.
And then we have jumbo kosherhot dogs, chicken tenders and
(43:35):
french fries, and then you canget a plain corned beef sandwich
and a plain patrongi sandwichalso, and I think I covered all
of our A lot of great items.
Speaker 1 (43:47):
Oh, I'm sorry, I'm forgetting one.
Speaker 5 (43:49):
The crab cake egg rolls.
Speaker 1 (43:51):
Crab cake, egg rolls.
Okay, wow, wow.
Sounds like you have a nicebroad array of items there on
your menu and it's all here andit's cooked fresh.
Oh, yeah, fresh, okay, rightthere in the truck.
So, unlike some Well, I'm notgoing to say unlike anything
else, but we do know that whenyou come to Erickstruck you will
have freshly made items andthey are quite, I would say, at
least one of them is quitedelicious.
(44:13):
Oh my gosh, this boobin is verygood, very, very good.
Now, what started you into thebusiness of deli, the deli-ish
business?
Speaker 5 (44:21):
Yeah, so I've just been in delis all my life as a
kid.
In high school started workingat a deli in Baltimore City, a
popular deli.
School started working at adeli in Baltimore city popular
deli, um, and I it's sort ofstuck with it.
You know, um, I actually openedup um my first deli.
It was called the corn beeffactory and opened that up in
(44:43):
2010.
Um, you know, did that for afew years and uh, had two
locations, with that onebranched off to do some other
things, but eventually I foundmy way back to the deli and it
opened deli-ish in 2010 and nowwe have uh three food trucks, a
food stand and our brick andmortar store, which is in dundon
fantastic, fantastic.
Speaker 1 (45:01):
So what can we look forward to in the future from
eric uh, the wife and your sonis here as well yeah, yeah, my
son's here working today, firstyear helping out.
Uh, yeah, doing a great jobyeah, so what can we look
forward to in the future fromyour family um your business?
Speaker 5 (45:17):
well, we're going to keep keep doing what we do.
We're going to keep putting outgood product, hopefully win a
couple more awards, like like wedid at this one.
Yeah, um, yeah, you know we'rehappy with what we got.
Um, you know, maybe expand toanother, another trailer or food
truck and and start kind ofbranching further into the state
and a little bit out of thestate.
This was the first year weactually branched a little bit
(45:38):
out of the state intopennsylvania a little bit, um.
So you know, that's that'ssomething that that may be on
the on the radar well, that'swhat's happening loco.
Speaker 1 (45:47):
Uh, family business growing um and doing well,
offering really good food atthis year's Montgomery County
Agricultural Fairground.
Thank you so much, eric, forstopping by.
Speaker 5 (45:59):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (46:02):
Good day.
Welcome to what's Happening,MoCo.
We're still here at theAgricultural Fairgrounds.
It's the nine best days ofsummer.
It's the fourth day and we'rehere talking about sweet things,
good things, tasty things.
We're talking about Dirty Dough.
Speaker 10 (46:17):
Dirty Dough.
Speaker 1 (46:18):
Dirty Dough with Scott Scott Love.
Scott Love, welcome to the show.
Speaker 10 (46:22):
Scott, how are you today?
I'm doing great.
I'm glad to be here and it isthe fifth day.
The fifth day of the nine bestdays of summer.
Speaker 1 (46:28):
Yes, so we're about.
This is kind of a hump day, Iguess you would think so so,
guys, come on out here, enjoy,come out, enjoy the ag fair.
The weather is fantastic and,of course, we have things that
you should come out and try,like dirty dough.
Speaker 10 (46:41):
Tell us about dirty dough so so dirty dough actually
got started in utah, um, wheremany sweet type companies get
started Okay, and the concept ofdirty is blended, mixed or
stuffed.
So, it's something that youtake as a whole like a cookie,
but if you stuff it now it's adirty cookie, okay.
Wow you take a drink and it's asoda.
(47:02):
But if you add creamers andsyrups and juices, now it's a
dirty soda, All right.
Speaker 1 (47:12):
So you know dirty rice, rice, dirty martinis
whatever it's, taking the holeand mixing it with something
else.
I've never realized that whenyou mention dirty, that you're
adding an element to somethingto make something new, right?
So, like a blizzard's, a dirtyice cream all right, and the
reason why we're talking uh withscott today is because he and
his business is here at themontgomery county agricultural
fairground and he has stuffedcookies and dirty drinks
available to people passing by.
Is this your first?
Speaker 10 (47:32):
year as a vendor, so this is our first year as a
vendor.
We just opened our retail storein Rockville.
We're at the Rockville TownSquare.
Speaker 1 (47:38):
Oh wow.
Well, we love, I will say welove Montgomery County
businesses.
So hold on, let's see if I canfind that applause button In
Montgomery County, maryland,hooray, all right.
Speaker 10 (47:51):
Scott, thank you.
Yeah, so we're right next tothe Science Center, across from
Buffalo, wild Wings and thelibrary.
Wow, we've been there sincelate, late December.
We're doing great.
People love us.
We're happy to be here.
Speaker 1 (48:03):
Fantastic, fantastic, scott, all right, so your last
name is Love, right, scott?
My last name is Love, all right.
So let's talk about some ofyour treats here.
Yes, what is this?
You brought over some orangeconcoction.
Speaker 10 (48:18):
What is that?
So this is one of our dirtydrinks.
Our dirty drinks, primarily,are soda-based.
Okay, so we take an orange soda, we mix it, in this case with
vanilla and some creamers, andit tastes just like an orange
cream.
So oh wow we have what we call acaribbean crush, which starts
with spray and then we addpineapple juice and we add
coconut.
Tastes just like a pina coladaa mocktail but just like a pina
(48:39):
colada.
And we have root beer, floatsand we do uh, hibiscus drinks
and strawberry drinks and weblend them together.
Drinks are extremely popularokay coming real soon.
We're going to be doing ricecrispy treats and waffle treats
and cinnamon buns and we have somuch to offer montgomery county
and rockville specifically alltypes of tasty items to drink
(49:00):
and to eat.
Speaker 1 (49:01):
Yes, you know, I don't know if you always find
tasty creative drinks and uh,things to eat in one place.
Speaker 10 (49:09):
Right, we like to consider ourselves a tree shop,
okay, but at the same time, youknow, our cookies are big.
Our cookies are almost sixounces each.
Speaker 1 (49:16):
Wow as far as our competitors go, we're also about
20% your calories.
Speaker 10 (49:21):
Can I try this?
Absolutely, it's looking at meit's looking at me in.
Speaker 1 (49:26):
This it's calling is a temptation guy.
The guys.
It's a temptation in action.
If you're on the Ag Fairgroundsand you go walk past the Dirty
Dough booth and not stop by tosay hi to Scott, you have a very
strong what do you call it?
They have a lot of discipline.
Yes, You're at the AgFairgrounds, so indulge yourself
.
I'm going to try this out here.
(49:46):
Scott, thank you very much forthis.
Speaker 10 (49:48):
I'll have to taste this oh wow, you like that oh
wow, that's just like an orangecream sickle that's amazing.
Speaker 1 (49:59):
That is like drinking an orange cream sickle, um, if
the consistency is very smooth,uh, with some ice in it, but
it's so smooth you wouldn't.
You wouldn't think that itwould be so smooth to drink.
And it's easy.
It's an easy, refreshing drink.
As soon as I drank it, I feltlike a few degrees of heat uh,
come off of my body.
So that's good, all right,that's that's unbiased and I'm
(50:19):
not endorsing scott or hisproduct by any means, but it is
delicious, that's honest.
Speaker 10 (50:23):
Okay, wonderful, okay scott, and our cookies are
a little bit different, so thisis a cookies, cookies and cream.
Speaker 1 (50:28):
I don't know, oh wow, yeah, we can see that.
Oh, that looks delicious, okay.
Speaker 10 (50:31):
This is a vanilla cookie that's blended with a
chocolate cookie.
Speaker 1 (50:34):
Okay, and it's stuffed with an Oreo cream.
Speaker 10 (50:37):
And it tastes like a big soft Oreo cookie.
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 1 (50:40):
Again six ounces.
Oh my gosh, Six ounces.
Okay, I guess what is.
What is a pound?
Speaker 10 (50:51):
yeah, so 16 ounces so you're, it's a quarter pound
cookie basically more or less, alittle more, a little more than
a quarter pounder.
Speaker 1 (50:54):
So you have a quarter pound cookie here.
So stop over by dirty doughwith scott love.
Check out the stuffed cookies,the dirty drinks and the dirty
drinks actually beautiful, theylook good, they taste fantastic.
So he's a bent.
He's a vendor here supportingMontgomery County at Coastal
Fairground, so please come outsupport him.
But he's also a Rockville TownCenter Montgomery County-owned
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business, so check him out there, rockville Town Center, which
is very close to where I work atthe council office building.
So I want to stop by there andcheck you guys out.
Thanks for being here, thankyou.
Anything else you want to tellpeople?
Do you have any type of cookiesyou want to recommend when
people come by?
Speaker 10 (51:29):
So the cookie and cream is my favorite.
Speaker 1 (51:31):
Okay.
Speaker 10 (51:31):
We have another cookie, that's a red velvet
cookie stuffed with cheesecake.
That's my daughter's favorite.
Okay, we have a chocolatecookie stuffed with a defattened
peanut butter.
I'm sorry what.
They remove the oils from thepeanut butter, okay, and then
they add protein, so it hasabout 23 grams of protein.
Okay, there we go.
(51:52):
Great for people that want towork out, all right.
Uh, our chocolate chip is evenstuffed.
It's stuffed with an ediblecookie dough.
Oh, gosh and we have gluten-freeor gluten-friendly, because
technically there are glutenproducts in the air around here,
so yeah, but we have agluten-friendly chocolate chip
which is made with a rice flour,and it's an excellent cookie
all right.
Speaker 1 (52:07):
well, you heard it here on the what's Happening
MoCo podcast.
We're live at the MontgomeryCounty Ecological Fairgrounds.
Be sure to check out DirtyDough.
Dirty Dough and I will saythat's the most gangster dessert
name I've ever heard.
So good luck to you and yourbrother who's from Potomac,
maryland.
Speaker 10 (52:21):
Yep, my brother's from Potomac.
This is our second oh wonderful, we were in the spa business in
Gaithersburg prior to this?
Speaker 1 (52:29):
Oh, fantastic.
Well, thanks for being here,scott.
Have a great rest of the day, Iappreciate it.
Speaker 2 (52:34):
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