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38. RenFairely Unhinged: History of the Renaissance Faire · Amigos, Afraid!

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  I missed her. We missed her.
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  You me dead. No, I'm not your dad, but we
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  went to the Ren Fair. To the Ryan Fair.
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  We've Part 2 of gang pleasured at the Ren Fair.
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  We got pleasured at the Ren fair.
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  We frolicked at the Ren Fair. We.
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  Wined and dined technically. And 69.
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  I was kidding. No, I don't.
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  Know where that happened that. Didn't happen.
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  That was a fever dream. A fever dream indeed, because it
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  was almost 100. Degrees.
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  Yes. Yes it was.
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  And dehydrated. Absolutely.
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  Guys, we went to the Ren Fair Part 2.
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  Yay 2026 first of two trips to the Ren Fair.
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  We're doubling up this year. I dare say we actually, we're a
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  little seasoned this time and we're pretty on top of things.
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  Yeah, we showed up on theme. And on time.
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  Yes, we did. Yeah, we got good parking.
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  We. Literally got Princess parking
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  and as soon as we were ready we are walking up to the doors.
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  They had already done the opening ceremony and the long
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  line was gone. Picked up our tickets and walked
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  straight in. Easy.
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  It was so fun and it was hot. It was really hot.
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  Guys like it. What we knew that coming in.
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  So, you know, in terms of layers, we weren't too layered
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  up. I was a little layered up.
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  The theme was pirates opening weekend had a not a dress code.
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  It wasn't mandatory but they do have themed weekends which was
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  pirate and I went in my little peasant shirt and then a black
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  like velvet. Vest.
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  Vest and a wig and you had. A wig, you know, of course I
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  take everything back. It doesn't matter how many
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  layers. I had three layers on.
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  But you had a wig. Yeah, I, I was dying.
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  There was moments where I'm like, this is it, I'm dying at
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  the Ren Fair. If if there's any better place
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  to that like go out it at Renfair.
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  Why not the renfair? I don't know.
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  I don't want to catch like sepsis or something.
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  I caught the plague at the freaking got the plague in
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  Irwindale. At the Santa Fe Dam.
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  Santa Fe Dam in Irwindale, but. This time it was fun and we went
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  with the intent that we were going to make daily BJ content
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  for you guys and that we did. I think we delivered y'all if
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  y'all haven't seen the tik toks brought to you by our DFM Brian.
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  He got off with the edits but the content we recorded is so
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  good. Check it out.
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  Jerry had the genius idea. We sat down prior.
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  We said how are we going to make this content?
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  What are we going to do? We're eating our Somisomi, which
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  is a little ice cream shop that has fish shaped like desserts,
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  kind of. And Jerry beautifully just said.
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  Oh, you're waiting for me to say it.
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  What if we buy fish and we have a segment called speak into the
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  Pike, get speak into the mic, but we buy fake fish.
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  We put the microphones, the tiny microphones, and then we speak
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  into the Pike and. Speak into the Pike we did with
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  the multiple, with multiple people we like, did St.
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  interviews. Yes, we did.
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  That part was hard because we're so shy.
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  Brian and I had to, you know, get over that fear.
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  We had to be comfortable with being uncomfortable.
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  And we did that. Yeah, with with help of some
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  liquid. Courage, dehydrated, hardly
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  having a meal before it and drinking a tall can.
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  Yeah. And our PR specialist, not going
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  to lie, he's they, they helped out a lot.
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  Yeah, she really threatened us. She threatened us.
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  Said boys get to work. Otherwise I'm going to do it for
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  you. Yeah, she kind of did.
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  She. Yeah.
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  The big shout out to the two people that we have names of
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  that we interviewed, which was Whitley in this beautifully
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  constructed, crystallize feathered, all white beaded
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  Unicorn costume. Yeah, outfit, costume, whatever
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  it is, she had this a giant Unicorn head above her head,
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  like as a. Headdress.
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  Yeah. Head headpiece.
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  There you go. When I say that, I said it in
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  the video, so if you haven't seen it, go check it out.
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  We found a Cryptid at the Renaissance Fair, a full on
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  Unicorn and like intricate, beautifully made.
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  Very like keen on details. Her shoes were giant hooves.
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  Yeah, it was. It was amazing.
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  She was. Stomping around, clip clopping.
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  Clip clopping. Taller than literally anyone
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  there because they had a huge platform and her head went up
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  maybe like 2 feet above her freaking scalp.
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  And then our second friend, Eric.
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  Eric dressed up as a dwarf from World of Warcraft.
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  Wow. If I was hot, I know he must
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  have been sweltering because he was also in a wig and a beard
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  and a nose. And a fake prosthetic like as a
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  nose. We saw him walking around and
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  like on the way back when we were eating, we saw him walking
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  towards his car and I I can't imagine how he did.
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  He didn't say it was too heavy because he he had made it
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  himself, but how much like of that plastic was just like
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  boiling in on the inside. We didn't ask what it was made
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  of. I'm hoping it was something
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  light because he was layered up. He had his clothes on and over
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  it. He had like, this big belt.
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  He had a shield. He had a big hammer Cape.
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  And the. The wig was long.
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  Yeah. Oh, Eric, I hope you were
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  staying hydrated. I know for sure I wasn't.
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  And I was not in anywhere near the levels of layers that you
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  were. It was outstanding.
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  Both of those were favorite of the of the of the the evening.
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  And honestly, I'm just super grateful that we got to
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  interview them that they were very, you know, willing to and
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  amazing cool people. They seem like awesome people.
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  That was like the the through line of Renfair.
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  It was such a great time because people are so willing to 1
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  suspend their disbelief and two, just be whimsical with one
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  another. Yeah, people are there trying to
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  sell their wares. Other people are there just to
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  just experience that level of socialization of, yeah, it's
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  kind of improvy, but you could also just be nice to the people
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  around you. There is like paid actors that
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  are put there through the Ren Fair.
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  That will come at you with like, a bit as a lady who pulled us
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  into a cult. That video will be coming out
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  soon. Hell.
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  Beezus 20 shillings is all you need under your pillow and you
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  will be part of the Beezus cult. I I wasn't too convinced at
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  first, but I was persuaded at the end.
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  I I joined the. Cold where at the bottom level
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  we will work our way up. You, you or both of you that
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  joined early are now above me because I joined late, so I'm at
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  the bottom. No, we're already, we're going
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  to be Beezus's favorite. I can just tell.
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  And I and I. And this is not a pyramid
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  scheme. Absolutely not.
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  It's just in the shape of a triangle.
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  That's just yeah, it's just a shape.
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  That's what she explained. Yeah, it's, it's not.
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  It doesn't stand for anything. So overall, 10 out of 10
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  experience like to start off the the medieval experience and he
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  he, he and Renfair. And we're going back.
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  And we're going back. I'm not.
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  Telling you when so you don't show up and beat us up or
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  something. You can try.
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  Yeah, Jerry will defend us. I have fish and a sword.
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  I'm not scared to use them. Yeah, even though it's plastic,
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  both of them. But they don't know that, bro.
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  I mean, they're living, breathing fish.
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  Made out of. Steel and they hurt.
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  He hit me with one. He's so strong.
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  Yeah anyways, if you haven't watched the Tik Toks, go watch
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  the Tik Toks. Brian spent a lot of time and
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  effort and thank you 10 out of 10.
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  Love the edits. It helps with my 10 second
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  attention span. Good, I'm glad.
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  I feel like I'm finally putting my cinema and television agree
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  to work. I know I don't do that
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  professionally now, but at least having it as a hobby, it makes
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  me has made me feel really fulfilled, especially the
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  podcast. So thank you guys for for
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  listening every week for supporting us.
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  There's a a group of friends that I just every week I see
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  their names pop up. Thank you so much.
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  I'm sorry if we pranked you last week.
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  Oh yeah, about that last week's episode.
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  Oh yeah. Was it?
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  It came out a little early to make sure it was out on April
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  Fool, so we made sure to post it that Wednesday, April 1st.
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  So if we got you, honestly, thank you.
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  You know, we appreciate you for listening to that whole episode.
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  I got a lot of angry text messages about it.
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  The most recent would be Lizette yesterday.
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  No way. Wow.
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  Thank you so much, everyone. Everyone, shout out to you.
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  We're sorry. Of course.
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  No, we're not. No, we're not.
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  No, we're not. We were kidding.
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  It was meant for that. But thank you for listening.
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  You guys got us a stream. So guys, we left the run fair,
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  and in my dehydrated, hallucinating state, as we're
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  walking back to the car, I'm thinking, how did this all
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  start? How did we end up here at the
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  Santa Fe Dam in Irwindale in Southern California?
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  When did this start? How did it become such a thing?
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  And I did my research. The Big Bang.
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  So Jerry, if you would let me, I would love to tell you the
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  history about the Renaissance Fair.
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  Amazing. Let's do it.
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  You Renaissance Fair and rock music have more in common than
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  you think. Fuck yeah.
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  Just like the alternative anti establishment cultural
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  phenomenon, the Renfair also has roots dating back to the
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  counterculture of the 1960s. Fuck yeah.
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  In the same era you could attend Woodstock and your local
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  Renaissance fair and experience that same rush of anti
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  establishment culture. Oh yeah.
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  The original Renaissance Fair experience dates back to 1960s
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  Los Angeles, thanks to high school teacher Phyllis Patterson
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  and her husband, art director Ron Patterson.
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  Together they offered theater classes for neighborhood
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  children out of the backyard of their Laurel Canyon home.
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  The Pattersons pulled inspiration from Comedia del
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  Arte, an improvised comedy performed by Italian troops
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  through the 16th and 18th centuries.
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  They also reference illustration from children's book to design a
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  medieval pageant wagon, which would become the basis for a
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  much larger creative endeavor. On May 11th, 1963, the couple
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  hosted the first ever iteration of what would become a long
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  standing cultural phenomenon named the Renaissance Pleasure
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  Fair and Maymarket. The two day event was created as
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  a fundraiser for KPFK slash Pacifica Radio.
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  The radio station was founded in the late 1940s by pacifist Lewis
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  Hill. His goal was to create media
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  independent of advertisers or government funding.
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  It became known for progressive anti establishment political
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  coverage and grass root news. The station operated without
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  traditional commercials, relying solely on listener donations.
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  The Renaissance Pleasure Fair was built at a North Hollywood
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  summer camp on a budget of $150.00.
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  Oh, the those were the days. The owner of the property was
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  Oliver Hackett, a social organizer who had been accused
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  of being a communist member. The Pattersons built scrap
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  lumber sets and hosted 60 booths featuring period costumes and
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  performances. They gathered an array of local
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  creatives to help build the festival.
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  Many of them were blacklisted artists who had been turned away
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  from Hollywood due to their left wing activism.
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  They had been labeled communist during the rent scare and the
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  Pattersons wanted to give them an opportunity to work.
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  Back then, being liberal opportunity was illegal.
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  Yeah, you had a big red X on your back if you were any left
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  heavily left-leaning liberal. But hey, shout out to them for,
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  you know, giving them a space to work, so that's cool.
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  Phyllis even went on air and asked anyone willing to come by
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  and bring whatever they had. That's so cool.
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  They let them know our budget's $150.00 or raising money for
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  this radio station if you're creative and you got tools.
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  Kylie. Come over, we'll we'll give you
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  like a beer or something. That's cool.
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  That's what the 150 was for. It was just for alcohol.
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  That's amazing. I'm there.
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  What do you think we could build if we got all of our friends
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  together with their skills? Everything.
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  Really everything. Our friends are so talented.
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  Give me something specific. And strong and smart.
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  OK, Jerry, just talking about himself.
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  I'm not looking at a mirror right now.
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  Let's see if we got all the friends together and like like
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  just in in general, what can we build or what can we?
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  Accomplish either or if you put out a call into the universe of
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  just like the people you got on socials.
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  I was thinking we could put together like a communal
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  library. Oh.
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  OK, that's, oh, that's a really good one because.
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  We have so many people into books.
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  We probably have a huge collection of books between all
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  of us. We have many people with a
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  library, I mean one person with a librarian experience and a
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  whole lot of people who are into books.
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  That's true. Specifically that I mean, yeah,
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  I can confirm that. I mean, I would, I would even, I
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  think we could like put on it like a little small music
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  festival. Oh my God, Yeah, you're right.
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  I think we do that. I think organization, we have
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  that. I think at least on my behalf, I
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  think I know a couple like home DJs and musicians that I can put
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  together a set list of some kind.
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  Oh. My God, we could definitely put
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  on a festival. Food some cook couple of great
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  cooks in the in the in the in the friend group, but also just
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  yeah, socials like yeah, for sure.
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  You see guys, this is where ideas start.
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  Who knows, 20-30 years from now there could be the the BJ Fest.
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  BJ Fest is great. Where all your local DJs and
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  chefs get together for one weekend in June.
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  Have a pride, OK? More than 3000 people attended
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  the one weekend event, raising over $6000.
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  Look at that turn around 1:50 to the six grand.
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  And and what was like the the conversion or like not the
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  conversion? Don't ask me to do math.
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  They didn't do that before and I'm sorry.
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  That's like. Like current time?
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  How much money is that 1000? Oh, that's a good question.
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  Look it up while I keep reading to you.
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  This wasn't 1963. That's crazy.
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  Attendees experienced performances, shopped,
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  handcrafted items and enjoyed the soon to be iconic Turkey
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  like actors improvised with visitors in the streets.
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  Love the Turkey like. 3 stages hosted dancing, magic shows and
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  miming. Fuck yeah.
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  There was even a makeshift court with actors portraying Queen
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  Elizabeth the verse. And her Royal Court, which still
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  happened. And I I'm pretty sure one of the
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  judges was a dog. A judge was a dog.
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  Yeah, like one of the actors was a dog.
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  Good, good. The event was extremely
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  successful. While the fair was only intended
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  to be a one time event, overwhelming support led to a
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  repeat event at a larger venue the next year.
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  The story goes that she was, Oh my God, what's her name?
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  Miss Patterson? Missus Patterson was on either a
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  radio or she was attending one of the events and someone asked
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  her like oh what are you going to do next year?
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  And she said next year is 2 weeks, we're doing 2 weekends.
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  So it went from not even being a possibility to her immediately
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  deciding we're doing 2 weekends next year.
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  That's iconic, but that's behavior.
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  Talk about profit. In 1965, the Pleasure Fair moved
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  to the Paramount Ranch. It's continued success allowed
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  it to expand into a multi week event as the years progressed.
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  Then in 1967, the fair moved to Ventura County, and things got
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  tense. Ventura, do you have your answer
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  to Hwy. Monday?
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  Do you? Have your answer.
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  I do have my answer. So 6000 in 1963 is equivalent to
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  about 64,000 as of 2026. That's significant.
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  What's $150.00 like? What was that investment?
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  Oh, how much money do we need to start a rent fair?
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  Oh, if we put in 150, Yeah, in 1960. $3 that's approximately 16
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  grand. Oh, sorry, 1600.
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  That makes a lot more sense. 1600 sorry.
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  With $1600 we could put on a music festival if all our
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  friends do it for free. If all of our friends gave us a
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  dollar, we. Would not have $1600 if.
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  All of our friends gave us at least $500.
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  As I mentioned, once things moved to Ventura County, things
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  got tense. The ferret was soon dubbed of
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  the hippie invasion and attendees were painted as drug
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  users and the hippies sex hammers hippies.
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  A pivotal moment in the Renfair's history was about to
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  unfold. As a result from intense
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  pushback from the locals of Entura County, a standoff
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  occurred between police in riot gear and fair organizers and
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  Faye. And the Faye and the Faye.
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  The weekend before opening, the leader of the police group
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  marched up to the organizer, Preston Hibbard, who was dressed
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  as Robin Hood at the time. Amazing.
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  They got within 10 feet of each other before the policeman or
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  recognized Hubbard as an old war buddy.
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  What? The confrontation ended in a
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  hug. So they fought together.
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  In the war. In the war.
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  Literally in the war, I think Hibbard was.
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  Hibbard was a veteran and he was tasked to to help build the
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  Renfair because they think he had been working in either
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  carnivals or setting up circuses, something like that.
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  And he for the Navy and he had vowed to never do anything for
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  the Navy again. And here he was about to think
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  like fight for his life. And it's an old homie from war.
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  That bond is transcendent of anything.
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  Is that not the most Renfair way to end a police standoff?
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  Yeah, that's amazing. It it could have been a a Pepsi.
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  I I have the exact same thought. A hug is better.
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  It's more personal. And doesn't say less sweet, but
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  no, no, no, that's the Pepsi's more sweet.
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  Especially if it's sugar free. It was sugar free.
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  Even better. The local government ultimately
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  restricted the fair from hosting their second weekend that year.
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  Well, the push back forced the Red Fair to return to the
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  smaller Paramount Ranch venue in 1968.
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  During this time, disputes between the owners and Pacifica
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  Radio arose, leading the Renaissance Fair to cut ties
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  with the station. No, it would, however, be graced
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  by notable visitors in future years, including members of The
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  Birds, The Doors, Harrison Ford and Nancy Sinatra, and would
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  once again pick up momentum. I think the Birds have a song
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  called the Renaissance. That's amazing.
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  I have not listened to it, but I I am familiar with the birds, of
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  course familiar with the doors. It might be the Doors.
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  One of the one of them has a a song called the Renaissance.
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  That's so cool. Let's check right now.
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  Luckily, the hate train was ultimately short lived.
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  By the 1970s, copycat events began springing up across the
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  country. The current largest fair in the
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  nation would be born in Texas 1970.
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  You have to add that to the list.
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  As much as I don't want to go to Texas, they do have the largest
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  red fair currently active. No way the US is that where the
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  pickle priest goes? Probably by the 1990s, many
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  fairs, the pleasure fair included, were acquired by
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  corporate entities, ending the grassroots era and becoming more
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  so commercial interest. Think of like Coachella.
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  We did say this was our years, our Coachella for the year.
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  Yes, it was. Do you think that changes the
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  vibe or does it still have the same spirit?
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  Both, I think if we're talking about like commercial and cash
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  grabbing events, I think it can be one of them.
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  I think shout out to the small vendors.
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  I think some of them are really like they're bringing their own
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  stuff. And I'm not trying to, you know,
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  minimize their minimize, yeah, their work and experience.
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  And then if there are vendors that are just bringing like mass
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  produced things like well. That is, that should be heavily
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  frowned upon. So.
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  Yeah, that I would not agree with that.
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  But does it happen? I'm absolutely 1000% sure that
• 20:11
  does. But once again, because it can
• 20:13
  be a little bit on the more expensive side, from drinks to
• 20:18
  things that you buy to things to to get.
• 20:20
  In but you see that's where I think the commodification of it,
• 20:22
  that's where it starts feeling like a money grabs.
• 20:25
  Yeah, that's when it is when the food and the drink is like you
• 20:29
  only have so many options and we're going to charge you like
• 20:31
  $16.00 for this one can. Yeah, because it's the only
• 20:33
  options we have. Yeah.
• 20:34
  Like, yeah, there there's no like small vendors selling their
• 20:37
  own alcohol or like their own meat.
• 20:38
  Like no, that's not allowed, so. Understandable, you should have
• 20:42
  a license to be serving alcohol, but also you only have one
• 20:46
  vendor there that's serving alcohol.
• 20:47
  In the same at different posts. Yep so.
• 20:51
  But it's fun as hell. It is.
• 20:52
  I had a great time. I was drunk as hell, having a
• 20:54
  great time. Yeah.
• 20:56
  The Pleasure Fair of Southern California now resides in
• 20:58
  Irwindale. Yeah, it's a month long weekend
• 21:01
  event held in April and May, averaging around 20,000
• 21:03
  attendance each weekend. We were part of that, Yeah, we
• 21:06
  were. Many traditions have withstood
• 21:09
  the test of time. Event goers Don elaborate
• 21:11
  costumes referencing medieval fashion, mythical creatures or
• 21:15
  elaborate cosplay. Vendors sell handmade goods like
• 21:18
  jewelry, clothing, leather work and art.
• 21:21
  Stages are scattered around the grounds with comedy acts and
• 21:23
  live music. There's an expansive food court
• 21:25
  offering an array of meals, including the iconic Turkey leg,
• 21:29
  which is not true to the time period.
• 21:31
  By the way, not have big Turkey legs in the Renaissance.
• 21:34
  There was no turkeys in the Renaissance.
• 21:36
  No, I think turkeys are like indigenous to Mexico.
• 21:39
  Turkey, Southern, yeah, I can see for sure.
• 21:41
  Like Southern? I think Andrew was telling me
• 21:42
  that. Southern California, maybe?
• 21:45
  That man is smart. Would you have guessed the
• 21:48
  Renaissance Fair had deep ties to counterculture and Red Scare
• 21:51
  era America? What started as a backyard
• 21:54
  theater experiment turned into a travelling hippy village and
• 21:57
  eventually became a nationwide tradition.
• 22:00
  And even now, with corporate ownership and massive crowds,
• 22:02
  you can still see the original idea underneath the ball art
• 22:05
  intersecting with rebellion with a heavy hand of whimsy.
• 22:10
  With a beer in one hand and a Turkey leg in the other, I do
• 22:13
  feel a very strong urge to stick it to the man.
• 22:15
  You. If you would like any more
• 22:17
  information, I pulled this from two really good articles on the
• 22:20
  history of the Renfair, one of which being on history.com, the
• 22:24
  second being on the Smithsonian Magazine.
• 22:26
  That one I believe, features interviews like the descendants
• 22:29
  of the original operators of the Renfair, that's who had the
• 22:34
  story of the the hug in the Missouri County to Vorvitz
• 22:39
  that's. Crazy.
• 22:41
  That's so cool. Well, I mean, once again, thank
• 22:43
  you Brian. That was a very informative
• 22:45
  piece. I think I am much more smarter
• 22:47
  now than I was 3 minutes ago. Good.
• 22:51
  I'm glad. Wow.
• 22:54
  That's also I will say that there's a Turkey leg that I had
• 22:57
  last year. I did not have one this past
• 22:59
  weekend. Very good, solid.
• 23:02
  There's something like eating a big ass Turkey leg with your
• 23:04
  hands and stuff. I think I got it like vampire
• 23:07
  style which was garlic. OK.
• 23:09
  With garlic sauce. Kill a vampire style.
• 23:12
  I forget, I forget. It's like I'll remember the name
• 23:15
  next time, but that's so expensive.
• 23:18
  It's like I wouldn't do it again.
• 23:19
  And I didn't. I didn't.
• 23:20
  I didn't. Want to?
• 23:21
  We thought ahead. OK, yeah.
• 23:22
  So we thought. Please share the story.
• 23:24
  Friends. So we're planning for a weekend,
• 23:26
  right? I'm with with my friend Jerry,
• 23:30
  who I was off Monday because it was Farmers Appreciation Day,
• 23:34
  right? And we're like, Oh my God, we're
• 23:37
  going to get so much done. We're going to plan for the week
• 23:40
  or we're going to plan for the weekend.
• 23:42
  We need to buy stuff to make sandwiches so that way we don't
• 23:45
  have to spend money at the food court.
• 23:46
  What kind of sandwiches we're going to make Tortas de Hammond
• 23:50
  ham tortas. We go to the grocery store.
• 23:53
  I'm like, what do we need? He's like, I already got the
• 23:55
  ham. We just need the bread.
• 23:57
  We need avocado, lettuce, everything.
• 24:01
  Just that goes in a torta. And I'm like say less.
• 24:03
  We go to the onion, pack everything up, We're going to
• 24:06
  have some delicious sandwiches, spend our morning most of the
• 24:11
  day, most of the day, most of our day without having eaten
• 24:14
  anything, which is why we got real drunk or real quick with
• 24:16
  one tall can. So it was worth those $16.00, I
• 24:19
  will say in a moment. Yes, it was.
• 24:22
  We're dying. We're walking back solo.
• 24:25
  Tired low energy low blood sugar low low Blood Sugar high
• 24:31
  intoxicated heavily heavily into.
• 24:33
  Looking for some some protein and some carbs to really like,
• 24:39
  soak up to revitalize us. Yeah.
• 24:41
  And water. Especially water.
• 24:42
  Yes. Turn on the AC.
• 24:45
  We're chilling in the car. Wig is off.
• 24:47
  We're catching our breath. I'm next to the cooler in the
• 24:51
  backseat. Jerry says, hey, friend, open it
• 24:54
  up. Open it up.
• 24:54
  Pass me the bread. Pass some bread.
• 24:56
  It's like, OK, pass me the bag that has all the ingredients in
• 24:59
  it. Passing the bag, they start
• 25:02
  making the sandwiches. Hey, friend, pass me the ham.
• 25:06
  There's no ham. What do you mean there's no ham?
• 25:11
  Jerry's life just stopped. The whole world froze.
• 25:16
  I forgot the ham. I forgot the ham El ham on.
• 25:21
  For our ham tortas. For our ham tortas guys, when I
• 25:25
  tell you I I feel so proud because I'm like wow, like I
• 25:28
  prep, I prepped and prepared the cooler that morning of.
• 25:32
  I had everything ready in the fridge and the bags, so
• 25:34
  everything's together and I don't have to go searching for
• 25:37
  things and putting them individually.
• 25:40
  Don't they even asked me like, hey, like, like, oh, is
• 25:42
  everything in them? Like, Yep, I got the spin
• 25:44
  drifts. I got the the the the
• 25:46
  silverware. I got the sauces.
• 25:49
  Even got a a little can of the the jalapenos and vinegar.
• 25:53
  Yeah, a little tin. Yeah, tin can of of the the
• 25:57
  pickled jalapenos and carrots. I was prepared.
• 26:01
  You're gonna accept the main protein when I tell you, like
• 26:07
  Brian said, my world stopped when I tell you that I just felt
• 26:09
  so like just disappointed in me because it doesn't matter how
• 26:11
  prepared that cooler was, like, it doesn't matter how stocked it
• 26:14
  was. I missed the one thing that was
• 26:17
  going to make the torta a ham torta torta de, come on.
• 26:21
  So lesson learned. Oh, we even got like Panella
• 26:25
  cheese. It was just going to be the most
• 26:27
  like. It was going to hit.
• 26:27
  Delicious torta after an morning of walking and renaissancing.
• 26:34
  So we ended up eating, prancing and frolicking.
• 26:37
  We ended up eating just tortas veggies.
• 26:41
  We had vegetable and cheese tortas.
• 26:43
  So and fruit technically. Yeah, I mean, I, I won't say.
• 26:47
  It wasn't bad. It was good.
• 26:49
  Yes, it was good. It had everything, had cheese,
• 26:51
  it had veggies, avocados, mayos, salsa, everything.
• 26:55
  It was really good. But it just, it just doesn't hit
• 26:58
  the same. But so this time around, the
• 27:00
  tortas will be prepared the day before, put in the cooler the
• 27:04
  day before, wrapped individually, wrapped
• 27:06
  individually the day before, so that when we go eat Day 2, we
• 27:10
  are just eating, we're not preparing anything.
• 27:13
  So. I support checklists.
• 27:16
  I had a check. Oh oh had a checklist.
• 27:19
  No, I had everything. Ham was another checklist.
• 27:22
  Except the ham 'cause I. There was a moment of silence.
• 27:26
  Where like I think our collective thoughts are.
• 27:29
  We go back in to buy food, like what happens here, But no, no,
• 27:34
  it was just a couple minutes. Was just shame.
• 27:37
  But then you got to laugh about it.
• 27:38
  I had to laugh about it after. You did say like, give me a
• 27:41
  second. Yeah.
• 27:42
  I had to take a second because I was just frustrated.
• 27:43
  I'm also hungry and hot. Like, yeah, I can only imagine
• 27:47
  how what they're feeling so. I'm proud of you though, because
• 27:50
  you did say I just need a second to regulate.
• 27:52
  That is very good communication. I appreciate that.
• 27:54
  Thank you. So that's the story guys.
• 27:59
  So now we're. We're going to be better
• 28:00
  prepared for next week. Yes, we are.
• 28:02
  He forgot the ham. I forgot to bring water.
• 28:05
  It's 95° and I'm layered up head to toe.
• 28:09
  I didn't think, oh, I might need water.
• 28:12
  Yeah, yeah, they do sell water. It's like 6 bucks.
• 28:14
  But imagine going back to the car to an ice cold hydro flask.
• 28:19
  Huge one filled with water. You also left her water bottle.
• 28:22
  And guys, I by the end of it blood sugar down low I had no
• 28:28
  energy. I had to use the bathroom real
• 28:30
  bad and I wasn't going to use a porta potty and I had plans
• 28:34
  after what a day? Yeah, but what?
• 28:37
  We didn't forget Fitz didn't forget the Fitz.
• 28:40
  Nope. We came.
• 28:41
  We lost him 10 out of 10. We did great.
• 28:44
  We didn't forget our self esteem because we were we were eating.
• 28:48
  We were eating all, absolutely all day.
• 28:49
  And we thought ahead and brought cash because the ATM charges you
• 28:52
  so much money prepared and most anything that you buy at the
• 28:55
  renferer is cash only. So we got to give ourself props
• 28:58
  even though with a little mishaps and forgetfulness, but.
• 29:02
  Everybody makes mistakes. Everybody has those days,
• 29:06
  everybody knows what I'm talking about.
• 29:07
  You don't look away, we're looking at you.
• 29:10
  But guess what? You've done so many good things,
• 29:12
  so be proud of yourself. What?
• 29:14
  Jerry got the reference. Wait, what?
• 29:17
  Keep going. I'm sorry.
• 29:19
  It's OK. Don't apologize.
• 29:21
  I need a second. Brand Fair.
• 29:25
  Brand, I have two words for you. OK, Medieval sports.
• 29:29
  Oh. OK, we're talking sports.
• 29:32
  I I just, I had to learn about just what were the common sports
• 29:36
  that you would see during medieval times during fair and
• 29:39
  festivals? Renaissance Times.
• 29:41
  Renaissance times. So specifically I, I did focus
• 29:45
  on like the medieval aspect of it because a lot of this shit is
• 29:48
  medieval. This shit is brutal. 16th
• 29:50
  century baby. Crazy just amount of blood that
• 29:53
  you would see. That's normal.
• 29:55
  But the most common one and the most I guess influential 1 was
• 29:59
  jousting. Jousting is still being done at
• 30:01
  the Ren fair. If you go to medieval times, you
• 30:04
  can pay to see a joust, and it was honestly really, really
• 30:08
  really cool to read about. It was peak medieval
• 30:11
  entertainment. There was Knights on horseback
• 30:14
  charging each other with lances, aiming to knock each other off
• 30:17
  their horse. Jousting was actually highly
• 30:20
  structured. These Knights wore full armor,
• 30:22
  sometimes weighing over 50 lbs and more.
• 30:25
  Damn. They use, yeah, they use
• 30:28
  specifically designed lances that could shatter on impact,
• 30:31
  which is why it was so common to see the explosion of wood.
• 30:35
  And points would be awarded for accuracy, not just destruction.
• 30:39
  So yes, there was rules, but also you're getting hit by a man
• 30:43
  barging at you on a horse. Yeah, OK.
• 30:46
  What question? What's up?
• 30:47
  Unless you're going to talk about it, the point was never to
• 30:49
  kill each other. So I know there was follow up
• 30:52
  where if at a certain point you knock the opponent off the
• 30:55
  horse, you can then continue to charge at that person on your
• 31:00
  horse or on foot and then a a battle would then commence on
• 31:04
  foot. These events were huge.
• 31:06
  Full festivals, food vendors, music, nobles watching from
• 31:10
  stands, people placing bets. The Knights were medieval
• 31:14
  celebrities, so if you won, that meant fame, that meant money,
• 31:19
  and sometimes admiration from nobles or romantic attention.
• 31:22
  Oh, oh, you got him off that horse so high.
• 31:25
  It's like the NFL, Coachella and The Bachelor had a very violent
• 31:29
  bait. I love that.
• 31:31
  Even kings participated, which I think historically it was
• 31:35
  against the law to hurt the king and in general like.
• 31:38
  The king would win. Yeah, so the king would win and.
• 31:41
  They put a little for the wire up there.
• 31:43
  Like barely learn how to ride a horse.
• 31:46
  The second game that you would see is archery.
• 31:48
  And this was really funny because to me it, I mean,
• 31:51
  reading like from, you know, middle school.
• 31:55
  I'm already forgetting his name now.
• 31:57
  Peter Pan, No. No, no, Robin, Ulysses travels
• 32:01
  Odysseus and all that stuff. Like there was like that famous
• 32:04
  and I don't know if it's Odysseus, but.
• 32:05
  I was going to say Katniss. Katniss Everdeen yes, there was
• 32:08
  like that archery scene where this guy comes out of nowhere
• 32:11
  some it's like a competition shoots the arrow and it blitz
• 32:15
  the arrow that's already on there.
• 32:17
  So it's and then it turns out to be him like Oh my God.
• 32:20
  But it's wild because archery wasn't optional in medieval
• 32:25
  England, men were legally required to practice archery
• 32:27
  regularly. What?
• 32:29
  Imagine getting fined because you skipped bow practice.
• 32:32
  Sundays weren't for rest, they were for going outside and
• 32:35
  shooting something. Because we might need you for
• 32:37
  war. Oh fuck, so the Longbow was
• 32:40
  incredibly powerful. Those were Trump ideas.
• 32:43
  Oh my stop. Longbows could Pierce armor.
• 32:47
  It required serious strength and training, and skilled Archers
• 32:51
  were basically the snipers of their time.
• 32:53
  There was competitions too, but again the prize was essentially
• 32:56
  Congrats, you're very useful in battle.
• 32:59
  So they would call a rally and become arch.
• 33:02
  Picking you for the team. We're picking you.
• 33:04
  We're picking you. You suck.
• 33:06
  Yep, we're picking you. It's like you won.
• 33:08
  You won this competition great. You're first in line to go
• 33:10
  battle on the front lines. Oh my God, I would rig it.
• 33:14
  I'd be like, Oh my God, I don't know how to do it.
• 33:15
  I suck. Oh.
• 33:17
  Just find me. Just go ahead.
• 33:19
  Oh my God, find me. Please.
• 33:20
  Yeah. Here's my money, guys.
• 33:22
  Hey, I see you again. Here's my coin for the week.
• 33:25
  He won't catch me doing archery. There was a sport very similar
• 33:30
  to football. It was like modern soccer as
• 33:33
  well. So there was 100 hundreds of
• 33:35
  people. There was no field boundaries,
• 33:38
  which made it very problematic. There was no set teams.
• 33:41
  There was a a ball and vibes so a goal could be miles away.
• 33:47
  The game would go through streets, it would cross rivers,
• 33:50
  it would go against, go through farms, even sometimes people's
• 33:54
  homes. The objective was to just get
• 33:56
  the ball to the goal. The games can last for hours and
• 34:01
  sometimes entire towns were involved.
• 34:03
  It got so bad that Kings at the time tried to ban it multiple
• 34:06
  times because of the chaos and property damage because people
• 34:10
  were getting injured and it distracted people from archery
• 34:13
  practice. No.
• 34:16
  No, so just eventually got banned because it was that, you
• 34:22
  know? We got to go to archery.
• 34:23
  Exactly. Just start impacting our our our
• 34:27
  potential soldiers. Second, hit the bullseye.
• 34:32
  Hit the bullseye. You're great.
• 34:34
  So aversions of this still exist to this day.
• 34:37
  It's pretty incredible and pretty terrifying.
• 34:40
  Is. This rugby, this has become
• 34:41
  rugby or something. Who knows?
• 34:43
  And it reminds me of the time when when I was in Italy and we
• 34:46
  saw like this these rugby players that were on their way
• 34:49
  to this field and and they were all representing like their
• 34:54
  specific region. And I mean, it wasn't a closed
• 34:58
  confined arena, but I mean, very similar.
• 35:02
  It looked very bloody. It looked like a fight was about
• 35:04
  to happen. So could have been that.
• 35:06
  I could be wrong. Who knows?
• 35:07
  That's funny. So that was not a king sanction
• 35:09
  sport that. No, the normal people did.
• 35:11
  That's what it does. So the.
• 35:12
  Yeah. Los Los Los peasants.
• 35:16
  Los plebes. Los plebes, the plebians.
• 35:18
  The plebians. Is that where that ends from?
• 35:20
  Maybe. Sure, maybe.
• 35:21
  Let's go for that. Let's just.
• 35:22
  Yeah, let's keep it. Plebes, my plebes.
• 35:25
  So there was also quarter staff fighting, sparring with long
• 35:29
  wooden Staffs. Sounds like my kind of party.
• 35:33
  What does it take? Two people?
• 35:34
  Oh big sticks. Oh minimal rules, semi up and
• 35:39
  ego. A big, big ego.
• 35:42
  This is actually used for combat training.
• 35:44
  It was also for fun sometimes, but people were out here like,
• 35:48
  you know what sounds relaxing? Controlled violence, it's a
• 35:51
  required skill because there was footwork, footwork that was
• 35:54
  involved. There was timing and precision.
• 35:56
  So it wasn't just random swinging.
• 35:59
  If someone said run it back, you couldn't just log off, you had
• 36:01
  to, you had to run it back. We.
• 36:03
  Have everyone to your places. We're going to start swinging.
• 36:07
  Another popular sport at the time was horse racing.
• 36:09
  This was a little bit more political.
• 36:11
  Not everything was about chaos. Some sports were about status.
• 36:14
  Horse racing was huge among nobles.
• 36:17
  It showed wealth, strength, breeding, and prestige.
• 36:21
  Owning a fast horse was the equivalent of owning a luxury
• 36:25
  car nowadays. And except instead of revving
• 36:28
  the engine, you just galloped dramatically.
• 36:34
  My favorite of the night, Falcon Reed.
• 36:37
  Oh yeah, that was fun. I would still love to get my
• 36:41
  falconry license. That is something that's still
• 36:43
  on my bucket list that I will eventually become a Falconer.
• 36:48
  So nobles trained birds of prey, Falcons and Hawks to hunt.
• 36:53
  This might be one of the most elite hobbies in my opinion.
• 36:56
  So you know, you pull up somewhere and you're like, hold
• 36:59
  on, my bird can handle this. It wasn't a sport.
• 37:02
  It was also a status symbol. There was different birds that
• 37:04
  reflected social rank and medieval classism extended to
• 37:08
  your pet choices. These were some of course.
• 37:11
  I'm going to give you a list of birds and Hawks that were used
• 37:15
  for falconry. There was a bigger Falcon, which
• 37:18
  was the largest and most prized Falcon often reserved for kings.
• 37:22
  A peregrine Falcon, which was highly favored for hunting
• 37:25
  waterfowl, known for being the fastest long winged bird and the
• 37:30
  most common choice for noblemen and ladies.
• 37:34
  There was a Saker Falcon used extensively, especially by
• 37:38
  Knights, for its prowess in hunting ground prey.
• 37:41
  Question. Do you know what kind of Falcon
• 37:42
  we saw at medieval times? That was a peregrine Falcon.
• 37:45
  Or no? Sorry.
• 37:46
  A Prairie Falcon. Oh, yeah.
• 37:47
  OK. Prairie.
• 37:50
  A Goss hawk. Powerful short wing hawk used
• 37:53
  for hunting hare and woodland prey.
• 37:55
  A Sparrow hawk. A small agile hawk favored by
• 37:59
  ladies and clergy for catching small birds.
• 38:02
  A Merlin, a small Falcon often flown by ladies to catch small
• 38:06
  birds, and sparrowhawks, used for by priests.
• 38:11
  Snaves and servants used to use kestrels, which is one of the
• 38:13
  smallest birds of prey, which we saw at the at the zoo that was
• 38:17
  zoo. Damn friend, we got so many
• 38:19
  adventures. Pretty great.
• 38:21
  Pretty awesome to be honest. So that's honestly one of the
• 38:25
  traditions that still continues to this day, I think.
• 38:27
  Very popular in medieval Renaissance times in England and
• 38:30
  stuff, but. Popular in Orange County in
• 38:32
  medieval times. Still continues to be a very fun
• 38:36
  and engaging way of living because people make money out of
• 38:39
  it now. OK, I have another question.
• 38:40
  What's up, Mr. Bird Boy? Do you think they can't Falcon
• 38:44
  at the Santa Fe Jam because there's like, already a lot of,
• 38:48
  like, wildlife there? Like, where are you allowed to
• 38:50
  Falcon? Do you know?
• 38:51
  That's a good idea. I mean, I think with your
• 38:52
  license in general, you should be able to go anywhere because
• 38:57
  for falconry, I mean, in terms of like using it for a job,
• 39:01
  using the, the Falcons or Hawks or jobs, it's for pest control.
• 39:06
  So it's very common for urban, cosmopolitan urban cities for
• 39:12
  there to be a lot of pigeons, a lot of rats.
• 39:14
  So you can come in with your hawk and then scared away
• 39:18
  letting let, well, scare them away.
• 39:20
  But yeah, sometimes they do snag a bird or or animal or two.
• 39:25
  But that then shows the the birds that there are predators
• 39:28
  around. So they won't be showing up to
• 39:30
  like the front of the seating area or you know, where it might
• 39:33
  be. Food that They're so smart.
• 39:35
  Yeah. Like I'm just going to scare you
• 39:36
  a little bit. In places where agriculture is,
• 39:39
  there's a lot of rodents and, and yeah, just things that like
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  Burrow and eat your crops. It's known to like some people
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  use ferrets to send in into like little rabbit holes or or mole
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  holes and then it drives out all the the the game and then they
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  send the bird out to to collect. Two man, they're running a 2.
• 39:58
  Man job, yeah, it's a 2V something 2 V 5 maybe.
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  Like God, it's a double battles in Pokémon, yeah.
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  But it it's still a very common practice.
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  It's really fun. Like I said, I've always wanted
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  to get my falconry license. It is.
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  It's not hard, but I think where we're at right now, like it's a
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  rural city, so it's not as easy, guys, we have to.
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  Support Jerry and getting his Falcon RE license.
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  I'm down that would be sick. All right, so my last two, one
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  of them is bear baiting and this one I didn't really read up too
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  much on. I just.
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  One more time. Bear baiting.
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  OK. Are you familiar with bear
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  baiting that? Just sounds like me on any given
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  day of the week. Well, I guarantee you it's not.
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  Oh because this shit's dark and just just let me have a warning
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  for y'all listening. So on the topic of animals,
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  there was something called bear baiting if bear was restrained
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  and attacked by dogs while people watched.
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  No, I don't like that one. I didn't do much investigating
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  because after I read that I was like, I don't want to read more
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  of it. That ruined my vibes.
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  I next. Next, so the ultimate event was
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  a tournament. Tournaments was your festival,
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  your Coachella. There was jousting, DJ, there
• 41:07
  was combat games, beasting, music, and social networking.
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  This was the event where everyone came together, Nights
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  competed for glory, nobles socialized, communities
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  gathered, and it was part part sport, part festival, part
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  political event. So this is where you get to see
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  all of the things that I talked about on top of all the
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  political things that happened at the time.
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  So all to make the king look good I'm assuming.
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  Yeah, So for sure, yeah. Hosted by the king and then they
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  have representation. Every time I think of this, I
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  just think of Game of Thrones, the last, their newest season of
• 41:41
  Night of the Seven Kingdoms, 'cause there's a part where Egg,
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  the noble boy, 'cause he's in like he's one of the kids of the
• 41:50
  of the king. He's like.
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  Sir, Sir. Get up Sir, but this is spoiler.
• 41:57
  No, OK, no, it's part of the trailer.
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  OK, so yeah, that's my spiel, guys.
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  Short and sweet. Just some sports and events that
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  would happen that would be common around that time.
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  So pretty dark, pretty brutal, but that's why we still see
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  jousting nowadays. Go to the Ren Fair, go to
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  Medieval Times. You will see some jousting
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  happening. We saw it happen.
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  And we saw I had. 2 * 2 times this year that we've already
• 42:24
  seen jousting. That's crazy.
• 42:25
  That was this year, a lifestyle that we live.
• 42:27
  What brought us here? D&D.
• 42:30
  It all comes back to D&D. Because I've heard of the the
• 42:34
  Renaissance Fair before, but I never thought that'd be
• 42:37
  something I'd be interested in until like last year.
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  I don't even know how I discovered it in the first
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  place. There's a bunch of nerds.
• 42:45
  At the end of the day, it's like it's a theater.
• 42:48
  It's a theater kid dream. And as an old Peter kid, yeah, I
• 42:52
  I could see how people end up there.
• 42:54
  Why? I could see why you someone
• 42:55
  would want to work there A. Wise Wizard said it's this is
• 42:57
  like escapism, the definition of it.
• 42:59
  You know, we are leaving the troubles and leaving that shit
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  out to just have fun 'cause it can be just vibe, vibe with
• 43:10
  other people that are there to vibe as well.
• 43:12
  Have a good ass time and and just partake.
• 43:14
  Partake. Live in the moment.
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  Yeah, Be mindful. To match the vibes of this
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  week's episode, I do have a very specific song recommendation.
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  Whoa. OK.
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  In that, my friend, is. Oh my God, I lost it.
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  It is WAP, the Bardcore instrumental by Stanto.
• 43:41
  I was going to say the WAP I I don't really get Renaissance
• 43:44
  vibes. But when it's Bardcore, When
• 43:46
  it's. Bardcore anything is
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  renaissance. Vibe guys you need to get into
• 43:50
  Bardcore. It exists for literally any
• 43:51
  songs. Every any song.
• 43:53
  Any song you have a favorite song, look for it.
• 43:55
  Bardcore Edition. I'm going to see if there's a
• 43:57
  gasolina. Bardcore version?
• 43:58
  I wouldn't doubt it. I'm going to recommend
• 44:02
  Renaissance Fair by the Birds. I.
• 44:05
  Told you, and that's BYRDS. I will listen to it as well
• 44:09
  because it's just that's on theme.
• 44:11
  OK, we're searching. We're searching.
• 44:15
  There is, from what I can see on Spotify, no Gasolina version of
• 44:20
  barcore or no barcore version of gasoline in YouTube.
• 44:24
  OK, please hold while we continue to investigate this
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  phenomenon. That would make more sense.
• 44:33
  Jean Paul Temperature Shakira Hips don't lie.
• 44:36
  Actually, that's my that's my song.
• 44:38
  I take back what I said about WAP Shakira hips don't lie
• 44:41
  hardcore version. That's where it's at.
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  You know who lied that day? Me.
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  Because I don't bring the ham. It's.
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  Hips don't lie my. Ham don't lie.
• 44:50
  My hams don't lie. Well, thank you.
• 44:54
  I hope to see you all on the Morrow when you listen to this
• 44:57
  episode. Yeah, hope you guys have a good
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  day today. And the Ren Fair is not paying
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  us to promote them. We just have a really good time.
• 45:03
  Exactly. And it's going through at least
• 45:05
  I think the middle of May I know for sure it goes to Mother's
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  Day. So take your mom's to the Ren
• 45:10
  Fair if. It does go to May, you're right.
• 45:12
  Yeah, this is our Coachella. Since we're not going to take
• 45:14
  your mom's to the Ren Fair, take your mother's to the Ren Fair.
• 45:18
  And if you're not? Let them loose with a couple
• 45:19
  dollars. And if you're not able to
• 45:21
  experience it for yourself, yeah, take other friends, take
• 45:24
  other family. We're just, we're just going to
• 45:26
  the rent for now. Everyone's invited.
• 45:28
  I brought it up to. Mike Diaz, not that long ago,
• 45:31
  because my, my, I told my mom I was going.
• 45:33
  She's like, behold, I think your Diaz went to that when they were
• 45:36
  young. I was like, excuse me, what do
• 45:39
  you mean? What do you mean by that?
• 45:41
  What do you mean? Like Diaz went to the rent fair?
• 45:44
  So then I asked them, I think during Thanksgiving last year.
• 45:48
  You see how long I've been holding on to this story.
• 45:49
  Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like, hey, did you guys go to
• 45:52
  the Renaissance Fair and they're like, meho, what is that?
• 45:54
  And I'm like, oh, it's place in Irwindale, California.
• 46:00
  They're like Irwindale. I'm like, oh, it's at the Santa
• 46:02
  Fe Dam. Are people in costume?
• 46:05
  And I'm like, yes, all the time. Me costumes.
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  Oh my God. Yeah.
• 46:08
  We went as a high school field trip as a.
• 46:11
  Field trip to the Ren Fair. Yeah, and I had to be in like
• 46:14
  the 80s. It's like I don't in my
• 46:17
  research, I did not see the exact year that it moved to
• 46:21
  Irwindale. Yeah, it might not have been in
• 46:24
  Irwindale. OK.
• 46:26
  It might have been like one of the ones where it was like
• 46:27
  somewhere in LA still like I doubt it was of a Dirk.
• 46:31
  No, no, that was in the 60s. They might have gone before it
• 46:35
  was even in Irwindale. You're at the end of being the
• 46:38
  veteran, Oh my God, in the Robin Hood costume.
• 46:41
  Yeah, definitely. I I could just see my little
• 46:43
  Christian fear or Jesus fearing. Yeah, I'm just.
• 46:48
  In a in a in a Robin Hood costume, no leading the charge
• 46:52
  against the sheriff's or I. Told them they'd be interested
• 46:54
  in going again and they they weren't opposed.
• 46:56
  That's so cool. Like what like can an event
• 46:59
  would that take to just get our families involved to go to the
• 47:02
  Ren Fair and then just have them experience it?
• 47:05
  I feel like my dad would have enjoyed it.
• 47:07
  That's so cool. He would have been annoyed at
• 47:10
  the the choice of beer. OK, OK.
• 47:13
  But I feel like if he was, if he was on a good one, he would have
• 47:16
  had a good time. All right.
• 47:18
  Vibes, music, acrobatic shows, acrobats.
• 47:22
  Yeah. Like flame.
• 47:24
  What is it? Juggling.
• 47:25
  Juggling. That one was stressful, guys.
• 47:27
  It was that guy dropped the his fire thing and part of the stage
• 47:31
  did catch on fire. I don't remember, but he was
• 47:33
  with Silly. Yeah, he was so good, balancing
• 47:37
  on a plank and a little cylinder thing.
• 47:40
  Yeah, so cool. Using a random member of the
• 47:43
  audience as his. Assistant and making it funny as
• 47:45
  hell. And the poor man was stressed
• 47:48
  like the assistant in his little costume.
• 47:50
  Literally. I yelled out.
• 47:51
  I'm so overwhelmed right now. Well, thank you all for
• 47:57
  listening and. We'll catch you guys next week.
• 48:01
  If we survive round two of the rent pair.
• 48:03
  I hope we do. We'll be back.
• 48:07
  Bye guys, I love you. I'm still thinking about it.