65: Brandon was dragged by a horse

What Was That Like - True Stories. Real People.

Scott Johnson & Glassbox Media

True Crime, Documentary, Personal Journals, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 20 November 2020

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Brandon spent 17 years working as an equestrian stuntman. But he didn’t grow up on a farm, and he didn’t spend his youth around horses. Back then, he was more interested in playing hockey. But he and his family did enjoy visiting Renaissance Fairs, and he met the right person at the right time. He got the opportunity to start learning how to be a stuntman – first working on the ground as a “squire”, then later helping to train the horses, and eventually to work as a stunt rider. But his very first “stunt riding” experience was not what he expected. Do you have questions for Brandon? He’s in the What Was That Like private Facebook group – join us over there at WhatWasThatLike.com/facebook. You can also follow Brandon on Instagram (stickfigurehero) and Twitter (stickfigurehero). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is a Glass Fox Media Podcast.
0:06.0	Okay, here's the thing about horses.
0:09.0	They're big.
0:13.0	Some of them weigh like 10 times what a human being weighs,
0:17.0	and they're very smart.
0:19.0	And they definitely have a mind of their own. And in some cases they do what they want to do which can be really dangerous
0:28.5	especially when the rider is inexperienced. Brandon was an equestrian stuntman for 17 years. That just
0:39.3	means he was paid to do stunts and perform some crazy stuff with horses and most of this was done
0:47.3	at Renaissance fairs all around the country here in the US.
0:51.4	If you're not familiar with what a Renaissance fair is, it's quite a production.
0:58.0	When people talk about Renaissance fairs, they're mostly referring to the permanent ones that are there that open for usually
1:03.4	about two months some of them run a little shorter some of them run a little
1:06.3	longer it's sort of just like a like a theme park especially some of the ones that
1:10.8	performed at there's one in Pennsylvania and
1:12.6	Central PA that is basically the Disneyland of Renaissance fairs where it's you just
1:17.0	go there everyone's in you know period clothing the food is is themed for the
1:22.0	period there's you know games real basic The food is themed for the period.
1:22.8	There's, you know, games, real basic carnival games,
1:25.6	throwing axes knives, stuff like that.
1:27.8	Jugglers, there's a lot of different stage acts.
1:30.4	And then a few fairs in the country have professional actor casts that will be in costume and there'll be a storyline that goes throughout the day that people can follow.
1:39.0	You'd think someone who made a career out of working with horses must have grown up with horses, right?
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