I'm David Farrier in New Zealand to accidentally marooned in America and I want to figure out what makes this country tick.

Now ever since we started this show about 80 episodes ago, I've had emails and DMs requesting one thing and one thing alone.

I needed to go to a Renaissance fair.

So to cut to the chase, in this episode I go to a Renaissance fair. So get ready for a lot of this.

Of course I am the Lord Mayor Sir Bonnebus Bliss.

My name to be mistress Maggie Maybower and I have been elected as Queen of the May, indeed.

Every year about 200 Renfares take place in the United States.

Millions of visitors transporting themselves through space and time,

usually to the reign of Queen Elizabeth during the 1500s.

My history is so bad, I really hope that's the right time frame, I think it is.

The whole idea of the Renaissance fair started back in 1963 when English teacher Phyllis Patterson held an event for her students in her backyard,

she wanted to bring history to life, to inspire them, to recreate an Elizabethan fair.

A few months later, her and her husband Ron put on a bigger one, hosting about 8,000 people.

And it kept growing, and in 1966, the official Renaissance Pleasure Fair of Southern California was launched.

And while looking into this, I was delighted to find out that that very same Ren Fair was still going going today and so there was obviously only one place I needed to go.

So grab a turkey leg and get ready to travel back in time because this is the Renaissance Fair episode.

Flagless, Flagless.

Flagless.

Flagless bird touchdown in America.

I'm a fly list bird

touch down in America.

All right, since I am filling in for Monica,

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