Pink Monorail Manufacturing the Magic Ep 2: Pleasure Fairs

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🗓️ 18 May 2024

⏱️ 40 minutes

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In the second installment of this new educational series, Noe & Shelly Valladolid discuss the ancestors of today’s Renaissance fairs. To be specific, some of the primitive “rides” that could be found at these medieval entertainments In this episode, listeners will learn about: Elephants walking across the frozen Thames What fairs were like in faraway India How an exhibition of two goats led to today’s county fairs Why Canada’s Hants County Exhibition, the first major fair in North America, is still in operation today What it was like to attend a Frost Fair in the heart of London Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome aboard Pink Monterrey. I'm your pilot, Shelly Vaidol, and with me is my co-pilot
0:09.8	Noah Vaya Doolid.
0:10.8	Hey everybody. We're going to continue our talk about manufacturing the magic, the history of the American
0:15.9	theme part.
0:17.1	And last time we talked to you about fares.
0:19.9	And we're going to continue to talk about fares, but there is something I forgot to mention last
0:23.7	episode.
0:24.7	What's that?
0:25.7	Cheese rolling.
0:26.7	That was a big deal at some of the fairs in England in the medieval times and
0:32.2	so on.
0:33.0	Okay.
0:34.0	Up until the 1800s, they take those big blocks of cheese,
0:36.0	now the big round ones.
0:38.0	Yeah.
0:39.0	They're like two feet across, and they'd roll them down a hill,
0:41.0	and people would chase them.
0:42.0	And whoever got them, whoever caught got it got to keep the cheese.
0:45.3	Oh plus a concussion or a broken leg or something.
0:49.3	It was worth it for all that cheese.
0:51.2	And some of those events are still happening. It is. And some of those events are still happening.
0:53.0	It is.
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