I'm David Farrier in New Zealander 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 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 Maybauer 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 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.

Flyed this, Flagless.

Flyed this.

Fly this bird touchdown in America.

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