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Hello Internet. I'm your husband host Travis McElroy. And I'm your wife host Teresa McElroy. And you're listening to shmanners. It's extraordinary etiquette for ordinary occasion. Hello, Madoff. Hello, dear. Hello, Verly. I say, I'm to the hello, my dovest.

So close. Yon Duff upon the morning breaks and and she sees a worm and that she takes.

You know, in a way, that's that's more perfect for Renaissance fair than anything you could have accurately said.

Uh, I don't know what you mean. I nailed it. I was going with early burgers, the worm kind of said, you know, like shakes be here kind of way. You get it. You know how you do it. Look at the bird out there on the morning, grabbing the worms before others are born.

Oh, something like that. Love he loved a rhyming couplet. Can I give you the other joke I was going to do. Okay, fine. Ren Fair. I prefer Stimpy Fair because it's friend Stimpy. You didn't watch. No, I didn't see you in your kid. No, there are people out there who went. Oh, okay. Hey, we're talking about Renaissance fairs. Now this is a big time right because we say Renaissance fair. Right. But there's a lot of different. I've heard it called a lot of different things. I've heard it. I hate that one. Oh, why?

Because that does not at all sound like it's about whatever your pleasure be. Hey, babe. You hear it, right? I sure, but it's it's the way that you think about. So Renaissance is a particular period in history, especially the European. It doesn't actually fit with what most people think of when they think of Renaissance. Right. Yeah. Exactly. Right. Because it's more of like a medieval fair. Well, it is fantasy fair is what it is because

there's usually there is a lot of medieval kind of. So the like the idea of like castles and nights and stuff. Right. That's medieval. But there's also usually like at the one here in Ohio, there's a queen with they usually like centred around like queen Elizabeth the first. But then there's also like fairies and right else dragons and Vikings and you know all that kind of stuff. Right. So I I actually think that pleasure fair fits better. Yeah, I just wish it wasn't bad.

Okay. But pirates. Don't forget. And vampires are often. Sure. I would say in like fantasy fair because it's not fancy though. It's a lot of historical stuff. Okay. Pleasure. We'll go with it. But we're not going to call it that for that. We're going to call it Renaissance festival. Right.

I would also extend it even further than that because like here in Cincinnati, I honestly sadly don't think they still do it. Or if they do, they it's changed. But there was a like old Westfest. Right.

That I would incorporate in that same thing. Right. Because it was an immersive event. Dressaby costume historical fish. Yeah. Right. So it wasn't medieval. Right. It wasn't nights and and stuff. It was cowboys. But it's highly romantic. It's the same idea. Right. I've like you come. Oh, we've got old-timey food, old-timey drinks, old-timey games, old-timey experiences.

People in costume. People doing bull whips and sharp shooting. Sure. Instead of sorts, it's you know quick draws and stuff. But like instead of jousting, it's rodeo. But it's basically the same concept. So I would say like this kind of encompasses this idea of we're traveling to a different period of time where there's a lot of people in costumes. We have people in character. There's vendors. There's food. There's drink. There's entertainment. There's entertainment of some kind. It's not just like a

invention where you would go and maybe cosplay and there's tables and stuff. This is supposed to be an immersive thing. Like you're there in the festival in the village. And a lot of places these days have like actual dedicated like built storefronts and things like that. They're not open year round. So they're not like they're not like air conditioned or heated or whatever. But there's like vendor stalls and some of them even have like wooden floors that they've built up and things like that.

In case in case there are people out there are listeners who don't know.

We've talked about these things. But I don't know anyone who doesn't like it except if you've worked at one and then a lot of things.

And that's true of many things, right?

Yeah.

Oh, that's really fun.

For you, yeah, yeah, yeah.

I bet there's a lot of theme park workers

listening to this going, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

They're like, you know, there's a certain kind of like,

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