Snacktime: To Joust Is No Jest
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4.1 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 24 June 2021
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
Ever heard of horse repossession? How about equine semen fraud? On this week’s Snacktime, Ben tells Amory about the still-very-much-alive sport of jousting and how it relates to a pretty wild story about a Redditor’s ex and a snowy white steed.
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| 0:00.0 | WBWR's last scene is back with surprising news stories about people, places, and things |
| 0:06.1 | that have gone missing, all told by tenacious public radio storytellers who refuse to |
| 0:11.4 | let mysteries go unsolved. |
| 0:13.7 | Don't miss season 3, out now. |
| 0:16.2 | Follow last scene wherever you listen to podcasts. |
| 0:20.6 | Produced by the Island at WBWR Boston. |
| 0:31.2 | You know, Emory, we're just going along on break from the show, playing the hits of the |
| 0:35.6 | other shows, the straight hits, like 20,000 herds last week, and then a story comes along, |
| 0:43.7 | and I just got to talk about it. |
| 0:46.6 | Love it, hate it, think it's suspicious. |
| 0:50.4 | It is undeniably peak me. |
| 0:53.8 | And it allows me to talk to my dream guest. |
| 0:57.4 | Uh, Nikki Fortielis, I run the International Jouicing Association for the US, which is |
| 1:05.6 | a club for jousting, from the Boston area to New England, born and raised. |
| 1:13.4 | Have you ever jousted before Ben? |
| 1:16.0 | Oh, man. |
| 1:18.2 | Dreams deferred, man. |
| 1:20.0 | Dreams deferred. |
| 1:21.0 | In your next life, you'll quit it with the podcasting crap. |
| 1:24.3 | Yeah, probably past life. |
| 1:28.4 | So, so, Emory, something that happens a lot in the summer and fall and involves jousting? |
| 1:33.2 | Renaissance fares. |
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