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Too Hot For Radio: Dierdre Coyle "Stakes"

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Symphony Space

Arts, Fiction, Books, Society & Culture

4.42.7K Ratings

🗓️ 1 July 2024

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Emma Roberts reads a story about a twenty-something's loneliness and longing at an Arizona Renaissance fair.

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0:00.0

Hear ye, hear ye, Lords and ladies.

0:06.6

It is I a Parnan-Cherla, Queen of slightly salacious stories, welcoming each and all to the amusement known to several. l

0:12.8

to the amusement known to several as too hot for radio.

0:17.5

Of course, if t'were the Renaissance,

0:20.8

too hot would simply refer to life in a corset, and radio would just be some

0:26.1

guy shouting from a top a hillock of sheep shit.

0:30.3

So has everyone been to a renfair?

0:33.6

Sorry, has anyone been to a renfair?

0:37.2

Yes, the Renaissance fair, when grown adults

0:41.1

willfully pretend to live in a time of smallpox and no indoor plumbing.

0:46.8

Well, if you haven't been, just imagine wandering around a hot dirty campground, drinking a tankard of 3.2 grog, buying a massive turkey leg, taking a bite for your insta, shouting

1:00.1

ha-saa to no one in particular particular and passing out in the dirt.

1:05.0

Oh sure, there's Chain Mail, body comedy, and weird guys with lutes.

1:10.0

Not so different from what you get in the public parks of Berkeley for free.

1:14.0

And there's dirt. Did I mention the dirt?

1:18.0

It's kind of everywhere. On your clothes, in your hair

1:22.8

all over the ground

1:24.6

don't get me wrong a lot of people love rent fares

1:28.9

plenty of states have them and not just the ones with legal weed.

1:33.0

And yes, there's a certain allure to playing dress up and watching dudes joust.

1:39.0

Probably something to do with the nesthetizing and inherently dangerous and difficult time in order to focus on important stuff, like British accents and leather doublets.

1:49.0

And the Renfaire is just where we find ourselves in today's story by the writer Deirdre Coil.

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