jenny nicholson namedrop

Matt would’ve loved this episode. Screw Renaissance fairs, let’s have a 1600s fair. Take selfies with Martin Luther. Learn to fire a musket (at a knight). Help a gang of of Swedish mercenaries loot a German farmstead. Buy over-priced tulips. Watcha a long and exceedingly droll play about how we’re all bound for hell because of our mortal wickedness. And of course learn how to make candles out of tallow and pig fat, cause who wouldn’t want to learn that?

Darla understood modeling/predicting the system using external vendor data but she used that knowledge to heartlessly undercut Jeff who understood the intangible metaphysics of the park's attraction but didn't have the money, and Louie was ready to risk his family's money, but didn't have enough (and would have wildly overpaid at $10 million, which George knew)...but King George wasn't deciding who would get the park, he was deciding which job he wanted...and he decided on General Manager, king of labor. It's not enough to be a king without a crown (property), you have to wield power over human beings. It's not enough to be the king, you have to know you're the king by inflicting your power upon the body of the workers.

That king aint right

At the heart of every GREAT documentary there is a woman named Darla

Ren fairs also have people specializing in mideval crap like forging and yarn spinning where you can learn about it if you care to talk at their stalls.

Hey, if you don't like being lorded over, go work at the Enlightenment Faire

Listened to 15 mins and had to go watch it now I’m back. Compelling stuff

This was an amazing documentary/narrative film. Say whatever you want, but people like George and his crew make life interesting. They don't care about anything else going on in the world, their entire existence revolves around this one thing. A few times in the series, he alludes to how everything he created was based on depictions from old world renaissance literature. I'll definitely be following this director's future work.

Did not know that episode of King of the Hill with Alan Rickman in it was a documentry apparently. HOW NOW GAS MAN!

Haven't actually watched the show, probably never would have if not for the Chapo boys. I went to the reviews on a few sites and one of them said "Creep grandpa filmed on an old Nokia phone" with a 2/10 rating, which I enjoyed lol. Anyways, I'm totally sold on actually watching the show.

As a peasant without HBO, much appreciated

Always love those 3am drops

Would Peggy Hill defeat George at the end of the episode?

Huzzah indeed

Media 'attractions' as a false reality is weird to examine in an almost fully symbolic world. Disney sells well because they have the right symbols to create a blend of desire and fufillment, the reality they create is more appealing than the real. However, 70 years has passed since this model has been mass-produced and applied across industries and now so many of our spaces are engineered this way. I haven't seen land in years. We're smart enough apes to know that real reality is hard and painful a lot of the time, like even if youre the most coddeled your body will decay, so there is a deeply rooted urge to escape. Maybe adulthood is learning to deal with that urge. To some degree playing pretend is necessary and normal in childhood development though BECAUSE the world we inhabit is structured around things which require us to play pretend. I think working at a ren faire would melt my brain, but they're fun to visit once in a while. I'll have to give this a watch.

I have never watched a documentary where I literally hated everyone. George never wanted to sell. But he got off on jerking potential buyers around just like he does his employees. The General Manager guy was a sniveling worm. And he'll never understand that's why George wants him around. But also why he hates him and has no respect for him. And the popcorn creep is just a gross dude. BUT I hate him the least because at least he was honest about what he wanted.

15:57 I hear Matt's laughter. 🤔🤔🤔

Why did this guy invent the atomic bomb, and subsequently, anime

Great ep!!! Loved Will’s questions

Huzzah

i enjoyed the documentary and I felt the scenes with george and his ladies were hilarious

Great interview! Will add the series to my list.

A mountain lion would fuck a cheetah up if it could catch it.

Forsooth!

They should make the ren faire into a reality show series I need more jeff and corn lord and king George

Sounds like the dude is a psychopath. Which makes sense.

I watched the last EP

24:04 it's the master slave dialectic!!!!!!!!! The friendship dialectic is better!

Darkon was the first one for me. Very entertaining.

The hell is this?

Blankenship is a way better surname than Opperheim