Name: Amanda Knox | This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von #225
Uploaded: 2019-08-23T10:30:01.000Z
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Amanda Knox | This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von #225' from Theo Von on Comedy Buff. Published 2019-08-23. Transcript available.

Amanda Knox | This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von #225

You know, after your whole experience through, you know, being incarcerated and
accusations and everything, do you, where does, do you have like, who do you,
who do you blame the most, do you feel like?
I'll sit and tell you.
Congrats to you guys.
This is in game today.
Yeah.
The wedding date isn't yet, right?
Yeah.
The wedding date.
I saw the meteor, man.
It was really cool.
Oh, you did?
Yeah.
Okay, cool.
It really inspired me.
That was a production that Chris manufactured on a Sunday when I was the most
unsuspecting.
Like, you could tell I was the most unsuspecting because I was in my pajamas.
I was sewing a wizard cloak.
Like, I was down on that floor.
And to like, hear this like, missile, sound like a missile to me that he like,
he rigged
up our entire house and our entire backyard with, you know, secret speakers and
like lights
so that when I came down, he like dug a fog machine, like underground
underneath the meteorite
so that it was smoking.
Oh, yeah.
And it's, it's great.
Like, he had this thing, really, you should ask Chris about it.
But like, he had like manufactured this whole thing for, he was working on it
with his brother
for a year.
Oh, wow.
So like, and then just one day he was like, today's the day.
And so he made the rounds and like brought champagne to my parents.
And then while I was like, he was running errands while I was sewing my cloak
and here we are.
Oh, it almost sounds like a Disney, he was running errands while I was sewing
my cloak.
It sounds like a new, like a, like a deleted scene from Shrek or something, you
know?
I wish.
Or from like a renaissance fair, maybe.
We go to plenty of renaissance fairs.
In fact, we even out renaissance fared a renaissance fair once.
Really?
Yes.
And ren fairs.
I'm going to throw out the term because people don't know.
I've been to a few, I've been caught into some, I want to almost say misdemeanor
crimes
at a few of them, but people call them ren fairs, right?
Yes.
Okay, good.
Yeah.
I like to use that term when I can.
This is the only time I'm probably going to use it.
The politically correct term.
Yeah, or just kind of a little bit of slang, you know, we were at a ren fair.
Sure, yeah.
No, his brother, Chris's brother is a professional knight.
Like he runs the Seattle Knights where they do jousting and choreographed fight
scenes
and they get hired by ren fairs to put on shows.
So where they're doing the jousting and the fighting and they're using actual
swords and
actual armor.
So whenever we go to a renaissance fair, we get hooked up with their gear and
we can
out, yeah, we can out renaissance.
So you have backstage passes at a ren fair.
Absolutely.
We have 100% like full access ren fair.
And this one time we went to.
So if, so people are wondering what's going on with Amanda Knox, she has
backstage passes
at a renaissance fair.
Yes.
Yeah.
I could tell you the goings on.
Yeah.
And a recent engagement that kind of like puts like, it kind of puts a nice
charm into
your life.
Yes.
Oh God.
Um, yeah, this is the stuff that people don't know about me.
People think they know a lot of things about me, but really I'm just a nerd who
likes to
wear costumes and go to ren fairs.
Now ren fairs, I feel like ren fairs kind of do, are they, is there arch rival
kind of
like a carnival, like the small town carny folk?
I feel like those people probably, I could see them kind of getting into some fisticuffs
at night or something, you know?
You know, um, I know there's some crossover.
Um, I do know that some performers who come to renaissance fairs do perform at
carnivals
as well.
Like there was this one amazing woman who, um, trained a bunch of rats to like
do, um, acrobatics
with her.
Oh yeah.
Um, which was great.
I sure do her.
And she was awesome.
And she goes to the ren fairs and the carnivals.
Um, carnivals, I wish, I don't know.
I, I feel like carnivals just make me feel sick.
I don't know.
I'm not a little seedier.
They get you hopped up on the sugar.
Then they, they shake you up with the machinery.
It's kind of an old school.
Yeah.
It's very, it's a lot more adrenaline rush than I think I can handle.
I just tend to feel a little nauseated.
Yeah.
Um, so I don't go to carnivals very often anymore.
So ren fairs.
Yeah.
I would say, yeah, a ren fair is almost like a carnival minus the nausea.
Yes.
There's more, um.
And more playfulness.
Cause you're like, you go and you're not exactly in character, but you're
playing pretend.
Like everyone's just kind of playing pretend with each other and they're
getting their hair
braided so they can look more renaissance-y.
Yeah.
And like the idea is to just sort of like let your inner nerd embrace itself.
Yeah.
And like there, you know, these are some places where like it's the one place
that somebody feels
at home.
Like the, you know, to be nerdy in the world, like, yeah, you can be a cool
nerd in this
world, but not everyone's a cool nerd.
Some people are just straight up nerds.
And like when you are allow yourself to get into costume and just like, and
just nerd out
and it's so sweet and it's so fun.
I love it.
Yeah.
It's kind of like you see people like, uh, yeah, you'll see like, like a fair
maid in
there.
You'll see, um, like a lot of wooden swords.
You hear a lot about corset gasms.
Oh yeah.
Oh really?
Have you heard of a corset gasm?
I've seen honestly some big tits at a renaissance fair.
Yes.
Like if you come out, that's the place to let them on display.
If you like sunburnt cleavage, dude, then a renaissance fair is it.
That is the place.
And Minnesota has a lot of big ones too.
I know that.
Yeah.
I've heard about them.
I've never actually been to those before, but I think, um, me and Chris are
going to
be going with his brother and, um, wife and their best friend.
They all do run fair stuff together.
I think we're going to be going down to this big one in Texas in November and I'm
really
excited.
Apparently it is like 10 times as big as any of them that are here in, in
Washington state.
And it's, yeah.
So it's just like a world to an alternate reality to explore while wearing dope
costumes.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And peaceful, more peaceful times.
I think in a way, maybe, I don't know if they had dragons back then, you know,
they wish
they had dragons.
They really do.
Yeah.
I guess they wish they had dragons.
That's it.
Yeah.
I mean, it depends on the, it depends on the fair cause it's still a fair, like,
you know,
there's still going to be some fair food.
Um, I don't know.
I find it really exciting.
Um, I think that I love watching his brother do his thing, uh, like doing like
they are swinging
real swords at each other.
And occasionally like he'll get like a, a, a sharp elbow to the, to the face
and he'll
have like his face cut open.
And it's like, this, this is real.
Yeah.
Um, the only difference is no one's actually trying to kill each other.
They look like they are.
And occasionally someone gets hurt.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Ren fairs.
You know, I went when I was actually, I went a couple of years ago, I'll be
honest, you
know, I'm trying to lie about it, but I went a few years ago and, uh, and it
was,
uh, what was it like?
Oh, it started raining.
So suddenly like behind the scene, like everything kind of became, um, like the,
the world's kind
of gotten mixed because everybody's trying to stay dry.
So you had a lot of people that weren't like in, you know, in like Ren garb,
like trying
to get into the Ren holes and stuff and stuff got a little, um, shelter became,
uh, it was
a commodity.
Well, yeah, especially because a lot of these fairs are, um, end up being sort
of put out
into these fields and like all the water just accumulates in these fields.
And like the Ren fair that I go to in Washington state very often, like, you
know, it's there
and then like it has to disappear at the end of the Ren fair.
And then that, that field gets recycled into something else.
And I've used it before to do a mud run, which is to do like an obstacle, like
mud course.
So that's like the week after Ren fair, it's mud run.
Yeah.
It's mud run.
People don't realize, I was like, that's crazy.
I wonder what the field thinks.
I wonder what the field's like, Oh, who's on my back this week.
You know?
Oh, thankfully it's the Ren fair.
They're pretty calm.
Yeah.
And then it's these mud freaks.
And then the mud freaks, we were like chugging beer and like getting really
dirty.
And that's also a great use of random grass field.
So, yeah, that's interesting.
Yeah.
The one that I went to was way out in the middle of nowhere.
And we went, when I was in school, I was in like a special class.
And so they would take us out there.
And one time they're like, okay, you have to dress up.
And I was, I didn't understand the concept of Renaissance fairs.
And I was, um, Peter Pan.
That works.
So it worked, but it was, uh, I don't think.
You were in the kind of right time period in terms of fairy tale.
Like that totally, they have, they have like Robin Hood themed, um, Ren fairs.
That's who I think I meant to be was Robin Hood.
And I just messed up, you know?
And my whole costume, we didn't sew it.
It was all just tight.
It was like a bunch of stuff.
And then I wrapped myself in fishing twine, right?
To hold it all together.
So it was way bizarre.
I'm having trouble visualizing this, but I, do you have pictures?
Uh, I think there's some drawings or sketches of it back in the day.
But it was definitely kind of a seedy look.
They were pretty much the same thing.
Robin Hood and Peter Pan.
Yeah, totally.
You're, you're fine.
As long as you have the tunic, the green tunic, you fit in.
I think I got offended though, when people called me Robin Hood, that was my
problem.
Oh, you were like, no, this is Peter.
Yeah.
That's why I had a, yeah, that's why I had a, so really it was just the way I
interacted.
I will never grow up.
Yeah.
The way I interacted with the world there, you know, I kind of brought, I think,
a bad attitude
as well.
It could have been the twine too.
It was a 30 pound test and it was really, really tight.
You know, there are people walking around in chain mail and like legit armor
out there
though.
Like 90 pounds of crap in 90 degree weather.
Oh yeah.
I saw a guy drinking WD-40 out there one day and I was like, oh man, he needs
it.
Or mead.
Just so much mead.
Oh yeah.
And that's beer, right?
Well, it's, um, it's very sugary.
Um, I think it's more like wine, um, but like extremely sugary.
It's like honey.
It's like, it tends to have like a honey flavor.
Like a port almost or something.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Um, and people get shit faced on that.
Wow.
Dang.
It's a lot of fun.
Cooked out on some meat, huh?
And some lean too.
I think it's gotten a little bit urban in some of these rent fairs.
It's starting to, things are getting strange.
Um, thanks for coming in.
Thank you for having me.
Actually, I, I, I admit that I have, I had not heard your podcast before, but
my, what
convinced me to come on is one of my best friends, um, said that yours is the
best podcast ever
and she has the biggest crush on you.
So in case you want to like meet someone who's also amazing, uh, she, you know,
she moved
over all the way to Italy to like, um, be supportive of me and visit me in
prison.
Wow.
It's like, she's a incredible person and she has a big fat crush on you.
Oh, dang.
And she's ex-Mormon, which I find that ex-Mormons are the best people ever.
Yeah.
They're pretty, yeah.
I've heard some things about them.
I mean, they're, uh, yeah.
Mormons are really, really unique.
When I, like I, I, one time I was walking through the Mormon, um, place in Utah,
like Park
City, the big, yeah, the temple, I mean, you're not allowed to go in the temple.
Yeah.
But the tabernacle, it's beautiful.
And they had like, uh, they had like 19 weddings going on.
Like I was in like four ceremonies just on accident.
I was just like, uh, just like accidentally just would just walk in different
paths.
Wow.
You got lucky.
I've, I've been there before multiple times and, um, I've never