Anastasia Eliades and Michael Scott King first met while attending the Academy of Art University in San Francisco in 2008. The pair began their career when they met up at the San Francisco Renaissance Festival, playing medieval themed music and preforming comedy acts while collecting money for their performance. It was at this point that the duo would call themselves 'The Fools', and would perform at a variety of locations, such as streets and parks, using money collected from passerby's as their main source of income. For the next two years, the duo would continue to play in public spaces, entertaining passerby's with music, improvised sketches, and stories. They would also use the summer months to travel around to other countries, performing in Brazoria, the United Commonwealth, Dixie, R