444: Trainwreck: The Astroworld Tragedy

True Crime Obsessed

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4.2 • 34.9K Ratings

🗓️ 29 July 2025

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

Coming out of lockdown in 2021, people everywhere were champing at the bit to get together at live events again. And few were more highly anticipated than Travis Scott's Astroworld Festival happening that summer in Houston, Texas. But the festival turned into an out-of-control nightmare that led to the deaths of ten people. Could this tragedy have been avoided?

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0:00.0	Okay, witch, I'm begging. What do I have to do for some warm weather?
0:03.7	I don't know, girl. It's not my fault. Come on. I know it is. It's not. I know you're in your
0:08.0	house, double bubble, boil, and tumbling or whatever. We have a lot bigger fish to fry.
0:13.1	You know what? That's fair. If I may. Okay, you're right.
0:19.8	Hi, Julian Bezavali. Hello, Patrick Hines. Fam, I am out on tour. I am very, very close to being done. I've got one, two, three, four, five, six shows left. Wow. Sixth of 40. So August first, I'm going to be in Charlotte, August 2nd. I'll be in Atlanta. August 4th. I'll be in Orlando. August 15th, D.C., August 16th, Philadelphia, August 30th, closing it down in London at 21 Soho, one of my favorite places. It's so fun.
0:45.2	That's fun.
0:33.7	Please come and see me.
0:34.5	Come and make new friends.
0:35.4	We're having such a great time.
0:36.4	This show is really great.
0:37.5	It's such a community building event.
0:39.3	If you want, it's an hour long, I make you laugh.
0:41.7	But before that, there's a pre-party.
0:43.1	After that, there's a post-party.
0:44.3	And everyone just makes friends and loves each other. No, thank you. a community building event. If you want, it's an hour long, I make you laugh, but before that,
0:46.2	there's a pre-party. After that, there's a post-party, and everyone just makes friends and loves each other. The whole thing's a party, honestly. The whole thing's a party. It's Patricktours.com. Please come and see me. And if you can't see me on the road, maybe see me and GP together on YouTube. on YouTube. On YouTube, our full episodes of like our regular feed episodes are all on YouTube,
0:54.3	like full length and everything. And I got to tell you, they're great. They're so fun to watch. I go through to just look at them, but then I end up watching the whole thing. It's funny. It's so fun. We've got like over 20,000 subscribers on our YouTube channel. Get in the Ubes. Get in the Utes. The two youths, as they say, my cousin Vinnie, it always comes back. What would Machio say when he discovered the YouTube channel? Great. It's true crime obsessed podcast. It's so fun. What are we talking about today? Oh, my goodness. So this is new on Netflix. It's, you know, that train wreck series? Yeah. The Woodstock one. This is the Astro World tragedy. Are they all
0:55.8	going to be music-based? We are recording this
1:46.0	so far in advance. Everyone's going to be like, yeah, idiot.
1:47.9	I don't know, but no, they're not all
1:49.9	music-based. I thought they would be, but they're not.
1:51.9	There's plenty of train wrecks in the music industry.
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