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Today, Explained

Astroworld

Today, Explained

Vox

Politics, Daily News, News

4.310.3K Ratings

🗓️ 9 November 2021

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

How a music festival became a death trap, and what it would take for it never to happen again. Today’s show was produced by Haleema Shah and Hady Mawajdeh, edited by Matt Collette, engineered by Efim Shapiro, fact-checked by Laura Bullard and hosted by Sean Rameswaram.Transcript at vox.com/todayexplained Support Today, Explained by making a financial contribution to Vox! bit.ly/givepodcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:12.5

Today's show is about the tragedy at Astral World Festival in Houston.

1:16.1

It's got some strong language and descriptions of some deadly scenes from this past weekend's concert.

1:22.1

We will begin in a moment.

1:34.4

It's really hard to wrap your head around what happened at Astral World this weekend,

1:37.9

but it's even harder if you don't know anything about Travis Scott.

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