Festival Fiascos: Burning Man, Electric Zoo, & Fyre Fest II

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Betches

True Crime, Society & Culture, Comedy

3.8 • 2.5K Ratings

🗓️ 11 September 2023

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Sara and Danny bid a sweaty farewell to summer with a roundup of some recent festival fiascos and one coming down the pipeline. First up is Burning Man, the week-long festival in the Nevada desert, where each year participants erect (and fully dismantle) Black Rock City. This year, an unexpected rainfall of extreme proportions created a disastrous level of mud, and 70,000 people were subsequently trapped there and forced to shelter in place. Next, NYC's Electric Zoo festival became a massive organizational nightmare, leaving thousands of ticket holders stuck in never ending lines. And finally, Billy McFarland is trying his hand at Fyre Fest once more, with tickets already selling out for the December 6, 2024 event at an as-of-yet undisclosed Caribbean destination. SOURCES: https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/04/us/burning-man-storms-shelter-monday/index.html https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/electric-zoo-attendees-frustrated-chaos-disorganized-three-day-festiva-rcna103258 https://www.insider.com/fyre-festival-2-tickets-lineup-location-billy-mcfarland-2023-8 https://www.curbed.com/2023/08/whats-going-on-at-the-brooklyn-mirage.html https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news/mayor-eric-adams-says-city-will-take-action-against-electric-zoo-festival-organizers/ https://www.billboard.com/pro/electric-zoo-festival-canceled-friday-didnt-have-permits/ Check out our latest promo codes here: https://betches.com/promos Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:33.8	Welcome back. Happy fall I think. I like fell into my own puddle of sweat if that's even my falling.
0:45.8	I know I am just perpetually glistening and not in like the cute
0:49.2	hailey beaver kind of. No, no, I'll think I do is like ailey beaver. No, but in in conjunction with
0:55.3	the end of summer, that's the end of festival season. And so today we are going to talk about
1:02.0	the end of festival season. Oh, is this the end of festivals also? I mean, I don't know like
1:08.7	this story really, and I feel I mean, you are more tapped into festival culture than
1:13.7	myself. I am because I may semi-retired festival girl. You are. I did one once and that's
1:22.1	enough for the rest of my life. No, I would I mean, I used to camp at Bonnarou, which is like a whole
1:27.1	other level. That was also like that was before I had sleep issues apparently. I'm like, how did I
1:32.6	do that? I don't know how you did it because I that was the one festival I did. Picture me
1:38.4	when we're like stopping at a Walmart on the way to get a tent because we didn't realize we
1:42.2	needed the tent. And then pitching tent. Oh, no, like asking for I think I was like it was like the
1:48.8	year after I graduated college. We were asking I was like asking the sophomores in college next to us
1:54.2	that were like shocketing beers at 7 a.m. Like do you mind helping set up a tent like it was all
1:58.9	a mess. And there was no showers. You had to like pour buckets of water on your I was like this is
2:04.4	yeah, this is never something I want to experience again. No, I feel like when I when I went to
2:09.3	festivals in my early 20s. Yeah, I was that person who was like, I'm not going to pay for a shower.
2:13.3	I'm just going to like use baby wipes for for like three days. And now I'm like, well, you're smart
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