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Greetings from Cyberdelic Space

Greetings

Greetings Greetings from Cyberdelic Space. This is Lorenzo, and I'm your host here in the psychedelic salon.

Now, if you're an old burner but have been out of the loop lately,

you may be surprised to hear our speaker today being introduced as the CEO of Burning Man.

But we'll always know her as Maid Marion.

I never had the pleasure of meeting her myself,

but I can attest to the fact that at the burn, in the back of our minds,

even though we knew that the elusive Larry Harvey was in the camp

and had a handle on things somewhere,

we also knew that Maid Marion was out and about keeping her eye on us revelers,

making sure that we were all safe as her spirit hovered over the city.

I guess that's a little dramatic.

However, the new CEO title comes from the fact that the Burning Man organization has now transposed into a nonprofit, and it needed a CEO.

In a moment, you're going to hear the really interesting story of how, of all the original founders of the Burning Man LLC,

it was Maid Marion, who was elected CEO.

Now, during this conversation, you'll also hear John Gilmore mention the fact that you have to have enough juice to make it to a burn.

In other words, it not only isn't easy to get to Burning Man, in fact, to do it properly takes a year-long commitment.

You have to work to get there, which is one of the reasons that I haven't made the last few burns.

You know, just getting everything ready takes a lot of work.

As you know, the mantra on the playa is leave no trace.

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