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Psych Legal Pop Podcast

Trainwreck: The Astroworld Tragedy

Psych Legal Pop Podcast

Tess & Brooke Brigham

Relationships, Tv & Film, True Crime, Society & Culture

4.2610 Ratings

🗓️ 3 July 2025

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

This documentary explores the catastrophic crowd management failure that occurred during Travis Scott’s performance at his 2021 Astroworld music festival. The over selling of tickets and a breach of the festival's entry points resulted in a massive crown that could not be controlled by the limited number of staff and security on the ground. Despite visible panic, the show continued for over 30 minutes after a mass casualty event was declared. Ten people lost their lives and thousands more were injured..


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0:00.0

Hello everyone and welcome back to the Psych Legal Pot podcast. This is a podcast where we talk about

0:07.6

popular culture through the lens of an attorney and a therapist. I'm Brooke Brigham and I'm the

0:12.7

attorney. And I'm Tess Brigham. I'm the therapist. And today we are talking about the Netflix

0:18.3

documentary Train Rec, the Astro World tragedy.

0:23.7

And this is about Travis Scott's Astro World Festival that was held in November of 2021,

0:34.3

that had an extremely tragic outcome.

0:38.3

Ten people ended up losing their lives that day.

0:42.4

Countless others, you know, thousands of people injured.

0:47.3

This is this really is a tragic and upsetting story and really infuriates me all the way through.

0:57.1

Yes. So high level, I didn't know much about this. I didn't even know that much about

1:02.4

Travis Scott. I'll be perfectly honest with you. If he did not date Kylie Jenner, I don't think that, that, you know, I don't think that I would have even known who he was at all.

1:17.4

So I did not know his music.

1:18.9

I did not, I could not pick out one song.

1:21.2

I didn't know anything about him and, right, like this history that he has at concerts

1:27.2

and the kinds of concerts that he has.

1:29.4

And then the other thing, too, is, you know, when you think about these things like safety and flow of, you know,

1:38.8

how do you build an amusement park and, you know, there's so many details that go into these kinds of events

1:48.6

that I think people, we don't really think about, but they are those invisible things that

1:54.3

if they all go right, you would never know that they were there. It's only when things go wrong,

1:59.2

that you realize there's a mistake.

2:01.5

And so that was really surprising. I think it was the whole thing is awful and tragic. And I also think

2:11.0

that it felt like it was a little bit of a perfect storm, a bit of this combination of COVID COVID people wanting COVID to be over and wanting

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