Trainwreck: The Astroworld Tragedy
Psych Legal Pop Podcast
Tess & Brooke Brigham
4.2 • 610 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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