Travis Scott Astroworld Tragedy and Gaslighting
Psychology In Seattle Podcast
Kirk Honda
4.5 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 29 November 2021
⏱️ 109 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, deserving listeners, just me today. I thought I would answer some patron emails, |
| 0:03.6 | this first email is from annual patron Maria from Washington. She says, |
| 0:08.2 | can you speak to the Travis Scott Astral World festival tragedy that happened recently? |
| 0:14.6 | We have witnessed on the internet a number of heartbreaking news stories throughout the past couple |
| 0:20.0 | years, but there's something about this specific event that I find incredibly troubling. |
| 0:26.0 | At random moments, I am overwhelmed with anxiety and have the urge to cry thinking about what |
| 0:31.2 | happened. I've spoken with others about it, and they seem to have the same response trying |
| 0:37.5 | to process the grief, the anxiety, and the anger. I'm not sure if it's the availability of the |
| 0:44.2 | number of videos and photographs that I have contributed to the anxiety, though, or the number |
| 0:50.0 | of surrounding factors that really makes you question your faith in humanity that make it truly |
| 0:54.9 | disheartening. I'd be interested to know how the shared trauma events can affect communities. |
| 1:01.3 | Do you think social media has increased the impact of these events? Also, I would be interested |
| 1:06.4 | to hear your thoughts on the entire situation as a musician and a performer and of email. |
| 1:12.5 | Yeah, I've seen the videos and the news stories from the most part. I'm not an expert on it, but |
| 1:18.2 | if you're not aware of it in a nutshell, what happened was on November 5th, just, you know, |
| 1:25.1 | this month, there was a music festival called Astral World Festival in Houston. It was founded |
| 1:32.0 | in 2018 by Travis Scott, who was a hip-hop artist. Travis Scott runs the festival and what happened |
| 1:43.2 | in early November 2021. It started off with things happening already in the morning people |
| 1:54.7 | broke barriers and rushed into the venue, but the real tragedy happened during Travis Scott's concert. |
| 2:04.0 | There were thousands upon thousands, you know, just a huge, huge concert with just so many people, |
| 2:09.2 | and there was a huge press of the crowd forward towards the stage, and those people who were in |
| 2:18.5 | the front and they were trapped against the railings were either being crushed or trampled on, |
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