Woodstock '99: Mosh Pit at the Apocalypse with Sam Sanders and Lindy West | 20

The Big Flop

Wondery

Society & Culture, Comedy, Business

4.6 • 884 Ratings

🗓️ 5 February 2024

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Woodstock '99 was meant to commemorate the original, historic festival with “three days of peace and music” but instead became "three days of rage and chaos." Hundreds of thousands of angry young men celebrated the end of the millennium by moshing to acts like Limp Bizkit, Korn and Kid Rock. But, when food and water became scarce, and the porta potties overflowed, they ended up rioting. If you thought Fyre Fest was bad…at least it wasn’t actually on fire!

Journalist Sam Sanders (Vibe Check, It's Been A Minute) and comedian and author Lindy West (Text Me Back!) join Misha to answer all of the burning questions about Woodstock '99.

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0:00.0	Wondery Plus subscribers can listen to the Big Flop early and ad-free.
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0:19.7	It's the summer of 1999, the cusp of a new millennium, a liminal space.
0:26.9	Three decades have flown by since the 1969 Woodstock Music Festival, held on a verdant dairy
0:34.8	farm in upstate New York, remembered as the epitome of communal love,
0:39.9	large-scale, peaceful gatherings, and a place for young hippies to get far away from their
0:44.6	conservative parents and get their souls free, to quote Joni Mitchell. And now, hundreds of
0:51.4	thousands of young folk are gathered in upstate New York again for another
0:56.7	Woodstock. But something is different. The crowd doesn't seem interested in peace. The heat is
1:05.1	sweltering. Sewage is leaking underfoot. The mostly young male crowd
1:10.9	aren't here to see Jimmy Hendrix
1:13.0	or The Grateful Dead.
1:14.9	They're here to see
1:15.8	their favorite new metal band,
1:18.3	Limp Biscuit.
1:19.8	So when frontman,
1:21.3	Fred Durst takes the stage
1:22.8	to perform their single,
1:24.2	Break Stuff,
1:25.4	the audience is ready to do
1:27.2	whatever they're told.
1:29.3	Time to reach feet down inside and take all that negative energy.
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