Woodstock '99: Mosh Pit at the Apocalypse with Sam Sanders and Lindy West (From The Big Flop)
The Sam Sanders Show
KCRW & Sam Sanders
4.9 • 709 Ratings
🗓️ 4 July 2025
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Today we’re sharing an episode from our friends at The Big Flop!
Every week, the show unpacks pop culture’s most fascinating flops, frauds, and fiascos. In this episode, host Misha Brown throws back to Woodstock '99 with Sam and Lindy West (Text Me Back!). The music fest was meant to commemorate the original 1969 festival with “three days of peace and music” but instead became "three days of rage and chaos." If you thought Fyre Fest was bad… At least it wasn’t actually on fire!
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| 0:15.3 | Hey, y'all, Sam Sanders here. |
| 0:16.7 | We are taking a little break from the show this week, but I'm very excited to share this very |
| 0:21.7 | fun chat I did with the big flop podcast. So what is the big flop, you may ask? Well, it is a very |
| 0:28.7 | funny show hosted by Misha Brown. On his show, Misha and his guest break down the biggest pop culture |
| 0:35.0 | flubs and fails and blunders of all time. |
| 0:38.7 | And they try to figure out why anyone thought they were good ideas in the first place. |
| 0:43.3 | I was a guest on the show where we talked all about the flop that was Woodstock 99. |
| 0:50.7 | Firefest had nothing on Woodstock 99. this thing was supposed to be a revival of the 60s peace and love |
| 1:00.9 | woodstock but basically it ended up being the exact opposite trust me it was a disaster we talk about |
| 1:07.9 | this disaster in this episode it was a very very fun chat. And also, the writer |
| 1:11.6 | Lindy West was with us as well for this conversation. I hope you enjoy it. I think you'll |
| 1:17.5 | enjoy it. Let's get into it. It's the summer of 1999, the cusp of a new millennium, a liminal space. |
| 1:28.3 | Three decades have flown by since the 1969 Woodstock Music Festival, |
| 1:34.3 | held on a verdant dairy farm in upstate New York, remembered as the epitome of communal love, |
| 1:41.3 | large-scale, peaceful gatherings, and a place for young hippies to get far away from their conservative parents |
| 1:47.6 | and get their souls free, to quote Joni Mitchell. |
| 1:51.6 | And now, hundreds of thousands of young folk |
| 1:55.2 | are gathered in upstate New York again for another Woodstock. |
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