Crazy stories from Burning Man | Andrew Callaghan and Lex Fridman

the first event that we were called to cover was the The Burning Man festival and that was tough because burning man is not too keen on filming supposed to be a non-commercialized you know escape from the from reality I mean they have a gift economy set up it's based upon like Mutual participation and uh non- exploitation and so the idea of making a burning man video was tough at first because burn burners often times and this is not all of them but are pretty well off in general a lot of them have tech jobs are pretty high up in Silicon Valley and burning man is where they go to take off you know to take the edge off and basically become their burner Persona on the pla they become reborn and they take ketamine and they wear Kaleidoscope glasses and steampunk hats and they you know snort MDMA and they run around the sand listen to snort MDMA that's one I need to MDMA I thought it's a pill I didn't know it's better to take it in pill or water but you can snort MDMA I definitely need to take MDMA I'm already full of love but like that I probably go on another level yeah don't snort it CU it'll only last you like 90 minutes let me write that down yeah so anyways we didn't know what to do because we try to film snort the initial idea for all gas no breaks was to instead of asking people what's your deepest darkest secret it was what's the craziest trip you've been on so the idea was to not saiz drunk people but saiz people who are fried on acid oh and so we went to Boulder real quick did a test interview with some lady who talked about seeing ancestral aliens during a Peyote Retreat and so it's pretty easy to extract trip reports from hippies and you know gutter punks and stuff like that or oogles so we go to Burning Man uh we start asking people like you know what's your craziest trip story and they didn't have the same type of free flowing storytelling style that like a on the street crust punk in New Orleans might have where they're like I don't give a [ __ ] I'll tell you whatever these people were very bottled up about what they were willing to disclose so we went on Burning Man radio and we did a broadcast and we said hey we're we're doing we're psychedelic journalists it was me and my friend Cel at the time I said we're psychedelic journalists we're parked on tan and I which is a cross street in Black Rock City and we said we have a 1998 Catalina Coachman sport it's an RV we've set up a podcast Studio we're doing a show about psychedelic voyages yeah so lo and behold two hours later we had 10 people lined up at the RV nice willing to talk so that vetted people in advance for us and so we did a couple interviews uh and that was that well what were some of the stories from the trip reports uh there was this lady Nam rosma who said that she was known in several circles in Berkeley for being multi-orgasmic and could create multiple repeated climaxes using only Her Mind by like squinting her eyes and squeezing her eyes together so much that like the pleasure spiral just you know went crazy I I feel like I talked to several people like that at Berkeley yeah you know what I'm talking about not that well yeah that lady I think she manifest herself in many forms yeah right so but still it was on the crudder end there was one guy named uh Kimbo Slice was his burner name he talked about taking a [ __ ] after taking like a a quarter of mushrooms and how he was like seeing his childhood and visualizing his past life you know as the the turds were flowing into the toilet and just talks about the Psychedelic Union between pooing and taking taking shrooms so he was very visual with his words yeah so there was stuff like that I interviewed Alex Gray which was super cool about his first trip in San Francisco when he was in 1971 shortly after the summer of love I got to do some pretty cool interviews but still it was a semi Ambush style I I I wouldn't say that we were doing journalism yet was still comedic video work you know was there a narrative that tied it together it's like really just a trip comedic almost with the interview and then I go Burning Man and then it's on to the next one so I guess that could give a loose structure but it's just like a punch in slapstick thing um everything was going good until we interviewed this guy named DJ soft baby he was uh wearing a golden leotard uh with once again Kaleidoscope glasses short shortless dance daning like you know dancing and uh he was eating chowder out of a a plastic bowl and he was like this chowder is so [ __ ] good he's like this is the best chatter I've ever had in my life and he starts putting the chatter on his face and he's like I want the Chow all over me yeah and so we we just go hey man can you just do a dance for us real quick just for some b-roll he does a dance we posted on Instagram the next morning doing things media CEO calls me read he says all of our pages are down and he's like that guy you filmed dance last night on drugs putting Chowder on his face that guy's at the top of MIT top of MIT I don't understand what that means he went that's saying you my brother's a rocket science he's like head of NASA or whatever well I mean the guy knows people in Boston okay you know not in the Whitey Bulger sense but in the reverse sense I I have trouble believing the DJ soft baby oh DJ soft baby was Major it could have been Harvard it could have been but it wasn't it wasn't UMass I don't think there's anybody that's at quote at the head of MIT who's putting um what was it all over his face uh chowder chowder well then you haven't been to Burning Man yet okay I not been to burning man so I have to consult the my colleagues at MIT if they know DJ soft baby so whoever probably was Harvard let's put it on them okay the top of Harvard so he made some calls you know to the to the tops to the heads of big Tech got all the doing things media Pages taken down at the time that was like a vast network of pages and we ended up having to take the V obviously the video came down and he held the entire network of Instagram Pages hostage and so that was uh he he made us agree to never post that video again and then somehow got all of our Pages reinstated so that was my first brush with like uh you know powerful people on drugs and that was probably my last brush with power people on drugs for

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Length: 6min 45sec (405 seconds)

Published: Thu Apr 18 2024