An unusual late-summer storm turned Burning Man’s week-long concert event into a sloppy mess - and not the fun kind. Tens of thousands of partygoers were stuck in foot-deep mud and with no working toilets in the northern Nevada desert. Organizers closed the festival to vehicles after one death was reported, but officials have provided no further details of the fatality.
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00:00 Burning Man flooding leaves attendees stranded in the Nevada desert.
00:03 An unusual late summer storm turned Burning Man's week-long concert into a sloppy mess,
00:09 and not the fun kind.
00:10 Tens of thousands of partygoers were stuck in foot-deep mud and with no working toilets
00:15 in the northern Nevada desert.
00:16 Organizers closed the festival to vehicles after one death was reported, but officials
00:21 have provided no further details of the fatality.
00:24 One and only Mark Moran was in attendance.
00:26 Tell us about your Burning Man trip and experience.
00:28 I'm the last person I ever thought would go to Burning Man, Brian.
00:32 And let me tell you, it was something I meant to fly in and fly out, and that did not happen
00:38 to plan.
00:39 I actually had the whole Burning Man experience, which was enlightening to say the least.
00:46 I left with a, there was an elderly woman who took a special interest in me, and she
00:52 pulls me aside and she goes, "Do you think by chance you might be," what was it called,
00:57 "highly functioning autistic?"
01:00 And so for the past few days I have been grappling with potentially I may be in the likes of
01:07 Elon Musk or whatever, so I call my parents.
01:09 I'm like, "Hey guys, I know I'm turning 32 in a few days, and did I ever test positive
01:15 for autism or anything?"
01:17 And they're like, "What the fuck is wrong with you?"
01:19 And I'm like, "All right."
01:21 So they said no.
01:22 My parents said I'm not autistic, highly functioning, but we're all on the spectrum.
01:26 So yeah, it kind of fucked with my head a little bit, but other than that, would I go
01:30 again?
01:31 No.
01:32 No.
01:33 - That wasn't a hard no.
01:34 That was a maybe.
01:35 - I mean, did I find the Origi 10?
01:36 Did I not find the Origi?
01:37 I don't know.
01:38 It's one of these things, it's kind of like, oh, there's the principles, there's blah,
01:44 blah, blah, let's all act like we're good people, but we drive our RV, we emit fossil
01:48 fuels, which are horrible, and leave no trace.
01:51 I mean, I left a lot of zins there.
01:53 - What was the highlight?
01:55 - The highlight was, there was this, I believe he was a homeless man named Blackout, who
02:02 was serving as a bartender, and just ended up vibing with the guy, and then he had a
02:07 stuffed animal that he would bring around with him that had a dildo attached to it,
02:11 and I just thought it was hilarious.
02:13 But I would say probably the overall highlight was some of the activities that were going
02:19 on, a lot of networking that was going on, a lot of physical networking that was going
02:23 on, but it was an interesting experience, to say the least.
02:26 My chakras are aligned.
02:27 - That's it, glad to have you back, and hopefully refreshed, and your perspective has changed.
02:32 - And not.
02:33 - Yeah, you gotta figure that one out.
02:35 - What about the rain?
02:36 - Yeah, what was the rain, how was that?
02:37 Did it just hit you?
02:39 What was your experience?
02:40 - Well, I was on a journey when it hit, and I woke up, and I'm looking at Twitter, 'cause
02:46 naturally that's the first thing I do at Burning Man, and I'm like, there's Ebola, some guy's
02:51 been killed, the CDC, there's hazmat, Biden's been briefed, what, and then I'm walking around,
02:57 it's just a bunch of fucking drugged out hippies, like, it was fine.
03:01 - It was overblowns, huh?
03:02 How does it feel to be part of something where you just see the crazy amount of external
03:06 media pressure around it, and all the narratives that appear, like, that must have been fucking--
03:11 - I like adding to the chaos, too.
03:12 - Yeah, oh yeah, you're perpetuating it.
03:13 - Fake news, baby.
03:14 - It's like, I might have had Ebola, I don't know.
03:15 - Maybe.
03:16 Should I get on a plane?
03:17 I don't know.
03:18 Before we continue, though, don't close out of this video, Brian, take it away.
03:22 - That's it, we still have some Marx latest thoughts on China, our reactions to the infamous
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