September 5, 2025 • 6 mins
"What happens when a man meditates in the desert and gets run over by a Cybertruck — while his kids watch?"Live from Pluckers on Lovers & Greenville in Dallas, Ben Rogers, Jeff “Skin” Wade, Kevin “KT” Turner, and Krystina Ray dive headfirst into the wildest stories from this year’s Burning Man — and trust us, you’ve never heard a festival recap like this.From a fatal blood-soaked mystery, to a surprise desert birth, to a hallucinogen-fueled meditation gone horribly wrong, this episode is a chaotic blend of comedy, shock, and cultural commentary. The crew brings their signature humor and razor-sharp wit to dissect the madness of Black Rock City — including the infamous orgy tent, celebrity sightings, and the $50,000 price tag of enlightenment gone wrong.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
All right, guys got some stories to get to. So
what are they?
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Over the weekend, Burning Man was happening, And for those
that don't know, that's uh. It's a music and arts
festival that takes place in Black Rock.
Speaker 1 (00:12):
City, Nevada.
Speaker 3 (00:13):
It's like a desert and.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
There's multiple crazy stories. We'll start with here. We'll start
with this. I'll start with here. You know what I'm
gonna work that in.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Yeah, a man was found dead lying in a pool
of blood at Burning Man.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
That's a band we play here on the even Right
was it his blood?
Speaker 2 (00:33):
It was his Yes, it was his blood. Sure, question
why was it a Why was he doing?
Speaker 1 (00:39):
Why was he going? Cannonball?
Speaker 3 (00:41):
And then died?
Speaker 1 (00:43):
Russian guy thirty seven.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
Police found him and said he was obviously deceased, not
just like, oh he might be, he might be still kicking.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
You're never partially deceased.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
Just found him campground nine to fifteen, Saturday night, right
when they were about to lie though the wooden Man
on fire, because that's the thing.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
They do every year. Is that cancel it or still
do it?
Speaker 4 (01:04):
Oh? No?
Speaker 1 (01:04):
He kept it going. Yeah, you can't stop Burning Man.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
Then a dust storm blew in and it blew up
the it damaged the orgy tent. Oh no, the famous
orgy tent that they have there is it?
Speaker 3 (01:16):
Everyone welcome.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
I think if you've got a ticket now you got
to buy a ticket. Yeah yeah, the ip wristband probably.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
Okay, and they got to see how clean you are.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
I guarantee you. We know some people who have been.
Speaker 4 (01:27):
To the Oh yeah, I think you had one person
that we worked with tell us about it.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
He did, very, very very specifically.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
There were pictures. It looked like Matt Max.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
Also, a woman who didn't know she was pregnant gave
birth at Burning Man. Name's Kayla. They were staying in
an RV, just like camping going on in the middle
of nowhere.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
That's shocking that you didn't know you were pregnant.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
Yeah, she realized she was in labor.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
And then they got lucky though, because the neighboring campers,
one of them was an nic you nurse, okay, and
so they were able to heard it. It was a
month premature, but it was about three and a half pound.
Speaker 4 (02:04):
Girl.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
What a story. I had my baby at burning Man.
The lady said, quote.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
Had I known about the pregnancy, Burning Man would have
been the last place on this planet I would have been,
because it's known to be like de It's ou in
the middle of nowhere.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
It's pretty debaucherous too.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
And the last burning man crazy story that I have
for you, though, involves a man by the name of
James Patrick. So he's sitting on the desert sand meditating.
I'm going to assume on some type of hallucigenics. Maybe not,
but he's sitting down in the sand. Then he got
ran over by a cyber truck.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
Oh god, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
Sorry, he was just hanging out. A cyber truck ran
him over. Was there someone in it driving?
Speaker 4 (02:45):
That's that's the most that's the most twenty first century
story ever. A guy's meditating in some sand and Elon's
cyber trucks that runs, and it looks like so dumb looking.
It looks like that thing from Lowans Run. It looks
like low fi sci fi.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
Screw you, meditator, Elon.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
Both of his feet were crushed.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
He needed to be airlifted to Reno, which that happens
so famously. The Reno hospital apparently is always that weekend
like overstaffed and ready to go because of the amount
of care flights that happened from Burning Man.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
Wow, because something.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
Goes batsone gets dehydrated. Where they gonna go? You're not
close to anything. You can't just drive there.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
Don't They go?
Speaker 4 (03:32):
And like if I remember correctly, they go and they
install utilities for it, like.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
They create this weird little city for a week or
how long it is.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
It's very crazy.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
His wife said that she was nearby and their twin
thirteen year olds were there when the guy was meditating
and got hit by the cyber truck. What are you
taking your thirteen year old twins to Burning Man for?
Speaker 1 (03:56):
You got kids out there? You shouldn't. I told you
the orgy tent. You shouldn't have kids there.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
You got to keep the kids away from the orgy tent.
That's obvious.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
Yeah, but what happens is the windstorm hits and the
orgy tent blows away. Yeah, then everyone's kind of a
part of the orgy. Weirdly, that said, the.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
Eye is wide shut tent.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
This is a fun note from one of the many
articles I've read this week about Burning Man. Thousands of
people are injured every year at the nine day music
and art event, with some facing steep medical debt after
being transported from the festival's remote location in the Nevada Desert.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
To the Reno hospital.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
The guy who got his feet crushed by the cyber truck,
I mean inches away from din hole on body yeaheah,
fifty thousand dollars hospital bill there, Oh, because the helicopter ride,
you know.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
And it's chaos too.
Speaker 5 (04:43):
It's not like there's roads, so people are just driving
wherever they want to drive.
Speaker 4 (04:47):
You do you remember the footage of Chris Rock just roaming, Yeah,
from Burning Man and Ketching.
Speaker 5 (04:53):
Why would you close your eyes and just meditate anywhere?
It's like man was killed meditating on six thirty five.
It doesn't seem safe.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
It's insane, and everyone's on hallucinogenics.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
I think it's up there though. He's meditating.
Speaker 5 (05:07):
He's trying to like get in touch with something and
like really feel the energy connect with the universe.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
And it leads to a fifty thousand dollars hospital.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
Building and his feet and I'll just point the wrong way.
Speaker 5 (05:18):
Does that guy not believe in meditation anymore?
Speaker 1 (05:21):
No, he's done, He's done.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
How could you It's like the met Gala of music festivals.
I think because I think people just go to tell
everyone that they went there, yeah, and that did they
come back, and they're like, I mean it was fine.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
It's just kind of a lot. It's way out there.
You gotta came certain times. People love the camp, so
I shouldn't.
Speaker 4 (05:41):
It's probably evolved so much over time though. Originally it's like,
let's go out in the desert and do an art installation,
and then it grows and becomes then famous people get
involved and sentinels involved, you know, celebrity chef Bobby Flay
is there.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
It's almost too much. Too much.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
Yeah, Daughtry never incredible?
Speaker 3 (05:59):
All right?
Speaker 1 (05:59):
Is that that's all?
Speaker 2 (06:01):
Chevin?
Speaker 1 (06:02):
All right?
Speaker 5 (06:02):
We're live at Pluckers and Dallas Lovers and Greenville coming
up next. We got music news.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
Then we'll get back into the Cowboys game.
Speaker 5 (06:09):
Getting your Friday. Started to ride at Pluckers in Dallas.
The Eagle is back next
All right, guys got some stories to get to. So
what are they?
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Over the weekend, Burning Man was happening, And for those
that don't know, that's uh. It's a music and arts
festival that takes place in Black Rock.
Speaker 1 (00:12):
City, Nevada.
Speaker 3 (00:13):
It's like a desert and.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
There's multiple crazy stories. We'll start with here. We'll start
with this. I'll start with here. You know what I'm
gonna work that in.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Yeah, a man was found dead lying in a pool
of blood at Burning Man.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
That's a band we play here on the even Right
was it his blood?
Speaker 2 (00:33):
It was his Yes, it was his blood. Sure, question
why was it a Why was he doing?
Speaker 1 (00:39):
Why was he going? Cannonball?
Speaker 3 (00:41):
And then died?
Speaker 1 (00:43):
Russian guy thirty seven.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
Police found him and said he was obviously deceased, not
just like, oh he might be, he might be still kicking.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
You're never partially deceased.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
Just found him campground nine to fifteen, Saturday night, right
when they were about to lie though the wooden Man
on fire, because that's the thing.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
They do every year. Is that cancel it or still
do it?
Speaker 4 (01:04):
Oh? No?
Speaker 1 (01:04):
He kept it going. Yeah, you can't stop Burning Man.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
Then a dust storm blew in and it blew up
the it damaged the orgy tent. Oh no, the famous
orgy tent that they have there is it?
Speaker 3 (01:16):
Everyone welcome.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
I think if you've got a ticket now you got
to buy a ticket. Yeah yeah, the ip wristband probably.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
Okay, and they got to see how clean you are.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
I guarantee you. We know some people who have been.
Speaker 4 (01:27):
To the Oh yeah, I think you had one person
that we worked with tell us about it.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
He did, very, very very specifically.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
There were pictures. It looked like Matt Max.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
Also, a woman who didn't know she was pregnant gave
birth at Burning Man. Name's Kayla. They were staying in
an RV, just like camping going on in the middle
of nowhere.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
That's shocking that you didn't know you were pregnant.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
Yeah, she realized she was in labor.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
And then they got lucky though, because the neighboring campers,
one of them was an nic you nurse, okay, and
so they were able to heard it. It was a
month premature, but it was about three and a half pound.
Speaker 4 (02:04):
Girl.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
What a story. I had my baby at burning Man.
The lady said, quote.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
Had I known about the pregnancy, Burning Man would have
been the last place on this planet I would have been,
because it's known to be like de It's ou in
the middle of nowhere.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
It's pretty debaucherous too.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
And the last burning man crazy story that I have
for you, though, involves a man by the name of
James Patrick. So he's sitting on the desert sand meditating.
I'm going to assume on some type of hallucigenics. Maybe not,
but he's sitting down in the sand. Then he got
ran over by a cyber truck.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
Oh god, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
Sorry, he was just hanging out. A cyber truck ran
him over. Was there someone in it driving?
Speaker 4 (02:45):
That's that's the most that's the most twenty first century
story ever. A guy's meditating in some sand and Elon's
cyber trucks that runs, and it looks like so dumb looking.
It looks like that thing from Lowans Run. It looks
like low fi sci fi.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
Screw you, meditator, Elon.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
Both of his feet were crushed.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
He needed to be airlifted to Reno, which that happens
so famously. The Reno hospital apparently is always that weekend
like overstaffed and ready to go because of the amount
of care flights that happened from Burning Man.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
Wow, because something.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
Goes batsone gets dehydrated. Where they gonna go? You're not
close to anything. You can't just drive there.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
Don't They go?
Speaker 4 (03:32):
And like if I remember correctly, they go and they
install utilities for it, like.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
They create this weird little city for a week or
how long it is.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
It's very crazy.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
His wife said that she was nearby and their twin
thirteen year olds were there when the guy was meditating
and got hit by the cyber truck. What are you
taking your thirteen year old twins to Burning Man for?
Speaker 1 (03:56):
You got kids out there? You shouldn't. I told you
the orgy tent. You shouldn't have kids there.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
You got to keep the kids away from the orgy tent.
That's obvious.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
Yeah, but what happens is the windstorm hits and the
orgy tent blows away. Yeah, then everyone's kind of a
part of the orgy. Weirdly, that said, the.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
Eye is wide shut tent.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
This is a fun note from one of the many
articles I've read this week about Burning Man. Thousands of
people are injured every year at the nine day music
and art event, with some facing steep medical debt after
being transported from the festival's remote location in the Nevada Desert.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
To the Reno hospital.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
The guy who got his feet crushed by the cyber truck,
I mean inches away from din hole on body yeaheah,
fifty thousand dollars hospital bill there, Oh, because the helicopter ride,
you know.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
And it's chaos too.
Speaker 5 (04:43):
It's not like there's roads, so people are just driving
wherever they want to drive.
Speaker 4 (04:47):
You do you remember the footage of Chris Rock just roaming, Yeah,
from Burning Man and Ketching.
Speaker 5 (04:53):
Why would you close your eyes and just meditate anywhere?
It's like man was killed meditating on six thirty five.
It doesn't seem safe.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
It's insane, and everyone's on hallucinogenics.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
I think it's up there though. He's meditating.
Speaker 5 (05:07):
He's trying to like get in touch with something and
like really feel the energy connect with the universe.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
And it leads to a fifty thousand dollars hospital.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
Building and his feet and I'll just point the wrong way.
Speaker 5 (05:18):
Does that guy not believe in meditation anymore?
Speaker 1 (05:21):
No, he's done, He's done.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
How could you It's like the met Gala of music festivals.
I think because I think people just go to tell
everyone that they went there, yeah, and that did they
come back, and they're like, I mean it was fine.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
It's just kind of a lot. It's way out there.
You gotta came certain times. People love the camp, so
I shouldn't.
Speaker 4 (05:41):
It's probably evolved so much over time though. Originally it's like,
let's go out in the desert and do an art installation,
and then it grows and becomes then famous people get
involved and sentinels involved, you know, celebrity chef Bobby Flay
is there.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
It's almost too much. Too much.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
Yeah, Daughtry never incredible?
Speaker 3 (05:59):
All right?
Speaker 1 (05:59):
Is that that's all?
Speaker 2 (06:01):
Chevin?
Speaker 1 (06:02):
All right?
Speaker 5 (06:02):
We're live at Pluckers and Dallas Lovers and Greenville coming
up next. We got music news.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
Then we'll get back into the Cowboys game.
Speaker 5 (06:09):
Getting your Friday. Started to ride at Pluckers in Dallas.
The Eagle is back next
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