The Bird & The Bear - Session 62 - “Lost Lands 2023”

(0:00) - The boys open the show discussing how essential the podcast has become in their lives, “How often do you sit down and talk about the world or your life with you best friend?” - (5:02) - Daryl adds some notes to our previous session on the police state, “If they do get caught for something … They still are entitled to the rights that they will willing take from you” - (9:43) - Daryl uses Alec Baldwin’s legal troubles as an anecdote for why we don’t always punish the right people - (15:35) - The boys tangent into conversation about the current state of men in America, “You need to figure out what your communicating that’s being perverted in their heads to put them on that path … That takes self reflection” - (19:42) - The boys talk about Jordan Peterson’s weird obsession with Elliot Paige and some of his other cringe takes, “If everything is worth the fight, then everything will be a fight” - (23:04) - Daryl discusses how all forms of repression will eventually end in violence, “The freest thing that you can do is be unapologetically you”

(26:05) - Sammy begins his recap of his trip to Lost Lands 2023, “It just feels like festivals can function so much better when they work with private owners” - (29:30) - Sammy describes arriving in Columbus, the shuttle rides to the festival, and the process of entering the festival grounds - (34:28) - Sammy talks about the festival curator, Excision, and his relationship to the community Lost Lands is held in - (36:19) - Sammy describes some of the infrastructure of the festival grounds and Daryl’s got some questions, “What did the water station water taste like? Like, was it heavy? Was it minerally?” - (40:42) - Sammy talks about all the different stage setups, from the pits to the sound systems, and of course the after party, “But It basically was a nerd bukkake” - (50:57) - Sammy talks about his late start on day 2, finding his “melting spot” inside the festival, and the jaw dropping sets he saw form NGHTMRE, LSDream, and Subtronics, “It’s the f**kin dubstep Super Bowl” - (1:00:32) - Sammy talks about the final day of the festival, the  amazing closing ceremony, and the super fun after party set from Stumpi - (1:07:09) - Daryl shares a personal anecdote about how festivals have impacted him, and Sammy gives his final thoughts on Lost Lands, “I don’t think aliens are gonna bother us, cause look at us man, we got this s**t figured out”