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Clips from Trainwreck: Woodstock '99 - You Can't Stop a Riot in the 90s (S01E01)

"Michael was…"
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"never going to show his alarm."
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"Um, I'm sure he was very alarmed at what was going on."
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"I just followed him out, and I imagine he was going to check"
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"on what was going on with the National Guard."
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"[Lang] I went out into the middle of it, to get a feel for it."
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"I thought it was a terrible ending for a decent weekend."
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"And I thought…"
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"this is gonna be a huge cleanup."
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"[chuckles]"
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"[Speir] So, he walked into our vendor village,"
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"and I hadn't seen him at all in the weeks that we'd been up there."
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"And I'm thinking, "Oh my God. You're Michael Lang. I'm Colin Speir,"
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"and this is-- You know, I've always wanted to meet you.""
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"But he just walked around the remains, and that was it."
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"He didn't address us, you know, much at all about, like, "You guys okay?""
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"It didn't really seem like he gave that much of a shit."
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"[Lang] It was disappointing that it ended that way."
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"Um, very."
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"But that's what it was, you go on."
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"It was just… It was kind of sad. It really felt like this is it."
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"Like, there is never gonna be another Woodstock after this."
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"[Pilar Law] Michael. Michael."
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"Pilar, go away."
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"[Pilar Law] It's the most peaceful way to deal with it."
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"It's great."
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"I think that was kind of like…"
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"Yeah, that was…"
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"that was the end."
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"[sirens wailing]"
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"[Lisa Law] 6:30 in the morning."
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"Pilar goes, "Mom, Mom, you gotta see this.""
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"And we get in her car, and we drive around."
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"Oh my Lord."
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"[Pilar Law] It looked like a war zone."
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"Trash and smoking fires everywhere."
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"[Lisa Law] And we come upon the 12 semi tractor-trailers,"
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"and I said, "Pilar that was Woodstock '99"
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"burnt to the ground.""
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"[reporter] Here we have Duke Devlin, who's been with the festival since '69."
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"How are you doing this morning?"
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"[Devlin] There was ugliness involved in a lot of stuff here."
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"And when this is all over and done with, I think Woodstock is done."
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"It's just sad, that's all. I can't say too much."
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"[Heather] Monday morning, shit was blown up everywhere."
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"So, there was news camera crews."
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"And because there were no cell phones,"
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"we knew our parents would be bugging out because they had seen shit went down."
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"There was riots, and it was nuts."
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"We saw a lot of people blowing stuff up, and bonfires."
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"People jumping over bonfires and throwing stuff."
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"And it was wild. It was…"
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"A lot of crazy people."
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"[reporter] If there's another Woodstock, would you come again?"
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"Oh yeah, definitely. For sure."
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"[laughs]"
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"No questions asked."
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"It sounds ridiculous, but although I had kind of a scary experience,"
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"it was a blast."
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"I saw the bands that, I mean, I loved."
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"It was an experience of a lifetime."
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"It was the best time I've ever had, and 22 years later,"
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"it's still probably the best time I've ever had."
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"[Tom] There were no rules."
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"I could just kind of do whatever I want."
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"You know, complete anarchy, it felt like."
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"I had the time of my life, you know, at that moment is like, wow, that's like,"
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"I'm glad I got to experience that. What a story, what a ride."
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"[Blaustein] It was complete freedom with no responsibility,"
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"and that felt like a dangerous combination."
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"I think we were all pretty much expecting just to wrap our stuff up,"
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"feed whoever we had to feed, write the stories we had to write,"
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"and, uh, then this happened."
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"The entire planet now knew that it became a total and complete shit show."
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"The images were everywhere."
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"Woodstock '99, a weekend of rock and roll in Upstate New York…"
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"…turned sour last night. Fans attacked tents, concert equipment,"
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"and food trailers…"
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"[reporter, in French] Woodstock '99, hidden in a cloud of smoke…"
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"[news anchor] Vending stalls were looted and light towers toppled."
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"…as the celebration of rock and roll turned into a riot."
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"[indistinct chatter]"
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"[Speir] We went into the office the next day"
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"and, yeah, we had all these non-disclosure agreements"
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"that we had to sign, nobody was allowed to speak to the media after that."
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"[woman] "Okay, what started out as peace, love, and music festival ended in a riot"
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"at Woodstock '99.""
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"[Speir] What is anybody going to tell you that's worse than what people saw?"
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"Everybody had their own theories as to what happened and why."
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"Rumors were circulating like wildfire."
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"I often wonder, did the producers"
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"get all the way until Sunday and say,"
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""All we've really had here is a big,"
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"fairly well-controlled rock festival.""
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""We didn't have a Woodstock.""
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"And then all of a sudden, these things happen Sunday night"
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"to make it a Woodstock pandemonium,"
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"possibly to enhance sales of the merchandising"
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"that goes on after the event."
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"That's absurd. It's absurd, I mean, uh…"
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"It's just not true, you know?"
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"In the interest of keeping this press conference in this millennium…"
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"[Blaustein] On Monday morning, they called the final press conference."
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"…our promoter Michael Lang."
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"Hi."
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"There was not supposed to be a press conference Monday morning."
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"Obviously."
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"The stakes couldn't have been higher."
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"The Woodstock brand was in serious trouble."
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"I was out in it 'til 5:30 this morning."
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"I saw a very small group of people."
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"They went from place to place, setting fires, inciting people."
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"But I certainly would not condemn this crowd for the fuck-up"
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"of, excuse the language, of a few assholes."
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"Essentially, they took zero responsibility."
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"Their take was that this was just a few bad apples."
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"Anybody with eyes, who saw the footage, knows that there were thousands of kids"
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"looting, rioting, doing property damage, setting fires."
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"Rome burned."
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"[Lewis] But the real issue wasn't who was rioting, right?"
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