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

"The question was, why were they rioting?"
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"[Lang] I think it's just a cultural thing. There are some anarchists"
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"among us always, and some are a little bit more strident than others,"
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"and we just have to get some of the more strident ones."
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"I don't think it was about issues. I think it was just about energy."
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"They were so amped up from the weekend that they just weren't ready to stop."
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"You know, they wanted more of anything,"
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"more of the experience."
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"And I think it was that, they weren't ready to put it to bed."
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"[Scher] They're the lunatic fringe."
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"That segment of the population was both entitled"
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"and, uh, fearful of growing up,"
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"of having to have a real job"
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"and, you know, have a family and stuff like that."
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"And they had lots of angst. Lots and lots of angst."
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"[man] Get out!"
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"[Rosenblatt] What do you sum up went wrong with this festival?"
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"I can say it in one word: greed."
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"The user experience"
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"was totally thrown out the window."
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"I mean, these kids were taken advantage of."
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"They treated people like dogs once they got their money. Dogs."
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"[Heather] The riots were the culmination of everybody being angry over the prices,"
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"and it was hot, and we smelled, and we were tired and hungover."
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"And I think that people had had enough,"
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"and they gave in to, you know, their worse nature."
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"[camera shutters clicking]"
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"[Blaustein] That press conference just left a bad taste in my mouth"
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"and everybody else who was there too."
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"[man] Saying goodbye to Woodstock '99."
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"Good riddance, you piece of shit."
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"But then things got even worse."
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"[inhales deeply]"
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"So, after the festival, um,"
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"when I got back into the office, I started getting phone calls."
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"It was a hysterical mother"
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"talking about how her daughter had been raped."
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"[sighs]"
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"New York State Police are reportedly investigating allegations"
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"that four women were raped"
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"at last weekend's Woodstock Music Festival."
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"The Washington Post reports today that detectives"
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"are looking into the rape reports,"
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"and that crisis intervention workers"
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"say they witnessed many more sexual assaults,"
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"some right in front of the stage."
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"[Lewis] In the aftermath, all the stories that I've heard"
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"of women being molested, even raped."
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"Given the climate of the guys there, I'm not surprised by it."
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"You know, it's like this pervasive entitlement."
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"We see that with race, we see that with sexism,"
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"we see that with classism."
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"It's that idea that I'm better than you,"
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"so I can subject you to anything, and you gotta take it."
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"Back then, you were supposed to just deal with what you had to deal with"
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"and suck it up."
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"So, I didn't hear about any of the allegations for rape, um…"
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"or attacks on women until after the festival was over."
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"And the way women were treated was really horrible."
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"I thought, um, we were responsible for everybody on site."
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"And so, we bear responsibility for, you know, what happened to the women."
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"But, you know,"
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"it happened in secret."
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"It happened in tents and…"
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"Somebody said it happened in the mosh pit. I can't even imagine that."
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"[Scher] Woodstock was actually like a small city, you know?"
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"All things considered, I'd say that there would probably be"
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"as many or more rapes in any sized city of that."
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"I'm not condoning it. It was wrong. It was horrible."
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"I wish we caught everybody. I'd put 'em all in jail."
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"Um…"
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"But considering there were 200,000 people there, um…"
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"[stammers]"
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"…it wasn't something that gained enough momentum"
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"so that it caused any on-site issues,"
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"other than, of course, to the women it happened to."
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"[Speir] That's bullshit."
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"Woodstock '99 did not have enough proper security."
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"They tried to cheap out on it."
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"[Davis] As a promoter, if you're going to put on an event,"
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"your first responsibility is the safety of the crowd."
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"But they were completely unprepared."
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"It was like, let's just get a quarter-million people together,"
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"and let's see what happens."
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"For anyone to get hurt, there's no excuse for that."
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"Girls should be able to fucking have fun, just like a guy."
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"[Lewis] Movements like "Me Too" really evolved as a direct response"
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"to the kind of horrible behaviors we saw at Woodstock '99."
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"[Heather] You know, a lot of people complain about woke culture,"
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"but looking back,"
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"I'm glad that we don't accept what happened anymore."
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"In '99, we were the kids."
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"But we're the adults now. We're the parents now."
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"I'm glad that my daughters will never have to walk around"
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"and see that"
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"and think that it's just the way it is."
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"[Lewis] It's like we learned who we don't want to be."
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"And we've put in place boundaries and things that will prevent us"
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"from devolving back into that madness."
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"[dramatic music]"
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"[Lang] The way Woodstock '99 sort of sits in my memory"
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"is a lost opportunity."
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"I think in the '90s,"
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"kids were in a different headspace."
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"They were there for the music."
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"I don't think they were able to embrace the social issues of the day."
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"And there was an element that just was, you know."
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"There were assholes in the crowd."
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"You can't vet the people that buy your tickets."
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"You just can't."
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"Woodstock will never go away."
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"Woodstock '69 was its own thing and its own kind of magic. Um…"
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"Did '99 damage that?"
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"Maybe a bit."
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"[acoustic music]"
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"Okay."
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"Thank you."
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