EP. 65 - Whose Story Is It Anyway?

oh um so random just that's how i have there is there was an event that was supposed to happen this weekend so this weekend today actually is labor day like a holiday in the u.s for like workers and there was this afro plus festival or whatever that was supposed to happen in dc i guess it was supposed to be like you know performances on stage people like tiwa savage um vendors selling food and like their wares for some reason i guess i mean i understand why they asked the events uh organizers asked the vendors to set up their stuff the night before so that you know the day of you just like come know open it and you're set up you don't have to start like come earlier to set up or anything but there was a bad storm coming a really bad i mean nobody knew how bad it was going to be but there was a storm coming and to me when you hear that there's going to be significant weather you maybe change your plans this was an outdoor event

So

maybe you should have said, OK, don't set up or let's wait until the day of and see how things.

But they shot people to set up.

They went home.

This storm was so bad.

Like, I don't know if there are still people without power, but there were so many trees that fell over from people's houses, like damaged their houses, people's cars, you know, fell blocking the road.

So understandably so, the event venue was damaged.

to a certain extent and vendors stuff was like strewn about because the wind had like carried them there there was like damage um then they pushed the events um opening back to like 4 p.m instead of earlier during the day maybe noon or 10 a.m when it was who starts and try to clean up.

But the whole thing I heard or from what I've seen was like a complete disaster because even with the pushback time, there wasn't any organization.

There were like long ass lines and there were people pushing and things got rowdy.

Then they started pepper spraying attendees and And like really like this, some of the security guards, it's like they came to work to offload their anger, like the way they were handling people in the name of doing their job.

Just things are just very disorganized.

I heard some artists couldn't even make it.

And then you have the vendors who paid a $1,500 fee to be a vendor at the events.

So they paid that money.

They probably did not make that money back because of the weather and just the lateness of the event and just how things are organized.

And then they lost some of their stuff because of the weather.

It's just been crazy.

Just like watching the videos on TikTok.

Just poor events management.

And then they had one tent like this off to the side that said it was the help desk.

That thing did not have a table.

It did not have chairs, nothing.

Nobody manned this.

oh um so random just that's how i have there is there was an event that was supposed to happen this weekend so this weekend today actually is labor day like a holiday in the u.s for like workers and there was this afro plus festival or whatever that was supposed to happen in dc i guess it was supposed to be like you know performances on stage people like tiwa savage um vendors selling food and like their wares for some reason i guess i mean i understand why they asked the events uh organizers asked the vendors to set up their stuff the night before so that you know the day of you just like come know open it and you're set up you don't have to start like come earlier to set up or anything but there was a bad storm coming a really bad i mean nobody knew how bad it was going to be but there was a storm coming and to me when you hear that there's going to be significant weather you maybe change your plans this was an outdoor event

So

maybe you should have said, OK, don't set up or let's wait until the day of and see how things.

But they shot people to set up.

They went home.

This storm was so bad.

Like, I don't know if there are still people without power, but there were so many trees that fell over from people's houses, like damaged their houses, people's cars, you know, fell blocking the road.

So understandably so, the event venue was damaged.

to a certain extent and vendors stuff was like strewn about because the wind had like carried them there there was like damage um then they pushed the events um opening back to like 4 p.m instead of earlier during the day maybe noon or 10 a.m when it was who starts and try to clean up.

But the whole thing I heard or from what I've seen was like a complete disaster because even with the pushback time, there wasn't any organization.

There were like long ass lines and there were people pushing and things got rowdy.

Then they started pepper spraying attendees and And like really like this, some of the security guards, it's like they came to work to offload their anger, like the way they were handling people in the name of doing their job.

Just things are just very disorganized.

I heard some artists couldn't even make it.

And then you have the vendors who paid a $1,500 fee to be a vendor at the events.

So they paid that money.

They probably did not make that money back because of the weather and just the lateness of the event and just how things are organized.

And then they lost some of their stuff because of the weather.

It's just been crazy.

Just like watching the videos on TikTok.

Just poor events management.

And then they had one tent like this off to the side that said it was the help desk.

That thing did not have a table.

It did not have chairs, nothing.

Nobody manned this.