Episodes 133
Avg. Duration 50m
Activity Highly Active
Apple Rating 4.9 (79)
Since May 2020
Latest Episode May 2026

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Schedule
Every 2 Weeks
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Episodic
Consistency
64%
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About This Podcast

Meet those who make Burning Man happen, beyond the desert and out in the world. Artists, activists, and innovators. Builders and Burners, freaks and fools. Burning Man floats on a sea of stories, and the Burning Man LIVE podcast is a plucky little boat with a microphone.

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Recent Episodes

Serious Play - Isabel Behncke

May 15, 2026 55m

Watch it on YouTube here.  What happens when Burner behavior goes under the microscope? Sociologists, ecologists, and economists have been on this show. Now we’re looking at this culture through a…

The Borderland: Trust Creates Worlds

Apr 28, 2026 44m

This culture started in dust and ephemerality. We build metropolises of art and fire, then we leave no trace. How do we translate that inspiration into a rhythm for everyday life? What happens when a…

Camp Symposium Highlights: Let's Build it Together

Apr 01, 2026 1h 5m

Watch the video here: https://youtu.be/irkEajUVRgI Most people in Black Rock City live together in placed camps (theme camps), the most unique aspect of this unique event. BRC has 1400 camps. Theme…

Burners in Space! Meet Spaceman Sam

Mar 12, 2026 46m

Remember that whiteout in deep playa? That prepared you for a NASA mission to space, maybe. Andie Grace talks with Samuel M. Coniglio, aka Ranger Cosmonaut, and Spaceman Sam. He isn't just a ten-year…

From Flipside to the Future - George Paap

Feb 25, 2026 1h 2m

George Paap, a pioneer of the Burning Man Regional network, talks with Andie Grace. He founded Burning Flipside in Texas, the first-ever Burning Man sanctioned event beyond the desert. What inspired…

Open Source Innovation

Jan 28, 2026 42m

There’s a world of civic hacking where "making cool stuff" meets "making useful stuff."Hear tinkerers, gearheads and other makers share about the inventions that won them Burners Without Borders…

Mark Day - 10,000 Hours at Burning Man

Jan 15, 2026 1h 3m

Insightful. World-Building. Spit-take inducing.Mark Day’s videos serve as a digital gateway for many thousands of Burners, capturing that blurry edge where the default world ends and the playa…

Holiday Special - SantaCon at Home - 5th Anniversary

Dec 23, 2025 1h 14m

It's absurd.It perturbs.It’s the most wonderful time of the year! (And boy has it been a year!)Following in the footsteps of show-biz luminaries like Stephen Colbert, Jon Stuart, and the cast of Star…

Zen and the Art of Art Making

Dec 10, 2025 56m

His huge steel sculptures have graced Black Rock City for decades, then found forever homes in cities, festivals, and private collections around the world.Hear veteran structural sculptor Michael…

Composting in Paradise - RootHub

Nov 26, 2025 45m

RootHub (aka Aloha) weaves the core values and shared struggle of building Black Rock City and his work in Hawai‘i. He draws inspiration from the Hawaiian people’s concept of kuleana (responsibility…

Art is the How - From BRC to Public Policy

Nov 13, 2025 44m

He brought theme camps and art installations to Black Rock City, and yes, he DJed!Now he brings the spirit of kindness and collaboration (and Do-ocracy) into creating public policy.He co-founded a…

Architecture as Poetry

Oct 30, 2025 46m

“I think therefore I am.” ~DescartesJohn Jennifer adds: I care therefore we are… and you cannot think your way to ‘we’He is a poet, an architect, and a cultural instigator. He helped create The…

Ranger Keeper - Frontier Principal

Oct 16, 2025 59m

She’s a longtime senior leader of the Black Rock Rangers and the principal of the Gerlach K-12 School. Keeper lives year-round in Gerlach, one of the smallest and most remote towns in the US, and the…

Black Rock Observatory - From the Playa to the Planets

Oct 04, 2025 37m

Black Rock City has an airport, a hospital, a post office... and yes, an observatory! For a decade, the Black Rock Observatory has served as a portal to the cosmos, bringing deep space to the…

20 Years of Mutant Vehicles - Jon Sarriugarte & Zolie

Sep 17, 2025 44m

Recorded in Black Rock City, you can hear the grainy gravitas of their voices...For decades now, Jon Sarriugarte, Kyrsten Mate, their daughter and their team build mobile art. From a meter maid cart…

Desert Arts Preview - Hear the Stories

Aug 22, 2025 59m

Hear the stories of the art and artists. Black Rock City hosts 400 artworks from around the world. This episode features 12 of them, and this year’s Temple. This is a sonic journey of artist's…

Pro Tips for Black Rock City 2025

Aug 13, 2025 1h 8m

REMASTERED FOR 2025: Our most popular episode of all time. Listen in as longtime Burners talk about the dynamic aspects of thriving in Black Rock City: mental, physical, material, and…

Alexander Rose - Thought Experiments in Time

Aug 07, 2025 44m

Zander was the executive director of The Long Now Foundation, dedicated to long term thinking. He also helped build their library, a book club for the end of the world, with all the titles we would…

AI in Art in Black Rock City

Jul 23, 2025 1h 1m

AI is a context changer, a shaker upper, and a force multiplier to what our human minds can do.Andie says that AI is a major philosophical shift in humanity, and when this kind of thing happens, the…

Kevin Kelly - Optimists Create the Future

Jun 26, 2025 48m

Kevin Kelly is a leading thinker of the digital age. The founding editor of Wired Magazine, he helped produce the Whole Earth Catalog, and an early internet pillar called the WELL. He is a…

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