Ep. 28 Festies Recap: Outside Lands 2025

We start this week’s episode catching up with Vanessa about her trip to Eminence before Sunny and Clark share all the stories from Outside Lands 2025. From the sets that had the crowd going wild to the funny little moments that made the weekend unforgettable, it’s a laid-back recap of San Francisco’s biggest music festival!

Transcript

Introduction

Vanessa 0:00

Hey Sunny.

Sunny 0:01

Yeah, vanessa.

Vanessa 0:02

What do you call two best friends that love music festivals?

Sunny 0:05

Hmm, I guess you'd call them

Vanessa 0:09

Festies!

Clark 0:09

music festivals, friendship festies

Clark 0:44

and rolling

Vanessa 0:44

rolling on the river. Oh, speaking of river.

Clark 0:57

Lining it up like that.

Vanessa 0:59

I didn't mean to, but it worked out great,

Sunny 1:01

do we also need to reintroduce Clark?

Sunny 1:02

He hasn't been here in a while.

Vanessa 1:03

Yeah, who are you?

Vanessa 1:04

What are you doing here? What are you doing in my house?

Clark 1:07

I'm back on the mic. I'm not downstairs. I think I was playing Zelda last time y'all were recording.

Vanessa 1:13

Also, it's not my house, Sorry,

Sunny 1:16

welcome back.

Vanessa 1:17

Who is Clark? For those that don't know,

Clark 1:19

I'm the engineer.

Vanessa 1:23

And more importantly,

Clark 1:27

Sunny's love of her life,

Sunny 1:29

sonny's lover,

Vanessa 1:30

Hello lover.

Vanessa 1:33

watched that SNL skit again with Will Ferrell

Clark 1:37

oh

Vanessa 1:37

in the hot tub.

Clark 1:38

Yeah, oh my gosh.

Clark 1:46

That's a wild one yes. I'm back.

Vanessa 1:48

It's been a while.

Clark 1:49

Yes

Vanessa 1:49

it's been a while and it's

Clark 1:50

oh my gosh

Vanessa 1:51

I saw a shirt on some dad on tiktok. That said, I speak fluent

Vanessa 1:55

Movie quotes I was like I have to get that for ed but

Vanessa 1:57

There should also be one that says I speak fluent lyrics, or something like that

Clark 2:01

yeah yeah

Adventures with the Ambulance

Vanessa 2:04

so I was on vacation for like a week on the river in missouri and I got a really nice tan. But let's start from the beginning. We drove our ambulance, which is semi-finished it was finished enough for us to take it to missouri and use it on this trip and we drove it all the way from California to eminence, missouri, non-stop.

Sunny 2:30

You did it,

Vanessa 2:31

yeah,

Sunny 2:31

good job

Vanessa 2:32

we did it,

Clark 2:32

it survived

Vanessa 2:33

it survived, it did great, and then we lived in that thing for a week and then we drove it to Iowa and we left it there.

Sunny 2:41

Oh

Vanessa 2:42

so sad,

Clark 2:43

painful.

Sunny 2:44

Was it hard to leave it?

Vanessa 2:45

I didn't think it was gonna be hard to leave it, but I was like sad. I was like what are we gonna do now? This thing took up like the last year of our lives yeah mostly ed's life, because he did 85 percent of it.

Vanessa 3:00

And so I'm like what are you gonna do now? But, yeah, it was only a bummer because, like now that it's kind of usable. It would be nice to have brought it back and, like be able to explore california in it but there'll be time to do that later on

Sunny 3:19

yeah,

Vanessa 3:19

so it's okay, we had a great week on the river, literally every day.

Vanessa 3:24

Okay, I'm going to do the Lady Gaga Ready, wake up, breakfast, river Dinner, sleep, do it all over again.

Clark 3:32

Nice,

Vanessa 3:32

that was literally our day.

Clark 3:34

The simple life

Vanessa 3:35

For five to six days.

Clark 3:36

That sounds very satisfying.

Vanessa 3:37

It was way too much drinking and I don't want to see alcohol again for like three to six months. So yeah, and then when we went to iowa, we hit up the iowa state fair.

Clark 3:49

Oh yeah, yeah, you were saying that

Vanessa 3:50

and ed was like I have to go.

Vanessa 3:52

He's like I missed it last year. So we went the day we were flying back home for like a couple hours, just to say we went and eat some food and

Sunny 4:02

Nice, how was the food?

Vanessa 4:03

so good. Thankfully we could not find the deep fried butter which I know Ed wanted to try, I don't know if they have it anymore. Oh, they have really good concerts every night Like really big people. You know, that day it was supposed to be Megan Maroney and we had to leave at like 2.

Sunny 4:20

Can't do it all

Vanessa 4:20

His parents, I think saw Hank Williams Jr on Saturday.

Clark 4:24

That's pretty nuts

Vanessa 4:26

We've seen Brooks and Dunn there.

Sunny 4:27

Well, I'm happy for you guys that you got a vacation, because you deserve it. You've been working so hard,

Vanessa 4:32

thank you.

Clark 4:34

So many times we've been like, oh yeah, we're going to record an episode that day, right, and Vanessa's like I had to do some flooring on the ambulance, All right, okay.

Vanessa 4:47

I had to put some insulation.

Clark 4:47

Yeah, yeah,

Vanessa 4:48

yeah. No, ed did all the electrical and I'm just like, I'm just like.

Vanessa 4:51

So, in awe of him,

Clark 4:51

that electrical.

Clark 4:52

That's crazy to see that

Sunny 4:53

it looked like spaghetti

Clark 4:54

yeah, terrifying high voltage spaghetti

Vanessa 5:00

yeah, oh, we did see some music too.

Vanessa 5:02

Every tuesday that week they have a concert, which normally it's like a C-list country artist kind of Maybe B-list. I don't know, so this year it was Casey Donahue, if anybody knows who that is.

Clark 5:16

That name sounds really familiar.

Vanessa 5:17

It was really fun

Clark 5:18

Dope

Sunny 5:19

Wait, so this is like an actual event. I thought it was just Ed's family who, like, decides

Vanessa 5:24

no it's like it's called cross-country trail ride.

Vanessa 5:29

This was the 70th year anniversary. A lot of people will bring their horses. Everyone's camping in horse trailers. Wait, is one of you allergic to horses? Oh, so you're not gonna go

Clark 5:40

the most allergic you can possibly be right?

Vanessa 5:43

oh no,

Clark 5:44

aren't you super

Clark 5:44

allergic to them. I thought that was like.

Sunny 5:46

Well, when I rode them.

Vanessa 5:48

Oh, so you don't need to touch them?

Vanessa 5:50

You don't need to just be around them.

Sunny 5:52

Yeah, being around them is fine.

Vanessa 5:53

Oh, okay,

Sunny 5:54

not that.

Sunny 5:55

I've been around one for an extended amount of time.

Vanessa 5:58

Well, ed's stepdad's allergic to horses too, and he's fine

Sunny 6:00

Okay.

Sunny 6:01

Just take my meds.

Vanessa 6:02

Yeah, so people just ride around the campgrounds with their horses, or you'll see a bunch of groups leaving in the morning to go on trail rides. I did a four-hour trail ride last year. Yeah, so it's like a campground. So there's like hookups and electricity and water. And then there's a dance every night with the band that plays like the same set of songs in the same order every night and

Vanessa 6:25

It's a lot of fun

Clark 6:26

that's 70 years.

Clark 6:29

That's so cool.

Vanessa 6:30

Ed's been going since he was 8

Clark 6:31

WOW

Vanessa 6:32

and they give you buckles for every 5 year increment. So I get my 5 year buckle next year. I'm so excited. He's supposed to be getting his 20 year or something, but

Clark 6:43

Is it like a cool

Vanessa 6:45

I think it's like a huge fucking buckle.

Clark 6:47

That's sick,

Vanessa 6:48

yeah, so I'm excited

Clark 6:49

yeah, you gotta have that steez going on, dude

Vanessa 6:52

never thought I'd make it this far

Clark 6:53

some bootcut jeans wear a big old buckle

Vanessa 6:56

I remember the first year I went he would make jokes to like friends of his that he knew that were like meeting me there. He's like, yeah, we'll see if she makes it to her five-year

Clark 7:07

he was planting the seeds, like.

Clark 7:09

He's like what are you gonna do

Clark 7:10

marry me?

Vanessa 7:13

for that buckle,

Clark 7:15

did it all for the buckle.

Vanessa 7:16

Even though I had a lot of fun there, I was still very sad that I couldn't be at outside lands with the gang

Clark 7:24

yeah

Vanessa 7:25

technically we got home saturday night of outside lands, but

Clark 7:29

that would have been crazy,

Vanessa 7:31

just like last year I could have done it, I know I know, but I'm so tired.

Sunny 7:38

Yeah,

Clark 7:38

people can go back and listen to that episode and hear you say the same thing

Sunny 7:42

I'm so tired from sitting on the river.

Sunny 7:46

I'm just kidding.

Vanessa 7:49

Listen six days of hard drinking really takes a toll on your body and mental health. I was not. We did not get out of bed on Sunday

Clark 7:56

yeah

Clark 7:57

I can imagine Well, yeah, well, we definitely did miss you at this year's.

Clark 8:04

Outside Lands.

Vanessa 8:05

Oh, you don't gotta lie to KK Clark.

Clark 8:07

I mean.

Clark 8:08

I'm not lying.

Clark 8:10

They can't see my face.

Clark 8:14

I think we especially feel it now because one of our former guests from the podcast, Cameron, is one of our Outside Lands crew.

Vanessa 8:24

Yeah, and you guys met him through me.

Clark 8:25

Yeah, exactly the connection to you. You know we feel it more and our good friend Conner, and you were saying that it'd been so long since you've been to one

Vanessa 8:35

I know I can't remember the last time I was at outside with Conner

Clark 8:38

because he was part of the og big crew that we had

Sunny 8:41

if you listen to the last episode that we put out, Conner was the one who went with me to the Lady Gaga dance party.

Vanessa 8:45

Oh yeah,

Clark 8:46

oh yes, yes.

Sunny 8:47

Just to make that little connection, just in case we have listeners that do not know what Outside Lands is. Outside Lands is a music festival in Golden Gate Park, which is in San Francisco. It's my favorite festival. It's always the first weekend of August and this year the headliners were Doja Cat, Tyler the Creator and Hozier, and then other acts were Glass Animals, Doechii, FINNEAS, Marina, Royal Otis, John Summit, Mayer Hawthorne, and Amelia Moore.

Vanessa 9:14

Are those all the people you saw?

Sunny 9:15

among others. Nope,

Vanessa 9:16

oh, does it ever fall on your birthday?

Sunny 9:19

Uh, no, it's usually the weekend after

Vanessa 9:21

Darn.

Sunny 9:22

This year we stayed in San Mateo, at my mom's apartment, shout out Thank you so much for letting us stay there.

Vanessa 9:28

Yay, karen,

Sunny 9:29

yay,

Clark 9:29

definitely

Outside Lands Festival Overview

Sunny 9:30

This year Outside Lands introduced a new shuttle.

Clark 9:34

Yes

Sunny 9:34

So they have a park and ride now that leaves from the Cow Palace, which is in Daly City. That's a little south of San Francisco, and then we live farther south than that. So we were just able to drive to the Cow Palace Park, hop on that shuttle and then get to Golden Gate Park.

Vanessa 9:50

Nice, how much was that pass

Sunny 9:52

90

Vanessa 9:52

Well, that's not too bad

Sunny 9:54

We were trying to figure out if it's worth it doing that versus Ubers and stuff, and I think it would probably be the same.

Clark 10:02

Yeah, it was extremely smooth on timing. Maybe the most we had to wait when we were getting on a shuttle to get to Outside Lands was like 10, 15 minutes.

Clark 10:13

Yeah, maybe

Vanessa 10:13

that's good, what about leaving?

Clark 10:15

I think the longest we waited was like maybe 20.

Vanessa 10:17

Okay, that's not bad.

Sunny 10:19

It was very dependable.

Clark 10:20

Yeah, Not bad at all To get rid of the stress of an Uber. altogether The five of us probably getting there because we get there so early wouldn't have been bad, but coming back would be really expensive and just stressful trying to figure it out.

Vanessa 10:32

Yeah.

Clark 10:33

So it was perfect.

Sunny 10:34

Team shuttle all the way yeah.

Vanessa 10:36

Definitely recommend that next year?

Sunny 10:37

yes.

Clark 10:38

Yeah, Outside Lands. If you're listening to this, keep it around next year

Sunny 10:42

Yeah, keep that shuttle.

Vanessa 10:51

Then one of you has to stay sober.

Clark 10:52

I almost always do,

Vanessa 10:53

daddy clark,

Clark 10:53

I'm pretty reliable on that scent.

Clark 10:54

Sorry the one, literally the one downside of the shuttle was that the one coming home the first night right

Sunny 10:59

stinky

Clark 11:00

they're charter buses, so there's a toilet on the bus and it smelled like that was backed up or something which was pretty gross. Definitely stopped all conversations on the bus.

Clark 11:11

It was very quiet.

Vanessa 11:13

It smelled like that when you got on or halfway through or something.

Clark 11:16

No. The whole time.

Sunny 11:17

The second you walked on there, it hit you in the face.

Clark 11:20

But other than that

Vanessa 11:22

Yep All right, moving on

Clark 11:24

no problem,

Sunny 11:26

Yep

Vanessa 11:26

Alright moving on

Clark 11:26

A plus.

Clark 11:27

A minus For that.

Vanessa 11:31

P-U. B-U.

Sunny 11:36

What are we thinking? Do we want to go day by day?

Clark 11:40

Yeah, I think so. And we're just trying not to get too Bogged down. Don't get too crazy

Sunny 11:47

With details.

Sunny 11:48

You know us, we like to get there early, so we caught the first shuttle on Friday at 11. We got there.

Vanessa 11:53

Oh my gosh

Sunny 11:54

I know, I know

Vanessa 11:55

11.

Sunny 11:55

, I know, I know. So we got there. It was foggy, but not freezing, tolerable, But right away I noticed there were a lot more people in there.

Vanessa 12:03

Really?

Sunny 12:04

yeah

Vanessa 12:05

my co worker that went and took my tickets she said her friend and her son got there at like noon and she got there at two.

Vanessa 12:12

I was like good job yeah,

Sunny 12:13

hell yeah, speaking of your friend and their son.

Sunny 12:17

We also noticed a lot of families there

Vanessa 12:19

oh nice

Sunny 12:19

a lot more kids

Clark 12:20

yeah, I was telling sunny, for like the whole weekend this year felt the most similar of the makeup of the crowd as to the first years that I, that we went.

Vanessa 12:31

It was more family friendly back then?

Day One: Friday's Musical Journey

Clark 12:32

well not friendly at least, but just you know that it was cool parents and their kids.

Clark 12:37

You know, at least for me, I always thought that was such a cool part of outside lands

Vanessa 12:43

the kids?

Clark 12:44

like families that whoa, whoa, I just love kids

Vanessa 12:55

I brought extra candy in my backpack

Clark 12:59

I always bring snacks. Okay, um, and I I swear. We saw a lot of over 50s couples around and I was like that's cool too.

Vanessa 13:10

That's awesome Music bringing everyone together.

Sunny 13:14

Yeah,

Vanessa 13:14

I love to see it.

Clark 13:16

I think Cameron and I saw a couple of those older peeps around. Sometimes we're like they got the dates wrong. They were here for the Grateful Dead thing and then they're outside lands.

Clark 13:25

Joking about it.

Vanessa 13:26

Kings of Leon is next weekend. Are they old?

Clark 13:32

Not that old.

Sunny 13:32

Not that old,

Vanessa 13:33

never mind,

Clark 13:33

they're only a little bit older than us.

Clark 13:35

I think,

Vanessa 13:35

oh, really.

Vanessa 13:35

Never mind, take it back

Sunny 13:36

Just to explain that a little bit. This year at Golden Gate Park they decided to use the infrastructure that Outside Lands usually uses for three separate events. So the first event was the Grateful Dead or, I'm sorry, Dead and Company, which was a huge event, and then Outside Lands, and then after that it was Kings of Leon. And

Vanessa 13:56

you can do it,

Sunny 13:57

nope,

Vanessa 13:57

zach Bryan,

Sunny 13:58

damn it.

Clark 14:00

That's so good.

Sunny 14:01

Nope,

Vanessa 14:02

which I did not go to. I was so sad.

Sunny 14:04

Oh sorry, so yeah, that's what they were referring to, I didn't mean to completely interrupt you though

Clark 14:11

no, no, you're good.

Clark 14:12

So for friday, little roundup of who The Two Llips, Los Menorés, Inji, almost monday, Fuji Kaze, Thundercat, Marina Fcukers, Doechii and Beck with Symphony we didn't skimp on any artists all of them

Sunny 14:32

that's a lot.

Sunny 14:33

I opened the day with going to the Duboce Triangle stage

Vanessa 14:37

is that how you say it?

Clark 14:38

debose debosey is the other one I heard

Sunny 14:41

we got debosey, we got debose, we got

Vanessa 14:43

debochey

Sunny 14:44

we got debochey

Clark 14:45

debochay

Vanessa 14:47

is that debochey.

Vanessa 14:48

I like that better debochay,

Clark 14:49

that's kind of fun to say

Sunny 14:51

Yeah, it was like a little hidden pocket in the middle of the festival in McLaren Pass, so all the trees are around it Super shaded cozy.

Sunny 15:04

It had really comfortable seating, like couches, like actual couches to sit in.

Clark 15:06

It had these cool like holographic iridescent bubbles, like these big spheres that were hanging.

Clark 15:11

And then there was like mushroom sculptures and stuff too.

Clark 15:14

It was a cool little like trippy pocket.

Sunny 15:17

I just have to give you props because before we got into this recording session I said that Clark, you have to describe the stage, because I'm just going to say it was balls hanging from the air. What did you say?

Vanessa 15:29

Iridescent holographic

Clark 15:31

yeah you're welcome

Vanessa 15:33

spherical

Sunny 15:34

yeah, balloons hanging from the air, that's what I would have said.

Clark 15:36

these big

Vanessa 15:37

balloon things,

Clark 15:38

balls

Sunny 15:39

yeah it was a lot of dj sets. It was really intimate. Uh, every morning started with a open mic.

Vanessa 15:47

That's where the open mic was.

Sunny 15:48

Yeah, so there were local artists performing there. It was hosted by Rainbow Girls. They do an open mic in San Francisco. I think they're gonna have it again. It was really successful.

Vanessa 15:59

That's really cool that they do an open mic for artists and then they could say I played in an outside lands.

Sunny 16:04

Yeah, exactly.

Clark 16:05

Speaking of someone talked to Sunny.

Sunny 16:08

Yeah. So while we were sitting there, Zara Irshad came up to us from the San Francisco Chronicle and asked if she could interview us, and that weekend she was covering the new stage. So she basically just asked why we are at Outside Lands, what we think about the new stage, how we feel about local musicians getting to perform at Outside Lands, and so, yeah, I just told her that I thought that that was an amazing idea, because outside lands they're giving people the opportunity to perform at, you know, a major music festival. So while I was thinking about that today, I was like, oh, shoot the article. So I looked it up and

Vanessa 16:42

she quoted you?

Sunny 16:43

she quoted me.

Vanessa 16:45

What did she say?

Sunny 16:47

What I said

Clark 16:48

Festies be, published.

Sunny 16:51

She said uh let's see.

Vanessa 16:53

Does it say Sunny Balopole from Festies Podcast?

Vanessa 16:56

shut the fuck up

Sunny 16:57

Sunny Balopole, a host of the Festies Podcast, which delves into the details and unique experiences that music festivals offer

Vanessa 17:04

you weren't gonna tell me this?!

Sunny 17:05

I'm telling you now

Clark 17:08

she's keeping it for the genuine reaction.

Vanessa 17:10

Oh my god

Sunny 17:12

Said she came up from San Mateo on a mission To check out Outside Lands newest attractions For it's 17th edition On Friday afternoon. Quote people come to festivals and I think they dream About being able to perform at one, said the 32 year old.

Sunny 17:25

This opportunity.

Vanessa 17:28

Why'd she do you like that?

Sunny 17:32

This opportunity Is a way to get a taste of that.

Vanessa 17:36

Oh my God, that's so cool.

Sunny 17:38

I found that out a couple hours ago, so I had to keep that from you for a whole three hours

Vanessa 17:42

oh good job and you did. I'm proud of you,

Clark 17:45

isn't

Clark 17:45

that dope though

Vanessa 17:46

that is so sick, right, we're in the paper. Wait, what is this San Francisco Chronicle?

Sunny 17:51

Yeah,

Vanessa 17:52

sick.

Sunny 17:53

After she was finished talking to me, I was like wait, can you take our business card and sticker,

Clark 17:57

Nice

Sunny 17:57

So yeah, Thank you so much for coming up and asking us for an interview. That was very exciting.

Vanessa 18:04

That's so cool.

Clark 18:12

The rest of the day was just like moving so fast that when Sunny told me that I think we were figuring out where we're going to meet up after the first couple artists, and she called me and I was like oh yeah, like how was the You know the new stage and then we talked for a second. And she's like, oh yeah, the SF Chronicle interviewed me. I'm like what, that's dope, that's so awesome. I was like why, like what why Wasn't that the first thing you said on the phone right it's like that's awesome,

Vanessa 18:34

No, that's so awesome.

Clark 18:35

Yeah, super exciting.

Sunny 18:37

So fun way to start the weekend.

Sunny 18:42

I guess our highlight for the day was Doechii

Clark 18:45

yeah, for sure

Vanessa 18:45

oh my gosh.

Vanessa 18:46

Okay, no, tell me about Doechii. I want to hear all about Doechii.

Clark 18:49

The level of her artistry and detail for the choreography and the aesthetic. It was this whole classroom vibe.

Clark 18:58

They had desks that are chair desks and all the choreo was all around

Vanessa 19:04

ryoura back on.

Clark 19:06

Yeah, straight up.

Clark 19:07

And used the whole stage. She had a big, giant boom box that her DJ was inside of this boom box and stuff. And then she had a spiral slide on the side of it.

Clark 19:18

Sorry, it was dope.

Sunny 19:19

I feel like I don't want to tell you all this because we're going to see her at Austin City Limits.

Vanessa 19:22

Oh, you think it'll be the same?

Clark 19:23

I won't go any too far.

Clark 19:24

I mean.

Clark 19:25

I'm assuming it'll probably be similar.

Vanessa 19:28

I don't give a fuck,

Clark 19:29

but she was incredible.

Clark 19:30

What I really loved was the visuals that they did when they have the lyrics going on the screens. They were using the live feed of her packed crowd and her lyrics going on top of that and I was like that's like a flex, that's a sick flex.

Vanessa 19:45

I love that, so that everyone can rap along.

Sunny 19:48

Yeah, it was so baller.

Vanessa 19:50

I can't wait to see her.

Sunny 19:51

Because we knew we were going to see her at Austin City Limits, we used the opportunity to go to the bathroom and eat. Guess where we went to do that.

Vanessa 20:00

You ran errands?

Sunny 20:00

Yeah, we ran errands.

Clark 20:02

Yes, as they say,

Sunny 20:02

we did our side quests.

Vanessa 20:04

As we say.

Sunny 20:06

We went into Grass Lands Woo, which you don't get to name my firstborn,

Vanessa 20:14

damn it.

Day Two: Double Vampire Weekend

Sunny 20:16

So as we left Doechii, we were walking and I was like wait, is there a bathroom in Grass Lands? So we went to go check no line, and there's also food stands no lines.

Vanessa 20:26

There was bathrooms?

Clark 20:27

Yeah,

Vanessa 20:28

oh sick

Clark 20:28

and there were a couple couple food vendors inside of Grasslands too, so it was like the most mellow it could be right then,

Vanessa 20:35

was it cannabis food?

Clark 20:37

No,

Sunny 20:38

I got a weed tomato soup.

Clark 20:42

Literally a grilled cheese and mac and cheese place and they have tomato soup that you could get with your grilled cheese and stuff. I'm like that's some pretty good munchy food to have you know, just like warm you up comfort kind of stuff you know,

Sunny 20:56

the tomato soup revived me.

Clark 20:57

Yeah, it was

Sunny 20:59

so good

Clark 20:59

it was just campbell's with like black pepper whatever it doesn't matter,

Clark 21:04

it was still good, it was delicious,

Sunny 21:05

yeah I could have been cup of soup and I would have been just as happy

Vanessa 21:10

I have heartburn just thinking about that

Clark 21:14

so we still saw probably three quarters of Doechii's performance

Vanessa 21:18

did she bring out anybody?

Clark 21:19

I don't believe, so no,

Vanessa 21:20

okay who'd you guys close the night out with on friday?

Sunny 21:24

Beck

Clark 21:25

Back with symphony, he was playing some of his tracks from his grammy award winning album

Sunny 21:32

and movies

Clark 21:32

and yeah, and movie scores that he's done. And then at the end he still had the symphony. So he did two turntables and a microphone but with the symphony behind it, like giving this like huge gravitas to the performance. And then he like kind of kicks the symphony off stage and him and the drummer and guitar player and piano player that he still has stay on and he does loser and that just like

Sunny 21:56

I'm a loser baby

Clark 21:57

yeah, goes so hard

Sunny 21:58

which was in my head the whole weekend

Clark 22:00

yeah, straight up

Sunny 22:01

at the beginning I was like all the rest of our group would see this as boring because it was really slow.

Vanessa 22:07

Yeah,

Sunny 22:07

but,

Clark 22:08

much more mellow

Vanessa 22:08

you liked it better the first time you saw him there?

Sunny 22:11

I don't want to say better, but like it was more fun.

Vanessa 22:14

Yeah,

Sunny 22:15

but this is the first time I've ever seen an orchestra at Outside Lands.

Clark 22:18

Yeah, yeah, so yeah. That was pretty incredible,

Sunny 22:21

oh, but low for the day there was so much sound bleed from Doja Cat. It was gnarly.

Vanessa 22:36

Oh cause it was at Sutro? Why did I think Twin Peaks?

Clark 22:36

In our minds it was just the perfect kind of encapsulation of why we like outside lands so much, because within this one day, in between Sunny and I, we saw a Venezuelan boy band, a dreamy pop duo, a Turkish dance music singer-songwriter, a Japanese piano player vocalist, an R&B jazz bass virtuoso, an East Coast dance music new artist, a British pop vocal queen, a next-gen rap game-changer, Doechii, and an indie pop master. So all within the same day, we saw all of those things.

Vanessa 23:14

Oh my gosh. Yeah, that sounds like a whole weekend in itself.

Clark 23:18

And that's it One day of a festival.

Vanessa 23:20

Now you see how we fit so much in our one day at.

Vanessa 23:23

Bonnaroo.

Sunny 23:24

Yeah,

Vanessa 23:25

without knowing it was going to be our one day.

Clark 23:28

Straight up, straight up.

Vanessa 23:31

Okay, so Saturday.

Clark 23:32

Sorry, I had to read that verbatim. I'm like I wrote all the things.

Vanessa 23:37

I was having a stroke when you were reading all those.

Sunny 23:41

It was a lot.

Sunny 23:43

I don't know if you remember, Vanessa, but when we read the lineup we noticed that Vampire Weekend was on there twice.

Vanessa 23:49

Oh yeah, what did that mean?

Sunny 23:51

So, Vampire Weekend They opened up the Twin Peaks stage, they were the first band to play, and then they were also the last band to play, and it was two completely different sets.

Vanessa 24:01

Really

Sunny 24:01

yeah.

Vanessa 24:02

Why, how?

Sunny 24:03

I don't know how or why, but it was really

Clark 24:06

Awesome

Vanessa 24:07

Like different sets how they just had no song played.

Vanessa 24:11

Ok

Clark 24:11

when they started playing.

Clark 24:13

They're like no repeats. We're going to play a set right now. We're going to play a set at the end of the day. No repeats.

Vanessa 24:18

Wait that same day?

Clark 24:19

Yeah.

Vanessa 24:20

So I was, so we were right in the morning and the evening.

Sunny 24:23

Yeah, yeah.

Clark 24:24

True, true.

Sunny 24:25

I think It's pretty genius because it got a lot of people in there early. Twin Peaks was full. It looked like it was six o'clock.

Vanessa 24:33

What time did they play their first set?

Sunny 24:35

Twelve,

Vanessa 24:35

oh my gosh

Sunny 24:36

Yeah.

Vanessa 24:40

Kevin this was not the best year for you to miss outside lands.

Clark 24:42

is he all about Vampire Weekend?

Vanessa 24:43

our friend.

Vanessa 24:44

Kevin, who's been to outside lands with us so that's his favorite band.

Clark 24:46

Oh yeah, he interacted with the story when we were posting it, for sure, yeah,

Sunny 24:51

oh, that's right.

Sunny 24:52

Vampire Weekend played Outside Lands a few years ago and their genre of music just isn't up my alley usually. But this time I was really excited because they played more like they were jammy. They were funky, they were like totally different band. I have no idea what they played later.

Sunny 25:08

I'm sure they probably played a lot of their hits later in the evening

Vanessa 25:11

they were pretty up there for Ed to see at Bonnaroo.

Vanessa 25:13

He wanted to see them.

Sunny 25:15

They're a big band.

Clark 25:16

Their drummer was wearing a shirt. Actually, this shirt is sick. I'm not a big Grateful Dead fan, but it was a sick shirt. It was an Oakland Raiders shirt and the Raider, like the face that's normally there, was Jerry Garcia from Grateful Dead.

Sunny 25:30

Yeah, that was pretty cool

Clark 25:30

and that was pretty sick. I'm like that's a pretty dope shirt man. But yeah, multiple of the band had Grateful Dead stuff on, which goes right hand in hand with how jammy they were and what happened the previous weekend at the polo field.

Sunny 25:46

So because Vampire Weekend drew in a huge crowd early, it felt like Saturday was so busy. It was the busiest I've seen it in a long time. I was dodging people. It felt like a classic Outside Lands.

Vanessa 26:00

It was on the schedule?

Sunny 26:01

Yeah.

Vanessa 26:02

Okay, so you guys went early to see them.

Sunny 26:04

Yeah,

Vanessa 26:04

okay, cool.

Clark 26:05

It seemed like that was a great thing for all the other early acts, because there were just more people already in the festival.

Vanessa 26:14

Needing something to do

Clark 26:15

Exactly so like you know, maybe you wouldn't have got this huge crowd, but hey, you're playing. Sutro and Vampire Weekend brought all these people in early.

Vanessa 26:24

Vampire Weekend is opening for you.

Clark 26:26

Yeah, that's awesome. You know that's sick.

Sunny 26:33

So let's see. Between the two of us, we Amelia Moore, Vampire W eekend, Paco Versailles, La Russell, Flip Turn, Girl Math, Dombreski, Ludacris, DJ Peewee, Tyler the Creator and Gesaffelstein.

Vanessa 26:44

Oh

Sunny 26:44

sorry, vanessa,

Vanessa 26:47

I was watching, I did,

Vanessa 26:48

I was watching that vlog that you made of Outside Lands.

Vanessa 26:51

The moment I heard your clip of Gesaffelstein, I felt something in my soul.

Sunny 26:56

Yeah, I mean I wanted to go, but I was telling everybody I was like I have to go Because Vanessa is unable to go and Gesaffelstein is her favorite.

Vanessa 27:05

Oh, thank you. Yeah, those videos you sent me were sick. Thank you,

Sunny 27:09

it was very fun.

Vanessa 27:10

It's been a long time since I've seen him, but did he have a huge crowd? Where did he play first of all, sutro? Oh, that's too small.

Sunny 27:17

I mean it's too small, it was filled. Yeah, saturday we just had a blast. It was so fun.

Vanessa 27:24

I'm getting FOMO.

Sunny 27:26

I'm sorry.

Sunny 27:26

It sucked.

Sunny 27:27

It was boring.

Day Three: Family and Headliners

Vanessa 27:27

I really didn't have FOMO while you guys were there, and now I'm getting FOMO.

Sunny 27:32

Yeah, it was so fun, and I think what started off being super fun was Ludacris. Yeah, because that's all of our childhood.

Vanessa 27:40

Yeah.

Sunny 27:41

Early 2000s hip hop.

Clark 27:42

Kind of the same energy as when we saw Nelly.

Vanessa 27:46

That's what I. I kept comparing those two.

Clark 27:48

First of all, I forget that he has all of his really fast rapping stuff, because he also has kind of like silly hooks sometimes that feel a little bit like one fish, two fish you know, like they're, just like they're really but you remember them they're like earworms, but also His first hit, though, is I wanna lick you from your head to your toe when I want to go from the bed down to the foot he like pops off with that you know, it was like whoa.

Vanessa 28:17

That would have been so fun it would have been, so I saw him at Two Step Inn which is a country music festival.

Clark 28:22

Oh yeah,

Vanessa 28:23

but it would have been so dope to see him with all our friends big ass group dancing together.

Clark 28:27

It was super fun and his DJ was hilarious.

Sunny 28:30

I loved when he had us going if you ain't got no money, take your broke ass home.

Clark 28:36

Yeah, definitely a big highlight.

Sunny 28:38

Our friend Aaron went for one day

Clark 28:40

yeah.

Clark 28:42

It was dope because our schedules lined up and actually part of our main group, justin's sister, leslie, was all excited to see this band Flip Turn.

Vanessa 28:50

Oh, I would have loved to see that with her.

Clark 28:52

Aaron was also like I've listened to flip turn. It's really sick. So him and I went. It was great like really beautiful vocals from the lead singer

Vanessa 29:02

okay, so

Clark 29:03

kind of reminds me of young the giant almost

Vanessa 29:05

the first

Clark 29:05

performance incredible.

Vanessa 29:07

The first few months that I was listening to flip turn, I thought it was a girl's voice

Clark 29:12

yeah, he does. He does have like a pretty high

Vanessa 29:15

yeah but then I watched a music video actually recently because they were going to be at Bonnaroo and I was like, oh, that's a guy but yeah, I love them,

Clark 29:26

they were awesome

Sunny 29:27

I'm sad it

Sunny 29:28

It seemed like everybody really loved that set.

Clark 29:31

Yeah,

Sunny 29:32

but I decided to dedicate Saturday. I kept saying Saturday is my beep boop music day.

Vanessa 29:37

Beep boop,

Sunny 29:38

yeah, beep boop DJs all the way. It was so fun. I saw Girl Math and then I saw Dombreski, dj Pee Wee and then end of the day with Gesaffelstein.

Vanessa 29:54

Did you like Domb reski?

Sunny 29:55

Yeah,

Vanessa 29:55

I feel like I would really like him.

Sunny 29:56

t's like disco edm. So yeah, that was my kind of takeaway from saturday just being happy enjoying the day-long dance party.

Clark 30:03

Yeah, it worked out nice for you too, because before Gesaffelstein we all landed together for DJ Peewee.

Sunny 30:12

Yes.

Clark 30:13

Which is awesome, with, of course, Anderson .Paak, who brought out multiple peeps while he was DJing, brought out Cordae, who he has a song with, and he also brought out Ca7riel y Paco Amoroso during his set and played one of their songs.

Vanessa 30:30

Oh, my gosh,

Clark 30:31

and they came out in these long blonde wigs

Vanessa 30:33

oh, that was them?

Clark 30:34

Yeah,

Vanessa 30:35

I saw your videos.

Clark 30:36

Yeah,

Vanessa 30:36

I was like

Clark 30:37

that was Ca7riel y Paco Amoroso

Clark 30:38

. Yeah,

Vanessa 30:39

I didn't realize that was dj peewee.

Clark 30:41

They just popped out and we're like yo and they sang their song, you know over the track. Yeah, but that is Saturday.

Sunny 30:48

Should we move on to Sunday?

Clark 30:50

Go on.

Vanessa 30:51

Please.

Sunny 30:52

Please.

Clark 30:53

I'm burning up.

Vanessa 30:55

It is hot in here.

Sunny 30:56

Sunday, between the two of us, we saw Big Frieda and the San Francisco Gay Men's Choir, Midnight Generation, Mayer Hawthorne, Levity Ca7riel and Paco Amoroso. Mayer Hawthorne, but a DJ set, Glass Animals, Bleachers, Jorja Smith, Neal Francis and Anderson .Paak and the Free Nationals. You saw Bleachers?

Clark 31:16

I saw a chunk of Bleachers because I was getting to a spot for Glass Animals.

Sunny 31:21

Oh, I didn't know that

Vanessa 31:22

Also. I just want to say

Clark 31:24

Not into them.

Clark 31:25

Put on an amazing show

Vanessa 31:27

Really. I think I saw Bleachers

Clark 31:29

Yeah, amazing show.

Vanessa 31:32

but I just want to give Sunny props for how she said

Clark 31:35

Yeah, she did a good job.

Vanessa 31:38

You didn't even stutter

Clark 31:39

Nah.

Vanessa 31:40

I just said, and too so.

Sunny 31:43

Thanks,

Clark 31:44

yeah, killed it

Sunny 31:46

Another aspect of Sunday is my mom and my Aunt Debbie and my Uncle Andy went

Vanessa 31:51

Woohoo

Sunny 31:51

yeah, which is really exciting because obviously I've been talking about outside lands for years.

Vanessa 31:57

Was this your mom's first one?

Sunny 31:58

Yeah,

Vanessa 31:59

oh, wow. For some reason I thought she'd gone another year.

Sunny 32:02

Nope.

Clark 32:02

You're thinking of Bottle Rock?

Vanessa 32:04

I know.

Vanessa 32:05

I know we went to Bottle Rock,

Clark 32:06

just kidding, sorry.

Sunny 32:08

Nope, well, my dad went one year.

Vanessa 32:10

Oh yeah, maybe that's what I'm thinking, yeah.

Sunny 32:12

So that was really exciting, just to be able to show them around. It was a little stressful because they were there for one day, but there's only so much you can see in one day.

Vanessa 32:21

Yeah,

Clark 32:21

true,

Sunny 32:23

I think they had a good time.

Clark 32:24

Yeah.

Sunny 32:24

It was rough getting around and it was cold.

Clark 32:32

No

Sunny 32:34

they had a lot of uh as we say like suck to embrace,

Clark 32:35

yes,

Sunny 32:35

but they saw a lot of amazing music that day

Vanessa 32:36

so who was your favorite from sunday?

Clark 32:42

Besides Mayer Hawthorne

Sunny 32:45

I guess Anderson . Paak

Clark 32:47

yeah

Sunny 32:47

had an incredible

Clark 32:48

yeah,

Sunny 32:48

but um

Sunny 32:51

beside the obvious. I really enjoyed seeing Big Freedia and the SF Gay Men's Choir because they took us to church

Vanessa 33:00

Really?

Sunny 33:00

Yeah. And Conner, who grew up in choir the look on his face he was just so into it. And same with my mom and Andy and Debbie. They all did choir. And same with my mom and Andy and Debbie. They all did choir, so it was really fun seeing them have such an intense reaction to the music

Vanessa 33:16

yeah.

Sunny 33:17

I don't know what I was expecting, but it was also a lot of hip hop in there too.

Clark 33:21

I was on, like the other side of the festival at Panhandle with Cameron and Martijn seeing Midnight Generation. Yeah, who's this? Mexican funk band

Vanessa 33:33

yeah, I think cameron told us about that group when he was here.

Clark 33:36

Yes, yes, he did, he did and that was my struggle.

Clark 33:39

When sunny and I met back up later, I was like I'm not gonna tell you how much y'all would have enjoyed what I just saw too, you know like yeah, sunny's mom, especially karen, loves. They had a percussionist who that's all he was doing was playing congas and like a go-go with like the two-tone cowbell and shaker and tambourine and he was just cutting a rug like he was killing it all five of these guys had shaved and mustaches and like he's just like close-cut hair and like in their matching jumpsuits doing their funk music.

Clark 34:14

It was pretty dope.

Sunny 34:15

That's fun.

Clark 34:15

But I know how great experience y'all had at Big Freedia too.

Sunny 34:20

We'll have another opportunity to see Midnight Generation.

Sunny 34:25

Did you have a highlight of the day?

Clark 34:28

Um, I mean, it's been a while since I've felt that way about a headlining set like for Anderson Paak and the Free Nationals.

Sunny 34:35

How did you feel?

Clark 34:36

It was so incredible because that's like the best I've known a headliner in a long time. There was only one song that Anderson played that I didn't know and the level of musicianship it almost reminded me of when we saw D'Angelo. How they honed the set that they played was just next level, and I was surprised at how much Anderson Paak was on the kit. He was on the drum kit like almost half of the set. And that's a lot of playing for like an hour and a half set.

Sunny 35:09

Yeah, and so he's singing, dancing, rapping, playing the drums

Clark 35:13

His outfit was also dope.

Clark 35:14

He had like an Adidas brand plaid jacket, matching skirt with like these sick big boots.

Sunny 35:22

I said that and Clark was like no

Clark 35:24

Skirt

Sunny 35:24

not a kilt, it was not a kilt.

Sunny 35:27

I offended him.

Clark 35:28

I will die on that hill.

Clark 35:29

It was not a kilt.

Clark 35:30

Not enough. Pleats in the back Different.

Vanessa 35:32

Oh my God

Clark 35:35

I say as a Scotsman, but it was sick. He just destroyed that set.

Clark 35:39

It was so good,

Sunny 35:41

very energetic, and I know I keep saying this word, but we were just having so much fun.

Vanessa 35:47

It was like so fun

Sunny 35:48

it's so fun, it's like really good. I remember thinking to myself

Vanessa 35:52

I wish Vanessa was here.

Sunny 35:54

Well that, when he brought out E-40, which was just like mind-blowing Not that we're like huge E-40 fans, but you know, being in the Bay Area, it was like a big deal.

Vanessa 36:05

That's our grandpa, that's our dad. Sorry, e-40. I'm so sorry you are not that old. That's our dad.

Clark 36:12

I can just picture all of our friend group's faces when he brought E-40 on

Vanessa 36:17

yeah

Clark 36:18

Everyone's like oh, just losing it.

Clark 36:20

What

Vanessa 36:20

I would have lost? My fucking shit yeah.

Sunny 36:23

I felt like we didn't have the capability to express how hard we wanted to go to the music.

Clark 36:30

Yeah, keep an eye out for the vlog, yeah, yeah, to see how hard we were going.

Sunny 36:36

I'm sad because it was just such an argument in my brain in the moment between recording it and enjoying it.

Vanessa 36:42

Yeah,

Sunny 36:42

you know

Clark 36:42

yes.

Sunny 36:48

And so, of course now I wish I would have recorded it more, because when the video stops I'm just like, oh no, yeah, an amazing way to end the weekend.

Vanessa 36:57

That's how you close it out.

Sunny 36:57

Yeah, and I was like that was the best way to end the weekend in a while

Vanessa 36:59

I probably would have cried

Sunny 36:59

and also. Sunday went by so fast.

Vanessa 37:03

I feel like it always does.

Vanessa 37:04

You don't want it to end,

Sunny 37:05

yeah at the end of every day I'm like it went by so fast, but this time Friday didn't feel fast, saturday didn't feel fast, but Sunday just like whizzed by.

Vanessa 37:16

Should be four days, just saying.

Vanessa 37:18

Just kidding.

Sunny 37:19

Add another day.

Clark 37:20

Come on, you cowards, make it four days.

Vanessa 37:23

Was there any set that you regret missing?

Sunny 37:29

Kind of so, Paco Versailles.

Clark 37:31

Yeah.

Sunny 37:32

He was on our list and we decided to get food before going over there and like missed a chunk of the set.

Clark 37:40

Yeah.

Sunny 37:41

I really regret that

Clark 37:43

yeah,

Vanessa 37:43

but you didn't miss him. You still saw,

Sunny 37:44

we still saw it yeah.

Clark 37:45

They're like a duo, where one of them plays like flamenco guitar and the other one's a singer. And they have like a dance music band backing them and it was really dope

Clark 37:56

We got over there and we're like oh, I was just like

Vanessa 37:58

is that the same for you?

Clark 37:59

either that, or just maybe not a set, but I never made it over to soma

Sunny 38:04

oh, really,

Vanessa 38:04

oh, I don't think I've ever been over there either

Clark 38:06

because the couple times that I was going to meet up with sunny or was trying to go over there to see something, the line was just crazy. And sunny reminded me after was like, even if the line's crazy, there's just as big amount of people leaving

Vanessa 38:20

right

Food, Drinks, and Festival Reflections

Clark 38:21

it's very rare that it's fully just packed and closed up.

Vanessa 38:26

yeah,

Clark 38:26

so I would say mine's like generally that that I just didn't get over there and it was a slightly different setup than it was last year, so that would be my regret.

Vanessa 38:36

Are we done with the music?

Sunny 38:37

Yeah, I think so.

Clark 38:38

Yeah yeah.

Vanessa 38:39

What was your guys' favorite food that you ate?

Sunny 38:43

I pulled a Vanessa and didn't eat a lot. I don't know.

Clark 38:50

Lamb shawarma quesabirria

Vanessa 38:52

Shut the fuck up.

Clark 38:53

Yeah, it was so good

Vanessa 38:53

I had a quesabirria

Vanessa 38:55

I had a Quesabirria at the Mexican restaurant in Eminence too, and it was not bad. I did not have any high hopes for it, but it was pretty good.

Clark 39:01

Shout out to Aaron's sister, Megan, because she recommended it, and then, when we were hanging out with Aaron, aaron's like I'm going to go get that today. So we went and got that

Vanessa 39:11

that sounds so good.

Sunny 39:13

Oh, can I deviate just for a second? You reminded me because of Megan.

Clark 39:15

Go on.

Sunny 39:15

The way she recommended it to all of us was through our WhatsApp group.

Clark 39:20

Oh yeah.

Sunny 39:20

Last minute I decided to create a WhatsApp outside lands community and it had different topics when are we at Food and drink intel, things like that. So I was really trying to get it going to have Festies, give each other like advice and stuff, and I can see the potential. I think I knew this year because it was so new and like there were maybe like 15 people in there. But when people were using it I was like, yeah, this could definitely be

Vanessa 39:49

it was people, not just in our group of friends,

Sunny 39:52

yeah yeah, there were some other people too that I got in there.

Clark 39:55

It extended out one more layer. I would say

Vanessa 39:57

oh nice.

Clark 39:57

Yeah, and people were definitely utilizing it. So something to look more into and see if we can flush it out, I think in some ways.

Sunny 40:07

Yeah, sorry, I just wanted to put that out there.

Clark 40:09

No for sure

Sunny 40:10

what else did you eat, clark?

Clark 40:11

Because their food truck's always there. Mozzeria, this pizzeria that's run by all deaf staff.

Vanessa 40:19

Oh yeah, you talked about this last time.

Clark 40:21

The pizza's incredible and they're always in the same place, which is perfect for me because it's right by Cocktail Magic.

Clark 40:26

So I get myself a cocktail and then I go get pizza.

Sunny 40:27

How was Cocktail Magic?

Clark 40:30

Amazing, as it was last year, I think my favorite one was this, one called the Miami Nice, this tiki cocktail with rum and coconut and green chartreuse, which is like this, really herbaceous liqueur. But the only downside was it was like too easy to drink because it was so good. So, delicious that it was like slow down drinking this,

Sunny 40:52

chug it,

Clark 40:53

yeah. Again, highly recommend really high-level craft cocktails for about as much as you'd pay in the city and it doesn't feel like you're paying $30 for a domestic beer.

Vanessa 41:06

God yeah, okay, let's see. Did you guys meet any fun people or have any random encounters?

Sunny 41:12

I did.

Sunny 41:14

Actually, right when I got there on Saturday, I saw a girl looking at the map and she looked like she was confused, like she looked a little stressed. So I kind of just like went up to her and I was like, what are you looking for? She's like I'm looking for Twin Peaks and I was like, oh, that's this way, I'm walking that way. So then we walked together and she was there alone for the day. I got her in the whatsapp group but yeah, we were just chit-chatting. She said that because outside lands had a lot of indie groups on it this year that brought her to outside lands and she's just there by herself.

Vanessa 41:44

that's so cool,

Sunny 41:45

yeah, yeah

Vanessa 41:46

I've been to concerts by myself. I don't know that I would go to a festival by oh. I have been to a festival by myself, never mind

Sunny 41:54

which one.

Vanessa 41:55

I think it was called big country is at the same place where hinterland

Sunny 42:00

oh

Vanessa 42:00

is or yeah is in saint charles iowa.

Clark 42:03

Yeah, I didn't have any encounters like

Sunny 42:07

encounters

Vanessa 42:09

um, let's see how was the crowd.

Vanessa 42:14

Was the crowd following our crowd? Etiquette rules.

Sunny 42:19

I never had a negative experience with the crowd.

Vanessa 42:23

Good

Sunny 42:23

moving through the crowd was easy

Clark 42:25

I had no problems in the crowds ever. Only time I think I struggled a little bit with crowd was going in between stages and stuff

Vanessa 42:35

yeah, that's always the worst, I think, for me there

Clark 42:37

there

Clark 42:37

was a moment where aaron and I were coming back to the main stage and we walked where the windmill is. It felt like every 15 to 19 year old in outside lands went hey, meet me at the windmill yeah, like that's what it felt like I was like guys, you got to use other something other things.

Clark 42:58

It can't just be the windmill.

Vanessa 43:00

That was so 2015.

Clark 43:01

It was literally just that

Vanessa 43:04

when there were two,

Clark 43:04

yeah, I was like, yeah, I know we were that age one time too, but like we didn't all wear the same clothes, did we? Because literally all these kids are all wearing the same exact outfit. I'm losing my mind.

Clark 43:17

I must be so old

Sunny 43:18

Clark was like and we never like linked arm and like walked straight and I was like, yeah, we did, I was like on our way to Kendrick. We all linked arms and we were in a straight line, walking, rapping Kendrick lyrics.

Vanessa 43:29

We definitely did that.

Clark 43:31

I was like. I don't remember being that in the way.

Vanessa 43:35

We were just as annoying.

Clark 43:36

Yeah, I'm sure.

Clark 43:38

Y'all right, y'all right.

Sunny 43:42

I felt like Outside Lands really leveled up this year. They're really investing in making things feel new and making the walkways more obvious and just the decor is more modern.

Clark 43:53

Yeah, I'd agree with that.

Sunny 43:54

It felt upgraded all around.

Vanessa 43:56

Cool

Vanessa 43:58

I'm so jealous. It sounds like you guys had so much fun without me.

Vanessa 44:02

Just kidding.

Vanessa 44:04

No, I'm glad you guys had fun. I'm so sad that we missed it.

Sunny 44:09

Yeah, 2027.

Vanessa 44:12

I know I'm going to try to go next year, but no promises. 2027, 100 percent. You will see me there in 2027, unless I'm popping out a baby at that time. If I'm pregnant, I'll be there, but if I have a baby or I'm in labor, I won't

Sunny 44:34

just have a babysitter pick up the baby,

Vanessa 44:45

If we're done with Outside Lands.

Vanessa 44:46

I just wanted to give us a big pat on the back, because this month Festies turned one,

Sunny 44:48

oh yeah

Vanessa 44:49

One year old.

Clark 44:49

Happy birthday to us.

Vanessa 44:50

Happy birthday to us guys. I can't believe we've been doing this for a year. It really doesn't feel like a year, but also does at the same time

Sunny 44:57

we're doing good guys

Clark 44:58

Well, thank you listeners.

Vanessa 45:00

Yeah, yeah, if you're out there. Is there anyone alive out there? Send us a DM, let us know we're not just talking to our friends and family.

Sunny 45:12

Yeah, and if anyone else had any cool experiences at Outside Lands, we'd love to hear about them.

Clark 45:16

Oh yeah, share them.

Sunny 45:17

Is that a wrap on Outside Lands?

Vanessa 45:19

That's a wrap.

Clark 45:20

That's a.

Sunny 45:25

We missed you, Clark.

Clark 45:27

You can't wait to edit me out of all this.

Vanessa 45:29

Only slightly

Sunny 45:30

, oh boy.

Vanessa 45:35

Okay, Festies. Thank you so much for sticking with us for a full year. Follow us on instagram, tiktok and youtube at festies podcast. We do have an outside lands vlog coming out soon, so be on the lookout for that on our youtube. We'll post it on instagram and leave us a rating and review wherever you listen to us. And also, don't forget, you can always get your own pair of Eargasm earplugs and get 10 percent off with our discount code festies10, and protect your ears yeah we'll catch you on the next one bye,

Sunny 46:10

bye,

Clark 46:11

Bye.