Bethenny on Travis Scott

Published Nov 11, 2021, 3:52 PM

On the fatal Astroworld Festival

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Okay, So today I decided to do the podcast to talk about this Travis Scott Travesty. This concert at Astra World an epic disaster, Okay, eight people dead, hundreds of people injured, um described as being literally in the depths of hell. It needs to be discussed because people are scared to talk about it. And I'm not going to be scared to talk about things that worry me as a human being, as a parent, as a person who regards human life and fixates and gets obsessed with unnecessary harm or death, as just a human being. So it's a different podcast today, it's a different kind of rant. I just want to go into this and I want to hear what you have to say about it, because it's not being spoken about in certain places. It's not being spoken about in the mainstream media on Instagram, it's being spoken about ad nauseum on TikTok. So I understand that wherever you're getting your information or news, things will differ greatly. So this is just to talk about something that happened that affected me that everyone around me that works with me finds to be horrifying. And I want to get into it with you, and you know, I'm always here for cancelation if you don't like my opinion, or we can have a normal, healthy discussion. I didn't know about it initially. It really wasn't on my phone. I think I saw at the top of my phone eight people killed, but I didn't look at it. My assistant said to me, are you going to do a rant about what happened with Travis Scott? And I had not been feeling well the whole weekend. I was just a little under the weather. And I said, what Travis Scott thinks? So she said, oh my god, I can't believe you don't know. So I started to sort of dive into what happened at Astro World, and um, eight people were at least eight people were killed, hundreds were injured. One boy, Ezra blount Uh is in the hospital and was on a medically induced coma and fighting for his life. So I got immersed in this. And the thing about me and Paul had to say to me last night is and this is now, days after this actually happened. I get obsessed, and it happens to me, happened to be with ppe shortage during the pandemic. It happens to me with It happened to be with the Puerto Rico Hurricame, Maria disaster, Australia fires. Certain things trigger me and I just get in and it's hard to get out, and it's not that great for my health. But that's a touching story because people are dead, so you know, I and I and I'll be up all night looking at news and listening to different people and reading everything and digging, and I get obsessed. It happened to me the most similar thing that ever happened to me to feeling the way that I feel about this Travis Scott concert was the Sandy Hook Elementary School tragedy for these children. Because I I don't I don't do well when something is ruined and and like you can't take it back. It gives me anxiety. It could be something in life where an argument ruins and experience. I get very upset, I get very frustrated. I want to rewind. It could be you know, when Dennis passed away, uh, And I don't know exactly what led to that, but of course I I beat myself up and thought about, uh, was it anything that I had ended my relationship with him? And you know, I tend to Some of us do that when something triggers us, we obsess about it. It It could be our childhood, it could be being parents worry, it could be you had of your own death in the family. But these certain things will trigger us. So I get obsessed and I fixate, and I don't know why it happens to me, and I just can't sort of stop. And it's either if it's not just or things aren't being said properly. So this Travis Scott thing has me shook, and I want to talk about so many different things. One of the things I want to talk about is the difference between the universe on Instagram to the universe on TikTok. So. Twitter is a place where people just talk back and forth. People say, there are a lot of trolls. People come for you, um, and when you do something wrong, they come to the host, meaning like you know, like a parasite and a host to come tell you how disgusting you are, and they want to cancel you and they just want their out for blood. But it's also a focus group. You can go back and forth and talk about something and it's a conversation. Instagram feels like a Sacks window. Display like this is perfection, this is what it should look like, and it's sort of more still. I know there are videos, but it just feels fairly still. So TikTok which has evolved. It was more in the beginning about the dances, and then it's into different organizational hacks and recipes, and it keeps evolving into different things, people doing these voiceovers. But what I'm finding on TikTok um it's sort of like the voice of the people, and it's not while people show their perfect lives and do have a lot of fake things on there, like other social media, it's a place where individuals can break through and talk about their own experiences and become people that a lot of people listen to. So it could be somebody cooking something or talking about low carb or organizing their type aware to just a person who has had an experience. So TikTok is this place where all of these people who are at this concert that are young. It's a younger generation than than Instagram, which is younger than Facebook and TikTok kids because some of them are you know, it goes from fourteen to like, you know, thirty. The people that I'm looking at are explaining what their experience was that this concert. It could not be more different from what is not being shown on Instagram because it didn't happen on Instagram. A little bit on the news and usually just a news sites or headlines, but it's kind of been buried. A lot of videos are being taken down. They're saying to say videos because there are gruesome details about what's happened, and in video details um on TikTok, and a lot of it's been buried in the mainstream Internet. I don't know where why and how. I do know. I know somebody personally who used to work for a politician and could move things down. Meaning literally, if you google yourself and something is bad, you can like have a fix or fix it. So that's a fact. So I posted something about the kid, Ezra Blount, who's nine years old, who's fighting for his life in the hospital, and I said, be strong was going to donate ten thousand dollars to his family and then try to raise money for the other victims um of this tragedy. This is different for us. We usually focus on disaster relief, but this is one of these things where it was totally unlike a disaster, which just is a natural disaster. This totally could have been avoided, um because this was a concert uh for fifty people who rushed a stage and by all of the people on TikTok that don't know each other. They were part of a fifty person group. They're explaining the concert as this it felt like the seventh circle of Hell. It felt satanic, demonic people were they were had to wait for songs to be over to to breathe because there would be like a decompression in the crowd when a song was over, and some people thought that they might be able to get a chance to escape, but then the minute a song started again, it was utter craziness. They couldn't breathe. They felt themselves stepping on top of other body these and could feel the crushing of bones and if you had your hands up, you couldn't put them down. If you had your hands down, you couldn't put them up, So you were basically being suffocated. People that were running running for the exits when they could finally leave with blue lips, they literally felt like they were in hell. This has been hundreds of people have described this identical express They felt like they were in hell, so in no particular order. I thought it was a pandemic. That's so low on the list of what matters here, but I thought it was still a pandemic. I had two friends at my birthday party that didn't come because the restaurant a requires vaccination, and other people who have medical issues and their families didn't feel comfortable. So two good friends didn't come to a twenty three person birthday party. We're talking about a fifty thousand person event with which with no regard for any pandemic. So it's crazy that certain kids have to go to school and still have to wear a mask. But this doesn't I mean people's bodies were literally glued to each other's. Okay, everyone has described this experience as hell. If you were close to a barricade, it was even worse because you were pinned up against a metal bar. I would have thought that was a good place because you could sort of hang onto it, but it meant that people were gonna, you know, trample you and and crush your body. What would it take to be killed by a stampede um? You see people in prisons that get beaten the ship out of I mean like oregan failure and bloody, you know, beaten to a pulp. Gang fights. You see people who's all their ribs are broken that survive. Okay, what does it take for someone to be killed in the middle of a crowd. So that's obviously horrific, and people are frustrated, and people are saying all over TikTok, keep these videos. They're being deleted, and people are saying to me, when I posted about be strong, getting involved, um to help this boy who's uh fighting for his life, and other families saying this is a cry isis? People are saying, You're the only celebrity talking about it. That's what they're saying on Twitter, That's what they're saying on TikTok. That's what they're saying on Instagram. Why why am I the only celebrity talking about? What would there be not to talk about? I'm absolutely confused? So so so is he that powerful? What is it? So? Also, when this came out, people were very very upset and they had different They just want to They're out for blood, for for Travis and for the Kardashian So let's break this down. We can put Travis to the side, because that's a bigger topic. I very sincerely can assure you that Kylie Jenner and her child did not know that people were dying in an audience. I mean, there's just no way that she would know that someone was going to was being killed when she posted inadvertently posted a picture of a crowd with an ambulance going through it. Also, in their defense, an ambulance going through a crowd at a Fifton event. I mean, you go to bars and people pass out and faint. Do you go to festivals and people faith from dehydration? There could be an ambulance. So I think that everyone's just coming for everyone, and they're angry about other things. It's not necessarily what they're about. What it's about. You can disagree with me, and you can cancel me. I'm just saying I want to break this down. Okay, Chloe posted a picture of herself, uh in a sexy outfit. They're saying it was a thirst trap. I mean, she wasn't there. It's someone who's the baby daddy to her sister. So I get that they're all close knit family and filming a show, but I'm sure no one even knew what the hell to do, Like you know this wasn't she did not do this, so and we're beating her up and then they're saying it's tone deaf, and maybe it is. And I've done tone deaf things before, and not everyone knows what to do, and she might not have even been aware of it. I know it sounds ridiculous, but I don't know. We don't know how they operate. Okay, we just don't know. And I'm sure they don't know what to do. Chris has to get together and get organized and figure out what to do. It's a disaster. And you know they are all for one and one for all and their family of billionaires because of this unit. Um, we've bought the correct we've bought the products, we've you know, made them billionaires and they're a close knit family. And um, for the record, you know, Kim has always been nice to me. I Chris Jenner, I have a friend in common with and she did my talk show years ago. I don't know them. I don't speak on things that I really don't know. I'm just saying. So that's that part of it. I think the disparity of wealth in this country, there is really no middle class anymore. You are flat bro, can't afford to eat, can't afford a mask, or you're a billionaire. I mean that sounds like a gross exaggeration. And believe me, I have nice things and I have money, but um, there's a massive disparity. So when you see people dying and then another person is totally protected up on the dais, it's hard to look at. And I think that's what's bothering people. People are feeling anger. We're in the middle of the craziest time. We've gone through the crazy, crazy time of protest during Black Lives Matter, a pandemic, natural disasters everywhere, a very harsh political climate. People have been stuck in their houses. They are crazy. I have been. I have had two personal attacks in New York City, one resulting in a police coming about something disgusting to happen with my daughter, and somebody else saying give me your fucking money. So people are angry. It's different than it ever was. So another concept here is bringing your child to a concert. People are annoyed at that. People are annoyed that the youngest person that this concert was fourteen years old. That there was a man who had his nine year old who I'm in touch with the man who's in the hospital that they would be at a concert. So a lot of people are parents shaming. Now I can tell you this. I was thirteen years old, I was in nightclubs. I was doing things I shouldn't be doing in fourteen years old and nightclubs by myself, I can tell you that doesn't mean I should be dead. So doesn't you know, we're Angso what my parenting was and where I was and whether I should or shouldn't have been there, that's a different conversation. That doesn't mean I should be dead. So none of this needed to happen. Okay, we all know that, and that's why so many moms and so many young people who know that they have been at these concerts and they want to go and enjoy the music. They're all shook to the core. And so are moms because it could have been their child, and they have teenagers that want to go to these concerts, etcetera. So you know, let's not shame parents whose kids are places that you wouldn't put your kids. And I'm gonna get to that next, because don't cancel me. I didn't know who Travis Scott was. If you would said to me, who's Travis Scott, I would have I wouldn't have been sure. I might have said that it was Travis Barker. I might have said the person, who's uh, somebody totally different. I might just a country singer. I wouldn't have known it off the top of my head. I didn't know that he was like this either rap or hip hop, justin Bieber level artists. I didn't know that he was a person who had bring in fifty people in an arena. So this is all new to me. I didn't know that. But what I do now know, if from listening to different people and reading articles, is that he and his music and his Fortnite campaigns and his McDonald's campaigns and his backwards Nike swash, etcetera. Are marketed to kids. Because my daughter brand who I brought to the Radio City Music Hall Christmas show last night, which is about the level of crowd level that I want to go to with her during this crazy time, UM, she knows who he is because he's marketed to the young tick talkers and to young kids who play Fortnite. I don't know any forty year old who play Fortnite, but I know that my daughter at nine played Fortnite. So it's a mixed message of parents. Who has a nine year old is going to have their kid begging to go to see Travis Scott. So this music, this this artist, his brand is talking two young people, so they want to ask their parents to go. And there are many things my daughter wants to do in New York City. She and her friends want to walk around and go to do it a target by themselves and go to Starbucks, and because everybody's doing it, you know, she wants to do it. And I often feel like, am I crazy? Am I wrong? That I don't want that? This isn't the This isn't the world we grew up in. This is not the open your front door and your kid goes and takes a bike ride and it's a terrible fear induced world. But tensions are so high right now. So his his music is marketed to young kids. Then there have been so many different historical occurrences of this guy encouraging people to rage, to be heroes if they've passed out. You know, pictures posting pictures of kids who are passed out. That's a hero. You know, somebody jumped off a roof because of him. You know, he likes when it gets to an aggressive level. There was an artist that was interviewed who was also at this astro fest, who said, artists, it's their goal to make people get worked up, for the crowd to be wild, et cetera. But where's the line. So there are so many videos of kids, one of them not young people who's who were up on stage begging camera people, begging production guys to stop the show. There are dead bodies down there, and you saw people being pulled through the crowds, body surfing that were limp and that stuff. It appears in the videos very clearly that Travis could see or stop the show. That Travis could say that seems to be very clear. Did he know there were multiple dead people in the audience. I don't know that either. How could I know? I don't think that he would be a human being with a beating heart if that were the case, So I don't believe that he could possibly know they would be dead people. But I had no one's talked about his wits about him. People are wasted at these shows, wasted, and it just seemed like an environment where people were probably fucked up beyond repair, and a lot of these artists are always wasted. It makes them that are at their singing. Is it M D M A? Is it special k Is it ecstasy? Is it just tons of hie edibles? I don't know, and I'm not gonna go and speculate, but I'm just saying that you could see that people were saying stop the show, and people are dying, and also a security person could have gone on stage, like stop the fucking show. These crowds people are killing each other, but I don't think anyone could move. It sounds like utter pandemenia, pandemonium and mayhem. So these poor parents and families have lost their loved ones going to a concert. What a frivolous, superficial thing that you know that should be normal, that your kids want to go to and that you want to give them what they want. It's our jobs as parents to decide what is safe and what is not safe. We have to understand that these are unusual times. Okay, these are desperate times. They require desperate measures. No, to my daughter, you're not going by yourself, frankly anywhere. I'm sorry. There's too much craziness. We've had too many incidents, and there are people dead from just anger and rage, and an environment cultivated to pull in kids but not protect them, to attract kids to this concert and have them get killed for just wanting to listen to music. And it's frankly horrifying. And that's why it's it's it's it's it's provoking so many people. And when I tell you, if you go to Instagram, it doesn't exist. If you go to TikTok, it's all you will see is people talking about their experience. They who literally lost people who are going to funerals for people that they know, and they explained that this was demonic, satanic and that they were actually in hell. So it's a complete disaster. And nobody's too big for the game, okay, And you start to believe your own bullshit, and you start to believe your own fame, and you start to ride this thing through the top and think you're invincible, and you know it all can go away in an instant, So live, you know, safely, responsibly, hug your babies, live for today, Understand that it's a crazy world, sadly, and pray for these people and their families who we're trying to help, and I just want to say that Ezra Blount, who whose father I've been messaging on Instagram. I keep asking him, how can we get you the money? He hasn't once. He keeps saying, we're fighting for his life. Thank you for reaching out. He hasn't once said here's how to get us the money, Just to show you what kind of person he is. He's in a hospital, fighting for his kid's life. We have not We can't even give him the ten thousand dollars. He won't respond about the money. He will only respond about his son's well being. So we're gonna reach out to his lawyer, hopefully, because now I've pledged this money and it's just sitting there waiting for this family. Um Otherwise we'll give it to the other victims families. I can't imagine why he wouldn't want it, But I just want you to know that it's just a horror show and I want to hear what you think about this. I know this has been bothering many of you, and obviously there has nothing to do with me, but I just think it's crazy that people are saying I'm the only one talking about it and are people scared. People are scared to talk about it because his fans will come after me and kill me. Someone said to me, which is crazy, or you know, it's dangerous to go. So now we have to be suppressed, suppressed, and we can't. It's Handmaid's tale, and I can't say what I think is horrifying is an experience. And again I don't know what he knew, what he didn't know. I don't know about the Kardashians. They're not all clumped in, They're not all one human being there. You know, he's young, Kylie's young. I have no idea about the responsibility and sense and wits about you. You have to have to have a festival that is yours, that is driven by you. We shouldn't be taking on. You can't run an event like that if you can't be responsible. And the people around him managing him and liaising. I mean, weren't people tweeting right after the show started. They say that forty five minutes after it was declared a mass casualty. He played for forty five minutes, So somebody nobody has a phone at a fifty people that tweeted what the funk? Nine one one? I haven't heard of one tweet. So so nobody went up to him and said to him and pulled him and said, there are people dying like that. All doesn't track forty five minutes. That's insane to flight from one state to another. It doesn't make any sense. How the funk would someone keep it for me for forty five minutes. No person that works for this person would get up and say stop it? Or is it just they know that people are going to die? And also there's there are reports saying that the FBI is involved and that the security detail had a code word for dead people and it was smurfs so that they don't freak anybody out over the radios that they had to call people smurfs. I mean, it's a crazy story. We thought Firefest was crazy. This is like lethal Firefest in burning hell. So sorry, if I freaked all you out, I bet you a lot of you didn't know about this because a lot of this is hidden. You see there. I've seen videos and people literally being trampled. I just affected by it. I have to stop obsessing over it. Just the only way I can do something is to help these people. But it's a nightmare and it's every parents nightmare. So let's just be prepared and pray for these poor families. Be Strong has been focusing on a homeless Effortiday Boxes for homeless people starting in New York, and we've taken a little time to focus on this effort. Um. This is more similar to the Champlaine Towers where in Florida and serfside this whole people just crumbled to the ground and in one second their life was full. In the next second they were dead. And so this just feels like a crisis to me. It's upsetting people and you just want to feel like you can do something and protect your energy somewhere. So if you want to donate to any of these families or to help some of these families. Bethany B t h E n n Y dot com slash b Strong, we're getting together money. We we were trying to get in touch with these families. It's not that easy. They're all in a panic state and you know, they're all lawyering up and so I just want you to know that we're on it and UM in touch with the girl who was on stage who was screaming for the show to stop, I'm in touch with the father of the nine year old boy fighting for his life. So everybody's just sort of collecting themselves. They don't have voices from that night. They're all they've all experienced trauma. So if you want to donate, there's have been a lot of there's been a lot of residual damage and I people should pay for this. It's really horrific. UM. And I know one lawyer that I know through Dennis John Morgan. He's representing a couple of the people. UM. And there will be class action lawsuits and this will be a nightmare. UM. And it's not the first time it's ever happened. Apparently years ago, Travis st got arrested because he told people to rush the stage. That's sort of his culture and his brand is for people to rush the stage and risk their lives. That that means you're really a fan. And it's seems like this cult that all these people are part of. People jumping up on the ambulance like you know, like fuck, you know, fuck the man. It's anarchy, Like great for crazy people who have a death wish, but for young kids who just want to listen to music. I mean, you know, it's like you gotta know what you're walking into. So the fact that Bren, my daughter likes this music means it's marketed to her. So if this is marketed, you know, you go to like raves at five o'clock in the morning and take drugs in M D M A and do crazy shit, and you know you're on your own. I don't know what to tell you. I don't know. I bet you, but I don't know what goes on a burning man. It seems to be pretty safe Woodstock years ago, I don't think. I think it was like a miniscule number of people that died. But when you walk into something that is designed to be a dangerous rage mosh pit, there is no authority keep your kids far away from this ship because it's just not where you want your kids to bay. So they should decide to market to you know, animals who want to jump on and lences and and are on a suicide mission. That's a different person, you know, that's different. Go to a prison and get a bunch of inmates who have killed other people and invite them to the concert. Let them all fucking fight it out, rush the stage and kill each other. But innocent fourteen year olds who are dead. I'm not here for that. And so just you know, the press isn't writing about it. Press is nervous too. They don't like to write about this kind of stuff. So they're writing about it only if I talk about it, because then they can say I said it, they didn't say it. You'll see a theme there. If I talk about it, they'll talk about it, but they won't on their own just write articles. They're terrified of the topic. And you know what, I didn't do this podcast to be a pussy and not break through, like I'm out on here to just talk about my eyelashes, which I actually have none. You can see video of people screaming stop the show, stop the show, and Travis reacting to it. You can see Travis reacting to an ambulance. And there are videos all over the internet of Lincoln Park stopping a concert one person was passed out, of Adele stopping a concert, of Rihanna stopping a concert. Of Drake, who's implicated in this as well because he performed, of him stopping a concert where guys weren't being respectful to women. So you know, it's entirely possible to see what's going on right in front of you, because this was in the v I p pit ironically to see what's going on in front of you and stop a concert. So it's because he didn't stop and continue to play for forty five minutes afterwards and then went to Dave and Busters afterwards. So explain this to me. How do you after a mass casualty has been declared when you know that they're never not on social media. They could not be more on social media. It was a mass casualty declared, plays for forty five minutes, goes to an afterpart, goes to an after party at Dave and Busters with Drake. So no one told you, no one. You don't have text You can't play stupid and smart at the same time. I say that to people all the time. You can't be a person on the pulse and in the in the throws and the depths of social media. And then you just don't have a phone. You're using you know, a rotary dial telephone from the eighties, Like you know what I mean, Like you just can't. I don't get it. Something is really wrong and I'm thinking it's being wasted. Certainly, I'm not judging a young artist for being wasted. It's what every single artist does unless they are declared sober. But when you're really fucked up, you don't even know what's going on. But you have a responsibility to know what's going on when you're controlling a crowd and you know, and you have children in your audience and it's your concert with your name on it. So believe me, no one's mentioned that. It's the weirdest thing that no one's discussing, that it's an actual global pandemic, and it's crazy that no one's discussing. Was he wasted and out of it and didn't know what's going on. People party at concerts, so what they do everyone the audience was sucked up. There no when no one's discussed that will come out later, But it doesn't mean I don't know.

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