Roadtrip to Burning Man 2025

The Annual Pre-Playa Planner™

It’s that time again, kids! The Pre-Playa Planner is the yearly tradition where Arash delegates all the actual research to his way-more-responsible guests. This year’s dialed-in crew to help you mentally prepare for your adventures ahead:

• Esquire, founder of Bubble Lounge
• Saffron aka Sara Barnett, repping Art Support Services (A.S.S.) instagram.com/cornepeli
• Shamiran, artist, musician, sonic selector and Camp YOUniversal mainstay instagram.com/saterishamiran

The crew breaks down some of the 2025 art projects we're excited to see, rituals we’re bringing back, new surprises we're bracing for, and logistics that separate the veterans from the sparkle ponies.

Burner Podcast Episode 159

Recorded in Los Angeles on August 2, 2025

📅 playaevents.burningman.org

🌀 2025 Art Installations: burningman.org/event/2025-art-listings

🎧 Here Shamiran’s full set here: https://on.soundcloud.com/26hAaDXocNpuuuMIWU

🛻 Your Pre-Playa Audio Toolkit: burnerpodcast.com/roadtrip

🗃️ Previous Pre-Playa Planners: burnerpodcast.com/previous-episodes/category/pre-playa-planner

Contributing Producer: Public Menace of Bubble Lounge

 

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Hosted by (mr)Arash, Burner Podcast is the longest running traditional audio podcast in the global Burning Man community. Independently produced and focused on Burner consciousness and topics of intracultural interest, explore 150+ conversations at burnerpodcast.com/previous-episodes.

Burner Podcast host Arash Afshar is an Iranian-American SoCal-born (and sometimes Vegas-based) professional photographer. You can learn more at arashafshar.com and reach out directly at mrarash.com/hello.

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