Welcome to Episode 12 with Amy Bunker. After spending a couple of years being very Burning Man adjacent while living and studying in Northern California she finally made it out to BRC in 2001. Amy has worked and volunteered in many departments over the years. Her longest stint was as Regional Contact for New Hampshire, Vermont, and Maine in the early 2000’s. She has been to many Regional events from Hawaii to Europe and has worked with some of them particularly Love burn in Miami. Amy is filled with great stories and inspirational anecdotes about how Burning Man has impacted her life and those close to her.

Welcome to the first show of 2025 featuring Beth From the show Accuracy Third (https://accuracythird.com/). They are a podcast about Burning Man, or "an oral history of Black Rock City", and they first started their show about 9 years ago. It's a great show and I encourage you to check it out.

Learn about Beth and her journey to Black Rock City and how she volunteered, got involved, and met her co-hosts. Our conversation is wide ranging and shines a light on some little known facts about year-round operations and staff.

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in 2025 Playa Pete will mark his 30th consecutive trip to BRC (minus 2020 and 2021, but he did go to the renegade burns). Over the years he has been one of the main screen printing suppliers to BMP and more recently he has held the position of First Cabin Boy on the Monaco.

Pete spins quite a few amazing tales, follow his story from growing up in Vancouver, joining the Air Force, becoming a male model, and meeting Danger Ranger who wanted him to make some of the first Ranger t-shirts. Pete has more tales than can fit into one episode we will have to have him back again.

Explore the impact Burning Man has had on its Superintendent Tony "Coyote" Perez. Burning since 1996 he quickly joined the ranks and together Will Roger formed what we all know today as the Department of Public Works or DPW. He has written an excellent book about his experience called "Built To Burn" where you can read all about his experiences in his first few years on the playa back in the wild west days.

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Welcome to Episode 8 with Jennie Kay. Learn about her start in Michigan in a very religious community before she left for the wild west. She learned about Burning Man after she moved to Monterey, CA and first hit the playa in 2002. After a few years of being one of the main organizers of her theme camp (Cypress Lounge Bingo) she became a Regional Contact for Monterey and started a very popular free and public beach gathering. Jennie became involved in The Seattle Regional group after moving there and also joined the advisory board for Burners Without Borders which she is still on.

This was a very interesting conversation with one of my best friends. Even I learned new things about Jennie.

Our guest today is the one and only Action Girl (aka Andie Grace). She has come a long way from growing up in St Louis, then moving to SF where she got involved with the Cacophony Society before going out to Black Rock City in 1997.

Andie quickly got involved and volunteered with Media Mecca when it was first forming. Andie has worn many hats as a Burning Man Project staffer, besides working with Media Mecca she she took over the Jack Rabbit Speaks (the BM newsletter for those who don't know) from Maid Marion. Andie was also one of the original leaders of the Regional Network when it was first forming around the turn of the millennium.

Over the years Andie has left the Project to pursue her own career and then come back again. Currently she is a Burning Man staffer working with the Philosophical Center collecting oral histories. 

This is an episode that is not to be missed. Learn all about how Burning Man has shaped Andie's life in Episode 7 of Shadow of the Man.

Special note: The image used for the episode cover art is a photo taken by Eleanor Preger

Today's guest is Nati Goldman, he is one of the Israeli Regional Contacts and has been part of Midburn (the Israeli Regional burn) since its early days. Nati has a rich background and years of project management experience yet he is more interested in talking about philosophy. We also touch on the changes undergoing Midburn in this eventful last year, and what the future might hold.

Meet the Norwegian-born viking, artist, and veteran of the US military and DPW, the one and only Otto Von Danger. He was a Marine, builder of the Man, and drive by shooting range "Range Master", this is not an episode to be missed.

Sorry it's a little late, but this episode was meant to be a bonus episode for the end of September. 

Otto's opinions are his alone and do not necessarily reflect the views of the host or the show.

Meet the September episode guest Tiya Coleman. She is a long time burner, Las Vegas Regional Contact, and member of the Metaregional Committee. Learn about her background, Burning Man experience, the change she has experienced, as well as a discussion about how BRC has changed over the last 13 years and diversity and Radical inclusion on the playa.

Today we are speaking with our first ever guest, the one and only George Paap. He is the first Regional Contact, he started the first Regional group, he started what is now the longest running Regional Burn, Flipside in Texas.

George tells us his story of growing up, meeting Burning Man, having it change him, and what it all has meant to him. Please give it a listen and enjoy.