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Burner Podcast

 Arash Afshar

Independently produced by a revolving team of volunteers and Hosted by founder (mr)Arash, Burner Podcast is the longest running traditional audio podcast in the extended international community of Burning Man. Focused on year-round Burner consciousness and topics of intracultural interest, explore 140+ episodes at burnerpodcast.com/previous-episodes.

Burner Podcast host Arash Afshar is an Iranian-American SoCal-based professional photographer and community builder. Connect with him directly at mrarash.com/hello.
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Society & Culture Interviews
Update frequency
every 25 days
Average duration
138 minutes
Episodes
166
Years Active
2014 - 2025
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Episode 123: What a Journey

Episode 123: What a Journey

Arash visits with Dan Reeves and Lee Hemingway of The Journey Project from episode 59. The conversation dives into stories of their experiences building on playa, where the project went after Burning…

02:30:23  |   Wed 18 Aug 2021
Episode 122: Perky Parts Unknown

Episode 122: Perky Parts Unknown

Trav Mo, Felisha and Jesse Severns of Perky Parks camp recount their ridiculous adventure bringing a camel art car named Humpty to Burning Man and reflect on other adventures in burning including the…

02:59:45  |   Sat 14 Aug 2021
Episode 121: invisible Gates

Episode 121: invisible Gates

Dr. Amanda J Lucia's life long adventure through India, yoga festivals and academia eventually brought her to Burning Man and made her an active citizen of Black Rock City. Dr. Lucia is the author of…

03:03:54  |   Tue 22 Jun 2021
Episode 120: Someone Brought a 747 to Burning Man

Episode 120: Someone Brought a 747 to Burning Man

On this jumbo jet sized episode, we get to know Ken Feldmen and follow him through his post college days throwing some of the earliest bigger production raves in Austin while exploring aerospace, tel…

03:07:21  |   Tue 11 May 2021
Episode 119: Wings of Glory

Episode 119: Wings of Glory

Adrian Landon, the artist behind the flaming steel pegasus that lived in front of Center Camp at Burning Man 2019, shares his story. Arash and Adrian chat about New York, art theory and horsies. Clos…
03:01:29  |   Wed 03 Mar 2021
Episode 118: Truckers on Speed

Episode 118: Truckers on Speed

Miva CEO, author of Dragonproof Ecommerce and host of Dragonproof Ecommerce Podcast, Rick Wilson, co-founded Playa-Q and has been burning for 15 (or 22) years. Arash picks his brain about professiona…
02:43:50  |   Tue 16 Feb 2021
Episode 117: Lights in the Sky

Episode 117: Lights in the Sky

Arash nerds out in New York with Brandon Robinson, art-car creator and co-founder of Icarus. A Burning Man biography in three acts, Brandon shares his evolution from a wide-eyed 21-year-old attending…
03:15:46  |   Sun 27 Dec 2020
Episode 116.5: I'm Not Really a Burner

Episode 116.5: I'm Not Really a Burner

Arash interviewed John Reynolds (aka Bass Exotic) last year and learned about his upbringing, his adventures navigating fatherhood and cancer and his eventually ending up at Burning Man with a reinvi…
02:55:52  |   Sun 27 Dec 2020
Episode 116: Camp Camp Camp, a Camp

Episode 116: Camp Camp Camp, a Camp

Arash chats with Nick Bourbeau (Bobo Saurus), Courtney Maltais (Puppies) and Bradon Young (Pickles) of Camp Camp Camp about wisdom received from traveling abroad, leadership development and useful ti…
03:13:33  |   Sun 01 Nov 2020
Episode 115: Knotty Love

Episode 115: Knotty Love

Knotty Boy and Cylon reflect on meeting in the burner community and forging their relationship in the punishing heat and dust while working for Burning Man’s Gate Department, culminating with their r…
02:56:29  |   Sat 29 Aug 2020
Episode 114.5: Dispatch From BRCvr

Episode 114.5: Dispatch From BRCvr

BRCvr co-founders Athena Demos, Greg Edwards and Doug Jacobson hop on a Zoom call with Arash to breakdown the VR Black Rock City experience they’ve been working on since 2014, which is now one of the…
00:56:48  |   Mon 17 Aug 2020
Episode 114: Burning Man So White

Episode 114: Burning Man So White

Black burners Kennos and Evita share stories and thoughts on experiencing Burning Man and our extended communities as people of color. Closing set by J.Richards (Miki Beach)   facebook.com/evita.sawy…
02:30:09  |   Fri 14 Aug 2020
Episode 113: Nobody Calls Me Mister

Episode 113: Nobody Calls Me Mister

After a three month hiatus, host (mr)Arash sits down with his previous long time collaborators, with whom he began his nearly decade-long podcasting journey, intending to clear some energetic cobwebs…
03:54:46  |   Tue 14 Jul 2020
Episode 112: Everything Burns Bigger in Texas

Episode 112: Everything Burns Bigger in Texas

Members of The Brimstone Society chat with Arash about that Gerlach regional, Austin's Burning Flipside (the world’s first regional burn), the evolution of Austin's FreezerBurn, the importance of coo…

02:59:48  |   Tue 31 Mar 2020
Episode 111: Kostume Kult

Episode 111: Kostume Kult

Costume Jim, Christopher Hardwick and Marianna Lavin fill Arash in on Kostume Kult's history, New York City Burning Man life and adventures in parade float orchestration. Closing set by Deep Woods (H…
02:56:54  |   Sun 19 Jan 2020
Episode 110: Communal Effort

Episode 110: Communal Effort

MÚCARO artist El NiNo returns to the show and brings his fundraising lead, Chrissy Spehar. The pair catch us up on their adventures and dispense a wealth of valuable advice for anyone raising money f…
03:23:00  |   Tue 24 Dec 2019
Episode 109: The Cloud

Episode 109: The Cloud

Burning Man 2019 was only Jorge Perdomo’s second burn but that didn’t stop him from leading the charge to bring a technically complex immersive sound experience to the Black Rock Desert all the way f…
03:45:41  |   Mon 02 Dec 2019
Episode 108: Mariposita

Episode 108: Mariposita

Chris Carnabuci’s career as an artist’s artist slingshotted into existence only more recently and his ‘woman emerging for the egg' is only the beginning of Mariposita’s adventures. Closing set by Tim…
02:41:50  |   Thu 14 Nov 2019
Episode 107: Celtic Chaos

Episode 107: Celtic Chaos

Get to know “that Irish camp” of Burning Man, Celtic Chaos. Stephen Crowe, Billy Vaughan, Natasha, Rob Lane, Charlene Solarno, Anthony McDonagh and John Walsh guide Arash through their burn history, …
03:00:02  |   Wed 16 Oct 2019
Episode 106: Shredding at Sk8Kamp

Episode 106: Shredding at Sk8Kamp

David Thibert and Joey Wydeven, leads of Esplanade mainstay Sk8Kamp, talk skating, redefining family and having the secret service surround the Kokomotive mutant vehicle a block away from the White H…
02:59:34  |   Thu 26 Sep 2019
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