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You can be anyone
you wanna be on the internet.
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Criminals can conceal themselves
from being held accountable
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for the things that they say and do.
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That is the new frontier
for law enforcement.
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In the past, you would
have detectives in a patrol car,
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uh, looking out the windows,
hunting for bad guys.
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{\an8}But now you have threats
that come through social media.
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In 2019, I was the commander
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of the Southern Nevada
Counterterrorism Center.
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I was informed that an individual
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who lived with his mother
in Southern California
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had, uh, put information
out on social media
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that he was trying to organize, uh,
an event where they would storm Area 51.
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I was pissed off.
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But I did not wanna be the person
that ignored something
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that you could see coming a mile away.
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And then the questions
were gonna be asked afterwards
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of why didn't law enforcement
do something about this?
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We gotta get this thing under control.
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Now.
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More than two million people say
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they're going to storm Area 51 next month.
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The Lincoln County Sheriff
has some big concerns.
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We're reaching out
to all of our partners, federal and state.
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We don't know. We're only planning
for the worst and hoping for the best.
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I got a call
from the Las Vegas Police Department.
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They were getting together
every government agency they could
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to deal with this Storm Area 51 thing.
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So I jumped in my patrol car
and headed to Las Vegas.
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I walked in that room
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{\an8}with all those different players
sitting at a big U-shaped table.
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We had Las Vegas
Metropolitan Police Department,
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the FBI,
the State Department, US Marshals.
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It really brought things home.
This is big league here.
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We had US Air Force personnel.
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{\an8}Captain Tomaino
was running the whole event.
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{\an8}He came in, and we went
around the room voicing our concerns.
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If a large amount of people
decided we're going to storm the base,
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how are we gonna handle this?
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Imagine someone has a gun.
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If people start shooting and suddenly,
hundreds or maybe thousands of people
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get shot over this event, you're looking
at one of the deadliest mass shootings
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in the history of our nation.
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This isn't a joke. This isn't play.
This is definitely serious.
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It's all fucked up.
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We asked the Air Force,
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"Are you really gonna use
your weapons on a crowd of nerds?"
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There are foreign
intel operatives out there
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that are gonna infiltrate the crowd
of these Naruto runner alien seekers.
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They're gonna look like 'em,
smell like 'em.
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Gonna talk like 'em, act like 'em.
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Therefore, we will treat all of them
as hostile until proven otherwise.
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We knew our best chance
of getting the thing turned off
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was to have the organizers of the event
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well aware that
there would be consequences
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for their actions
if they continue to carry on.
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We needed to be able
to put somebody on the doorsteps
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since this guy's hundreds of miles away.
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And so we all turned
and looked at the FBI.
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I'm at my friend's house when I get
a call from my mom at about 10:00 a.m.
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I don't answer it, and then she texts me.
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And now I'm scared
to the point I'm about to cry.
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I was scared.
I've never had federal agents at my door.
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They said, "Do you know where he's at?"
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They took my phone
to talk to him directly.
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The agent is just wanting to know
where I'm at and when I'll be home,
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and I am telling him
neither of these things.
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I said,
"You have to come home. If you don't,
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that's when they're gonna start looking
into what you've done."
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I'm sheer panic.
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I've got very militant
anti-government people, um,
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sending me scary messages,
threatening to kill other people,
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threatening to kill the guards
at the base.
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And what happens to me
if one of these people goes in there
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and tries to do that shit under my name?
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I'm running through any lawyers
I may have met in passing.
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I'm looking up online of anybody
that might have the qualifications
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to help with this weird
fucking scenario I found myself in.
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And after I am on the edge of giving up,
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I called Jeremy Corbell.
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Oh, fuck.
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He was pretty terrified. I advised Matty
he should have a lawyer with him,
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just 'cause we didn't know.
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We didn't know
what the nature of this contact was.
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I have seen the pushback.
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When you're dealing
and reporting on Area 51,
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they wanna keep things secret.
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These are accusations of a cover-up.
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This is accusations that we have
been holding non-terrestrial materials.
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{\an8}Tell the basic truth.
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I'm hearing about
all this bad shit, not only from Jeremy,
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but just from stuff I found online myself
on these different forums.
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{\an8}Our government is just
not transparent with us.
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{\an8}I'd like to ask the government,
"Why are you keeping it from us?"
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Our government has been working
on black ops.
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Disturbing truth about Area 51.
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You could get shot
for giving our secrets away.
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What the fuck?!
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It's easy to write it off
as just all internet lore phooey.
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But then, the FBI's knocking on your door,
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and suddenly, it's a lot more real.
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I mean, I was like, "Fuck, Matty."
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"That meeting you have to take seriously."
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I'm just sitting there shaking,
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thinking I'm about
to get a bag over my head
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and thrown into a van and shipped off
to God-knows-where.
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And they're grilling me
about my social life,
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my backstory,
what kind of religious beliefs I hold.
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Like, just to feel out whether or not
I am actually a terrorist.
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I'm telling them the truth.
I'm not actually planning on doing this.
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We're actually planning a music festival.
Look, see? You can go through my messages.
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Just anything to save my own ass
at that point.
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But they essentially let me know
that it was my ass
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if anybody decided to go in there
and storm this base.
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After this meeting, I needed to figure out
a way to move away from Storm Area 51
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and rebrand this so I can
keep myself out of prison.
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We started spitballing a bunch of ideas.
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We collectively got together
and kind of threw out names.
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We start looking at Woodstock.
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What's more peaceful than Woodstock?
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There's supposed to be a million
and a half people here by tonight.
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It looks like some kind of
biblical, unbelievable scene.
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And so we take the theme of aliens
and just mash 'em together.
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We got Alienstock.
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Alienstock. It worked.
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It was kind of a beautiful,
just come-together moment for all of us.
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Alienstock. I mean, it's a little cringe
when you think about it, like the '60s.
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I mean, you know,
fuck the Boomers, but also,
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what is our version of Woodstock?
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Let's go! Let's go!
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Pretty sad to me, I guess.
It's pretty cringe.
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It didn't make the concept
any less stupid.
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The whole meme is based on
trespassing on a US military base.
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"Alienstock."
You have got to be kidding me.
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Nothing changed by renaming it.
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We were still monitoring
the situation very closely.
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What did Alienstock mean now? Nothing.
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Some people were trying
to put lipstick on a pig.
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Every time Matty tried to calm
things down, it just got more crazy.
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This is gonna be fucking epic.
The first of its kind.
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{\an8}Alienstock, a three-day festival.
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{\an8}And I'm just gonna say it,
I think you're out in the desert.
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{\an8}A lot of people are gonna get high,
gonna be doing other things.
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They're probably gonna storm Area 51,
and we're gonna be there.
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All of a sudden, this is no longer a meme.
I mean, this is a real festival.
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Alienstock was hot. So all
these brands, like, jumped in on it.
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Everybody wanted a piece of it.
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And Vice was, like, absolutely along
for the ride because it generated clicks.
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If you're not getting abducted by aliens,
you are fucking up.
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We knew we had to go.
We knew we had to make a documentary.
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{\an8}It started as a Facebook post
to storm Area 51,
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{\an8}and then went to a music festival.
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As the event continued to grow,
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anybody who wants to get
a toe in on this thing is reaching out.
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We've got country bands reaching out.
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We've got R&B people reaching out.
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We've got hip-hop artists reaching out.
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Yee-ha!
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Lil Nas X said he would perform.
I was like, "I have to go!"
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{\an8}It was gonna be completely wild.
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Kind of like this little
real-life internet meetup.
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So now you've got this festival
with potentially millions of attendees,
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and who's gonna be putting this on?
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That kid in the Naruto costume? Good luck.
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It's like we are looking
at seven Woodstocks.
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{\an8}Fourteen Coachellas, 50 Burning Mans.
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{\an8}And this whole time, I'm sitting here
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{\an8}with less than $1,000 in my bank account.
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How the fuck do we make this happen?
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So now we're five weeks out.
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We have a venue, an audience
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and a ton of hype, but we have no money.
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That was a big problem, 'cause somebody
was gonna have to put up the money,
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and I wasn't gonna do it.
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What Donnie started doing
was searching out sponsorships.
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I talked to Arby's.
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They said they'd send free food.
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Bud Light. Because they were
making their own alien can.
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And then along comes PornHub.
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PornHub was all-in.
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They gave us $70,000 to sponsor the event.
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PornHub offering to sponsor this.
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It couldn't have been more perfect.
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I was stoked.
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I told Matty
$70,000 was enough to pay for a stage
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and a couple of staff.
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But when you're doing a show
in the middle of nowhere,
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you have to bring everything yourself.
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Porta potties, fencing,
uh, staff, the water, the staging.
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It doesn't pop up overnight.
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We were building a city from nothing.
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It was hard thing to do
to put on a music festival
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in the middle of nowhere.
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I was starting to get the info on things,
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and I got the sense that people
were panicking a little bit
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and starting to have doubts.
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How do you create
a music festival in the desert?
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Where are they gonna eat and sleep?
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There's no cell service, no internet.
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No stores, no gas.
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{\an8}The planned music festival near Area 51
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{\an8}might turn out to be more like
the disastrous Fyre Festival.
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It is an absolute disaster.
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Fyre Fest.
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It blew up
for all these millennial influencers
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who paid all this money to go to this
Caribbean island. A total shit show.
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With Alienstock,
there's an element of schadenfreude,
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where it would be almost, like,
satisfying for the whole thing to blow up.
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We were drooling over this.
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'Cause everybody's talking about
"Fyre Festival this, Fyre Festival that."
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I go and look it up.
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Billy called and said, "Andy, we need you
to take one big thing for the team."
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The more I learn, the worse it gets.
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"Will you suck dick
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to fix this water problem?"
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And it was fucked up!
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The guy who put that on ends up in prison.
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So one of my main objectives is
to not end up in prison.
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How the hell did it come to this?
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I didn't know what Fyre Fest was,
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but this had "humanitarian disaster"
written all over it.
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We were beginning to get worried
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that we would have
the desert overrun with casualties.
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We're gonna have folks
that are literally starving or dehydrating
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out in the desert
during the scorching heat.
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Naysayers. It was coming in one ear,
coming out the other.
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I did not care what they were saying.
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{\an8}If this just turns out to be a disaster,
we'll have a front-row seat.
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Our fans were gonna love it.
It was gonna be perfect.
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{\an8}I was excited by the idea
of a bit of carnage.
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{\an8}If millions of people are gonna starve
and die, at least I wanna witness it.
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And if we get killed,
at least have it be on livestream.
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All these voices
are starting now to ring true,
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and I'm stuck here wondering
if I'm sending four million people
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out to the middle of nowhere to die.
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The residents of Rachel said,
"We don't want this in our town."
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I tried to warn people
on my Area 51 website.
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{\an8}It's just a very hostile environment.
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{\an8}There's desert critters.
There's scorpions, uh, snakes.
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This could potentially
be a really bad situation.
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So we approached the commissioners
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in hopes that they would not allow
this event to go forward.
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There's the county commissioner.
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When people are up in arms,
they're pissed off,
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they're not afraid
to come and talk to you.
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In the store, in the post office,
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at church even.
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{\an8}When I first heard about this,
I thought it was a joke, you know?
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It's like, do they really think
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they're gonna be allowed
to storm through the Area 51 gate?
251
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What do they think
they're gonna see or do?
252
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So we decided to call a meeting.
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I figured that it was a no-brainer.
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The county commissioners
would just stamp it "no."
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There is no way on God's green earth
that this is gonna get permitted.
256
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Storming Area 51, it is illegal.
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You deny the permit.
You don't let it happen.
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It becomes an illegal event.
It goes away, and the problem is solved.
259
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But we had no control
over the county commissioner's decision.
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Thousands of people will pack
into rural towns near Rachel, Nevada.
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The tiny community
is preparing for an invasion,
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for a new event, Alienstock.
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I headed to the courthouse.
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All of my disgruntled neighbors
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were going to be there.
266
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Joerg was doing everything
in his power to stop Alienstock.
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I learned that they were planning
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on putting a helicopter landing
right next to my house.
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We're worried about people
invading private properties.
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Was it gonna get overrun,
burned down by an angry mob?
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My dilemma was either
piss off the people in Rachel
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or piss off a million people or whoever,
how many were showing up,
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'cause they don't have a venue.
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As a commissioner, my focus was
on the protection and security
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of the people that pay taxes in my county.
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I was really hoping that this
would put an end to this madness.
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So it has all come down to this moment.
All our eyes are on the commissioners.
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They are the only people
that can stop this event from happening.
279
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There was some heavy discussion
between the commissioners.
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It was kicked back and forth.
281
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Damned if you do, damned if you don't.
282
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Now these people intend on coming.
283
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They said, you know,
"All in favor, raise your hand."
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{\an8}Now that these permits are approved,
the festivals are happening.
285
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The county approved permits
for the owner of Little A'Le'Inn.
286
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{\an8}Alienstock, put on
by Connie West, permit approved.
287
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I was gonna make sure this went off
without a hitch.
288
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I felt let down.
289
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There was nothing that
we could do anymore that would stop it.
290
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I called my girlfriend.
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And I said, "I just got my butt kicked.
You wouldn't believe it."
292
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Local yokels thought they were
doing the right thing for their area
293
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and didn't really think
in terms of the big picture.
294
00:19:40,762 --> 00:19:42,555
I was sitting there in disbelief.
295
00:19:42,556 --> 00:19:45,016
The US government is
spending millions of dollars,
296
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but the people having to deal with this
decision are the Lincoln County folks.
297
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They don't deal with crazy every day.
298
00:19:49,938 --> 00:19:51,940
They're normally dealing
with the theft of a cow.
299
00:19:53,275 --> 00:19:57,028
It's ludicrous. If this many people
are gonna show up anyway,
300
00:19:57,029 --> 00:19:58,404
let's at least give 'em a venue
301
00:19:58,405 --> 00:20:00,782
or give 'em some place
to go and congregate.
302
00:20:01,617 --> 00:20:03,826
That's what's best for the county.
303
00:20:03,827 --> 00:20:07,039
A lot of people were upset
that those, uh, permits were approved.
304
00:20:08,373 --> 00:20:12,836
But that approval meant
the promoters are on the hook financially.
305
00:20:13,921 --> 00:20:16,214
There was a lot we had to do in order
306
00:20:16,215 --> 00:20:19,384
to be able to handle this amount
of people that were coming.
307
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We had to go and start clearing land
308
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and finding the space
309
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and organizing where the stage
was going to be.
310
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Do you have an idea
of where we're gonna put the vendors?
311
00:20:35,234 --> 00:20:38,277
Not quite sure exactly
where we're gonna tweak the stage at.
312
00:20:38,278 --> 00:20:41,114
Matty had a designated list
of things to do.
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I had mine.
314
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I already had the land,
I already had the liquor license,
315
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and I already had the permit.
316
00:20:51,083 --> 00:20:54,169
Matty and Donnie were supposed
to be managing everything else.
317
00:20:55,921 --> 00:20:58,674
But I wasn't seeing anything
was being done.
318
00:21:01,843 --> 00:21:06,556
At the courthouse,
I was approached by a security company,
319
00:21:07,307 --> 00:21:12,728
and I'm hit with
over $100,000 worth of bills
320
00:21:12,729 --> 00:21:15,399
that I'm not supposed to be having to pay.
321
00:21:17,651 --> 00:21:19,194
I didn't know what to do.
322
00:21:20,612 --> 00:21:23,531
I'm not getting help,
and Matty's telling me that it's Donnie.
323
00:21:23,532 --> 00:21:25,116
You know, I called Donnie.
324
00:21:25,117 --> 00:21:28,160
And that's when things
started going haywire.
325
00:21:28,161 --> 00:21:31,832
You know, somebody drops $100,000 bill
on you, where is it gonna come from?
326
00:21:32,749 --> 00:21:35,626
There's supposed to be
all this sponsorship money coming in,
327
00:21:35,627 --> 00:21:37,545
and I haven't seen it,
328
00:21:37,546 --> 00:21:39,672
but it was coming. It was on its way.
329
00:21:39,673 --> 00:21:43,259
And you know, I came out of
the meeting, um, thinking, "Oh, my God."
330
00:21:43,260 --> 00:21:45,220
"Where am I gonna come up
with this money?"
331
00:21:45,804 --> 00:21:50,726
I called my son and told him
I guess I'm gonna sell my house.
332
00:21:52,436 --> 00:21:55,354
And then the guy who handed me the bill
333
00:21:55,355 --> 00:21:59,108
said to me there were
these festival guys in Las Vegas,
334
00:21:59,109 --> 00:22:02,946
and they were willing to help
because they had money.
335
00:22:03,530 --> 00:22:07,701
I told Donnie that we should hear them out
and see what they have to offer.
336
00:22:08,618 --> 00:22:13,040
Connie had messaged us about this guy,
Frank DiMaggio.
337
00:22:14,624 --> 00:22:16,251
So I looked him up.
338
00:22:18,045 --> 00:22:19,879
He's posing with all these celebrities,
339
00:22:19,880 --> 00:22:23,090
but I've never heard of anything
he'd ever done.
340
00:22:23,091 --> 00:22:26,010
So to me, that's a big red flag.
341
00:22:26,011 --> 00:22:28,638
I was like, these guys are no good.
342
00:22:31,975 --> 00:22:35,311
My reputation in this town
depends on who you talk to.
343
00:22:35,312 --> 00:22:38,105
I don't let people fuck with me,
344
00:22:38,106 --> 00:22:40,525
and I don't back down
to anybody for any reason.
345
00:22:43,904 --> 00:22:48,074
My partner John said this woman
that owns the Little A'Le'Inn
346
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where they're doing the event
is in over her head.
347
00:22:52,287 --> 00:22:54,163
He said, "Can you help her?"
348
00:22:54,164 --> 00:22:55,374
I said, "Maybe."
349
00:22:56,792 --> 00:23:00,920
We had an investor that was willing
to put up a large sum of money.
350
00:23:00,921 --> 00:23:02,880
But we have to find out
what they have in place
351
00:23:02,881 --> 00:23:04,340
before we can make any decisions
352
00:23:04,341 --> 00:23:06,551
on whether or not
we're gonna be even involved.
353
00:23:07,219 --> 00:23:11,556
So we asked Connie and Matty
to sit down for a meeting.
354
00:23:12,182 --> 00:23:15,226
The event is happening
in a couple of weeks,
355
00:23:15,227 --> 00:23:17,853
but I don't really have
any clue what's going on,
356
00:23:17,854 --> 00:23:21,982
and there's all these fucking people
I don't know getting involved.
357
00:23:21,983 --> 00:23:23,318
It's confusing.
358
00:23:24,945 --> 00:23:28,572
We're down to the wire.
I've got people hounding me for money.
359
00:23:28,573 --> 00:23:33,370
So we just decided collectively
that we would hear them out.
360
00:23:34,663 --> 00:23:36,497
And Donnie's like, "I won't be there."
361
00:23:36,498 --> 00:23:41,085
Connie said, you know,
that she was gonna work with Frank.
362
00:23:41,086 --> 00:23:43,295
I said, "Thank God."
363
00:23:43,296 --> 00:23:46,882
People were already starting
to call this Fyre Fest 2.0.
364
00:23:46,883 --> 00:23:49,009
The weight of the world
was off my shoulders, right?
365
00:23:49,010 --> 00:23:50,970
I didn't have to deal with it anymore.
366
00:23:50,971 --> 00:23:54,474
I just thought, "Two weeks out,
Frank running the show."
367
00:23:55,267 --> 00:23:56,685
"Good luck. I'm out."
368
00:24:11,283 --> 00:24:15,328
The meeting with Frank and company
was scheduled for the 6th September.
369
00:24:19,332 --> 00:24:20,875
I was the first one to show up.
370
00:24:20,876 --> 00:24:22,711
Matty was on his way.
371
00:24:23,837 --> 00:24:27,048
We talk. We were smiling, laughing.
372
00:24:27,674 --> 00:24:28,883
Matty showed up.
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00:24:28,884 --> 00:24:30,759
We assumed that they had
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00:24:30,760 --> 00:24:36,474
this massive, organized event ready to go.
375
00:24:36,475 --> 00:24:38,685
They just didn't know how to pull it off.
376
00:24:40,020 --> 00:24:42,856
And we needed to find out
what they had in place.
377
00:24:43,815 --> 00:24:45,107
I said, "What are you planning?"
378
00:24:45,108 --> 00:24:47,985
"And how's it gonna work?
How much are you gonna charge?"
379
00:24:47,986 --> 00:24:49,445
We don't know anything.
380
00:24:49,446 --> 00:24:52,865
Frank says, "You know,
you want, um, stages from us."
381
00:24:52,866 --> 00:24:54,033
"You want lighting from us."
382
00:24:54,034 --> 00:24:57,661
"You want this from us, that from us.
We need to see your bank accounts."
383
00:24:57,662 --> 00:25:00,499
"Open up your bank account."
The fuck I will.
384
00:25:02,334 --> 00:25:04,836
And they're like, "Um, excuse me."
385
00:25:05,420 --> 00:25:06,670
"You need our help."
386
00:25:06,671 --> 00:25:08,756
Connie's not answering any questions.
387
00:25:08,757 --> 00:25:10,591
Everybody's yelling,
screaming at each other.
388
00:25:10,592 --> 00:25:13,970
And then all of a sudden, Frank starts
slamming his hands onto the table.
389
00:25:14,971 --> 00:25:16,389
Bam! Bam!
390
00:25:17,057 --> 00:25:18,641
"Get the fuck out. I'm done."
391
00:25:18,642 --> 00:25:19,683
And I stood up.
392
00:25:19,684 --> 00:25:23,562
It just completely explodes
out of nowhere.
393
00:25:23,563 --> 00:25:27,483
It's like everybody's gone
absolutely fucking bananas,
394
00:25:27,484 --> 00:25:29,610
like chimpanzees at the zoo.
395
00:25:29,611 --> 00:25:31,612
What the fuck is going on?
396
00:25:31,613 --> 00:25:33,739
What the fuck just happened?
397
00:25:33,740 --> 00:25:37,661
Fuck you. Our relationship with Connie
ended when we told her to leave the house.
398
00:25:39,871 --> 00:25:42,998
I asked Matty, "What would
your parents tell you to do right now?"
399
00:25:42,999 --> 00:25:46,044
"'Cause I can tell you what my parents
would tell me to do, tell me to run."
400
00:25:46,628 --> 00:25:47,837
"This could ruin your life."
401
00:25:48,463 --> 00:25:50,381
"If something happens out there,
402
00:25:50,382 --> 00:25:53,551
and you're not prepared for it, somebody
gets killed, you're gonna get sued."
403
00:25:53,552 --> 00:25:56,053
"Even if it's not your fault,
you're gonna get sued."
404
00:25:56,054 --> 00:25:58,806
I told him it's not worth going to jail
or throwing your life away.
405
00:25:58,807 --> 00:26:01,059
"I don't want you
to get shot either, Mathew."
406
00:26:05,855 --> 00:26:08,065
Connie's gone home in tears.
407
00:26:08,066 --> 00:26:11,277
And I'm watching this cool thing
408
00:26:11,278 --> 00:26:14,364
that we've built up until now
just disintegrate.
409
00:26:15,615 --> 00:26:17,783
I said to Matty, "We can help you."
410
00:26:17,784 --> 00:26:21,162
"But not with Connie
and not out in Rachel."
411
00:26:22,163 --> 00:26:25,624
We had a venue ready to go
here in Las Vegas.
412
00:26:25,625 --> 00:26:29,128
My heart says, "Let's go to Rachel."
413
00:26:29,129 --> 00:26:31,631
It fits the spirit of the event.
It's right by Area 51.
414
00:26:32,299 --> 00:26:33,716
But then my brain is telling me
415
00:26:33,717 --> 00:26:36,260
that it's the worst fucking idea
we can possibly have
416
00:26:36,261 --> 00:26:39,221
because there's infrastructure
in Las Vegas.
417
00:26:39,222 --> 00:26:41,599
There is security in Las Vegas.
418
00:26:41,600 --> 00:26:43,393
Everything's set. It's safe.
419
00:26:44,144 --> 00:26:46,687
I've got a really tough decision to make.
420
00:26:46,688 --> 00:26:49,607
Do I go with Connie,
or do I go with Frank?
421
00:26:49,608 --> 00:26:53,319
And at 5:00 a.m., I've gotta go on TV,
422
00:26:53,320 --> 00:26:54,779
and the world is watching.
423
00:26:57,324 --> 00:27:00,701
Matty Roberts is scheduled
to be on Good Morning Las Vegas
424
00:27:00,702 --> 00:27:05,247
around 6:45 tomorrow morning to talk
about the event. You won't wanna miss it.
425
00:27:05,248 --> 00:27:08,834
Final countdown is on
for the human invasion near Area 51.
426
00:27:08,835 --> 00:27:11,587
The man behind
the viral event to storm Area 51
427
00:27:11,588 --> 00:27:14,424
will be here at Channel 13.
428
00:27:16,217 --> 00:27:18,428
Fuck.
429
00:27:19,304 --> 00:27:21,097
- Nice to meet you.
- Matty, right?
430
00:27:23,141 --> 00:27:26,186
Thanks for coming in.
Something's still happening there, right?
431
00:27:27,020 --> 00:27:27,854
Frank.
432
00:27:29,606 --> 00:27:30,564
We're hoping.
433
00:27:30,565 --> 00:27:32,942
I'm so sorry. I don't understand.
434
00:27:33,860 --> 00:27:36,613
What are we on promoting
if there's no event happening?
435
00:27:37,238 --> 00:27:38,906
Sitting in the newsroom,
436
00:27:38,907 --> 00:27:41,283
I'm really fucking anxious.
437
00:27:41,284 --> 00:27:45,205
I have no idea what's going to happen.
438
00:27:46,498 --> 00:27:47,873
It was six o'clock.
439
00:27:47,874 --> 00:27:52,211
I have the morning show on,
and I'm watching it live.
440
00:27:52,212 --> 00:27:56,632
{\an8}People in Lincoln County are gearing up
for the Storm Area 51 invasion.
441
00:27:56,633 --> 00:28:00,177
{\an8}And there's been lots of talk about it.
Joining us this morning is Matty Roberts.
442
00:28:00,178 --> 00:28:01,804
{\an8}He created the Facebook event.
443
00:28:01,805 --> 00:28:05,516
{\an8}In as far as, um, you know,
what's gonna take place in two weeks,
444
00:28:05,517 --> 00:28:07,394
{\an8}uh, you're still not sure yet.
445
00:28:08,520 --> 00:28:10,229
You could just see him sitting there.
446
00:28:10,230 --> 00:28:13,440
He seemed-- his body language
just seemed so stressed out.
447
00:28:13,441 --> 00:28:16,193
{\an8}- Will you be there?
- I'll be in Nevada.
448
00:28:16,194 --> 00:28:17,361
For the rest of September.
449
00:28:17,362 --> 00:28:21,365
So wherever we do an event,
there will be an event there.
450
00:28:21,366 --> 00:28:22,741
What?
451
00:28:22,742 --> 00:28:25,452
"I'll-- I'll-- I'll be around!"
452
00:28:25,453 --> 00:28:28,205
{\an8}- But it's two weeks away, so...
- Yeah.
453
00:28:28,206 --> 00:28:30,833
{\an8}Kind of gotta, like, figure it out,
I guess, somewhat soon, right?
454
00:28:30,834 --> 00:28:33,085
{\an8}I know that that's what you're
in the process of doing.
455
00:28:33,086 --> 00:28:34,713
{\an8}We'll have more information later today.
456
00:28:36,005 --> 00:28:38,048
What? What the fuck?
457
00:28:38,049 --> 00:28:40,426
Like, this is now fully
out of his control even.
458
00:28:40,427 --> 00:28:42,094
He does a taped interview with Frank.
459
00:28:42,095 --> 00:28:44,805
{\an8}If you had a message
for anybody that's gonna be there,
460
00:28:44,806 --> 00:28:46,849
{\an8}what would you tell them about coming out?
461
00:28:46,850 --> 00:28:48,726
{\an8}Not gonna send them out to nowhere,
462
00:28:48,727 --> 00:28:50,185
{\an8}where there's no infrastructure.
463
00:28:50,186 --> 00:28:52,438
{\an8}I can't have my name associated
with something
464
00:28:52,439 --> 00:28:56,650
{\an8}that could be a Fyre Fest 2.0.
465
00:28:56,651 --> 00:28:58,485
What the fuck is going on?
466
00:28:58,486 --> 00:29:02,239
{\an8}What is the likelihood that
something is actually going to happen?
467
00:29:02,240 --> 00:29:04,032
{\an8}It'd take a miracle.
468
00:29:04,033 --> 00:29:06,702
{\an8}But you can see this look on Frank's face.
469
00:29:06,703 --> 00:29:08,871
{\an8}He kind of, like,
looks very satisfied with himself
470
00:29:08,872 --> 00:29:11,498
{\an8}that he was able
to convince Matty to move it.
471
00:29:11,499 --> 00:29:15,002
{\an8}It needs to go away
before it becomes the biggest disaster
472
00:29:15,003 --> 00:29:17,797
{\an8}that southern Nevada has ever seen.
473
00:29:18,465 --> 00:29:19,716
I cried.
474
00:29:21,801 --> 00:29:24,970
I was heartbroken because I didn't
understand what was going on.
475
00:29:24,971 --> 00:29:28,348
I just wrote over $100,000 worth of checks
476
00:29:28,349 --> 00:29:30,809
to pay for these people to be in Rachel,
477
00:29:30,810 --> 00:29:34,813
and I am finding out live
this isn't happening,
478
00:29:34,814 --> 00:29:38,401
and the world is being told
that I have created disaster.
479
00:29:39,569 --> 00:29:41,654
{\an8}I'm sorry.
480
00:29:44,491 --> 00:29:46,867
And we can confirm
there's been a falling out
481
00:29:46,868 --> 00:29:50,746
between the man behind the idea
to storm Area 51
482
00:29:50,747 --> 00:29:53,749
and organizers on the ground near Area 51.
483
00:29:53,750 --> 00:29:59,046
This interview that I do with Frank
just goes absolutely ballistic.
484
00:29:59,047 --> 00:30:02,883
Now the organizer behind the Storm Area 51
event says he's pulling out.
485
00:30:02,884 --> 00:30:04,635
{\an8}Roberts told 23ABC
486
00:30:04,636 --> 00:30:08,096
{\an8}that they're in the works
at bringing it to downtown Las Vegas.
487
00:30:08,097 --> 00:30:12,184
{\an8}Connie said despite all of this,
Alienstock is still happening.
488
00:30:12,185 --> 00:30:14,436
Oh, it was chaos. It was chaos.
489
00:30:14,437 --> 00:30:17,773
And because it's America,
everybody starts suing each other.
490
00:30:17,774 --> 00:30:22,736
{\an8}A cease-and-desist letter was sent
to Connie West to stop Alienstock.
491
00:30:22,737 --> 00:30:25,656
{\an8}Alienstock organizer
Connie West is now suing
492
00:30:25,657 --> 00:30:29,284
{\an8}Storm Area 51
creator Matty Roberts and his associate.
493
00:30:29,285 --> 00:30:31,161
I'm like, "What the fuck
are you guys doing?"
494
00:30:31,162 --> 00:30:33,997
"You asked us for help,
and then you sued me."
495
00:30:33,998 --> 00:30:34,998
"Fuck you."
496
00:30:34,999 --> 00:30:38,210
You know what?
Fuck Frank DiMaggio and fuck Matty.
497
00:30:38,211 --> 00:30:40,629
What do people want me to do?
Run out and get shot?
498
00:30:40,630 --> 00:30:44,591
{\an8}There are claims here
of sabotage and secrecy.
499
00:30:44,592 --> 00:30:46,927
The keyboard warriors, they now hate me.
500
00:30:46,928 --> 00:30:48,679
...is not the face of the event.
501
00:30:48,680 --> 00:30:50,764
He doesn't give a shit about anybody.
502
00:30:50,765 --> 00:30:51,932
Matty is an alien.
503
00:30:51,933 --> 00:30:54,142
That guy is a tool!
504
00:30:54,143 --> 00:30:56,436
I never asked to be anybody's hero.
505
00:30:56,437 --> 00:30:59,482
I just put up a prank post at 2:00 a.m.
506
00:31:04,362 --> 00:31:07,197
I didn't steal Matty from them.
Matty had a choice to walk away
507
00:31:07,198 --> 00:31:09,325
from an event
they didn't have a contract for.
508
00:31:09,909 --> 00:31:13,704
Yeah, Matty could walk away,
as he did. I couldn't.
509
00:31:13,705 --> 00:31:15,748
People were still coming.
510
00:31:19,335 --> 00:31:22,462
Here's what I thought. Where's Area 51?
511
00:31:22,463 --> 00:31:24,507
Is it in Las Vegas? No.
512
00:31:25,091 --> 00:31:26,508
Area 51 is near Rachel.
513
00:31:26,509 --> 00:31:29,220
That's where I thought the majority
of people were still gonna go.
514
00:31:29,846 --> 00:31:32,014
They bought airline tickets.
They rented cars.
515
00:31:32,015 --> 00:31:33,433
They took time off work.
516
00:31:37,520 --> 00:31:38,520
They were coming.
517
00:31:38,521 --> 00:31:41,398
"No, it's canceled, Kev.
Don't go, it's canceled."
518
00:31:41,399 --> 00:31:43,483
You know what I mean? Fucking losers.
519
00:31:43,484 --> 00:31:45,319
Oh, my God. We were freaking out.
520
00:31:45,320 --> 00:31:48,238
We flew to LA. We loaded up with supplies.
521
00:31:48,239 --> 00:31:49,615
Do we need walkie-talkies?
522
00:31:49,616 --> 00:31:52,326
That would be epic.
I think we should get the diapers.
523
00:31:52,327 --> 00:31:55,787
We got everything at Target.
I mean, coolers, water, snacks,
524
00:31:55,788 --> 00:31:57,332
the sexy alien costumes.
525
00:31:59,167 --> 00:32:03,378
The day before I was supposed
to storm Area 51, I broke my neck.
526
00:32:03,379 --> 00:32:07,049
Doctors recommend that I just lay down
and recover for the next couple weeks.
527
00:32:07,050 --> 00:32:09,676
But I'm not doing that
because we're storming Area 51,
528
00:32:09,677 --> 00:32:11,762
and we're gonna find some aliens!
529
00:32:11,763 --> 00:32:13,764
We had a warlike mentality.
530
00:32:13,765 --> 00:32:16,266
{\an8}We were preparing for desert survival.
531
00:32:16,267 --> 00:32:18,435
We were preparing for conflict
with the military.
532
00:32:18,436 --> 00:32:19,896
We were preparing for anything.
533
00:32:25,568 --> 00:32:29,446
One of the most difficult parts
of my job is telling my young airmen
534
00:32:29,447 --> 00:32:32,783
that they may have to take
deadly force against their peers.
535
00:32:32,784 --> 00:32:35,410
{\an8}Use of deadly force is authorized.
536
00:32:35,411 --> 00:32:38,831
Why risk it? Even if there's nothing
at Area 51, why would you risk it?
537
00:32:40,500 --> 00:32:43,710
We got some additional people,
additional vehicles, additional weapons
538
00:32:43,711 --> 00:32:46,839
to make sure that we could deal
with multiple things happening.
539
00:32:47,465 --> 00:32:50,717
This was by far
the largest defense of the base
540
00:32:50,718 --> 00:32:52,469
that has ever happened
on the installation.
541
00:32:52,470 --> 00:32:54,554
{\an8}The Federal Aviation Administration
542
00:32:54,555 --> 00:32:57,057
{\an8}announced a temporary flight restriction
543
00:32:57,058 --> 00:32:59,394
{\an8}for areas surrounding Area 51.
544
00:33:01,396 --> 00:33:04,524
We knew we're gonna have to
prepare for the worst here.
545
00:33:05,191 --> 00:33:08,485
When things had fallen apart
between the organizers,
546
00:33:08,486 --> 00:33:10,320
it became clear that the Little A'Le'Inn
547
00:33:10,321 --> 00:33:12,447
was completely out of their league.
548
00:33:12,448 --> 00:33:17,203
So we did whatever we could
to keep our town safe
549
00:33:18,579 --> 00:33:21,499
and to keep this event
from being a total disaster.
550
00:33:23,376 --> 00:33:24,543
There's no turning back.
551
00:33:24,544 --> 00:33:27,130
It's beyond the point of coming back.
People were coming.
552
00:33:28,923 --> 00:33:32,427
When I saw that Connie was still going
ahead with it, I wasn't really surprised.
553
00:33:33,636 --> 00:33:35,929
The people that wanted to go
were gonna go regardless
554
00:33:35,930 --> 00:33:38,016
of whether or not I told them not to.
555
00:33:45,148 --> 00:33:48,609
We are full steam ahead
on the event in Las Vegas.
556
00:33:51,195 --> 00:33:55,074
{\an8}With Frank's connections,
it just all came together really quickly.
557
00:33:57,785 --> 00:34:01,289
{\an8}Who could have predicted this?
Make a post on a page that has 62 likes.
558
00:34:01,414 --> 00:34:04,916
{\an8}And now you have thousands of people
that are ready to come out to your show.
559
00:34:04,917 --> 00:34:06,501
It's just-- it's absolutely amazing.
560
00:34:06,502 --> 00:34:08,795
We knew that we weren't really gonna go
561
00:34:08,796 --> 00:34:12,382
to the Bud Light event
in downtown Las Vegas,
562
00:34:12,383 --> 00:34:14,551
'cause it seemed lame to us.
563
00:34:14,552 --> 00:34:17,471
So we knew that we were gonna go
right into the hornet's nest,
564
00:34:17,472 --> 00:34:22,018
whatever this supposed
humanitarian crisis was gonna be.
565
00:34:22,602 --> 00:34:25,771
As we're heading out to the desert,
we didn't really know who
566
00:34:25,772 --> 00:34:28,899
was there to party
and who was there to storm,
567
00:34:28,900 --> 00:34:31,943
but we expected,
like, everything to go wrong.
568
00:34:31,944 --> 00:34:34,197
We wanted to go out there.
We wanted to see some shit.
569
00:34:36,991 --> 00:34:42,080
20th September 2019,
I posted, "Today is the day."
570
00:34:43,998 --> 00:34:49,545
Headed to the infamous Area 51 takeover!
571
00:34:53,257 --> 00:34:55,300
Away to Area 51!
572
00:34:55,301 --> 00:34:57,636
To Alienstock!
573
00:34:57,637 --> 00:35:01,056
The only thing that
we had on our maps was "Area 51."
574
00:35:01,057 --> 00:35:04,018
So, like, we literally
drove towards Area 51.
575
00:35:09,774 --> 00:35:13,026
It's so far, man. I mean,
I wasn't even out of Las Vegas.
576
00:35:13,027 --> 00:35:15,153
I started losing signal,
577
00:35:15,154 --> 00:35:18,657
but I just went on faith, man.
Pure faith. I knew I was gonna get there.
578
00:35:18,658 --> 00:35:21,660
As we were getting closer,
we're seeing more and more people
579
00:35:21,661 --> 00:35:23,829
and seeing more and more law enforcement.
580
00:35:23,830 --> 00:35:25,997
Oh, they're coming for you.
581
00:35:25,998 --> 00:35:27,791
Oh, they are coming for you fast.
582
00:35:27,792 --> 00:35:31,837
{\an8}Like, I remember seeing SWAT on the side
of the road. Police cars lined up.
583
00:35:31,838 --> 00:35:34,673
{\an8}It felt like, "Aww, fuck, we're about
to enter something crazy."
584
00:35:34,674 --> 00:35:38,593
{\an8}We repeat,
anybody breaching Area 51 will be shot.
585
00:35:38,594 --> 00:35:42,222
We start to see vehicles
with large antennas on their roofs,
586
00:35:42,223 --> 00:35:45,016
vehicles with, um, blacked-out windows.
587
00:35:45,017 --> 00:35:47,562
{\an8}What's it gonna look like
when we get to that base?
588
00:35:52,191 --> 00:35:54,068
Everybody was holding their breath.
589
00:35:55,778 --> 00:35:58,613
We're all ready to go.
Uh, people are coming in.
590
00:35:58,614 --> 00:35:59,907
Okay, now what?
591
00:36:02,201 --> 00:36:06,247
We've gotten some information about
a suspicious vehicle headed to Area 51.
592
00:36:07,039 --> 00:36:11,126
To me, it had a potential to be bad,
and we wanted to avoid it.
593
00:36:11,127 --> 00:36:14,213
So I jumped in my patrol vehicle.
594
00:36:16,174 --> 00:36:18,134
I was able to locate the pickup truck.
595
00:36:20,469 --> 00:36:21,971
And he identified himself.
596
00:36:24,098 --> 00:36:25,641
I looked inside the vehicle.
597
00:36:28,186 --> 00:36:30,438
I thought,
"Oh, man, we have a problem here."
598
00:36:34,192 --> 00:36:37,653
He was saying he was gonna go
to Rachel, to Area 51.
599
00:36:39,989 --> 00:36:44,409
I was able to talk him into allowing me
600
00:36:44,410 --> 00:36:47,205
to keep those weapons
until the event was over.
601
00:36:48,998 --> 00:36:51,833
Made us think, "Okay, well,
if this guy could have firearms,
602
00:36:51,834 --> 00:36:53,878
how many others
could have firearms as well?"
603
00:37:02,220 --> 00:37:05,639
Are we live? Let's fucking start this!
604
00:37:05,640 --> 00:37:10,102
Wow, 3:00 a.m. Things get crazy.
605
00:37:10,603 --> 00:37:12,146
They can't stop us all!
606
00:37:13,814 --> 00:37:17,026
{\an8}What happened to Matty Roberts?
Matty Roberts, why ain't you out here?
607
00:37:18,152 --> 00:37:21,238
They can't stop us all!
They can't stop us all!
608
00:37:21,239 --> 00:37:22,657
They can't stop us all!
609
00:37:23,199 --> 00:37:25,742
Started approaching 3:00 a.m.
on September 20th.
610
00:37:25,743 --> 00:37:27,994
Started getting hyper-concerned
about what was going on.
611
00:37:27,995 --> 00:37:32,250
Let's go!
612
00:37:33,084 --> 00:37:34,668
On the original Facebook post,
613
00:37:34,669 --> 00:37:37,462
this was the point
that they're gonna go storm the gate.
614
00:37:37,463 --> 00:37:39,339
So all of our forces are ready.
615
00:37:39,340 --> 00:37:43,094
We've been monitoring the situation,
starting to see some increased activity.
616
00:37:43,678 --> 00:37:45,929
We're fully prepared,
ready for anything that might happen.
617
00:37:45,930 --> 00:37:46,931
Let's go!
618
00:37:52,812 --> 00:37:54,229
Can't stop us all.
619
00:37:54,230 --> 00:37:58,233
Clap them cheeks!
Clap them cheeks! Clap them cheeks!
620
00:37:58,234 --> 00:37:59,735
Only wanna see one alien!
621
00:38:02,280 --> 00:38:04,781
Two million people will be here
in two minutes!
622
00:38:04,782 --> 00:38:08,034
- Really?
- Clap them cheeks! Clap them cheeks!
623
00:38:08,035 --> 00:38:10,036
Clap them cheeks...
624
00:38:10,037 --> 00:38:11,997
I don't care if you have guns.
Still wanna know.
625
00:38:11,998 --> 00:38:15,668
The manpower was at its peak.
Everybody was ready to go.
626
00:38:16,252 --> 00:38:17,878
I was like, "Yo!"
627
00:38:18,587 --> 00:38:21,006
"I'm about to storm this base!"
628
00:38:21,007 --> 00:38:22,133
I was like ten...
629
00:38:22,883 --> 00:38:24,217
We're still gonna storm!
630
00:38:24,218 --> 00:38:25,427
Nine...
631
00:38:25,428 --> 00:38:27,262
- And I turned around...
- Eight...
632
00:38:27,263 --> 00:38:28,180
Seven...
633
00:38:28,848 --> 00:38:30,348
- Six...
- Five...
634
00:38:30,349 --> 00:38:33,393
They were reporting
like there was a fucking crowd. Four!
635
00:38:33,394 --> 00:38:36,688
...three, two, one!
636
00:38:36,689 --> 00:38:39,650
- They can't catch all of us.
- And they began to run.
637
00:38:44,238 --> 00:38:45,197
And they stopped.
638
00:38:50,870 --> 00:38:52,705
Yeah, um, it was a joke.
639
00:38:57,251 --> 00:39:00,463
They got their moment of fame.
They got their picture, and it was done.
640
00:39:04,592 --> 00:39:05,885
Aww!
641
00:39:06,469 --> 00:39:09,430
Three point five million people
turned out to just be a few hundred.
642
00:39:10,014 --> 00:39:10,930
Oh, my gosh.
643
00:39:10,931 --> 00:39:13,683
Yeah, you had a good-looking
fall, man. You really rolled.
644
00:39:13,684 --> 00:39:17,771
Clap them cheeks!
Clap them cheeks! Clap them cheeks!
645
00:39:17,772 --> 00:39:19,522
I was, like, just trying to make, like,
646
00:39:19,523 --> 00:39:22,150
something entertaining happen
for those camera crews.
647
00:39:22,151 --> 00:39:24,402
We're here to rescue the aliens!
648
00:39:24,403 --> 00:39:28,490
- Rescue the aliens!
- Everybody, no more games!
649
00:39:28,491 --> 00:39:31,284
I think there was more cops
than there were people.
650
00:39:31,285 --> 00:39:33,411
- So they called in reinforcements?
- They sure did.
651
00:39:33,412 --> 00:39:34,913
They could definitely stop us all.
652
00:39:34,914 --> 00:39:38,208
- Get off the gate!
- Get off the gate he said!
653
00:39:38,209 --> 00:39:40,168
We topped two million people!
654
00:39:40,169 --> 00:39:41,836
There were no Chads there.
655
00:39:41,837 --> 00:39:44,464
There were no Kyles. There were no Karens.
656
00:39:44,465 --> 00:39:46,925
- Game of limbo!
- Whoa!
657
00:39:46,926 --> 00:39:49,511
No one was even wearing the Naruto band.
It was a letdown.
658
00:39:49,512 --> 00:39:52,389
Stop looking at me.
I'm about to commit something illegal!
659
00:39:52,390 --> 00:39:53,723
It was just a meme.
660
00:39:53,724 --> 00:39:56,393
- Open sesame.
- It doesn't work that way, brother.
661
00:39:56,394 --> 00:39:59,104
We had spent months
preparing for this event.
662
00:39:59,105 --> 00:40:01,649
And that was it.
That was the biggest activity we saw.
663
00:40:02,358 --> 00:40:05,569
Those poor aliens were stuck in there,
thinking they were gonna get busted out.
664
00:40:06,529 --> 00:40:08,321
They're still stranded there.
665
00:40:08,322 --> 00:40:11,241
We'd heard there was gonna be
a big raid at 3:00 a.m.
666
00:40:11,242 --> 00:40:14,829
But we woke up,
and, uh, there was nothing there.
667
00:40:15,413 --> 00:40:17,497
I felt trolled. Fuck me, right?
668
00:40:17,498 --> 00:40:18,915
Fuck us!
669
00:40:18,916 --> 00:40:21,501
We did everything in our power
to, like, hype it,
670
00:40:21,502 --> 00:40:23,754
and ultimately, the joke was on us.
671
00:40:29,385 --> 00:40:31,886
I wasn't watching
what was going on in Rachel.
672
00:40:31,887 --> 00:40:33,556
I was just having a fucking blast.
673
00:40:35,182 --> 00:40:37,767
Once the stage comes alive with music,
674
00:40:37,768 --> 00:40:39,645
and those people are dancing,
675
00:40:40,771 --> 00:40:44,733
all that stress that you've gone through
before just completely disappears.
676
00:40:46,777 --> 00:40:50,781
I grab the microphone,
and I step out on stage.
677
00:40:51,907 --> 00:40:55,618
How are you guys feeling?
678
00:40:55,619 --> 00:40:57,370
The crowd went insane.
679
00:40:57,371 --> 00:41:01,375
Awesome! Give a shout-out
to those two dudes in the alien costumes!
680
00:41:03,169 --> 00:41:05,004
Because it's Matty,
the guy that did the meme.
681
00:41:06,130 --> 00:41:07,172
Enjoy the show!
682
00:41:07,173 --> 00:41:10,676
It's just a sea of people
having a great time.
683
00:41:11,719 --> 00:41:18,225
It's that moment that makes everything
that I've done so far worth it.
684
00:41:19,393 --> 00:41:21,603
Alienstock was never the desert.
685
00:41:21,604 --> 00:41:24,690
It was never Area 51. It was Matty.
686
00:41:28,569 --> 00:41:32,197
A lot of lights and lasers.
687
00:41:32,198 --> 00:41:34,449
Like, that doesn't impress me very much.
688
00:41:34,450 --> 00:41:36,409
I just didn't think that that was how
689
00:41:36,410 --> 00:41:39,662
the meme should go down in history.
690
00:41:39,663 --> 00:41:44,001
Like, it should go down
as this ragtag piece-of-crap stage.
691
00:41:46,003 --> 00:41:47,587
Alienstock!
692
00:41:47,588 --> 00:41:50,590
Once we realized
nobody was gonna raid Area 51,
693
00:41:50,591 --> 00:41:52,843
everybody just started dancing and vibing.
694
00:41:53,636 --> 00:41:56,472
Here's your thousands of people
that were gonna show up.
695
00:42:00,476 --> 00:42:02,853
Okay, that was worth going out
to the porta potties for.
696
00:42:05,064 --> 00:42:07,607
People were just having a great time.
697
00:42:07,608 --> 00:42:10,276
- Snack! Whoo!
- I know that you love Reese's Pieces.
698
00:42:10,277 --> 00:42:13,822
We are so grateful for this space here
in Rachel, Nevada,
699
00:42:14,406 --> 00:42:16,449
of understanding that aliens are real.
700
00:42:16,450 --> 00:42:19,744
Everyone was having fun, and I felt
like the aliens were dancing with us.
701
00:42:19,745 --> 00:42:23,581
I wanna be a human. You know,
you guys are just funner.
702
00:42:23,582 --> 00:42:27,710
Every time I turned around, there was
nothing but cameras everywhere.
703
00:42:27,711 --> 00:42:30,171
I'm glad I got to be the host.
704
00:42:30,172 --> 00:42:35,176
I did my best to make sure that everybody
was going to be taken care of.
705
00:42:35,177 --> 00:42:39,014
The world's cameras are here
in Rachel, Nevada.
706
00:42:39,515 --> 00:42:43,811
I was, like, pretty much surrounded
by booms and by cameras the whole time.
707
00:42:44,770 --> 00:42:47,689
So many news, so many YouTubers.
708
00:42:47,690 --> 00:42:51,234
YouTube, YouTube, YouTuber.
709
00:42:51,235 --> 00:42:52,902
Everyone was trying to, like, be like,
710
00:42:52,903 --> 00:42:55,822
"This is my moment to be famous
and try and get in front of the cameras."
711
00:42:55,823 --> 00:42:57,532
- What's your name?
- Killa Kev.
712
00:42:57,533 --> 00:43:00,159
- Is that your actual name?
- It's my actual name. My birth name.
713
00:43:00,160 --> 00:43:03,371
The residents of Rachel, Nevada,
literally brought out lawn chairs
714
00:43:03,372 --> 00:43:06,499
and were watching us
like we were zoo animals.
715
00:43:06,500 --> 00:43:08,710
I live here!
716
00:43:08,711 --> 00:43:10,169
Yeah, not right here!
717
00:43:10,170 --> 00:43:13,089
We were cautiously keeping an eye
on things going on from the distance.
718
00:43:13,090 --> 00:43:15,216
Countdown. Three, two, one...
719
00:43:15,217 --> 00:43:20,848
There was a lot of these social media
wannabes interviewing each other.
720
00:43:25,728 --> 00:43:28,188
We are there to document the scene
of a humanitarian crisis.
721
00:43:29,231 --> 00:43:30,648
Then I realized at the end of day,
722
00:43:30,649 --> 00:43:32,943
it was a few people
partying in the desert...
723
00:43:34,945 --> 00:43:36,405
...talking about aliens.
724
00:43:38,157 --> 00:43:39,616
I mean, shit, that's exactly
725
00:43:39,617 --> 00:43:42,118
what it was supposed
to be the entire time, you know?
726
00:43:42,119 --> 00:43:45,539
It was cool.
727
00:43:49,418 --> 00:43:51,461
When I saw the videos
from the Rachel event,
728
00:43:51,462 --> 00:43:53,672
like, it honestly looked kind of cool.
729
00:43:54,423 --> 00:43:58,010
Like what I had pictured
our event being to begin with.
730
00:44:00,471 --> 00:44:02,347
Sort of the opposite of Fyre Fest,
731
00:44:02,348 --> 00:44:06,644
where they built everything,
but then there's not enough people.
732
00:44:07,561 --> 00:44:09,563
There were more porta potties
than there were people.
733
00:44:12,358 --> 00:44:15,068
And I started to think
about my own role in this
734
00:44:15,069 --> 00:44:19,697
as a blood-hungry media producer,
who was like, "We want the conflict. Ahh!"
735
00:44:19,698 --> 00:44:21,908
And I think we got ahead of ourselves
736
00:44:21,909 --> 00:44:25,788
by wanting this Fyre Fest 2.0 story
to come to fruition.
737
00:44:31,335 --> 00:44:34,754
We're driving back past
all the media trucks.
738
00:44:34,755 --> 00:44:38,883
There's this mobile police headquarters
they've erected in the desert.
739
00:44:38,884 --> 00:44:41,177
All the different,
like, emergency vehicles.
740
00:44:41,178 --> 00:44:43,764
I just think to myself, I'm like,
"How much did this all cost?"
741
00:44:47,267 --> 00:44:49,185
We did exactly what we needed to do.
742
00:44:49,186 --> 00:44:52,397
If it would've gone bad,
they never would have let me forget it.
743
00:44:52,398 --> 00:44:55,859
And I would've had to live with that
till the day I retired and beyond.
744
00:44:56,735 --> 00:44:58,821
You wanna know
how much money I won in the lawsuit?
745
00:45:05,202 --> 00:45:07,870
She can chase me to the ends of the earth.
They can put me in jail.
746
00:45:07,871 --> 00:45:09,915
She'll still never get the money.
747
00:45:12,209 --> 00:45:15,754
Mobilizing a lot of resources,
that costs money.
748
00:45:19,466 --> 00:45:21,259
$11 million?
749
00:45:21,260 --> 00:45:23,303
That's how much the military lost?
750
00:45:24,179 --> 00:45:26,180
For what? Added security?
751
00:45:26,181 --> 00:45:29,183
What the fuck? That's insane!
752
00:45:29,184 --> 00:45:31,519
You can easily say,
well, we shouldn't have done it.
753
00:45:31,520 --> 00:45:33,688
We shouldn't--
should not have wasted those resources.
754
00:45:33,689 --> 00:45:35,022
Uh, my argument will be
755
00:45:35,023 --> 00:45:38,693
that there were too wide a range
of possibilities,
756
00:45:38,694 --> 00:45:41,696
with the worst-case scenario
being a mass casualty event.
757
00:45:41,697 --> 00:45:45,158
And I will defend to the final day
758
00:45:45,159 --> 00:45:48,536
that we did not overspend
in our preparation for it.
759
00:45:48,537 --> 00:45:52,207
Every day, people are doing crazy stuff
because of the internet.
760
00:45:55,878 --> 00:45:58,004
USA! USA!
761
00:45:58,005 --> 00:46:00,798
You don't really know which stuff is real.
762
00:46:00,799 --> 00:46:06,679
You will not replace us!
763
00:46:06,680 --> 00:46:09,223
So you have to take everything seriously.
764
00:46:09,224 --> 00:46:12,226
If lots of people were shot, killed,
765
00:46:12,227 --> 00:46:13,895
all the finger-pointing and recrimination
766
00:46:13,896 --> 00:46:16,397
would occur afterwards,
where, "Who knew what when?"
767
00:46:16,398 --> 00:46:18,108
"How come they didn't have a better plan?"
768
00:46:20,486 --> 00:46:24,740
The problem in this day and age is
how do you police a joke?
769
00:46:27,701 --> 00:46:30,787
{\an8}Any future plans? After this weekend
passes, do you have anything in store?
770
00:46:30,788 --> 00:46:32,956
{\an8}What's next on your bucket list?
771
00:46:33,749 --> 00:46:36,001
I have no idea.
Do you know what happened to Matty?
772
00:46:41,173 --> 00:46:43,675
I've just gone through the most surreal
773
00:46:44,510 --> 00:46:47,303
and exciting moment of my life.
774
00:46:47,304 --> 00:46:49,223
And then one week later,
775
00:46:50,516 --> 00:46:52,559
I'm back on the clock at the vape shop.