Armchair Anonymous: Party Gone Wrong
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What is the main theme of the 'Party Gone Wrong' episode?
Wondery Plus subscribers can listen to Armchair Expert early and ad-free right now. Join Wondery Plus in the Wondery app or on Apple Podcasts. Or you can listen for free wherever you get your podcasts. Welcome, welcome, welcome to Armchair Anonymous. I'm Dan Rather, and I'm joined by Buck Rogers.
Hi, it's me.
I think when I say Buck Rogers, you should go pew, pew, pew, pew, pew, like you should have a go-to.
Oh, a specific. Okay, well, I need to think about it.
Okay, work on it. Yeah. Workshop it. I will. Today's Anonymous is Party Gone Wrong. Ooh. Think Triple X. No, what was that movie? XX. Think Hangover. Think.
Oh, yeah. What's XX?
Project X. Oh, I don't know it. it was a todd phillips produced movie about a backyard party that goes insane boy okay these deliver they're they're really good we will definitely have to do a party gone wrong part two yeah yeah please enjoy parties that have gone wrong
is this sandy hi yes it's sandy we were just talking about the unisexuality how do you say that unisexiness unisex nature of sandy could go either way there's a little bit of a with this story so it'll be revealed where are you
I'm in the Pacific Northwest, but my story is in Montana where I grew up.
Okay. In a rural area or in one of the cities?
In a small town. A mountain town.
How did the party setting contribute to the chaos?
Small mountain town. Beautiful.
What a wonderful setting for a party gone wrong.
Yeah, this happened about 15, 20 years ago, my senior year of high school graduation weekend. So it was a small Montana town where I grew up and it's really beautiful there. So it tends to attract pretty big local kind of blue collar population. And then it attracts a lot of kind of early retirees who are going there to build their like lodge home, finish raising their kids, recreate that kind of stuff.
And then do you have like river raft people and snowboarders and all those two?
The granola people who are kind of in and out of college doing the guide life. I like using recreate as a verb.
Yeah. Well, Sandy has a very good vocabulary.
I know. I'm going to use that.
It feels adjacent to conversate.
Yeah, I like it.
Okay. So 15 years ago, adorable little town, mostly blue collar. We got some snow. Oh no, they're the opposite of snowbirds. Snow seekers.
The recreators. The recreators. Yeah, yeah. High school, it was pretty small, just over 400 people in total. So my graduating class was like maybe a hundred. So there was definitely some tense socioeconomic undertones at the high school. My car was like a 77 Volvo, just old kind of beater. And then there were kids with like brand new SUVs. And there was just a little bit of that going on in the social dynamics. So it was grad weekend and we were kind of partying all weekend. And this particular party was a backwoods sort of bonfire. So everyone drove a little ways out of town, down like a single lane, little dirt road, a couple of miles. And then there's a huge fire just out in the middle of nowhere. So my best friend and I headed to the party and we parked in kind of a clearing a little ways up the road from where the bonfire was happening.
And that's where most people were parked. We were about a five minute walk away. Get to the fire. There are a few cars there.
I'm imagining this predates Drop a Pin. Like, how the fuck are you finding this two-track?
Pretty sure I had a Motorola Razr or something at this point. Like, no cell service. So it was just like, there's a party out in the woods behind so-and-so's house.
What unexpected events unfolded during the party?
And then you'd be like, okay, well, where's so-and-so's house? And someone would know, and then you'd follow them, and you'd kind of just get there eventually.
I just want to point out that that's a fun part of the adventure of being a hillbilly. Where I grew up too, there were field parties and same thing. It's like, wait, the two-track road on the end of Middle Road or the one behind?
Just when you feel like you're not getting there, you're in the wrong place, you pull around a random corner and there's 50 people you know being dumb and running around.
You start the party with a big reward of accomplishment.
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Chapters
7 chapters
1
What is the main theme of the 'Party Gone Wrong' episode?
0:00–1:45
2
How did the party setting contribute to the chaos?
1:45–3:44
3
What unexpected events unfolded during the party?
3:44–13:52
4
How did the guests react to the fire incident?
13:52–20:40
5
What were the consequences of the party aftermath?
20:40–28:15
6
How did the police involvement escalate the situation?
28:15–36:25
7
What lessons were learned from this party experience?
36:25–54:09