Accuracy Third

Accuracy Third is a podcast collecting an oral history of Black Rock City. We are looking for your very best stories from and about That Thing In The Desert. You can submit your story to us at accuracythird.com

S08 BB04 - Sorry For the Content 08/14/2025

S08 BB04 - Sorry For the Content Drive Time Third. Avoidance dance. NEW! Old swag! Gross Can O' Something That I Got. The media we mention: DIRECTORS - Ari Aster, Jordan Peele, The Daniels, Yorgos Lanthimos, James Gunn, Jim Jarmusch, P. T. Anderson MOVIES - Brian & Charles, Poor Things, The Dead Don't Die, Ghost Dog, Dead Man TV - Peacemaker, The Toxic Avenger, Battle After Battle AUTHORS - N.K. Jemisin, Rebecca Roanhorse, Philip K. Dick, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. NOVELS - Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro, Downbelow Station by C. J. Cherryh, Riverworld by Philip Jose Farmer, The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson, Sabriel by Garth Nix, A Libertarian Walks Into a Bear: The Utopian Plot to Liberate an American Town (And Some Bears) by Matthew Hongoltz-Hetlingm, A Confederate General from Big Sur by Richard Brautigan, Vineland by Thomas Pynchon WOULD YOU RATHERS: Cold Day — Find out someone has been living in your attic without you knowing, or find 300 large spiders up there? Stage Dive — Would you rather reach into a porto to grab your phone or run the ultra marathon? Spooky Dookie — Would you rather open “the bucket” you found during resto or drink from a random bottle found in deep playa Boyscout — Would you rather do without footwear or personal shade/tent? Spooky Dookie — Would you rather climb up “night at the climb in” (the car spike) or roll down the wedge KC — Would you rather camp in a camp full of your own exes (you don't get to choose which ones) or camp where your only other campmates have all dated each other and ended on bad terms? Spooky Dookie — Would you rather camp all the way out at k or next to esplanade sound camps Stage Dive — Would you rather camp in kidsville or a sound camp Kazariah — If you were a hotdog, and you were starving.... Would you eat yourself? LateBus - also, I am not a stickler for rules usually bit I feel like this is not the correct format. it has to be.... if you were a hot dog would you rather eat yourself, or throw yourself down a hallway ? Kazariah — Would you rather be a "rules stickler" or a "French tickler"? Lexy — I think the real question is would your rather be a hotdog and eat another hotdog, or be a human and eat a hotdog that might have like a tiny bit of human flesh in it GhostNawa — Would you rather drink hot carbonated urine or cold carbonated urine? AMAs: RictaShrubs — If you could miniaturize one animal, and keep it as a pet, which animal would miniaturize, and why? Front Tug — What's your best advice for a new burner coming to the playa for the first time this year? Front Tug — And, what's your best advice for an old crusty as fuck burner coming to the playa for the thousanth time this year? Stage Dive — Where did you go camping on the Oregon coast? I'm thinking of a camping trip in that area to meet my bay area friends half way. ScottK — is Burning Wish still A Thing? Stage Dive — When will the Listener Appreciation Party be at off Center Camp? Glowworm — Did A3RD ever get anyone from a turn key / plug-and-play camp to come on the show for an interview? Compost Queen — Question for A3rd: How hard was it to secure the Greeter’s bar for this year’s listener appreciation party? Snarkle Pony — question for A3rd. WTF were you thinking releasing a SIX HOUR podcast? Punisher Lamplighter — If there was any event, and price wasn’t an option, that you would want to attend that isn’t Burn- related, what would it be? Hope-ful — S05BB07: is there a place where I can find the Attack questions? Stage Dive — What is the context behind the buttholes for Beth channel? Stage Dive — What are your feelings about compliments? LateBus - What are your feelings about condiments? Mattguyver — And as a follow up, what would you consider the most versatile condiment? Glowworm — Y'all read any good books recently? Looking for a new novel for the summer chilling by the pool/river sessions Cold Day — What are the ratios for the creme de menthe / da bomb concoction, what do you call it, and do you mind me copying it? speebs — Been listening through the season finally - would it be poor taste to make a sticker that says “spoiler alert, Larry’s dead” Ghost Nawa - I'm arriving for build week on Monday, and Arctica doesn't open until Midweek some time. Advice on avoiding food poisoning and getting to have some fresh-adjacent food? LISTENER APPRECIATION PARTY Wednesday, August 27, 2025 @ 2:00 PM Playa Time @ Camp GotALotGoin'On @ 3:45 & Atwood MUSIC: "Experience 1st" By: D-day "Human Music" By: Beth "Life is Excellent" by: Bobby Joe Ebola and the Children MacNuggits https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqmRdp11DlI https://bobbyjoeebola.com/ JOIN OUR DISCORD: https://discord.gg/qXUb7hf6bd FOLLOW US ON BLUESKY: @accuracy3rd.bsky.social Patreon us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/A3rd /episode/index/show/accuracythird/id/37778745