S2 Ep19: The Fyre Festival (Billy McFarland)
Swindled
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4.6 • 10.3K Ratings
🗓️ 21 October 2018
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
A technology entrepreneur defrauds investors in order to build a luxury music festival in the Bahamas.
Prelude: The Lapland New Forest Christmas Festival delivers an underwhelming experience.
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| 0:00.0 | Thinking about spilling the tea? |
| 0:02.2 | WhatsApp has multiple layers of protection. |
| 0:04.5 | With enter-ending encryption, no one but those in the chat can see it. |
| 0:07.8 | Which means you can spill the whole pot. |
| 0:09.7 | And with chat lock, you can password protect your most personal chats. |
| 0:13.3 | So you can spill the beans too. |
| 0:15.0 | And when all the features work together, you can spill everything on the table |
| 0:19.1 | without worrying about cleanup. |
| 0:21.0 | Because you can make it disappear at the press of a button. |
| 0:24.0 | So don't just spill the tea. |
| 0:25.6 | Spill it all. |
| 0:26.8 | WhatsApp. |
| 0:27.6 | Message privately with multiple layers of protection. |
| 0:57.8 | It was built on the internet as a magical lap-land adventure |
| 1:01.5 | complete with Huskies, elves and a jolly father Christmas. |
| 1:05.0 | But a winter wonderland on the doorstep border turned out to be anything but... |
| 1:09.2 | Yeah, Southwest families who visited the attraction say their children were left in tears |
| 1:13.9 | by the experience and they weren't weeping for joy. |
| 1:18.4 | Families in southern England could hardly contain their excitement when advertisements for |
| 1:22.4 | a Christmas theme park named Lapland New Forest began appearing in local newspapers |
| 1:26.8 | in the autumn of 2008. |
| 1:29.2 | Over 50,000 tickets at 25 pounds each were sold in advance for the self-proclaimed winter |
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