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Swindled

19. The Fyre Festival (Billy McFarland)

Swindled

A Concerned Citizen

True Crime, History, Documentary, Society & Culture

4.79.7K 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. –––-–---------------------------------------- PATREON: Patreon.com/Swindled DONATE: SwindledPodcast.com/Support CONSUME: SwindledPodcast.com/Shop –––-–---------------------------------------- FOLLOW: SwindledPodcast.com Instagram.com/SwindledPodcast Twitter.com/SwindledPodcast Facebook.com/SwindledPodcast Thanks for listening. :-) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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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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