957: Fyre Festival- The Story Netflix did Not Tell with Marc Weinstein
Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth
Sal Di Stefano, Adam Schafer, Justin Andrews, Doug Egge
4.8 • 11.8K Ratings
🗓️ 31 January 2019
⏱️ 84 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, Sal, Adam, and Justin speak with Marc Weinstein, who was featured in Netflix's just released documentary Fyre. Marc goes into detail about what led him to work with the festival, why he stayed to the disastrous end and what he learned from the experience. This is a very interesting conversation with a behind the scene look at the music festival business, the power of social media and the damage that one charismatic sociopath can inflict.
- What Marc does for a living, his background and how he connected with Mind Pump? (2:06)
- What are some of the most profitable music festivals and the challenges you would face starting one? (8:50)
- Did he know what he was getting into when he switched from finance to event production? (14:50)
- How he ‘fell’ into the music industry. (18:09)
- Why the events industry is always a mess and the need to just ‘figure it out’. (21:10)
- How did he meet Billy McFarland and the founders of the Fyre Festival? (23:45)
- How did he deal with the coordination and stress of trying to accommodate the festival guests? (38:40)
- What were the conversations like with the other members of the production team while this debacle was going on? (42:37)
- Was there a thought process to postpone? (45:27)
- How did he coordinate the festival guests off the island and when did he discover that Billy had committed wire fraud? (48:40)
- Was he afraid at any point the locals would get violent? (52:50)
- Who owns the footage from the documentary? Are we contributing to this sociopath? (53:48)
- How Fyre is just a microcosm of how social media portrays our lives. (58:55)
- What is the aftermath from this? (1:01:23)
- Does he find it cathartic to talk about it? Make amends with GoFundMe pages? How we could use social media for good. (1:03:40)
- How does he feel he has evolved from this? His take on the social media revolution. (1:09:00)
- Does he see an advantage of events like Burning Man unplugging from technology? (1:17:00)
- What practices does he implement to cope with social media addiction? (1:18:37)
- What is he currently pursuing? (1:20:57)
Featured Guest/People Mentioned:
- Marc Weinstein (@warcmeinstein) Instagram
- Brett Kincaid (@bretthendersonkincaid) Instagram
- Ja Rule (@Ruleyork) Twitter
- Billy McFarland (entrepreneur)
- Tristan Harris (@tristanharris) Twitter
Products Mentioned:
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- FYRE: The Greatest Party That Never Happened | Netflix Official Site
- Lesson from the Fyre – Marc Weinstein – Medium
- Prime Social Group
- Live Nation Adds Governors Ball to Its Music Festival Lineup
- What Really Happened at the Sweetlife Music Festival
- TomorrowWorld: festival will have a bright future despite SFX bankruptcy
- XLIVE – Las Vegas
- The Matts Productions, LLC
- Insight Venture Partners: Venture Capital Firms NYC
- FYRE FRAUD Streaming Online | Hulu
- UNREAL-SYSTEMS
- Exuma Foundation for the locals impacted by Fyre
- Irresistible: The Rise of Addictive Technology and the Business of Keeping Us Hooked - Book by Adam Alter
- iGen: Why Today's Super-Connected Kids Are Growing Up Less Rebellious, More Tolerant, Less Happy--and Completely Unprepared for Adulthood--and What That Means for the Rest of Us – Book by Jean M. Twenge PhD
- BRICK
- Siempo
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| 0:00.0 | If you want to pump your body and expand your mind, there's only one place to go. |
| 0:06.0 | Mite, op, mite, op with your hosts. |
| 0:09.0 | Salda Stefano, Adam Schaefer, and Justin Andrews. |
| 0:13.0 | Man, that was a good call, Adam. |
| 0:15.0 | Yeah, man, it was Mark in here. |
| 0:17.0 | Yeah, that was a great conversation, and I love where it went. |
| 0:23.0 | I think at the beginning it takes a minute, so I think if you're unfamiliar with who he is, |
| 0:29.0 | if you're unfamiliar with the documentary fire that is on Netflix, it's also on Hulu. |
| 0:35.0 | You're definitely going to want to go watch it after this. |
| 0:37.0 | Yeah, 100%. |
| 0:38.0 | So if you're not familiar with it, hang in to the entire episode, we kind of let him tell his story |
| 0:42.0 | to how he got into the industry and the space, and then he does get into the whole documentary and what happened, |
| 0:48.0 | and then ties it all in with social media. |
| 0:52.0 | And I thought that was really cool because that wasn't something that we knew he was going to do |
| 0:57.0 | or that he felt strongly about, and it's something that we all felt very strongly about and are connected to with him. |
| 1:03.0 | That's right. Now you can find him on Instagram at Warke Mindstein, so that's W-A-R-C-M-E-I-N-S-T-E-I-N. |
| 1:15.0 | He also writes blogs. |
| 1:17.0 | He wrote one called Lessons from the Fire, where he kind of goes into depth about what he learned from the whole incident. |
| 1:25.0 | But that's the member fire was that huge music festival that went bat shit crazy and lost a lot of people money. |
| 1:32.0 | And so he writes all about it. |
| 1:34.0 | You can find it on Medium, and that's Mark Weinstein. |
| 1:37.0 | So it's M-A-R-C-M-W-E-I-N-S-T-E-I-N. |
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