Billy McFarland: Fyre Festivals 1 & 2
What a Creep
Sonia Mansfield
4.5 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 1 September 2023
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Billy McFarland-Fyre Festival Creep
Season 10, Episode 7 (2024 Replay & Update!)
This week, we are taking a short break to celebrate Labor Day, a three-day long weekend dedicated to honoring the hardworking people of our country. However, we have some important news about one of the biggest scams of recent years. Believe it or not, the notorious Fyre Festival is returning; unfortunately, people are still buying into the hype. Fyre Fest is already sold out for its upcoming 2024 event.
On April 28, 2017, a tweet by Trevor DeHaas, also known as @trev4president, went viral. The tweet included a photo of a meager meal consisting only of bread, cheese, and undressed salad with the caption, "Here's the dinner they fed us tonight. Literally sliced bread, cheese, and salad with no dressing #fyrefraud #fyrefestival #dumpsterfyre." This was just the beginning of the Fyre Festival fraud, which 25-year-old Fyre Media
CEO and founder Billy McFarland masterminded. The festival left hundreds of people stranded and millions of dollars unpaid. Join us as we delve into the story of one of the youngest and biggest fraudsters we have covered on this show.
Sources for this episode:
- Fyre Festival Wikipedia
- Fyre Fest Intro/First Clip
- NME Ja Rule sells Cheese Sandwich for NFT
- BBC
- CNBC
- CNBC "American Greed"
- Washington Post
- Netflix: The Greatest Party That Never Happened
- Vulture (NY Magazine)
- Vanity Fair
- ABC "Where Are They Now?"
- Vogue (First-person account)
- Hulu: Fyre Fraud
- Daily Yo
- NME
- Fyre Festival 2024 Official Site
- EW 2023 Fyre Festival
- USA Today (2024)
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| 0:00.0 | We'll go back to what a creep this is Margot Donahue and my cohort in creepitude as always |
| 0:05.8 | is the amazing Sonya Mansfield. |
| 0:07.5 | Hey Sonya. |
| 0:08.5 | Hi friend. |
| 0:09.5 | Hello my friend. |
| 0:10.5 | We are recording this episode first because it's Labor Day weekend and so we're not |
| 0:14.9 | going to do any labor into our intro for this. |
| 0:18.3 | None. |
| 0:19.3 | None. |
| 0:20.3 | And when you're listening to this, oh, the next day after you listen to this because it |
| 0:23.7 | drops on Friday. |
| 0:25.0 | Sonya will be on vacation in Ireland for two, two weeks, two weeks. |
| 0:35.5 | No big deal. |
| 0:36.5 | No big deal. |
| 0:37.5 | Just, just head over to Ireland. |
| 0:39.3 | No big deal. |
| 0:40.3 | If you've got suggestions for her for the things she needs to do in Ireland, please send |
| 0:44.0 | them along to her. |
| 0:45.3 | We decided to replay our episode of Billy McFarland of the Fire Fest because it's an |
| 0:52.0 | episode we did a couple of years ago. |
| 0:54.3 | This guy went to jail for being a fraud and then he gets out of jail and he and I put |
| 1:00.0 | the link in the show notes. |
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