ENCORE - Fyre Festival: Bring Your Own Toilet Paper with Laci Mosley and Lauren Ashley Smith | 67

The Big Flop

Wondery

Society & Culture, Comedy, Business

4.6 • 884 Ratings

🗓️ 23 December 2024

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

When Hailey Bieber, Kendall Jenner, and Bella Hadid signed up to promote a scorching new music festival, they had no idea the flaming mess they were really in for. Entrepreneur Billy McFarland and rapper Ja Rule collabed on the notorious Fyre Festival, a disaster that cost millions, almost got festival workers killed or kidnapped, and is forever burned into flop history.

Comedians Laci Mosley (Scam Goddess, A Black Lady Sketch Show) and Lauren Ashley Smith (Grown-ish, A Black Lady Sketch Show) join Misha to help us roast Billy McFarland and his cheese sandwich schemes.

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0:00.0	Attention, all big flop stands. Are you ready to take your love for the big flop to the next level?
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0:20.3	flop fix awaits. Join Wondery Plus in the Wondery app or in
0:24.6	Apple Podcasts.
0:32.5	Hi, besties. We here at the Big Flop are taking a quick holiday break. So today I've got an encore of one of my
0:40.0	favorite episodes queued up for you. Rarely in this world do we see such a nonstop flopper.
0:47.0	Our guy, Billy McFarland, is always up to something, always keeping himself relevant.
0:53.1	We can never forget this all-time flop episode.
0:56.3	And these incredible guests, of course, enjoy our episode covering the legendary flop
1:01.7	Fire Festival. And we'll be back with a new episode next week.
1:07.7	It's April 3rd of 2017 and thousands of young people are getting ready for a music festival later that month.
1:16.4	The promise is extraordinary, a private island in the Bahamas, huge acts like Migos, Major Laser and Blink 182,
1:25.8	five-star cuisine and luxury villas. Attendees would frolic with models
1:30.9	and NFL players in the sparkling blue water while jet skis crisscross in the distance. This would
1:38.2	be a brand new festival called Firefest. What could possibly go wrong?
1:47.1	Well, behind the scenes, things are very much going wrong.
1:51.9	According to leaked emails obtained by Mike.com,
1:55.4	the festival's five-star caterer had dropped out,
1:58.8	and festival employee Lily Villanueva found another looming disaster.
2:03.6	The bathrooms. She'd just sent her boss the numbers of how many portable bathrooms were needed.
2:10.0	Industry professionals agreed that 20 trailers plus several shower units would suffice.
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