Ep. 249: ‘The Fyre Festival Fiasco’ w/ Geoff Keith & Ian Gulbransen
The E & G Podcast
Ian Gulbransen
4.8 • 637 Ratings
🗓️ 31 January 2019
⏱️ 77 minutes
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Summary
Thursday, January 31, 2019
Did you feel bad for the people who got conned into attending the #DumpsterFyre that was Fyre Festival? Billed as the cultural experience of the decade, millennials believed they were heading to a private island with beautiful models, luxury accommodations, yachts, music & gourmet food. Instead, they were welcomed by yellow school buses, FEMA tents, cheese sandwiches & arguably the biggest douche in the universe, Billy McFarland. On this episode, we’re breaking down the competing documentaries from Hulu & Netflix while also chatting about the GoFundMe to support Maryann Rolle (which has raised over $200K), Evian's new spokesman, how to portray a fantasy lifestyle on Instagram, where the blame should be placed, whether Ja Rule cut a deal (wasn’t it his vision?!), what we would have done if we found ourselves pulling up to #FyreFestival & much more! #V1 #FyreFraud
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| 0:00.0 | The E&G podcast, you don't want to test them since they were little kids, lifelong best friends, and they'll be best friends forever. |
| 0:17.8 | The podcast men and women listen to together. |
| 0:20.5 | ENG is dope, can't say it any clearer. |
| 0:22.9 | Covered bachelor, strange things in black mirror. |
| 0:25.5 | Lots of people listen and you know it's not trash. |
| 0:27.6 | The hate free always and good fun podcast. It was a one, givolm, dilloo, dilloo, dillin. The actual experience exceeds all expectations into something that's smart to put the words. |
| 0:45.3 | It was billed as a one-of-a-kind concert spectacular, promising concert goers a lavish, one-of-a-kind event with performances from bands like Blink 182 on the beautiful island |
| 0:56.2 | of Exuma in the Bahamas, promoted by celebrities like Bella Hadid and Kendall Jenner. But when |
| 1:02.0 | thousands arrived in the Bahamas for the fire festival, after paying up to $1,500 for a ticket |
| 1:07.7 | and $12,000 for a VIP experience, they found a millennial nightmare. |
| 1:13.7 | It was basically the exact opposite of everything we were promised. |
| 1:16.8 | We had no electricity. |
| 1:17.8 | There was no showers. |
| 1:19.0 | There was no bathrooms. |
| 1:19.9 | There's no, like, running water. |
| 1:21.1 | It was about $4,000. |
| 1:22.5 | What we actually got was probably worth closer to, I'd say, $0. |
| 1:26.8 | Despite the lack of accommodations, |
| 1:28.8 | food and entertainment, no one who attended the festival received a refund. |
| 1:49.0 | Welcome back to the hate-free always in good fun, G, podcast on this episode. |
| 1:52.6 | We'll be chatting about the dumpster fire, hashtag dumpster fire that was Firefest, which |
| 1:57.7 | has been all over social media on our streaming services, sites like Hulu and Netflix, which I feel like everybody has. |
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