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Life After MLM

Episode 193 : Billy McFarland

Life After MLM

Roberta Blevins

Society & Culture, Education

4.41K Ratings

🗓️ 11 October 2023

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

From the moment I heard about Fyre Festival, I was hooked. And not because I wanted to go, I was leaving my own scam at the time but because of the scammer at the forefront, Billy McFarland. It may seem odd to have a "favorite fraudster" but Billy takes the cake, from his earliest scams in childhood to his Fyre Festival 2 vision for "making it right", he's the GRIFT that keeps on GRIFTING. After speaking with Gina and starting our conversation about Fyre, I felt it was necessary to dive into the man who started it all and leave very little on the table. Show Notes A True Tale Of A Truly Haunted House Billy McFarland Wiki Fyre Festival Wiki Spling Interview TechCrunch on Spling Magnesis Yelp Reviews Norman's Cay Billy's Pyrt BS Billy's Sorry in Vanity Fair Jon Taylor's FBI Page My Billy McFarland Playlist on TikTok Out of MLM The BITE Model LAMLM Book Club MLM Dupes How can you help? MLM Change Report Fraud Truth in Advertising Report to your state Attorney General's office! Not in the U.S.? No Problem! Support the Podcast! Website | Patreon | Buy Me a Taco | TikTok | Instagram | Facebook | YouTube | Discord | Merch! Life After MLM is produced by Roberta Blevins. Audio editing is done by the lovely Kayla Craven, video editing by the indescribable RK Gold, and Michelle Carpenter is our Triple Emerald Princess of Robots. Life After MLM is owned by Roberta Blevins 2023. Music : Creepy Musicbox by Dmitry Taras *Some links may be affiliate links. When you purchase things from these links, I get a small commission that I use to buy us tacos. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

The Hey, I'm Robert of Lovins, and this is Life After Emilem, a podcast where we work to help end the stigma of failure in an industry

0:24.6

systemically designed for you to fail. Join us as we dive into the real life

0:28.8

stories of survivors, experts, and advocates as we debunked the common myths and fallacies of cults, frauds,

0:37.0

scams, and multi-level marketing.

0:40.0

Join us all month for stories of true Crime, True Khan, and Urban Legends from around the world.

0:46.0

Happy Halloween Huns. the Hey, Hunbuds and Hunbrows, it's another bonus episode in October, and this one we are diving deeper into what I promised you last episode and that is Billy

1:14.2

McFarland. I know it might seem like an obsession and you might be like why are you

1:18.7

so obsessed with him but it's really fascinating and I love the mind of like a con artist. It is very interesting and also I like to show receipts and when he says like oh you know it's not like last time I just kind of want to show you like all the other last times do you know what I mean I want to protect people from losing their money people are already losing their money they're're already buying his merge, they're already buying tickets.

1:46.0

It's kind of a phenomenon and I think that this episode is important and I would really like to sort of showcase that. He is one of the scam fathers and I wanted to tell his story.

1:57.0

All of my sources and where I gathered information for this episode can be found in the show notes and this is my opinion of Billy.

2:05.0

I mean it's a lot of other people's opinion of Billy too, but like I really hope that this episode

2:10.0

and this story your first or second

2:13.7

really kind of ties a lot of things together for people

2:16.5

and makes people start seeing connections between things.

2:21.0

You'll see what I mean.

2:22.1

If this is your first or second foray into Billy McFarland

2:26.4

You're in for a treat

2:30.0

And because I'm telling a story about a man who gets away with presenting things not as they seem,

2:36.0

I wanted to tell a story about a haunted house that presents itself not as it seems either. And I wanted to welcome our newest Humbot Slayer to the Patreon.

2:46.0

Gina Fazillo.

2:48.0

Welcome.

2:49.0

This week on the Patreon, Michelle and I went live to talk about our obsession with love is blind and a possible hunbro in the cast so we sort of went down a little bit of a rabbit hole and made some predictions so we'll see what happens. We'll see what happens.

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