SUMMER FUN FAVES: Fyre Festival
That's So Fcked Up
Ashley Love Richards
4.5 • 541 Ratings
🗓️ 28 August 2024
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Models on yachts sipping champaign on what was once Pablo Escobar's island... influencers, delicious food, luxury accommodations, beautiful art and amazing music in the Bahamas. That's what was promised if you bought a ticket to 2017's Fyre Festival, tickets that went for well into the thousands to tens of thousands of dollars. What festival goers got was the opposite of the experience that they had dreamed of and been promised- basically 24 hours in hell.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | I don't know if they knew or if they were just like in heavy, heavy denial. |
| 0:06.0 | So they told the influencers don't be here. |
| 0:09.0 | Because like that's pretty damning to be like, hey, famous people. |
| 0:12.0 | Look, we're not going to tell the normies this, but like, you're not going to want to be here. |
| 0:17.0 | Just stay home. |
| 0:19.0 | That's so fucked up Presents. |
| 0:42.0 | Welcome back to That So Fucked Up Presents, Fisty Festivals. |
| 0:49.5 | That So Fooked Up is a spin-off series of That's So Fucked Up, aka T-SFU, a podcast about cults, murder, |
| 0:51.5 | and other generally fucked-up stuff. |
| 0:56.7 | In That So Fooked Up Presents, each season is like a mini series where we dive into a particular place or topic over the course of a month. |
| 0:59.5 | I'm super into topics right now, so that's probably what you'll be seeing a lot of. |
| 1:04.4 | And this season, we are talking about when festivals get feisty and not in a good way. |
| 1:13.1 | I'm your host, Ashley Richards, and this is Feisty Festivals. |
| 1:16.9 | And as you know, if you listen to Astro World, if you haven't, what the fuck? |
| 1:21.0 | Go listen. |
| 1:22.0 | And you know that my co-host for this season is none other than the fabulous Michelle Mosher. |
| 1:29.1 | Probably know her if you listen to That's So Fucked Up. |
| 1:32.9 | I would hope so. |
| 1:34.1 | Yeah. |
| 1:34.5 | I guess unless you are still in the way back catalog and breaking your way through, |
| 1:38.1 | then you might be like, who's this? |
| 1:39.3 | Who's Michelle? |
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