THE FYRE FESTIVAL FIASCO: WHO IS TO BLAME?
The Alarmist
The Alarmist
4.4 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 18 January 2022
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Who’s to blame for the Fyre Festival fiasco?
This week, The Alarmist (Rebecca Delgado Smith) speaks with old school bestie Marta Kuersten Wolaver about the notorious Fyre Festival disaster. A Development Manager for the Economic Security Project, Marta has plenty of bones to pick with the people behind this nightmare. They’re joined by Fact Checker Chris Smith and Producer Clayton Early. Will The Alarmist Jail be making room for a bunch of influencers?! Or is this a Capitalism classic?
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| 0:00.0 | An Iriot original. |
| 0:03.0 | I was born with a special gift. |
| 0:07.0 | The ability to mentally transform any situation into the worst case scenario. |
| 0:13.0 | In my own brain. |
| 0:18.0 | My therapist calls my gift catastrophizing. |
| 0:21.0 | And that's why I'm uniquely qualified to scrutinize and analyze history's greatest disasters. |
| 0:28.0 | And find out who's to blame. |
| 0:33.0 | They say history repeats itself. |
| 0:35.0 | Not on my watch. |
| 0:37.0 | My name is Rebecca Delgado-Smith and I am the alarmist. |
| 0:49.0 | Hey everyone, thanks for tuning into the alarmist. |
| 0:52.0 | A comedy podcast where we talk about history's greatest tragedies and figure out who's to blame. |
| 0:57.0 | Today we're discussing the Fire Festival. |
| 1:00.0 | Here's what you need to know. |
| 1:02.0 | It was anticipated to be the music festival of the century, at least for the wealthy and elite. |
| 1:08.0 | Fire Festival represented the epitome of excess and exclusivity. |
| 1:13.0 | Attendees were promised pristine beaches, lavish accommodations, and celebrity level indulgence. |
| 1:21.0 | But when guests arrived on the island, Great Exuma in the Bahamas on April 27, 2017, |
| 1:29.0 | they found themselves thrust into the Instagram versus reality of their nightmares. |
| 1:35.0 | Billy McFarland, the co-founder of Fire Festival, |
| 1:38.0 | was determined to be a successful entrepreneur from his great school crayon fixing business |
| 1:44.0 | to a social network called Spling to magnetize a millennial take on the exclusive Amix Black card. |
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