The Fyre Festival Fiasco
Stuff You Should Know
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🗓️ 10 March 2026
⏱️ 47 minutes
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What happens when a career grifter tries to throw a "luxury" music festival in only six months? Not much it turns out.This was the Fyre Festival.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:02.5 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:05.6 | Welcome to Stuff You Should Know, a production of IHeart Radio. |
| 0:15.3 | Hey, and welcome to the podcast. |
| 0:17.1 | I'm Josh, and there's Chuck and Jerry's here with us, too. |
| 0:19.8 | So this is a straight ahead episode of Stuff You Should Know, The Podcast. |
| 0:25.6 | That's right. And today we're discussing the Fire Festival, the festival that never happened, F-Y-R-E. |
| 0:33.6 | Yeah. |
| 0:34.1 | Of which there were two documentaries made, and I'm pretty positive I saw both of them back when they came out. |
| 0:42.4 | Ooh, la, la. I only saw one. |
| 0:44.5 | Which one did you see? |
| 0:46.2 | I saw the Netflix one. |
| 0:47.8 | Yeah, I think I saw both of them because I was like, I don't want to miss anything. |
| 0:52.0 | Right, right. Yeah, I think I got the gist of it from the Netflix one. |
| 0:57.3 | I saw essentially when it came out, so I haven't seen it in a little while, but I did an |
| 1:02.4 | awful lot of reading about this and a lot of stuff came back. |
| 1:05.0 | That's right. |
| 1:05.8 | And we're going to kind of let it unfold as it happened or as it didn't happen, rather, |
| 1:10.1 | which means I guess we should start |
| 1:12.4 | with the organizer of this musical festival that was not, right? Yeah, Mr. William Z. Billy McFarland. |
| 1:23.0 | This guy. Yeah, this guy. That's another way to put it. Yeah. Yeah, he was born in New York in 91. He's a |
| 1:32.8 | millennial through and through. And he was essentially a rich kid. I don't know that he was |
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