The Fyre Festival

American Greed Podcast

CNBC

True Crime, Documentary, Tv & Film, Society & Culture

4.6 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 15 January 2020

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Disgraced Fyre Festival founder Billy McFarland uses fraud to launch his brand and a luxury music festival in the Bahamas. (Season 13 Episode 172 Original Airdate 08-19-2019) Want to binge watch your Greed? The latest episodes at: https://www.cnbc.com/american-greed/

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0:00.0	This is the American Greed Podcast presented by CNBC. I'm Stacy Kings.
0:07.0	In this episode of American Greed, The Fire Festival,
0:12.0	this glossy promotional video pitches it as the greatest music festival ever.
0:17.0	You know, beautiful models frolicing in the water in the Bahamas.
0:22.0	Fire Festival. It's supposed to be like the most insane
0:26.0	festival the world has ever seen. But Firefest is a complete disaster that
0:32.2	quickly goes viral.
0:33.4	Welcome to Fire Festival.
0:35.4	What's happening?
0:37.4	The festival is cancelled.
0:39.4	This is this fucking crazy.
0:42.3	And the mastermind behind it all,
0:44.0	25-year-old Billy McFarland.
0:47.0	Billy had a lot of obvious talents, but the greatest one was selling himself.
0:51.0	That's fucking to mess up her hair.
0:54.0	In scam after scam, he defrost more than 100 of his investors
0:59.0	of 27 million dollars.
1:02.0	He was a serial froster.
1:04.4	He's someone with a lot of resources.
1:06.6	He can do either really great things
1:09.2	or also really terrible things.
1:21.0	We are just in LAX.
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