Few schemes in history have been more harebrained or almost inevitably doomed to fail than Billy McFarland's 2017 Fyre Festival. With promotion that captured the collective imagination of the world's social media faithful, Fyre was billed to give both Coachella and Burning Man a run for their money.

However, what Billy would soon learn, along with a few thousand stranded would-be revelers, was that it typically takes more than high-octane bro energy, some PowerPoint slides and half-a-dozen-or-so secretly-paid influencers to successfully pull off the greatest music festival of all time.

Bibi and Sibel dive into the hilarious lead-up to the disastrous weekend on Great Exuma, and the very real consequences suffered by ticket-holders, vendors and the island's local community alike.

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Episode References:

Fyre Festival https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fyre_Festival

Billy McFarland (fraudster) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_McFarland_(fraudster)

Ja Rule https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ja_Rule

Fyre Festival: Inside the world's biggest festival flop https://www.bbc.com/news/newsbeat-46904445

FYRE FESTIVAL https://www.crimemuseum.org/crime-library/white-collar-crime/fyre-festival/

Fyre Festival: The World's Largest Festival Scam: https://www.lawinsider.org/post/fyre-festival-the-world-s-largest-festival-scam

Fyre Festival attendees stand to recover almost nothing from bankruptcy https://nypost.com/2021/07/07/fyre-festival-attendees-stand-to-recover-almost-nothing-from-bankruptcy/

42 Disastrous Facts About Fyre Festival https://www.factinate.com/things/facts-fyre-festival/

Fyre Festival: How a 25-year-old scammed investors out of $26 million https://www.cnbc.com/2019/08/18/how-fyre-festivals-organizer-scammed-investors-out-of-26-million.html