Billy McFarland
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Search complete. 8 mentions across 7 episodes found for "Billy McFarland".
Sep 21, 2026
B True Hollywood Story: Charlie Zakkour with Sophie Ross!
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54:33Sophie Ross BrooksGUEST
I mean, I totally believe that his role started out as harmless.
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54:38Sophie Ross BrooksGUEST
Like let's get some like cute girls to come to the parties at the townhouse, which by the way, reminds me of Billy McFarland, who before Fyre Festival had like a townhouse where he was just like obsessed with creating like the social club situation.
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54:51Sophie Ross BrooksGUEST
It's like the most insecure losers that never had friends or- parties growing up all of a sudden have money and now they're like oh I can buy this townhouse everyone's gonna want to party here like it's so pathetic but yeah so I think that his role probably started out as harmless but the fact that this person was being tortured with chainsaws chainsaws are loud You were being tortured with fucking like cattle prods, this guy, and Charlie was seen literally photographic evidence of him outside the house when this guy escaped.
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55:27Sophie Ross BrooksGUEST
there's no way he didn't have an idea of what was going on.
Original Thinkers Are Rare ~ Chris Williamson
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4:12Chris WilliamsonHOST
It's just so interesting to me.
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4:13Chris WilliamsonHOST
I've been thinking about this to do with Billy McFarland.
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4:16Chris WilliamsonHOST
Let me, let me just get this in.
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4:17Chris WilliamsonHOST
Hit it.
Fyre Fest of BookTok with Ashley Ray
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65:45Ashley RayGUEST
Nothing.
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65:45Laci MosleyHOST
Which to me is fascinating too on another level because at least with certain events, like the real Fyre Fest, Billy McFarland didn't have to actually face all of the guests of the Fyre Fest.
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65:56Laci MosleyHOST
He was on Molly hiding somewhere as everything
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65:58Ashley RayGUEST
fell apart, as one should do.
Forgotten Music Festival Disasters - Part 2 | 73
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28:42Alan CrossHOST
Finally, I want to talk about the Fire Festival.
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28:45Alan CrossHOST
No, no, not the well-documented 2017 fiasco in the Bahamas that was filled with so much fraud that promoter Billy McFarland went to jail.
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28:52Alan CrossHOST
No, I'm talking about the second Fire Festival.
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28:56Alan CrossHOST
You would think that McFarland would have learned some kind of lesson.
Wealth Wednesday With Vivian Tu Talks Her New Financial Literacy App
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52:38Vivian TuGUEST
... insane.
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52:39Vivian TuGUEST
I mean, there are people who are still investing money with Billy McFarland, Fyre Fest man.
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52:45Angela YeeHOST
Oh, my gosh.
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52:46Vivian TuGUEST
And what do they all have in common? I'll let you take a gander yourself.
Ep.685 ~ Original Thinkers Are Rare ~ Chris Williamson
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4:12Chris WilliamsonHOST
It's just so interesting to me.
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4:13Chris WilliamsonHOST
I've been thinking about this to do with, uh, Billy McFarland.
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4:15Chris WilliamsonHOST
Uh-
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4:16Alex HormoziGUEST
Let me, let me just get this in.
The Story of the Fake 49er Wide Receiver
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16:56DannyUNKNOWN
That'd be great if he held a retirement [laughs] press conference.
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16:58DannyUNKNOWN
Just him and, uh, who's my guy from the Fyre Festival? Billy McFarland and what's his name? Uh, Ja Rule? No.
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17:04DannyUNKNOWN
[laughs] No. Yeah, Billy McFarland was the guy's name.
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17:06DannyUNKNOWN
Yeah.
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17:06DannyUNKNOWN
He's, he's like, "Here's where you went wrong with this fraud here." Well, I just, I don't know that...