(EXCLUSIVE) Billy McFarland: The Man Behind The Infamous Fyre Festival Disaster

Were you nervous coming here today? I didn't know how in depth we were gonna go. If I knew the questions I don't think go to sleep last night. Billy McFarland. He is the band behind the infamous Fire Festival. Island Getaway turned disaster. The Fire Festival is the subject of two documentaries. I will never forget. When did you realize So Gone Rome? We were at the point where the timeline I had come up with was just so off. I'd wake up some days and be like, we need four million dollars by two PM. Did no one say to you this is fucking craziness? I just didn't have the ability to like, okay, like what's actually happening, how can we prevent this? And like almost like as if on to Billy McFarland pleaded guilty to fraud charges, sentenced to six years in prison. You come back to a shit storm.

Yeah. The criminality doesn't stop them, does it? But I couldn't like really understand the magnitude and the gravity of of the crimes they did commit. You'll always try to get you off the twenty year prison sentence by saying that you suffered from untreated bipolar disorder. Do you have my political disorder? Um

I did two stints in solitary. The seven month stint was because I tried to do a podcast over the Payphone. they put the paperwork in and send me to like a terrorist facility. When you're rendered useless and powerless, that just kind of kill your humanity. That's fucking scary. That keeps me up in that. Andy King. Did you ask him to suck a penis?

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