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Speaker 1: Fool for rule. What's on the cutting room floor today?

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Speaker 2: Muni, Okay, let's talk Fire Festival to.

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Speaker 1: The doomed music festival that became a Netflix series. Oh,

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Speaker 1: the series was amazing. It was a series. All was

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Speaker 1: one one special, nothing was two specials.

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Speaker 2: It's worth having a look at This was Fire Festival,

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Speaker 2: Fyre Festival in twenty seventeen. What a disaster. Have a

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Speaker 2: look at the documentary about it. It is so brilliant

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Speaker 2: because it promised so much.

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Speaker 3: All these models like in the Bahamas, the most insane

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Speaker 3: festival the world has ever seen.

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Speaker 1: Island get away turned disaster.

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Speaker 3: It became very barbaric until you see what ye're getting

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Speaker 3: yourselves into.

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Speaker 2: Well indeed, well he got himself into a six year

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Speaker 2: prison sentence. So the man that arranged that, his name

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Speaker 2: was Billy McFarland. He was sentenced to prison for fraud.

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Speaker 2: Five thousand people showed up to what was supposed to

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Speaker 2: be a music experience. It was a disaster zone. It

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Speaker 2: was likened seriously to a disaster zone. He was, as

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Speaker 2: I said, convicted of fraud. He was released from prison

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Speaker 2: after four years. A New York court awarded seven two

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Speaker 2: and twenty dollars each to the people who'd attended. So

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Speaker 2: people were turning up, and the organizers knew that the

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Speaker 2: musicians had backed out. They knew the accommodation wasn't ready.

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Speaker 2: It's the most excruciating thing to watch. I'll just reach

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Speaker 2: you before we get to Fire Festival two. This is

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Speaker 2: what went wrong with Fire Festival one. The organizers didn't

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Speaker 2: have enough space for a number of people who attended.

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Speaker 2: They didn't have any experience about planning large scale events.

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Speaker 2: They didn't have anyone working on logistics, marketing, and safety.

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Speaker 2: The organizers to frauded investors, investors and ticket holders. The

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Speaker 2: organizers falsely advertised vip villas that ended up being disaster

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Speaker 2: relief tents. Do you remember a first image that ever

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Speaker 2: went viral? I think in the whole world, But this

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Speaker 2: was the doomsday moment for Fire Festival. Someone uploaded a

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Speaker 2: photo of a dodgy cheese sandwich.

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Speaker 1: Yep, it was a piece of bread, a piece.

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Speaker 2: Of cheese, and that was it, considering they had paid

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Speaker 2: for gourmet meals. There was no such thing. It did

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Speaker 2: not exist. The proper tents did not exist. Mattresses were

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Speaker 2: just thrown onto rain soaked floors. When everyone arrived, all

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Speaker 2: their luggage was just thrown into an unlicked car park.

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Speaker 2: It's horrendous to watch it. And the audacity they have

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Speaker 2: in launching Fire Festival too.

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Speaker 3: No, good morning, everybody. We just announced on the Today

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Speaker 3: Show that Fire I is taking place April twenty fifth

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Speaker 3: through April twenty eighth on a private island off of

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Speaker 3: the Caribbean coast in Mexico. Ticket applications are available on

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Speaker 3: Fire Festival to dot hm.

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Speaker 1: Well, they say it's real.

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Speaker 2: They're going to be offering quote, boundary pushing excursions by

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Speaker 2: day and intimate beachside performances at night. Their website says

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Speaker 2: that tickets are selling between fourteen.

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Speaker 1: Hundred dollars and one point one million.

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Speaker 2: Dollars for one ticket for luxury your promised luxury yachts

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Speaker 2: prices experiences.

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Speaker 1: I mean, this sounds terrible.

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Speaker 2: That could include diving with whale sharks, mixology sessions, survivalist challenges.

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Speaker 1: Survivalist challenges.

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Speaker 3: That means that they put you in an evacuation tent

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Speaker 3: and three with cheese sandwich and.

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Speaker 2: You evacuate your bows because there they are saying, we've

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Speaker 2: booked it. It's all happening in a tropical island off

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Speaker 2: Cancun in Mexico. Well, interestingly, the government of Mexico has

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Speaker 2: denied knowing anything about it, so how does he get away?

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Speaker 2: Tourism Directorate has said, we have no knowledge of this event,

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Speaker 2: no contact with any person or company about it. If

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Speaker 2: you go to their website and take the coordinates they provide,

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Speaker 2: apparently this is what the man has said. This truism

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Speaker 2: man has said, if you put those coordinates into Google Maps,

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Speaker 2: it takes you to the ocean. When he was pressed,

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Speaker 2: when good old Billy McFarland was pressed about who has

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Speaker 2: been booked, he's what he said.

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Speaker 3: We're going to have artists across electronic, hip hop, pop

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Speaker 3: and rock. However, it's not just music. We might have

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Speaker 3: a professional skateboarder do a demonstration. You might have an

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Speaker 3: MMA champion teach you techniques in the morning, and you say,

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Speaker 3: we might have are any of these for sure haves?

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Speaker 1: Are they booked?

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Speaker 3: So? I think what makes Fire so cool is that

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Speaker 3: we are selling the experience of fire. I want to

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Speaker 3: be one of the first festivals that can sell out with.

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Speaker 1: No artists, but you do have them booked.

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Speaker 3: We're doubting the artists over the next few months, so

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Speaker 3: I'm not in charge of booking the talent.

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Speaker 1: Will these be a list names that are involved?

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Speaker 3: I really hope so, and I expect so from our conversations.

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Speaker 2: Because he got done for fraud before now I can't say, hey,

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Speaker 2: I've booked them all.

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Speaker 1: But since then he has booked someone.

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Speaker 2: Do you want to know who it is? In a performer,

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Speaker 2: the very famous Antonio Brown.

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Speaker 1: Who's he?

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Speaker 3: Well?

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Speaker 1: I had to read.

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Speaker 2: He's retired from the NFL in twenty twenty two after

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Speaker 2: running off the field shirtless mid game and has not

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Speaker 2: been heard of since.

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Speaker 1: But he kept running like Forrest Gump. He's the only

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Speaker 1: person who has been booked someone that run away from

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Speaker 1: the event like it. Okay, so Fire Festival too. Here's

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Speaker 1: my credit card details. Caveat emptor. That's not one of

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Speaker 1: the acts. That's a Latin phrase. Look it up. I'll

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Speaker 1: look it up. That's up there with do better.

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Speaker 3: Okay. With that said, the day

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Speaker 2: Combat to mirth, Bore and Shelby and a Latters cut

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Speaker 2: and room floor