Billy McFarland co-founded the ill-fated 2017 Fyre Festival, and is currently serving six years in federal prison for defrauding investors of $27.4 million.
What We Discuss with Billy McFarland:
The ideas that sparked what Fyre Festival was trying to achieve on an epic scale and the shortcomings that transformed it into a fraudulent, failed mess.
The coun ... Show More
Nov 2023
Fyre Festival's Billy McFarland On Prison Life, Redemption, & How To Overcome Life's Greatest Setbacks
#623: Today, we're sitting down with the infamous Billy McFarland. Billy McFarland is best known for organizing Fyre Festival, the VIP party that became infamous when hundreds of attendees were left stranded in the Bahamas with half-built huts to sleep in and cold cheese sandwich ... Show More
1h 6m
Sep 2023
COURT AUDIO: Alex Murdaugh's 'Good ol' Buddy' Cory Fleming Sentenced In Court
In the latest chapter of the Murdaugh legal saga, former Lowcountry attorney Cory Fleming was handed a 46-month sentence, amounting to nearly four years, by a federal judge. This decision follows his guilty plea in May for conspiring with Alex Murdaugh to embezzle funds from the ... Show More
1h 7m
Dec 2022
Billy Sproates: Buried Alive
When Billy didn't show up for a deer hunting trip, his family knew something was wrong. After authorities finally found his body, an autopsy concluded Billy was buried alive. Why didn't Billy's on-again, off-again girlfriend, Linda tell anybody that she hadn't seen him in weeks? ... Show More
32m 48s
May 2022
The Prison Boom with Shannon Heffernan
<p>Where did all these prisons come from? WBEZ’s Shannon Heffernan is here to give us part of the answer, which involves “small government” (of course), Lennie Briscoe (as always), the pink flowers of Alcatraz, and a prison sweepstakes that produced the actual worst song of the 8 ... Show More
1h 3m
Apr 2023
Ramit Sethi on his Netflix Series 'How to Get Rich' | #476
Today’s guest today is Ramit Sethi, entrepreneur, author of I Will Teach You to Be Rich, and star of the Netflix show releasing April 18th called How to Get Rich. In today’s episode, Ramit gives us a preview of what to expect from his new Netflix show, which he describes as a mix ... Show More
1 h