Andy King Reveals All About Fyre Festival, Billy McFarland, Multi-Million Dollar Parties & More
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- čas přidán 20. 03. 2022
- Andy King is an American entrepreneur and events producer. He is also one of the stars of Netflix hit documentary, FYRE FESTIVAL.
He catered his first wedding at the of 16 and went on to become a top event producer in New York City. He has been featured on the front page of the Wall Street Journal as America’s first corporate concierge for his ground-breaking work at PepsiCo.
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He’s so adorable
Great interview! Love hearing how Andy got his start and the advice to young people just getting started in their careers.
Thank you!!
This guy is the epitome of cool.
I’m glad someone finally covered this. Because yes I agree what he did was wrong and he deserved what he got. But people make him out to be a bank robber, but his intention was for the success of the festival. Doesn’t erase what he did was wrong, but I don’t think people understand he really wanted the festival to happen. Which is why he’s trying again. And if he does pull it off, man oh man, everyone’s gonna change their opinion about him.
It’s fascinating to hear this story. It’s crazy what a perspective it is to hear about how social media could have been the death of fyre fest.
Another thing I can’t help but say, is that Andy’s “zero waste” vision is basically a trade off between labor vs material cost. He can pat himself on the back because he can afford to hire a artisan pottery maker person to craft custom glassware for his high society events, only because these people are richer than 99% of the population and can afford to pay orders of magnitude over what it would cost the average person to buy plastic cups, utensils, paper plates, etc. from Costco or amazon. The disposal party ware is incredible cheap due to supply chain optimization, and because rather than someone crafting each cup by hand, a machine is pressing thousands of plastic cups by the hour attended by a factory worker monitoring the process. This may be “sustainable” from the point of view that fossil fuels and other natural resources aren’t needed for the pottery maker to do his craft, but it’s absolutely not sustainable in the sense that the average person can afford to do this. Andy’s language is telling in the way he speaks of his challenges of living in South Carolina and that “the south is living in the past” because they don’t have the “recycling infrastructure” found in other places, but of course he doesn’t mention the fact that recycling itself is largely dependent on shipping low value waste overseas to places that have lesser environmental regulations, and that “recycling” of many goods is largely economically unviable, and as places like China which once took our plastic waste advance economically, they have stopped allowing the import of “recyclables” since the reality is that these goods can’t really be reused to the degree people think they can, and that processing them takes a toll on the local environments where plastic recycling once took place, and that most “recycled” plastics are either incinerated or landfilled somewhere else out of sight of the high minded people who think they’re “better people” for dumping their waste into a blue container.
With regard to Andy’s vision of the future of “a solar panel on every roof, and an electric vehicle in every driveway” he of course doesn’t get into the details of the rare earth minerals required for producing the solar panels and batteries required for this vision, and the fact that the rich can only afford to pay the higher price for these things precisely because they really aren’t as “sustainable” as he would like to think. Of course there’s no mention of nuclear power, which may be the one energy source that is truly as close to emissions free as possible, because expanding nuclear power may actually be able to provide clean power for the majority of the population.
I agree that it isn’t practical for celebrities to travel via commercial air, and accept Andy’s explanation of why celebrities need to travel via private plane. But just like commercial air isn’t viable for highly public figures, this vision of massive labor of custom craftsmen building the goods normally produced by mass manufacturing in exchange for low resource usage isn’t viable for the majority of normal people, and only way rich people like Andy and his buddies can afford to go about their “green” quest, is for there to be a large portion of the population that is willing to be the labor force to produce these green products, and the only way the working class can exist, is due to all of the advances of mass manufacturing and other labor saving technologies. Andy basically even admits this when he talks about it’s cheaper for them to buy new furniture at ikea, vs paying high prices to rent expensive stuff.
So to summarize my complaint here, is that this “net zero” vision is really more of a “let’s ignore the externalities of our fancy lifestyle while speaking down to the little people which are needed to support it”.
The things you do for love 😂
Is this andy.king from Dan Casriels group?
I deliberately skipped all of McFarland's recent interviews to listen to King. That charlatan shouldn't be getting any views.