One of my favorite parts of this documentary...or maybe it was the Hulu one, is that guy telling the story and he went from disbelief to "Ok, guess I'll take one for the team" before lucking out and not having to suck a dick for Fyrefest.

It's a crazy story, and really speaks to how hard many of the organizers were trying to save this disaster.

Yeah, that came out wrong. My apologies. He seriously lawyered up though and claimed he was scammed, while being well documented of indulging with the dickbag promoter and reaping benefits of a vacation.

"Entrepreneur" lmao. The bar for that word is so low.

Ja Rule pulled the same shit at a 90s nostalgia concert in Vaughn I went to about 2 years ago. He’s a pos scammer. Ashanti, Ludacris, Kardinal Offishall and Karl Wolf managed to put on a damn good show though.

I highly doubt you saw the "same" footage if it's National Geographic saying it's been in the archives for 50 years. I'm gonna trust them on this one.

not all the footage by the videographer was lost... he had other footage used in many other chimp docs and Jane Goodall docs etc

No, it wasn't. I saw it in Nat Geo programming 20-30 years ago.

That's the point. I saw the same footage 20 and 30 and 40 years ago. Something isn't lost to the viewing public because you've personally never bothered to look for it.

Poor influencers. My heart bled for their inconvenience. HA!

#rulemetoo

Good one. Salute!

I watch it every year — it’s too good!

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If you lose your keys and then you find them, they were lost to you, but they were always available.

"Drawing from over 100 hours of never-before-seen footage that has been tucked away in the National Geographic archives for over 50 years", so the footage was lost in the archives and then found again. Misplaced, lost, whatever, it's semantics, what matters is it's footage that no one has ever seen before.

This conman and fraudster, Billy McFarland was convicted of fraud and sentenced to 6 years. He served 4 years and was released in March 2022. He is currently keeping a low profile, but there are execs and inventors lining up to meet him to seek his marketing talents.

Something is definitely wrong in this world if people languish in prison for half their lifetimes for just possessing a few grams of weed, but people like these defraud others of millions of dollars but only get 4 years in prison. And then find other fraudsters trying to kiss their ass when they are released.

And the other conman, Ja Rule got away.

Exactly. Guy's a fucking hero. I know it's kind of a funny story, but that's a pretty goddamn selfless offer, especially to help out a bunch of strangers.

"Take one for the team" will forever have a specific connotation to me, no matter how it is used in the future.

Yes Rule Yes

In the absence of Rule, no wonder there was anarchy

Rock festival?

I plan events for my job. My co-worker (who had my job before she got promoted) told me to watch the Woodstock ‘99 doc. Talk about the stuff that nightmares are made of…

Look at the guy who runs Blue Ridge Fest lol

Agreed. I feel like Netflix’s talks about where things went wrong from an event planning standpoint, while Hulu’s did it from a cultural standpoint.

It was the customs people to get water they had purchased.

Battle of May Island

>The Battle of May Island is the name given to the series of accidents that occurred during Operation E.C.1 in 1918. Named after the Isle of May, a nearby island in the Firth of Forth, the "battle" consisted of a disastrous series of accidents amongst Royal Navy vessels on their way from Rosyth, Scotland, to fleet exercises in the North Sea. On the misty night of 31 January–1 February 1918, five collisions occurred between eight ships. Two K-class submarines were lost and three other submarines and a light cruiser were damaged.

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