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0:00What's the first thing you ate when you
0:01got out of prison?
0:02I, uh, shrimp from Costco.
0:06Shrimp from Costco? Eddie buys seafood
0:09from Costco all the time.
0:11eat salmon all the time. They got great
0:13salmon there, Billy.
0:14They have great salmon.
0:16Tosh Show.
0:19Tosh Show.
0:23Tosh Show. Tosh Show.
0:25Hey, y'all. It's me, Daniel Tosh, and
0:26welcome to Tosh Show. Hope everyone's
0:29buckled up cuz today's going to be one
0:32heck of a ride. Sorry for the language.
0:35How you doing, Eddie?
0:36I'm doing pretty good. You sound a
0:37little different though today.
0:39Huh.
0:40You think I sound different? Well, I I
0:42mean, we're recording a little earlier.
0:44This is just Maybe this is my morning
0:46groggy voice. I'm sure it'll it'll work
0:49its way through.
0:52What'd you do this weekend, Eddie?
0:54Yeah, I just hung out at the house. Had
0:55some Had some friends over.
0:57You had friends over? I didn't come
0:58over.
0:59I Yeah, I missed uh Yeah, no.
1:02That was [ __ ] [ __ ] man. You had
1:04friends over. Like There was like a
1:07whole crew of people I don't know about.
1:09All right. You know what I did? On
1:11Friday, I, uh,
1:13I went to my son's preschool and I
1:17passed out 21, that's how many people
1:20are in his class, uh, 21 index cards
1:23where I wrote a a clean, funny joke that
1:26a 4-year-old would laugh at, and I gave
1:28them to the kids and I told them they
1:30needed to practice their joke over the
1:32weekend, and then on Monday, I went in,
1:35I had built a stage, uh, a little
1:38backdrop, and made them a little comedy
1:40club at their preschool, and I was going
1:43to teach them how to do stand-up. And
1:44they were so excited. And I got a a
1:46microphone and everything like that. Got
1:49a little stool, put a little, uh,
1:51kids' water bottle on the on the stage,
1:54and, uh, you know, I had them do say
1:56funny things too, like, uh, you know,
1:59I'll be here all week. Try the chicken
2:00fingers. Yeah.
2:02We did They They just like to hear their
2:03voice amplified. But, here's the thing.
2:06Every one of those kids memorized their
2:09joke. They took it seriously. Like,
2:11their parents told me they're like, "Oh,
2:13our kid was working on his joke all
2:15weekend." And I was like, "Oh, that's
2:16great." And I was just, you know,
2:19showing them that
2:20every but every kid hears all the time
2:23that they can be a doctor or, uh, you
2:25know, a firefighter. But, you know, they
2:27they
2:27they might not be brave or they might be
2:29dumb as [ __ ] So, you need to know that
2:31there's another option. And that's why I
2:32introduced them to comedy. It was It was
2:34fun. Everybody My My son did well. He
2:37He'll Here, let's play his joke.
2:39Why did the girl throw a stick of butter
2:41out the window?
2:43Why?
2:44Because she wanted to see a butterfly.
2:48Thank you. THAT'S MY TIME.
2:52IT JUST HOLDS UP. BY THE WAY, I didn't
2:54charge these kids for my expertise.
2:58No, but But, there are these comedy
3:00classes. And And, you know, if anybody
3:02ever talks to me about stand-up, they're
3:04"What do you think of these comedy
3:05classes?" I think they're ridiculous.
3:08Uh, I don't think anybody should pay
3:09money to learn how to do stand-up
3:11because to me
3:13that was actually the fun part was
3:15trying to figure out how do I do this.
3:18I'll tell you Here's a story some people
3:20might not know. The first time I did
3:21stand-up, it was not in a comedy venue.
3:26Meaning, uh, it wasn't even a comedy
3:29night.
3:30I just looked in the paper in Orlando,
3:33uh, and I saw open mic. And because I
3:35was thinking everything open mic means
3:38stand-up, I'm going to go to this. And I
3:40went there. It was like a little jazz
3:42club. And they were just having, uh,
3:44musicians go up and perform all night.
3:47And I was like, "Oh, no. I made a huge
3:49mistake." So, I was like, I don't think
3:52I I had already signed my name on the
3:53paper and then I went over to the guy
3:55and I said, "Hey, uh
3:57I I I messed up. I I thought this was
3:59like comedy."
4:00He's like, "Well, are what are you going
4:01to tell jokes?" And I was like, "Yeah, I
4:04was just going to go up and tell He's
4:05like, "Yeah, that'd be great. Uh just
4:07just do it."
4:09And I'm like, "Oh, okay."
4:11So, there's this night of bad music and
4:14then they stop to have me go up for a
4:18few minutes and do horrible comedy.
4:22Anyway, so the point is I never took a
4:25comedy class and it's it's We can tell.
4:28But, I don't I just You just learn. You
4:30just figure it out. So, like, yeah, I
4:32that's I did comedy the wrong venue and
4:34then I was like, "Oh, I should look for
4:35places that are doing comedy and that's
4:38the open mics I should go to."
4:39It worked out for you.
4:40Yeah, it worked out. And by the way, if
4:42you're somebody that's like, "Oh, I
4:43signed up for a comedy school and it it
4:45helped me." Then, all right, fine. But,
4:48I just don't think it's a necessary step
4:51in learning how to become a comedian.
4:53And I do say this to everyone. If you
4:55wanted to get into stand-up comedy, it's
4:58uh
4:59it's you'll get better. It's not like,
5:01"Oh my goodness, only the funny people
5:03do well in stand-up." I know tons of
5:05very successful comedians that aren't
5:08funny. And the opposite, I know tons of
5:11very funny people that are very poor
5:14stand-up comics.
5:16All right. Eddie, you got any videos for
5:17us today?
5:18I do have a video.
5:19You do?
5:20Yeah, let's For people just listening,
5:22check out our YouTube channel for the
5:23link.
5:24What the [ __ ] was that?
5:27I hope we got paid for that, Eddie.
5:29All right, let's see what we got here.
5:37You know, this should be next year's
5:38Super Bowl halftime show.
5:40Is this Hamilton?
5:41No, I think this is the Fire Festival.
5:44I see what you did. I see what you
5:46brought me back. The Fire Festival. You
5:48remember that?
5:50Huh? More like Liar Festival. Am I
5:53right? That guy conned everybody. Oh,
5:56man. Well,
5:58you're in luck.
5:59Today's guest has been in prison for the
6:02past 4 years for producing the worst
6:05concert ever.
6:06Enjoy.
6:09Car show.
6:12My guest today is the co-creator of the
6:14greatest music festival. He was the star
6:16of two very popular documentaries and he
6:19was sued for a hundred million for
6:21spending millions of your parents'
6:23money. Our first convicted felon, huh?
6:27Woo! Please welcome Billy McFarland.
6:29Thank you, Daniel.
6:30All right. Now, let let's get right to
6:31it. This is the first question I ask all
6:34my guests. How was jail?
6:36Uh really terrible. I did 10 months in
6:38solitary confinement. Um seven for
6:40trying to do a podcast from the
6:42payphone. So, it feels a while to be in
6:45Los Angeles with you doing a podcast and
6:46not in solitary.
6:47So, wait, hold. You were put in solitary
6:50for trying to do a podcast?
6:52For 7 months.
6:53Now, isn't the goal in jail
6:56to get your own space?
6:59So,
7:00On some level?
7:01They they they outsmarted me there.
7:02There was a guy who got into a shootout
7:04with the police and he lost his colon.
7:06Um he was named Bags because he didn't
7:08have a bag. So, they made him my
7:10cellmate in solitary confinement. So,
7:12every 30 minutes the toilet was probably
7:15a foot and a half of my bed. It had to
7:16be used. So, yeah, they found a way to
7:18make it worse.
7:18How did the podcast do uh coming out of
7:20prison?
7:22Just like you got you got a lot of subs?
7:23An hour after the trailer came out, they
7:26just like some beefy guard came to my
7:27cell like, "McFarland, get your ass over
7:29here." And that was the that was the end
7:31of it. Didn't go much further than
7:32You're you're a large man, right?
7:35Decently decently large.
7:36Did you like do anything to yourself to
7:38make your image look a little tougher
7:39when you were Were you the clink?
7:40No, my glasses were like really crooked
7:42cuz you couldn't really change them out.
7:43So I looked like a super nerd. Everybody
7:45thought I was a pedophile until they
7:46asked me my real name.
7:47What, just cuz you had glasses on?
7:48That's That's the the look of a
7:50pedophile?
7:50a white guy
7:54I don't know about you, but a white guy
7:55in jail with no tattoos and all of his
7:57teeth, usually you're a pedophile.
7:59[ __ ]
8:00That There's the tell. All right, let's
8:03talk. Let's How long were you in jail?
8:054 years.
8:064 exactly?
8:07plus or minus a month.
8:09Wouldn't you know?
8:104 years and month and a half, but who's
8:11counting?
8:12Was it Was it 4 years and a month and a
8:13half?
8:14Yes.
8:14I mean, that's a long [ __ ] time.
8:16time. I lost half my 20s, deservedly so,
8:18but yeah. So now I'm trying to catch up.
8:19Oh, look at you. So you you you feel
8:22like you deserved it.
8:23I absolutely deserved it. Totally messed
8:25up.
8:25Now, I I don't know enough
8:28about the situation to think that you
8:30completely deserved it because
8:32in my head, you were seeking people to
8:35invest. Tell me where I'm wrong. Seeking
8:37people to invest and like all
8:40investments, sometimes they work out and
8:42sometimes they don't.
8:44So where I went wrong was I told
8:46investors we were doing far better than
8:48we actually were. So I lied to the
8:50investors, but what people don't know is
8:52even if the event worked, I still would
8:53have gone to jail. Like the event we
8:55actually tried. So the scam wasn't the
8:57event, the scam was me lying to the
8:59investors.
8:59So even if it would have gone off
9:01completely without a hitch
9:02I'm I'm still with bags in solitary.
9:05Are you even if it was profitable?
9:07Even if it was profitable.
9:08Even if it was profitable.
9:09Like if I told you, "Hey Daniel, you
9:10know, I have $10 million in my bank
9:11account, give me 1,000 bucks." And even
9:14if I returned to you $2,000, I still
9:15lied. I don't have $10 million in my
9:16account after last night, so.
9:17What do you say to people that they call
9:19you a con? I mean, is that That's not
9:21what you set out to do.
9:22I've been called so many things and like
9:24that's the only thing I don't like.
9:25That's the only thing you don't like.
9:26That's the only thing I don't like.
9:27Everything else is like, yeah, I I
9:28[ __ ] up in so many ways, but
9:30But you weren't deliberately trying to
9:32con people.
9:32It wasn't like this great con. I don't
9:33want to get over on people. I think I'm
9:35obsessed with trying to give people a
9:37good time and bring them together and
9:39I'm childish and naive and do a lot of
9:40stupid things to try to make it happen,
9:41but the intention is good, but it
9:43doesn't make the crime okay.
9:44Did you have to get authorization to
9:46leave the state of New York to travel
9:48here today and am I responsible for you?
9:51Yes to all the above, had permission,
9:54Daniel Natasha's name always secures the
9:55deal there and yes, you're responsible
9:57for all my behavior, so.
10:01Total hypothetical, I give you $10
10:03million today.
10:05All all through legal means, how long
10:08before you could double it?
10:09How long before you can double it? Oh
10:11god, I'd probably blow it in like 3
10:12weeks.
10:13Oh.
10:15That's not what I wanted to hear. That's
10:16not what I wanted to hear.
10:18Give it to me, I'm not going to jail.
10:19No. What do your parents do?
10:21They're they live in New Jersey, so very
10:22regular family, they do real estate.
10:24You grew up in New Jersey, do you feel
10:26that had something to do with the fact
10:28that you ended up in prison?
10:29I think I had to prove that all New
10:31Jersey people weren't terrible, but I
10:32think I proved it to be true.
10:34Nurture versus nature.
10:37Yeah, I mean it's not your fault.
10:38It's not my fault.
10:39You're born in New Jersey, you're going
10:41to end up in jail.
10:42in the armpit, you're going to you're
10:42going to end up someplace gross, like.
10:44Was it prison or was it um minimum
10:47security? What's going on there?
10:48Started at minimum security, uh got in
10:50trouble twice. I flew on Con Air three
10:53times where they shackle you on an
10:54airplane. That was kind of wild.
10:55What was it a just an airplane full of
10:57criminals?
10:58Full of criminals.
10:59That's awesome.
11:00Shackled by the ankles, your hand
11:01shackled here and then they put me on a
11:03bus for 17 hours from Oklahoma to
11:05Detroit, shackled, so you couldn't pee
11:07for 17 hours. That was kind of brutal.
11:10And and you and you didn't pee?
11:11No, you could I mean you're literally
11:13shackled.
11:13But they don't they don't care if you
11:14pee yourself?
11:15not.
11:16How did you survive that?
11:17kind of brutal, right?
11:18That sounds it sounds I mean it's worse
11:20than a nightmare.
11:21I fell asleep on the shoulder of the guy
11:22next to me and I woke up and said, "Hey,
11:24what did you do?" He goes, "I made
11:25bombs." I'm like, "Oh, maybe I'm not
11:26going to sleep on your shoulder
11:27anymore."
11:31Did you meet anybody in prison that was
11:33convicted of murder?
11:36I did meet some murderers, yes.
11:38How is your relationship with Ja today?
11:40Uh non-existent.
11:41Yeah?
11:41Yeah.
11:42How did he get off completely?
11:44Did he What was the ramifications of his
11:46role?
11:46Uh I don't think anything.
11:47That's weird. That might be the first
11:49time in history that a white
11:51white-collared guy goes to prison and
11:54then the black rapper free as a bird.
11:57he was a little smarter. He'd gone to
11:58jail before, so he knew the inner
12:00workings of how the how the system went
12:01down after that.
12:02All right. Should we Should we get into
12:03the Fire Let me just get into the
12:04festival. You were 23 when you organized
12:07the Fire Festival. Who in the [ __ ] gives
12:08a 23-year-old
12:10that kind of money?
12:11I think this is the most embarrassing
12:12part of the story. Most of the investors
12:14had backed me for four or five years.
12:16So, they'd seen me go through little
12:19wins and little losses along the way.
12:21And I violated their trust. When I said,
12:22"Hey, this this one's going to be the
12:23biggest." Like, yes, I was right, but I
12:25was wrong about how big it was going to
12:26be. So.
12:26I mean, I just feel like they're the
12:28ones that are at fault. I would just cut
12:32a check to a 23-year-old
12:34is just grossly negligent on their part.
12:38So, you're not going to give me the $10
12:39million.
12:40No, you're not 23 anymore. Now you're
12:42Now you're How old are you?
12:4432.
12:4532.
12:45Yeah.
12:46All right. I am um
12:48uh
12:49just background for me uh
12:52don't enjoy going to see live music. A
12:55festival seems like a nightmare to me.
12:58Uh the best festival in the world versus
13:01Mhm.
13:02what you tried to put on to me doesn't
13:04seem that different.
13:06Yeah.
13:06You're [ __ ] outside, accommodations
13:09are garbage.
13:10I've only gone to one music festival in
13:11my entire life. That's That's a red
13:12flag. I went to Coachella one time.
13:14Did you enjoy it?
13:15No, it sucked.
13:18It's hot.
13:19Uh but the the women, they dress so so
13:21provocatively.
13:22to like meet this girl and it didn't
13:23work out, so I had a bad time, and that
13:24was my only music festival ever. And
13:26from that, I thought I could do Fire.
13:27Makes a lot of sense.
13:28Did you see the press? They're not
13:28selling any tickets this year.
13:30At Coachella?
13:30Yeah. It was all over the news and
13:32nobody was buying.
13:32Yeah, I know.
13:33Like I've done Bonnaroo.
13:34Really?
13:34Did not It's awful.
13:36Will you perform at fire, too?
13:38No, but I'll let you say that I'm going
13:39to be there.
13:40Oh, that's so sad.
13:41Can't you do that thing where you where
13:42you say like lineup subject to change
13:44and you and you you promote me,
13:46Yeah.
13:47but I don't show up?
13:48First headliner announced, Daniel Tosh.
13:51I don't know that I would sell I don't
13:53know that I think I would move the
13:54needle for you at the festival.
13:56yesterday? Is your special saying that
13:58no one ever is sad in a wave runner.
13:59Uh-huh.
14:00I couldn't relate more, so I feel like I
14:01have to do that at the fire festival.
14:03Are you So you are going to do a second
14:05We are.
14:05Uh-huh. We are. Oh, Jesus. Why not start
14:08smart smaller and not go like swing for
14:11the fences here?
14:11I just like want to create an incredible
14:13experience, but I also want to pay
14:14everybody back what I owe.
14:15How much do you owe?
14:16Uh it's like between 26 and 28 million.
14:19It kind of changes by the hour.
14:20So you do still have to pay this back?
14:22Yeah, every month I literally have to
14:23like give a check back to the investors
14:26and then they get a percentage of all
14:27the business revenue, too. So, you know,
14:29if fire two makes 100 bucks, like a
14:30percentage of that goes back to them.
14:32Is there any way that you could be free
14:33and clear in one big festival?
14:35It'll probably take like three or four
14:37festivals to pay that back. I have
14:39partners who like, you know, are owned
14:41significant pieces of it, so yeah.
14:42Did you ever in your wildest dreams
14:44think you'd be in the hole 26 million
14:46dollars?
14:47I think it's just past the point of like
14:49being tangible, right? It's just so
14:50much, so it's at least for me. Maybe not
14:53for you.
14:53I always think like I always
14:55hypothetically like if I'm playing with
14:57a deck of cards. Do you gamble?
14:59Not really.
14:59I like will like pretend like okay, I'm
15:01going to put two million on this hand.
15:03Yeah.
15:03And then I lose. And then I'm like well,
15:04I'll put more.
15:05Let's play. Cuz if I lose it just
15:07becomes 30 million. If you lose, then
15:08we're then we're good.
15:09Well, I just I'm I'm just wondering if
15:11you're like you could just double your
15:14double down.
15:15I'd have to give me the 28 to try to
15:17play with.
15:17If I gave you if I gave you 20 million
15:19dollars, you you would put it down on a
15:20hand?
15:20No, never.
15:21I wouldn't let you give it to me. I
15:23don't want to I don't want to go to
15:24jail.
15:24Cut you a check What? I don't You don't
15:26go to jail. If I cut you a check for $25
15:28million
15:28and you find a casino that takes your
15:30action, one hand of blackjack, to become
15:33even.
15:34I would like not be able to sleep for a
15:35while if I [ __ ] you up.
15:37Well, let's let's let's say you win.
15:38[ __ ] anybody over.
15:39Let's say you win. You pay back your
15:41debt. You're at zero now. What do you do
15:43with your career?
15:44I'm still doing Fire Twerk. Like I just
15:46have to do it. I have to show people
15:47like what the dream was.
15:48I mean, whose dream are we talking
15:50about?
15:51I rented an airstrip in New York like 2
15:53months ago and did a concert on the
15:55airstrip and took people up in a plane
15:56that probably shouldn't be allowed to
15:57fly for zero gravity flights and that
15:59worked really well. So, I convinced
16:00myself that we can just go bigger now.
16:01I mean, just you're so ambitious. And it
16:04hasn't hasn't dropped off. Yeah, I mean,
16:05are you slowing down as you're aging? Do
16:07you feel like, "Okay, now I've got a
16:08better perspective on things?"
16:10I went to jail like totally broke, lost
16:1285% of my friends, and I'm just like so
16:14scared of being that powerless again. It
16:16just [ __ ] freaks me out.
16:1785% of your friends?
16:19Yeah.
16:20I don't even know what that means. If I
16:21lost 85% of my friends, like is that I
16:23lost two friends?
16:24I mean, I I probably had 10 and now I
16:26had one and a half after.
16:27Yeah, that's
16:28all you need is two friends. All you
16:29need is two friends.
16:30Yeah. Seems pretty much.
16:32How How upset were your parents?
16:33Super upset. Yeah, that's the hardest
16:35part. There's family just gets unfair
16:37punishment.
16:38Yeah, that's a tough one. But they But
16:40they they still supported you or no?
16:42I mean, it's tough. They're embarrassed,
16:43right? It's like your son is a total
16:45[ __ ] up, so it's hard.
16:46I mean, I'm part of me would be like,
16:48"Yeah, it was pretty
16:50pretty ballsy kid."
16:52Biggest win.
16:53Yeah, big big swing.
16:54I gave him those balls, honey.
16:56Yeah.
16:57Didn't happen.
16:58At what point were you like, "I can't
17:00stop this" and you just had to wait for
17:02the wheels to fall off?
17:03Uh I was at the festival, the first
17:05thousand people had arrived, and my like
17:07number two at the company came up and
17:09said three people had died. Uh it was
17:10not true at all. No one was hurt. And he
17:12had told me these elaborate stories
17:13about how they were One got bit by a pig
17:15and blood out, two got shot, and like
17:17none of this is even remotely true. And
17:18at that point I'm like, "Okay, let's
17:20turn these planes around and get
17:21everybody home."
17:22Why did someone tell you in the first
17:23place that three festival goers died?
17:26They probably thought that was the only
17:27way to get me to stop it. So they were
17:28like, "Let's scare Billy and tell him
17:30that."
17:31okay. So they were like, "Listen, this
17:33is bad."
17:33he just isn't listening, but
17:35But somehow you conned all the like the
17:37world's hottest models uh to promote
17:39this thing. And then and that made me
17:41laugh. Uh
17:44because
17:44Not funny, then, is it?
17:45That couldn't have been hard. Um but
17:49But but do you think do you think
17:50they'll be back?
17:51So prior to messing up the big one, we
17:53did like 20 mini Fire Festival trips
17:55that went really well. And I think
17:57that's what created all this like
17:58marketing hype. So I want to get back to
18:00what I'm good at and just like get help
18:01to do it do it right. But yeah, I've no
18:03idea who's going to be there, but people
18:04are going to have fun.
18:05You're like Pete Davidson.
18:07Is that good or bad?
18:07Well, I just good in that like you
18:09somehow
18:10I don't think my dick's that big,
18:11though, so
18:12Oh, is I I don't I would I bet What if
18:14he great if his penis wasn't that big?
18:16And he's like, "This guy's just sweet."
18:20Did you have a pri- Who was your fav-
18:22Who was your favorite model that you you
18:24got to
18:25Oh, this is This is This is a dangerous
18:26question.
18:27Are you in a relationship?
18:28Uh yeah.
18:29You are?
18:29Yeah.
18:30Somebody fell in love with you while
18:31you're behind bars?
18:32Right before.
18:33Oh, and and you made them wait for you?
18:35Yeah, that's kind of [ __ ] up, right?
18:36That's messed up.
18:37Yeah.
18:38Uh
18:38That's wrong, I think.
18:39No, okay, but so so you're in a serious
18:40relationship. That doesn't matter. In a
18:42relationship, you can still
18:43have a conversation who you think is the
18:45prettiest uh model out of a list of
18:48models that I just read off.
18:49I think Bella was the most fun. She just
18:51did the most like cool activities.
18:52That wouldn't be my pick.
18:53Who do you like?
18:54Rajek Kackowski.
18:56Oh.
18:56I I think I think she's really pretty.
18:58It'd be funny, too, to get some of these
19:00models the same models that now they're
19:02you know, they've they've they've lived
19:04life.
19:04Yeah.
19:07Fire Festival, too. They got their kids
19:09with them.
19:11They get yelled at. It'll be a funny
19:12video.
19:13Their kids are pulling at their legs.
19:15They're like, "Oh, Mom, put something
19:16on."
19:17Oh my god.
19:18Put a wrap on, at least. By the way, I'm
19:20just guessing that you watched the
19:22documentary.
19:23I have not.
19:23You honestly have not watched either.
19:26I can't do it.
19:27I watched one of them.
19:29Okay. I'm sorry for you.
19:30No, it was it was enjoyable.
19:31It was enjoyable?
19:33Wow.
19:33I mean, it was I watched
19:35a lot of things.
19:35Which one did I like? Uh which one did I
19:37watch, Eddie?
19:38The one on Netflix that has the guy in
19:40it that
19:40Netflix. I watched the guy one on
19:41Netflix. The guy that yeah, that said he
19:44had a had to blow the guy at customs,
19:47which I don't know if he actually did or
19:48didn't, but I found him delightful.
19:50So, do you know how I found out about
19:51that story ever happening? A prison
19:53guard comes up to me and goes, "Hey, you
19:55can tell me, did you force some guy to
19:56blow someone for official government
19:58officer to release water at customs?"
19:59Like, "Wait, what?" Like, I never heard
20:01about this ever happening until other
20:02police officer tried to question me.
20:04I can't believe you didn't watch it. Are
20:05you you think you'll never watch one of
20:07those documentaries?
20:07No.
20:08How in the world I don't believe you.
20:10I would just get so mad and
20:11you'll get mad, but why wouldn't you
20:12watch it?
20:13Because it would take away from the real
20:14point, right? I [ __ ] up and just
20:15because like someone said it did
20:16something that may or may not be true.
20:17Like, it just I'm not mature enough to
20:19to handle it.
20:20Yeah, but I don't think you're mature
20:21enough not to watch it.
20:23I am.
20:24That's crazy to me.
20:25just scared. They all watched it in jail
20:26one day and then I went outside all
20:27alone and the rest of the jail they they
20:29snuck in a USB drive and they watched it
20:31on the TV and I'm outside alone like
20:32ooh.
20:33Which one did they bring in? The Netflix
20:35one? Yeah, it's the better one. Were So,
20:37were you in jail when that came out?
20:39Did they try to reach out to you like
20:41for some
20:42any reporters or anything like that?
20:43A little bit. It was kind of a [ __ ]
20:44show, but it was it was it was
20:45Where were you? In Ohio?
20:47Uh I that one I was in New York and then
20:49I went to Ohio and then right outside
20:51Detroit, Michigan.
20:52What's what's the best state to be in
20:53prison in?
20:54I like the Detroit one the most because
20:55they're probably the most like
20:56gangbangers there, so they were more
20:57concerned about them and left me alone.
20:59What's See? Detroit, another win.
21:02Real real real problems to worry about.
21:04Well, let Billy do nothing in his cell.
21:06Where was the food worse? Prison or the
21:08Fyre Festival?
21:10Ooh, so probably
21:12probably the Fyre Festival. In jail, uh
21:15I had a great Mexican cellmate. He
21:16didn't really speak a lot of English,
21:17but he cooked me quesadillas with a
21:19clothes iron every day. So, he like
21:21stole a clothes iron from the laundry
21:22room and would grill quesadillas in our
21:24cell. They're pretty good.
21:25Unbelievable.
21:27Living large.
21:28Good gig. Did they Was there any
21:30entertainment? Do you like put on any
21:32shows for your
21:32People fighting, people getting high and
21:34like collapsing and that was kind of the
21:35daily daily
21:36Did you fight ever?
21:37Not really, no.
21:38Oh, it's good.
21:39watch.
21:40Did you have to cheer? Did you have to
21:41cheer for the white people?
21:43Sometimes, yeah. That's kind of the
21:44problem. I would cheer for the wrong guy
21:46and then they'd get mad.
21:47Yeah. That all man, I everything about
21:49jail stresses me out.
21:51Did you do a lot of crying in prison?
21:53A little bit.
21:54I would cry all the time.
21:55The toughest guy there would cry a lot,
21:56so that made me feel like it was okay.
21:58Is that what you needed? You needed
21:59validation?
22:00Yeah, for sure. When when the guy who's
22:02killed more people than I've than we've
22:04talked to is there crying every night, I
22:05think it's okay to cry.
22:06Well, he's got stuff to cry about. Got
22:08demons in his ears.
22:09a video he chopped a guy's head off with
22:10a machete and he played soccer with his
22:11head. And you're allowed to have your
22:13like legal materials, so he would show
22:15people the video to scare them.
22:19I thought you were in a minimum security
22:21prison.
22:21in in the Brooklyn Detention Center, so
22:23there was all
22:25Oh my gosh. Yeah.
22:26What's the first thing you ate when you
22:27got out of prison?
22:28Uh
22:29shrimp from Costco.
22:32Oh man, shrimp from Costco.
22:36Everybody seafood from Costco all the
22:38Yeah, salmon all the time. They got
22:40great salmon there, Billy.
22:41They had great salmon.
22:42Big slabs of salmon just to and then he
22:45gets the the kit for the Caesar and I'm
22:47just like, oh god, we're all going to
22:49[ __ ] ourselves.
22:49My family gave me a Timberland wallet
22:51with $200 in 20s in it and said you're
22:53good to go. So, I couldn't really get
22:56that far.
22:57Oh, when you got out of prison?
22:59out, so hence the Costco shrimp. I
23:00really wanted shrimp.
23:01Did you get Did you get the Do they give
23:03you the bag of like the the of the stuff
23:05that you had on your persons when you
23:07walked in? They do?
23:08Oh, no, no, no. No, they give you the
23:10bag of what you had in jail. So, a
23:11couple of like sweatpants and notebooks.
23:13What misconceptions
23:15uh do people have about jail that you're
23:17like, "No, that's not the way it is"?
23:19like as a kid you're taught that there
23:20are good people and bad people. I think
23:22it's like not true. There's probably
23:23like 2% of the population who are
23:25actually psychopaths, and everybody else
23:26is just
23:28somewhere on that spectrum of doing
23:29something stupid in their life and I
23:31think most people were like good people
23:32who just didn't have opportunity in life
23:34and like they sold drugs and got 15
23:36years for it and now they're stuck,
23:37right? But, it's hard to hard to blame
23:39some of them.
23:40No, I I mean
23:41how desperate you are, how bad your
23:43circumstances are often lead to going to
23:45jail, but most people in there are
23:46actually not bad, and that was a huge
23:48eye-opener.
23:49My normal first question that I ask
23:50everyone, do you believe in ghosts?
23:52No.
23:55Do you?
23:56No.
23:59Top five favorite Billies.
24:01Uh Waverunner Billie, number one.
24:03Pretending like I know how to fly and
24:04scaring people in the back of the plane,
24:05number two.
24:06No, no, no, no.
24:07I don't know what the [ __ ] you're
24:08talking about. Um
24:10famous people named Billie.
24:12Billy the Kid.
24:13Billy the Kid.
24:14Yeah.
24:14Okay, a criminal. Great.
24:15Yeah, Wild Bill.
24:17What another What is Oh, this is
24:19This is great, right? Um Who else is
24:20there?
24:21Billy Corgan.
24:22Bill Gates.
24:23Bill Gates, Bill Shatner, if you know
24:25him well.
24:26Don't, but there you go.
24:28That's cool. It's a good list.
24:29Billy Madison.
24:30Nice.
24:31Billy on the Street.
24:32I don't know him.
24:32Eichner.
24:33Okay. I don't know him.
24:34He goes on New York and he ask I don't
24:36know. It doesn't matter. It's funny in
24:37the street. He's funny.
24:38Sounds like where I'm going to end up
24:39pretty soon.
24:41Where are you living currently?
24:42living in New York. We're back.
24:44You got your own place?
24:44Yeah.
24:45You living with your girlfriend?
24:47No, some nights she's there, but she has
24:48her own place, too.
24:49Oh, a little safety house.
24:52For me, mostly.
24:53Case Case things go wrong.
24:54Case things go bad.
24:55How long did you wait to uh from when
24:59you were released to make love to your
25:02girlfriend? How long of a wait was that?
25:05You're going to get me in trouble. Um
25:07Why would you get in trouble?
25:08I was in the halfway house.
25:10Oh, you're not supposed to make love in
25:11the halfway house?
25:12No, but we made it work.
25:13Okay.
25:14Made it work in jail, too, a couple
25:15times.
25:15Oh, did you? You got You got conjugal
25:17visits?
25:17No, but made it work a couple times. Not
25:19supposed to talk about that, either.
25:19Oh, that's interesting.
25:21Did she Did you do that thing where she
25:22mashed her boob up against the glass?
25:24No, it was for real.
25:25Oh. Your gift seems to be raising money.
25:28So, why don't you just focus on that and
25:31like just raise money for charities.
25:33That would really do a a good PR 360.
25:36idea. Thank you, Daniel. Let's start one
25:38together.
25:39A charity?
25:39Yeah.
25:40With you.
25:41I'll do the fundraising and you And you
25:42do everything else.
25:43No, I'm not doing that. Hey, um I always
25:46give people a gift that's on my show,
25:47something for my house. I thought I
25:49would just give you a blank check.
25:51Yeah, I don't think it's a good idea,
25:52Daniel.
25:52You don't think he should have my
25:53information?
25:54No, maybe uh no.
25:56You I You guys are giving me way too
25:57much credit.
25:57All right, fine. I won't give him the
25:59blank check.
26:00Damn.
26:01I'm going to give you
26:03a used
26:05Ferrari.
26:06No way.
26:07But it's my son's.
26:08Um I don't want to Now I want to screw
26:09your son over?
26:10Nope.
26:11We're screwing you over. You thought you
26:13were getting a real Ferrari, but we're
26:14giving you a used toy Ferrari and
26:17guess what?
26:19Guess what?
26:19Yeah?
26:20Batteries are dead.
26:21No problem.
26:23So, you're on your own.
26:24I've worked so hard for one of these.
26:25Hold on, I got another gift for you. I
26:27don't know what you'll do with it, but
26:28if you go to prison again, I want you to
26:29bring it.
26:29A shank?
26:30Um no.
26:30Damn.
26:31This is a photo of me and my wife on a
26:34roller coaster at Dollywood.
26:35Wow.
26:38Now, the reason I want you to have that
26:39photo is because that's more fun than
26:42any music festival.
26:47You go to Dollywood, they've got shows,
26:50they've got they have roller coasters.
26:53Ah, it's just the time of your life.
26:54Daniel
26:55Yeah.
26:55Can we get on the phone with my
26:56probation officer?
26:57Put this on the floor. I don't want this
26:58on the
26:58Get permission to go to the island right
27:00now and then you can reassess this
27:02judgment you're making.
27:03You're telling me that your island's
27:04going to be better than than
27:06Thunderhead, the roller coaster at
27:08Dollywood? All right, you put that on
27:10the floor. You keep that. Yeah, you keep
27:12that's yours. I want you to put that on
27:13in your cell.
27:14Now I can show people I actually have
27:15friends.
27:16All right, have you ever been to
27:16Dollywood?
27:17No.
27:17It's delightful.
27:19I want to go.
27:19Yeah.
27:20All right, let's do it.
27:21I would I'll definitely go back to
27:22Dollywood again. Will I will I go with
27:23you? No, I got to I got to lug my whole
27:25family. It's a nightmare.
27:26So you can't trace me to your family.
27:27I'll introduce to my family. Huh, I
27:29don't give a [ __ ] I'm not going to let
27:30you watch my kids.
27:31Really?
27:31Um, no. I mean I mean if I need to go to
27:33the bathroom you can watch them.
27:35Oh my god.
27:35Uh, I don't like bringing them in. It's
27:36always weird.
27:37I was like 10% as
27:38stand next to me. Don't touch anything.
27:39Stand next to me. Don't touch anything.
27:40And the next thing I I look over and my
27:42son's like trying like just like I'm
27:44lean against anyway.
27:46You going to have kids someday?
27:47I think so.
27:48Probably not yet.
27:49You going to scrub the internet first?
27:51No.
27:53How much money do you have in your How
27:55much money do you have
27:56net worth? What's your current net
27:58worth?
27:58So what I I owe between 26 and 28
28:01million. So you know, negative in that
28:02range.
28:03No, but do they they don't allow you to
28:05keep any money?
28:06I can keep money, but I pay a percentage
28:08of whatever I earn to it. Yeah.
28:09So are you are you making money yet?
28:11A little bit.
28:12Your zero gravity [ __ ] how did that
28:14go?
28:15That work?
28:15fun. No one died.
28:16I mean is that always is that always the
28:18bar?
28:18Yeah, as long as nobody dies.
28:21As long as nobody gets scammed and
28:22nobody dies and
28:24we win, baby.
28:25Are you
28:26do you read your Wikipedia page?
28:28Never.
28:29Okay.
28:30It's pretty bad.
28:30Sorry to bring it up.
28:31bad.
28:31I'll tell you what line one is.
28:33Yeah, con man, right?
28:34It's got the word con in it.
28:35We were we were negotiating a deal
28:36yesterday and one of their counter
28:37points was, "You think we're just going
28:39to give this much money to someone whose
28:40Wikipedia page says con man?" And they
28:42used that to try to get some some
28:44percentage off on the deal. So
28:45Did it work?
28:46Yeah, it worked. I felt bad, and I was
28:47like, all right.
28:49All right, you guys win.
28:51Yeah, I mean, it's it's it's a hard
28:52argument.
28:53It's a hard argument. Like, you're
28:54right. Like, wow.
28:55We'll give you a .5 off there.
28:57Tell me how you really feel. Like,
28:58Has anyone physically uh threatened you
29:01that you owe money to?
29:02They're smart enough to to veil the
29:03threats pretty well. So, they come off
29:05as polite.
29:05Uh-huh. But, you but
29:06I hope you I hope you're doing great
29:07coming back. Where's my [ __ ] money?
29:09But, you feel the threats?
29:10A little bit. It's not too crazy,
29:11though. It hasn't gone to the point
29:13where it's bad.
29:13Do you sleep well?
29:15Sometimes. Not last night.
29:17Oh, no?
29:17No, it's bad.
29:18Why was last night bad?
29:19this is this is a dangerous city for me.
29:21Th- This is a dangerous city for you?
29:22I should go back home.
29:27People seem to overlook your flaws a
29:28little bit too fast here. So, it's like
29:31Maybe I shouldn't be this accepted. I
29:33should go back.
29:33Now, are you allowed to vote anymore?
29:35I don't know. That's a That's a good
29:38I think no, but there's like they've
29:40tried to pass new laws to get you back.
29:41trying to pass new laws, but this is an
29:43election year, so you probably won't be
29:44able to vote this year. But, if you had
29:47a vote, where would your vote
29:49I I I wouldn't know what to do.
29:51You wouldn't know where who to vote?
29:52No. I'm really conflicted. Like, Trump
29:54gave me a year off jail, so that was
29:56cool.
29:56He did?
29:57personally. He like passed a law that
29:58gave non-violent uh first-time offenders
30:00a year off. So, like, that's pretty
30:01cool. But,
30:02So, you you got a year knocked off
30:04because of Trump. Well, that's worth a
30:06vote.
30:07Yeah.
30:08I mean, if if if you told me you were
30:10going to vote for Trump because he got
30:12you out of jail a year early, I'd be
30:14like, well, I can't can't fault that
30:15guy.
30:15Yeah, it's pretty hard to to say no to
30:17that.
30:17Biden, step up.
30:19Yeah, seriously.
30:20What could you do for him?
30:21$26 million, baby.
30:25I'm just kidding.
30:27Would you allow
30:29Ja Rule to perform at Fyre Festival,
30:31too?
30:31No.
30:32Okay.
30:33Yeah, we're we're going younger this
30:34time around.
30:34Well, sure. But, I mean, that'd still be
30:36a kind of a neat neat nod to uh lessons
30:40learned.
30:41No?
30:42Perhaps.
30:42How are you actually going to get
30:43musicians to to show up to this
30:46festival? Aren't they going to be like
30:47so skeptical?
30:48Well, that's why I'm here, to get the
30:49first ones. Like once you come,
30:50everybody else will follow you.
30:51Who do you want? Who's a Who's a dream
30:53get?
30:54I want Kanye. Kanye, let's do Fyre 2.
30:56God, I mean that is perfect.
30:59It's perfect.
31:00It's absolutely You You
31:01Is there anybody better?
31:02No. Get Kanye. There's no reason he
31:05shouldn't do this.
31:06fits so nicely. What could go wrong?
31:11Have you ever thought about booking
31:12comedians at your festival?
31:13Uh yeah, we did. Didn't do it, but
31:15thought about it. Like Like like most of
31:17the festival.
31:18So, this new festival might have a like
31:19like a comedy tent? Is that what you're
31:21saying?
31:21Oh, I didn't think of it until now, but
31:23it'd be great. You could be your
31:24headliner.
31:24No, I'm not going to do it, but
31:26that's what they have at these
31:27festivals. They have like a comedy tent.
31:29[ __ ] that, let's give you the main
31:30stage. You'd be floating on the water,
31:32glass see-through barge, Daniel Tosh.
31:34want any of this stuff.
31:35Everybody's in the WaveRunner smiling.
31:36Are you doing it on an island again?
31:38I got to I got to complete the story.
31:40An American island or no?
31:41it's Caribbean. But I got to complete
31:42the narrative. It's got to be back in a
31:44very similar location to the first one,
31:46and we just need to execute the dream of
31:48Fyre 1.
31:49You needed You need a longer lead time.
31:51We have a year now. It's going to be
31:52next February.
31:53You should do it in Why don't you do it
31:54on American soil?
31:55That's so boring.
31:56I know it's boring, but like Bonnaroo
31:57does it in the [ __ ] whatever shitty
31:59Tennessee, and Coachella's out in the
32:00desert. Like
32:01a challenge, Daniel Tosh. We need
32:02content here. We need We need something
32:03to talk about.
32:04Why do you say my full name, Billy
32:05McFarland?
32:07Cuz I I revere you as a business
32:08advisor.
32:10You Don't talk to your business advisor
32:12that way, either.
32:13Okay, Mr. Tosh.
32:13Do you have Do you have a business
32:15advisor?
32:16I do.
32:16Okay.
32:17Yeah. He's not as good as you.
32:20There's no scenario.
32:21give me his checkbook, either, so
32:23So, he kind of sucks.
32:24How much are tickets going to cost to
32:26this new Fyre Festival?
32:27Uh starting at 2,500 and
32:29Whoa, whoa, whoa. Starting at 2,500.
32:32focused on the million-dollar ticket,
32:34Daniel Tosh.
32:35A million There's a million-dollar
32:36ticket?
32:37There's how many million dollar tickets
32:39are there?
32:39We'll probably sell like 20 or 30 if we
32:41can.
32:41And what do you get with a million
32:43dollar ticket?
32:44So, you we're partnering with this
32:46incredible new like condo tower in
32:47Miami. So, they'll have like 1 month a
32:49year in this crazy like firehouse there.
32:51And they get to do all the cool [ __ ]
32:52with me at Fyre. They might die. We're
32:54going to try to, you know, push the
32:55boundaries and do tricks in the planes
32:57and jump out of helicopters and go free
32:59diving and do all this fun stuff.
33:012500, what is 2500? Does that get you a
33:03plane ticket?
33:04Uh you'll go there on a boat.
33:06From where?
33:07From Miami.
33:07From Miami you can get there by boat.
33:10Okay.
33:12All right. So, how long is this boat
33:13ride?
33:14Like 3 hours.
33:143 hours. All right, so you
33:16and this is going to be in the Bahamas
33:18or is it going to be a key or is it
33:19It's It's somewhere in the Caribbean.
33:20Can't say where yet.
33:21Yeah.
33:22Well, who owns it? Cuz Bahamas we need a
33:23passport. Do we need a passport for this
33:25one?
33:26You need a passport, yes.
33:27Oh, all right. All right, so we need a
33:28passport.
33:293 hours, we need a passport.
33:31give it back. I'm I'm innocent.
33:33Oh, you don't have a passport.
33:34Okay.
33:36So, you won't be able to go to your own
33:37festival.
33:39There There is a chance you guys don't
33:41give me my passport back. No, I think
33:42I'll have it back soon. We're working on
33:43it diligently.
33:45I mean, it's pretty easy to leave the
33:46country without a passport. Getting back
33:48in is a little tricky.
33:50They would do it. They would throw a
33:50celebration, probably. They wouldn't
33:52worry about his dumb ass.
33:53How many days is the festival?
33:54Uh 3 days. Like 3-day weekend.
33:56Is it going to be two weekends or just
33:57one off?
33:58Just one.
33:59Just one weekend.
34:00Tried two weekends last year, didn't
34:01work. I mean, they didn't get through
34:02the first day, so let's stick to one
34:04weekend this time.
34:04excited were people that were on the the
34:08second weekend
34:09that they didn't actually do it?
34:11was they weren't there to tell their
34:12friends they were there. I think that
34:13was kind of the value you got from the
34:14first one.
34:15In hindsight now, do you think those
34:17people are happy that they went, that
34:18they were part of it, or do they feel
34:19silly?
34:20like I hear a story every like week or
34:22two of someone who had just had a crazy
34:23experience at the first Fyre Festival. I
34:25was invited to two weddings people
34:27Two weddings?
34:27Yeah.
34:28Huh.
34:29Kind of cool, right?
34:29Those are No, it's not. That
34:31How's that cool? that marriage will not
34:32work.
34:33Cuz that people make dumb decisions.
34:35They seem like good people.
34:36I don't believe them.
34:37Food, how's the food situation being
34:39taken care of?
34:40Oh, I don't know.
34:42We're going to leave that one for the
34:43last minute. The shrimp from Costco is
34:44pretty good.
34:45I
34:46We're not doing Costco shrimp, Billy.
34:49Food is important.
34:50to undersell it this time, okay? Let me
34:52do that.
34:52Okay, but but there will be food?
34:54Uh maybe.
34:55Will it be included?
34:56Yeah, the food's included. We have a
34:57festival partner who like surprisingly
34:59does the stuff for a living. So, I'm
35:01here to talk [ __ ] and provide the wave
35:02riders and they're going to actually
35:03make this work.
35:04Okay. All right.
35:05don't convince you to headline, they're
35:06going to fire me.
35:07Okay.
35:08We I think comedians would be great.
35:09I'll go pitch them on it after.
35:10No, you don't.
35:11Please, Daniel.
35:12I mean I yeah, I I'll give you a list of
35:13comedians.
35:14I'll give you
35:19I I I can think of some comics that
35:21a thing where you're you're knocking
35:22each other with like the inflatables to
35:24see who falls off the stage first.
35:25No, well okay. The
35:27Some of your ideas are off.
35:29How much would they rate you to check
35:30for to to perform at the Fire Festival,
35:32too?
35:32I would need It's a lot.
35:34Yeah.
35:35It's a lot. Like a half a million.
35:36Damn.
35:37And and I would and I still would say
35:39no.
35:39Yeah.
35:40I've I don't have fuck-you money, but I
35:42have no-thank-you money.
35:44That's pretty close.
35:45People have asked me all the time like,
35:46"Oh, would you do this private event?"
35:47I'm like, "No, it it's not worth it.
35:49It's not worth knowing that the event
35:52could be bad."
35:54Yeah.
35:54I I need I need a nice theater. Like
35:57even when I could perform in larger
36:00venues, like arenas or things like that,
36:03I chose not to. I'd rather make less
36:05money and be in a beautiful old theater
36:09where everything sounds right, the
36:11people are seated the right way, as
36:13opposed to a hockey arena that's been
36:15converted so I can [ __ ] get the most
36:18money. That's how I've always kind of
36:21approached stand-up comedy. I I didn't
36:24like comedy clubs, either. The the
36:25lowest end, I didn't like that either
36:27cuz people [ __ ] sitting in the front
36:29row eating nachos and like who's this?
36:33I don't like jalapenos.
36:35So it was it was a middle ground for me.
36:37I wanted to get successful enough to get
36:38out of comedy clubs. The other good
36:40thing about not uh
36:42playing the biggest venues in the world
36:44Like Fyre 2.
36:45Right. Is that when you fall off
36:49Yeah.
36:49you don't notice the fall off near as
36:51much.
36:52Understood.
36:53It's nice. It's like oh I don't have to
36:55go back to smaller things. It's like no
36:56I kind of just
36:57Nothing will compare to Fyre 2, right?
36:58It's like you don't want to hit the peak
37:00and just have to go downhill. I
37:01understand.
37:01How many tickets have to be sold for
37:03this to be considered a success?
37:05Couple thousand.
37:06Couple that's it?
37:06Yeah.
37:07How are you going to get big you can't
37:08get Kanye with a couple thousand
37:10tickets.
37:10said we have Kanye. I said I want Kanye.
37:12No I understood I understood what you
37:13said.
37:14But like he's not coming for a couple
37:15thousand people.
37:16I don't know. Probably not.
37:18I mean maybe if he a few more wrong
37:20turns.
37:20Yeah. You never know.
37:21All these artists are going to ask for
37:22their money up front.
37:24Probably. So thank god for the partners.
37:27And Dana Tash.
37:29I'm not a partner.
37:30You're the backer. It's different.
37:32Uh
37:32Do you surf or is this just
37:33I do surf.
37:34Really?
37:35You know people always ask me about this
37:36board. They're like oh it's painted
37:37black. But it's it's carbon fiber. It's
37:39a single fin. Don't touch the board. You
37:41can touch it. Uh just don't leave
37:43fingerprints on it. Um
37:45yeah. But like these are pressure marks
37:47from I actually wrote it. I used to
37:48write it a bunch.
37:49Uh what is it? 5'6" 5'8"?
37:50No. It's it's probably 6'2".
37:52Oh.
37:53How tall are you?
37:546'2".
37:546'2".
37:56Huh?
37:57recognize one when I see one. I guess
37:58not.
38:00What's your wingspan?
38:01I have no idea. My arms are pretty long
38:02though.
38:03Are they?
38:03Yeah.
38:03Did you play any sports growing up?
38:05A little bit. Wasn't very good.
38:06What did you enjoy playing?
38:07Uh football and jiu-jitsu.
38:09Oh yeah.
38:09Yeah.
38:10What do you watch now? Do you watch all
38:11the UFC stuff?
38:12Watch the UFC and a big Jets fan
38:14unfortunately.
38:14Oh man. That was a rough year.
38:16Yeah. It's been a rough life.
38:21Torture.
38:22Have you been to you go to Jets games?
38:24I went to the first game this year.
38:25Aaron Rodgers carried the flag out. I've
38:27never heard 70,000 drunk people so
38:29happy. Then when he gets hurt like 2
38:30minutes into the game, the entire
38:32stadium just gets depressed the same
38:34time. It's like a collective like, "Oh,
38:35[ __ ] our lives."
38:36Did Did people blame you?
38:37Oh, for sure. They're going to be up on
38:39the jumbotron and say this guy [ __ ]
38:41the turf up.
38:42[ __ ] Fire Festival guy's here.
38:44Everybody like, "No!"
38:46Security carried me out. They're
38:47throwing popcorn at me.
38:48Oh, that's tough.
38:50Yeah.
38:50How many years in your 30s do you think
38:52will be spent in jail?
38:55I really hope not. Do you think Do you
38:57think I'm going to go back?
38:57No.
38:58I really don't I'm not
38:59I don't think so.
39:00Yeah, that would be super [ __ ] up.
39:01The odds of you going back to jail are
39:05are greater than if you were like me me
39:09where you would just stay so far away
39:13from everything that got you there the
39:14first time. The fact that you're
39:15embracing it and diving back into that
39:18world, that would terrify me.
39:20I think what's scary is like it's an
39:21opportunity for someone, right? Like if
39:23they get me and if someone like gets me
39:25in trouble, like they get rewarded for
39:26that and that's like that freaks me out.
39:28Oh.
39:28Yeah, so it's like it's like a it's
39:29Bounty on your head.
39:31a come up for someone's career. So,
39:32that's kind of scary.
39:33Was it worth it?
39:34No.
39:37No, I hurt a lot of people. It's not
39:39cool.
39:40No.
39:41I'll pay them back though.
39:42The The people of the Bahamas,
39:44Mhm.
39:44how many of those still need to be paid
39:46back?
39:47So, we owed like 200,000 back to them.
39:50Um,
39:51and that that will be paid soon. So,
39:53we're working on that right now.
39:54And how many years When When was the
39:56Fire Festival supposed to happen?
39:572017.
39:58Okay, so
39:58And we we spent like around like 4
40:00million dollars on local uh employees
40:02there and like 200k is still owed. So,
40:04200k.
40:05Yeah.
40:06I should I I feel like we can we can get
40:07that 200k back to them.
40:09Let's do it right now.
40:10WRITE THE CHECK.
40:12OH.
40:14I DON'T WANT TO I DON'T WANT TO I don't
40:15want to pay 200k.
40:17You'll You'll help You'll help It's like
40:18190 people?
40:19It's 190 people that need to get paid?
40:21Yeah, they're like the average is just
40:22over $1,000.
40:23with interest, the 200k?
40:25It's It's like what they're what they're
40:26owed. So.
40:27All right, we need to get We need to get
40:28three out.
40:29out to Billy McFarland and we need to
40:31make sure he gets the right sources.
40:34I'm kidding. Don't do that.
40:36I'm not making I'm not writing a check
40:37to you.
40:37And we don't know what to do with the
40:38check.
40:39You don't know what to do with the
40:39check?
40:40No.
40:40I bet you do.
40:43Add a zero.
40:44Add a zero.
40:48Billy, thank you for being on the show.
40:50Thank you, Daniel.
40:50I appreciate it. Good luck with Fyre
40:53Festival 2. I can't wait to watch that
40:55documentary. And yeah, all the best.
40:58Honored to be in the same chair as Dr.
41:00Finkey, so thank you. Thank you, Daniel.
41:04Carl show.
41:07Hey, Carl. What do you think of Billy?
41:08Seems like that time away did him
41:10really, really good. Seems like he's on
41:12the path
41:14of the straight and narrow.
41:17Uh full disclosure uh for you people at
41:19home that are wondering, yes, I have
41:22bought me and my family those
41:25million-dollar tickets
41:27to Fyre Festival 2.
41:29Would you like to come to Fyre Festival?
41:31It's in the Bahamas. They got to do a
41:32little paperwork to get dogs in.
41:35Unless we uh
41:37you know.
41:40Fyre Festival 2. There's no way that's
41:42not a success.
41:44But I encourage all my listeners
41:46to attend Fyre Festival 2. All right.
41:49Oh, hey, Carl. I know why your head's
41:51down right now.
41:52You don't want me to tell it, but I'm
41:53going to tell it. Uh
41:55the other day
41:56uh
41:57my son and I were uh in the pool and my
42:01uh my daughter was running around
42:04uh uh the deck
42:06uh without any uh without a diaper on.
42:09She's you You she's young. She's one.
42:11But she was naked. And then
42:13uh my son and I were watching her, you
42:15know, what we got to watch her close cuz
42:17uh she doesn't back into things, she
42:19just goes straight off and he's like,
42:20"All right, and now you're dead." Uh so,
42:22you have to watch and you have to be
42:24prepared to sprint. Uh anyway, she's
42:26walking around and she stops and we're
42:29like and she just stares at me, just
42:31looks right in my eyes, like just
42:33beautiful blue eyes, just stares at me
42:35and just shits. Just a huge [ __ ]
42:40One big solid long turd and I'm like,
42:42"Oh my goodness." And my son is like,
42:44"Ah ah." And then and then I go, "Well,
42:47now it's really a poop deck." "Oh oh."
42:51The both of us chuckled for so long.
42:53Anyway, then we scream, uh
42:56right Carl? We scream. We say, "Mom, get
42:59a poop bag. Our daughter just crapped on
43:03the deck."
43:04And then she goes, uh she turns around
43:07and runs inside. She's laughing a little
43:09bit. And and then I look at my son and
43:12my son goes, "Oh no, Dad." And I go,
43:14"What?"
43:15And the poop is gone.
43:17Oh no.
43:18Yeah.
43:20And I go, "What?" And my son goes, "I
43:22can't I can't get it out of my head.
43:24Carl just came up and ate it."
43:28Carl?
43:29Admit it.
43:31You ate my daughter's poop.
43:33A whole turd in one bite. Just walked
43:37up, snatched it and walked away.
43:39Wow.
43:40But that how I mean, what do you do? I
43:42don't I
43:43remove his teeth? I don't know what to
43:44do.
43:45I brushed him.
43:47I wiped his mouth down a little bit but
43:49but there's nothing it was fine. His
43:51breath smelled fine. Guys, I don't even
43:52think he chewed it, just devoured a
43:54turd.
43:56Nailed it.
43:57I got to live with that for the rest of
43:58my life.
43:59My
44:00my my son was traumatized. He just kept
44:02saying, "I can't I can't stop thinking
44:04about it."
44:06Oh. Anyway, speaking of that, uh
44:09boyswearpink.com.
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44:13line uh for toddlers. The goat coming
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44:21Got a lot of tour dates coming up
44:22throughout the Midwest, Vegas, NorCal.
44:26Oh, it's going to be good times.
44:28Now, it's time
44:30for my son's
44:32bedtime story.
44:34See you next week, guys.
44:35Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay.
44:37Once upon a time, there was a sorry city
44:42called Malibu.
44:44And in Malibu, there was an old place,
44:47and the old place had old clothes. And
44:50it And
44:51everything was old, even the place.
44:55There was an old truck. There was
44:56skeletons and hail. They They listen.
45:01They listen a boy named
45:07And this boy named
45:09Ryder
45:11Yaya's.
45:13And he waited someone, and he didn't
45:16know about his dragon ones until he
45:19learned about the babes.
45:21And he had And he had a And he was a big
45:24brother. And he had a baby
45:27sister.
45:30That's the
45:31end. The end.
45:32That's a good story.
45:34Kosh show.
45:37Kosh show.
45:41Kosh show. Kosh show.

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