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E8: Oren Aks on Marketing the Fyre Fest, the Infamous Cheese Sandwich, and Why Our Culture Can’t Look Away from Colossal Failure

"In The Arena"

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The Culture of Failure

Maddie Simpson: I think what it really comes down to is, you know, we are living in a reality show at this point. And so the whole world looks at us and and and the production that we put behind everything,. Even like Trump or whatever, like everything is a production. So there's so much to see in like this like cinematic way that it almost feels like you could just keep watching. She says she watches fire festival documentary every night before going to bed because it calms her down.

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