Inside the Ticketmaster Empire (ft. Pat 'The Beav' Cassidy) | March 12, 2026
Macrodosing: Arian Foster and PFT Commenter
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🗓️ 12 March 2026
⏱️ 122 minutes
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Summary
On today’s episode, Big T and PFT are joined by Pat “The Beav” Cassidy” to discuss the rise of Ticketmaster and how it became the dominant force in the live entertainment industry. They get into the merger with Live Nation and the chaos surrounding ticket sales for the Taylor Swift Eras Tour. We explore the history of the ticketing business, allegations of monopolistic control, and why getting a concert ticket has become such a bad experience. (00:02:13) Big Foot Sighting (00:07:12) The Music Industry (00:22:46) World Baseball Classic (00:35:28) Bam Adebayo (00:40:50) Maxx Crosby (00:50:07) Magic City Night Canceled (00:57:21) Ticketmaster
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, Macradosing listeners. You can find us every Tuesday and Thursday on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or YouTube. Prime members can listen ad-free on Amazon music. What Wallin song created a mosh pit? No, no, I'm just saying, had I been in the pit for a concert and people started a mosh pit, I would be pissed, which is why I am an anti-moshing advocate. Got it. I don't think you're going to be in danger that at a Morgan Wallen show. I agree. I'm just saying if I happen to venture into one of those one day. That would, yeah, I could see you. These are like, these are the concerts that Jack McCarthy goes to in like a warehouse where they're, they're dealing Molly. Like I don't, I don talking about raves. I don't run in those circles. |
| 0:37.6 | Raves, I would not call a rave a pit. |
| 0:40.2 | Raves, it's just like people are like dancing, but they're doing... |
| 0:43.2 | I don't know what you call them. |
| 0:44.7 | Okay. |
| 0:45.0 | Yeah. |
| 0:45.3 | I just know that I don't run in those circles. Yeah, but the fact that you had a size 10 shoe when you were 10. |
| 1:04.5 | Yeah. |
| 1:05.6 | Big T always, he would shoe his age growing up. |
| 1:08.0 | That's right. |
| 1:08.5 | He would be nine, size 10 size 10 were they pumps and |
| 1:12.0 | that stopped at age 16 they had all sorts of stuff uh 17 17 17 shoes yeah that's tough yeah it's |
| 1:21.3 | gotten better in the last five years or so i'd say the the companies are more accommodated have you |
| 1:26.6 | been able to acquire like really excellent |
| 1:29.3 | shoes that are like novelties? No, and that's probably good. Well, so it goes, it's both extremes. |
| 1:36.1 | You can either get stuff way cheaper than you would normally be able to or usually more often, |
| 1:41.8 | more expensive. But it's probably good for me because I would buy, I want to be like a shoe collector, sure, but I can't. Well, but you can't. And here's what you do. You tell everyone you know that you're a size 17 shoe and then you ask everyone you know to be on the lookout for size 17 shoes and size 17 shoes are going to come your way. Because now that I know, I I guarantee you in the next year I will bring you a pair of shoes I mean that'd be sick that'd be very very nice of you to do I just like when you know when they do the drops and stuff of of the Jordans and whatever they always go up to a 15 and it's like well all right I guess I'm not $250. Yeah, but you don't want to be like everyone else. That's true. |
| 2:17.6 | That's true. |
| 2:18.6 | Have you ever taken two shoes and cut, cut them in half and then stitch them together to make a Franken shoe? I have not. Have you? No, but I might do that for you too. Speaking of Bigfoot, there's several new sightings of Bigfoot. Yeah, a lot. How about that? Portage County, Ohio. |
| 2:31.9 | Where is that? |
| 2:33.1 | Tell me about Portage County. |
| 2:34.8 | Portage County is Ohio. Where is that? Tell me about Portage County. |
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