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to understand. It's time for some money we have.

On Tuesday, we saw several senators, quote, Taylor Swift, lyrics in Congress in a delightfully

weird moment that must have produced C-spans best ratings. Was it a little cringe? Yeah.

Am I still here for it? I think so. Because, while quoting Taylor Swift lyrics is an appropriate

response, I think, in most settings, it was especially called for on Tuesday because

Congress was evaluating claims that the Taylor Swift ticket master meltdown was a product

of problems in the entertainment industry that required government action.

The Taylor Swift ticket master meltdown happened back in November when ticket master put Taylor

Swift tickets on sale for her upcoming tour. In short, it was a disaster. According to

ticket master, the platform was overwhelmed by swiftees and bots that are programmed to

scoop up tickets and then resell them at a markup on secondary resale sites. But net

net, the pre-sale got shut down and thousands of fans ended up ticketless after waiting

hours and hours on end. We actually have a friend of the show who experienced this

debacle firsthand among other ticketing debacles. Here's Kevin.

My experience trying to buy Taylor Swift tickets was pretty agonizing, but it wasn't as bad

as it should have been. Only because a couple months prior, I had been through the exact

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