Let's go a little bit outside of market news.

It's almost Christmas.

You're listening to Motley Fool Money.

Awesome, Mary.

It's Christmas Eve.

So we're going to do some lighter topics.

We're not just doing market news today.

So I thought we could do some business adjacent stories that have just kind of caught our attention this year,

ones we've been thinking about and have a little bit of a looser, motley, full money than we

normally do. I set this so I go last if we get to it at all. But I'm going to go with the

analyst who thinks more about money and finance and stocks. So I'm going to go with the analyst who thinks more about money and finance

and stocks. So I'm going to go with Osset. Osset, what is your business adjacent story that you've

been thinking about this year? Well, Ricky, the three of us love music so much. And sometimes

we need to get on and tape a show. We're still talking about bands and concerts.

So I was thinking about this, leading up to this last, one of our last episodes of the year,

I've been wondering about the price of tickets for concerts. Back of the napkin math here, but the average ticket price to see Taylor Swift this year works

out to about 200 bucks. Now, back in the 70s and 80s, to go to a high demand concert, the price

was much less, like $10. Now, we do have to adjust that for inflation, but even when you

plug this through an inflation calculator, it looks like

folks used to pay about $50 to go to a big name concert back in the day. So my question to start

out for the two of you is, why the heck do ticket prices cost, in some cases, quadruple what they did

30 or 40 years ago.

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