The Ticketmaster Racket

Stuff They Don't Want You To Know

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Society & Culture

4.3 • 10.7K Ratings

🗓️ 1 May 2019

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Ticketmaster was founded in 1976, and since that time it's grown to be one of the most powerful forces in the industry -- whether you've gone to symphonies, concerts or plays, odds are you've run into Ticketmaster while trying to get your seats for the show. Yet numerous people allege that this company wields enormous, dangerous influence over artist, venues and fans alike. Tune in to learn more about the rise of Ticketmaster.

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0:00.0	From UFOs to psychic powers and government conspiracies, history is riddled with unexplained events.
0:06.7	You can turn back now or learn the stuff they don't want you to know.
0:11.6	A production of I Heart Gradio's How Stuff Works.
0:24.0	Greetings. Welcome back to the show. My name is Matt.
0:26.9	And our pal, Noel is on some adventures, but we'll return in the future.
0:31.6	They call me Ben. We are joined as always with our super producer, Paul Mission Control
0:36.0	Deckint. Most importantly, you are you. You are here. That makes this stuff. They don't want you to
0:42.0	know. Welcome to the show. You did not have to buy tickets. That's right. You did have to buy a
0:48.3	phone or a computer or something that has a microphone and a processor and at least headphones
0:54.9	outputs or some kind of speaker. Let's call those associated fees. Yeah. So the show is free.
1:03.0	It takes some doing to get it in you. To get it in your ear, right? Yeah.
1:09.8	All the paraphernalia is not included. I mean, sure, this is a show. This is a recorded show.
1:17.4	Right? We do a call in line. We've taken the show on the road and probably will do again
1:23.0	and the near to mid-future. But nothing, nothing quite beats the experience, right? If you're in
1:30.3	your favorite music or your favorite performance, whatever it is live, right? Like what are some of
1:36.5	the memorable concerts you've been to, man? I haven't really been to many, but Dave Matthews,
1:44.3	oh, back in the day. Oh boy. Some of that DMB, baby. It was the best. And you know what?
1:54.5	Tickets were always like, okay. They were not insane back in the early 2000s.
2:02.6	Doing some old DMB though. You know, that's a fairly large act, right? Then you get to
2:09.7	newer shows nowadays. And you're going to a much smaller venue with a much smaller band. And I'm
2:15.5	paying more now to see those bands than I did to pay a big ticket band when I was, you know,
2:21.8	coming out of high school in college. So like you would go see Dave Matthews band in a stadium or
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