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Thick & Thin

Katy Bellotte

History, Personal Journals, Society & Culture

4.6 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 17 November 2022

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Today, we bow down to the Ticketmaster gods while waiting in line for Taylor Swift's Eras Tour tickets. But as we make our way through the virtual queue, let's talk about the fans of the past. In this episode of Thick & Thin, I reveal the history of buying concert tickets and the start of the infamous Ticketmaster service charge. Cause, in the end, is the experience really worth the money? For Taylor, the answer is yes –– always yes! // Follow me on IG: instagram.com/katybellotte // Thanks to our sponsors: Get started with Curology with a free 30-day trial at https://www.curology.com/thick just pay $5 for shipping and handling Collaborate with Canva for Teams at https://www.canva.me/thick for a FREE 45-day extended trial For a one-of-a-kind special financing program head to https://www.netsuite.com/thick Sources: http://content.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1878670,00.html https://www.encyclopedia.com/social-sciences-and-law/economics-business-and-labor/businesses-and-occupations/ticketmaster https://www.archaeology.wiki/blog/2016/06/13/tokens-tesserae-palmyra/ https://www.nytimes.com/1994/11/06/business/ticketmaster-s-mr-tough-guy.html? https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1985-01-31-fi-5143-story.html https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/pearl-jam-war-with-ticketmaster/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:45.7	Hey guys, welcome back to Thicken Thin.
0:47.8	With me, Katie Balotti, hope you guys are all doing well and my fellow Taylor Swift fans
0:53.0	out there who are trying their darnedest to get tickets to the eras tour.
0:57.5	I am right there with you as I'm recording this.
1:00.5	I have my one window where I'm recording and my other window where I'm sitting in the
1:05.0	queue.
1:06.0	I can see both windows at the same time and you best believe no matter what thought I'm
1:10.8	in the middle of while I'm recording this, I will be exiting that thought and buying
1:14.5	tickets as soon as I possibly can because this has been the most stressful week just trying
1:20.9	to get tickets for the show.
1:22.4	I mean, I know it's like been a very highly publicized, hyped up tour.
1:26.3	There's a lot of new Taylor Swift fans since the pandemic and since she's performed last
1:30.9	and like the lover fest of it all and like a lot of things have led us here to this
1:34.8	point, but being a long time Taylor fan, not getting the presale the other day was just
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