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Wicked Radio 5-5: 'Blue Dot Fever'? No, It's Concert Goers Pushing Back! · Wicked Radio with Bill Adams

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  Speaker 1: A break we need to talk about since we hit
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  Speaker 1: the summer months. It's called blue dot fever. What is it?
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  Speaker 1: It's actually a great thing.
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  Speaker 2: It means we're not paying these ridiculous concert prices as
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  Speaker 2: we enter into now that we're into May, the start
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  Speaker 2: of the traditional summer concert season.
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  Speaker 1: And this is a term I started.
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  Speaker 2: To see pop up probably two two and a half
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  Speaker 2: weeks ago, blue dot fever, and I thought, oh God,
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  Speaker 2: what is this next thing?
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  Speaker 1: What are they pushing now? What is this? What is
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  Speaker 1: this fear tactic?
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  Speaker 2: And then you read a little bit deeper into it,
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  Speaker 2: and it's actually a great thing. It means people are
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  Speaker 2: pushing back and they're refusing to pay what we all
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  Speaker 2: know has been going on in the music industry, insane
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  Speaker 2: ticket prices. So what does it mean? You know, when
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  Speaker 2: you go on Ticketmaster or any other concert site and
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  Speaker 2: you see what I mean, go on there, what seats
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  Speaker 2: are available? You see the blue dots are the ones
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  Speaker 2: that are available. You may have noticed this too, you
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  Speaker 2: go on recent concerts these days and you got all
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  Speaker 2: kinds of blue dots. Well, the industry has come up
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  Speaker 2: with this term to try to explain away what's going on.
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  Speaker 2: They try to make it sound like it's some sort
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  Speaker 2: of a condition. Oh blue Dot fever hit that artist again,
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  Speaker 2: gonna have to cancel the tour, as if it's like
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  Speaker 2: something out of their control. No, there's all kinds of
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  Speaker 2: reasons for this. But the great thing is whether they
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  Speaker 2: like it or not, whether they know what they're doing
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  Speaker 2: or not. Young people are learning about economics and they're
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  Speaker 2: pushing back whether they know it or not.
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  Speaker 1: And it's great. We'll get into it. Hey, but aren't
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  Speaker 1: Let's get into it.
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  Speaker 2: So this has been popping up recently and now it's
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  Speaker 2: one of those trending terms because it's May, it's the
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  Speaker 2: summer concert season. Traditionally, or was in the past. Maybe
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  Speaker 2: it's a COVID thing that changed everything. May be not
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  Speaker 2: think it more has to do with less money, less
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  Speaker 2: the narrow in everybody's pocket or bank account, however you
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  Speaker 2: want to describe it. But it's been popping up, it's
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  Speaker 2: been going on. Probably notice it yourself. Maybe these are
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  Speaker 2: some of your favorite artists.
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  Speaker 1: Canceling summer tours. Oh what happened? Well?
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  Speaker 2: Was the artist sick? Did he get did he have
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  Speaker 2: a did he have a tragedy? Kind of People aren't
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  Speaker 2: buying it, and there's all kinds of reasons. But now
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  Speaker 2: that it's a trending thing, let's go to the New
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  Speaker 2: York Post their page six reporters. This is kind of
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  Speaker 2: like their gossip y, trendy entertainment, kind of gross tabloidy,
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  Speaker 2: kind of like section of what they do. Let's break
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  Speaker 2: it down with this guy's report and get to what
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  Speaker 2: he's talking about.
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  Speaker 1: Blue dot Fever. First of all, I love the name.
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  Speaker 1: All right, here he is. Here's the first part and
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  Speaker 1: we'll take it in pieces.
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  Speaker 3: It's going on in the music industry, and it's called
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  Speaker 3: blue dot fever, at least that's what we're calling it.
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  Speaker 3: It's when you go on Ticketmaster, and you see that
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  Speaker 3: sea of blue dots, those are all those unsold seats.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, first of all, I have to give them credit.
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  Speaker 1: Let's start it. I'm gonna be positive to start this
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  Speaker 1: one off.
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  Speaker 2: Calling something blue dot fever is probably the most creative
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  Speaker 2: thing the music industry has come up with in like
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  Speaker 2: thirty five forty years, because it's actually freaking brilliant. But
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  Speaker 2: here's the problem by doing it, by giving it a name.
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  Speaker 2: And it's not just them, it's not just the reporters
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  Speaker 2: from page six in the New York Post.
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  Speaker 1: This is a music industry term. This is like the
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  Speaker 1: promoter's Live Nation, all of these labels, all.
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  Speaker 2: That the artists themselves, they're all calling it a thing
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  Speaker 2: to make it sound like it's something that they were
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  Speaker 2: afflicted with, you know what I mean, that came into them,
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  Speaker 2: that caused them where they have to It's an out
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  Speaker 2: why they had to cancel a tour. That's what it is.
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  Speaker 2: We know what the reason is. Your freaking prices are insane,
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  Speaker 2: first and foremost, that's the bottom line. But he goes
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  Speaker 2: on to explain it even more so, what's the result
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  Speaker 2: of this blue dot.
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  Speaker 3: Fever eightym that your favorite artist didn't sell out? Well,
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  Speaker 3: post Malone has paused his current tour source to say
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  Speaker 3: it's blue dot fever. He says it's because he's making
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  Speaker 3: some new music that's not ready yet.
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  Speaker 1: Hold on time. Sorry to pause him so much, but
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  Speaker 1: I have to.
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  Speaker 2: So I guess the first artist he mentioned there, who
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  Speaker 2: you would think is everywhere. Don't be fooled by that.
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  Speaker 2: It's like a music industry syop. You see post Malone everywhere,
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  Speaker 2: bud light ads, now, you see him in commercials, you
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  Speaker 2: see him in sporting events, singing the national anthem. There's
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  Speaker 2: no way that his tour wouldn't sell out, right, don't
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  Speaker 2: be fooled. That was all an image created, apparently. And
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  Speaker 2: now I have people who know him say he seems
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  Speaker 2: like a nice guy whatever.
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  Speaker 1: But that's a different thing.
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  Speaker 2: But how about the excuse there that the page six
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  Speaker 2: reports there, what's the what's the official excuse? What's the
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  Speaker 2: official reason given for him canceling a tour? Well, he's
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  Speaker 2: working on some new music and it's not ready yet.
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  Speaker 2: Can you imagine saying this to the stones, Imagine saying
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  Speaker 2: it to like Keith Richards, you know, it's like, uh,
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  Speaker 2: all right, Keith We've got the tour booked for summer.
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  Speaker 2: US tour gonna start in Californi. You're gonna play all
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  Speaker 2: the major festivals. Can you imagine Keith Richards going again?
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  Speaker 1: Is a not ready yet?
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  Speaker 2: No, he would have said, all right, let's finish it up.
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  Speaker 2: Cut take go ship at printed, let's go not ready yet?
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  Speaker 2: What you know, just be honest with people. Your tour
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  Speaker 2: isn't selling out. You didn't cancel it because of blue
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  Speaker 2: dot fever. You canceled it, or because your music wasn't
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  Speaker 2: ready yet. You cancel it because it's prices too high
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  Speaker 2: compared to what you're offering these people.
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  Speaker 1: He goes on, He's not the only artist.
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  Speaker 3: Inter pulled the plug on her tour. Sources said it
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  Speaker 3: was blue dot fever, but she said she wants to
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  Speaker 3: spend more time with their family. The Pussycat Dolls canceled
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  Speaker 3: their tour today, although they admitted to coming down with
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  Speaker 3: the dreaded disease, basically saying they took a hard look
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  Speaker 3: at things and it wasn't gonna work out. I guess
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  Speaker 3: you could also call it cat scratch fever.
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  Speaker 1: You well, you know, g Oh, what am I gonna do?
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  Speaker 2: I had my I had my uh pussy doll tickets
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  Speaker 2: ready to go.
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  Speaker 1: Whatever the hell they're calling themselves.
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  Speaker 2: At least but you know what, of all of them,
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  Speaker 2: at least that group, the Pussycat don't. At least they
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  Speaker 2: were honest about it, you know what I mean. They
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  Speaker 2: first started saying it was a family thing.
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  Speaker 1: No, no, no, no.
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  Speaker 2: At least they were honest. They said, we're not selling
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  Speaker 2: any concert tickets. That's why we're canceling the tour. If
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  Speaker 2: more artists were like actually believe it or not ironically
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  Speaker 2: them and we're honest about what's going on, I think
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  Speaker 2: more fans would be able.
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  Speaker 1: To support them.
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  Speaker 2: But they all think and Megan Trainer, well, I want
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  Speaker 2: to spend more time with my family. Yeah, but I
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  Speaker 2: bet you have those concert tickets were selling, you wouldn't
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  Speaker 2: want to spend.
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  Speaker 1: As much time with your family if they were just
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  Speaker 1: honest with this.
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  Speaker 2: But it goes back to exactly what the cause of
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  Speaker 2: this is, right, And I'm telling you my overall theme
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  Speaker 2: on this is it's a great thing. Sorry for the artists,
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  Speaker 2: Oh I'm sorry, gonna make a few less million this year.
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  Speaker 1: I'm so sorry about that.
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  Speaker 2: But it means that people, whether they know it or not,
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  Speaker 2: are learning supply and demand because these kids, you know,
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  Speaker 2: we tend to think. And Taylor Swift was the outlier
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  Speaker 2: on this, right, twelve hundred dollars tickets thirteen hundred and
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  Speaker 2: fifteen hundred.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe I'm low on that. I have no idea.
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  Speaker 2: And I have a daughter too who like mortgage to
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  Speaker 2: a future child and my future grandchildren for these tickets
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  Speaker 2: for Taylor's whip, And I totally get it. But that's
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  Speaker 2: an outlier. All these other artists seem to think they're
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  Speaker 2: on that same level somehow, right, they can charge hundreds.
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  Speaker 2: When was the last time any of them, you know,
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  Speaker 2: any new artists actually went a ticket master and they
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  Speaker 2: and a promoter through Live Nation and sold any ticket
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  Speaker 2: that was less than one hundred bucks two hundred, three hundred,
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  Speaker 2: anything like this. And that's not the only thing we
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  Speaker 2: all know.
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  Speaker 1: If you've been to.
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  Speaker 2: Any concert venue anytime soon to see anybody, this applies
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  Speaker 2: to all of them.
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  Speaker 1: Oh that's not just it. Well, let's outside of the
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  Speaker 1: ticket price you.
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  Speaker 2: Paid, no matter what that is. What Okay, you got
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  Speaker 2: a low dough show for one hundred and twenty bucks. Congrats, great, Okay,
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  Speaker 2: you think you're you think you're in and out the
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  Speaker 2: door and that's about it.
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  Speaker 1: Oh no, no, no, when you total.
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  Speaker 2: It all up, they all just want to get outside
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  Speaker 2: and have a good time and enjoy the night.
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 2: It's a little bit tougher when you get to the
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  Speaker 2: concert venue and then you have parking if it's not
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  Speaker 2: built into the ticket. What's your parking what's your average
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  Speaker 2: parking ticket? I'm on the low end near me where
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  Speaker 2: I am with all the concert venues, twenty five bucks
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  Speaker 2: minimum minimum, if it's not already built into the ticket,
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  Speaker 2: which would be more. Most places are thirty. I've paid
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  Speaker 2: fifty at a general edit at a outdoor amphitheater parking thing,
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  Speaker 2: pay fifty dollars to just have your car sit there,
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  Speaker 2: multiplied by how many cars five six thousand?
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  Speaker 1: How much money are these venues making. That's about it. Well,
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  Speaker 1: then you get through that, you're like, yeah, all right, whatever,
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  Speaker 1: I want to see the show. I'm inside.
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  Speaker 2: And then you walk inside and you're like, all right,
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  Speaker 2: let's get it. You want to be here, you want
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  Speaker 2: to drink, okay, let me get a and you walk
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  Speaker 2: up to the concession thing to look at their options.
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  Speaker 2: You're like, okay, nothing, I drink here?
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  Speaker 1: All right? What do you got there? Let me get
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  Speaker 1: a was that rainwater light?
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  Speaker 2: Is that?
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  Speaker 1: What that is? Okay? All right?
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  Speaker 2: You want a sixteen or twenty ounce, sir? Sixteen? I
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  Speaker 2: guess whatever is?
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  Speaker 1: Okay?
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  Speaker 2: Rings it up, turns the little thing around, including a
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  Speaker 2: tip that you want to give them. That'll be sixteen
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  Speaker 2: fifty sir for your sixteen ounce rainwater light on draft. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: And then you probably got a mixed drink which is
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  Speaker 2: down two and twice as much as that. You'll probably
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  Speaker 2: pay twenty five thirty bucks for that drink. That's before
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  Speaker 2: you get to your seat. And then you get to
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  Speaker 2: your seat, and then what do you have? You have
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  Speaker 2: most people doing this. Sorry to sound like old guy,
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  Speaker 2: but it's true. You know what I'm talking about. You
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  Speaker 2: get to the concert experience, and most people are seeing
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  Speaker 2: the concert through this. Sorry audio listeners only, but this
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  Speaker 2: is I'm holding up my cell phone.
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  Speaker 1: This is how most people see the concerts these days. Right.
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  Speaker 2: So that's your concert experience. The people you're surrounded by
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  Speaker 2: because I don't know about you. From me, part of
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  Speaker 2: the concert experience is being surrounded by people who are
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  Speaker 2: other fans of that band or that act or that show. Right,
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  Speaker 2: that's a different experience too. But let's get to the
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  Speaker 2: music itself. It is tough tough to find any live
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  Speaker 2: act and unfortunately most but not all rock acts too,
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  Speaker 2: where there's not at least part of this that has
• 9:48
  Speaker 2: backing tracks that are recorded.
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  Speaker 1: God forbid.
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  Speaker 2: Sometimes the case is all vocal tracks recorded backing tracks
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  Speaker 2: for other stuff. Now with the pop stuff, it's almost
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  Speaker 2: all pre recorded, almost all of it it is, except
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  Speaker 2: for certain selections of the show. So remember, and you
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  Speaker 2: go back to what you paid to get to this
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  Speaker 2: point to the show to hear pre recorded music, and
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  Speaker 2: you've got your thousands of dollars in in some cases
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  Speaker 2: already to experience that, and then you've got the possibility
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  Speaker 2: that this person's probably going to tour again next summer.
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  Speaker 1: So you're sitting there with listening.
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  Speaker 2: To your lie to your prerecorded tracks, so you've already
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  Speaker 2: paid thousands of dollars to get into you're hoping your
• 10:25
  Speaker 2: car is still in the parking lot, and you're thinking,
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  Speaker 2: I could have just seen this person next year. So
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  Speaker 2: the over accessibility is a part of it too, all
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  Speaker 2: of this, and they wonder why it's blue dot fever. Really,
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  Speaker 2: no it's bad music fever is what happened here, and
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  Speaker 2: finally people are waking up to it. So even though
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  Speaker 2: it's a creative title, and I give the music industry
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  Speaker 2: and the concert industry, and I don't know who came
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  Speaker 2: up with it first, but this blue dot fever, that's
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  Speaker 2: a great creative name.
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  Speaker 1: It just is. That's just that's hilarious.
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  Speaker 2: If they had been this creative in the concert industry
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  Speaker 2: for all these years and done that kind of stuff
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  Speaker 2: to make it accessible for people, things would be a
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  Speaker 2: lot better off. People are pushing.
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  Speaker 1: Back on this.
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  Speaker 2: Plus, Oh, there's another thing I didn't mention at the
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  Speaker 2: concert experience. How about the merch're gone? This is something
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  Speaker 2: that has since I've been going to concerts starting in
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  Speaker 2: the early eighties to now. This is something that's never
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  Speaker 2: gone away, the merch tent.
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  Speaker 1: Now, why is that?
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  Speaker 2: Because there's so much money to be made. The margins
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  Speaker 2: are so high. Because they print something up in some
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  Speaker 2: Vietnam factory, they ship it in, they get it probably
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  Speaker 2: for ten dollars a shirt. What are they charging you?
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  Speaker 2: What's the appen So the last time you saw a
• 11:28
  Speaker 2: concert shirt you wanted to buy fifty sixty Bucks's that minimum,
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  Speaker 2: and then they have some higher price items like the
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  Speaker 2: tailor Swift sweatshirts that were selling a few years ago.
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  Speaker 1: Those are into the hundreds. That's another that's another thing.
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  Speaker 2: So if you're a parent, you're bringing a young person
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  Speaker 2: to their first thing, then the pressure starts.
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  Speaker 1: Oh please, oh please, but I don't know if they're
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  Speaker 1: ever going to tour again. Please can you buy me
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  Speaker 1: the thing? And then you're pressured into buying that too.
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  Speaker 2: So now you have paid the concert ticket, the exorbitant
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  Speaker 2: parking price, your thirty six dollars drink costs for a
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  Speaker 2: watered down or rainwater light, the pre recorded music, and
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  Speaker 2: then you're paying hundreds of dollars for merch.
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  Speaker 1: Again, I get it. This is all choice.
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  Speaker 2: You don't have to do this kind of stuff, and
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  Speaker 2: you would have to be, you know, a real big
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  Speaker 2: fan to actually go through this whole thing unless you
• 12:16
  Speaker 2: just didn't care. Oh, you have that much expendable cash,
• 12:19
  Speaker 2: but a lot of people don't have the expendable cash
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  Speaker 2: these days, that much disposable income just to throw away
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  Speaker 2: on these kinds of things.
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  Speaker 1: So what are you?
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  Speaker 2: And they're pulling back because we have other entertainment sources.
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  Speaker 2: These days, and that's great. This is supply and demand
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  Speaker 2: playing out before our very eyes. No matter what they
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  Speaker 2: call it, whether they want to call it blue dot
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  Speaker 2: fever or not, this is the populace. This is this
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  Speaker 2: is the concert going public saying you know what, No, no,
• 12:45
  Speaker 2: there's always a price, right. I always like to tell
• 12:48
  Speaker 2: you there's always a price for everybody. Well, there's a
• 12:50
  Speaker 2: price where you walk away to let's see, I've seen
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  Speaker 2: this artist before. I know it's going to be pre
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  Speaker 2: recorded tracks. It's an expensive thing. I don't like the
• 12:58
  Speaker 2: venue too much. And they're charging twice as much as
• 13:01
  Speaker 2: when I saw.
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  Speaker 1: Him three years ago.
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  Speaker 2: Eh, I don't think so that's the cause of this
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  Speaker 2: blue dot fever.
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  Speaker 1: That's what's going on.
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  Speaker 2: But I will tell you, talking about everything having a price,
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  Speaker 2: it's what you're willing to pay obviously. Now, if the
• 13:16
  Speaker 2: beat if two of the Beatles came back to life
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  Speaker 2: and were resurrected tomorrow, right if John and George came
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  Speaker 2: back to life and they said, well that was an experience.
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  Speaker 2: We got to get the band back together, and they
• 13:26
  Speaker 2: got together with Paul and Ringo and the Beatles did
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  Speaker 2: a summer tour.
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  Speaker 1: I'm I'm gonna mortgage the house to go see that.
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  Speaker 2: I would because that's my price point, that's what that's
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  Speaker 2: what I would want. But this crap, like in the
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  Speaker 2: page six article the guy was talking about there, Uh,
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  Speaker 2: Megan Trainer seems like a nice girl. Every one of
• 13:45
  Speaker 2: those songs that I've heard that my kids that play
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  Speaker 2: for me sound exactly the same. And you're not gonna
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  Speaker 2: tell me that that's not pre recorded when she's on
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  Speaker 2: there live. So that tour canceled. But Blue Dot Fever, No,
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  Speaker 2: that was not that was that was low demand? Is that?
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  Speaker 3: What?
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  Speaker 1: That? What? What that?
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  Speaker 3: What?
• 13:59
  Speaker 1: Post malone? I'm working on new music. I can't tour.
• 14:02
  Speaker 2: No, it's because we can already see a you're overexposed everywherehere,
• 14:06
  Speaker 2: we see on every other commercial and I can just
• 14:08
  Speaker 2: buy the record or get it on Spotify. Everybody's got
• 14:11
  Speaker 2: a price. But there's also good news. So like all industries,
• 14:15
  Speaker 2: the concert industry reacts, right. You might have seen this
• 14:19
  Speaker 2: come across your inbox. Budget friendly options all of a
• 14:22
  Speaker 2: sudden popping up, and they usually do these for summer,
• 14:24
  Speaker 2: you know, festival tours and all this other stuff.
• 14:27
  Speaker 1: Live Nation is launched.
• 14:29
  Speaker 2: Summer of Love promotion where you can save money May
• 14:33
  Speaker 2: through I think it's through August, possibly September for these
• 14:36
  Speaker 2: concert tours that a lot of them aren't selling whatsoever.
• 14:38
  Speaker 1: And then includes a lot of the rock acts, by
• 14:40
  Speaker 1: the way, So why does this happen. It's because they
• 14:43
  Speaker 1: want to make some money where they can.
• 14:45
  Speaker 2: Offers thirty dollars all in tickets, fees included, tax is extra,
• 14:49
  Speaker 2: I don't know about parking.
• 14:51
  Speaker 1: For thousands of shows across the US.
• 14:53
  Speaker 2: Who's participating, Guns and Roses, Iron Maiden, Avenge, Sevenfold, Motley Cruz,
• 14:58
  Speaker 2: Shine Down, Breaking, Benjamin Evan, Sence, Goo Goo Dolls, Pitbull,
• 15:02
  Speaker 2: and many more.
• 15:04
  Speaker 1: Now why is that?
• 15:06
  Speaker 2: Because a lot of these acts have crews they need
• 15:07
  Speaker 2: to pay, and they need to payback some money somehow.
• 15:10
  Speaker 2: And that's exactly why you have these Summer of Love
• 15:13
  Speaker 2: promotions going on, so they can make the money back.
• 15:15
  Speaker 2: And that's a great thing. We should be celebrating that.
• 15:17
  Speaker 2: This is the consumer public saying, yeah, your concert tickets
• 15:21
  Speaker 2: are way too high. And I was kind of iffy
• 15:23
  Speaker 2: on that band anyway, pushing back, and all of a
• 15:25
  Speaker 2: sudden the venue says, all.
• 15:27
  Speaker 1: Right, this show is less. Give me one other tip.
• 15:30
  Speaker 2: As an experience now, concert goer, you it's a gamble
• 15:34
  Speaker 2: because you never know if the show is going to
• 15:35
  Speaker 2: actually soll out.
• 15:36
  Speaker 1: It's always a gamble. But the day of ticket you
• 15:39
  Speaker 1: can always get a deal.
• 15:42
  Speaker 2: Always, especially This is mostly for rock shows, especially big ones. Right.
• 15:46
  Speaker 2: But if you wait long enough and you're willing to gamble,
• 15:49
  Speaker 2: you wait day of to go back on that concert
• 15:51
  Speaker 2: site to see if you want to buy or not,
• 15:53
  Speaker 2: you can almost not always, but almost always get a
• 15:57
  Speaker 2: reduced ticket price. That's another thing you can do that
• 16:01
  Speaker 2: the concert industry has known about for years because they
• 16:04
  Speaker 2: want to sell out as much as they possibly can
• 16:07
  Speaker 2: and grab every last possible dollar. They're a business, but
• 16:10
  Speaker 2: so are you. You're in the business of not wasting
• 16:13
  Speaker 2: your money. So this is great. They could call it
• 16:15
  Speaker 2: anything they want. I happen to love the name blue
• 16:17
  Speaker 2: Dot Fever. What it means is the consumer is pushing
• 16:19
  Speaker 2: back and I freaking love that.
• 16:20
  Speaker 1: So that'll be good things.
• 16:22
  Speaker 2: Oh and by the way, here's another factor we didn't
• 16:24
  Speaker 2: even talk about with this whole thing, the scalping tickets.
• 16:28
  Speaker 2: Here's another reason why people aren't trying to buy tickets anymore.
• 16:30
  Speaker 2: They don't think they can get them if It's a
• 16:32
  Speaker 2: huge act these days because they've never Still Kid Rock
• 16:36
  Speaker 2: has been trying to clean this up, and he's even
• 16:37
  Speaker 2: gone to Congress to try to talk about it. They
• 16:39
  Speaker 2: still have never figured out the scalping industry and how
• 16:42
  Speaker 2: to beat him with their bots online. Figure it out,
• 16:46
  Speaker 2: Figure it out, make the entire concert experience better.
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: Otherwise you're going to suffer more blue dot fever.
• 16:52
  Speaker 2: I freaking love it all right, told you I'm not
• 16:55
  Speaker 2: talking about politics today, but no less important. Have a
• 16:57
  Speaker 2: great summer of love if you're buying some ticketsver it is,
• 17:00
  Speaker 2: but remember those tips.
• 17:01
  Speaker 1: Day of show always works.
• 17:03
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• 17:07
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• 17:10
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• 17:11
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• 17:13
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• 17:15
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• 17:19
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• 17:23
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• 17:27
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• 17:29
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• 17:31
  Speaker 1: It's Tuesday. Make it a wicked, awesome one. I'll talk
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: to you tomorrow.