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People Are Enrolling In College Courses Solely for Ticket & Other Discounts · On Air with Ryan Seacrest

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  Speaker 1: So here's something interesting before we get into Ryan's ross.
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  Speaker 1: People are faking being students. Why are they doing it?
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  Speaker 1: Why are people faking being students.
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  Speaker 2: Because of all the perks. One thing I miss of
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  Speaker 2: not being a student at San Diego State was all
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  Speaker 2: of the student discounts that you would get because you're
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  Speaker 2: enrolled at a college or you're just a student in general.
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  Speaker 2: So people are actually enrolling in a single class at
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  Speaker 2: a community college and paying the small enrollment fee just
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  Speaker 2: to get a valid school email or the school ID.
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  Speaker 1: Are they taking classes too?
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  Speaker 2: I mean maybe they go and they take the class,
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  Speaker 2: or they don't take the class, it doesn't matter. But
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  Speaker 2: the benefit that they're seeing is that they're getting huge
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  Speaker 2: discounts on things like events, concert tickets. I mean, we
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  Speaker 2: all know concert tickets are so expensive right now. So
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  Speaker 2: some ticket sites are occasionally offering pricing for students, and
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  Speaker 2: companies like Ticketmasters say if the show does have a
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  Speaker 2: student discount, it'll pop up on the drop down menu
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  Speaker 2: for you to click on, and then if you're a student,
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  Speaker 2: you get like fifty percent off or like a huge
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  Speaker 2: discount on these concert tickets.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, what I don't think enough before I speak and
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  Speaker 1: this is a case where I'm not thinking enough before
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  Speaker 1: I say this. I kind of like its entrepreneurial cleverness.
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  Speaker 1: I kind of like that they are. I mean, whoever
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  Speaker 1: you are doing this, that you're clever enough to figure
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  Speaker 1: out the loophole and exploit the loophole. I mean, I
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  Speaker 1: don't know, is that bad?
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  Speaker 2: No, I don't think it is. And technically it is
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  Speaker 2: not illegal because you are enrolled in that college and
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  Speaker 2: you are a student.
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  Speaker 1: You know, there's something called street smarts. Yeah, that's street
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  Speaker 1: smarts for sure. That is what that is. There's IQ
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  Speaker 1: and EQ, that's EQ.