Live Nation Ticketmaster: Swift Justice for bad Beyhavior

About this episode

The episode discusses the antitrust trial involving Live Nation and Ticketmaster, exploring their controversial history and practices.

This is the potential breakup song of Ticketmaster & Live Nation: a toxic relationship that, according to one lawyer, "essentially defrauds everyone involved." Becca and Robby bring you up to speed on the outcome of the company's fight in a trust-busting trial and then go all the way back to the villain origin story of this Frankenstein of scams. It makes us feel better to know that the founder of Ticketmaster is now miserable and possibly broke! For TWO bonus episodes every month, ad-free main, and book club join us on Patreon Watch on Youtube Thanks to our sponsors Orange Marketing and Des Moines Con Advertise with us Timestamps: 00:00 - Live Nation anti-trust verdict 05:00 - Episode intro 14:00 - History / origin story of Ticketmaster 32:00 - Ticketmaster enabling / encouraging scalpers because "it's called CAPITALISM" 40:00 - Live Nation / Ticketmaster bribes every president EXCEPT Jimmy Carter 56:00 - Kid Rock is Live Nation's pain sponge 58:00 - Takeaways / Pearl Jam 1:09:00 - Good news! Links: Live Nation employee mocks customers as 'so stupid' in internal messages released in court case Train Wreck? A Mogul's Battle Against The Bel-Air Subway Ticketmaster's Dark History…

People in this episode

Hosts: Becca, Robby

Topics covered

• antitrust trial
• Ticketmaster history
• scalping
• corporate ethics
• music industry

Keywords

• Ticketmaster
• Live Nation
• antitrust
• scalpers
• corporate fraud
• music industry
• history

Sponsors

Orange Marketing, Des Moines Con

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Live Nation, Ticketmaster

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