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Ticketmaster Haters Gonna Hate, Hate, Hate
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Length:
60 minutes
Released:
Jan 30, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
This week, Eric, Dan, and Dylan breakdown the Ticketmaster/Taylor Swift ticket sale controversy in the wake of the proprietors of Live Nation Entertainment being dragged before Congress for a hearing. Are they a monopoly? If so, how would we know, and what should we do? And what is more offensive: Ticketmaster’s expensive fees and crashing website or a dozen U.S. senators reading questions written for them by junior staffers with Taylor Swift lyrics in them? Next, it’s 90 seconds until midnight on the Doomsday Clock, the PR gimmick of the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists that allegedly predicts the apocalypse. Should we take it seriously, or is this another case of “scientism” instead of science—people with expertise in one area getting out of their lane? And finally, Big Tech has big layoffs. Maybe these companies aren’t the all-powerful behemoths both sides of the political aisle make them out to be.
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Ticketmaster Faces the Music | The Morning Dispatch
52 Seconds of U.S. Senators Quoting Taylor Swift Lyrics
The Doomsday Clock reveals how close we are to total annihilation | CNN
‘Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists’ Demands $10 Trillion or It Will Destroy Earth by Setting Clock to Midnight | The Onion
The Tech Bubble Burst | The Dispatch
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Ticketmaster Faces the Music | The Morning Dispatch
52 Seconds of U.S. Senators Quoting Taylor Swift Lyrics
The Doomsday Clock reveals how close we are to total annihilation | CNN
‘Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists’ Demands $10 Trillion or It Will Destroy Earth by Setting Clock to Midnight | The Onion
The Tech Bubble Burst | The Dispatch
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Released:
Jan 30, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode
Titles in the series (100)
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