Krista Brown and Moe Tkacik join the program to discuss the history of how Ticketmaster took over the ticketing industry. Watch the Majority Report live Monday–Friday at 12 p.m. EST on YouTube OR listen via daily podcast at http://www.Majority.FM https://www.house.gov/representatives/find-your-representative https://www.senate.gov/senators/senators-contact.htm #SamSeder #EmmaVigeland #MajorityReport #politics #news #progressive #leftist #democrats #liberal SUPPORT the show by becoming a member: http://www.jointhemajorityreport.com/ Download TMR's FREE app: http://www.majorityapp.com TMR MERCH: http://www.shop.majorityreportradio.com CHECK OUT MORE from the MR crew: Matt Binder DOOMED https://www.youtube.com/MattBinder Brandon Sutton DISCOURSE https://www.patreon.com/ExpandTheDiscourse Emma Vigeland ESVN https://www.youtube.com/ESVNShow Matt Lech LEFT RECKONING https://www.youtube.com/LeftReckoning OTHER LINKS: Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/themajorityreport Facebook: http://facebook.com/MajorityReport Twitter: http://twitter.com/MajorityFM Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/majorityreport.fm/ Check out more from the MR crew: Matt Binder DOOMED https://www.youtube.com/MattBinder Brandon Sutton THE DISCOURSE https://www.patreon.com/ExpandTheDiscourse Emma Vigeland ESVN https://www.youtube.com/ESVNShow Matt Lech LEFT RECKONING https://www.youtube.com/LeftReckoning Image Credit, Nainoa Shizuru https://negativespace.co/crowd-rock-concert/ https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/ Image has been cropped and color has been altered. Let's just go into the history of Ticketmaster. I have to say that when I read the piece it all sort of came back to me. like I grew up in the Boston area. I remember the law. I remember the evolution of these things. I remember when you know Eddie Vedder and Pearl Jam did this stuff. And I you know being skeptical of what their motives were because I was a fan of Nirvana like you know pre you know like teen spirit. And so I was just skeptical of the whole thing and didn't pay that much attention. and now I feel like an ass for that. so Mo do you want to start with like maybe like that early history of Ticketmaster? yeah, I was definitely on the team cart in those squabbles. I was 15 when this was happening. so I remember it pretty vividly. and I remembered more what happened afterward in terms of just the tsunami of consolidation in the entertainment industry that took something that I thought was pretty great which was American pop culture of the early 90s and turned it into just this really like tyrannically vacuous Cesspool. and as it turns out these things were connected. It kind of all started with the crushing of Pearl Jam. but where it really started was in the 80s. and there were a couple of moguls and the concert promoter there was this sort of loosely organized cartel of regional concert promoters that Ticketmaster kind of lent money to bid up the prices of you know high profile acts. and split the fees with them. So they're the CEO of Ticketmaster back in the 80s with this guy Fred Rosen and his friend Irving Azoff who at the time was CEO of MCA they really were almost plotting I feel like in the 80s to dominate the music industry and we're living that reality today. but Pearl Jam can I just add I just want to say you know just for context. the early to mid to late 80s seemed to be and maybe I'm wrong but seemed to be the absolute Pinnacle of the touring world of concerts. I mean I worked at a parking lot in Worcester next to our Civic Center. and it was I mean it was constant like it was a 13 000 person Arena. and it was booked every weekend. like the touring was amazing at that time. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4IyZgtaw-g

Tucker Carlson really teaches a master class in the art of projection when he calls @MSNBC the channel that is "ginning up race fear to mobilize the militias." He goes on to mock Joy Ann Reid for "screaming once again about those diabolical white people." Tucker Carlson has made @Fox News his own personal white nationalism project — not that it wasn't a home for that before. But this is an amazing feat of a real or, more likely, performative, lack of self-awareness. The clip is a year old, and Joy Ann Reid is talking about Conservatives that expect "essential" workers, like hair stylists and restaurant workers, to go back to work during the height of Covid, despite Conservatives' insistence on not taking any precautions like wearing masks. Reid says that because essential workers are disproportionately Black and brown people, and Conservatives are disproportionately white, this is a race issue. She's not wrong. Tucker Carlson's show regularly promotes the idea that there is a race war brewing, if not already underway to some degree, in the U.S. He's going to have to try a lot harder if he wants to blame that on a Black broadcaster. A LOT harder. We stream our live show every day at 12 PM ET. We need your help to keep providing free videos! Support the Majority Report's video content by going to http://www.Patreon.com/MajorityReport Watch the Majority Report live M–F at 12 p.m. EST at youtube.com/samseder or listen via daily podcast at http://Majority.FM Download our FREE app: http://majorityapp.com SUPPORT the show by becoming a member: http://jointhemajorityreport.com We Have Merch!!! http://shop.majorityreportradio.com LIKE us on Facebook: http://facebook.com/MajorityReport FOLLOW us on Twitter: http://twitter.com/MajorityFM SUBSCRIBE to us on YouTube: http://youtube.com/SamSeder Sam Seder: Tucker Carlson. Am I mistaken? Did Tucker Carlson ever have multiple times where he would put up the anti-white agenda? In fact, we have talked about Tucker Carlson in this way... Let's put this clip up. Yeah, this was just like a week or so ago. This is just the most recent one. This is Tucker Carlson, his anti-white mania, and in fact, when we were talking about this, I think we covered this clip when he did this. We mentioned the Hutus. Here's Tucker Carlson maybe just having noticed something about his own coverage, decided to do a little projection. Tucker Carlson: Like puppies, all TV networks are cute when they're little. The problem is you never know what they're going to grow up to become. So what is MSNBC now? Well, effectively it's the Hutu radio network, ginning up race fear to mobilize the militias. Here's the channel's new lead anchor, screaming once again about those diabolical white people. Joy Ann Reid: And so here ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LcgHUb8BbqA