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July 17, 2026 30 mins

**Get Ready for a Wild Ride: Tickets, Taylor Swift, and the Governor**

This episode is all about the wild world of ticket prices and the people who are willing to pay top dollar to see their favorite artists perform live. From the Taylor Swift era tour to the latest Ariana Grande concert, we're diving into the crazy world of ticket prices and the scalpers who are making a killing. But it's not all fun and games - the governor of Massachusetts is stepping in to try and put an end to the ticket scalping madness.

The conversation starts with a discussion about the Taylor Swift era tour and how people were willing to pay thousands of dollars for tickets. Our hosts share their own experiences with ticket prices, from paying $1,000 for two tickets to the Jay-Z and Justin Timberlake show at Fenway to trying to get tickets to the Ariana Grande concert. But it's not just the artists who are affected - the fans are also feeling the pinch.

The governor of Massachusetts is taking action to try and cap ticket prices and put an end to the scalping. But will it make a difference? Our hosts discuss the implications of this new legislation and how it will affect fans and artists alike. And in a special segment, we hear from listeners who have shared their own stories of trying to get tickets to their favorite concerts.

Tune in to this episode to hear the full conversation and find out what's really going on in the world of ticket prices. Will the governor's new legislation make a difference, or will the scalpers find a way to keep on selling? Listen to this episode to find out!

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Now goot morning show in Boston.

Speaker 2 (00:02):
Billie and Lisa in the morning. It's just a great
start to my day on Kids run Away.

Speaker 3 (00:09):
Okay, good morning, and well it's Friday. It's a Friday morning.
It's the big Friday Show, the Billy and Lisa Morning Show.
It is Friday. It is July seventeenth. I walked in
this morning. Jessin kept saying it's a sixteenth Ok.

Speaker 4 (00:24):
Yeah, I'm what Yeah, sure, yeah. Do you catch his
news report? Least? Good morning.

Speaker 1 (00:29):
It is Friday, July sixteenth. The forecast. I look at it,
oh man, and it's going to be a beautiful day, right,
this is it.

Speaker 5 (00:39):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (00:40):
I get out and enjoy eighties. Lots of sunshine. It's gorgeous, smokeless, smokeless.

Speaker 1 (00:45):
Yeah, I can see the blue sky. Yeah, not so
much with a.

Speaker 3 (00:48):
Haze today, Nope. And enjoy today because tomorrow not so much. Well,
we got some thundershowers and showers tomorrow.

Speaker 2 (00:56):
Yeah, later in the afternoon.

Speaker 6 (00:57):
No.

Speaker 5 (00:57):
And it's like depends on where you are, so but yeah,
well you'll see something.

Speaker 3 (01:02):
It's definitely not a washout on Saturday. Sunday is going
to beautiful, So it's gonna be a great weekend.

Speaker 4 (01:08):
Although the World Cup is on at three, so maybe
you can bring the TV outside, yeah, because that's a don't.

Speaker 2 (01:13):
Miss Yeah, that time, show everything everything.

Speaker 3 (01:16):
It'll be good weather for the watch party on City
Hall closet. Yees for the final Spain Argentina. Here we go.
The World Cup is going to be won by someone.
Isn't there a game for third place? You just saying
the World Cup will be won by someone?

Speaker 4 (01:33):
Thank you for that on Sunday?

Speaker 1 (01:34):
That is without a doubt guarantee.

Speaker 4 (01:37):
That's a guarantee, right least.

Speaker 1 (01:39):
Isn't there a match for third place?

Speaker 4 (01:41):
Yeah? Tomorrow?

Speaker 1 (01:41):
Yeah, yeah, France, France and England.

Speaker 4 (01:44):
France and England will play for number three.

Speaker 2 (01:46):
There's a lot of money up for grabs, a lot
of dough.

Speaker 3 (01:50):
We got the talkback going on for Ariana Grande tickets,
she's got three shows in the TV garden, and concert
tickets and sporting events and everything are in the New
is in a big way today.

Speaker 2 (02:01):
Are we allowed to talk about what we're doing next
week with Ari?

Speaker 3 (02:04):
Or no?

Speaker 4 (02:04):
Oh yeah, sure you want to save that for seven
ten and you want to do it now.

Speaker 2 (02:09):
Well, we can just tease that you should be listening
at seven ten.

Speaker 4 (02:11):
Yeah, big happenings next week for Ariana, especially on Thursday.

Speaker 1 (02:15):
Oh, Arianna and us, Why don't we.

Speaker 4 (02:19):
Just say it?

Speaker 2 (02:20):
No, I think we need to tease it.

Speaker 1 (02:22):
You want to tease a big deal. You have to
be listening.

Speaker 4 (02:25):
We're supposed to tease, you know.

Speaker 3 (02:26):
To find out what we're doing with Ariana Grande. So
I went number one in the ratings because we tease
so well. In fact, I got to tell you something.
Number one in the ratings. It's such a big deal.
The governor is calling into the show this morning, you know,
I had that thought. They showed her office reached out
to me yesterday she wants to come on. She's coming

(02:47):
on at a ten to talk about the new legislation
with the ticket prices and the gouging and all that stuff.
And my first thought was she must have saw the ratings.
So we were in meetings about that and then she
reached out.

Speaker 4 (02:57):
I think that's the main reason she wanted to call.

Speaker 3 (02:59):
And then the ticket legislation happened, which, by the way,
is a very cool thing.

Speaker 1 (03:03):
Congrats to the governor for.

Speaker 2 (03:04):
This huge she's leading the charge.

Speaker 1 (03:06):
She's going after the scalpers, those creeps.

Speaker 5 (03:09):
Maybe she'll make July seventeenth, the Billy and Lisa in
the Morning day, the official day.

Speaker 2 (03:15):
You should ask her a proclamation.

Speaker 1 (03:18):
Do you think she might.

Speaker 4 (03:20):
Maybe swid ratings?

Speaker 1 (03:21):
But listen up, the ratings just came in for last month.
We are number one. We just grabbed every key Democrat.

Speaker 4 (03:31):
That's nice.

Speaker 3 (03:33):
You know, our listeners know we never do that, right,
you know, we've done very well all along. But yeah,
you know, occasionally, you know, doesn't.

Speaker 1 (03:42):
Hurt to mention the fact. Yeah we're number one, and
that feel good.

Speaker 2 (03:46):
It feels great.

Speaker 1 (03:47):
It's a big city, you know, it's a big market with.

Speaker 2 (03:49):
The adults too, men and women.

Speaker 1 (03:51):
Oh yeah, I know the men. I like that. We
have a lot of men listening to this show.

Speaker 2 (03:56):
You're showing up.

Speaker 4 (03:57):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, we appreciate everybody listening. Of course, we
come in every day and try her best to put
on the best show, the most engaging, informational silly.

Speaker 3 (04:07):
Well, yeah, we couldn't do it without the listeners. Now,
this is a very interactive show. We involved the listeners.
They make we make them a part of the show.
We have the talk back mafia.

Speaker 2 (04:19):
Stop bragging.

Speaker 4 (04:20):
Okay, that's the boss.

Speaker 1 (04:22):
I don't think the Governor is aware of our dings
or Carol lest.

Speaker 4 (04:27):
Theme the alert say stop bragging.

Speaker 1 (04:30):
Well she is calling in that much. It's a very
busy woman.

Speaker 4 (04:35):
Very well, she's on her way to Wooster because she's
doing their rename a bridge. Rename a bridge after Bob Coosey,
Celtic legend Bob Coosey.

Speaker 3 (04:45):
Wow, that's very cool. So she'll be calling from the motorcade.

Speaker 1 (04:49):
Or the bridge.

Speaker 3 (04:50):
Yeah, or the bridge.

Speaker 1 (04:52):
This is so cool.

Speaker 3 (04:53):
The Governor's Oh you know who else is coming in today?
The Cone?

Speaker 1 (04:58):
Then from Scotland.

Speaker 4 (05:00):
I have confirmed they are bringing the Cone, thank god.

Speaker 1 (05:03):
So we have the Cone and the two escorts from Scotland.
So that's huge.

Speaker 5 (05:08):
Billy and Lisa now the entertainment update with a Billy
constat on Kiss one Away.

Speaker 1 (05:14):
So we just played the new Gracie Abrams first single off.

Speaker 4 (05:18):
The new album.

Speaker 1 (05:18):
It's called hit the Wall.

Speaker 3 (05:19):
Last night she hosted the album release party right here
on Kiss Want to Wait.

Speaker 1 (05:24):
I love the new song.

Speaker 2 (05:25):
I like that vibe a lot.

Speaker 3 (05:27):
She always has a message in her music.

Speaker 1 (05:29):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (05:30):
She was also on Fallon last night psyched and pumped
about this new album.

Speaker 2 (05:34):
I feel stoked.

Speaker 7 (05:36):
It's been nice to be back with the crew and
band and to kind of just yeah, reunite and the
people that I made this with I respect and admire
so much. So it feels like a nice little celebration
of all the work that went into it.

Speaker 8 (05:50):
Really.

Speaker 3 (05:50):
Yeah, the album came out at midnight last night, and
we will be playing songs from the album all day
long here on Kiss.

Speaker 4 (05:56):
Wanta wait? Yeah, next one coming up right after eight o'clock.

Speaker 3 (06:00):
And we still have the talkback for Ariana Grande tickets
going on. So when you hear an Ariana Grande song
on Kiss, you send us a talkback much like this
one right here.

Speaker 6 (06:09):
So if losing every single ticket Master war was an
Olympic sport, I'm pretty sure i'd have a Swarovsky in
crested come at this point. I've been a Ariana fan
for almost fifteen years, and somehow I've never been able
to go to a single concert. I would absolutely lose
my mind if I made it to a Turnal Sunshine

(06:31):
in Boston for any any show. Genuinely, as long as
I'm in the house, She's amazing and I'd be so happy.

Speaker 2 (06:37):
I love that talkbacker. Yeah, I think that's a good one.

Speaker 4 (06:41):
So many people lost the ticketmaster to war. Yeah, he's
why well yea Maurahay is passing the legislation.

Speaker 1 (06:47):
Yeah, and she's calling into this show this morning at
a ten.

Speaker 3 (06:51):
And by the way, if you do get tickets to
Ariana Grande, and that includes our talkbackers, if you do
get tickets, don't forget. We will be doing the Billy
and Lisa Show live.

Speaker 4 (07:01):
We haven't announced that yet.

Speaker 1 (07:02):
We haven't.

Speaker 4 (07:02):
This is the announcement right now.

Speaker 2 (07:03):
Okay, we need the announcement us right, Oh yeah, do
you have I.

Speaker 1 (07:07):
Need something big here?

Speaker 3 (07:08):
Oh god, I mean, come on, we we're taking the show.

Speaker 1 (07:10):
I'm on the road live.

Speaker 3 (07:12):
We don't do this off for the Ariana Grande show
next week Thursday.

Speaker 4 (07:15):
Okay, hold on, hold on, we're not ready yet.

Speaker 3 (07:17):
We'll kick off the broadcast at five o'clock and we'll
take you right to the open of the show.

Speaker 1 (07:23):
Again, folks. That's next Thursday. There are three shows.

Speaker 3 (07:28):
We will be at the Thursday show starting at five o'clock.

Speaker 2 (07:31):
And we will be at play which is right next
to Big Night Live.

Speaker 4 (07:35):
Literally right next to the entrance to the garden the
escalators to the right.

Speaker 3 (07:39):
And it's a very cool place. They've got video games
to play and all kinds of fun to be had.
But they also have really good food, really good food,
great pizza.

Speaker 4 (07:47):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (07:47):
Right, So we'll be there live from five to seven,
so please come and say hello, yeah, and watch the broadcast.

Speaker 3 (07:53):
Well, we did this with one of the Taylor Swift shows,
how at You let Stadium remember it, and we had
a lot of fun, and so did our listeners.

Speaker 4 (08:00):
What we're doing is essentially taking the morning show and
putting it in the afternoon from five to seven.

Speaker 3 (08:05):
There you go.

Speaker 4 (08:05):
So that means some of our trademark segments, maybe a
report from Billy, a topic time, and we want you
to come, maybe we'll put you on the air. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (08:14):
And by the way, Ariana Grande one of those shows
where tickets were resold and scalpers made a fortune and
people had to basically give their life savings to go
to see Ariana Grande. So the governor yesterday launched new
legislation and this is a very cool story. She's calling
it the Great Divide Act, which is basically an ode

(08:38):
to Noah con because from the beginning he's been fighting
for these resale He wants these resale things gone, and
these scalpers gone. So anyway, the governor had a press
conference yesterday and they hear some of what she said.

Speaker 9 (08:52):
Our legislation is going to cap resale ticket prices and
fees for all concerts. We're saying that no concert can
be resold for more than one hundred and ten percent
of the face value that the original ticket price. So
those two hundred dollars Noah Con tickets can only be
sold for two hundred and twenty dollars now.

Speaker 1 (09:13):
And this was very cool. Noah Con facetimed the press conference.
Here's a clip I.

Speaker 4 (09:18):
Heard about what you're announcing today. I just wanted to
let you know how excited I am about it.

Speaker 10 (09:22):
The artist comunity and fan greatly benefit from limiting tickets
to galping.

Speaker 4 (09:25):
The sales of speculam tickets. I love my fans. I
don't want to take them over. I can if artists
alone could not tackle the market manipulation of secondary resellers.

Speaker 1 (09:32):
So thank you so much for making this a priority
in Massachusetts.

Speaker 4 (09:35):
I absolutely love them. With the dominland states have an
opportunity to leave the charge of this topic.

Speaker 2 (09:39):
I love this so much. Yeah, for so many reasons.

Speaker 4 (09:42):
It's so funny I watched the press conference, I'm like, wow,
that's cool. Literally minutes later, her office reached out to
me and said, the governor wants to come and talk
to Billy and Lisa.

Speaker 1 (09:51):
Wow. She obviously heard about the ratings.

Speaker 4 (09:54):
Maybe, but yeah, this is a big deal. Big deal
for a concert, sporting events all that Friday.

Speaker 2 (10:00):
This is Kim huge. Congrats on being number one again.

Speaker 1 (10:04):
I mean, come on, who could beat you?

Speaker 3 (10:06):
Guys?

Speaker 8 (10:07):
But if the governor is coming in to talk about
concert tickets anyway, you could ask her if I can
get any price adjustment on my Derek Coff tickets.

Speaker 1 (10:15):
Yeah, I'd appreciate that.

Speaker 5 (10:17):
God, well, she spent a lot of money on Derrick
Coff's going to the Derrekff Show.

Speaker 1 (10:22):
Oh my god.

Speaker 3 (10:23):
I saw the promo yesterday and I had to laugh,
Like through the entire promo, which looks fabulous.

Speaker 1 (10:29):
I mean, it's a giant production and I think it's
the Box Center Derek Coff and thanks.

Speaker 3 (10:35):
Oh there he's got dancers and bands and he's jumping
all over the place and doing somersaults and got he
looks fabulous.

Speaker 4 (10:43):
So did Kim buy scouting tickets to that show?

Speaker 3 (10:45):
And that's what she was suggesting there, but yeah, the
Governor going to be on this show at to a
ten this morning.

Speaker 1 (10:53):
Meantime, don't forget.

Speaker 3 (10:54):
The Odyssey is in theaters this weekend, expected to do
at least one hundred million. Matt Damon still making the
rounds of the interview circuit. It was on with Seth
Meyers last night talking about the animals in the movie.

Speaker 4 (11:06):
The animals are all very, very real.

Speaker 11 (11:08):
In fact, when we first went into Zeus's cave, you know,
I'd even hearing about it, and Chris and Hoytser cinematographer
were there.

Speaker 4 (11:16):
And I walk into the mouth of the cave.

Speaker 11 (11:18):
And their way down in the in the middle of it,
and Chris goes, man, come here, come here, and I
go kind of jogging down. I'm like, hey what and
he goes smell. So I smell and he go and
I go like, yeah what, and he goes, this is
the best. This place is gonna smell.

Speaker 12 (11:31):
For two weeks.

Speaker 4 (11:32):
He goes, we got forty sheep coming in.

Speaker 1 (11:34):
And sure enough the forty sheep came in and the cave.
It took two weeks to shoot the caves.

Speaker 4 (11:40):
Yeah, it was I think of about two weeks.

Speaker 3 (11:41):
Wow, there you know, as heavy as this movie is,
doesn't it sound from the interviews that they had the
time of their lives shooting this movie.

Speaker 4 (11:51):
Yeah. Yeah. That and also that they were honored to
be working with Christopher Nolan A those of the two
big things. But I'm seeing the reviews on social media
online and everybody but he loves it. They saying it's
one of the best movies definitely of the year. Yeah.
And also do you ever notice that Matt Damon always
plays characters trying to get home? Anybody picked up on No,
I hadn't picked Oh yeah, Saving Private Ryan, Oh, Martian Elysium, Interstellar, Yeah, well,

(12:17):
marsh in The Odyssey, all of those movies. The main
plot of the film is him trying to get home.

Speaker 1 (12:25):
This is amazing.

Speaker 3 (12:26):
Yeah, the poor guy.

Speaker 1 (12:28):
Wow.

Speaker 4 (12:28):
And when you think of it, this is home right,
that's like his own genre.

Speaker 3 (12:35):
Savannah Got Three announcing yesterday she's going to take a
three week break from The Today Show because she's going
to film her new game show based on.

Speaker 2 (12:42):
Wordle Yes, she's the host.

Speaker 3 (12:45):
But a crazy incident on the set of The Today
Show yesterday a guy crashed the set and lunged at
host to Craig Melvin.

Speaker 1 (12:54):
Here's TMZ right here.

Speaker 10 (12:56):
Scary incident and a lot of people at the Today
Show right now, I think, including Craig and others or
commanding answers, how did this happen? And how did somebody
seemingly get so far past security and get to an
area that really was it was a restricted area where
you would think you were safe, but obviously that wasn't
the case this morning for Craig Melbourne. So to directly
answer the question, it sounds like what was said was

(13:18):
the N word at Craig Melbourn as this guy, by
the way, tried to lunge at him. Is the way
the story has been now described to us.

Speaker 2 (13:25):
Yeah, that security officer was fired.

Speaker 1 (13:27):
Yeah. I was going to say, where are they working
this morning?

Speaker 2 (13:29):
So they weren't watching?

Speaker 3 (13:30):
Yeah, this is a very cool story. Do you remember
Adam Sandler officiated the Tailor and Travis wedding. Yes, he
went right from the wedding to Nantucket and apparently called
Nantucket police asking if there was a place he could
go to play pickup basketball where kids or anybody play basketball.

Speaker 1 (13:50):
This was his actual call to the police.

Speaker 12 (13:53):
Hi, how I'm living your island?

Speaker 6 (13:56):
Right?

Speaker 13 (13:56):
Now, and I've wondered if you could answer a question
I play back there any outdoor court court people playing.

Speaker 2 (14:03):
Yeah, they gave this, they gave him a spot, Yeah
they did.

Speaker 4 (14:06):
Yea. Yeah, I saw the pictures we were on vacation. Yeah,
he's known for doing that. Wherever he goes. He's always
trying to find courts. But he's the best. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (14:14):
Really, such a funny guy, such a cool guy.

Speaker 3 (14:16):
Anyway, World Cup Finals Sunday three o'clock Spain and Argentina.
Tomorrow there is a match for third place between France
and England. And remember the story we did recently that
Tom Holland from the movie The Odyssey reached out to
Norway soccer star Erling Holland yes, and was ignored.

Speaker 1 (14:36):
This was the clip right here, did.

Speaker 4 (14:38):
You dm Earling Holland?

Speaker 1 (14:40):
Yes, yes, I'll tell you what that is.

Speaker 3 (14:44):
That is exactly the type of humbling experience that is
important for actice.

Speaker 2 (14:49):
Yeah, you know, once like they text him, I'll take
him to dinner. Not even a response, not an excuse. No,
I'm busy, scenari, I'm playing football, nada, nothing.

Speaker 1 (15:00):
We have an update.

Speaker 3 (15:01):
Erling Holland reached out to Tom Holland and now they're
having dinner. That's are going to meet for dinner. That's
a good story. Red Sox are back home today. They've
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Speaker 6 (15:33):
I think that Billy should buy tickets for Derek Huff
and gifts them to Lisa, because we know how much
Lisa loves Derek Huff.

Speaker 1 (15:42):
Billy and Lisa in the morning.

Speaker 3 (15:44):
So in case you missed it, yesterday, the Governor mar
Heally held the press conference. She's going after the ticket scalpers,
the gougers. When you think of it, it's been a
really big story throughout sporting events and concerts. People giving
their life savings to see a concert.

Speaker 5 (16:00):
They're completely shut out because they can't get the tickets
and they can't afford it.

Speaker 2 (16:05):
Yeah, it's like it's outrageous.

Speaker 3 (16:07):
And it's really cool. At the press conference, it's called
the Great Divide Act. And she's taking her lead from
Noah Khan, because right from the get go, Noah Khan
has been fighting against the bots and the resale and
the scalpers and the gougers and everything a gainst. People
are paying not a contriction to go to even his show.

Speaker 4 (16:25):
Right, but he now pretty s he can correct me
if I get this wrong. So he made the tickets.
His goal was to make them non transferable, so you
can only transfer them through ticket maths, to not resell them.
But then I was told that Massachusetts laws were different
and that you could sell them for more in Massachusetts.

Speaker 3 (16:44):
Until now I think that's what she's changing. The governor's
locking it down. But by the way, Governor mar Heally
is no joke. It's calling in to the billion lease
of Morning Show. That's how important this is.

Speaker 5 (16:54):
I know for Noah Khan, there was like a time
period you had to wait before tickets could go up
for sale, and then you know it was like the
day of or the day before.

Speaker 2 (17:04):
I mean it was very close to concert time.

Speaker 3 (17:06):
And it begs the question, what's the most any of
us has ever paid? Or our listeners, what's the most
you have paid for a concert or a sporting event
or a show of any kind?

Speaker 1 (17:17):
Lisa, what you are?

Speaker 5 (17:17):
Okay, So we know that I love Harry Styles and
Harry is doing a residency at Madison Square Garden.

Speaker 2 (17:22):
And I did everything I possibly could to get in
on the ticket sale.

Speaker 5 (17:28):
Like, I pre registered, I had my code, I was
on the computer, and I was completely shut out. I
was completely shut out every single wave of those ticket releases.

Speaker 2 (17:37):
Okay, so I had to buy tickets. I had to
buy tickets on the you know.

Speaker 1 (17:44):
The resale.

Speaker 2 (17:45):
No, I'm not going to say, but it was more.

Speaker 4 (17:47):
It was much more.

Speaker 2 (17:48):
Oh god, Yeah, it's ridiculous.

Speaker 4 (17:50):
It's insane.

Speaker 3 (17:50):
Well do you remember, and I think it was around
the Harry Styles time there was a story that was
being floated that you could fly to see Harry Styles
in your get a hotel room, and go to the
concert for less money than it would cost you to
see Horry Styles in New York.

Speaker 5 (18:06):
Okay, this I feel like this all started with the
RAS tour. Don't you think the Taylor Swift Eras tour?

Speaker 4 (18:11):
Well, what you just said was that they were doing
that for Taylor as well. We were doing that for Tailor.

Speaker 5 (18:15):
Maybe you could go to freaking Scotland and get a
super ticket price and have a trip or completely get away,
have it be less than what you would be paying
here at Gillette just to have a seat at the show.

Speaker 4 (18:26):
Right right, Yeah, you know when I was at Noah Khan,
you know, I was in kind of a section that
was reserved for media and radio people, which was cool, right,
I'm very grateful for that. But I had a thought
looking at the people that were especially right up close
in the pit, right, how many of those people got
those tickets for the regular price or the scalped price.

(18:46):
It made having that thought, Yeah, yeah, these all resold tickets.

Speaker 1 (18:52):
Well, what's the most you've ever paid for a ticket?

Speaker 4 (18:54):
So the jay Z justin Timberlake show at Fenway, remember
that show? Oh yeah, yeah, I paid a thousand dollars
for two tickets, So five hundred dollars a ticket. That's
probably the most I've ever spent because that.

Speaker 2 (19:04):
It's actually a lot back then, because that was a
while ago.

Speaker 4 (19:06):
And then I was very very close, very close to
buying tickets to the Jay z Yankee stadium shows. Oh,
this past weekend. But you're talking to three thousand dollars.

Speaker 2 (19:16):
That's great.

Speaker 4 (19:17):
I mean I was looking at prices for Ariana's shows
next week, which are all sold out. I mean to
sit and Lows, you're looking at one thy, twelve hundred
up front, you're looking at two three thousand.

Speaker 3 (19:27):
By the way, it's not just the concerts. Remember the
NBA the playoffs. What people were paying for tickets? Court
side tickets?

Speaker 4 (19:33):
Oh the highest ticket at the Knixt courtside of Madison Square.

Speaker 1 (19:36):
Was it a ten grand or something?

Speaker 4 (19:37):
Two hundred and fifty thousand dollars?

Speaker 2 (19:39):
Oh my god, someone paid for one time outageous.

Speaker 4 (19:42):
Yeah, it's it's pretty insane, you know, And that's why,
you know, that's why we do contests, like you know,
calling contests, but also talk back for tickets like Rianna
right now, because we are a radio station, we give
out tickets. So that also makes it that more important,
you know, because it is hard to get tickets.

Speaker 1 (19:58):
Yeah, Riley, if you ever and scalp for ticket, you
go to a lot of shows.

Speaker 12 (20:02):
I do.

Speaker 5 (20:02):
I try to give myself a cap unless it's somebody
that I like, really really like, but I think the
most I've paid is like three hundred bucks for like
one day of a festival, which.

Speaker 2 (20:11):
Is not as much as what Justin spent.

Speaker 3 (20:14):
But that is a lie.

Speaker 4 (20:15):
Yeah, what was the regular price?

Speaker 3 (20:18):
That's what it was.

Speaker 2 (20:19):
Actually, it wasn't research.

Speaker 1 (20:20):
So I just bought a flat. Okay, so you weren't scalped.
You just bought a ticket.

Speaker 2 (20:24):
Yeah, and I tried to cap myself for like one
hundred bucks.

Speaker 1 (20:27):
The hundred bucks and with fees too, that's like not
that much.

Speaker 2 (20:30):
That's like in the balcony for some shows.

Speaker 3 (20:32):
Oh yeah, And again Sam goes for sporting events and
like NFL games, big NFL games. What do you think
they're paying for Super Bowl tickets these days? On the
resale market, I have to sell.

Speaker 2 (20:42):
Say, the best value out there right now is Lisa's
book Club.

Speaker 1 (20:48):
It's free or get hold you buy the.

Speaker 2 (20:51):
Book for like thirty bucks. I'm telling you, it's the
best deal out there.

Speaker 3 (20:54):
Wow, it's really gotten out of reach for most people. Really,
that's why you said it yourself. You know, we do
so many ticket giveaways. That's a big help to a
lot of people we really want. Ariana Grande is one
of the biggest shows on Earth right now. Yeah, and
we're doing telling out.

Speaker 10 (21:09):
We are.

Speaker 4 (21:10):
We do have tickets we are giving away and again,
if you want to win those tickets, talk back for
Ariana tickets. Every time you hear Ariana played on Kiss
one await and you have to be listening on the
iHeart app. Just leave a talkback. That's it, That's all
you have to do. We're giving out tickets, blowing out
tickets all the way up until showtime next weekend.

Speaker 3 (21:25):
But in the meantime, give us your ticket Nightmare stories.
I don't care if it's a game, a sporting event,
world Cup, same thing.

Speaker 4 (21:32):
Yeah, and again and again more. Hilly just announced this
new legislation yesterday and she'll be on the show at
eight ten. That's why we're talking about.

Speaker 1 (21:39):
Then right now. We want to hear from the listeners,
So send us the talkbacks right now. How do they
do that? We get new listeners all the time.

Speaker 4 (21:45):
Every day, same as a talkback for tickets. Just download
the free iHeartRadio app starts kiss when wait, you listen
and there's a microphone button that you press.

Speaker 1 (21:53):
Or or give us a call eight seven seven six
one seven one.

Speaker 4 (21:58):
Let's go here.

Speaker 6 (21:58):
We go.

Speaker 5 (22:00):
It's Topic Time with Billy and Lisa in the morning.

Speaker 3 (22:04):
The topic Time presented by Catches Law Group, the personal
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So there's a really big story. It affects us here
at Kiss Runawait and has for a long time. The
ticket's skelping, whether it's sporting events, whether it's concerts. People

(22:24):
are paying through the nose on the resale market. And finally,
yesterday Governor Maurrayhally stepped in. She's coming out with a
great divide act. It's kind of teaming up with noahcon
It's a really cool thing. Her goal, her mission is
to get tickets back to one normal price and stop
the madnets out there. Everyone. Yeah, and she's calling in
to the billion Resent Morning Show at a ten this morning.

(22:47):
So we're wondering, what's the most you have ever paid
for a ticket, whether it's a sporting event or a concert.
And of course we're reaching out to our listeners. Let's
go to the phones. Chris is in Hudson, Hello, Chris.

Speaker 12 (22:58):
Hey, guys, Hey, guys. So back in twenty fourteen, when
the Patriots were playing the Seahawks of the Super Bowl,
I had planned to go into that Super Bowl the
whole year. I saved up the money and I had
five thousand dollars set aside. Thinking back to then, you
could get into a Super Bowl for right around like
two thousand dollars around twenty fourteen. But so I was
out in Arizona, I had my hotel, everything else set up,

(23:22):
and something went wonky with the ticket Maac market. There
was a shortage. They were going up to like ten
thousand dollars, and it was just like I wasn't even
close to it. I wasn't even relatively close to be
to buy a ticket even with the five thousand dollars.
So I put an ad on Craigslist out of all places,
just like clean for like somebody to help me give
me a ticket for five thousand dollars. So somebody responds,

(23:44):
and of course I'm not very trusting of what's about
to happen, but I was like, I got to try it. So,
I mean, I go to this hotel and it's a
super fancy hotel. I walk right in and out of
Hiwie Mandels are randomly there, and yeah, part of this,
it's a weird part of the story. It doesn't really

(24:05):
impact it much. So I'm sitting at the table and
waiting for this guy and it comes over and a
very normal guy and he actually sold me. He worked
for that. It was in Houston, Okay, Harry, get to this.

Speaker 1 (24:17):
He had the ticket, gave me, he gave.

Speaker 12 (24:18):
Me the He gave me the ticket for face value,
and which is eighteen hundred dollars. And he weirdly went
and lived and grew up a mass Patriots fan, worked
at the stadium. So he did a good need and
I got to go to the game man profit extra money.

Speaker 2 (24:33):
I have the extra money for Oh that's such a
great I was going to ask.

Speaker 1 (24:35):
Did he then turn around and resell?

Speaker 4 (24:38):
Yeah, good for you, Chris, stop bragging.

Speaker 3 (24:46):
Story.

Speaker 4 (24:46):
What was Howie Mandel doing?

Speaker 13 (24:47):
Then?

Speaker 3 (24:48):
It was so random, wasn't it. I walked in and
Howie Mandel was in the lobby. I thought I was
gonna say he tried to shake his hand, never shake
never never know. We just played Taylor Swift and obviously
I think think Lisa is right on this. It seems
like it really ramped up the reselling with Taylor Swift.
I mean, how much money were people spending all God?

Speaker 14 (25:08):
Hey guys, so I paid a lot a lot of
money to see Taylor Swift in Miami. So maybe a
silly question. But with this new lot, even though I'm
buying the tickets in Massachusetts and going to Miami in
a future concert or something, does it still stop the
resellers because I'm buying it in Massachusetts Or does a

(25:28):
concert have to be in Massachusetts?

Speaker 4 (25:30):
That's a good question for Laura Healey. Yeah, she's going
to be on the show, this show right here.

Speaker 3 (25:34):
Eight ten, so her new bill does it only affect
shows in Massachusetts?

Speaker 4 (25:38):
That's our league question. If you live here and buy
tickets for a show elsewhere, you.

Speaker 2 (25:43):
Know, does it because you're a Massachusetts resident?

Speaker 4 (25:46):
Yeah? Yeah.

Speaker 15 (25:47):
The most money I ever spent on tickets for a
concert was Taylor Swift the Aras Tour, and I spent
about eleven hundred dollars per ticket. It was disgusting, but
the kids were happy, and I guess that's all that matters.

Speaker 3 (26:00):
Great day, you know, we talked about that earlier. I
think it was the Taylor the eras tour. The people
talking about I could get plane fair, a hotel room,
and a ticket for Taylor overseas for the same price
as a ticket alone.

Speaker 5 (26:11):
Here we were lucky because we got floor seats, remember
through your contact at face value?

Speaker 2 (26:16):
Oh right, for the aerostour, we were lucky.

Speaker 4 (26:20):
Yeah, you were lucky, you know what least you know what?

Speaker 1 (26:23):
Stop bragging.

Speaker 3 (26:26):
No, that was like the one time it actually worked.

Speaker 4 (26:28):
Out for us. Oh yeah, So you know who pays
resell has several times my wife for post malone. She's
a huge post malone fan, and she does that. It's
her toxic trait. The after pay. Oh yeah, so she
does after pay. So it's basically like you know, you
pay it over time with no interest.

Speaker 3 (26:47):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (26:47):
Oh, so she's paid a lot of money because you know,
I work at a radio station, but I can't always
get tickets and she wants, you know, close seats. So
she has bought tickets to the last few shows at
a lot of money, but used after pay.

Speaker 1 (26:59):
It's like a STU.

Speaker 2 (27:00):
And no, it's like it's like layaway.

Speaker 4 (27:03):
No, I think she just the last one off. Yeah,
and it was a year ago.

Speaker 2 (27:07):
Oh, hadn't pay any interest?

Speaker 4 (27:09):
No, interest.

Speaker 1 (27:09):
Oh well then all right, Well what's the one she
went to just recently for the pit.

Speaker 4 (27:13):
That was post malone? Yeah? Yeah, yeah, she camped out
at Fenway all day long. She's a crazy person. Yeah.

Speaker 15 (27:19):
Last time Sabena Carpenter was on tour, I spent about
eight hundred and thirty.

Speaker 16 (27:25):
Dollars to be in one of the very last rows
a TD Garden.

Speaker 2 (27:29):
But I was still in the building, so it was okay, yep.

Speaker 4 (27:33):
Whilst once I guess, once you're there, it makes it
all worth it.

Speaker 3 (27:37):
It hurts the pay, yes, because regardless of where you're sitting,
typically it's still kind of a festive atmosphere really, you know,
and you're in the building, like she just.

Speaker 4 (27:46):
Said, Yeah, I'm looking at balcony seats for Ariana right
now on the resale market. They're about six to eight
hundred bucks.

Speaker 1 (27:52):
So that's way of nosebleedout, no balcony.

Speaker 4 (27:56):
Yeah.

Speaker 13 (27:56):
I went to go see Lady Gaga in Miami and
me and my brother Cold we're looking at the tickets
the day before and they were like fifteen hundred dollars,
and then we decided to just buy the tickets like
an hour before the concert. We ended up getting them
for eight hundred. Boyd what a steal.

Speaker 3 (28:13):
Oh you're almost crazy not to be listening to Kiss.
I want to wait all day and all night, right
because you get them free.

Speaker 2 (28:19):
Yeah, we have Ariana Grandee tickets.

Speaker 4 (28:21):
Yes, well we did it with Mila Khan. We did
the talkback for tickets was a huge hit, so we're
doing with Ariana. So you're listening for Ariana Grande. We
will have Ariana coming up this morning. By the way,
leave it talk back when you hear that song. But
speaking of Lady Gaga, let's go to Sarah and metic.

Speaker 1 (28:36):
Okay, Hey Sarah and Medford, Hello, what show you want
to talk about?

Speaker 16 (28:42):
So back in two thousand and eight, I think there
was a Lady Gaga concert at House of Blues and
we wanted to go so bad. Couldn't get tickets, couldn't
find them anywhere, so we decided to just go and
show up. And we got to the ticket window and
I said, Hi, I'm here. We won tickets on Kiss.
Want to wait, We're just ready to go in, and
they were like, oh my god, we don't have tickets

(29:02):
for you, and I like kind of threw a fake
melt down and was like, I won these tickets. I
drove all the way here and then we got in,
we got backstage. We got to see the whole showl
for free.

Speaker 1 (29:13):
What Yeah, did you wait a minute? Do you win
tickets on kiss or not?

Speaker 6 (29:19):
No?

Speaker 5 (29:19):
That was a lie.

Speaker 1 (29:21):
Oh my god. And you got into the God the
meet and Gweed and everything else.

Speaker 13 (29:26):
God, I believe it.

Speaker 8 (29:28):
But we just went with it.

Speaker 16 (29:29):
We're like, you know what we're in, let's us go
with this.

Speaker 3 (29:32):
And it worked.

Speaker 1 (29:32):
Oh my god, you're a genius. Hello, Hello, you're also
a liar.

Speaker 12 (29:38):
Hello.

Speaker 1 (29:41):
That is a cool story.

Speaker 4 (29:42):
I do what you gotta do.

Speaker 2 (29:43):
Man, Good morning.

Speaker 8 (29:44):
This is Sharon from Milford. I'm almost embarrassed to say it,
but I pay close to seven hundred dollars to see
Stevie Nicks at Gillette. But it was my dad's favorite performer,
and I felt as if it worth every penny, and
it actually was. It was an experience.

Speaker 1 (30:05):
Yeah, you went to see Stevie Nicks.

Speaker 2 (30:07):
I did at the Garden.

Speaker 4 (30:08):
Yeah. Yeah, so that's I wonder if that's the Gillette's
show that it rained because when I was going to
Noah Khan, my friend saw Stevie Nicks at Gillette and
she paid a ton of money and it rained the
entire time.

Speaker 1 (30:19):
She said it was awful night at Noah as well.

Speaker 4 (30:21):
It was raining at Noah con. Yeah, yeah, so I
wonder if that was the same show as Stevie Nicks
at Gillette.

Speaker 1 (30:27):
Ticket price is amazing. It's tuition.

Speaker 4 (30:30):
Yeah, like all these bigs. Hopefully this this will pass
with Mara Healey, she'll be on to eight ten with us,
and you know, change can happen. Otherwise you're not getting tickets.

Speaker 1 (30:39):
Bud, you're not getting tickets.

Speaker 3 (30:41):
And by the way, you and your husband send him
down here and I'll tear his

Speaker 4 (30:49):
Head all
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