This is Eric Glass on this American Life.
Sometimes we just show up somewhere, turn on our tape recorders and see what happens.
If you can't get seven cars in 12 days, you gotta look yourself in the mirror and say, holy.
What are you kidding me?
Like this car dealership trying to sell its monthly quota of cars, and it is not going well.
I just don't want one balloon to a car.
Balloon the whole freaking place so it looks like a circus.
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Hey, everybody, it's Marielle.
Kelly Richmond Pope is a huge Bruno Mars fan.
She loves the song 24 Karat Magic, among many others.
So in 2017, when she realized he was coming to her city, she got on Ticketmaster.
And the universe was smiling upon her that day because she got these amazing front row seats for pretty cheap.
And I'm thinking, oh, yeah, I got a bargain.
So my cousin and I go to the Bruno Mars concert.
We're super excited.
We get in, go through the United center door, and we get a big X over the ticket.
The ticket was fake.
And when I go back and I think, what happened?