Speaker 1: I wanted to, you know, I did mention some music
news and it's funny. I had forgotten about this something
that happened recently, a couple weeks ago. And then we
have a couple things that are a little more recent.
But in case you missed this story, this is kind
of fun. This happened closer to the beginning of the month.
But what reminded me of it is one of the
bands playing tonight with Pulsifier a Jewel, happens to be
a Lamb of God tribute band, and Lamb of God
was in the news recently for kind of a silly reason.
Speaker 2: But here's what happened. So this is from Billboard dot Com.
Speaker 1: StubHub apologizes after mistakenly listing Lamb of God as Christian concert.
Speaker 2: The metal bands frontman joked about.
Speaker 1: The mistake on his social media So if you miss this,
here's what happened. So heavy metal fans in South Carolina
were disappointed to discover that the Lamb of God concert
they expected was actually a performance about the birth of
Jesus Christ, you know, because it was Christmas time. Ticket
reseller stub Hub apologized on My one Day December twenty
second after accidentally listing the Virginia based rock band instead
of Christian musician Andrew Peterson's Behold the Lamb of God,
a concert featuring music about the stories of Christ, held
at the Spartanburg Memorial Auditorium on December twentieth. So just
to be clear, Just to be clear, So it was
not that this production was also called Lamb of God.
The name of the production. The full name of the
production was Andrew Peterson's Behold the Lamb of God, not
simply Lamb of God. But stub Hub put it on
their website as simply Lamb of God. So they were
clearly derelict in this. It says here again, this is
from Billboard dot Com. In the days leading up to
Peterson's show, the stub Hub listing featured a photo of
Lamb of God frontman Randy Blythe and listed the concert
as a top trending event at the Spartanburg Memorial Auditorium.
According to CBS affiliate WSPA in Spartanburg. Yeah, so not
only did they screw up. I don't know if this
is an AI. I think maybe they let AI do
their listings.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: But not only did they list it as simply Lamb
of God, but they actually put a picture of the
lead singer.
Speaker 2: Of Lamb of God.
Speaker 1: So, you know, anyone who bought tickets to this, you
know it's not it's certainly not on them. It's not
you know, sometimes consumers don't pay attention to what they're buying, certainly.
Speaker 2: But that's not the case here. This was. This could
not have.
Speaker 1: Been more misleading, I say misleading. I don't think it
was intentional. I don't think stub hub was trying to
intentionally builk anyone out of their ticket money by selling
them a show that was not what they not as advertised.
I don't think that was what was going on here,
because I mean, even if that was something nefarious that
someone was doing, it would have you know, they would
have to have they would have to have known it
was going to blow up in their faces pretty quick.
So just very very sloppy, it says here. After realizing
the error, stub Hub apologized for the confusion and offered
refunds for anyone who purchased tickets to the show. A
stub Hub spokesperson said, quote, we acknowledge the listing for
the December twentieth event at Spartanburg Memorial Auditorium was misleading
and apologized for the confusion this caused. Ahead of the show,
we updated the event page and reached out to customers
to clarify the event details. Anyone who purchased tickets under
the impression this was a different performance is encouraged to
contact us. We'll honor a refund under our Fan protect guarantee. Unquote.
That was their their statement. It is interesting to me,
there's no Maybe I'm nitpicking, but I always wonder about
this kind of thing. It's always interesting how things are worded.
I'm always curious about this because you know, I'm sure
that whatever statement stub Hub has to put out publicly
in a situation like this, it probably has to go
through the legal team. The legal team or whoever represents
stub Hub legally probably has to approve it, sign off
on it. There's no apology in here, and again, maybe
I'm nitpicking, but there is no apology. You know, there's
not even a simple we regret the error or we
apologize for any confusion. There's nothing. There's an acknowledgement, but
that's not the same thing as an apology. You know,
someone can acknowledge they've done something wrong. You know, Oh,
I realized that wasn't the right thing to do. And
then the words that you might expect to follow that
are I'm sorry. I realized that wasn't the right thing
to do. I'm sorry. That's how normal people talk. But
this is written in a way that there's no I'm sorry,
there's no apology. It's just we acknowledge, we acknowledge the
listing was misleading. They don't even say it was incorrect,
because it was it was advertising a completely different show.
It says was misleading. Oh, you know what, I'm sorry.
It does say apologize and apologize for the confusion this caused. Okay,
but notice they don't say we apologize for our mistake.
They say we apologize for the confusion this caused. And again,
maybe I'm nitpicking, but you know, I'm sure a lawyer
had to approve that and probably said, don't say we're
sorry or our mistake, just say we're we're sorry for
any confusion.
Speaker 2: Kind of like, you know what that reminds me of.
Speaker 1: It's like when somebody says, like, like say somebody does
something bad to you, say somebody says something rude to you, right,
And then they apologize, but instead of saying I'm sorry
about what I said or I apologize I was rude
to you, they say i'm sorry if you were bothered
by what I said, or I'm sorry if I offended you. Right.
It's sort of a way of it's sort of like
a sorry, not sorry. It's a way of saying i'm
sorry if because because it's it's you know, it's a
way of putting the blame on you, right. And I
don't know if when people do that, if they even
necessarily realize consciously in the moment that they're doing that.
It might be a subconscious thing. But when someone does
that when they say i'm sorry if or i'm sorry
you were offended by my words, what they're really doing. Again,
they might not even mean to do it. It might
be a subconscious thing, but what they're really doing is
they're putting the blame on you. It's your fault that
you were offended, right, I'm sorry you took that the
wrong way. You know. It's sort of a way of apologizing,
but not really. And I feel like a statement like
this is, well, we're sorry if.
Speaker 2: There was any confusion.
Speaker 1: No, you should be sorry that you listed the wrong show,
You listed completely the wrong show.
Speaker 2: You should say, we're sorry, we made a mistake. No
harm in that.
Speaker 1: But again, a lawyer might look at that and say,
don't acknowledge. It's like when you get into a car accident,
you're never no matter how much it might be your fault.
What does what would the insurance company always say, don't acknowledge? Well,
I don't know if the insurance company says it, but
not literally. I don't think insurance companies actually say that.
They probably can't say it legally directly. But what does
everyone always say? Never admit fault, Never admit fault, Let
the insurance company handle it. You never say I'm sorry.
You know, I'm sorry I ran that red light and
t boned you and wrecked your car and your passenger
is on their way to the emergency room.
Speaker 2: You know you don't say that, right right? They never
say that.
Speaker 1: You never admit fault, not and I'm sorry, nothing, You
just you know, oops, But you let the insurance company
handle it because you don't want to be uh, you
don't want to put yourself in a bad position. I
feel like this is kind of that. I also think
it's interesting that in the statement it says anyone who
purchased tickets under the impression this was a different performance
is encouraged to contact us.
Speaker 2: That is weak.
Speaker 1: No, you should not encourage them to contact you. You
should be sending an email to every single person who
purchased a ticket to this event and say if if
you purchase these tickets in error, we would like to
refund you. You should be you know it's your fault,
stub Hub. You should the honest should be on you
contact each each individual who made a purchase and say
we'd like to offer you a refund if this was
the wrong event. You should take the initiative. In my opinion,
so let's see. Oh. It also says here in the
article Lamb of God's Blithe Again. The lead singer from
Randy Blythe from Lamb of God took notice of the
mistake and joked about it on his Instagram story, reposting
news reports about the mix up.
Speaker 2: Oopsie the Rocker wrote over.
Speaker 1: One story while commenting Merry Christmas, Spartanburg on another and
I was reading something too about I guess. He said
in another interview that this is not the first time
and probably won't be the last time something like this
has happened. But there you go. But for anyone who
purchased take Us to that show, I hope you took
advantage of getting a refund from StubHub, who you know
so graciously offered you a refund if there was any confusion,