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Dave Wakeman's The Business of Fun Podcast

Dec 8, 2025

My guest to today is Matt Wolff, from Ticket Time Machine. 

We had a good time catching up about the fan experience, "immeasurable data", #PaysToWait and more. 

Visit Matt at www.TicketTimeMachine.com

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Dec 1, 2025

My guest today is Eric Fuller. 

Friend of the podcast, newsletter, and Dave. Eric makes his sixth appearance on the show. 

We talk about a range of topics:

  • The economic environment and uncertainty in the ticket market.
  • We talk about the signs of economic uncertainty like crypto. 
  • Eric brings up an idea of "organic"...


Nov 21, 2025

My guest today is Jessica Poole. 

She's a long time friend of the podcast, the newsletter, and me! So I wanted to have her on to talk about the work she is doing with the Jessica Poole Communications Collective. 

https://thepoolecollective.com

We got into it:

  • We talked about the state of NIL
  • Jessica tells me that NIL...


Nov 10, 2025

Richard Howle returns! 

Richard has started a new business called RH Insights. 

He has trained an AI to think and speak about tickets just like him. 

Amazing! 

We had a great conversation about all kinds of things. 

A few highlights:

  • Richard tells me about a 15,000 word stream of consciousness chat he had with his...


Nov 3, 2025

My guest today is Randy Nichols! 

I've been working to get Randy on for a few weeks now. Our schedules finally lined up. 

We had a great conversation! 

Some of the things we hit on:

  • Sports v. Concerts
  • Why he fights the secondary market, or, at least seems to. 
  • Financialization of tickets. 
  • Tools. 
  • And, more.

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