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The remains of U.S. Navy SEAL candidate Kyle Mullen returned late Tuesday to the young man’s hometown in New Jersey, where he was welcomed home by the community, officials, fire departments, military personnel and a procession led by police, loved ones said. 

Mullen, 24, was flown from California to Newark Liberty International Airport, where he landed just after 10:45 p.m. local time. There, he was greeted with applause from passengers on the flight that carried his casket and, later, with streets lined with supporters who held flags during the procession to the Freeman Funeral Home in Manalapan Township, New Jersey. 

A Facebook page created in honor of the fallen seaman, "Remembering Kyle Mullen," detailed the respects paid in a series of posts late Tuesday.

Navy SEAL candidate Kyle Mullen is seen in these photos provided by his family. (Fox News Digital)

"I was visiting my sister in San Diego and on my return I was on this flight," a person commented in one of the posts. "Let it be known there was an applause on board and respect was shown to this fallen soldier."

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One Facebook post said that while the family had not made any formal plans for Mullen’s arrival in New Jersey, members of the community had begun planning the honors themselves. 

"To everyone who came out to welcome Kyle home - Governor Murphy, police departments, fire departments, naval officers, armed services, family, friends, neighbors, even passengers of United flight 2186, and many others - thank you from the bottom of our hearts," a post on the Facebook page stated. "It was a beautiful and honorable homecoming."

Mullen died after experiencing an unknown illness at the Naval Special Warfare Training Center in Coronado, California, on Feb. 4. Officials said he had successfully completed "Hell Week," a notoriously grueling part of the Basic Underwater Demolition/SEAL training (BUD/S) training, but began experiencing unspecified symptoms hours later. 

He and another SEAL candidate who was experiencing the symptoms were taken to nearby hospitals. Mullen could not be saved, the Navy said. The other ill SEAL candidate was reported to have been in stable condition.

Earlier this month, Mullen's family released a statement in which they wrote that while devastated about his untimely loss, "we could not be more proud."

"Kyle dreamed of serving others and enlisted in the Navy with the hopes of joining the best of the best – the Navy SEALs. He would not settle for anything less," the statement continues. "Kyle was exactly where he wanted to be in life when he was with his fellow seamen/warriors/classmates at Coronado. He took on every challenge, and failure was not an option as he strived toward reaching his goal of passing Hell Week and receiving his brown shirt."

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U.S. Navy spokesperson Lt. Cmdr. Kara L. Handley told Fox News Digital on Wednesday that Mullen's cause of death remained unknown and under investigation. Handley previously said the surviving SEAL candidate had since been released from the hospital. 

The Navy has not since released any updates since Mullen’s identity was released on Feb. 6, 2022. 

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Mullen grew up in New Jersey and graduated from Manalapan High School, where he played football. He subsequently attended Monmouth University and then Yale University, where he continued the sport and was designated team captain. He left behind a brother in addition to his mother and other loved ones. 

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New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy said the seaman "represented the very best of our state."

Visitation services have been scheduled for 3 to 7 p.m. Thursday at Freeman Funeral Home, on Route 9 North in Manalapan. A full military Mass has been scheduled for 10 a.m. Friday at St. Thomas Moore Church on Gordon’s Corner Road in Manalapan.  

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Senate unanimously passes bill that would seal eviction filings in some instances - WBAA

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The Indiana Senate passed a bill Tuesday that would seal eviction filings in some instances.

The instances outlined in HB 1214 include when there is no action on an eviction case after 180 days from the initial filing, when an eviction filing is resolved outside of court, or when a judgment is entered in favor of a tenant.

Tenant advocates have long argued that eviction filings can serve as a permanent “scarlet E” that harms a renter's chances of getting housing in the future — even if an eviction filing against them is ultimately thrown out.

Sen. Eric Koch (R-Columbus) sponsored the bill in the Senate. He said the bill will give tenants avenues for sealing eviction filings but also allows landlords to start an application for emergency rental assistance.

“My understanding is that there is 168-million dollars in that fund that are unused because tenants are unable or unwilling to do the necessary paperwork,” he said.

Tenant advocates have raised concerns that renters are often not aware of eviction-diversion resources available to them. The state only last year began requiring judges to inform tenants of eviction diversion resources including rental assistance.

Sen. Timothy Lanane (D-Muncie) said he would have liked to see the bill automatically expunge tenant eviction filings.

“Why shouldn’t the expungement be automatic if the matter is resolved in the favor of the tenant?” he asked. “But otherwise I want to urge everyone to vote for this. This is the first time that I think we’ve really addressed this issue of eviction stigma and how it can hurt people years down the road.”

Andrew Bradley is the policy director with Prosperity Indiana.

“I think House Bill 1214 is a great first step to tackle part of the ‘scarlet E,’” he said. “But what it doesn’t do is tackle the underlying cause of why Indiana has the highest eviction rate in the Midwest.”

Bradley pointed to numbers from Eviction Lab showing that Indiana has seen roughly 85,000 eviction filings since the start of the pandemic.

“House Bill 1214 won’t stop those eviction filings from happening but it will seal a portion of them so when the tenant is found to not be at fault they are able to get back into housing,” Bradley said. “It’s not like this problem is behind us. We may yet not have seen the peak of Indiana’s pandemic-related housing crisis because it tends to be a lagging indicator.”

The amended bill will need approval from the House before heading to Gov. Eric Holcomb’s desk.

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A Cognitive Scientist Reveals Why We Choke Under Pressure and How to Avoid It - Entrepreneur

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Choking under pressure. Most of us are familiar with this unfortunate phenomenon. The moment you've spent so much time preparing for — whether it's scoring that winning goal or nailing a client pitch — comes, but instead of giving the performance you know you're capable of, stress and anxiety get the best of you. You can't handle the pressure; you "choke."

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Why does your performance fall apart, even after you've practiced to the point of perfection? Cognitive scientist and president of Barnard College Sian Beilock had the same question, so she did the research — or "me-search," she quips — to figure it out. "I really wanted to know why sometimes I didn't perform as well as I thought I should when the pressure was on," Beilock says. "I was a big athlete growing up, so it was certainly on the athletic field, but also just in testing, I always did much better on my practice SATs than I did during the real thing. And I wanted to understand what happened — what changed when I was so motivated to perform well and, ironically, I just didn't put my best foot forward.” 

During her 12-year tenure as a professor of psychology at the University of Chicago, Beilock focused on how children and adults perform at their best, particularly under stress, with an emphasis on the success of women and girls in math and science. She’s also the author of Choke: What the Secrets of the Brain Reveal About Getting It Right When You Have To (2010) and How the Body Knows Its Mind: The Surprising Power of the Physical Environment to Influence How You Think and Feel (2015). 

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Why do we choke under pressure? 

It's not a coincidence that you don't give your optimal performance when it matters most. According to Beilock, your desire to do well in a high-pressure situation can actually negatively affect the outcome. "Something people don't often think about is that we often get in our own way,” Beilock says. “So when we're doing something that we're pretty skilled at, whether it's giving a talk we've practiced or anything on the athletic field, or doing something we've done a lot of times before, we often start monitoring what we're doing, and we actually disrupt ourselves.

So it's kind of like when you raise your hand to say something, and then all of a sudden people are watching you, and you're thinking about every word coming out of your mouth, and then you stutter,” she continues. “You're pretty good at talking normally, but now all of a sudden, when you're monitoring yourself and focusing so much on what you're doing, it can actually be disruptive.”

Related: 7 Ways to Master Poise Under Pressure

Is everyone at equal risk? 

According to Beilock, choking under pressure is an "equal opportunity" event. In some cases, the highest-performing people are actually more susceptible to poor performance in high-stakes situations. “The highest-performing people have the most to lose by not performing at their best," she says. "And oftentimes, the highest performers are the ones who are really putting a lot of pressure on themselves, and they're sort of expecting perfection and monitoring themselves if they don’t have it, and it can lead to worse performance."

Of course, it’s also worth noting that individuals are subject to different situations and sets of expectations, which can contribute to performance anxiety. “What people tell us, whether it's parents, teachers, bosses or colleagues actually matters,” Beilock says. “So if there’s an expectation that you shouldn't be so good at what you're doing or either you have it or you don't, that can actually affect not just how you perform, but how you even practice. If someone has a preconceived notion that you're never going to be this great at something — like a teacher, boss or parent — it affects that individual's willingness to want to even try.”

Additionally, Beilock says these powerful notions are particularly interesting in a gender context, as they can impact representation in certain fields. She cites research that shows that when people chalk success in a given field up to “brilliance,” those fields tend to be male-dominated. “It comes down to expectations,” she says. “Maybe there's this expectation that women are less likely to just have it right, less likely to have this brilliance, and when people don't expect you to be brilliant, you often don't want to be. And you often probably don't try as hard once you are there.” Beilock also explores this idea in her TED Talk.

Related: How to Make Pressure Work for You

How to give your best performance when you're anxious

The pressure we put on ourselves can make it feel like the odds are stacked against us. Luckily, certain strategies can help promote success. 

Part of the solution to performance anxiety lies with the body's response to high-stakes situations, Beilock says. Your sweaty palms or spiked heart rate can feel like a negative response to a stressful situation — but that's not always the case. According to Beilock, the physiological reaction you interpret as anxiety in a negative context is actually identical to the one you experience when you’re excited about something positive. 

The key, then, is to use that fact to your advantage. “It's how you interpret it,” Beilock says. “If you interpret it as a sign you're going to fail, there’s a good chance you will. But instead, if you interpret it as a sign that you're ready to go, that you're excited, you can actually perform better.” 

Beilock’s done research on the subject, telling student participants sitting for important exams that their sweating palms and fast-beating hearts are actually signs that they’re ready to go, that blood’s being sent to their brains so they can think. “When we have them reframe this sort of physiological response in a positive way, rather than an 'Oh shit, I'm going to fail' way, the students actually do better on the test,” Beilock says. “Something so simple can have a big effect, which is exciting because it gives us some sense of control.”

Beilock also says it’s crucial to practice under the right conditions — the same ones under which you’ll perform. “The idea is to practice in a way that helps you get ready for the stressful situation,” Beilock says. “Oftentimes, if you're pitching to a client or giving a talk or even a toast at a wedding, you look over your material, but you don't have to get up and practice delivering it. We know that if you can mimic what you're going to experience, you do so much better. So, pitch to a group of friends, or if no one will watch you, do it in the mirror — anything that gets you used to all eyes on you can be really helpful.” 

Related: How to Avoid Burnout in a High-Stress Environment

Additionally, as the big day approaches, it can be helpful to put your thoughts onto paper. “I would say that there's a real power in sort of downloading your worries, getting them down on paper," Beilock says. "We know that journaling can be really helpful for reducing stress and reducing some of what's popping around in your head in the long-term.” Beilock also recommends practices that help you focus on the moment itself rather than the consequences — mindfulness exercises can be a good place to start. Then, when the time comes to perform, you'll be less likely to overly monitor yourself and mess up under the pressure. 

A final strategy comes into play right before the event itself. For some people, it might be the most difficult one of all. “Right before the event is not the time to focus on it or cram,” Beilock says. “There’s actually a benefit from just stepping back right before you do the thing you're going to do.”

The good news is that no matter who you are or what you’re doing — or which social pressures might be influencing your outcome — understanding why you falter under pressure and taking steps to prevent it will set you up for success when you need it the most. “Just like anyone can choke, anyone can thrive,” Beilock says.

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Boater falls into icy nighttime ocean waters, swims to safety with help of harbor seal in the water - The Denver Channel

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Boater Scott Thompson is crediting a medium-sized harbor seal with helping him keep his focus and swim some five hours to safety after accidentally falling off of his boat into the icy Pacific waters of the Santa Barbara channel, off the coast of Southern California.

An emotional Thompson told KABC, "I thought to myself, 'Great, this is how I'm going to die.'" He said he thought, "'Today is the day I'm going to die.'"

He was only wearing shorts and a t-shirt when he fell into the water. As he watched his boat motor away from him in the ocean he said he began to panic. Thompson, an experienced diver and swimmer, found himself in dangerously cold nighttime waters.

"That's when I realized, like, OK, we got problems," he told KABC.

He was miles away from shore, so he began to swim towards an oil rig, lit up on the nighttime horizon. He said he heard a splash in the water and felt a harbor seal continuously press into him.

"The seal would go underwater and he came up and nudged me, like a dog comes up and nudges your leg," Thompson said.

And that interaction managed to focus his mind and give him hope.

"Just keep swimming, you gotta get home to your family." Thompson said he began to think. "I was devastating myself, through my mind, just picturing my girls and my son growing up without me, and my wife, you know, not having a husband to support her...I wasn't thinking about sharks or anything like that until I hear this splash."

He wondered what might have prompted the seal to interact with him like that.

"Did it know, like hey, this human is in trouble, hey keep going dude?" he said.

He said he swam for five hours, freezing cold and exhausted, and managed to reach an oil rig platform.

"It started getting brighter and I'm crying. And I'm like shouting at the sky." he said.

Crew members on the oil platform were able to help him, and the Coast Guard took him to the hospital where he was treated for symptoms of hypothermia.

Paul Amaral, a Channel Watch Marine told KABC, "Even putting on a wet suit, being prepared, getting in that water, and swimming to the platform was horrendous." He said, "I can't imagine being in the water with shorts and a T-shirt at night. There was no moon, I mean it was pitch black."

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Each winter, tens of thousands of harp seals gather on the pack ice around Quebec’s Magdalen Islands, an archipelago in the Gulf of Saint Lawrence. What makes this natural migration even more extraordinary is that it’s accessible to travellers. With just a short helicopter flight, visitors can be on the floes up close to the animals. It’s an experience unique to this part of Canada.

The excursion draws visitors from around the world, including Jennifer Hayes, a contributor with National Geographic magazine, who has been visiting the islands since 2011 to document the seals.

Each visit is memorable, she says, but three years ago, she witnessed a rare sight.

“I noticed a female making large rapid circles on the ice in the distance and I slowly made my way toward her,” she recalls. “The seal made a few complete circles and during that movement she birthed a pup.”

Seeing the reaction of visitors meeting a harp seal pup for the first time is extraordinary, she says. “I have seen tears of gratitude, screams of delight, stunned silence and reverence, but mostly, I see joy.”

The pups are tolerant of people which make them co-operative subjects for photographs. “Harp seal pups have cloud-soft fur and large obsidian eyes large enough to reflect your own image like a mirror,” says Hayes.

Be patient when you spot a pup, she advises. Lay a distance away to watch, wait and listen. The seals won’t flee unless you approach them too quickly, so there’s time to get great photos.

“Harp seals are one of the most endearing mammals on the planet and they look like plush toys,” says Hayes, “but it is the sound that of their cries carried across the ice by the wind that will catch you off guard.”

Château Madelinot in Fatima, Que., offers travellers a special, all-inclusive winter package, including the trip by helicopter to the seal herds, use of a Mustang flotation suit and a guide, plus meals, accommodations and additional excursions. The journey to see the seals has been offered by the hotel for 45 years.

Aside from guests wishing to see the extreme cuteness of the fluffy, white-furred babies, they increasingly have an interest in learning about climate change.

Over the last five years, the ice in the area has become less stable, forcing the seals to move to new locations that make them more vulnerable to predators. The Magdalen Islands are also facing a crisis with the rate of shoreline erosion doubling since 2005.

“People want to see the impact of climate change for themselves,” says Ariane Bérubé, property sales, marketing and communications director of Chateau Madelinot. “Here in the middle of the gulf, it’s the best place to learn more about it.”

“ They are a symbol of a healthy eco-system. Right now, the numbers are the highest we’ve seen in about 100 years.”

-Mike Hammill, biologist, Department of Fisheries and Oceans

Like adult harp seals, the plush-like pups are known for their vocalizations, including a call known as bawling, to attract their mothers when they are hungry. The rise in ocean temperatures impacts the ice formation, severely threatening future populations.
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Visitors can listen to lectures from experts at the hotel or venture further to the Seal Interpretative Centre in Grande-Entrée to learn more about the seals, their habitat and historical, scientific and ecological significance, but the high point is always being able to spend time on the ice with the seals.

“I’ve seen many guests cry when they see the pups,” Bérubé says “or they are totally speechless [because] they are so moved. The pups are very cute, very playful and curious.”

Seeing how climate change impacts wildlife, like the 7.6 million harp seals inhabiting the waters from Eastern Canada to Greenland, the world’s largest population, can help visitors better grasp the devastating impacts of the crisis.

“[Harp seals] are a symbol of a healthy eco-system,” says Mike Hammill, a biologist with the Department of Fisheries and Oceans, who has been researching harp seals since 1989. “Right now, the numbers are the highest we’ve seen in about 100 years, but we’ve found the females also are a bit smaller and thinner than they have been, which shows there’s competition for food.”

An aerial view of the ice floes dotted with harp seals and pups. Over the last five years, the ice in the area has become less stable, forcing the seals to move to new locations that make them more vulnerable to predators.SUPPLIED

He frequently travels to the Magdalen Islands to study the animals, weigh them, track their movements and take milk samples from the mothers who come to give birth, starting at the end of February. The area is ideal because the islands offer stable ice where the babies can develop their strength before they’re ready to head into the water to feed.

“The sheer numbers are pretty amazing,” he says. “There are times when I’ve been surrounded by more than 50,000 harp seals.”

Travel writer Brandon Withrow from Perrysburg, Ohio, visited the harp seals in 2020, also to see the effects of climate change of their population. “Once we landed on the ice floe, it took very little time before we were face to face with the harp seal mothers and pups,” he says. “I wanted to just soak in the surrealness of it. I had to keep reminding myself to take photos.”

He made a new friend that day. “A small pup that had hidden behind some ice, poked its head out and waddled closer my way,” he recalls. While others in his group were congregated elsewhere, he and the pup had time to study each other. “I’m sure it was probably wondering what this ape in an orange [flotation] suit was doing on his ice.”

Withrow feels lucky to have had the experience. “We can all see many of these animals in captivity somewhere, but when it is in the wild, it is unforgettable.”

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The other night, I was with a few friends, and the March 22 State Theatre Psychedelic Furs show came up. I had purchased a pair of tickets weeks ago, and a friend decided right then and there to also buy a pair.

She whipped out her phone and, seconds later, said something about the price, which was at least $10 higher than the $35 I had paid. I stopped her and referred her to the State Theatre website, which in turn brought her to the actual seller of tickets for this show: Ticketmaster.

My friend’s near-miss at paying more, albeit not that much more, than she should have from a third-party seller was a sobering reminder that this practice is so rampant, it’s been all but normalized – and one I’m passionate about keeping my fellow music fans from falling victim to.

Third-party sellers have been at it for decades and sadly, what they’re doing is legal. But the only person that benefits is the seller; not the artist, venue or anyone else involved with the actual show. Before I give you my tips about how to avoid overpaying for concert tickets, here’s an even more egregious example.

Tori Amos is playing a show at Merrill Auditorium on May 15, her first in Portland in nearly two decades. Amos fan Neil Skillin of Madison said that, the day tickets went on sale, his friend, Lisa, Googled “Merrill Auditorium Tori Amos,” and the first few options all looked like Merrill links and even included Merrill Auditorium in the domain address. However, prices were showing between $190 and $390.

“We were devastated and thought Tori was gouging the audience,” he said. But then Skillin remembered the pre-sale password that he had received by signing up for the PortTix mailing list.

PortTix handles ticket sales for most Merrill Auditorium shows, including this one. Skillin used the link he had received in the PortTix email (as had I) and saw that the actual ticket prices were $59.50 to $109.

“If I hadn’t asked Lisa about which website she was looking at when she went to purchase, we wouldn’t be going to see Tori in May,” said Skillin. He added that the scalpers are getting really crafty and are utilizing sponsored links in Google search. “Their creative use of page titles when they create the links make them look quite legit. ”

As I write this, there are tickets for this show for sale on two third-party sites for massively higher prices than face value – in one instance, a $678-per-ticket price tag on a pair of second row seats and many others in the three and four hundred dollar range. This is not OK.

Music fan Johnna Major, formerly of Scarborough and now in New York City, said she too nearly got sucked into the vortex of a third-party site.

“When you Google a venue, third-party sellers often come up at the top and their site design makes it look like you’re on the venue site,” she said. Major came close to paying double for tickets recently to a Broadway show.

In 2016, the Better Online Ticket Sales (BOTS) Act was signed into law by President Obama. Its purpose is to combat the use of ticket bots from scooping up large swaths of tickets. In other words, it made it illegal for people and organizations to use computer programs to buy tickets.

This is all well and good, but has it actually helped? I don’t think so. Giant third-party ticket sellers have the ability to employ countless amounts of staff, and if you have dozens or even hundreds of people all buying tickets for you, then hundreds and even thousands of tickets will end up in the hands of third-party sellers who, in turn, charge the general public way more than face value. One thing the law did require is that third-party seller websites are clearly marked as such. But, frankly, that’s cold comfort.

I reached out to Lauren Wayne, promoter for the State Theatre and Thompson’s Point in Portland, and Bill O’Malley, marketing director at Cross Insurance Arena in Portland, about this issue. Both stressed the importance of starting the ticket-buying process from the venue website. This ensures that you can clearly see what the actual face value is and that you’ll be sent, when you click on “buy tickets,” to the actual ticket platform for those venues.

“Do not click on anything else if you are purchasing tickets to any of our shows,” warned Wayne.

She and O’Malley also said that if tickets are purchased from third-party sites and a show is postponed or canceled, your chances of getting a refund are slim. Not only that, Wayne said that some resellers sell duplicate, or essentially counterfeit, tickets, and those will not be honored at the venue.

“Basically, if a ticketing situation feels strange or ‘off,’ trust your instinct because it probably is,” added Wayne.

So what can you do to better your odds at getting tickets at face value? Here’s a list of pro tips from someone who has been buying tickets for a very long time. So long, in fact, that I once slept outside on a sidewalk in Lowell, Massachusetts, to get tickets to see David Bowie. It was worth it, and sometimes I miss those pre-internet days.

1. Always start your ticket buying process from the presenting venue’s website. This ensures you know for certain the price of the tickets and what ticket selling platform is being used.

2. Since many (but not all) venues are partnered with Ticketmaster, be sure you already have an account established with them. This makes the checkout process go smoother and quicker.

3. Be ready a few minutes before tickets go on sale, and I strongly suggest that, if possible, you do this with an actual computer or laptop rather than a phone. You can see things better, can open multiple tabs to be clear on seating charts, and it’s less likely you’ll make an error.

4. Get yourself on the mailing list of every venue you regularly go to. Often they send out emails letting you know about an upcoming show and when tickets go on sale and sometimes, like in the case with Tori Amos and PortTix, they’ll hare a pre-sale code so you have the option of buying tickets before they go on sale to the general public.

5. Get on the mailing list of every band you love. You can usually sign up right on their websites.

6. If you really love the band, join their fan club if they have one. I belong to Brandi Carlile’s. It costs me $40 a year (which goes to her charity organization) and enables me to get in on pre-sales to all her shows.

7. Follow every venue and every act you like on social media platforms. It’s another good way to stay in the know about upcoming shows.

8. Do not wait to buy tickets “later.” Buy them as soon as they go on sale. The longer you wait, the more likely it is the show will sell out. If you can’t end up making a show you can sell them (at face value, of course) to a friend and with Ticketmaster, it’s just a few clicks to transfer tickets.

9. Don’t give up if there’s a lot of “traffic” when tickets first go on sale. Keep trying. And if you get shut out of a pre-sale, try again when the show goes on sale to the general public.

10. If a show is completely sold out and you’re truly desperate to go, consider waiting as long as you possibly can before giving a third-party seller your business. They don’t want to eat tickets, and prices sometimes come down the closer it gets to a show.

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