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Full Episode Description: On this patreon exclusive, Torry (she/her) and Nick (he/him) discuss Taylor Swift’s engagement to Travis Kelce and The Life of a Showgirl announcement. Then they do a folklore bracket of their drafted songs from the fifth year anniversary episode.
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Episode Transcript
OK, we're here, though, to talk about not school, but Taylor
Swift. We're going to do our.
Phone. For yeah.
Yeah, yeah. Everyone's shook to the I.
Thought I was here talking aboutlike rocks.
We're like finally doing our Folklore 16 seed draft of the
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songs that we or no, we did the draft and we're doing our
bracket. Everybody Boo.
Epiphany Boo. Boo.
But it's still like kismet that that worked out that way.
But before we do that, we wantedto talk about like some huge
Taylor Swift news, the first being that she got engaged to
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Travis Kelsey. How are you feeling about that?
Yeah, actually it was so funny when it happened because it it
happened when I was not on my phone and I like peeked at my
phone and I was like, why does this group chat have like 20
messages? Like this group chat is like not
one of those group chat messagesthat like blow up like that,
(01:06):
especially in the middle of the day.
Like what the hell is it going on in there?
And then I saw a message in my fantasy football group chat
about Travis Kelce. And I was like, there, what is
the connection here? And then in the meeting I was at
in school, somebody yelled, oh, my God, Travis Kelsey and
Tellers, which is not engaged. I was like, Sir, we are in a
meeting. Like, you can't just be like,
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freely admitting that you're on your phone yelling about.
This. That is crazy.
That is. Crazy messages and that's what
they were. They were about the engagement.
And then I opened up Instagram and it was Lou the 1st post.
No, that that's like. Kind.
Of what happened to me, I was ina meeting and then when I was
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out of the meeting because I'm professional, I looked at my I
looked at my phone, I had a million text messages and then
yeah, first Instagram post and then I like walked up and down
the halls of my office being like like I was that Paul Revere
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meme with the the, the Lantern or.
Whatever. The British are coming.
I was like, Taylor Swift is engaged.
Yeah, which I only have done once before, and that was when
Meghan Markle and Prince Harry got engaged.
So it was kind of giving that. But are you like stoked for them
or like, did you see this comingor what's the?
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I feel like I, I do feel like I wasn't surprised when it
happened. Like, I wasn't like shocked.
I didn't think that it was goingto happen before the football
season. I thought it might happen like
in February or March because I the football side means like, I
think Travis Kelce is like aboutto retire.
Like, I think he's probably going for one more season, and
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then it would make sense for himto, like, you know, get engaged.
And because I think she had released that she was going to
have the album, which is the other news we'll talk about,
like, a few weeks prior. I was like, OK, so he's going to
do a football season. She's going to do an album tour
circuit, and then they're going to settle down and, like, do the
thing. So I wasn't shocked by it, but I
guess I wasn't predicting it what I wanted.
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Yeah. By.
Was the amount of people who were like, I people I didn't
even know cared. Oh my God, she's like,
congratulations to my close personal friend Taylor Swift.
I was like, damn, people like. No, that's.
Gonna be on TV. Yeah, that's, that's what it
felt like. Yeah.
It's not the royal wedding. Yeah.
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Like that's what I really felt like.
Like people that have never talked to me about Taylor Swift
before was like, like, I think Iwas at like the hairdresser or
something like that, or like, not even the hair.
I don't know. I was at some like appointment
or something and they brought itup and I was like, this is like,
this is just, yeah, crazy. How like how crazy do I need to
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be in this conversation right now?
No, no, seriously. I always have to temper my like,
I'll be like, oh cool, like likewhat do you think of that?
I'm like just trying to like gauge how psycho I can be.
Like that's about any pop. Stories like you're like, I
definitely didn't have that likeera of the the Gaylor reading
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into Yeah. Yeah, no, seriously.
No, I'm like, I like, I like, that's for any pop culture.
If anyone is ever like, oh, I can't remember like the name of
Blank's partner or whatever and like.
You know, like obviously it's soand so but.
Yeah, I'm like, oh, it's that. And they're like, oh, yeah, I, I
couldn't remember that, that I'mlike, can't, can't do this with
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you. Like, like you're out.
You're not. You're not a safe person.
Toys like Be on the cutting edgeof news or don't be on the all.
That's literally how it feels like though.
I'm sure that's very relatable with the the people who are
listening to. This Yeah, that's true.
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That is true. That is true.
Yeah. I, I, I think that's like a, a
fair response. Do you think she's playing the
Super Bowl? Like I'm, I'm just kind of
trying to picture what the next year of her life looks like.
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