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the eras tour finale...what happened? · gasp! the pod

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Are we the boy who cried wolf? Maybe.
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Wow. Hey guys and welcome back to
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GASP, the pod, the podcast for the gays, the girls, and
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especially the gay girls were Pop Culture Pod.
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However, the last few weeks have been taken over primarily by
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Taylor Swift. And as you all know, and I'm
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sure most of you all are, I'm a gaylar and we're gaylors, so.
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And that is pretty much just like the epitome of gay pop
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culture. So eventually we'll get on to
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other topics or whatever, but this is the topic of all the
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news right now. The Ears Tour finale was last
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night. Anyone catch that?
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And I just want to say, James, like hello, what happened?
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Like what was that? We're going to go through a lot
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tonight or today rather to kind of discuss everything that was
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those final three days of The Heirs to her.
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I'm literally recording this, like this is the day after The
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Heirs to Her finale. And we're going to talk about
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the surprise songs, my theory, my theories, and honestly, who
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even fucking knows what's happening anymore.
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Like I'm genuinely so scared. Like she scares me as I think I
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need to go fix my hair. That's better.
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It might not even look better, but it feels better.
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I'm feel like I'm still grappling with the air is to
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her. And I don't even necessarily
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like have conformed thoughts, but we're going to go through it
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together because First off, I just want to say that if you
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feel like confused and let's say it disappointed, I think that's
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very fair. And OK.
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All right, I know Taylor Swift works so hard, but this is the
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benefit of a podcast where like no headlers are listening to
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this right now. Or I mean, if they are like,
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that's so embarrassing to be like obsessed with hating this
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much that you're watching like hours of my podcast content.
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But it's OK to feel how you're feeling right now.
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Let's remind ourselves Taylor Swift is a billionaire because
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of us, OK? We're not hurting her by being
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like that was anti climatic. We're allowed to feel that way,
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especially because she set up this pattern of events and it
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feels very clear and intentional that she is ending it this way.
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So I've been seeing on TikTok today, there's a lot of people
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that are like, you're not a real fan if you're demanding more
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from her. And first of all, I don't think
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any of us are like demanding more, right?
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I honestly took that lyric and I can do it with a broken heart as
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like a Hitler lyric, but that's just me.
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I don't even think any of us like just the comments that are
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being sent towards people that were like, oh, what was that?
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James are so rude and in the name of like protecting and
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yeah, like protecting and like being like morally superior
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people are being like, how dare you say that it is not offensive
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to have opinions and feel like it didn't live up to random
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other concerts like last night. Truly could have been any other
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night. And I personally also like I
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would have loved a release. I thought there was going to be
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an announcement of something, but I also wouldn't have been
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like disappointed or I wouldn't I wouldn't have felt like, oh,
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if everything stayed the same last night.
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But she had more like sentimental speeches.
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It was a routine night. And it's not like we're
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demanding her to, like, cry and sob for us.
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OK. But like Gracie Abrams,
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obviously, it seemed more emotional to her.
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And I don't even necessarily need Taylor Swift to be
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emotional. Like, I understand Like, it's
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probably a crazy experience to end.
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You're going through a lot of feelings and maybe like you are,
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she's just trying to like put on a brave face.
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But my my largest issue, I don't even want to say like issue, but
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like reason why I was disappointed was like the lack
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of speeches, the lack of additions to her speeches.
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Her speeches through every single era were like copy and
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paste the same besides saying like maybe 1 little line of like
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for the last time this. And at the end it seemed like
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she was like pissed. Like genuinely it's not even
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like she seemed like sad or like or she was trying to like hold
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it in or like tired or anything like that.
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Some people were saying like OK let her live she's exhausted.
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It just felt like she wasn't present.
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Like I feel like she was disassociating.
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And I know we don't know her, whatever, but we're allowed to
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feel vibes and those are the vibes that we got.
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And I'll explain my few theories for why maybe she's doing this.
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Maybe it was intentional, maybe it was not intentional.
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Maybe she had control over it. Maybe she didn't have control
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over it. But one thing is true.
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OK, This concert has been going on.
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She is intentionally wearing specific outfits to flag
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specific things. She's been doing this from the
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beginning of the tour and she says it out loud.
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That's what she's doing, right? She said, thank you for paying
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attention to this dress. Thank you for like, I flag
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through dress like this is my these are Easter eggs.
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Like we know this, OK. And then the last three nights
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of the tour, she doesn't change up the outfits.
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That I truly believe is intentional.
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And there's so many people that are saying, aren't you happy
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you're going to get another film?
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My question is, why are we doing another film?
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Like, yes, I'm happy we're getting another film, but at the
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expense of her own enjoyment and our enjoyment at the last three
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days of the tour. Why couldn't she film in
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Toronto? I just don't get it.
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And I truly believe that that's intentional and that if she had
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control, she wouldn't have made that choice unless there's a
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larger reason behind it. It was the last night of the
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most popular tour in all of history, and she didn't wear
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different outfits. She barely added to the
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speeches, and I think there's a huge reason for that.
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Let's figure out together what that means, and we'll go through
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each surprise song and different theories.
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There is a possibility that her team didn't let her have full
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creative control over last night's performance or the last
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three nights of performances, right?
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She did wear the shirt that said this is not Taylor's version.
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So I mean what does that mean, right?
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This means that this is not like her version of what she would
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want from the heirs to her. When she said an album wasn't
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Taylor's version, that meant that it wasn't truly
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authentically hers. And then when she re released an
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album, it was like for example, like Speak Now TV, Speak Now
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Taylor's version, right? Is there a possibility that this
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part of the tour was not even Taylor's version or this entire
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or wasn't even hers? Like maybe she didn't have full
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creative control? She's quite literally telling us
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this is not Taylor's version, these are the same outfits,
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whatever. So is she somehow, like,
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rebelling against this? Is she?
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Was she kind of in like an annoyed, defeated mood last
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night because she didn't end in the way she wanted to?
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Possibly her team was like, we can make another fucking billion
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dollars with another movie and it could be virtual reality or
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whatever. And we have to do this because
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we have control of your brand. And maybe that's why she didn't
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end on a high note. Like, did she pick those outfits
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in order to make a point to them?
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Or did they pick those outfits because they thought those were
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the most, you know, like on brand Taylor?
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What I was seeing last night, though, is that these last three
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nights are showing us this era's tour.
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This is not like this is brand Taylor Swift.
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I mentioned this in the in the episode before this This era's
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tour is an era in of itself. And this era is Miss Americana,
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Travis Kelce. Love like loving capitalism.
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Perfect marketable Taylor Swift. Again, I I don't think we're
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going to know exactly why, but I do think that the the fact that
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she looked so defeated and was wearing the same clothes over
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and over again, either she was pissed that she was forced to do
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that by her team because remember, her management is
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beyond her record label. OK, Her management also includes
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the people that own the company Taylor Swift.
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Taylor Swift TM is a brand and it is a company and of itself.
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If you watch Miss Americana, you can see all the people that are
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around this table that make these decisions.
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She doesn't have full creative control.
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And will she? We don't know is this part of a
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deal or a contract she had to sign.
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We don't know who's a part of that.
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Perhaps her dad. There's this other, there's this
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other like older white men that are around this circle making
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these like informing her decisions just even over
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politics. So before you guys say oh, she
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had full, she has full creative control.
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Did you watch that documentary at all?
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That was literally after she left Scott Porchetta and Big
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Machine. So let's remember like who's
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also making these decisions. So right, there's like 3
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different choices here. One, she did this on purpose and
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we'll go down that rabbit hole. 2 she was forced to do this by
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her capitalistic management team and they needed her to wear like
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the classic outfits and they they forced her to say karma is
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the guy on the chiefs for the final night of the airs tour.
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I literally think that that is so unfortunate.
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I have to be honest. Like like the fact that she
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needed to shout out her boyfriend on the last night of
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her tour that started 2 boyfriends before Travis Kelsey.
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That's also like about her and her name and her legacy.
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And I think that's unfortunate. So that's could be maybe her
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brand telling her to do that or her her management has kept her
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under this brand Taylor that she's almost rebelling by giving
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them a bland show and giving us a bland show as like punishment.
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You want me to be brand Taylor Swift?
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Perfect. I'm not going to do any
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surprises. I'm going to be pissed about it
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because that's literally what it gave to me.
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So again, three choices here. Either it was her choice, it
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wasn't her choice, or she was forced to do something and she
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did that in kind of like the last bit of creative control she
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had. I do think the surprise songs
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were the most revealing of the three nights, and I feel like
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they are the only way we actually saw like the real her.
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And I also think this garden imagery of her at the piano and
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her like with everything stripped back, is the most her
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that we see on the heiress. To her, I think it's symbolizing
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this is her. She's the writer.
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She's going to tell us exactly what she thinks.
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She's not Taylor Swift, the brand.
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We're actually getting a peek into this Field of Dreams,
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right? So we'll go through all the
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surprise songs. And I want to talk about the
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theory that I have that she intentionally gave us a bland
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show, a bland goodbye, and that something is coming.
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So that's one of the three theories that she had like full
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control over this to show us that this is really the
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performance. And she can show us lies.
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But she was at the end of this performance over two years of
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performing as someone that she's not, and she's sick of it.
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And we're finally seeing like glimpses into how she's actually
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viewing this. And I'm sure it's like it's been
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the success of her life. But at the same time, I bet
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she's finally wanting to like be herself.
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And that doesn't mean going off and having kids with Travis
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Kelsey. These disgusting comments that
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I've been seeing are like, now she can go finally have babies.
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You guys are literally so gross for that.
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These are the same people that saying it's gross that she could
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maybe be gay. I'm not talking about like for
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like wanting her to go make babies.
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Wanting her career to continue is not rude to her.
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There's people that are as being like let her rest.
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Let her rest you. We have no idea what she wants.
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What I do know that she wants is for us to stop asking if she's
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having babies. She said this multiple times.
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I don't want to be like that 1950s shit.
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You should see your faces when you find out that I'm not having
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a baby. Like how many times does she
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have to tell us to stop placing this 1950s shit on her?
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Just 'cause she's at the end of the eras to her doesn't mean
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she's done with her career. I think she's only just
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beginning the career that she wants for herself.
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That's truly what I think. And last night, the saving grace
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for me, two points of saving grace, the surprise songs, which
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we're going to do, and the fact that she walked out the karma
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door. I know there's a lot of people
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that are saying like, OK, we didn't actually see that the
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door was orange, but that's the same door that she walked out
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last night that drops down. That is orange.
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OK, so it's the same door. OK.
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Either way, she exited the errors tour in a vastly
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different way that she exits every single night.
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On the errors tour, she usually drops down in the stage.
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This time she walked out through the door and practically ran.
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Like the happiest I saw her was at the final end of the errors
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tour. She looked like she was just
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working through it. And remember when she was
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singing Betty, she was like, I just work here.
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That's telling us again, like she is a workhorse and she is
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performing for someone else's expectations of what she should
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be doing. And then like, she can finally
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be free and go off, perhaps in her karma era and have revenge.
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So that was the saving grace for me that I saw her walk out that
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door. That at least gave me some hope
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where I was like, OK, something bigger is coming after this.
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She's not saying goodbye. She's like running out of here.
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And she is so happy and grateful to get to the next era.
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So again, this is all under the assumption that she had creative
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control over that. It's just hard to know.
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We're only at the culmination of whatever this heir is to her is.
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But that doesn't mean it's the culmination of like her success
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and how she views her success as an artist.
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But there's obviously a lingering energy left here, and
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I think that's intentional. There's like, this was not a
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satisfying goodbye. And I don't even think it was
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for her either, right? And I think it's because this
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heirs to her was bittersweet for her in many ways.
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She had to perform as someone she's not.
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She literally said, I can show you lies.
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We on the live chat last night. So the last three nights I've
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been going live and it's been literally so fun.
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But at the end of it, my eyes have been like like hurting
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because I've had this light and it's been like dark and I've
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been watching and I had to go to bed at like 3:30 AM every single
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night. So whoever was on the live last
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night, we were kind of clowning about a lot of different things.
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We were clowning about the fact that there could be something
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happening in LA and that because this really did not feel like
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the end of the Eras Tour. Perhaps it's not.
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Perhaps something is coming in. LALA and I went to that LA show
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that Carly was at her final night with the American leg
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before I forget where she went next.
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Doesn't matter. That seemed like more of a
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goodbye to me. But anyways, she never said a
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goodbye post to LA. That's been lingering.
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She also never mentioned Vienna. I think that might be for
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another reason, obviously due to like the terrorist attack
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threat. I still think she could have
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said something like after. Maybe she still will.
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But regardless, that was unfinished business too.
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Is that showing us something's happening maybe in LA?
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And that like, this is all going to come full circle.
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Also, let's remember her birthday is coming up OK and
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Thursday night is right before her birthday.
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So her birthday is on Friday the 13th, which which she's never
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beating those allegations, but Thursday night, she often
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releases things on Thursday nights and Friday nights, right
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midnight on Thursday night. That would be the 12th of
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December, right before her birthday on the 13th, which
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would make sense for TS12 and meet me at midnight and it would
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make sense for the whole clock to be finished, right?
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It feels like we're not at midnight yet, right?
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It feels like it's like, and then it didn't get there last
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night. And I think perhaps she's
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telling us that was the bland goodbye.
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That is not the real goodbye. And she's running into her next
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era. So maybe we get a concert in LA.
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Like that's maybe the actually Eras Tour TV.
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That would actually be her version of the Eras Tour, like
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Taylor's actual version. Also, this is kind of like a
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joke theory. Like pretty much very much a
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joke theory. But like I was laughing with
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people on live about it because and I was high and apparently
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like God live is so annoying. TikTok is genuinely like so has
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so much censorship issues because I've gotten banned and
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like gotten hit like almost restricted the last three nights
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so many times about because I was drinking wine or I literally
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said I have like a garden drink. Like I can't say that it's
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insane. It's genuine to I even if I said
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something gay, they said that was harassment and really so
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annoying. But I was high and we were
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thinking about all these different theories and I was
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like, what if she can't do anything until after the heirs
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to her is over? And that's why she was so done
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with this last night. And she's like, I just want to
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run through that door and like finalize it and do my version of
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the heirs to her of how I would actually do it and be my true
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self. And it reminded me of Camp Rock
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when he's like after the final jam, like you cannot perform
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until after the final jam is over or whatever.
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And then it clicks for them and they're like, Oh my God, we can
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perform right after the air. Like not there's the final jam
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is over. And maybe Taylor Swift saw Camp
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Rock and she was like perfect idea.
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My contract as the heiress sewer, but I can have my heiress
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sewer TV in LA and Karlie Klass can show up.
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I don't know guys, I stay clowning and I think it's the
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only thing that is good for us right now.
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And the only benefit of like Taylor Swift's like not coming
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out last night and like not releasing karma is at least this
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community has like can go on. You know what I mean?
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Like and not that we wouldn't go on like obviously we would win
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if she can. We were we are going to win when
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she comes out. But some of the best part of all
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the entertainment around this is like figuring out clues and
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figuring out with you guys. So the silver lining is that we
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still have more clowning to do. And I will clown for the rest of
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my life because I really do think that we're right.
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But I think that this girl is like severely under some really
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bad contracts from when she was younger.
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And I think she's got a lot of PTSD to work through.
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And so that's my weird camp rock theory.
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The other thing about the LA show theory is that she at the
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LA show, she performed New Year's Day and New Romantics.
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OK, I'm trying to like confirm, but all the like new searches
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are just obviously from the last night of the errors to her.
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So someone confirmed that for me.
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But I do know that she definitely performed new
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romantics the last night of the LA shows.
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And that was the one that Karlie Kloss was at.
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So that really Harkins back to it and New Romantics, like,
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isn't a goodbye song. So that felt like an Easter egg.
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And we can dive into also why I think that matches up with the
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theory that, like, perhaps this was intentional, right?
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And perhaps she's signaling us back to this, like, uncompleted,
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not having any closure over the LA show.
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And maybe she's going to perform.
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I don't know. I'm scared, but also defeated.
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Oh my God I mentioned before this bland goodbye vibe and this
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whole last night of the air store really felt like the song
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lol. Love of my life, loss of my
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life, whatever Where she says our Field of Dreams engulfed in
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fire. Crazy surprise songs, vibes,
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fire, karma, all of that. But more so the lines that I
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think is telling for this last night is the coward claimed he
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was a lion. I originally thought that was
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about a past lover, but I think that's her talking to herself.
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She's the cowardly lion. She set up all of these things
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for the final three nights. The yellow brick road theory,
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like all these dresses that she was telling a story over and
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over again, all for it to just kind of stop.
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She's the cowardly lion. What a valiant roar she had.
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She with excitement and the build up and the energy leading
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up to it. And then what a bland goodbye.
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The coward claimed he was a lion.
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It really feels like she's telling us look for another
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hero. I can't do it.
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I'm the coward. I'm the cowardly lion.
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This heiress to her is pointing to that and something is wrong,
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right? She cannot be her true self.
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She can't do it within confines of the heirs to her, which is
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also her playing back these straight eras and the marketable
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versions of all these eras. And she has to like run out of
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this version of her lover house that she's trapped in and find
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herself in a new era and actually be able to have
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courage. Like the fucking lie.
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But it is just so weird. All of these tropes that we saw,
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not tropes, all of these themes that we saw literally just
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vanished. And even straight Swifties are
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like, what? And I, there's a reason for
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this. I fear in my most fearing of
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fears that this 321 exile theory that I had from two nights ago,
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I thought she was going to play exile or glitch because we're
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seeing this glitch of these are the same outfits.
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Nothing is changing. I feel like I've seen this film
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before from exile, that she's still in exile and she does not
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have the keys to the castle. She does not have creative
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control. This is not Taylor's version,
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right? But when does Exile end?
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321 Now initially I thought that was going to end at the end of
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the errors tour and maybe it still will.
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But in my biggest fears, I know I said before that she perhaps
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had two false coming outs that it wasn't.
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She wasn't able to do it first time with karma and she wasn't
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able to release karma. And then the second time with
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the Lover era, perhaps this was her third one.
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And exile doesn't end until after three failed coming outs.
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And that pushes us back, right? Because I thought it was going
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to be after this. It felt like we're rising,
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rising. We're about to fall.
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We didn't go over the Cliff. We just fell back down the
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mountain. But I do think that this is
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planned. She plans things three years in
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advance, and I do think something is coming, but she
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couldn't do it until after this was all wrapped up, fully
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wrapped up. And the one thing that keeps
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bringing me back to that hope is the fact that she ran out the
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Commodore. Let's talk about the surprise
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songs from each night. And what I think that that like
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symbolizes for this theory that something else is coming after
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the end of the errors to her. And regardless of her management
24:54
or if like which she had creative control over, I do
24:57
think she has creative control over surprise songs.
25:01
I do. So I think that's her only way
25:03
to, like, really send a message to us about like, this is what
25:07
I'm feeling. And I do think they have like,
25:09
certain songs they made her play.
25:10
Like, of course, they made her play Long live, you know what I
25:13
mean? And like New Year's Day, but
25:14
also New Year's Day Harkins back to LA.
25:17
So again, I think she had songs that she had to play, but I
25:20
think she has other creative controls over the other ones.
25:23
And surprise songs mean something.
25:26
They're her telling us what she's actually feeling.
25:28
The fact that this was a bland goodbye, like has only increased
25:32
my anticipation. I know she does that on purpose.
25:38
And I don't think it's because she's going to get married to
25:40
Travis Kelce, guys. And I really think that if she
25:42
had ended with like a full, like, bang, bang, bang, bang,
25:45
bang, boom, like I'm done. I would have been like, oh,
25:48
maybe she's going to take some time off.
25:49
I don't think she's taking time off, guys.
25:51
I think she's a workaholic. First night, she wore her
25:54
blurple dress. Obviously, she wore it three
25:56
nights. OK.
25:57
This is the first night of Vancouver, so the first of
25:59
three. And she was counting down.
26:03
And she's saying haunted and Wonderland.
26:06
Those are not goodbye socks. Every single night she had at
26:10
least one little gay shout out, and obviously it wasn't what we
26:15
were expecting, but I still feel like this was her trying to be
26:18
like, guys, there's meaning to this.
26:21
She is not out of the woods. She is still very much in
26:26
Midnight's dreaming of another world.
26:28
Wonderland, right? She's haunted in Wonderland, but
26:33
she's also dreaming of Wonderland in the haunted
26:35
forest. OK, she's not out of the woods.
26:38
It's Wizard of Oz. She's still very much in the
26:40
dark, and it's almost like she's trying to get out and she's
26:44
being fucking pushed back in. And obviously, as we know,
26:46
Wonderland is a very gay song. Let's dig into the fucking
26:49
lyrics. Come on, come on, don't leave me
26:52
like this. I thought I had you figured out.
26:53
Something's gone terribly wrong. You're all I wanted.
26:58
Like, she's mourning something. Or maybe she's telling us from
27:01
our perspectives what we're feeling.
27:03
Like something's gone terribly wrong.
27:05
This is, like, not what we expected, right?
27:08
This is not. This is not the true her, OK?
27:11
She's trapped in the forest. She's trapped in the woods.
27:13
She's being haunted by this. Like Hope, right?
27:17
And she's not able to see that full potential.
27:20
And then in Wonderland, it literally is fell down a rabbit
27:23
hole. You held on tight to me because
27:25
nothing's, as it seems, spinning out of control.
27:28
It's just like she's doesn't have control over this.
27:31
Haven't you heard of what becomes of curious minds?
27:35
They're shut down, right? You're pushed back into the
27:38
forest. I should have slept with one eye
27:40
open at night. We are in the night, we are in
27:42
the woods, we are in the dark. We cannot see the light, OK.
27:46
She should have known that she would have been able to like be
27:49
her true self the last three nights at the era store and
27:51
she's showing us that like we are not in the light yet.
27:56
Perhaps that comes at the very end when all of this is over and
27:59
when she can stop performing, when the era's tour stops, when
28:03
we hit midnight. And obviously I don't even think
28:05
she's she didn't sing this part, I'm pretty sure.
28:08
Or maybe she did. It was all a blur.
28:10
But she's saying she sings in the song too and love to think
28:13
straight. Fact that she chose to sing this
28:14
song on the last final three nights of an otherwise bland
28:19
goodbye, I feel like is very telling.
28:22
He also saying never grow up in the best day.
28:24
And obviously that was a shout out to her family.
28:26
But the fact that this is kind of like a sad naive, like she's
28:33
talking about being naive and being like, don't grow up.
28:36
You're going to realize like the pains and the struggles that
28:39
come with it. And she's like, really upset
28:42
that she can't live back in this naive, youthful world.
28:47
Like, it just feels very much like defeated and dreaming of
28:52
something better because right now, she's still in the dark.
28:54
She's still in the woods. How many times have I said that?
28:56
Now let's talk about Vancouver Night 2 and the surprise songs
28:59
and how this is kind of showing the same story, the message that
29:03
she's pounding into our heads. She's saying the tortured pose
29:06
department and Maroon and torture pose department feels
29:10
like on brand for TTPD. But like of all the songs for
29:13
the second to last night of the era's tour and she says in the
29:17
middle of singing Maroon, she goes, I'm going to sing this for
29:19
the last time. And it felt mad.
29:21
It felt like this was her only control that she had in order to
29:24
like signal that this was gay. It was like, why don't you get
29:27
it through your thick skulls? The lips were so scarlet.
29:30
They were maroon. I was kissing a girl.
29:32
It literally seemed like she was pissed.
29:33
She was like, for the last time. And also we're not like talking
29:36
about this enough. She acknowledged that this is a
29:40
song she plays a lot. She's never acknowledged that
29:42
for any other surprise song. She was like, I play this song a
29:45
lot. I'm going to acknowledge it for
29:47
the last time. You are not getting it.
29:50
And this is your last time to acknowledge that I'm giving you
29:55
gay Easter eggs. And if you don't acknowledge
29:58
that you're all, I'm going to see your faces when I eventually
30:02
come out. And you guys were all wrong.
30:05
But again, like, this is only a sliver of like the truth she's
30:08
able to put throughout this entire show.
30:10
And she's still wearing the blurple dress.
30:12
She's still dreaming of a time where maybe she could still be
30:15
gay. She's still in the woods.
30:16
And then she's saying like last kiss with like Gracie Abrams.
30:19
And I thought that was kind of like a brand thing, like, okay,
30:22
last time singing with Gracie Abrams, you know what I mean?
30:26
That didn't really feel like part of the story.
30:29
OK. Then for the final night, she
30:32
sang New Romantics. She sang A Place in This World
30:36
and New Romantics that I was like, oh, wow, New Romantics.
30:42
Very big shout out to LA. And also just one of her queer
30:46
songs about bearding and how this is high school and life is
30:52
just a classroom and you have to pretend, OK, Like you're playing
30:58
pretend and you have scarlet letters.
31:00
She goes, trust me, mine is better.
31:05
A Place in this World and New Romantics is literally insane
31:09
together. A Place in This World is one of
31:10
my favorite songs of all time. Growing up.
31:12
I would like cry to it and like middle school.
31:16
But let's look, look, look at the lyrics for a second, OK?
31:18
Because they're actually very queer.
31:20
If you put it in the context of this heiress to her, she's like,
31:23
will anyone still love me? Like I'm still just a girl
31:26
trying to find a place in this world.
31:27
And the fact that this heiress to her is not satisfying that
31:31
like, she's still like a lonely girl because she's not seen
31:35
right now. She's still trying to find a
31:37
place where she's seen as the person who she is.
31:40
I don't know what I want, so don't ask me because I'm still
31:44
trying to figure it out. What?
31:45
Don't know what's down this road, the yellow brick road.
31:48
I'm just walking. And she is like, hopefully I can
31:51
get to it at some point. I do think she does have a plan.
31:55
But again, this is like the heirs to her story.
31:57
So like the end of this road is beyond the heirs to her.
32:00
She's not yet reached Oz and I thought she would.
32:04
Perhaps she's still on the yellow brick road.
32:07
We haven't really met the real her her yet, and she hasn't even
32:11
really met the real her yet. And like, at least owned it.
32:15
And she goes, I'm alone on my own.
32:17
That's her telling us. Like, I'm not with drivers,
32:19
Kelsey, OK, Like I'm lying to you.
32:23
I'm actually very scared and I need courage and I'm the
32:26
cowardly lion. I'm still in this yellow brick
32:27
road. I'm just a girl trying to find a
32:29
place in this world. She hasn't like found her place
32:32
yet. It's genuinely actually very
32:34
sad. And then matched up with New
32:36
Romantics is her being like, the only way I can in order for me
32:41
to like, find a place in this world is to like play pretend
32:44
right now. Because in the heiress tour, the
32:45
only way to survive before I find my place to keep this
32:49
scarlet letter, to keep my secrets and play pretend.
32:52
We're all bored. We're all so tired of
32:55
everything. We wait for trains that just
32:58
aren't coming. What a bland goodbye.
33:00
She's like, I'm bored of playing pretend and I'm waiting for this
33:05
train to take me maybe to Oz. Like I'm trains that just aren't
33:10
coming. She's like, one day can I please
33:13
get to where I want to be? It's like sad.
33:16
And it like, I really hope, like, there's a plan for this
33:19
and it isn't just like depressing for her.
33:22
Like, is she able to? We show off our different
33:25
scarlet letters. Trust me, mine is better.
33:27
Insane. We're so young, we're on the
33:29
road to row and we play dumb, but we know exactly what we're
33:32
doing. That made me be like, OK,
33:35
there's a reason why this is a bland goodbye.
33:38
There's something up her sleeve. She knows exactly what she's
33:41
doing. She's like, it's not the same
33:43
outfits. It's just for filming, you guys,
33:44
Guys, it's just for filming, isn't She knows exactly what
33:48
she's doing. She's a mastermind.
33:49
Because maybe I could build a castle out of all the bricks
33:52
they threw at me. Stonewall every day is like a
33:55
battle. She's like the heirs to her is
33:57
so hard to get through. This is her trying to get
34:00
through this and get on the other side and go through the
34:02
karma door. We're too busy dancing to get
34:04
knocked off her feet baby. With a new romantics, the best
34:07
people in life are free. I don't want to have to pay for
34:11
my lovers. I don't want to have to pay to
34:14
be in APR relationship. I just want to love the people
34:16
that I don't have to pay. This song is literally about PR
34:19
relationships. We switch sides like a record
34:21
changer. That's her being like, like, OK,
34:25
wait, Maddie Healy. OK Chavez, Kelsey.
34:27
Like, she just needs a beard. The rumors are terrible and
34:31
cruel, but, honey, most of them are true.
34:33
There's nothing else to say about that.
34:36
OK. Then of course, she mashes up
34:38
Long live and New Year's Day, which is not surprising to me.
34:42
Those feel like very like typical brand Taylor Swift
34:45
goodbye songs. And then I love that she did the
34:48
manuscript. I had a theory that she was
34:49
going to do dear Reader, in the manuscript.
34:51
I love that she did the manuscript in general.
34:53
It always reminds me of like the lesbian master dog.
34:55
It feels like her as a writer is telling us exactly what's
34:59
happening and that we are going to eventually have this
35:04
manuscript. We're going to have this story
35:05
eventually. The story isn't mine anymore.
35:09
Hopefully we will find out this secret, this story that she's
35:12
kind of kept hidden from us. This like story that maybe will
35:16
hopefully be completed soon and we will finally get.
35:19
I would love. Also, apparently she sang the
35:21
first song on the Airs tour. So the first surprise on the
35:25
Airs to where she sang Tim McGraw and then Manuscript is
35:28
the last song that feels very full circle.
35:30
But I still think Manuscript is kind of like a haunting song to
35:34
me. Let's look at the lyrics.
35:36
All that's left is the manuscript now.
35:39
And then she rereads the manuscript of the entire torrid
35:42
affair. It just is.
35:44
Feels like her being like this was a tough journey.
35:47
I had to go on there to her like it was a torrid affair and the
35:51
years passed like the scenes of a show.
35:54
Professor said to write what, you know, looking backwards
35:57
might be the only way to move forward.
36:00
It literally feels like her being like that was all the
36:03
backwards. I have closure and now I can
36:05
finally move forward with my real self and release the secret
36:09
story of the manuscript that I've had like bolted down.
36:12
And the actors were hitting their marks, these PR
36:17
relationships. And the slow dance was a light
36:19
with the sparks and the tears fell in synchronosity with the
36:23
score. And at last, she knew what the
36:26
agony had been for. It feels like she was going
36:29
through agony to get through this final show, and not because
36:32
she, like, is going to miss it so much.
36:34
And I'm sure like, it was an amazing experience for her.
36:36
But also she's exhausted performing and being an actor.
36:40
It was agony. The only thing that's left is
36:42
the manuscript. One last souvenir from my time
36:45
for my trip to your shores, to our shores.
36:49
Like the fans, the readers. Now and then I reread the
36:52
manuscript. But the story isn't mine
36:54
anymore. After all of this is over, I
36:57
think we're going to get the story of what really happened
37:00
and what she was feeling, what this experience was actually
37:03
like for her. And I don't think it's like
37:05
horrible or great. I think it's like nuance.
37:08
Like she also maybe went through heartbreak.
37:11
Who knows with anymore. Is she even with Karlie Kloss?
37:15
I don't even know. But I do think that there's a
37:18
story here that we're not aware of.
37:20
And I think we are eventually going to get the manuscript.
37:22
And I think that this was agony that she had to go through and
37:27
come out the other side of. And like she was running and
37:31
sprinting out of the airs. To her, she was like, I'm going
37:35
to get the hell out of here right now because I'm sick of
37:38
being an actor on the show. I'm going to grin and bear it.
37:42
She seemed like pissed and annoyed.
37:45
And I think that there's a reason that it was anti
37:48
climatic. I really do.
37:49
And I think we're going to get more clues to why and hopefully
37:55
actually complete this full circle and hit midnight on the
38:00
12th or on her birthday. I know there's people that are
38:03
going to be like, you're just changing the the goal posts.
38:06
I'm like, yeah, I totally am. I don't know, Like, these are
38:10
all just theories, right? We don't actually know her.
38:13
This is what I think is going to happen.
38:16
I obviously thought maybe something was going to happen to
38:18
the era store. I think we all kind of thought
38:19
that we don't know what's going on.
38:22
We have no idea what kind of contract she's she's signed,
38:26
what she's allowed to do, what she's creative control over,
38:30
what the next era is going to bring.
38:31
If this was intentional or not, we can only do our best with our
38:34
theories. What I do know for certain is I
38:36
think that this bitch is gay. And eventually I think we will
38:40
know the story. And I think there's a very good
38:43
reason why this was a bland goodbye little rhyme.
38:47
This is not her peak. And I think her maybe her
38:51
professional peak, but maybe not her personal peak.
38:54
It's totally fair to recognize that, guys.
38:56
It doesn't make you a bad fan to be like, wait, what's going on?
39:01
She didn't seem like happy or like even normally emotional.
39:08
Why did this pattern get broken? Right?
39:11
Like are we the boy who cried wolf?
39:14
Maybe. But who set that system up?
39:17
It's intentional, bitch. That's the end of me spiraling.
39:22
So here's the news of my podcast.
39:24
Just stay here quick. I'm going to do a few more
39:27
episodes and I'm going to do a wrap on season 1.
39:30
I'm going to take like 2 weeks off, maybe like one week off for
39:34
Christmas. Putting on this podcast is a lot
39:36
of work. I know it seems like I only just
39:38
like yap for like an hour and then I like I post it but
39:40
there's a lot that goes into it. It's also expensive.
39:45
It takes like so much time to edit and promote and there's so
39:49
many technical difficulties. I love posting tik toks, I love
39:53
making this podcast and I love going live.
39:56
But I also would love to dedicate as much time as I can
40:01
towards it and would love for it to make me money as a full time
40:04
job and therefore it can be what we want it to be.
40:07
So please give me your thoughts on.
40:11
What you guys think about the possibility of me doing a
40:14
Patreon? I don't want to make this a
40:16
financial barrier for anyone that wants to watch this podcast
40:20
at all. But perhaps because I was
40:22
talking about on live last night with some people about like live
40:27
podcasts or doing like live Q&A's or doing like special
40:32
episodes. And honestly guys, I thought on
40:35
live that likes got me money and because I made like $5 like two
40:39
nights ago. But actually for some reason
40:42
TikTok just kind of like randomly assigns it to you.
40:44
So I feel bad because you guys got me like fucking like 300,000
40:49
likes on live last night with like 200 people, which was
40:51
genuinely insane and it does mean something like first of
40:54
all, I appreciated it. It got me like top 20% of all
40:58
TikTok lives. But that didn't give me like any
41:01
coins, which is so weird because I know you guys thought that it
41:03
was going to and I thought it was going to.
41:05
So I feel bad. So thank you for putting in all
41:07
that effort. That's not going to be my way to
41:10
like generate $5 tips or something.
41:14
I don't know, Maybe I'll just live like Venmo tips.
41:16
I really don't want to like make this a financial barrier because
41:19
I know there's only so many like Gaylord podcasts out there.
41:23
But but if we want to do like live podcasts or live Q&A, SI
41:29
may add that to a Patreon. So let me know your thoughts.
41:36
I'm not going to make it like expensive.
41:38
It would be like $1.00 or something like that, just to
41:41
like help make this the quality that we want it to be and not
41:47
delete all my savings. And if you're not able to like,
41:54
give a dollar, that's totally fine.
41:55
Subscribing, liking, sharing is always helpful.
42:00
But yeah, I love doing this and I want to keep doing it for as
42:03
long as I can. So that's all the housekeeping.
42:07
We will have two more episodes until I take a little break and
42:10
then we're coming back with season 2.
42:11
You guys, I'm very excited. Let me know any any topics you
42:16
want me to talk about. It could be anything.
42:18
Keep the faith y'all. Keep the faith.
42:20
Taylor always has a bigger plan. Have a great week.
42:23
We will see what happens, if anything, on the 12th or the
42:26
13th. Bye y'all.
42:28
Stay safe out there.