289: NEW TAYLOR SWIFT ALBUM 🚨 THE LIFE OF A SHOWGIRL ❤️‍🔥

Pop Apologists

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Society & Culture, Talk Radio

4.4 • 2.5K Ratings

🗓️ 13 August 2025

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Summary

Taylor Swift just hijacked the entire Pop Apologists docket — and Chanler & Lauren are living for it! From cryptic orange sparkles to a khaki skirt, a mint briefcase, and one very un-Swift-like F-bomb, the girls deep-dive every Easter egg, theory, and reveal surrounding TS12. Plus, a swoon-worthy GQ profile of Travis Kelce, the TikTok saga that broke their brains, and a dash of celeb vow renewal gossip to round it out.

Timestamps:

00:00 – 🎤 TS12 announcement reactions & New Heights teaser

07:00 – 🎶 Album sound rumors & producer lineup

15:00 – 📀 Release date theories & cover art leaks

20:00 – 🎧 Why Taylor choosing a podcast is a power move

25:00 – 🕵️‍♀️ Easter eggs that led to TS12

35:00 – 🎭 Album title debate: Life of a Showgirl

39:00 – 📋 Playlist clues & production style predictions

40:00 – 📰 Travis Kelce’s GQ profile & relationship insights

47:00 – 💪 Travis on Taylor’s work ethic & humility

53:00 – 🏈 Childhood, family values & shared backgrounds

57:00 – 💍 Nicola Peltz & Brooklyn Beckham vow renewal

59:00 – 🌀 “I Fell in Love with My Psychiatrist” TikTok deep dive

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0:00.0	Okay, everyone. This is a very, very charged episode. We sat down. We had a full docket of topics,
0:07.8	but I'm sorry, everyone, we spent about the first 45 minutes, just fully debriefing on TS-12.
0:16.2	Sorry, these types of moments, they only come around once in a blue moon, and we had to, you know,
0:21.1	leave no stone unturned with all the Easter eggs. We did. So if you're not a Swifty and you're not
0:26.1	interested in that conversation, just look at the timestamps and you'll see when we get to
0:31.0	the TikTok phenomenon. I fell in love with my psychiatrist. We fully get into that. And then we also touch on Nicola Peltz
0:40.2	and Brooklyn Beckham's vow renewal. So that is also at the end if you're not a Swifty. And with that,
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1:18.8	well all too well baby we're back with more to talk about than ever before possibly i mean I mean, we are so fucking back. And you know what?
1:32.6	Allow me to use the F-bomb because there might be another blonde diva, albeit much more successful
1:40.2	and esteemed in this world, who just dropped an F-bomb on a podcast. I mean, so much to discuss.
1:48.3	Well, I was actually just going to say that she's coming for our job. You know, we thought we had
1:52.7	this airspace. We thought we had, we thought we had this white space to, you know, take over as
1:57.4	blondes. And another blonde is actually coming for our job because none other than Taylor Swift
2:03.1	is going to be appearing on the New Heights podcast.
2:06.7	People, if you do not know, I guess everyone probably knows.
2:09.7	But I guess I might as well just say, New Heights is the podcast where Jason and Travis Kelsey
2:14.4	talk about, I think, football.
2:16.2	You know football.
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