Are People Being Over The Top Reacting To Taylor Swift Getting Engaged?
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🗓️ 28 August 2025
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| 0:00.0 | This is The Bird Show. |
| 0:02.6 | Abby, I am willing here to share a statistic that I already know you are going to reject. |
| 0:09.6 | It stands against everything that you stand for. |
| 0:12.6 | And I do feel like sometimes that because we do what we do for a living, when pop culture is the center of what we do, |
| 0:20.9 | sometimes we think the rest of the world thinks the exact same way and it doesn't, right? |
| 0:26.9 | Poll out this morning says that 72% of Americans don't care that Taylor Swift and Travis Kelsey are engaged. |
| 0:41.6 | 72%. Did Joe Rogan put out that poll or something? |
| 0:46.6 | Who are we backing up here? I wonder if we do live in this bubble though. Like most people are living their lives. They're going to work. They got kids to take care of. They got way bigger |
| 0:51.9 | problems. And this just doesn't even register. How nice for these two |
| 0:56.4 | people. Whether or not you care or not is just an opinion, but the reality and the facts are when |
| 1:01.5 | she announced her engagement, it is now the number one most liked post on Instagram, which makes |
| 1:07.0 | it global news. And I don't believe that number. I think it's cool for people to like even |
| 1:13.5 | pretend like they don't care. And I get like if you're not wholly invested, it's just, it's nice when |
| 1:20.1 | two people find love. So just see it for what it is. But, you know, for 72% of people to say they |
| 1:26.1 | don't care, I'm like, I think you're just trying to be like the cool kid and like trying not to care about what everybody else is talking about. |
| 1:35.8 | Yeah. It didn't make sense to me either. But I sometimes I do wonder like this is what we do for a living. This is what our algorithm is. What our algorithm is. Yeah. People don't care. |
| 1:43.0 | Yeah, but surveyjunky.com said 73% of people. Look, I was aware that you guys were going to reject |
| 1:48.4 | that statistic. So I do come bearing gifts. 39 perfectly extra reactions to Taylor Swift and Travis |
| 1:55.5 | Kelsey's big engagement reveal. I'm not going to do all 39, but these are some of the highlights, |
| 1:59.8 | okay? A 28-year-old Seattle woman texted her boyfriend, all caps. Taylor and Travis got engaged. I have a new stepdad. |
| 2:12.1 | Layla is 33 years old. She is a bookstagramer. I don't even know what that is. |
| 2:16.9 | It's somebody who runs an account |
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