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Elliott Pauses Writing his PhD to Gab About Taylor Swift (NOT A GOOD IDEA)

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The Valleycast

Comedy

4.81.7K Ratings

🗓️ 8 October 2025

⏱️ 32 minutes

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WARNING: DO NOT stop in the middle of dissertation writing to talk about Taylor Swift on a podcast by yourself. You can't HANDLE it, Elliott. And OH, you're saying bad things about Taylor Swift? Well now we got Bad Blood, I guess. No, I love Taylor Swift. I do. I think she's fine. What wasn't fine was the series of propaganda campaigns that began in the 20th century and utilized fledgling mass media technology to turn the United States away from the idea of domestic economic programs. Crap, I did it again. Music/SFX: If you like our sounds, sign up for ONE FREE MONTH on us at Epidemic Sound! Over 30,000 songs: http://share.epidemicsound.com/n96pc Follow The Valleyfolk across the digital globe: http://twitter.com/TheValleyfolk http://instagram.com/TheValleyfolk http://facebook.com/TheValleyfolk Follow the group on their personal socials: Joe Bereta: http://twitter.com/JoeBereta http://instagram.com/joebereta Elliott Morgan: http://twitter.com/elliottcmorgan http://instagram.com/elliottmorgan Steve Zaragoza: http://twitter.com/stevezaragoza http://instagram.com/stevezaragoza Roady P. Selling Selective Anti-Statism: The Conservative Persuasion Campaign and the Transformation of American Politics since the 1920s. Modern American History. 2023;6(1):21-43. doi:10.1017/mah.2023.3

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0:00.0

Do I regret not just podcasting yesterday morning on a Sunday and choosing instead to sleep in and then wake up today and not forget, but start working on dissertation stuff to the point that I could, I maybe

0:23.7

forgot about this or maybe I didn't, but I was hesitating or procrastinating because I was too,

0:30.1

it's like what else when you're, it's too, I'm too immersed and I, it's a lot of, uh, hi, everybody,

0:36.2

welcome to the Valley cast.

0:37.2

Don't feel like watching movies

0:40.3

so I'll watch people get them instead I don't know how it goes I think it starts with your

0:49.2

show I am a really nice guy okay and um I gave my fellow nice guy friends, Joe Beretta and Steve Zaragoza, the week off.

1:00.6

Because I wanted to sleep them.

1:06.8

You know, it's you rob from the future when you prioritize the present or whatever.

1:13.1

But yeah, so this is, that's what I've been up to.

1:17.8

If you can't see, but I got books.

1:20.3

I got books, man.

1:21.4

Isn't that cool?

1:22.2

Yeah, you got a lot of books on.

1:24.8

This is the, I got, they're all over here, but I got them on this thing, too.

1:28.1

It was called a Kindle, which, by the way, ever heard of tabs? Kindle, be nice to, you know, I don't know,

1:34.9

like open a tab every once in a while, maybe be able to look at two books at the same time. It's like

1:41.5

you ever heard of hermeneutics? Dumb bitch. Anyway,

1:44.6

we're having fun. Um, so yeah, I'm, I'm working on, on this. And it's just so it's a lot. It's fun, but it's a lot. And it takes a lot. It takes a lot out of me. And it's also like, yesterday, I was like, oh, I'm just going to do a little bit. And then it became this sort of like obsessive thing and then I get too far in the weeds and I don't know what I'm doing.

2:02.2

I know some of you have have done this. a little bit. And then it became this sort of like obsessive thing. And then I get too far in the

2:01.0

weeds. I don't know what I'm doing. I know some of you have, have done this before, uh,

2:06.4

the PhD thing. And it's not like, you know, what it's, it's not like I'm doing science experiments.

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