4.7 • 5.6K Ratings
🗓️ 4 September 2025
⏱️ 54 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | How did a little girl who grew up on a Christmas tree farm become the world's biggest pop star? |
| 0:05.3 | Pop Pantheon's new series digs into Taylor Swift's origin story, |
| 0:08.9 | from her upbringing in West Reading, Pennsylvania, and knocking down label doors in Nashville as a teenager, |
| 0:13.9 | to her rise to country superstardom and eventually the global stage. |
| 0:17.6 | Whether you're a Taylor obsessive or a swifty skeptic, this series will |
| 0:21.1 | illuminate the genesis of a supernova and one of the most important figures in American pop |
| 0:25.9 | cultural history. Listen now on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hello and welcome to Hot Masterpiece Theater, the show that believes reality TV isn't ruining culture, it is culture. |
| 0:51.5 | I'm your host, comedian and pop culture critic Jolenta Greenberg. And here at |
| 0:56.6 | Hot Masterpiece Theater, we believe that loving reality TV means your culture does fuck. When you |
| 1:01.9 | appreciate unscripted television, you're not indulging in a guilty pleasure. You are consuming |
| 1:06.5 | art and classical storytelling, just wrapped up in a reality bow. And a little reminder about what to expect here. |
| 1:13.2 | Every other week, I do a deep dive on a reality TV theme or character type. |
| 1:18.0 | And on alternating weeks, I talk to a smart funny person about the history and lore |
| 1:23.9 | surrounding one of their favorite reality TV scenes. |
| 1:26.8 | And that's what we're doing right now. |
| 1:37.7 | Today we have an amazing guest. |
| 1:39.6 | Our guest is basically, I'd say, a gay-ass thought leader. |
| 1:44.3 | He's Eric Williams. He's thought leader. He's Eric Williams. |
| 1:46.3 | He's an actor. |
| 1:47.4 | He's a comedian. |
| 1:48.6 | He's a podcaster. |
| 1:50.1 | He was Buddy the Elf in the touring production of Elf the Musical. |
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