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I mean, the Riyadh thing, the Riyadh festival has been, obviously, a really big piece of the news in the last couple weeks.

And it's one that when the situation started, I was like, I'm fucking, I would go to Saudi Arabia.

All right. It's another edition of KFC Radio on the Barstool Sports Network.

I am flying solo.

Jackie's out.

Fidelberg is out.

So kind of like an old school Kevin Clancy show or mail time episode.

You're riding with me.

We're going to talk Taylor Swift, Mark Sanchez, the Jets in general.

A few things on the docket today. We're going to begin with Taylor Swift because she's the biggest thing in the world a few things on the docket today.

We're going to begin with Taylor Swift because she's the biggest thing in the world and has taken over the internet with the amount of hate she's getting

and then her fans defending her.

And I can't escape it.

My algorithm is like completely consumed.

The last time I saw something like this, it was the Kendrick Lamar halftime Super Bowl show when if you said you didn't like it, you know, received like dissertations and theses from professors telling you while you're like dumb and ignorant. This is almost the opposite of that, people hating on it. So got to start off here with Taylor. I know there's a bunch of people who are like, I don't want to hear about Taylor Swift. And we don't care.

Who cares?

First of all, she's the biggest artist in the world.

I like music.

I love discussing the music industry. So this is a huge piece of our culture right now. Also, what's going on with her, the hate and then the defending, the parasocial versus the arguments that are being turned into politics and, like, cultural debates,

it's much more indicative and emblematic of kind of what's going on on the internet in general.

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