Noticing Taylor Swift’s New Album, Bari Weiss’s New Role, and Golf

Good Noticings

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4.6 • 6.3K Ratings

🗓️ 8 October 2025

⏱️ 80 minutes

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This week the internet was ablaze with Swiftian discourse so dense only Taylor Swift and her background in English teaching can sort through it. We also discuss the new rules for men and Bari Weiss’s destruction of the news. 9 min: The Ryder Cup 16 min: Bari Weiss Becomes Head of CBS News 31 min: Rules for Modern Gents 50 min: The Life of a Showgirl 1 hour 10 min: Caps Off ___________________________________ Keep up with all the latest: https://www.goodnoticings.com/ Read our many musings on Substack: https://cmbc.substack.com/?utm_source=global-search Join the Patreon for new, exclusive episodes every Friday! https://www.patreon.com/c/goodnoticings Follow us on: TikTok- @goodnoticingspod Instagram- @goodnoticingspod Theme song by: Bri Connelly ___________________________________ Bari Weiss: https://theintercept.com/2025/10/03/cbs-news-bari-weiss-david-ellison/ Rules for Gents: https://www.gq.com/story/gq-125-rules-for-modern-gentlemen-manners-etiquette-guide The Atlantic Reviews Life of a Showgirl: https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/2025/10/taylor-swift-the-life-of-a-showgirl-album-review/684444/ The New Yorker Reviews Life of a Showgirl: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/critics-notebook/do-we-still-like-taylor-swift-when-shes-happy Rolling Stone Reviews Life of a Showgirl: https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-album-reviews/taylor-swift-the-life-of-a-showgirl-album-review-1235439733/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:47.8	Good noticing, Ashley. Goodicings to you, Claire.
0:56.0	This is Good Noticing.
0:59.3	Ashley, it's so good to see you. I haven't seen you since this morning and then again since last night.
1:03.8	I know. It's been only, I would say, three run-ins in the last 12 hours?
1:08.6	12 hours, which feels low.
1:10.7	Which feels low. There's a lot to catch up on.
1:13.2	And I want to right off the top ask you, do you have anything you recommend to the people this week?
1:17.0	Oh my God, I do. Tell me, okay, my first one is controversial. Tell me if this is growth. I invented it this
1:22.7	weekend and it might be like an existing dish or it might be something I made up or it, I'm sure you invented something. No one's ever thought. Okay. I made egg salad using Tiziki. I don't feel that's so far off base. Right, because I like Turkish eggs already. Yeah. And also I think people use Greek yogurt as a mayonnaise substitute. And it's already herbed. Yeah. It's like kind of a a real... It feels like an... What is her name? An Ena Garten. Storebot's fine. Exactly. And then the TV show, Platonic. I really enjoy it. I really enjoy that it's about like a fun-loving duo where I feel like the woman is just as wacky as the man and she has
2:03.0	kids. Can I say something about you? I think memoir notwithstanding, you're kind of a Satharogan fan.
2:09.2	I know. You actually really enjoy his work and I think... That's why I think I was so hard on that
2:13.5	book is because I think he's overall fairly reasonable in his celebrity statements.
2:20.6	I don't think he says a lot of stuff that's way off base.
2:23.1	I also think if anything, he's off and on base.
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