SwifTEA: Taylor Swift Album Announcement & New Heights Podcast Debut with TS12 “The Life of a Showgirl”

13: A Taylor Swift Fan Podcast

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4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 14 August 2025

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

Welcome to another crazy album rollout week courtesy of the mastermind herself, Taylor Swift. It’s been a week of countdowns and glitter backgrounds, but we are ready to discuss Taylor Swift’s 12th album, “The Life of a Showgirl”, her first ever podcast appearance, and the real life love story that the world has been watching for a while. In this special episode of 13: A Taylor Swift Fan Podcast, we dive deep into: Taylor’s surprise announcement and exact quotes from the New Heights interview with Jason and Travis Kelce The meaning behind the orange theme, numerology, and Easter eggs The track list (including “The Fate of Ophelia,” “Ruining the Friendship,” “Actually Romantic,” and “The Life of a Showgirl” feat. Sabrina Carpenter) Is this the long-lost Karma album? Fan theories about female rage the musical, visual albums, showgirls, and the glittery gel pen album vibe Travis and Taylor’s on-air chemistry and what their conversation reveals about her era of joy and confidence We also explore why this may be her most joyful album ever — and what it could mean for an upcoming tour, documentary, or Vegas residency. Whether you're a lifelong Swiftie or a curious NFL fan, this is the episode to understand how Taylor Swift just rewrote the rules of pop stardom and podcast promotion. There are lots of ways to reach us, including our exclusive Lobster Lounge! Join in on the discussion there at https://station.page/13 , or let us know on the socials! CONTACT THE PODCAST! Voicemail Number- (689) 214-1313 Email- ⁠⁠the13podcast@gmail.com⁠⁠ IG- ⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/the13podcast⁠⁠ TikTok- ⁠⁠https://www.tiktok.com/@the13podcast⁠⁠ Twitter- ⁠⁠https://twitter.com/the13TSpodcast⁠⁠ YouTube- ⁠⁠https://www.youtube.com/@13ATaylorSwiftFanPodcast⁠⁠ FOLLOW US! Ana - ⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/anaszabo13⁠⁠ Lacey – ⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/laceygee13⁠⁠ Amy – ⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/amysnichols⁠⁠ Nick – ⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/nickadamsonair⁠⁠ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Yay Networks.
0:04.7	13 has been my lucky number for a while.
0:06.8	Like, it's always a sign of good things to come for me.
0:09.6	This is 13, a Taylor Swift fan podcast, breaking down every song, every Easter egg, every era, and every theory.
0:19.7	Hosted by the biggest Swifties.
0:22.1	Nick Adams, Anna Zabo, Amy Nichols, and Lacey G.
0:27.7	Welcome to 13, a Taylor Swift fan podcast.
0:30.8	I'm Nick Adams.
0:31.4	I'm Anna.
0:32.3	I'm Lacey G.
0:33.3	And with us is Sah here.
0:35.1	Yay, emergency episode.
0:36.6	That's right.
0:39.7	So what do you guys want to talk about?
0:51.4	You know, not a lot going on at the moment. So I guess we have to start at the beginning. I think I think this is I think, I think, I think, I think, I think this is where it started
0:55.9	for us all, because we've been in this purgatory of, do we start a new album? Do we, we're waiting
1:04.2	to see what Taylor Swift does? Because this whole year has been quite the surprise. And we were
1:09.7	here recording on Saturday, just Saturday.
1:12.5	How innocent and naive of us. We recorded a couple episodes and I very confidently, Lacey G., I said,
1:19.9	we can have a Swift Tea episode because there's nothing that will drop between now and then.
1:25.9	Which is so funny. Like that is like so famous last words. And we've gotten so many like just funny messages and comments from our listeners as a lobster as being like, thank you guys so much for starting evermore because that means we got TS12. Like she's only doing this because you guys decided to do this. Like in the in the lore of the podcast, it is just so funny because Lacey, when you were like,
1:46.3	yeah, nothing's going to happen between now and Tuesday.
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