SwifTEA: TS12 Countdown, Vinyl Drops, & Super Bowl Clues!
13: A Taylor Swift Fan Podcast
Ana Szabo, Nick Adams, Amy Nichols and Lacey Gee
4.6 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 24 August 2025
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Welcome to another glitter-packed episode of 13: A Taylor Swift Fan Podcast! This week, we dive deep into the TS12 rollout for The Life of a Showgirl. Join Lacey, Anna, Amy, and Nick (in spirit!) as they unravel vinylcountdowns, glitter color theories, the 1989 callbacks, possible Super Bowl clues, and a whole lotta Swiftie sleuthing.
Is the album’s color just… glitter? What do the vinyl drops really mean? Will Taylor surprise-drop a documentary or visual album? Is she teasing a Super Bowl halftime show? And could Taylor Alison Swift be the name of TS13?
We break it all down with SwiftTok theories, listener voicemails (shoutout Morgan!), and hilarious chaos that only true Swifties will understand.
This episode is your countdown companion and Swiftie theory vault.
Timestamps:0:00 – Welcome to the show!1:45 – Swiftie exhaustion: Loving the chaos5:30 – Showgirl album theory: Folklore lyrics, 1989 pop, and glitter vibes18:00 – Countdown within a countdown: What are the vinyl colors telling us?28:40 – Visual album or documentary? Why it just has to happen36:15 – Super Bowl Easter eggs: Sourdough Sam, Morse Code, 47s and more48:00 – TS13 Prediction: Could it be "Taylor Alison Swift"?52:10 – Listener voicemails + best theories from the Lobster Lounge1:01:00 – Outro & what’s next!
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| 1:01.5 | 13 has been my lucky number for a while. |
| 1:03.6 | Like, it's always a sign of good things to come for me. |
| 1:06.6 | This is 13, a Taylor Swift fan podcast. |
| 1:10.7 | Breaking down every song, every Easter egg, every era, and every theory. |
| 1:16.5 | Hosted by the biggest Swifties, Nick Adams, Anna Zabo, Amy Nichols, and Lacey G. |
| 1:24.4 | Welcome to 13, a Taylor Swift fan podcast. I'm Nick Adams. I'm Lacey G. I'm Anna, Amy. |
| 1:32.7 | And Nick Adams is not with us today. But we have a lot of stuff to talk about because we're in the |
| 1:40.3 | midst of a Taylor Swift album rollout, which is just such an incredible time to be alive. She makes these album rollout so much fun. And I'm just grateful that we're not getting up at midnight right now. Honestly, agreed. Yeah, we've had, and we'll get into like the countdowns and everything that we've had the last couple of days. But every single time I see that the countdowns end at 2 p.m. Eastern, I say thank you, Taylor. Yeah, yeah. You know what I mean? I do feel, I do feel, there are people across the world that are asleep when this is all happening, but we already went through that part, you know? And we've done it before. We did it with the ERIS tour whenever we would get up at many times throughout the night. So, I mean, if Taylor Swift says, we'll do this, no matter what time it is, you get up |
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