Taylor Kelce: Dawn of a New America?

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Commentary Magazine

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🗓️ 27 August 2025

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Is there a larger cultural meaning to the engagement of Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce? Does it connect somehow to Cracker Barrel ditching its redesign? And what does it all say about American happiness and connection? Give a listen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome, family, friends and complete strangers. The deceased led a full life. She rubbed shoulders with royalty and socialized with socialites. She was dead rich and was dead fabulous, and now she's just, well, dead. But while some will mourn her loss, others will be busy trying to get their grubby little mitts
0:21.6	on her glorious assets. The Inheritance on Channel 4, Odevious New Game. Start Sunday 31st of August.
0:33.6	Hope for the best.
0:39.0	Expect the worst.
0:41.0	Some drink champagne.
0:43.0	Some die of thirst.
0:45.1	The way of knowing which way it's going.
0:49.1	Hope for the best.
0:50.7	Expect the worst.
0:52.6	Oh, for the best. Welcome to the Commentary Magazine Daily Podcast. Today is Wednesday, August 27th, 2025. I am John Podhoritz, the editor of Commentary Magazine with me, as always. Executive editor, Abe Greenwald. Hi, Abe.
1:07.6	Hi, Joe.
1:08.6	Senior editor, Seth Mandel. Hi, Seth.
1:11.2	Hi, John. And Washington Commentary columnist Matthew Contendetti. Hi, John. Senior editor Seth Mandel. Hi, Seth. Hi, John.
1:12.0	And Washington Commentary columnist Matthew Contendetti.
1:14.6	Hi, Matt.
1:15.3	Hi, John.
1:16.4	Congratulations, Matt.
1:18.3	Your desideratum has occurred.
1:20.3	Thank you.
1:21.1	The engagement of Travis Kelsey and Taylor Swift is upon us.
1:27.0	Love is in the air.
1:29.4	Permanence.
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