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this pod for even longer. Okay, now on with the show. I think for a lot of people, when she first

appeared on the Grammy's red carpet, obviously with with midnight being the thing

that she was supposed to be, you know, she was nominated for and that was going to be honored for that

evening. And all of these clues that we can now see as red herrings of reputation Taylor's version

kind of looming over her and and lots of people anticipating or thinking

that we would be getting an announcement about that for her to have appeared that night in this

bed sheet tangled up white gown a lot of people were like doing a double take of like

well I guess I can see how that works her reputation

you know trying to like shoehorn it into reputation correct yeah trying to shoehorn it into

you know our expectations of what we thought would happen in the evening but if you know

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