You are listening to the Daily Roundup here as part of the Reality. Steve Podcast. I’m your host reality Steve. Thank you all for tuning in on this Monday. Good show for you. We’re gonna go over the live I did with Dave Neil over the weekend. Had a lot of fun. A 90 minute live that I just decided to pop up on a Saturday afternoon talking about.
Pretty much all things Taylor Swift in her appearance on the New Heights Podcast last week. We’re gonna go over it. I’ll kind of condense it for you. We’re also gonna talk about Big Brother last night. I’ve got a couple bachelor in Paradise Notes that I did not put in Friday spoilers and maybe get to some other stories as well.
So let’s get started. This past Saturday on my YouTube channel, I went live with Dave around two o’clock on Saturday afternoon, and I wanted to talk about the Taylor Swift appearance on the New Heights podcast because obviously it had been a topic. Everybody’s talking about it, but I felt like I had a different take.
I. Than what a lot of people had. And I took what a lot of people’s takes were and the rumors coming out of that podcast and gave my own thoughts, which I think is contrary to what people are saying and not to be contrarian or whatever, but I wanted to give reasons why I thought the things that I did.
Because you know me, I love Taylor, love her music. Been to five of her concert Abso concerts. Absolutely enjoy her music. Enjoy being at her concerts. I think they’re one of the best experiences I’ve ever had at concerts. When it comes to me and Taylor Swift, I’m just not into the minutiae stuff. I don’t really care about the Easter eggs.
I don’t look for it. I don’t dissect every little hand holding gesture that was on the New Heights podcast and them kissing and him having his arm around her. You, you know how I feel about this stuff. Him opening the door for her when they come out of a dinner and people freak out about it. I’m just like, I don’t understand why people freak out, you know?
It doesn’t make any sense. They’ve been dating for two years. I would hope he would open the door for her when they get into a car. But have we set the bar that low on men that you get all crazy when her boyfriend of two years opens the door for her, you know? But. Really enjoyed the interview on Wednesday because this is just a Taylor we had never seen before.
She doesn’t do interviews like this. She doesn’t, she’s never done a podcast before, and for her to sit there for two and a half hours with her boyfriend and talk about kind of their relationship along with other business stuff, I just thought it was fascinating. And not to mention all the things that that podcast did for the New Heights podcast.
You know, I read it on the. On the live on Saturday, but if you missed it, 379 million views on Instagram for the New Heights Podcast. 61.6 million views on X 34 and a half million views on TikTok. 15 million views on YouTube. 1.3 million live viewers. The episode stream crashed. They passed 3 million followers on Instagram.
400,000 new YouTube subscribers since then, and it was the most concurrent podcast listeners ever. Nobody has ever been tuning in at the same time to a podcast on YouTube than they were last Wednesday when Taylor went on the New Heights. I mean, she is just gold. Whatever she does, it turns to gold pretty much.
But there were three things that I wanted to talk about. The live that I’ll bring here. I want you to go check it out because it’s, I, I know it’s an hour and a half and this is gonna be condensed into about eight or 10 minutes of it. But the three things that I wanted to talk about were the new album and people dissecting which song she allegedly wrote about Blake Lively, the rumors of her being the Super Bowl halftime Show, and then the rumors of her possibly having a residence fee residency at the Sphere in Vegas, which all stemmed after that podcast came out.
First one. She releases her 12 tracks, the titles of her 12 tracks. As far as I know, the lyrics haven’t gotten out, and I know the tracks got leased on, released on Wes Monday or Tuesday of last week. So people did know if you were searching the internet, you did find out the title tracks of her 12 songs.
But immediately, I mean all you gotta do is search TikTok or Instagram, the amount of content creators that were like, I know which song is about Blake and whatever. It’s like to me. This is a woman, Taylor Swift, who is so subtle in what she does when she writes her songs, and she’s never even addressed even to this day what certain songs who certain songs were about.
Fans have kind of insinuated, but she’s never confirmed it. She’s never said, oh yeah, everyone says all too well is about Jake Gyllenhaal because of the scarf or whatever. She’s never said that she’s never confirmed anything. So that’s why I don’t get into the minutia. ’cause I don’t care. We’re never gonna get an answer anyway.
But
it turned out after Wednesday when we saw the song titles, well, oh my gosh. She has a song called Ruin the Friendship. That’s totally about Blake. Are you kidding me? There is no way that Taylor Swift, who has been so subtle in songs. About taking jabs at people and never even addressing it after the fact.
Do you honestly think she would write a whole song with a title Ruin the Friendship about Blake Lively? Again, I think that’s just people going for clickbait stories and headlines. We’re gonna know October 3rd unless lyrics get least earlier. We’ll know October 3rd, but number one, I guarantee a whole song isn’t dedicated to Blake.
But once the, once the album comes out and everybody listens to every song and hears the lyrics to every song, I’m sure they will try and find a line or two in any song that she has saying, oh, that was a shot at Blake. Again. I’ve also seen online that there are content creators who have said the timeline doesn’t match up, because when she claimed she was writing this album.
The Blake Justin Baldoni case hadn’t even made, been made publicly yet. So how could she have included that in any song? I, I just don’t see that happening. Not to mention Blake wasn’t the one who subpoenaed Taylor Swift. It was Justin’s side that subpoenaed her. Again, I haven’t followed it long enough.
All I know is Blake’s side did not subpoena her. It was Justin’s side, so. I know people think they hate each other and they don’t talk anymore. And there’s been stories, I have seen those stories, but again, I’m just not gonna get into, I don’t follow the story enough between Blake Lively and Justin B’s case I gave up after about two weeks on that case.
It was just too much for me. The second thing, all the references that people have said, the Easter eggs apparently, that she threw out in the New Heights Podcast in regards to Super Bowl 60, she kept throwing out the number 47. Well, 47th stop last year on the Aeros tour was at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, California.
That’s where Super Bowl 60 is being played next year. She also kept saying a lot about sourdough bread. Well, what’s the 49 ERs mascot? 49 ERs. The home of Levi’s Stadium, 49 ERs. Mascot is sourdough Sam. So everybody just assumes this means she’s going to be the halftime show of next year’s Super Bowl.
Here’s my thoughts, number one. We won’t know until we know. The NFL announces it last year when, you know, Kendrick Lamar performed at halftime of last year’s Super Bowl and they announced it end of September, so we’ll know in a month if she gets it or not. My whole thing was, I don’t see why she would do this, because it takes a lot of planning and it’s for 13 minutes.
That’s how much the performer gets at. Halftime of the Super Bowl is 13 minutes. As a Taylor Swift fan, I almost don’t want her to do the halftime Super Bowl show. I mean, I, I don’t want her to do halftime at the Super Bowl. Why 13 minutes of Taylor Swift? I’m gonna be wanting another hour and a half more and we’re not gonna get it.
And the biggest reason I don’t think that she would do it. I mean, this is just my opinion is I don’t know why she would do it. While Travis is still an active player, she can’t predict if the Chiefs are gonna go to the Super Bowl next year for the fourth year in a row. What if she agrees to do this?
They announce her next month and then the chiefs end up making the Super Bowl. Taylor, clearly, from listening to that interview last Wednesday, is now very much into football. She’s learning it. She cares about it, and I think a big thing for her is she really likes being in the suite with his family, with his friends, her friends watching the game.
If she’s the halftime show at next year’s Super Bowl. The first half of the game, she’s gonna be underneath the stadium, rehearsing, talking to people, and then at half, and when she’s done with the halftime show, she’s gotta get outta costume. She’s gonna miss most of the game. Now you could say, well, Steve, what if Kansas City doesn’t make it?
Well, the problem is they announce it in September, so I just don’t know why she would take the chance, considering the Chiefs are gonna be good again this year. I don’t know why she would take the chance to say, yeah, I’m gonna do the halftime show even though it’s possible my boyfriend might be playing in it and I’m gonna miss most of it.
She doesn’t wanna watch it on a monitor underneath the stadium. That’s one of the biggest reasons I don’t think that she would agree to it, at least this year for me in the mornings. Got a lot of work to get to, making sure the podcasts are posted, getting them out on my socials, checking the news, responding to emails.
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