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The hilarious Bryanlicious joins me this week to talk about all things TTPD that gave us TTPTSD and more. We go over Taylor Swift's newest album track by track and analyze, speculate, joke and more!
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1:09 How Bryan started his Taylor Swift content
9:50 Original thoughts on TTPD
12:46 Fortnight
20:22 The Tortured Poets Department
26:16 My Boy Only Breaks His Favorite Toys
28:35 Down Bad
33:50 So Long London
39:38 But Daddy I Love Him
43:50 Fresh Out The Slammer
46:58 Florida!!!
48:43 Guilty as sin
51:30 Who’s Afraid of Little Old Me
55:00 I Can Fix Him (no really I can)
56:06 loml
57:09 I can do it with a broken heart
58:22 The smallest man who ever lived
59:58 The alchemy
1:00:50 Clara Bow
1:01:57 The Black Dog
1:03:00 imgonnagetyouback
1:04:40 The Albatross
1:05:15 Chloe or Sam or Sophia or Marcus
1:07:14 How did it end?
1:10:26 So high school
1:12:54 I hate it here
1:14:40 thanK you aimer
1:18:00 I look in people’s windows
1:20:23 The prophecy
1:22:13 Cassandra
1:23:20 Peter
1:23:50 The Bolter
1:26:11 Robin
1:27:16 The Manuscript
1:29:40 Questions to wrap up

Today we dive into food theories! From the food pyramid and the interests that changed what the pyramid was, to theories about nightshade vegetables (and celebrities that don't eat them) to junk food in the US compared to junk food in the UK, and more!
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2:52 The food pyramid is a lie!
19:30 Food industry executives find their way into the USDA
22:59 How stress and your mindset changes the affect food has on your body
29:26 Celebrities who don’t eat nightshades
39:27 Junk food in the US vs. UK
48:48 High fructose corn syrup and its different names
53:06 Ending on a positive note
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Today I dive into Dune 2! We cover the lore of this franchise, I give some thoughts on the movie, and then we talk about gossip surrounding the movie, the cast of the movie, and take a closer look at the two leads (in my mind) Timothee Chalamet and Rebecca Ferguson.
0:00 Intro of Dune and facts about the movie
17:31 General Dune gossip
42:05 Rebecca Ferguson
52:40 Timothee Chalamet
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This week we're joined by Amanda Montell from Sounds Like A Cult to talk about her new book, The Age of Magical Overthinking. From thoughts and biases on stan culture, conspiracy theories, how we love nostalgia, and more!
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I had an absolute BLAST with Megan and Liz this week as they filled me in on the underbelly of the music industry. From working with pop music hitmakers Max Martin and Martin Johnson, to spilling tea about how some people get ahead in radio, we break down every question you've had about the music industry, industry plants, stars with the "It Factor" and more!
0:00 Intro and how YouTube “made” Justin Bieber celebrities
5:00 What it’s like to work with Max Martin
10:50 Working with Martin Johnson…and how he dated Taylor Swift
15:50 Industry plants
21:27 Musicians with the “it factor”
37:19 Artists with good and bad work ethics
40:56 Sleeping your way to the top in the music industry
44:06 How artists make money today
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Today I take a look at Drake Bell and Alexa Nikolas - Nickelodeon child stars who were both featured in the Quiet on Set docuseries - and how their lives were shaped by Nickelodeon, and what they did after leaving the network as a child star. 
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