Pickle the Drag Queen Loves New Romantics

This week, it’s a Sammy & Ellie special (#samellie) christmas episode where we dive into Christmas Tree Farm (Old Timey Version SUPREMACY) with bonus content about Ol Swifty’s overlooked 2008 Christmas EP and its stand out original track “Christmas Must Mean Something More”. Also in this episode: birthday boy baby jesus, the Insane Clown Posse, and the question - is Taylor Swift still a god fearing christian? And just WHAT does Harry Styles have to do with it!? Happy Holidays and Happy Hannukkah and a peaceful winter solstice to you all!

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This week, Sammy and Ellie talk to Sarah Kennedy, co-owner of Albequerque’s only comedy club (Dry Heat Comedy) and host of the late great podcast Taydar, about the intense & regretful ballad Back To December from Speak Now. We return to the WHO’S IT ABOUT segment, and it’s probably not who you’re expecting, as well as the ins and outs of regretting a break up that was entirely your decision!!

Here are links to things we discuss on the pod:

Back To December - Official Music Video

Taylor Swift x Taylor Lautner Compilation

Taylor Swift SNL Monologue, Taylor Lautner SNL Monologue

The Birthday Video Taylor Swift made for her former fiddle player Emily Poe (normal)

Back To December LIVE (a must watch)

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What’s the best thing that’s ever been YOURS? Sammy and Ellie talk to Lina Abascal, author of the book Never Be Alone Again: How Bloghouse United the Internet and the Dancefloor, about the grounded, exquisitely detailed, fantasy of Mine, from Taylor Swift’s 2010 album Speak Now. Two thirds of the group admit to being earnest Glee fans, we wonder what kind of things Taylor Swift would leave in a theoretical partner’s drawer, and Sammy and Ellie sing a jingle for a brand new segment that you’re just gunna love!

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This week, Sammy and Ellie talk to Demi Adejuyigbe about the effervescent, relentless joy of Shake It Off! We discuss whether this song is actually very deep, the way music physically changes mood, and Ellie rants about the hell of attempting to buy Taylor Swift Eras Tour tickets at about the 56 minute mark - shout out to all the hurting swifties who still don’t have tickets, we stand with you! Ticketmaster can BURN!!!!! 

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This week, Sammy and Ellie talk to Pickle the Drag Queen about the dark intensity of modern pure pop anthem New Romantics! We talk about what sorts of buildings the bricks thrown at us could build, how we need love but all we want is cigarettes, the important work Pickle does with Drag Queen Story Hour, and so much more!

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This week, Sammy and Ellie talk to Ruth Bamuwamye about the dreamy, gleaming, frustrating fantasy of gold rush! We get to the bottom of whether we do or do not like gold rushes, who we would die to touch, what it must be like to grow up that beautiful, and the spectacular third act twist in the bridge! 

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This week Ellie talks to Ashley Hamilton from Celebrity Memoir Book Club about ultimate Sad Bop (TM) Death by a Thousand Cuts! We have a phenomenal discussion about this track with revelations that this could be about a fraught situationship OR the aftermath of true love, plus - what lyrics Taylor Swift would write if she loooooved deviled eggs. 

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We couldn't, in good conscience, go forward with talking about a different song/album/era of Taylor Swift in this, the week of Midnights, Taylor Swift's 10th studio album and best one to date. So we give you an almost exactly 13 minute long mini-sode with our first intitial thoughts. Are you a sexy baby? Are you a mastermind? Are you the PROBLEM? let's discuss! 

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Welcome to season 2 of WYFTSS! Changes are afoot and I am delighted to introduce you to my new co-host Sammy Mowrey! They are a fantastic comedian and true swiftie, and we decide to kick things off by addressing all the #gaylor speculation in the ramp up to Taylor Swift's 10th studio album release of Midnights, also we play a game to definitively say whether or not Dress is the gayest song on the planet. Follow @sammymowrey for hot takes and @wyf_tss for all the related swift-centric content you can dream of! Also - our new theme song is by wonderful musician Lukas Kyp-Johnson!! 

This week I’m talking “Style” with Carl Tart! Carl is a writer (Brooklyn 99, The Eric Andre Show & more), podcaster, and actor, who you can catch every week starring in The Grand Crew on NBC! Despite Carl being a non fan and refusing to confirm that Taylor Swift is the Lebron of pop stars, we get deep on the fickle intensity of Style. I also talk about Haylor a LOT. Our featured "Artist Who Is Not Taylor Swift" this week is Banks - check her out! Follow Carl - @DammitCarl ! And Follow the pod! @wyf_tss Please rate & review xoxo!!