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Episodes Monday Rundown September 29 - October 5 2025

This week: Taylor Swift, Chappell Roan in concert, and one of the year's best films.
Taylor Swift, lit with a green light, wears an enormous feathered contraption and grips her face. She's got a dark brunette wig on.
On this album, Taylor Swift has a song named "Elizabeth Taylor," and it starts with her singing, "Elizabeth Taylor" in an echoey vocal, which I'm conceptually fine with, but also? (Credit: TAS Rights Management)

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