CW: This episode includes a lot of talk of child neglect and abuse as well as suicide, so please take care in listening. We recorded this episode on August 19th, 2022 for our Patreon feed, where we read chapters 11-14 from the Rebekah Harkness biography by Craig Unger,  Blue Blood. We’ve recapped our notes and thoughts over on Patreon for the last year. Now, we've edited them down and we'll be releasing each Book Club episode for y'all on the main feed to join us on this rollercoaster journey of a book! **Keep in mind we learned more about all of these people in the book later on, so not everything we say here is with context from later chapters**

After a brief discussion of Taylor Jenkins Reid's underwhelming follow-up to Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, Malibu Rising, we go over some pretty intense chapters concerning the Harknesses and Rebekah's treatment of her children and grandchildren. We also discuss the parallels between Edith Harkness and Taylor; And Edith’s psych hospitalization after her suicide attempt at Holiday House… or as she calls it “her Peter Pan episode”… At the end, we discuss a mysterious virtual memorial for Edith Harkness, which you can find here. 

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We recorded this very first episode of our Blue Blood Book Club on May 14th, 2022 for our Patreon feed, where we have since committed to reading Blue Blood by Craig Unger AKA the very long Rebekah Harkness biography that The Last Great American Dynasty is based off of. Since then, we've read five chapters for each Blue Blood Book Club episode and recapped our notes and thoughts over on Patreon. Now, we've edited them down and we'll be releasing each Book Club episode for y'all on the main feed to join us on this rollercoaster journey of a book! **Keep in mind we learned more about all of these people in the book later on, so not everything we say here is with context from later chapters**

In this episode, we recap the first five chapters including the infamous chapter one "Betty and the Bitch Pack" and chapter five titled "The Golden Cage". Join us as we go back in time to when we recorded this episode nearly a year ago, just before Taylor's NYU commencement and long before Midnights' release, and read about the loudest woman this town has ever seen. THANK YOU for the love and well wishes for Katie<3 We love you all so so much.

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Hairpin Drop: ⁠https://one.usc.edu/archive-location/ladder⁠

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Hairpin Drop: https://library.ucsd.edu/dc/object/bb3006593b/_1.pdf

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Hairpin Drop: https://www.thecut.com/2014/10/taylor-swift-never-erases-her-chalkboard.html

Dickinson Poems: https://etc.usf.edu/lit2go/115/the-poems-of-emily-dickinson-series-two/4444/nature-poem-16-secrets/

https://www.tweetspeakpoetry.com/the-secret-by-emily-dickinson/

In a packed episode, Katie and Madyson open up with a breaking news report and a hairpin drop written on Taylor's chalkboard during her 1989 era. Katie points out how the parallels of Zelda Fitzgerald's similar battles to Taylor's as a female writer, and their shared ghostwriting experiences. Sticking with the American Lit theme of Taylor's F. Scott Fitzgerald quote, the archers revisit the incredible sapphic poet that inspires Taylor's quill pen, Emily Dickinson. They compare Taylor's writing in the folklore prologue to two poems about secrets by Dickinson and find that they sing about the same skies full of secrets. Finally, they go through *all* of Taylor's lyrics about hiding, sneaking around, secrets, whispering, covering things up, and lying... Which go back to the beginning of her career.

This podcast is not affiliated with Taylor Swift, her companies, or affiliated companies. All opinions are our own. Everything discussed is myth.

In their LONG awaited return, The Archers explore one of the most reoccurring themes in Taylor Swift's music: f*ck the institution of marriage. First, they rave about the 2023 Grammy's and Taylor's L Word themed after party at the Chateau. Then, they rediscover and dive deeper into Taylor's passion for freedom and her Sagittarian nature to rebel, progress, and push limits in these three songs. The Archers use this season 3 premiere to celebrate Taylor's boldness for writing Speak Now, the fight or flight response of Sagittarius in Peace, and her perfect capturing of comphet, cis-heteronormativity in Midnight Rain.

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Hairpin Drop: https://www.vulture.com/2019/05/new-chateau-marmont-book-celebrity-stories.html

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Meet us on Sunday 2/12 @ 10am EST for episode one..... hehehehe

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Our ethereal new intro and outro theme song!: https://twitter.com/erynranney & https://www.tiktok.com/@alltoogayyy

This podcast is not affiliated with Taylor Swift, her companies, or affiliated companies. All opinions are our own. Everything discussed is myth.