Taylor Swift EXCITEDLY Talks About First Baby With Travis kelce On Podcast with Jason Kelce?! –  Hw

I was waiting for you guys to invite me. This is my favorite podcast.   So, we’ve already been over this. You’re a big fan of the show. You’re a 92enter. What are your favorite segments that you hear Travis and I go into on a routinely basis?   I like News just because of the screaming.

Like, I hear him screaming new news from across the house constantly. It’s like my favorite part. Like he’ll be like, “New news, new news.” And I’m in the kitchen be like, “New news.” Um, so I love that because of just the bellowing of it. Like I love um, no dumb questions.   That’s a banger. >> I really like it when you give people advice.

It’s my It’s kind of my personal favorite. >> Do you usually agree with the advice or do you just like listening to it? >> I mean, I think that like you guys give such male ccentric advice. It’s which which I think is just like just dudes who don’t want drama. >> Yeah. dudes who are trying to avoid the mess or but sometimes you’re going to like do a bit and say the messiest thing that they could do which is funny too.

>> So we’re going to ask a question everybody watching the show is currently asking. Why are you coming on the show? Why you guys? What are you doing? You have so many better things to do with your time. >> This podcast has done a lot for me. Um I owe a lot to this podcast. I This podcast got me a boyfriend.

Um ever since Travis decided to use it as his personal dating app about two years ago. So, >> worked pretty good. >> Yeah. Hey, >> were his friendship bracelets that good? Did you give the friendship bracelets or was that just on the podcast? Like >> I’ve never been I’ve never seen >> Yeah.

They didn’t leave the stadium because I was butt hurt. Jason, >> he was He threw a tantrum. >> He threw a man tantrum. It’s so funny. It’s like ruined. >> She loves me. She loves me now. She loves me. She loves me now. >> This is so wild. >> She hates me. Like it was such a wild romantic gesture to just be like I want to date you like on I don’t know.

It was at first when I looked at it I was like this dude is >> that’s what it does when you’re on the stage and you perform in Arrowhead. That’s what it did. >> This dude didn’t get a meet and greet. He’s making it everyone’s problem. That’s what I thought at first and then I was >> you come to Arrowhead I get to meet you.

That’s the perk of playing for the Chiefs. >> You realize he didn’t even reach out to our management. I was like, when this podcast came out, I was like, did he ever reach out to be like in the tents or did we know he was in the building? >> He came with Pat and he thought that cuz he knows the elevator lady that he talk to her about just getting down.

>> That’s how it works. You just go >> and I got denied. >> That’s how it works. In 1973, >> um >> the elevator was independent. >> But yeah, but he but yeah, he really just was like, I know a guy. I can figure this out. But um I actually when I thought about it I was like actually we live in a day and age where >> like I’m not a very I’m not an online person at all.

Not like on social media like that and like I’m genuinely terrified to open my DMs. >> Um >> smart. >> It’s just like it’s just like it’s about just there’s smoke coming out of my DMs. Like I don’t want to go near that. I don’t know what’s >> if you want somebody to go through it. I’ll go through it just cuz I’ll laugh my ass off. >> It’s like if you have like 20 million unread DMs you’re not >> entertained.

Um, so this kind of felt more like I was in an 80s John Hughes movie and he was just like standing outside of my window with a boom box just being like, I want to date you. >> Yeah. >> Do you want to go on a date with me? I made you a friendship. Do you want to date me? >> JUST COME OUTSIDE and meet me. Just meet me once. Give me just give me a chance.

>> I was like, if this guy isn’t crazy, um, which is a big if, this is sort of what I’ve been writing songs about wanting to happen to me since I was >> Yeah. a teenager. >> Yeah. And I was sitting there at the air tour listening to every single one of those songs like she I know what she wants me to do. >> I’m I I feel that that’s a that’s a >> what she wants me to do.

>> He’s like this is just her wish list of like >> meet me please. Now I’m butt hurt. >> Yeah. I’m upset that you didn’t meet me even though you didn’t know I wanted to meet you because I didn’t do any proper logistical planning. >> Who plans? >> Typical Kelsey. Typical Kelsey. >> It was wild. It was wild, but it worked.

I’m glad it worked. Uh, I’m just circling back to New Heights to say thank you for for this. >> Look at this. >> I’m the luckiest man in the world. >> So, yeah, that’s >> and thank you to New Heights, all the editing. Jake, thank you for putting that on social media and letting it do its before we move on.

What? How did you know he wasn’t crazy? Cuz I that’s the other side of that, right? Like a guy goes up there and professes his love for you. It’s either one, it’s like this could be the most romantic thing in the world. It can also be like crazy about somebody. He is crazy. I mean, >> but there’s a there’s a right crazy though.

>> Yeah, he’s the good kind of crazy. And I I knew that he wasn’t crazy. The first couple of times that we talked, I was just like, he’s he’s truly like he’s truly getting to know me in a way that’s very natural, very pure, very normal. Like also like just the way that he could make me laugh so immediately um about normal things.

is the like Travis is like >> he’s just a vibe booster in everyone’s life that he’s in. He’s like a human exclamation point. Like, >> you know, he’s like when you take a picture on your phone and you put the like you push the enhance color button, that’s like what you do to >> text. I just I’m always so many more exclamation points now.

But I think it was just like you also you were so you’re so non-judgmental about people and you were not judgmental about the fact that I knew nothing about the world you were in. >> Oh, it was it was the best. >> You were nice. You were so nice. >> I got a clean slate. You were like, “Thank you.” >> He doesn’t know any of my Are you kidding me, >> Jason? On our first date, I literally I I legitimately asked him >> what it was like when the Chiefs played the Eagles in the Super Bowl and he looked across the field across the line

of scrimmage and saw his brother standing on the other like 5t in front of him on the field. Yeah. >> And he was like, >> he was and he didn’t even he didn’t even look at me like I now know what an insane question that was. He was like, “Actually, I’m on the offense uh and my brother’s on the offense and I’m only on the field at the same time as the defense.

I thought everyone was out there at the same time.” I thought I thought that the quarterbacks >> I mean, that’s how you played at at on the on the playground growing up. So, I understand if you hadn’t like >> No, you don’t understand. I thought it was like Jared Goff is here and Josh Allen’s here >> and they’re gonna be like they blow a whistle and then they go they go at each other and they’re like I mean, like, who’s going to win? >> That’s actually >> I would love to see Jared G play some defense.

Let’s see Jared Golf on defense. >> I’ve got some ideas. I’ve got some thoughts. Yeah. I didn’t know what a first down was. I didn’t know what the chains were. I didn’t know what a tight end was. >> I am forever I am forever thankful for you diving into the football world wholeheartedly. >> Oh my god, I fell in love with it. I became obsessed with it.

I became like a person who was running through the halls of my house screaming, “We drafted Xavier WORTHY.” AND MY FRIENDS ARE LIKE, >> “WHAT is who body snatched you? This is a This is what do you mean we drafted Xavier Worthy?” >> I forget where I was, but you were the first person to tell me that we drafted the first man in the draft.

>> No, I was screeching. I couldn’t believe it. I was freaking out. We’re talking about >> I’m like, “Wait, does she she right? I got to look this I’m like, she she get the wrong information here. But yeah, we trade it up and >> yeah, we’re talking about cover two, cover four, cover zero. Man, cover. We’re talking. We’re We’re learning.

>> We I continue to learn. >> Maybe somebody else that even knows what those coverages are. >> Yeah, I’m not ready to be an analyst right now, but >> that’s been Yeah. >> Give me 16 months. >> You’re going to pick up on it. I’m telling you, I You would ask some of the best questions when we were up in the booth.

And there’s like your desire to learn more, but your genuine excitement around it, as well as like your competitiveness. >> She’s not [ __ ] around. No, Tay’s not [ __ ] around. >> Oh my god. >> She’s not [ __ ] around. >> Reclaiming Masters. You want to tee this up? >> Let’s tee it up. Um, one of uh one of my favorite things this summer was Taylor reclaiming her Masters.

Um, her recording of her first six albums uh finally uh became hers. And um you haven’t really talked about it. You made that beautiful post on all your social channels thanking everyone that that made it happen and everything, but uh why don’t you tell uh tell the 92enters how it really felt. >> Oh wow.

Um so to catch anyone up who doesn’t know about this saga, like I signed a record deal when I was 15 and I always kind of refer to it as I got my music back this this summer, but I never owned my music at all. So, traditionally, a lot of record deals are set up in a way that artists don’t own what’s called their master recordings. Owning your master recordings means that you have complete control and power over distribution, licensing, um, and essentially the way your legacy is shaped.

It’s it’s um, it’s a huge thing. It’s always been a huge thing for me. Like since I was a teenager, I’ve been actively saving up money to buy my music back and to to ever own it in the first place because it’s usually the label that owns it. But I I’ve always wanted this to happen. So, um, it’s been sold, my music has been sold a few times.

The first time that it was sold, it really ripped my heart out of my chest. And I told everybody exactly how that felt for me and what I was going through. And I started basically defiantly re-recording my music because I wanted >> I wanted to own it. And this was the only way I thought it was ever going to happen. And so um >> I knew she had a bad kid and she’s got she’s got a little bit of a bad kid.

>> It’s not a bad kid. That’s a freaking savvy kid. That’s like, hey, >> I’ve been told I’ve been defined a lot of times. >> Well, you are defined. You’re very >> It’s like I I um >> insubordinate. Travis, >> insubordinate. Yeah, it’s it’s I think for me, you know, that was the closest I ever thought I would get to owning my music.

And so re recording my music, it was so exciting to get to have that opportunity, but there was still like I thought about not owning my music every day. Um, it was something that I never was a it’s like an intrusive thought that I had every day. And so we we do the Aerys tour. Uh after the Aerys tour, I had a meeting with my team and we we decided this might be a good time to approach the current owners of it.

The owners of it was um a private equity firm called Shamrock Capital. I knew them to be above board people. Uh you know, they had been very friendly to us. Um what I was looking to do though was I wanted to buy my music outright. I don’t want to be in a partnership. I don’t want to own 30% of it. I want it.

I want to own all of it. >> And you deserve that. >> But it was a long shot to think that they would do that, that they would sell that that asset to me. >> It’s a big asset. >> It’s a huge decision for them to make to sell that to anyone, including me. I decided that rather than this be like a a business conversation.

I I’m in the business of human emotion. I would so much rather lead heart first in something like this because for me this is not oh I want to I want to own this asset because of its returns because if it’s you know because of the dividends that I will receive over the years >> this was I want it because this is my handwritten diary entries from my whole life.

These are the songs I wrote about every phase of my life. This is my photography, my music videos, my most of which I funded. Yeah. >> You know, my artwork, everything that I’ve ever done is in this catalog. >> And so rather than send lawyers or management like in a big crew, I sent my mom and my brother who I work with >> to LA and they um sorry, they sat down and they like this happens.

I don’t ever really talk about it because it’s um They sat with um with Shamrock Capital and they told them what this meant for me. Like this is they they told them the whole story of all the times we’ve tried to buy it, all the times it’s fallen through, all the times we had gotten plans together and figured out something we thought was going to work and it didn’t at the last minute.

And so like my mom calls me afterwards. She’s like, “Look, you know, they were wonderful. They they heard us out. We have no idea which way they’re going to go with this.” And so I was like, “I get it. I get it. I’ve I haven’t gotten my hopes up about this in a decade. Um and so it was a couple months after the Super Bowl. We’re in Kansas City.

Um, and I get a call from my mom and she’s like, she’s like, they they we we did you you got your music >> and um so sorry that uh this is it’s literally been so long since this happened. It’s every time I talk about it. Um she was like, “You got you got your music.” And I just like very dramatically hit the floor for real.

like honestly just started >> balling my eyes out and I’m just like just just weeping and kind of like unable I was just like really are really really what do you mean what do you mean and I’m I’m like get get yourself together get your [ __ ] together like just go tell Travis in a normal way. >> Yeah. >> And I knock on the door.

He’s playing video games and I’m trying to say it in a normal way and I’m just like >> I’m like, “Oh no, what just happened? What just happened?” >> And he’s like, he like puts his headset down. HE’S LIKE, “GUYS, GOT TO GO.” AND I think he thought something was wrong. And you come up and I’m just like, >> “I GOT ALL MY MUSIC BACK.

” AND THEN JUST start absolutely heaving. >> Just dead weight. Just dead weighed. Little control. >> Had no power in my legs to support myself. And um yeah, this changed my life. Um I can’t believe it still. Every time I think about it, it’s like I have to tell the short version to everyone because it is still like this this will affect the rest of my life.

I think about this every day now, but instead of it being like an intrusive thought that hurts me, it’s I can’t believe this happened. Like how lucky am I? How grateful am I? I’m so grateful to like the artists that helped me with my re-records because when I did my re-records, I started doing those in 2021 >> and a lot of like most of the industry trades were like this is a bad idea.

This is her sort of derailing her career in a way. Nobody’s interested in you doing the same album twice. Fans are not going to be engaged with this. This is not going to go well for her. >> Somebody knew though. And it was like I still was able to like reach out to friends of mine like like like Phoebe Brides, Keith Urban, Marin Morris, Chris Stapleton, you know, Haley Williams from Paramore, Fallout Boy, like all these absolutely incredible artists that like shape who I am as an artist and um and they like agreed to be a part of the

re-records. And I like, you know, I one of the only people I told before this happened was like I called Phoebe Brides and I was just LIKE and she’s like, I think you just did you just say what I think you said. And so this has just been like it was just I’m so grateful for it. It’s um it’s just unbelievable.

And I was so happy you were there when that happened. >> I mean I was >> cuz I could not stand. >> Yeah. I mean I started crying too. You know, you were weeping. >> I was I’m just so happy for you because I’ve seen I’ve seen >> how you make music. I’ve seen how you make these videos. I’ve seen the effort and the focus and the strategy behind what just one album in torture poets department and and and in Fortnite.

And I was blown away that you had been doing this your entire life and for, you know, your first six albums, you weren’t given the the rights to all of that. M >> and I know what that that looked like and I know how much it it burns you that that you didn’t have that and you didn’t have your creation.

And I just I think doing it the right way, >> creating the fan base that you did the right way and um and and leading your life in a in a direction that you you were eventually going to get it back somehow some way because of you um always doing things uh with the right intentions. So >> thanks. >> So how I guess how does music owners This is so crazy to me.

So, you wrote these songs, you sang these songs, you put everything into them. And don’t get me wrong, there’s publishing companies, people that support artists out there, but yeah, how how does ownership of music even work? Like when you recorded these songs when you were 16, right? Is that like >> the singer, >> you dump it down to us 9%.

>> The singer gets a certain portion, the the uh the artist gets a or the songwriter gets a certain portion, and then the publishing company gets a certain portion. >> Okay. Well, this is that’s a great question and there’s two main categories that we’re talking about just asked. Go ahead. >> So, master recordings is the actual um recording.

>> Yes, >> it’s the actual vocal band production, mixing, mastering, that actual thing. >> Yes. >> Um mine mine also included my album artwork, my music videos, um everything that went along with any era of music that I had done for my first six albums. >> Every every era. So then there’s also then there’s another category which is publishing.

>> Yes, >> I own my publishing which is why you know I have control over you know if my song is used in a film I and I and I wanted them to use Taylor’s version instead of the original version I the songwriter can decide that. >> Got it. Okay. you know, and so it’s like >> I basically >> I I’ve always been very lucky because my publishing was protected.

A lot of artists >> have have their publishing sold away from them or they sell their publishing and I, you know, and a lot of artists, it may not be important to them. It was always important for me. The publishing aspect of it has always been something I’ve had firmly in place, which is great because my songwriting is the core of of why I do this, why I love it so much, and what I think has made anything happen in my career at all.

>> Greatest songwriter of all time. >> That’s very nice of you to say that. >> It’s like says her boyfriend. Um, >> says a lot of people. >> Basically, then you have the the master recordings side of things. Now, this is a discussion that was not really brought up amongst the artist communities, especially not with fans.

This was all kind of industry ccentric and kind of boring contract stuff that like fans were not speaking about. And so one thing that I think is really great that has come about because of this is that I have so many new artists come up to me now and say, “Hey, I didn’t even know this was a thing.” >> And when I went to go and negotiate for my record deal, I negotiated to have my masters revert back to me after a certain amount of years or that I own them outright.

And >> it’s not for everyone. Not everyone cares about this. artist to artist. Artists have different priorities. Some artists sell off all their masters because everyone’s allowed to have their own priorities. What I wanted though is that >> if I were to put the information out about what I went through, at least it gets artists talking about this to decide whether this is a priority for them because you can’t know if it’s a priority for you >> unless you know what has come before you and what has happened. And and so the

master recordings thing, that’s your actual ownership of your recordings. To put it in perspective, if I never would have been able to buy back my music, one day someone else would be leaving all of my music from my first six albums to their kids in their will, >> right? Yeah. >> And you think about it like that, it’s like >> I thought of it. I made it.

I recorded it. I paid for most of those music videos. You know, I wanted an opportunity to to to buy that back and that was important to me. >> You feel like they’re yours. They should be yours. >> Yeah. Exactly. Do you think it was easier for you to do one because you’re I mean just you talking about this you’re so aware of the business side of this and the legal ramific >> you being the songwriter being the singer owning no publishing rights being able to re-record songs that gave you leverage and able to make this move

Right. >> Yes. >> Yeah. >> Yes. So, that was And also, uh, you know, in my contract, they didn’t put a clause in that said I couldn’t re-record because nobody was doing it and nobody thought that was a good idea, >> right? >> So, and also like who would be that stubborn? Like, who would be WHO WOULD BE THAT PETTY? >> This badass kid over here >> that they would record every single thing.

>> So, badass over and over again. >> What was your favorite one? >> Not just not just that. Hold on, Bill. But not just that. Who has a fan base that’s going to listen to the same album twice in a row? >> It’s a good point, Jason. It’s a good point. >> And honestly, you and this is where they missed it. You had 1989 already built.

>> That’s the thing is the >> You told a story with the second time you released this album, right? And the fans got behind that narrative and they’re like, “Screw the first album. We’re roll we’re rolling with the re-recorded album because we’re supporting the artist.” >> They were like, “We ride at dawn.

” like and and it was it was amazing because you know they’re the reason why the re-records worked out. They’re the reason I was able to purchase my music back because they came to the Aerys tour. Um and basically they’re the reason why any of this worked out. And I also want to note that like the other people who are like we ride at dawn my my live band they played on all the re-records.

It’s like, you want to know why they sound so perfect on the ARS tour? They played they played on all those records. Like, they’re session musicians, too. And that’s how good they are. And I’m I’m so impressed >> just by their ability and their dexterity as musicians to be able to do that uh so convincingly because there there are there are actually some there’s the the Taylor’s version one.

I kind of prefer a lot of that stuff. I think it sounds incredible, but I’m happy to have all of it. >> So, that leads me to the next question, Tay. Now that you own all of it, you have the re-recordings, you have the original recordings, what should we listen to? >> Like, what do I do I roll with does it matter? You’re just like, whatever you guys want.

Like, >> yeah, it’s it’s really whatever you guys want because I love both of them. I would not have put out the re-records if I didn’t think that they held up or were better. I think a lot of the vocals I did on the re-records are better than the originals. >> Okay. >> But it’s like if you found a nostalgia in the originals and that was what you were listening to when you were 12 years old boopping around in your bedroom, go crazy.

>> Yeah, >> we got them all. >> I’m going to start doing comparisons. That’s what I got to do. I just got to start doing comparisons. >> You’re going to listen to every beat. >> You’re certainly It’s not mandatory, Jason. >> I mean, that sounds like a good time. >> I’ll say this. There’s a few good uh playlists out there that have a mixture of them all.

>> You’ve been streaming? >> Yes. >> Thank you. I’ve been streaming for about two years now. >> Oh, just >> that’s fantastic. Thank you so much. That’s why we got that spike in in the 35y old male demographic. >> Yes, that 1.7 billion. That was at least 1 billion of those for sure. >> We have one IP address from one iPhone that continually is listening to these.

Did you have a favorite album that you re-recorded that like are there different eras that you liked recording more re-recording? I really liked them all, but I think Red was very special. There were songs that I called from the vault songs, and there was one, which I think is maybe my favorite song I’ve ever written called All Too Well, the 10-minute version where I unearthed there were there originally so many more verses in that song than ended up being on the on the album that I had put out.

When I originally put out Red, >> I made the um the glorious, fortuitous mistake of saying that to my fans in an interview. >> You know what those words mean? >> I love it. >> You’re so handsome. So, um basically, uh I said that in an interview to my fans and they just like hung on to it. They were like, “Where’s the 10-minute version? Give us the 10-minute version.

” >> Yeah. And um when it came time to doing Taylor’s version and re-recording the album, I went back in, found the verses, um restructured the song to the way that it pretty much was when I had originally written it, put them back in. >> Um and that song is one of my favorite things I’ve ever done.

And it was when we were on the ERS tour, I’m watching people just like cathartically scream this song to the point where I’m like, do you need do you need to go to the hospital? Like it was so passionate the fan response to that song at the tour and I remember thinking so many times like >> what if this never happened like what if I never had >> it’s one of the most iconic parts of your of that tour.

>> It it was so fun and so like yeah it really did make me fall back in love with that album specifically. I have a song with Phoebe Brides that I really love on that you know from the vault. Chris Stapleton was a part of it as well. And I just I think that one I’ve always loved Fearless in 1989 in a very pure way, but Red I’ve kind of gone back and forth over the years and been like, >> you know, like that re-recording it made me just be like, “Ah, God, I love that album.

I have no no complicated feelings about that. I wouldn’t have done anything different.” >> Maybe except to include the original verses the first time. Well, well, let’s We just talked about the different eras a little bit. Let’s talk about perhaps the most daunting thing that any artist has ever taken on, which is the Aerys tour. >> Oh my god.

>> Um, you finally finished it up last December in Vancouver. >> Uh, I don’t know. I What did it feel like to wrap it up? What does it feel like now? Like not touring and being on a jet every day basically trying to go from country to country. >> Yeah. >> I mean, insane. It feels great, Jason, to be honest.

Um, I’m not going to lie to you. >> You don’t miss it. >> I I miss it. Um, I do miss it, but it’s like it was perfect for what it was. Do you know what I mean? And it was a lot of >> it was a lot of physical therapy and it was a lot of like being in a state of perpetual physical discomfort. Um, kind of like when you’re in season, you know? >> Yeah.

No, >> I’m not getting hit by huge 300 lbers, but the heels. >> No, when I saw the recovery station in the hotel room after with the toe spacers, >> I got to acupuncture that I’ve got >> I’m telling you, dude, the similarities were crazy. I’m like, “Oh my gosh, >> she does more than I do.” >> We’re like comparing physical therapy stories like recovery stuff.

>> But have you ever tried taping your ankles? We related on how much big >> ankle tape guy. I I yeah I I miss it because I missed the fans and I missed that connection, but at the same time it was so special. It was like the most formative time of my life. Um I learned so much about about how far I can push myself and if I set a goal, you know, making that a three and a half hour show in the beginning of the tour, it’s like you can’t like be sick one day and then decide tonight it’s going to be two and a half hours,

>> right? And it’s really just like prioritizing the fans experience before >> before anything else. And my fellow >> broken heart. >> Yeah. >> Don’t get me started, dude. >> Don’t you get me started. >> Or like stomach flu or like just like aching feet or blisters or whatever. Like it’s it just was >> which she had all of this going through >> all at the same time.

>> Um >> going into her fourth show. >> Yeah. And it’s just it it was kind of the coolest thing in the world because when we were putting together this tour, I had some really lofty goals I wanted to reach conceptually because I wanted to show I wanted to show fans and especially younger fans visuals and sort of performance art references that were really important to me as a kid and what inspired me to want to do this. Right.

So, like I wanted to put >> elements of of musical theater, Broadway, ballet, you know, scenery that you would see in an opera, uh, kind of >> thinks like this. >> I was about to say I watched the whole tour. I don’t I just thought it was amazing. I didn’t notice. >> But that’s that’s exactly it. I wanted it to be references that I thought were really high concept and really high value for fans and for them to see things they hadn’t necessarily seen before all in one concert, but I wanted to do it at at the highest intensity,

rapid fire. You’re seeing something new every 15 to 30 seconds and so it feels like you’re scrolling in an algorithm, right? And when I heard reports of people saying that they got actual amnesia after the concerts, I was like, “Oh, I think we did it.” >> Yeah. >> I think I think we did it. Nailed it. That’s That’s genuine.

That That’s I didn’t even wasn’t even shooting for that goal when they’re like, “I saw so many things and I experienced a state of euphoria that I now don’t remember what happened to me.” I was like, “Oh my god.” All I remember is that she didn’t want to meet me. That’s it. >> That’s it. That’s all he That’s all he got about.

>> And as much as much as you and I’ve told you this, as much as you want to, you know, give uh New Heights credit, I give the Arrows tour credit. >> Yeah. >> I give the Ars credit because if I would have never gone to that show and been mesmerized >> and just been captivated. >> Yeah. >> And then left >> with such a desire to want to meet you.

Oh, >> I would have never uh went on here and told everybody how butt hurt I was. Yeah. I’d never just been so engulfed in the curiosity of who you were. >> Oh, that’s really one of the best things about that last statement is you didn’t even know what the word engulf meant before like you met Taylor.

Like this is you’ve broadened your horizon so much. >> It were the perfect I’m telling you it’s so she makes me so much better. >> So, >> thank you for saying that. Thank you for saying that. Um, >> and then but it’s like you see you on the stage and you see how crazy you can get an entire stadium going and then I get you in a room and it’s like I’ve known you forever.

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>> Hey, that’s >> Should I Should I leave? >> Yeah, I think so. Honestly, at this point, I think everyone should leave. Taylor Swift and Kansas City Chief star Travis Kelce have been under intense public scrutiny since their engagement announcement last year with their wedding preparations captivating fans everywhere.

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The Real Griselda Blanco Was The Most Dangerous Cocaine Queen Behind ‘Griselda’ Series – YouTube Transcripts: September 3rd, 2012, 6:15 in the evening. Metalene, Colombia, the Cardiso Butcher Shop on 29th Street. Griselda Blanco walked out carrying a slab of meat wrapped in white paper. She was 69 years old, stooped, gay-haired, a grandmother in flat shoes. The motorcycle came from her left, two riders. The passenger raised a 9mm. He fired twice. One round entered her skull above the left ear. She dropped onto the sidewalk beside her pregnant daughter-in-law. Blood pulled into the gutter. The motorcycle vanished into traffic. The whole hit took seconds. This wasn’t just another cartel hit. The woman bleeding out on that meddling sidewalk had been linked to more than 200 murders. She’d helped build the Miami cocaine pipeline before Pablo Escobar was a household name. She’d buried three husbands, motherthered four sons, and earned a nickname that terrified men twice her size. The black widow, Ladrina, the cocaine godmother. And here’s the part that mattered most. The motorcycle drive by killing that ended her life. Her own gunmen were among the first to make it famous. This is the story of how a poor girl from Medeline helped build a cocaine empire on Miami concrete. how she outkilled most of the men around her during the deadliest decade in American crime history. How she made enemies of cartels, federal agents, and her own family. And how her own methods finally circled back and put her in the dirt. But here’s what the documentaries gloss over. Griselda wasn’t just a drug dealer. She was an architect. She helped draw the blueprint that the cartels who came after her, Escobars included, would follow. And for a brief blood soaked window in the late 1970s and early 80s, she moved cocaine into the United States on a scale few of her male rivals could match. You have to understand where she came from to understand what she became. Griselda Blanco Restrepo was born February 15th, 1943 in Cartahena, Colombia. When Griselda was three, the family moved to Medelene into a hillside slum. No running water, no electricity, dirt floors. Children ran the streets like packs of dogs. According to her own later associates and the lore that surrounds her, Griselda was picking pockets young. And by her former lover’s account, at 11, she allegedly took part in kidnapping a boy from a wealthy neighborhood, demanded ransom, and when the family didn’t pay, shot him. 11 years old. Allegedly, she survived by hustling, prostitution as a teenager, forged paperwork. By her early 20s, she’d taken up with her first husband, a document forger named Carlos Trujillo. They had three sons, Dixon, Uber, and Oswaldo. The marriage ended the way most things in her life ended with Carlos gone. Some accounts say she had him killed over a business dispute. Others say he died of cerosis. The accounts genuinely vary. What’s clear is that by the early 1970s, Griselda was a mother of three with a growing taste for the trade and for violence. Then she fully partnered with Alberto Bravo and everything scaled up. Bravo was a mealene smuggler with ambitions bigger than his territory. They married. They moved cocaine north. At first, it was a few kilos at a time, hidden in the false bottoms of suitcases. But Griselda saw something the men around her didn’t. She thought industrial. By the early 1970s, she and Bravo had set up shop in Queens, New York, Jackson Heights. The Colombian neighborhood that would become the beach head for the South American cocaine invasion. This is where Griselda’s genius started showing. She hired a designer in Medolene to make custom bras and girdles with hidden compartments. Each one could carry up to 2 kilos. She recruited women, stewardesses, tourists, housewives, grandmothers. They flew commercial from Bogotaa to JFK wearing the merchandise on their bodies. Customs barely looked twice at middle-aged Colombian women in modest clothing. The operation ran for years, moving steady volume into New York and feeding the city’s exploding appetite for the drug. But that’s not the crazy part. The crazy part is what she did with the money. She didn’t bank it the way the Italians laundered theirs. She buried it in coffee cans, in safety deposit boxes under fake names, in the walls of safe houses across Queens. The cash piled up faster than she could hide it. Then came the indictment. April 30th, 1975. A federal grand jury in the Southern District of New York charged Griselda Blanco and 37 others the result of an early DEA operation called Banshee. It was one of the biggest cocaine cases US prosecutors had built to that point. By the time the indictment came down, Griselda was already back in Colombia out of reach. She left behind safe houses, bodies, and a half-built empire. But she also left behind a blueprint. The Queen’s operation became the model for everything that came next. Back in Colombia, things got ugly fast. Griselda and Alberto Bravo were sitting on millions in cash and accusing each other of skimming. In 1975, they met outside a Bogota nightclub to settle accounts. According to multiple accounts, Griselda pulled a pistol and shot Bravo. His bodyguards opened fire. She caught a bullet in the stomach. When the smoke cleared, Bravo was dead along with six of his men. Griselda survived. She walked out holding her stomach with one hand and took control of his share of the business with the other. Husband number two, buried. Here’s the thing about Griselda that nobody quite understood at the time. She wasn’t running from anything. She was building toward something. By the late 1970s, she’d married her third husband, Dario Sapulvida. She’d had a fourth son, Michael Corleion Blanco. Yes, she named her child after the Godfather character, and she’d moved her entire operation to a new city, Miami. Miami in the late 1970s was a sleepy retirement town. Pastel hotels, shuffleboard, a police department that wasn’t ready for what was coming. Griselda saw all of it. the geography, the Cuban exile community, the endless coastline, the lazy federal presence. She set up in a mansion in the wealthy suburb of Pinerest and she went to work. This is where Griselda became something new, a woman running a paramilitary cocaine army. Let me break down how the Miami operation worked because the mechanics matter. Step one, the opportunity. Miami had three things no other American city had. Direct ocean access to Colombia, a large Latin American immigrant population that gave her foot soldiers cover and a banking sector hungry for cash deposits with few questions asked. Step two, the muscle. When Castro emptied his jails and let roughly 125,000 Cubans sail from the port of Marielle in 1980, a small but violent minority had criminal records. Griselda recruited some of the hardest of them, killers, enforcers. She paid them, gave them apartments, cars, and women. Step three, the structure. She built cocaine cells across Miami Dade County. Each cell handled a different function. Importation, cutting, distribution, collection, enforcement. No cell knew what the others were doing. Step four, the money. At her peak around 1979 and 1980, Griselda was moving an estimated 3,400 pounds of cocaine per month into Miami. At the height of her operation, that translated into as much as $80 million a month. Step five, the problem. Griselda enjoyed killing too much and it would eventually destroy everything. Because here’s what made her different. Pablo Escobar killed for business. Carlos later killed for territory. The OOA brothers killed when they had to. Grisel de Blanco killed because she liked it. Her gunman helped pioneer the modern point blank motorcycle hit. Before Griselda’s cruise, cartel killings leaned on parked cars, ambushes, kidnappings. Her people put shooters on motorcycles in pairs. The driver weaved through traffic. The passenger fired through car windows at stoplights. By the time witnesses processed what they’d seen, the bikes were three blocks away. Her enforcers, the pistols, are credited with some of the first of these motorcycle assassinations, a method that became a hallmark of the cartels who followed. Between 1979 and 1982, Miami Dade County experienced what people later called the cocaine cowboys era. The murder rate climbed to the point where the medical examiner’s office was so overwhelmed it reportedly leased a refrigerated trailer just to store the bodies. By the early 80s, Miami led the nation in homicides, and a significant share of those killings traced back to one woman. The Dayland Mall shooting. July 11th, 1979. A liquor store called Crown Liquors beside the mall in South Miami. 2:30 in the afternoon, shoppers everywhere, children, families. Two of Griselda’s gunmen walked in carrying machine pistols. Their target was a Colombian cocaine dealer named Herman Jimenez Panesso. They cut him down along with his bodyguard, Juan Carlos Hernandez. By the time they walked out, two men were dead. The storefront looked like a war zone, and they were gone. They fled in a van police later nicknamed the war wagon, its sides lined with weapons and bulletproof vests. The day land hit shocked America. It was the moment the country realized something new had arrived. Open warfare on American soil, machine guns at a shopping mall, and the woman behind much of the bloodshed was sitting 45 minutes south. But that’s not even the worst of it. In 1982, Griselda’s men went after a rival named Jesus Castro. They opened fire. They killed Castro. They also killed his two-year-old son, Johnny struck by a bullet meant for his father. According to her former enforcer, Jorge Ayala, who later testified against her, she wasn’t bothered by it. By his account, she said the boy would only have grown up to be like his father. Here’s where it gets darker. Because while Griselda was building this empire of blood, her personal life was unraveling. Her third husband, Dio Sapulva, wanted out. He wanted to take their son, Michael Corleion, back to Colombia and live a normal life. Griselda refused. So, Dio kidnapped his own son and fled to Bogotaa. Griselda allegedly put a bounty on her own husband’s head. In 1983, a team of Sakario cornered Dario in Colombia. They posed as police officers, pulled him over, and shot him to death in front of his driver. Michael Corleó was returned to Miami. Griselda raised him as though nothing had happened. Husband number three, buried. By the mid 1980s, the pressure was building. The DEA had hunted Griselda since the 1975 Queen’s indictment. Agent Bob Palumbo had been tracking her movements through informants, wiretaps, and financial records for years. He knew she’d left Miami. He suspected California. He just couldn’t prove it. She’d moved to Irvine, California, a quiet suburb. Lawns, white picket fences. She rented a house under a fake name and told the neighbors she was a widow. She lived with her sons and ran her operation by phone. She thought she was invisible. She wasn’t. February 17th, 1985, around 5:30 in the morning, DEA agents and Irvine police surrounded the house. Bob Palumbo was there. He’d waited years for this. They breached the door. Griselda was asleep in a back bedroom. She didn’t resist. She just looked at Palumbo and said in English, “You got me.” The arrest took minutes. She was extradited to New York to face the 1975 indictment. And here’s a detail most retellings get wrong. There was no guilty plea in New York. A jury convicted her at trial in the summer of 1985. The judge sentenced her to 15 years in federal prison and fined her $25,000. And here’s where most stories would end. But Griseldas didn’t because while she sat in federal prison, Miami prosecutors built a new case against her in the mid 1990s. Three murder charges, including the death of 2-year-old Johnny Castro. The death penalty was on the table and the star witness was her former chief enforcer, Jorge Rivy Ayala. Ayala was ready to testify. He had detailed knowledge of dozens of hits. He could put Griselda on death row. But here’s where it gets unbelievable. While in protective custody, Ayala carried on phone sex with secretaries from the state attorney’s office. They got caught. The scandal blew up the case. With its star witness compromised, the state offered Griselda a deal. In 1998, she pleaded guilty to three counts of secondderee murder and was sentenced to 20 years to run alongside her federal time. She dodged the electric chair because the prosecution couldn’t keep its own witness under control. Griselda served her time. By 2004, she was released and deported to Colombia. She was 61 years old. The empire was gone and so one by one were her older sons. Dixon, Uber, and Oswaldo had all followed her into the trade and all three were killed reportedly in retaliation for the violence she had caused. Oswaldo was gunned down outside a Medeline nightclub in 1992. The exact dates and circumstances of Dixons and Uber’s deaths were never clearly documented, but both were dead before their mother. Only Michael Corleó survived. He eventually settled in Miami, got into reality television, and built a lifestyle brand around the family name. Back in Medí, Griselda lived quietly. She rented a modest place. She kept a low profile. By some account, she’d become a born-again Christian and said she was tired, that she just wanted to be with her grandchildren. Some people believed her. Most didn’t. You have to understand in the cocaine business there’s no retirement. There are only enemies you haven’t met yet. And Griselda had spent 40 years making enemies across two continents. Take your pick. September 3rd, 2012, 6:15 in the evening, Griselda walked into the Cardiso butcher shop on 29th Street in Medelene. Her daughter-in-law, 7 months pregnant, was nearby. Griselda bought meat for dinner. She walked out into the dusk. The motorcycle came from her left. Two riders, black helmets. The passenger raised a 9mm. He fired twice. One round hit her in the head just above the left ear. She was dead before she hit the pavement. The motorcycle accelerated into traffic and vanished. Police recovered the shell casings. They never identified the shooters. The case remains officially unsolved. The cocaine godmother killed by the same kind of hit her own gunman helped make famous motorcycle. Two riders head shot at close range. The exact method that had terrorized Miami three decades earlier. What did 40 years of bloodshed actually produce? Let’s count it. Grisel Blanco has been linked to somewhere between 200 and 250 murders. Her organization is estimated to have moved tens of thousands of kilograms of cocaine into the United States across her active years, a flow worth, in today’s terms, well into the billions. She generated enormous tax-free profits. She buried three husbands and three sons, and she died with almost nothing. The cash was gone, the properties were gone, the respect, the fear, the empire, all of it gone. Her legacy isn’t the money. It isn’t even the body count, though the body count is staggering. Her legacy is the template, the cellular structure that compartmentalized risk. The use of women as smugglers to exploit law enforcement’s blind spots. The motorcycle assassination, the willingness to kill anyone, including children, to send a message. The cartels who came after her, Escobar included, inherited and refined those methods. Bob Palumbo, the DEA agent who finally caught her, has called her one of the most dangerous criminals he encountered in decades of federal law enforcement and said the male cartel bosses looked tame by comparison. Here’s the truth about Griselle Delanco. She wasn’t a feminist icon. She wasn’t a misunderstood mother. She wasn’t a victim of her circumstances. She was a calculating, sadistic operator who happened to be a woman in an industry that didn’t think women could do what she did. And she used that underestimation as a weapon. She moved more product than most. She earned more cash than most. And when the end came, it came the way she’d always known it would, on a sidewalk, two riders on a motorcycle. The method she’d helped perfect used against her with precision. She lived by the gun. She built an empire with the gun. And the gun, in the end, owed her nothing. If this story pulled you in, hit subscribe. We drop a new mob and cartel breakdown every week. Drop a comment below. 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