{"podcast":{"title":"The Swiftie and The Scholar","slug":"the-swiftie-and-the-scholar-7423818","podcast_index_feed_id":7423818,"rss_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/10733e200/podcast/rss","website_url":"https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/swiftieandscholarpod","image_url":"https://d3t3ozftmdmh3i.cloudfront.net/staging/podcast_uploaded_nologo/44058080/44058080-1752361917658-56c25e9df7bb7.jpg","author":"Angela McDow | Dr. Jerry Coats","episode_count":49,"summary":"A weekly podcast exploring the lyrics, lore, and literary legacy of Taylor Swift. Hosted by Angela McDow, the Swiftie, and Dr. Jerry Coats, the Scholar, we read between the lines AND the liner notes. Join us each week for lyrical deep dive through Taylor Swift's eras.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-09T16:20:25.215536+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-swiftie-and-the-scholar-7423818"},"episode":{"title":"The Self-Deprecation of Anti-Hero","slug":"the-self-deprecation-of-anti-hero","published_at":"2026-01-29T08:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-swiftie-and-the-scholar-7423818/the-self-deprecation-of-anti-hero","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-swiftie-and-the-scholar-7423818","url":"https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/swiftieandscholarpod/episodes/The-Self-Deprecation-of-Anti-Hero-e3e7p3k","audio_url":"https://traffic.megaphone.fm/APO2242175122.mp3","summary":"We’re back and we’re kicking 2026 off with the three remaining tracks from Taylor’s submission to the Songwriters Hall of Fame. Spoiler alert: she was inducted! We’ll talk more about that in the final of these three episodes, but today we are focused on Anti-Hero. Uncle Jerry wonders about Taylor’s psychological status when writing this song and Angela has an A-ha! moment about how the music cues us to maybe feel differently than the lyrics alone would make us feel. Works Cited: First Person Deixis Charles Barkley Nike Commercial Beauty and the Beast (1991) Brigid Kaelin on Instagram Taylor talking about Anti-Hero Anti-Hero Music Video Follow Us: ⁠⁠YouTube⁠⁠ ⁠⁠TikTok⁠⁠ ⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠ ⁠Angela’s Instagram⁠ Uncle Jerry Instagram","meta_description":"We’re back and we’re kicking 2026 off with the three remaining tracks from Taylor’s submission to the Songwriters Hall of Fame. Spoiler alert: she was ind…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3246,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-swiftie-and-the-scholar-7423818/episodes/the-self-deprecation-of-anti-hero/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-swiftie-and-the-scholar-7423818/the-self-deprecation-of-anti-hero.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}