July 6, 2026

Taylor Swift’s Madison Square Garden Wedding Officiated by Adam Sandler

Show Notes
Transcript

Johnny Mac delivers a bonus rant about reports that Taylor Swift married Travis Kelce at Madison Square Garden with Adam Sandler officiating, citing coverage from The New York Times and other outlets. He mocks the celebrity spectacle, noting details like Austin Swift as man of honor, Jason Kelce as best man, and Sandler’s purported marriage advice via Andy Reid to “keep kissing,” plus comments attributed to the AMC Theatres CEO, Joseph Kahn, and a critical Slate piece questioning Sandler as the choice. Mac speculates about how guest lists are shaped by Hollywood networking rather than real friendships, naming attendees such as Paul McCartney, Charlie Day, Conan O’Brien, Stephen Colbert, Seth Meyers, Donald Glover, Chris Rock, and Nikki Glaser. He also recounts Dave Chappelle joking on CNN that he wasn’t invited, then closes with brief personal updates about losing internet and upcoming episodes.

00:39 Sandler Officiates Shock
01:31 Marriage Advice Buzz
02:05 Media Reactions Roast
03:25 Guest List Confusion
04:05 How Celeb Invites Work
04:59 Comedians at the Wedding
05:51 Chappelle Bachelor Party Bit
06:28 Quick Wrap and Congrats

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Callaroga Shark Media. Hey there, I'm Johnny Mack with a

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bonus episode. I don't know if you heard Taylor Swift

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got married and Adam Saylor officiated. Let me tell you,

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if you're a longtime listener, you've heard me mention probably

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every other day that I worked for Serious XM for

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ten years, and during that decade, I spent a lot

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of time in the celebrity world. And there are just

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ports of the celebrity world that I can't stand. And

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this Taylor Swift wedding is just kind of everything all

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at once. I mean, what are we even doing here?

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Adam Saylor was the efficient. Even the New York Times

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went out of their way to write an article about that,

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they say. A representative for Taylor Swift confirmed it a

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statement that the proceedings at Madison Square Garden included Austin Swift,

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who's Taylor's brother, who served as Taylor Swift's man of honor,

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and Jason Kelsey was his brother's best man. The statement

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also said Adam Sandler officiated the ceremony as one does

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when you're in love and you take your house very seriously,

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you get Adam Sandlor to do the wedding. The Times

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looked into the connections. Perhaps the swift Kelsey's have a

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deep relationship with Adam Sandler will of course, Travis Kelcey

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appeared in Happy Gilmore Io, so of course that's who

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you ask. Late last week on Thursday, in British tabloid

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The Sun saw Adam Saylor unloading a gorment bag before

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a small rehearsal dinner held at a theater inside Madison

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Square Garden. Kansas City Chiefs head coach Andy Reid said

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Adam Saylor gave the couple some pretty good marriage advice.

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According to Andy Reid, Adam Sandler told them to keep kissing.

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So in its simplest form, that's a good thing. It's

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hard to argue when you give your wife a kiss

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or your wife gives you a kiss, and make sure

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you do it every day, every minute they have an

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opportunity to do it. Knock it out and you want

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have problems. The AMC Theaters CEO had a posted on

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Twitter and then deleted it. He said the efficient sang

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and talked, oh oh my goodness, how horrible. And he

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was warm and welcoming, funny and eloquent. USA Today says

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Joseph Kahn, who's directed a number of Swiss music videos,

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set on Instagram that the wedding was so much funnier

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and emotional than expected. Slate Rights. Adam Sandler officiated, yes,

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you're reading that correctly. The Sandman, star of the Grown

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Ups franchise and so many terrible Netflix movies. That's Slate

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saying or not me. It was just so wrong on

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a spiritual level, my body is rejecting it. There is

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nothing against Sandler, whom I love and who I truly

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believe was robbed of an Oscar nomination for Uncut Gems. Again,

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I didn't write this, but I agree with this person

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Slate Rights. He is just absolutely the wrong choice as

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an efficient for Swift, someone who I usually think of

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as a serious person and it always who cares about

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lyricism and romance, someone who could have asked literally anyone

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in the world to do or the honor of marrying her.

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Did you plan the rest of the wedding and let

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Kelsey make this one choice so he would feel happy

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he got involved. As for whether they even know each other,

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Kelsey started with Sailor and happy Gilmore too, but Swift

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apparently loves him. As well. She's spoken about how the

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happy place concept in Happy Gilmore partially inspired her song

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wish list skipping ahead. Has Swift chosen a partner she

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can be a dumbass with everyone deserves to have fun,

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I guess, but I truly hate this. Even if Swift's

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wedding dress is eventually revealed, have been made out of dalmation,

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for no detail of this day will be worse. So

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people shared some of the guests list. I'm gonna focus

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on comedy here. I mean I looked at it and

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I was like, why is that person there? Why is

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Kevin Burkhart there? Oh yeah, he hosts Fox Football. I

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guess he got his order, almost knows Travis Kelzie Shore,

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Why is Paul McCartney there? Why is anyone there? These

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are not your friends. Again, I've been involved with like

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Super Bowl parties and big parties and the Big Boss going,

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hey see if Charlie Day can come because Charlie Day

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for some reason, was it Taylor Swift's wedding? Are they friends?

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I don't know. Some other people that made it Marcelo

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Hernandez because he does one thing well and one thing only.

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And I guess Taylor Swift finds it funny Marcelo Hernandez

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at the wedding of Taylor Swift and Travis Kelcey for

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some reason. So behind the scenes, what happens here is

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you're having these big events and the big boss makes

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a wish list, and you know it's probably had all

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the biggest people you could possibly think of, you know,

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Paul McCartney level, and I guess Paul actually said yes,

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and wouldn't surprise me. Possibly perhaps if Paul got paid

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to sing I saw her standing there or I want

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to hold your hand or whatever he's saying was I

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want to hold your hand, wouldn't surprise me if Paul

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didn't do that for free, just saying anyway, So the

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big boss makes a list, you know, hey, can you

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get so and so and so and so so, And

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then there's the other list of hey, so and so

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wants to know if they come, so say it's I

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don't know, Charlie Day, and Charlie Day has to wait

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to find out that, like Leonardo DiCaprio didn't want to come.

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And then a spot opens up and you got to

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fill the room. So there's that whole jockey in going.

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But I don't believe that any of these people are

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Taylor Swiss friends. This is Hollywood agent's jockeying back and

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forth with an event planner trying to get us to

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talk about it, and I'm talking about it. So Marcelo

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Hernandez was there, why, I don't know. Conan Ryan was there.

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Stephen Colbert was there. Well, he's got free time. Seth

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Myers was there instead of working hard on his late

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night show that has barely more viewers than this podcast

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as listeners. But Seth Meyers had time to go because

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Seth seems like kind of person that hangs out with

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both Taylor and Travis, doesn't he. Donald Glover was there.

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The aforementioned Charlie Day did make the list, Chris Rock

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was there, and Nicki Glazer made the list. She's gonna

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be so happy. This is everything Nicki Glazer has spent

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the last four years trying to do. Nicki Glazer gots

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to go to Taylor Swift's wedding and probably had a

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sign a non disclosure agreement and now can't even talk

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about it. When she does, she'll get in trouble. That's

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actually Nicki Glazer. Hell, you got the invite and you

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can't talk about it. John guesses. I hate everything about it,

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Like I'm glad they got married, but I hate the

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celebrity cynicism of this whole event. Dave Chappelle was on

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CNN over the weekend for July fourth. He confirmed that

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Travis Kelcey did bring his friends with Dave Chappelle's show

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for Bachelor Weekend in California. Did he interact with Travis Kelcey.

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Dave Schappelle said, well, of course I did. Chappelle then

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joked I was shocked. I'd never seen anything like this,

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A horrorless bachelor party that got a laugh from the crowd.

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Dave said, whatever makes you happy. Travis was Dave Chappelle

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invited to the wedding. Dave said, I heard he was

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getting married at Madison Square Garden. You would think I

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could have gotten an invite, but I didn't make the

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fifteen thousand closest friends. Amen, Dave Chappelle, just a quick

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rant episode. If you follow me on social media. I

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didn't have power for a couple. Now I didn't have power,

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but I have a generator, so it's fine. But then

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I didn't have the internet, But now the internet is back.

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So now I can get back to ranting about whatever

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I'm ranting about right now. Tomorrow I had actually pre

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taped Tomorrow's actually pretty good, the Tuesday episode, and then

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Wednesday we'll pick things back up. Now that I have

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the internet, can actually prep the show and upload shows

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and do all the things that I do. But congratulations,

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Taylor Swift, Travis Kelcey. I'm glad Charlie Day was there

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for you to be part of your big day.