Taylor Swift gave Dave Portnoy a big surprise this weekend -- a letter penned by the pop superstar thanking him for all of his support.
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00:00to another sort of diva, Taylor Swift, who returned.
00:04I don't know.
00:04I didn't mean it in a negative sense.
00:05By the way, it's not always a negative thing.
00:08Anyway, Taylor Swift back on tour in Miami, the Eras Tour.
00:12This is the final leg of her US tour.
00:15Started this weekend with three big shows.
00:17Lots of celebrities packed in Hard Rock Stadium.
00:21Among them, Hoda and Savannah Guthrie.
00:24Also, Billy Joel was there.
00:26Tom Brady and his sons.
00:28Tom referred to as the guy's night out at the Taylor Swift
00:32show.
00:33And Dave Portnoy.
00:33His kids look like him.
00:35Yeah, it's weird.
00:36Jeans and stuff.
00:37Amazing.
00:37Yeah.
00:38Dave Portnoy was also there, the founder of Barstool Sports
00:43and the self-proclaimed king of the Swifties.
00:48And not only did he get into the VIP section,
00:51he says he was sitting right next to Billy Joel.
00:53But he, and I don't know if he's the only one in the VIP section
00:58who got this, but he got a handwritten letter
01:02from Taylor Swift.
01:03And I love this because Dave is kind
01:05of rubbing it in the nose of some Swifties who
01:08have had issues with him.
01:10Check out how he revealed this letter.
01:13Hand delivered to me in the VIP section from Taylor.
01:17But this girl, she's like, oh, Taylor hates them.
01:19They don't want them there.
01:20They don't like them.
01:22This letter from Taylor herself that
01:24was hand delivered to me in the VIP section
01:27from the desk of Taylor Swift.
01:30Dave, I'm so happy to have you at the show tonight.
01:34I want to say thank you for always being so supportive,
01:36so loyal, and for having my back when a lot of people didn't.
01:40I hope you have a blast tonight.
01:41Love, Taylor, heart.
01:43Songwriter, feline enthusiast.
01:46That should have been the highlight, right?
01:47Taylor writing me this hand-delivered note.
01:50Or maybe when her mother, Andrea, came over in Austin's
01:55like, hey, my mom wants to meet you.
01:57And we had like a real hug.
01:59I got to say two things, two things.
02:01One is that what he's talking about in terms of what she's
02:05talking about in terms of supporting,
02:06that was back when Kim and Kanye had recorded her
02:11and tried to edit it to make it look like she had approved
02:15Kanye's lyric, I made that bitch famous,
02:18which she never approved.
02:20But she took a lot of heat for a long time.
02:22The second thing I want to say is Dave Portnoy
02:24is a big Trump supporter.
02:26And Taylor has come out for Kamala Harris.
02:29And you know, and by the way, and after she
02:31did endorse Kamala Harris, there were a lot of Dave's fans
02:35who were like, wait, how are you going
02:37to be all about being a Swifty when
02:39she's supporting Kamala Harris?
02:40And he said, that's her right.
02:42He says, in this country, people can vote for whoever they want.
02:45How somebody votes will never change my opinion of a person.
02:48I'm voting the other way, but to each their own.
02:50This is my favorite thing that Taylor Swift has ever done.
02:52And I mean that because I think like a PR expert out there
02:56would say, hey, Dave has had some things that are really
02:59controversial in his past and that she shouldn't align
03:03herself with Dave Portnoy.
03:04But she didn't care.
03:05Dave Portnoy had her back, like you said, Harvey.
03:08And I don't know, I respect her so much.
03:10Not that she cares if I respect her or not,
03:11but I respect her so much for not caring about that
03:15and saying, hey, you had my back and I am with you.
03:18I thought that was awesome.
03:19Does this make him now the official king of the Swifties,
03:21not just self-proclaimed?
03:23I think she thinks he is, right?
03:24He has called himself that, Charles,
03:25but I think she just anointed him.
03:27Well, the bigger claim to fame, I think, is loyal friend.
03:33Yeah.
03:34And I think that's what she's getting at there.
03:36She seemed to really be moved by the fact
03:39that he supported her when times were tough.
03:41And her family clearly knew it also.
03:43You heard him describe the meeting with her mom.
03:45Right.