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Be There in Five
Be There in Five is a pop culture and millennial zeitgeist-focused podcast by Kate Kennedy (entrepreneur, author, pop culture commentator). Long-form and solo hosted, Be There in Five explores different facets of popular culture in a comedic, thoughtful, and analytical way, covering entertainment, social media, bloggers/influencers, and celebrities, in addition to focusing on the humor found in reexamining the 90s/00s as an adult (from AIM to Zenon). As one listener described it, "come for the…
Episodes
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GOODBYE EARL TUPPER
This week, Kate is back from the book-deadline trenches with a mini dive inspired by the many fellow Beths who misread Brenda Song's new NFL gig as "color…
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The Bore Ultimatum (feat. Nora and Caroline)
This week (for ep 2), Kate is joined by friends of the pod, Nora McInerny and Caroline Moss, for a group hang that begins with scorpions in Nora's laundry and…
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Coaches Coaching Brooches
This week, Kate asks an important question for the sake of equality in the workplace: can a woman carry two bags and be taken seriously? Can her bracelets…
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Coaches Coaching Brooches
This week, Kate asks an important question for the sake of equality in the workplace: can a woman carry two bags and be taken seriously? Can her bracelets…
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WE NEVER STOOD A CHANCE (Parenting Edition)
This week, the air quality is apocalyptic, parents everywhere are staring down the summer childcare cliff, and Kate is feeling pro-tantrum.. What starts as a…
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Cannes Debrief, MSG, and Celebs Making Out at the Heath (with Sami Sage)
This week, Kate briefly debriefs her week at Cannes Lions during a record-breaking heat wave, including how she accidentally hired a private French bodyguard…
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It's Like Our Sleepover (with Anna Konkle)
This week, Kate chats with PEN15 co-creator Anna Konkle for a conversation that's equal parts silly and heavy, like the last two people awake at a sleepover…
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Madison Square Jargon
This week, Kate meanders through "I Knew It, I Knew You" and the Toy Story 5 premiere, why she's changed her tune on the rumored Madison Square Garden wedding…
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Be Good, Not Well
This week, it's just Kate, an Aperol Spritz, and the tech bro quote about wine that accidentally kicked off the conversation we've all been needing about…
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False Paternity, 14 Felonies, and a Former Bachelor: Stephani Young on Love Trapped
This week, Kate sits down with Stephani Young, the journalist (and longtime Beth!) behind the viral investigative podcast Love Trapped, the year-plus deep dive…
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1998 (feat. Caroline Moss)
This week, Kate is joined by Caroline Moss for an episode that was supposed to be about modern pop culture and somehow turned into mostly topics from 1998…
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DZ: Discovery Zone (BTI5 Live Practice)
This week, Kate is trying something new by returning to her old form. After taking time off and noticing her comment section brain rot, she's trying to get…
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Yesteryear with Caro Claire Burke | Trad Wives, Secret Lives & Twist Ending (Spoilers)
This week, Kate sits down with Caro Claire Burke, author of the hit debut novel Yesteryear, the trad wife time travel thriller that triggered a publishing…
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The Taylor Frankie Paul of It All
This week, Kate is breaking her hiatus for a special report recorded before Thursday's news that ABC was scrapping TFP's season of The Bachelorette…
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Taylor Swift Lyrics that Scratch Your Brain (Reprise)
This week, Kate attempts to revive (but then mostly records a new version of) a fan-favorite Patreon from 2021 about the way Taylor Swift pronounces words…
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Mama's Back at the Lake (Director's Cut feat. Caroline Moss)
This week, Kate and Caroline Moss revisit the beloved Mama Slay at the Lake episode with a director's cut of our delirious 6 AM conversation about irreverent…
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Mother, Son, and the Aioli Spirit (Director's Cut)
This week, Kate revisits an infamous episode from March 2020 about dips, sauces, and dipping sauces. Order Kate's NYT Bestselling book, One in a Millennial…
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Bath and Body Jerks, Wash Your Face (Director's Cut)
The culture that made the Beths say the Beth culture was for them. Mashup ep with 40+ min of new audio. SUPPORT OUR SPONSORS Order Kate's NYT Bestselling book…
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Petty Little Liars (feat. Kelly) (From the Vault)
This week, Kate has an announcement that she shares at the beginning of the episode that will then explain the rest of the episode and why its title may sound…
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Red Delicious
This week, Kate reflects on 2025 for feeling depleting yet not defining, exhausting and sometimes forgettable; a year of endless micro-trends, political chaos…
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Eras Tour Docuseries (Eps 1 and 2 feat. Sarah from Taylor Swift Style)
This week, Kate welcomes back Sarah Chapelle (Taylor Swift Style) to discuss the first two episodes of Disney+'s The End of an Era docuseries. They dissect the…
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Shelf Help
This week, Kate investigates Elf on the Shelf: cute Christmas tradition or late-capitalist nightmare? After a simple Instagram question turned into hundreds of…
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Was D.A.R.E. an MLM?
This week, Kate's peer pressuring you to listen to an episode about the DARE program in the 90s and how it made every fifth grader in America incredibly wary…
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Fill Your Fillings (SLOMW + RHOSLC with Nora)
This week, Kate has Nora McInerny back for their tradition of poorly recapping The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives. They do a better job this time of actually…
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It's Called Herstory, B*tch
A casual late night monologue, gabbing about things on Kate's mind, including but not limited to: Hilary Duff's new single "Mature" Speaking of age gaps, Kat…
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Ween Clips
This week, Kate's trying something new during her off week: a Fall/Halloween-themed mashup episode pulling together some of her favorite topically adjacent…
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Dancing with the Instacars (feat. Nora McInerny and Caroline Moss)
This week, Kate is joined by friends of the pod (Nora McInerny and Caroline Moss) for a delightfully chaotic convo about DWTS that starts with Groupons, the…
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Hobbies & Pinterests
This week, for part 2 of our hobbies series, Kate reads listener emails about pursuing new hobbies as an adult and their profound impact on personal…
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Life of a Showgirl: Prologues, pettiness, and poetry
A stream of consciousness about TS12 with Kate after she had a couple days to let it marinate. Back to hobbies next week. :) Enjoy! SUPPORT OUR SPONSORS Order…
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Killing Thyme Part 1 (Adult Hobbies feat. Carmen James)
This week, Kate and her guest Carmen James (@thegoodcarmablog) chat about all things related to adult hobbies. The first half is Kate musing about nostalgic…
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2016
A nostalgic deep-dive into the last era of millennial optimism, when we got to figure out who we wanted to be before the algorithm told us who we already were…
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Help, I'm still at the chain restaurant (Katelilah)
This week, Kate answers listener texts and voicemails. She snorkels left chest logo polo critters of yesterday and today, organizes mall chain restaurants into…
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Loving Him Was Redbird (The Summer I Turned Pretty with @lucyontheground)
This week, Kate brings in a friend of hers and a friend of the pod, Lucy Carey (aka @lucyontheground), for an in-depth discussion about the series "The Summer…
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And, Baby, That's Dough Business for You
This week, Kate listened to a two-hour football podcast and lives to tell the tale. In this podcast episode about a podcast episode, Kate obsesses over a…
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Under the Influencer (with Lee From America)
This week, Kate's interviewing Lee Tilghman, also known as @LeeFromAmerica, who was one of the very first major wellness influencers on social media. To her…
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Mama Slay Off-Broadway (feat. Caroline Moss)
This week, join Kate and Caroline Moss as they chat through a variety of topics, from nostalgic summers that turned shitty to off-broadway dreams becoming…
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Taylor Swift: Symbolic Self-Portraiture, Archetypes, and Tragedy in Lyricism
This week, join Kate as she returns to form (2+ hour early BTI5-style rambling) by going through an old PowerPoint she found on her computer about Taylor…
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Hot Girl Hamster Wheel (feat. Katie Gatti Tassin)
This week, Kate starts by talking about water table culture, Le Creuset mystery boxes, and attempting to reclaim her adult hobbies, then she's joined by Katie…
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No Ma'am (America's Sweethearts Season 2)
This week, Kate reviews America's Sweethearts season 2 on Netflix and tells the tale of how last year's Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders episode became one of…
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Hit Girls (feat. Nora Princiotti)
This week, Kate is joined by Nora Princiotti (host of Every Single Album, author of Hit Girls) to talk about the women who built pop's shiniest decade, like…
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Total Request Five (Addison Rae and the New Pop Machine)
This week, Kate tries a tri-deep dive connecting Addison Rae's evolution, Y2K's one-hit wonders, and the overlap of both TRL and Tiktok's pop generations…
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Beth: A Week in the Life
Join Kate on all eight of her days trying to Eat Pray Love. Back to reg programming next episode. Enjoy! SUPPORT OUR SPONSORS Order Kate's NYT Bestselling…
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Class of BTI5 (feat. Kelly)
This week, Kate is joined by her sister Kelly for a classic nostalgic crowdsourced ep with big yearbook staff energy. Listeners submitted their tales related…
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The Secret Lives of Catholic Wives (feat. Nora McInerny)
Kate's having a rough week, so she called in reinforcements (Nora McInerny) to help her discuss the new season of The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives, but not…
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Can I Be a B*tch for a Second? (feat. Normal Gossip's Kelsey McKinney)
This week, Kate unpacks the art, science, and history of gossip with Kelsey McKinney (from the beloved podcast Normal Gossip and author of NYT bestselling book…
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E.T. Phone Holmes
This week, Kate delves into Katy Perry's career decline, but not before being wrongly accused of a crime she didn't commit, and the exchange unfolds in real…
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Mousewater Blondes (feat. Nora McInerny)
This week, Kate and (esteemed author/podcaster/friend) Nora McInerny answer a few Katelilah voicemails in between meandering conversations about spatial…
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Tim Leatherman (feat. Sami Sage)
This week, Sami Sage is back on the podcast (friend and co-founder of Betches Media), and she and Kate meander through a variety of topics, like searching for…
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Poppi Culture (soda billionaires, influencer beverage investors, and the Alex Alix of it all)
This week, we're deep diving PepsiCo's $1.95 billion acquisition of the prebiotic soda brand Poppi, discussing the shift towards health-conscious beverages and…
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Flower Sprinkle Nation (With Love, Meghan Review)
This week, Kate reviews Meghan Markle (Sussex?)'s new show: With Love, Meghan. Order Kate's NYT Bestselling book, One in a Millennial here! Text or leave a…
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Pop Apologists (feat. Lauren Atkinson & Chanler Bledsoe)
This week, Kate is joined by the Pop Apologists, sisters Lauren Atkinson and Chandler Bledsoe to discuss a variety of pop culture-adjacent topics, e.g., their…
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Chelsea Explains it All
This week, Kate welcomes Chelsea Anderson, the creator behind viral Instagram and TikTok accounts (@chelsea_explains and @chelseaexplainsitall, respectively)…
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Freek-a-leekonomics
This week (in honor of Galentine's Day), Kate reflects on the sentimental and chaotic rituals of getting ready with girlfriends before going out (or out-out)…
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One Last One in a Millennial Hurrah (feat. Kelly)
This week, Kate and her sister give One in a Millennial one last hurrah in honor of its paperback release by sharing some more behind-the-scenes nostalgia and…
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One Hit Momblers (with Rachel, Claire, and Ally)
This week, Kate's sisters-in-law are back on the pod for a lighthearted convo about a variety of topics in the second half of the episode, like following up on…
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Blake Lively's Power Suit: Part 2
This week, Kate reviews the PR "smear campaign" half of the complex legal battle between Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni, delving into the concept of…
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Blake Lively's Power Suit: Part 1
This week, we kick off 2025 with a classic BTI5 deep dive, investigating the Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni controversy surrounding the film It Ends with Us…
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We Listen and We Don't Budge
This week, Kate recaps some of 2024's least notable micro-trends, goes through her embarrassing purchases from the Tiktok shop, admits some of her shameful…
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The End of our Eras Era
In this episode, Kate provides personal reflections about the past 21 months of Taylor Swift's Eras Tour fanfare, online and IRL, then reads listener-submitted…
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Wicked Witch of the Midwest (Katelilah)
This week, Kate begins by recapping her experience seeing Wicked twice and shares her favorite Easter eggs, then answers listener voicemails that are a…