This week, Kate reviews the Bama Rush doc on (HBO) Max and discusses why she thinks the doc fell short of our expectations as viewers and voyeurs of this Tiktok phenomenon. First, she reviews her initial reaction, the director’s role in it, why she realized it would be impossible for cameras to get on the inside, and reviews some of the core themes that were touched on but not explored. She also speculates about the important things, like sticker gate with Holiday. Then, Kate is joined by anothe...
May 26, 2023•1 hr 30 min•Season 1Ep. 261
This week, Kate answers listener voicemails, with topics including (but not limited to) a listener’s romantic tryst with one James Marsden, a mysterious voicemail about Kate’s signature sign-off, the use of the term of endearment “mama,” a Bachelor lore snorkel regarding which season Kate would go on if she were here to make friends, thoughts on baby naming trends/Utah spellings, and celebrity privacy and parasocial relationships, discussed through the lens of the recent car chase with Meghan &a...
May 21, 2023•2 hr•Season 1Ep. 261
This week, Kate muses aloud about her feeling like influencer and affiliate marketing has pyramid scheme vibes, then goes off on a tangent about vague marketing jobs in the context of being “pink collar” jobs that aren’t treated the same as more technical roles, then eventually gets back on topic an interviews Emily Lynn Paulson (author of Hey Hun: Sales, Sisterhood, Supremacy, and the Other Lies Behind Multilevel Marketing) about the good, the bad, and the cringy of her time bossbabing as a top...
May 14, 2023•1 hr 59 min•Season 1Ep. 260
This week, Kate interviews Sara Petersen, author of Momfluenced: Inside the Maddening, Picture-Perfect World of Mommy Influencer Culture, and they discuss all sorts of topics regarding the performance of motherhood online, from the origin of the ‘cult of domesticity’ to modern moms rebooting civilization as homesteaders and beyond. Enjoy! SUPPORT OUR SPONSORS Pre-order my book, One in a Millennial here ! Right now, BÉIS is offering our listeners 15% off your first purchase by visiting BEISTRAVEL...
May 07, 2023•1 hr 40 min•Season 1Ep. 259
This week, Kate continues the bridesmaid series by reading and reviewing listener-submitted stories about the joy and obligation of participating in wedding parties (and their related events), but for part 2, Caroline Moss (@geethanksjustbought it, author of Hey Ladies, original mama slaying at the lake) joins her to talk all things 2010s wedding culture and beyond. Enjoy! SUPPORT OUR SPONSORS Pre-order my book, One in a Millennial here ! Don't forget to listen to Nora McInerny's new podcast, It...
Apr 30, 2023•2 hr 8 min•Season 1Ep. 258
This week, Kate resurrects the Bride Tribe series to offer her updated perspective (and updated listener stories) about participating in weddings and/or being a bridesmaid, just in time for wedding season. This episode is narrated via a 27-point list Kate once made about how stressed she was attending friends’ weddings around age 27, when she was left wondering if the most accurate wedding rom-com this whole time was the depiction of glorified girlfriend martyrdom in 27 Dresses. Enjoy & come...
Apr 24, 2023•1 hr 59 min•Season 1Ep. 257
Kate reflects on her Mormon Mommy Blogger series 4 years later and laughs/cringes at a full circle moment she experienced this week while sober on a party bus en route to a Taylor Swift concert. Enjoy! Pre-order my book, One in a Millennial here ! SUPPORT OUR SPONSORS Get free Chicken Thighs for a Year and 20 dollars off your first box when you sign up today when you sign up at butcherbox.com/BETHEREINFIVE and use code BETHEREINFIVE. Find your forever pieces @jennikayne and get 15% off with prom...
Apr 16, 2023•1 hr 25 min•Season 1Ep. 256
This week, Kate discusses a topic adjacent to her newly released book cover: early 2000s burned CDs, where a generation of baby pirates took on the music industry with a stack of CD-Rs, a sharpie, and a dream. She goes through some brief history of peer-to-peer sharing sites, talks through the millennial version of ‘walking miles in the snow’ aka buffering, discusses changing her entire personality to impress boys via music, then reads some listener anecdotes about their favorite memories, sound...
Apr 07, 2023•1 hr 57 min•Season 1Ep. 255
This week, Kate muses aloud about several topics adjacent to studying abroad and crowdsources stories from fellow millennials’ good, bad, and cringy “cultural” experiences. Recently an article went viral about a Gen Z’er not enjoying her time in Florence, and it got Kate thinking about her time trying to cosplay a more sophisticated, European version of herself that genuinely thought she came back a changed woman due to her collection of street pashmina and her ability to navigate the Eurrail tr...
Mar 30, 2023•2 hr 30 min•Season 1Ep. 254
Maj spoiler alert - this week, Kate recaps the Eras tour in Vegas (night 1) with her sister Kelly and college BFF Hannah. They may be half asleep, but they are wholly satisfied by an amazing show and wanted to share some of their hits, misses, fav moments, tips, and audience complaints. EnjoY! Get tickets to my April 2nd virtual show, Be There in Five Years, at moment.co/bethereinfive SUPPORT OUR SPONSORS Right now, BÉIS is offering our listeners 15% off your first purchase by visiting BEISTRAVE...
Mar 27, 2023•1 hr 2 min•Season 1Ep. 253
This week, Kate watched M3gan and then was served content about AI making podcasters obsolete, so she tries to figure out if she should care about chatGPT and then competes with it to see who does a better job answering listener voicemails. A woman in STEM! This episode covers pressing listener questions, such as: -Popular girls who painted their nails in class, where are they now? Feat. an incredibly windy tangent about body spray/splash culture in locker rooms and 90s Herbal Essences commercia...
Mar 19, 2023•1 hr 56 min•Season 1Ep. 252
This week, Kate shares her hopes and dreams for the Eras tour before it's spoiled this week, e.g., some thoughts she has on theme/structure/flow, her favorite F bombs she hopes to sing, plays a sampling of her setlist draft, and also shares insights from her snorkel into TS tour footwear over the years. She also makes a detailed plea for a YOYOK/Long Live finale, among other must-hear songs. Then, Kate interviews Sarah from the original TS style blog, Taylor Swift Style, and they discuss Taylor’...
Mar 12, 2023•2 hr 13 min•Season 1Ep. 251
This week, Kate begins by addressing the Scandoval of it all, doing a 20 min or so snorkel through the current Vanderpump Rules drama between Tom/Tom/Rachel/Raquel/Ariana, trying to contextualize it with past show drama for beginners. Then, she segues back into a favorite topic of the Beths (candle culture) to resurrect an old series called Under the Influencer and interviews Lindsay Silberman, a magazine journalist turned influencer and business owner best known for her insanely popular brand, ...
Mar 05, 2023•2 hr 5 min•Season 1Ep. 250
This week, Kate breaks her silence on the 1999 “historical” American Girl dolls that dropped this week and talks through their accuracy regarding millennial iconography. She also discusses 90s twin tropes/evil brunette twins, sleepover popcorn politics, and skincare routines of yesteryear like the Clinique 3-step. She then finds archived PDFs of old American Girl books about popularity and crafting, like a whole book dedicated to “Jazz Up Your Jeans,” and it jazzes up Kate’s day. She then discus...
Feb 26, 2023•Season 1Ep. 249
TW: pregnancy, miscarriage, fertility talk, mentions of Breaking Dawn Much to her surprise, Kate’s now in her Gestation Era. Hear how it all went down and more on this episode that’s a personal detour from her usual content (and is technically part 5 of her Childless Millennial series that’s been 2+ years in the making). SUPPORT OUR SPONSORS Evelyn & Bobbie is giving Be There in Five listeners an exclusive discount code to try Evelyn & Bobbie bras, risk-free, for yourself! Use code BETHE...
Feb 17, 2023•2 hr 5 min
This week, Kate talks about the controversial list of 141 rules The Cut/NY Mag came out with that were positioned as a revised etiquette guide for modern society. First, she dives into some of the histories of western etiquette, snorkels Emily Post & the gang, reflects on her time in cotillion, learning to be ‘ladylike’ in pop culture, and her issues with classism and ‘old vs. new money’ convos. She then ventures into some of her takes on the list and peppers in listener emails about their r...
Feb 12, 2023•2 hr 17 min
This week, Kate starts by sharing the shows she’s been watching (Bad Sisters, Shrinking, Pamela: A Love Story, discusses her enthusiasm toward the redemption of victims of 90s misogyny, then reviews the social media ads she can’t get away from, and her love/hate relationship with custom songs people commission for Valentine’s Day off of Tiktok ads. She then discusses some thoughts on religious deconstruction and then goes into an interview with Heather Gay, Real Housewife of Salt Lake City and a...
Feb 05, 2023•1 hr 30 min
This week, Kate talks about Madi Prew & her husband’s purity culture-tastic video, then she feels the need to snorkel her issues with golf culture, talks about her affinity for “Dad Stuff,” then, she needs a pal to chat with so Kelly dials in, and they discuss taking on snow sports in your 30s, lift ticket couture, California culture, some more thoughts on Spare (e.g. lip gloss and Easter presents), school fundraisers with prizes like limo rides to a Pizza Hut (!!), the joy of a woman’s righ...
Jan 30, 2023•1 hr 30 min
This week, Kate’s snorkeling (AKA mini deep dives) the week’s pressing pop culture topics, according to her IG Q&A box that keeps her in the know while she’s still slightly off the grid, like discussing the economics and backlash associated with the Tarte Dubai Influencer trip, the continued skyrocketing of Alix Earle (and else what’s on Kate’s FYP, like scar girl?). She talks about the rumors surrounding Miley Cyrus’ new song Flowers and the barrage of super-specific rumors that came out ab...
Jan 22, 2023•1 hr 58 min
This week, Kate is solo (and has the plague!) as we kick off 2023 with a Katelilah episode where she answers listener voicemails and is thrilled to have someone to talk to in isolation. Topics include discussing the trend of having style “words,” personal style evolution, the Tiktok trend of dressing your mom, top internet sleuthing tips, Kate’s thoughts about internet detectives going too far, the evolution of celeb paparazzi shots, Taylor Swift being driven by accolades/success metrics and gue...
Jan 08, 2023•2 hr 3 min
This week, Kate has Carmen James (@thegoodcarmablog) on the podcast to talk about the 6-part reality docu-series Harry & Meghan. Enjoy! SUPPORT OUR SPONSORS Let Audible help you discover new ways to laugh, be inspired, or be entertained. New members can try it free for 30 days. Visit Audible.com/bethereinfive or text bethereinfive to 500-500. For a gift that will impress, check out OSEA’s Bestseller Minis Collection. Right now our listeners get 10% off your first order with promo code BETHER...
Dec 23, 2022
This week, Kate goes back to the beginning. Back to where (the earth, the stars, the sun all aligned, yes) but also back to the beginning of her fascination with southern California beach culture, thanks to 2004's groundbreaking reality show, Laguna Beach: The Real Orange County. Due to Kristin & Stephen's podcast, the show is experiencing somewhat of a renaissance, and in case you’re adding this to your holiday binge watch schedule, Kate wanted to also revisit the days of side bangs, black ...
Dec 18, 2022•1 hr 45 min
This week, Kate starts with a high level first impression of the Harry & Meghan documentary (she’ll cover in full once all eps come out), then she is joined by Caroline Moss (from Gee Thanks Just Bought It) to talk all the hottest trends in pop culture and gift guides. Instead, they get distracted and mostly talk about nothing current and hyper focus on the culture of hand towels and merch in lakefront towns and how the wordplay transcends any and all human reasoning, to the point where Kate...
Dec 12, 2022•1 hr 51 min
This week, Kate has on a special guest that you may have known from the world of bridal design, but given an ongoing legal battle with her former employer, she can no longer publicly identify with her given name and was reintroduced to the world as Cheval in August 2022 (and her namesake line of glam footwear @sheischeval was introduced in October 2022). As the friendly designer and "America’s bridesmaid" on TLC’s, “Say Yes to the Dress,” she brought over 10 bridal product lines to market, dress...
Dec 04, 2022
This week, Kate reads crowd-sourced stories about holiday hometown romantic rendezvous from BTI5 listeners. Enjoy! SUPPORT OUR SPONSORS Let Audible help you discover new ways to laugh, be inspired, or be entertained. New members can try it free for 30 days. Visit Audible.com/bethereinfive or text bethereinfive to 500-500 to try Audible free for 30 days. For a gift that will impress, check out OSEA’s Bestseller Minis Collection. Right now our listeners get 10% off your first order with promo code...
Nov 28, 2022•1 hr 40 min•Season 1Ep. 233
A Be There in Five Special Report that was recorded uncharacteristically quickly. Details the Ticketmastermind fall out with fans where both Ticketmaster & TaylorNation (allegedly?) poorly planned and forecasted against consumer demand paired with their mutual intentional profit maximizing strategies that instead of dancing in the pit, left us with a pit in our stomach for overpaying because we were underprepared with details TN could have easily released regarding pricing, setup, tiers, VIP...
Nov 18, 2022
This week, Kate and her sister maintain tradition and review the recent Love is Blind Prom, I mean reunion, but first go over their week in California, Kelly’s fav on Midnights, the Jen Aniston article, review a celeb sighting involved their favorite plane movie, among other random topics. Then they get into the Love is Blind couples, along with a few side convos, like comparing/contrasting to Married at First Sight. Enjoy! SUPPORT OUR SPONSORS Get started today—frame your photos or give someone...
Nov 14, 2022•1 hr 44 min•Season 1Ep. 231
This week, Kate provides very Maroon-forward programming with her high-level review of Taylor Swift’s 10th album Midnights (it's totally different from Patreon reaction videos, btw). Now that we’ve had a couple of weeks to let it sink in that karma is a cat, Kate discusses her streams and skips, bread and butter songs versus jams, muses about parallels between sister tracks, goes more in-depth into a handful of songs she’s still analyzing, and also talks about ancillary topics from the past 2 we...
Nov 05, 2022
This week, we have a BTI5 book club and Kate interviews friend of the pod (and more importantly, best selling author and host of hit podcast Terrible, Thanks for Asking) Nora McInerny about her new essay book Bad Vibes Only. In this episode, they discuss the confusing nature of knowing aging is a privilege but not wanting to look it, the fallacy of elegance, Millennial work ethic, reflecting on disordered eating patterns, the art of the tendril/skank bang, why she opened with a TS quote from "Mi...
Oct 20, 2022•2 hr•Season 1Ep. 230
This week, Kate follows up on some of the themes from last week about the lore and cultural significance of pageantry by bringing on a former pageant contestant & PR insider (and Beth!) named Cori Wallace, who chats with her about a variety of topics that extend beyond the scope of last week’s drama to meander through pageants being both a reflection (and regression) of elements of modern womanhood. From more granular details like what it costs and how people win, to the mental health implic...
Oct 14, 2022•2 hr 26 min•Season 1Ep. 229
