2016
15 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A nostalgic deep-dive into the last era of millennial optimism, when we got to figure out who we wan...
Help, I'm still at the chain restaurant (Katelilah)
07 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Kate answers listener texts and voicemails. She snorkels left chest logo polo critters of...
Loving Him Was Redbird (The Summer I Turned Pretty with @lucyontheground)
24 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Kate brings in a friend of hers and a friend of the pod, Lucy Carey (aka @lucyontheground...
And, Baby, That's Dough Business for You
14 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Kate listened to a two-hour football podcast and lives to tell the tale. In this podcast ...
Under the Influencer (with Lee From America)
10 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Kate’s interviewing Lee Tilghman, also known as @LeeFromAmerica, who was one of the ver...
Mama Slay Off-Broadway (feat. Caroline Moss)
27 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week, join Kate and Caroline Moss as they chat through a variety of topics, from nostalgic summ...
Taylor Swift: Symbolic Self-Portraiture, Archetypes, and Tragedy in Lyricism
13 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week, join Kate as she returns to form (2+ hour early BTI5-style rambling) by going through an ...
Hot Girl Hamster Wheel (feat. Katie Gatti Tassin)
06 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Kate starts by talking about water table culture, Le Creuset mystery boxes, and attemptin...
No Ma'am (America's Sweethearts Season 2)
27 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Kate reviews America's Sweethearts season 2 on Netflix and tells the tale of how last yea...
Hit Girls (feat. Nora Princiotti)
22 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Kate is joined by Nora Princiotti (host of Every Single Album, author of Hit Girls) to ta...
Total Request Five (Addison Rae and the New Pop Machine)
08 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Kate tries a tri-deep dive connecting Addison Rae's evolution, Y2K's one-hit wonders, and...
Beth: A Week in the Life
01 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Join Kate on all eight of her days trying to Eat Pray Love. Back to reg programming next episode. En...
Class of BTI5 (feat. Kelly)
25 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Kate is joined by her sister Kelly for a classic nostalgic crowdsourced ep with big yearb...
The Secret Lives of Catholic Wives (feat. Nora McInerny)
18 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Kate's having a rough week, so she called in reinforcements (Nora McInerny) to help her discuss the ...
Can I Be a B*tch for a Second? (feat. Normal Gossip's Kelsey McKinney)
27 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Kate unpacks the art, science, and history of gossip with Kelsey McKinney (from the belov...
E.T. Phone Holmes
20 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Kate delves into Katy Perry's career decline, but not before being wrongly accused of a c...
Mousewater Blondes (feat. Nora McInerny)
13 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Kate and (esteemed author/podcaster/friend) Nora McInerny answer a few Katelilah voicemai...
Tim Leatherman (feat. Sami Sage)
30 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Sami Sage is back on the podcast (friend and co-founder of Betches Media), and she and Ka...
Poppi Culture (soda billionaires, influencer beverage investors, and the Alex Alix of it all)
21 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week, we're deep diving PepsiCo's $1.95 billion acquisition of the prebiotic soda brand Poppi, ...
Flower Sprinkle Nation (With Love, Meghan Review)
06 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Kate reviews Meghan Markle (Sussex?)'s new show: With Love, Meghan. Order Kate's NYT Best...
Pop Apologists (feat. Lauren Atkinson & Chanler Bledsoe)
27 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Kate is joined by the Pop Apologists, sisters Lauren Atkinson and Chandler Bledsoe to dis...
Chelsea Explains it All
23 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Kate welcomes Chelsea Anderson, the creator behind viral Instagram and TikTok accounts (@...
Freek-a-leekonomics
14 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week (in honor of Galentine's Day), Kate reflects on the sentimental and chaotic rituals of get...
One Last One in a Millennial Hurrah (feat. Kelly)
02 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Kate and her sister give One in a Millennial one last hurrah in honor of its paperback re...
One Hit Momblers (with Rachel, Claire, and Ally)
27 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Kate’s sisters-in-law are back on the pod for a lighthearted convo about a variety of t...
Blake Lively's Power Suit: Part 2
12 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Kate reviews the PR “smear campaign” half of the complex legal battle between Blake L...
Blake Lively's Power Suit: Part 1
06 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week, we kick off 2025 with a classic BTI5 deep dive, investigating the Blake Lively and Justin...
We Listen and We Don’t Budge
22 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Kate recaps some of 2024’s least notable micro-trends, goes through her embarrassing pu...
The End of our Eras Era
16 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Kate provides personal reflections about the past 21 months of Taylor Swift's Eras ...
Wicked Witch of the Midwest (Katelilah)
02 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Kate begins by recapping her experience seeing Wicked twice and shares her favorite Easte...
Mama Slay on Broadway
21 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
An episode full of fun, fandom, and frisson where Kate and her guest, Caroline Moss, discuss their h...
Kate and Sharon Say So
14 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
**Original air date 11/10. Sorry if this is duplicated elsewhere, had to upload another version beca...
BONUS: All the “Single-issue” Ladies
01 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this bonus episode, Kate discusses the impact of reproductive rights on millennial women ahead of...
Spooky Snorkel
31 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
It's All Hallows Eve, and Kate has crowd-sourced listener ghost stories to hear about your interacti...
Dancing with the Sistars (feat. Kelly)
24 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Kate is joined by her sister Kelly, live from their attempt to do an incredibly hard vira...
This episode is sick
13 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Kate’s under the weather but over the moon to do some nostalgic reminiscing about staying home sic...
Disney [Channel] Adult (feat. Ashley Spencer)
03 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we're joined by Ashley Spencer, author of Disney High: The Untold Story of the Rise...
Influencer Unsolved Mysteries: White Shanty at Home
30 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This week, inspired by the nostalgic TV masterpiece (excl. reboot) on Lifetime, Unsolved Mysteries, ...
Dumb and Poetic (feat. @maryoliversdrunkcousin, Lyndsay Rush)
19 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Kate opens by talking about top-of-mind things for everyone, like P. Diddy’s indi...
Season 2, Episode 1: MomTalk
12 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Kate recaps the new Hulu series, The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives. Will MomTok survive this episode...
Millennial with Child: The Finale
12 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In the season 1 finale, Kate decides she should have another season after over 6 years of not realiz...
On Her Errand (A Ballerina Farm Bonus)
02 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Kate explores the Ballerina Farm article heard ‘round the World Wide Web and reacts to ...
Concealed Carrie Bradshaw (with Hannah Berner)
21 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Kate is joined by Hannah Berner, comedian and host of the popular podcasts Giggly Squad a...
Democracy in Retrograde (with Emily Amick, Sami Sage)
15 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This week, we’re joined by two friends of the pod, Sami Sage (Betches Co-Founder) and Emily Amick ...
Be there in 5, 6, 7, 8! (Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders feat. Victoria Kalina)
08 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Kate is deep-diving into America's Sweethearts, a docu-series about the Dallas Cowboys Ch...
Kate Joins the LadyGang (feat. Becca Tobin, Jac Vanek, Keltie Knight)
30 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This week, we’ve got a highly anticipated podcast crossover—Jac Vanek, Becca Tobin, and Keltie K...
Buffalo Chicken Wraps and Pop Starlet Stats (Katelilah)
23 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Kate is answering listener voicemails, like dishing on the culinary delight of buffalo ch...
Let’s Get This Show on the Rodent
16 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Kate critiques the stagnant nature of traditional Father's Day gift guides and compares t...
Heir Bud
10 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Kate is solo and snorkeling through some of the latest and oldest of topics, like time. S...
Millennial Ennui: The Sequel (with Emily Henry)
26 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This week, beloved #1 best-selling author Emily Henry (Beach Read, Book Lovers, Happy Place, etc.) i...
The Art of Small Talk (with Jessica St. Clair)
19 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Kate’s chatting with co-author of the audiobook The Art of Small Talk (also actress, co...
Beths in Show (talking WAGs with Haley Pepper)
13 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Kate interviews podcast listener and NFL WAG Haley Pepper, who shares her experiences wit...
RomCom Jobs (with Carley Fortune)
05 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Kate is joined by NYT bestselling romance author Carley Fortune (Meet Me at the Lake, Eve...
Jagged Little Thrill
29 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Kate crowdsources stories about attempting to, getting away with, or getting caught consu...
Poets Mortem (TTPD First Impressions)
22 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
First impressions of Taylor Swift's 11th studio album, The Tortured Poets Department. See Kate and h...
Total Eclipse of the Scarf (feat. Caroline Moss)
14 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This week, a magical marvel of a solar event stuns the world, and Kate and Caroline can’t be bothe...
Magical Overthinking (with Amanda Montell, author of Cultish)
07 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Amanda Montell (linguist and bestselling author of Cultish) is back on the pod for the fi...
Under the Influencer (with Blogilates, Cassey Ho)
31 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Kate is joined by Cassey Ho, best known for her blog/brand/YouTube channel Blogilates ...
Bubble Bubble Bubble Bubble Pop Culture
24 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Kate solo snorkels through a variety of topics, including but not limited to:Power rankin...
Marchioness Madness (feat. Michelle Collins)
17 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Kate is joined by comedian and TV host Michelle Collins to discuss this week’s events and related ...
Welcome [Back] To Plathville (feat. Olivia Plath)
10 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This week, we head back to Plathville because Kate has a very special guest on the podcast: Olivia P...
y = mx + bti5 (katelilah)
03 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Kate’s solo and back to answering listener voicemails, and each tangent makes less sens...
Mother Knows Beth (feat Kate's mom)
25 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Three hours, two legal pads of notes, and one millennial whose mom read her book and is now ready to...
Women be shoppin' (feat. Money with Katie)
18 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Kate is joined by Katie Gatti Tassin from the podcast beloved by many Beths, @moneywithka...
Everything's Alleged (feat. Lex Niko)
08 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Kate has pop cultural commentator Lex Niko (@lexniko) on the pod to catch her up on the p...
Pookie & the Jetts (feat. Kelly, Caroline, Rachel, Claire and Ally)
05 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Kate’s on the road for her book tour and her recording technology is lacking (and her e...
You've Got Male (Audiobook Preview!)
21 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Kate's sharing a full chapter from her book coming out Tuesday (1.23!), One in a Millenni...
Sephora The Explorer
11 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A discussion about tweens, the modern history of the teenager, tween third places of yesterday and t...
Welcome to Plathville, Population: Me (feat Caroline Moss)
07 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Kate discusses her most recent pop culture obsession, the reality show Welcome to Plathvi...
Barefoot Dreams Contessa (with Kelly)
24 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Kate and her sister are reporting live on Christmas Eve from North Carolina to talk about...
Cinnabon Voyage (Holiday Traditions)
18 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Kate shares crowdsourced holiday traditions that listeners submitted via e-mail and on In...
Tis the Damn Seasoning (Part 2)
10 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Kate brings back the leftover stories from last year's episode "Tis the Damn Seasoning," ...
Twin Flames & Love Has Won: A Culty Double Feature
03 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week, we have a classic BTI5 deep dive about two cult documentaries Kate watched this week, Esc...
On Our Best Behavior (with Elise Loehnen)
26 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Kate is joined by author, host of Pulling the Thread, and former Chief Content Officer at...
Dolls of Our Lives
19 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Kate is joined by Allison Horrocks and Mary Mahoney, self-identified Mollys and hosts of ...
BravoContent (with Ryan Bailey)
12 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Kate is joined by Ryan Bailey (from So Bad It’s Good with Ryan Bailey) to talk all thin...
F.R.I.E.N.D.S Forever
05 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Kate starts by raging about people who say watching TV is a waste of time and/or is the l...
The Whole 1989 Yards
26 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week, in preparation for the release of 1989 (Taylor’s Version), Kate deep dives the making o...
Snow Cream (with Danny Pellegrino)
22 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Kate welcomes back listener favorite Danny Pellegrino (host of Everything Iconic) to talk...
Women in Stemware
15 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
A podcast episode about nothing to serve as an escape during a tough week. Includes listener-nominat...
The Cake Popcast (with Jamie Golden)
08 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Kate has on a highly requested guest co-host (Jamie Golden from The Popcast) and like tru...
All Too NFL
29 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
A special edition broadcast where Kate shares her celebratory (but also complicated) feelings about ...
Roman Fempire (feat. Sami Sage)
22 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Kate welcomes back Sami Sage (co-founder of Betches) to the podcast to discuss a real gra...
Beths in Show #2 (Unexpected Ancestry Results and Twee Culture)
10 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Kate starts with some classic BTIF tangents, namely the 8 Passengers/Ruby Franke/Jodi Hil...
Mom Jeaneology (Katelilah)
03 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Kate provides an update on life with a newborn, then answers listener voicemails about ho...
Eat Prey Love (with Caroline Moss and Nora McInerny)
23 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Kate is joined by friends and talented writers/podcasters Caroline Moss and Nora McInerny...
Under the Influencer (with Ashley Spivey)
17 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Kate starts with a quick personal update (but is still on mat leave) and is sharing a pre...
The Wedding Planner (with Emma Gray and Claire Fallon)
06 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Kate’s on mat leave and invited Claire and Emma (from Love To See It podcast, formerly ...
Beths in Show (MK&A's Detective Series & Mormon Missions)
30 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Kate interviews listeners for the debut of a series she’s calling “Beths in Show” w...
Life in Plastic, It’s Scholastic (Barbie Movie Review)
23 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Kate reviews the Barbie movie and all the whimsy, fun, and complex nostalgia of this pop ...
Speak Now (feat. Nikki Glaser)
16 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Kate starts out by discussing her high-level thoughts about the Speak Now re-release, and...
Millennial Ennui (with Emily Henry!)
06 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Kate interviews Emily Henry (author of Beach Read, People We Meet on Vacation, Book Lover...
The Process We Bear
30 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Two years after The Losses We Share, Kate shares some thoughts on pregnancy thus far to add to the C...
Under the Influencer (with Caroline Calloway)
25 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Kate interviews influencer Caroline Calloway about her backstory leading up to her debut ...
Swipe Up For More (feat. Steph McNeal)
18 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Stephanie McNeal (former culture reporter for BuzzFeed, currently a senior editor at Glam...
Duggaring Deeper
11 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Kate finally digs into the Duggar world after finding the Prime Video documentary Shiny H...
Real Friends Talk About Race (feat. The Kinswomen)
01 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Kate interviews Yseult Mukantabana and Hannah Summerhill (from The Kinswomen podcast) abo...
Under the Tuscaloosa Sun (Bama Rush Doc)
26 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Kate reviews the Bama Rush doc on (HBO) Max and discusses why she thinks the doc fell sho...
Katelilah (Answering Listener Voicemails)
21 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Kate answers listener voicemails, with topics including (but not limited to) a listener’...
Hun in a Millennial (MLMs with Emily Paulson)
14 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Kate muses aloud about her feeling like influencer and affiliate marketing has pyramid sc...