Be There in Five

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 then she is joined by Nikki Glaser (multi-hyphena...

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 Lovers, Happy Place, and more!) about her wildly succes...

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 Childless Millennial/Millennial with Child series a...

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 memoir, Scammer, whose title is a nod to her onlin...

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 Glamour Magazine, and the recent nemesis of Tom Sandov...

Duggaring Deeper

11 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This week, Kate finally digs into the Duggar world after finding the Prime Video documentary Shiny Happy People particularly riveting/alarming, and ex...

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) about their book, Real Friends Talk About Race, which...

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 short of our expectations as viewers and voyeurs of t...

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’s romantic tryst with one James Marsden, a myster...

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 scheme vibes, then goes off on a tangent about vague...

Momfluenced (feat. Sara Petersen)

07 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This week, Kate interviews Sara Petersen, author of Momfluenced: Inside the Maddening, Picture-Perfect World of Mommy Influencer Culture, and they dis...

27 Stresses, Part II (feat. Caroline Moss)

30 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This week, Kate continues the bridesmaid series by reading and reviewing listener-submitted stories about the joy and obligation of participating in w...

27 Stresses

24 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This week, Kate resurrects the Bride Tribe series to offer her updated perspective (and updated listener stories) about participating in weddings and/...

Party Busted

16 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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 p...

Women's Bufferage

07 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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 mu...

Study Abroadcast

30 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This week, Kate muses aloud about several topics adjacent to studying abroad and crowdsources stories from fellow millennials’ good, bad, and cringy...

22ther (Eras Tour Recap feat. Kelly & Hannah)

27 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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...

Kat3lilah (Answering Listener Voicemails)

19 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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 cha...

In my Eras era (feat. Sarah from Taylor Swift Style)

12 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

Scandoval & Under the Influencer (with Lindsay Silberman)

05 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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/...

Scary-Kate and Ashley

26 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This week, Kate breaks her silence on the 1999 “historical” American Girl dolls that dropped this week and talks through their accuracy regarding ...

Millennial with Child

17 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

TW: pregnancy, miscarriage, fertility talk, mentions of Breaking DawnMuch to her surprise, Kate’s now in her Gestation Era. Hear how it all went dow...

Beth Behavior

12 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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 mod...

Bad Mormon (feat. Heather Gay)

05 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This week, Kate starts by sharing the shows she’s been watching (Bad Sisters, Shrinking, Pamela: A Love Story, discusses her enthusiasm toward the r...

Butternut Squash Dupe (feat. Kelly)

30 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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 cultu...

Sunday Snorkel

22 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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 k...

2023 and Me

08 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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 ha...

Harry & Meghan (with Carmen James)

23 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This week, Kate has Carmen James (@thegoodcarmablog) on the podcast to talk about the 6-part reality docu-series Harry & Meghan. Enjoy!SUPPORT OUR...

Laguna Diets (feat. Dieter Schmitz)

18 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

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 fasci...

Mama slay at the lake (feat. Caroline Moss)

12 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

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 s...

Cheval's Well That Ends Well

04 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

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 emp...

Tis the Damn Seasoning

28 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This week, Kate reads crowd-sourced stories about holiday hometown romantic rendezvous from BTI5 listeners. Enjoy!SUPPORT OUR SPONSORSLet Audible help...

Death By A Thousand Bots

18 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

A Be There in Five Special Report that was recorded uncharacteristically quickly. Details the Ticketmastermind fall out with fans where both Ticketmas...

Smokeprogramming (Love is Blind Recap with Kelly)

14 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

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...

Midnights Reign

05 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This week, Kate provides very Maroon-forward programming with her high-level review of Taylor Swift’s 10th album Midnights (it's totally different f...

Be There in Bad Vibes Only (with Nora McInerny)

20 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

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,...

Afterparty in the Miss USA (with Cori Wallace)

14 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

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...

Something's A-Miss, USA

10 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

A deep dive Kate put together last minute about the controversy surrounding the Miss USA pageant late last week when contestants claimed the pageant w...

3-in-1

30 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This week, Kate answers three questions and made it into one episode after having an epiphany about 3-in-1 products and their correlation to the patri...

Make Your Christian Brothers Autumnal

25 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This week, Kate attempts to reclaim the nostalgic magic of fall by detailing her feelings about dystopian Instagram-backdrop businesses and resurrects...

Childless Millennial, Part III

18 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This week, Kate updates you on the first half of the IVF/egg retrieval process and, in the second half, is fortunate enough to ask Kindbody co-founder...

That Don't Impress KD Much

12 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This week, Kate has 3 of her friends from college on the podcast following a pilgrimage to the Shania Twain residency to talk about the things that do...

GDI Candy

28 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This week, Kate starts by sharing her thoughts on how being fashionable in the early aughts meant to try the absolute HARDEST, a revelation that feels...

Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants Store

22 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This week, Kate discusses Bama RushTok from a slightly different angle, exploring the elaborate gender performance and implicit artifice of sorority r...

Soft Swinging for the Fences

14 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This week, Kate is joined by her sister to discuss what they've been up to, e.g. their unforeseen TV debut, Kate's new appreciation for sports, and th...

Kate-lilah #15 (Answering Listener Voicemails)

01 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This week, Kate is in and out of coherence as she records responses to listener voicemails throughout week 2 of fertility treatments. Kate-lilah is a...

Sami is a Girl's Best Friend

24 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This week, Kate is joined by Sami Sage (Co-founder and Chief Creative Officer of Betches) to have a stimulating conversation while they both happen to...

An Elephant Never Forgets

18 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This week, Kate talks through a prompt from a listener about the times somebody said something to you in passing that ended up burned in your brain ab...

Preaching To The Fryer

10 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This week, Kate discusses Evangelical influencers, from more extreme transitions, e.g. a fashion influencer who now offers deliverance from abortion d...

Pinnie For Your Thoughts

03 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This week, Kate takes on the topic of P.E. class and snorkels through the obscure political origins of the Presidential Physical Fitness exam, the tra...

Mary Had a Little Scam

27 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This week, Kate discusses our obsession with scams and scam documentaries, and does a spin-off of the popular Tiktok prompt of "what's something that ...

Put me in, Coach bus

19 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This week, Kate meanders through the art of the K-12 field trip, sharing her own nostalgia along with crowdsourced funny, poignant, and shocking tales...

She's Just Not That Into Ew (Dating Advice Deep Dive)

12 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This week, Kate discusses the world of dating advice, both interpersonal and professional, from the books she read in her single days like Why Men Lov...

Celebrity Memoir Book Club

05 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This week, Kate interviews Ashley Hamilton and Claire Parker from the hit podcast Celebrity Memoir Book Club to talk celeb memoirs, female friendships...

Not All Who Wander Are Lust (feat. Kelly)

22 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This week, Kate is joined by her sister Kelly before they leave for vacation to talk about their own (and listener-submitted) personal & influence...

Sky Daddy Issues (Kate-lilah #14)

15 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This week, Kate answers listener voicemails spanning a variety of topics, including (but not limited to):-Taylor Swift trying to push merch in these t...

Doing Lines With Lucy

08 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This week, Kate phones her friend Lucy (@lucyontheground) to talk about all things MET gala, Marilyn's dress, romantic comedies, Amber Heard & Joh...

Tinx Outside The Box

01 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This week, Kate tries to respectfully deep dive Tinx’s (Tiktok @itsmetinx) meteoric rise, press, controversy, and content, while attempting to inves...

Kate of the Union

25 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This week while nursing a tailbone injury, Kate made a list of topics to take up with you this week for her own state of the union prior to the second...

CosmoGIRL! Talk (with Atoosa Rubenstein)

17 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This week, Kate interviews millennial magazine icon Atoosa Rubenstein, former editor-in-chief of CosmoGIRL! And Seventeen magazine in the early-mid 20...

The Care and Keeping of Ew

10 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This week, Kate reads e-mails listeners wrote in about their experiences learning puberty & sex ed. First, Kate snorkels through some of her early...

Be There in Forever 35

03 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This week, Kate is joined by Kate Spencer and Doree Shafrir from the Forever35 podcast to discuss all things in the name of self-care from today and y...

Katelilah #13 (Answering Listener Voicemails)

28 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, Kate eats an edible, snorkels through a teen magazine, then answers a variety of listener voicemails about light and heavy topics aff...

Once Upon A Timeline

20 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, Kate explores the parent wars she sees taking place about a cute, fictional movie on Facebook timelines (paired with the glorificatio...

Rattantouille (feat. Kelly Kennedy)

07 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This week, Kate is joined by her sister Kelly for an escape from real life to talk reality tv and real estate. More specifically, they discuss Love is...

Rom Comaraderie

27 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In stressful times, Kate seeks out romantic comedies, using the genre's poor grasp on reality to escape her own. So this week, we have a rom-com deep ...

Raising The Barbizon

20 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

A joint episode containing an abridged part 2 of “Fitch, Please” (A&F Deep Dive) as well as listener stories about mall modeling & scams m...

Super Bored LVI

14 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

A shorter interstitial episode Kate recorded from Dallas this morning while being bored with Super Bowl LVI coverage. This is a more vulnerable episod...

The Default in Our Stars (feat. Merritt Beck)

07 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Everything’s bigger in Texas, including Kate’s problems!! First, there’s an intro detailing the chaotic series of events that happened this week...

Fitch, Please

30 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In this deep dive, Kate examines the history, controversy, nostalgia, turnaround, inappropriate t-shirts, catalogs, and employee policies of iconic re...

Kate-lilah #12 (Answering Listener Voicemails)

23 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Katelilah is a quarterly tribute to radio icon Delilah where Kate answers listener voicemails spanning a variety of topics. This week, Kate tackles: H...

Not So Vague Marketing Job (with Charlene Polite Corley)

16 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This week, Kate is joined by an old friend and former colleague Charlene Polite Corley (who is now more importantly VP of Diverse Insights & Partn...

John Three SixTeenage Dream

09 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This episode is for lovers of 2021’s episode “Pussycat Dull,” when Kate read listener stories about nostalgic and embarrassing attempts to make ...

FOREVER '21.

24 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Musings about DCOMs, recent events, wearing your metaphorical seatbelt, the mystery of literal seatbelt purses, Kate's educational plastic surgery con...

Why Buy The Cowl? (with Caroline Moss)

19 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This week, Kate is joined by podcaster, writer, producer (and fellow influencer culture enthusiast) Caroline Moss (from Gee Thanks, Just Bought It) to...

Garden State of the Union

13 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This week, Kate does a classic stream of consciousness style episode, exploring a variety of topics, from existential mopiness c/o the Garden State so...

Tok Therapy (with Amanda White)

05 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This week, Kate is joined by licensed therapist Amanda White (@therapyforwomen) to discuss the proliferation of mental health content (and digital dia...

All Too Well (2 Hour Version) [From Tugboat's Chair] (Kate's Version)

26 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Part 2 of Kate's Red (Taylor's Version) Review, covering mostly All Too Well (10 minute version) and the related short film. Also snorkels Nothing New...

Well Red

22 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Part 1 of 2 discussing Red (Taylor's Version)Helix is offering up to 200 dollars off all mattresses including KIDS mattress orders as well astwo free ...

All Too Kell

11 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In anticipation of Red (TV), Kate reminisces briefly through the Red album and provides her (accidentally 40 minute) All Too Well dissertation (in a p...

Beth: A Week in the Life 2

07 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The "Beth: A Week in the Life" series is a format where Kate records for 15-20 mins per day in a given week to discuss what she cares about in that mo...

American Girl, Wash Your Face

31 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Part 2 of the American Girl Deep Dive. Kate reads submitted stories and anecdotes that are hilarious and heartbreaking and everything in between abou...

GrandMary, did you know?

25 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

An American Girl deep dive: Part 1. Allow Kate to provide you some pleasant company while she discusses the iconic and historical dolls she grew up wo...

Kate-lilah #11 (Answering Listener Voicemails)

14 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This week, Kate is answering listener voicemails spanning a variety of topics, including (but not limited to): decoding John Mulaney's relationship ti...

Latter-Day Paints

10 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

A deep DIYve. In this episode, Kate explores DIY blogging through the lens of LDS influencers that promote power tools as a tool for women’s empower...

183. Part 2: I Can't Believe It's Not Buttery! (with Amanda Montell)

30 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This week, Kate sits down and chats with Amanda Montell, author of Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism to discuss the LuLaRoe documentary from a culty...

I can’t believe it’s not buttery! (LuLaRich Deep Dive)

26 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This is part 1 of a 2-part deep dive about the Amazon Prime documentary LuLaRich, a series chronicling the rise and fall of the infamously moldy, egre...

One Hit Mumbler

16 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This week starts with Kate sharing an update about how her birthday surprise turned out along with the weird coincidences and special moments that mad...

9/9 Problems

10 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Kate's got 9/9 problems and her birthday is one. Today is her bday and she decided to spend the workday with you meandering through some birthday-rela...

Beth: A Week in the Life

05 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This week, Kate experiments with the snorkel format by recording daily minisodes and threading them together (as opposed to a stream of consciousness ...

This Is Me Twi-ing (Twilight Deep Dive)

29 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This week, Kate is joined by Cathy Peshek (@poorlittleitgirl) to deep dive the Twilight Saga. Twilight has experienced somewhat of an internet renaiss...

177. Manifest Density

22 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This week (while experimenting with a Sunday release), Kate takes on a type of influencer/coach she hasn’t specifically discussed yet; wellness infl...

Potential New Bender (Rush Deep Dive)

13 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This week, Kate resuscitates the 2019 sorority deep dive to bring you part 3: the potential new member bender. The tides didn't turn but they have app...

Cottagecore Competency

08 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

A fairly fast-paced snorkel detailing every question Kate has about the cottagecore internet aesthetic and its relationship to folklore, quarantine, b...

Kate-lilah #10 (Answering Listener Voicemails)

01 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This week, Kate starts with a personal update, then has a *burning* desire to tell you about the consequences of a recent Amazon purchase she made. Sh...

BONUS: SARS Hollow (Gilmore Girls Quarantine Fanfic)

22 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Continued from last year, when Kate wrote a rough, albeit spirited, partial script imagining how the characters of Stars Hollow would react to COVID-1...

BONUS: Mary-Kate & Ashley Deep Dive

20 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

A deep dive into the world of MK&A including two hours of meandering through Full House, DualStar, My First Video, direct to VHS, and some of the ...

SMT There in Five (with Elizabeth Holmes)

15 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This week, Kate is joined by style journalist Elizabeth Holmes (author of the popular instagram series So Many Thoughts & recent NYT Bestselling b...

It's Britney, Betches

09 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This week, Kate is joined by Betches co-founder and chief creative officer Sami Sage to discuss the latest about #FreeBritney, among other topics. Fro...

The Losses We Share

30 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

A personal update from Kate, your resident Childless Millennial. TW: infertility, miscarriage.—Support our sponsors:Allform is offering 20% off all...