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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, s...
Episodis Recents
333 episodis
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 adj...
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 Groupon...
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 f...
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!
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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 nos...
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 alre...
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 restaur...
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 "Th...
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 ove...
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....
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 beco...
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 Tay...
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...
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...
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...
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 generati...
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!
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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...
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, bu...
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 bestsel...
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 i...
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 spati...
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 searc...
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 beve...
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, On...
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...
Chelsea Explains it All
This week, Kate welcomes Chelsea Anderson, the creator behind viral Instagram and TikTok accounts (@chelsea_explains and @chelseaexplainsitall, respec...
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 o...
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 nosta...
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 follow...
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...
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...
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 sha...
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-...
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...
Mama Slay on Broadway
An episode full of fun, fandom, and frisson where Kate and her guest, Caroline Moss, discuss their hot takes about Broadway musicals, but pepper in pl...
Kate and Sharon Say So
**Original air date 11/10. Sorry if this is duplicated elsewhere, had to upload another version because some pod catchers are missing the episode**
BONUS: All the “Single-issue” Ladies
In this bonus episode, Kate discusses the impact of reproductive rights on millennial women ahead of the 2024 election, and uses experts and real-life...
Spooky Snorkel
It's All Hallows Eve, and Kate has crowd-sourced listener ghost stories to hear about your interactions with the other side. First, she details her fa...
Dancing with the Sistars (feat. Kelly)
This week, Kate is joined by her sister Kelly, live from their attempt to do an incredibly hard viral dance move that the internet gaslit them into be...