Be There in Five

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 & Harry and Taylor Swift's new (maybe) relationship (but undeniable platforming) of Matty Healy. Enjoy & don't forget to call in for the next one - 312.379.9676. - Pre order my book, One in a Millennial here! Sign up today using code BETHEREINFIVE to receive Ground Beef for a Year + 20 dollars off your first order. Cozy Earth provided an exclusive offer for my listener's today. 35% off site wide at cozyearth.com when you use the code BETHEREINFIVE. Bring more color into your world this spring with Pair Eyewear. Go to paireyewear.com/BETHEREINFIVE for 15% off your first purchase. Go to zocdoc.com/bethereinfive and download the Zocdoc app for FREE. Then find and book a top-rated doctor today. Many are available within 24 hours.

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 earner in an MLM. Enjoy! SUPPORT OUR SPONSORS Pre order my book, One in a Millennial here! Helix is offering 20% off all mattress orders AND two free pillows for our listeners! Go to HelixSleep.com/BeThereInFive. This is their best offer yet and it won't last long! With Helix, better sleep starts now. Right now, Hungryroot is offering Be There In Five listeners 30% off your first delivery and free veggies for life. Just go to Hungryroot.com/BETHEREINFIVE, to get 30% off your first delivery and get your free veggies. Find your forever pieces @jennikayne and get 15% off with promo code BETHEREINFIVE at jennikayne.com/BETHEREINFIVE! #jennikaynepartner Ritual is offering my listeners 10% off during your first 3 months. Visit ritual.com/BETHEREINFIVE

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.com/BETHEREINFIVE Visit OliveandJune.com/BETHEREINFIVE for 20% off your first System! Get 10% off your first order sitewide with code BETHEREINFIVE at OSEAMalibu.com. You'll get free samples with every order, and free shipping on orders over $60. Head to shadyrays.com/TangleFree with code: BETHEREINFIVE for 30% OFF their best-selling Tangle Free Aviator and much more.

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's Going To Be Ok, out May 1. Visit Carawayhome.com/BETHEREINFIVE to take advantage of this limited-time offer for 10% off your next purchase. This deal is exclusive for our listeners, so visit Carawayhome.com/BETHEREINFIVE or use code BETHEREINFIVE at checkout. Caraway. Non-Toxic cookware made modern. Cozy Earth provided an exclusive offer for my listener's today. 35% off site wide at cozyearth.com when you use the code BETHEREINFIVE. Evelyn & Bobbie is giving Be There in Five listeners an exclusive discount code to try Evelyn & Bobbie bras, risk-free, for yourself! Use code BETHEREINFIVE on EvelynBobbie.com for $15 off your first bra. Build your spring wardrobe from the ground up. Shop the new spring collection and receive 20% off your purchase with the code BETHEREINFIVE at marcfisherfootwear.com.

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 back next week for part 2 feat. Caroline Moss! Pre-order my book, One in a Millennial, here! SUPPORT OUR SPONSORS -BÉIS is offering our listeners 15% off your first purchase by visiting BEISTRAVEL.com/BETHEREINFIVE. -Hungryroot is offering listeners 30% off your first delivery and free veggies for life. Just go to Hungryroot.com/BETHEREINFIVE, to get 30% off your first delivery and get your free veggies. -Get 20% off when you go to LIQUID-IV.COM and use code BETHEREINFIVE at checkout. That's 20% off ANYTHING you order when you shop better hydration today. -Bring more color into your world this spring with Pair Eyewear. Go to paireyewear.com/BETHEREINFIVE for 15% off your first purchase.

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 promo code BETHEREINFIVE at jennikayne.com/BETHEREINFIVE ! #jennikaynepartner Ritual is offering my listeners 10% off during your first 3 months. Visit ritual.com/BETHEREINFIVE to start Ritual or add Essential For Women 18+ to your subscription today. Go to Zocdoc.com/BETHEREINFIVE and download the Zocdoc app for FREE. Then find and book a top-rated doctor today. Many are available within 24 hours.

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, soundtracks, song orders, and themes resulting from this period of time where teens casually committed a federal crime in the name of curating a vibe. Enjoy! Pre-order my book, One in a Millennial here!

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 train system. In hindsight, she ponders bigger themes like feeling ashamed of our interests, not realizing what about us was obviously "American" and realizing that we were embarrassing to other cultures, discusses the ridiculousness of the things we "loved" about Europe (long meals? open container laws?) but argues for there being a deeper layer of identifying with cultural elements of places that legitimately do prioritize quality of life in a different way. A classic, highly tangential, partially crowdsourced ep sharing both Kate and BTI5 listeners' perspectives. Enjoy! Get tickets to my April 2nd virtual show, Be There in Five Years, at moment.co/bethereinfive SUPPORT OUR SPONSORS Right now, Hungryroot is offering Be There In Five listeners 30% off your first delivery and free veggies for life. Just go to Hungryroot.com/BETHEREINFIVE, to get 30% off your first delivery and get your free veggies. Shop the new spring collection and receive 20% off your purchase with the code BETHEREINFIVE at marcfisherfootwear.com. And on April 3, for National Espadrille Day, you will get 30% off of select espadrilles! That's marcfisherfootwear.com, code BETHEREINFIVE. Spring into your most radiant skin yet with clean, vegan skincare and body care from OSEA. And get 10% off your first order sitewide with code BETHEREINFIVE at OSEAMalibu.com. You'll get free samples with every order, and free shipping on orders over $60. Exclusively for our listeners, Shady Rays is giving out their best deal of the season. Head to shadyrays.com/TangleFree with code: BETHEREINFIVE for 30% OFF their best-selling Tangle Free Aviator and much more.

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 BEISTRAVEL.com/BETHEREINFIVE Visit Carawayhome.com/BETHEREINFIVE or use code BETHEREINFIVE at checkout. Caraway. Non-Toxic cookware made modern Grab your Liquid I.V. in bulk nationwide at Costco, or you can get 20% off when you go to LIQUID-IV.COM and use code BETHEREINFIVE at checkout Go to Zocdoc.com/BETHEREINFIVE and download the Zocdoc app for FREE. Then find and book a top-rated doctor today. Many are available within 24 hours.

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 commercials -How does she feel about farmfluencers Ballerina Farm and the controversy that they were super rich this whole time? -What happened to the recipe of sour brite crawlers? And how does that lead Kate to formally ranking off-brand store-bought chocolate milks and grocery chains, then go off on a tangent about how a lack of cultural identity makes people obsess over sports? -What does Kate think is the current 'monoculture,' and how does the speed of the news cycle and the volume of programming aid or prevent in having shared cultural reference points? Among other things. Enjoy! SUPPORT OUR SPONSORS Get free Chicken Nuggets for a Year and 10% off your first box when you sign up today at butcherbox.com/BETHEREINFIVE and use code BETHEREINFIVE. Get glasses that stay as fresh as your unique style with Pair. Go to paireyewear.com/BETHEREINFIVE for 15% off your first purchase. Great news—Ritual is offering my listeners 10% off during your first 3 months. Visit ritual.com/BETHEREINFIVE to start Ritual or add Essential for Women 18+ to your subscription today. Go to Zocdoc.com/BETHEREINFIVE and download the Zocdoc app for FREE. Then find and book a top-rated doctor today. Many are available within 24 hours.