Be There in Bad Vibes Only (with Nora McInerny)
Be There in Five
Kate Kennedy
4.8 • 7.1K Ratings
🗓️ 20 October 2022
⏱️ 125 minutes
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Summary
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 "Mirrorball," among other musings from this brilliant collection that invites you to exist in a state of both existential and surface-level wonder without the pressure to self-improve or find resolve in a post #girlboss America. Enjoy!
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hi everybody, welcome back to the Be There In Five Podcast. |
| 0:13.2 | I'm Kate Kennedy, your host. |
| 0:15.1 | I've made it out from my next procedure alive. |
| 0:21.1 | Laid more eggs. |
| 0:22.1 | Hopefully I can stop talking about it now. |
| 0:24.9 | Thank you guys for your patience. |
| 0:27.0 | And so when I recorded this, it was during the height of not only not being able to sleep |
| 0:33.2 | from the steroid, but also hormonal surges. |
| 0:35.6 | And I listened back this episode and I was like, I really could have done a better job |
| 0:38.6 | with this. |
| 0:39.6 | And I'm not just being hard on myself, but I feel self conscious because I've always wanted |
| 0:43.4 | to be invited to be in a book club. |
| 0:45.2 | Now here's the problem with book clubs. |
| 0:47.2 | Allegedly, people want you to be a person that reads. |
| 0:50.7 | It's not that I don't read. |
| 0:51.8 | It's that I like an audio book. |
| 0:53.3 | I prefer like nonfiction and I tried to have a girl bossy book club, you know, in the |
| 0:59.2 | early 2010s. |
| 1:00.2 | It was Christmas themed. |
| 1:02.1 | And then I wanted us to all go around the room and talk about our experiences and attempting |
| 1:06.4 | to negotiate. |
| 1:07.4 | I feel like we have to be relentlessly pleasant and talk about the implications of leaning |
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