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Be There in Five
Kate Kennedy
4.9 • 7.2K Ratings
🗓️ 26 April 2026
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
This week, Kate is trying something new by returning to her old form. After taking time off and noticing her comment section brain rot, she's trying to get back to occasional one-pass, no-edits, no-looking-things-up format to practice for a live format of the show coming soon. It's the kind of episode where Reneesme, Billie Eilish, Five Below, and the Epstein files all somehow end up in the same conversation and it almost tracks. Also, some musing about the discomfort of realizing the millennial girlhood pipeline of Limited Too to Abercrombie to Victoria's Secret was built and run by men who turned out to be predators, and the connection between frat bro philanthropy shirts and A&F. Plus, everything's coming up Kate following a streak of good luck that she thinks might have something to do with a haunted candle. Enjoy!
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, everybody. Welcome back to the Be There in Five podcast. I'm Kate Kennedy, your host. |
| 0:14.8 | This week, I am doing on the main feed, something I kind of piloted on Patreon a couple |
| 0:19.3 | weeks ago. That might not, I was telling |
| 0:22.1 | them, like, you might not notice the difference because my job as a producer, as a host, as an |
| 0:28.5 | editor, is to make it seem seamless. But something I used to do, I mean, mostly, like for the |
| 0:36.1 | bulk of this, at least getting started, was just like |
| 0:39.9 | literally speaks to you move consciousness heavily tangentially and like let myself kind of go off |
| 0:46.8 | on the show. And that was the podcast. And I put effort into like researching it and knowing |
| 0:53.0 | what was going on. It's not like a lazy thing as much as it's I want to get back where I am not operating from a place of like comment section Stockholm syndrome. |
| 1:05.1 | Like doing this almost a decade, you realize how you run every single thing you say through so many filters. |
| 1:12.2 | It's so sanitized at a point. You don't even, like, hear your own voice anymore. |
| 1:18.1 | I'm not even thinking about what the comments will be. I'm in the replies. |
| 1:21.4 | Comment section Stockholm syndrome is when you start to think like them to survive. |
| 1:25.0 | Ghost listeners with the worst faith interpretation, making me |
| 1:28.7 | nervous to speak. And I think when I took time off in Q1, it made me just, A, want to get back |
| 1:35.5 | to having more fun. B, take more risk and force myself to do a format that doesn't allow me to |
| 1:42.7 | over edit. So that's what I was leading to. |
| 1:45.6 | I'm trying something new or at least once a month. I'm going to record in one pass. |
| 1:49.9 | The cuts will be like pauses. You kind of automatically like cut pauses over a certain amount |
| 1:54.7 | in editing software. So it just crunches. So they'll be that. But yeah, I'm not allowed to look things up as I go. |
| 2:04.6 | Get me so off course that I then will never recover, which happens to me often now. |
| 2:10.6 | It's an ailment of the self-appointed internet talk show host to be, I don't know. |
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