Pop Apologists (feat. Lauren Atkinson & Chanler Bledsoe)

Be There in Five

Kate Kennedy

Personal Journals, Entertainment News, News, Society & Culture

4.8 • 7.1K Ratings

🗓️ 27 February 2025

⏱️ 95 minutes

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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., their fascination with Mormonism in media, the Lisa Barlow paradox, the rise of Salt Lake City as a cultural moment, and how growing up in a conservative environment shaped their reality TV obsession. After that, the trio unpacks the Meghan Markle discourse, the internet's obsession with Kate Middleton’s whereabouts in 2024, and what really went down during the height of the royal conspiracy rabbit hole that briefly took over their life. Plus, the moral dilemma of running a gossip podcast in the digital age, Taylor Swift’s style choices, and why every millennial woman’s 2008 iPod playlist was basically a personality test. Somewhere in there, they also reminisce about their most unhinged heartbreak antics, from fake Facebook boyfriends to the universal fantasy of running into your ex looking hotter than ever. Enjoy!Order Kate's NYT Bestselling book, One in a Millennial here!Text or leave a voicemail for Kate at 775-HEY-BETH!Because amika loves Be There in Five listeners as much as we love them, they’re giving you a one-time use code for 20% off your first order. Just go to loveamika.com/bethereinfive and use code BETHEREINFIVE at checkout.We have a special deal for our audience: Get your first visit for only five dollars at Apostrophe.com/BETHEREINFIVE (https://www.google.com/url?q=http://Apostrophe.com/BETHEREINFIVE&sa=D&source=calendar&ust=1740937727359034&usg=AOvVaw3SeyauuFdBWM0K0wHVjejc) when you use our code: BETHEREINFIVE. That’s a savings of fifteen dollars! This code is only available to our listeners. To get started, just go to Apostrophe.com/BETHEREINFIVE and click Get Started, then use our code BETHEREINFIVE at sign up and you’ll get your first visit for only five dollars! Thank you Apostrophe for sponsoring this episode.Stress less, sleep more, and live better with Calm. For listeners of our show, Calm is offering an exclusive offer of 40% off a Calm Premium Subscription at calm.com/BETHEREINFIVE. Go to calm.com/BETHEREINFIVE for 40% off unlimited access to Calm’s entire library.You’re going to love Hungryroot as much as I do. Take advantage of this exclusive offer: For a limited time get 40% off your first box PLUS get a free item in every box for life. Go to Hungryroot.com/bethereinfive (https://www.google.com/url?q=http://Hungryroot.com/bethereinfive&sa=D&source=calendar&ust=1740937727359034&usg=AOvVaw0r2L57jA4XLbFfD0D6BtBa) and use code bethereinfive. That’s Hungryroot.com/bethereinfive, code bethereinfive to get 40% off your first box and a free item of your choice for life.Start HyaCera to support your glow without compromising on clean science.

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0:00.0	Hi, everybody, welcome back to the Be There in Five podcast. I'm Kate Kennedy, your host.
0:14.3	Today I have some really fun guests on. I used to do like pod swaps and stuff earlier on in the podcast and I go through periods of time
0:24.6	where it's just me where I have more guests. It really kind of just depends on how sick I am of
0:29.0	talking to myself. And it's fun to shoot the shit about pop culture with other people that are just as
0:33.8	enthusiastic as I am or appropriately in this, being apologists for all things,
0:40.1	pop culture. And I was excited to meet to fellow Taylor Swift and I think Megan Markle apologists.
0:47.8	You know, people I just can't quit. And much to my surprise, a pokey apologist, you just,
0:53.4	you never know what makes people tick. What a delight.
0:55.8	And today I have on the sisters from pop apologists, Lauren Atkinson and Chandler Bledsoe.
1:03.1	And a Beth, shout out to Tori, introduced me to their show, I believe, during the Kate Middleton of it all, like last year. And I appreciate
1:11.9	them being like good sports and indulging me. I hope it wasn't too annoying. But I knew they used to
1:18.0	be Mormon. And obviously on this podcast, we've been talking about our fascination with
1:23.7	influencers of the LDS persuasion since 2019. So yeah, I think we start there, talk about Taylor Swift for longer than anticipated,
1:31.8	which is what makes for a good show, in my opinion.
1:35.3	Megan Markle, among other things.
1:36.7	We touched on Justin and Blake a little bit, but mostly do that in their episode.
1:39.5	So they have done like a seven-part series, and they keep up with the Justin and Blake's scenario.
1:45.9	So if you're new here and you go back and listen to my deep dives, keep in mind all we had at the time was Blake's complaint, Justin's New York Timesuit, and then the publicist suit from like Christmas Eve.
1:55.4	We didn't have Justin's direct lawsuit for to Blake.
1:59.4	I did a part three and four on Patreon for that when the video
2:02.6	footage came out. But then, yeah, when the, the, the GeoCities website came out, Angelfire,
2:08.3	I don't know, not the best user interface. Interesting concept, though. When that came out and it was
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