Welcome to Plathville, Population: Me (feat Caroline Moss)

Be There in Five

Kate Kennedy

Personal Journals, Entertainment News, News, Society & Culture

4.8 • 7.1K Ratings

🗓️ 7 January 2024

⏱️ 119 minutes

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Summary

This week, Kate discusses her most recent pop culture obsession, the reality show Welcome to Plathville on TLC. Since she roped many of you into this mess over the holidays, she figured she’d kick off the year by kicking off her shoes and taking this toe-headed DIY failed cult of a crew in Cairo, Georgia for a deep dive. Instead of her usual in-depth style, since she got into this like 12 days ago, she shares her thoughts in the first hour and then brings in a longer-term fan of the show (and friend of this show!) Caroline Moss to sort through their complicated feelings about the characters in the second hour, given opinions on them change from season to season, scene to scene. If you can believe it, there are 40 more minutes of this episode on patreon.com/bethereinfive. When it comes to content, we, too, believe we should be fruitful and multiply. Enjoy!

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0:00.0	Hi everybody. Welcome back to the Be Therein Five Podcast.
0:10.8	I'm Kate Kennedy, your host. You know, sometimes I'm in the business of the latest and greatest and up-to-dateest in popular culture.
0:23.4	More often than that, I'm deep diving something
0:26.4	that happened, I don't know, 20 years ago,
0:28.6	or perhaps I'm be there in five years
0:30.9	behind the premiere of a show that for some reason I feel like you
0:34.0	guys didn't tell me about. But my God I got hooked on a show over winter break that
0:39.2	my sister and I talked about on the episode two weeks ago from Christmas Eve and it is called
0:44.3	Welcome to Plathville. Come to find out a lot of you were already fans and while I don't
0:50.6	know the exact number I've gathered since posting about it, a lot of you have taken this show on two.
0:56.7	And for trusting me, I'm incredibly grateful.
0:59.8	I think, you know, during the sleepy time between Christmas and New Year sometimes it's nice to have a new show to binge and I love nothing more than a reality show I can binge with themes that make me cycle through how they affect my own life and think through how I'd respond and in many cases unfairly judge the characters for not responding perfectly when I most certainly would not either.
1:22.8	As I told you in the episode duggering deeper, where after years and years of
1:27.8	resisting watching or being interested in the duggers, I reviewed the movie Shiny,
1:32.2	or the documentary Shiny Happy People as an outsider who wanted to know
1:36.3	you know why this show is such a phenomenon and I mean honestly it confirmed what I knew to be true about a lot of TLC shows.
1:46.4	They bum me out.
1:48.7	I like the entertainment and escapism reality TV brings like on Bravo but
1:56.5	with TLC shows like they're literally the opposite of escapism where I'm
2:02.3	I'm watching parents, families with parents
2:05.4	literally trap their kids so they can't escape or 90-day fiances trap their latest catch from
2:14.0	Anastasia Match.com,
	...

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