The Side Chat

The Side Chat

By Kristen Walters, Tricia Olds, Caitlin KeanComedySociety & CultureRelationshipsImprovParentingKids & Family
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The Side Chat episodes

  • HOT AND FUN

    Happy new year, side chicks! After a wee holiday hiatus, the gals are back with a VENGEANCE - we're talking real hot girl sh*t like 2026 vision boards, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, and ADULT HIP HOP DANCE CLASSES (you read that right). Plus, a SIDE CHAT so messy it likely violates an NDA involving a jilted ex and a holiday card so unhinged that it makes Lily Allen's album seem tame.


    Also - HAPPY BIRTHDAY, KRISSY!!!!

    Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    46 min
  • Axe to Grind
    The ladies of The Side Chat are shaving their beards, braving the dentist chair, and celebrating #FartChristmas - all while getting way TOO CLOSE and breaking down a SIDE CHAT about a Jekyll-and-Hyde neighbor who cannot pick a mood.

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    43 min
  • Mama Don't Play

    It's finally here. The episode every Side Chick has been asking for... WINTERIZING YOUR KOI POND!!!


    Koi me, maybe?

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    51 min
  • Famous Last Words

    Darkness falls across the land

    The midnight hour is close at hand

    Creatures crawl in search of blood

    To terrorize y’all’s neighborhood

    And whosoever shall be found

    Without the soul for getting down

    Must stand and face the Hounds of Hell

    And rot inside a corpse’s shell

    The foulest stench is in the air

    The funk of forty thousand years

    And grizzly ghouls from every tomb

    Are closing in to seal your doom

    And though you fight to stay alive

    Your body starts to shiver

    For no mere mortal can resist

    The evil of THE SIDE CHAT.


    Happy Halloween, side chicks!

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    46 min
  • Memory Leak

    There comes a moment in everyone woman's life when it's time to put down childish things and instead, pick up the mantle of our fore-mothers and embrace the ancient wisdom and innate knowing that only comes with maturity: the ladies of The Side Chat have officially aged into the DWTS discourse. And honestly, it feels RIGHT**


    **Except for our feelings about Robert Irwin because those are most certainly WRONG.

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    1 hr 2 min
  • Primal Urges

    Something has taken ahold of The Side Chat - something primal, uncontrollable... something not totally of this world. An impulse that transcends simple wanting or desire. It's the urgent, undeniable NEED TO MAKE CHILI.


    Clearly when the ladies are without Trish, the show goes a bit off the rails. And by "off the rails" we mean topics that NPR has deemed "too mild for primetime." But if you're interested in hearing hot takes on movies that have been out for 30 years or ever considered Dorothy Hamill an unsung hair icon, this episode is for you.

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    1 hr 2 min
  • DYSREGULATORS
    Dysegulators! Mount up! A rare Friday special episode of The Side Chat simply because Caitlin couldn't stop doomscrolling for 5 seconds to get the ep up any earlier. The ladies are talking about syncing up our cycles, meno-divorce, and one of the most unappetizing SIDE CHATS in the supposed name of health we've ever heard.

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    47 min
  • There's No Time!
    It's a new week on The Side Chat but the ladies have NO TIME to play nice - Trish is literally wasting away and the clock is ticking!!! Things the gals have no time for: fitness journeys, the VMAs, and questionable decisions to eat 4 day old pad Thai with shrimp. And they DEFINITELY don't have time for a SIDE CHAT about workplace drama involving an inappropriate boss sending friendship n00ds WHATEVER THAT MEANS.

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    45 min
  • Virile King

    This week on The Side Chat, the girls are running away from home and straight into the unsuspecting arms of Mitt Romney. Kris poses a classic question: what would you do if you won the Powerball (a whole HALF A MILLION DOLLARS*)? But it turns out, that’s hard to answer when your dreams have already come true—namely, scoring a no-contact selfie with your favorite local politician in a Walgreens parking lot after years of manifestation. From there, the ladies dive into a piping-hot SIDE CHAT about a playdate payment plan that always ends in nonconsensual pizza–in the morning, in the evening, and yes, even at suppertime.**


    *This math doesn't math.

    **The Bagel Bites legal team has asked us to clarify that due to recent pizza hour ordinances, all persons, entities, or sentient snack enthusiasts shall cease and desist from interpreting the presence of pizza on a bagel as conferring the unfettered right to eat pizza “anytime.”

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    1 hr 1 min
  • Having a SUMMER
    The ladies of The Side Chat are having a f*cking summer. In this episode: elementary school heists, why the girls didn’t marry effing losers (so much swearing - sorry Marcia), and a SIDE CHAT about a new twist on the Irish Good Bye that may or may not involve werewolves.

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    48 min

About The Side Chat

From the publisher's feed

Everyone knows the best conversations happen in the side convos outside the group chat. Join Krissy and Caitlin as they SIDE CHAT about all the unhinged things going down in the main chat. Each week,…