The Side Chat
by Kristen Walters, Tricia Olds, Caitlin Kean
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, the girls discuss (and let's be honest, judge) listener-submitted stories of wild, out-of-pocket, and otherwise wtf experiences popping off in real-life group chats. Along the way, they deep dive into everything pop culture, motherhood, adult friendship, and beyond–all while talking over each other and laughing too hard at their own jokes.
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…
more -
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.
-
Mama Don't Play
It's finally here. The episode every Side Chick has been asking for... WINTERIZING YOUR KOI POND!!! Koi me, maybe?
-
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...
-
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.…
more -
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....
-
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…
more -
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…
more -
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…
more -
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.
-
Playlist Politics
Surprise! It’s a special Friday drop and your favorite trio is back! The ladies are getting real about the little things no one warns you about as you get older. From age spots to mustache maintenance and bikini line honesty that only happens between close friends, the girls are talking about all...
-
Couples Therapy
It's another week on The Side Chat and Trish and Caitlin are playing 1v1 as Krissy continues her jetsetting ways ("this is going to ruin the tour... the world tour"). This episode is basically Couples Therapy except without a licensed professional to offer any real guidance or even general...
-
NYC in the 1800s
IT'S SEASON 3, SIDE CHICKS! The ladies of The Side Chat are back after their first week off in a full calendar year and it's truly too soon to tell if they even remember how to podcast. But they've got BIG plans for the new season including new special guests - so they had to start off strong…
more -
RE-CHAT: Mud Ankles
**The ladies of The Side Chat are hard at work on big plans for SEASON 3. While you wait, please enjoy this re-chat of one of our favorite past episodes.* The girls are on their fall bullsh*t as they discuss people pleasing, hurricanes, and trypophobia (this one is for the #trypoFREAKS). They…
more -
Brablems (8008)
It's the Season 2 Finale and the ladies of The Side Chat are going out with a bang (and a bra)! Coming off the heels of Cait and Krissy's recent confessions about their lack of basic bra hygiene (#castironskillet), the gals are joined this week by a very special guest - Rebeka Polgar, founder of...
-
Summer Shuffle
This week on The Side Chat, Trish has been felled by the cruelest injustice of all: a summer cold. So Cait and Kris (and their ever-present anxiety) are left to carry the pod (and their nearly year-long streak of recording without break). Cait kicks off a fresh installment of Caitlin’s Chaos...
-
HOT IN HERRE
It’s Episode 20 (maybe?) and The Side Chat might just be too hot to handle this week. Caitlin’s Chaos Corner is back (was it ever even gone?) and the ladies are talking post-nursing-brain recovery, relationship slumps, and the way our kids are leaving us emotionally mangled and scrambled. After a...
-
Uncle Rick
*This episode in no way brought to you by Chuck E. Cheese* It's a monumental week on The Side Chat: the national nightmare that is Caitlin's Chaos Corner may finally be coming to an end. Cait is bringing serious Lucky Girl energy to the pod this week with a hot n fresh update on her personal...
-
Nasty Lucky Girls
Calling all lucky boys and nasty girls: it's a new week on The Side Chat! And since we all know women be shopping, Tricia takes us inside a seldom discussed but nevertheless monumental motherhood milestone: shopping for new bras when you're ready to retire your nursing bras. And with new...
-
Integrity Pledge
This week on The Side Chat, Tricia joins the pod fashionably late thanks to baby bedtime battles–but fear not! Krissy and Cait are more than happy to fill the time making plans to drunkenly endorse each other for extremely unprofessional skills on LinkedIn. Over in Caitlin’s Chaos (and Asbestos)...
-
Jacques Shack
Grab your Throat Coat, it's time for another episode of The Side Chat. It's Memorial Day which ironically means the girls can't remember the last time they had childcare. Tricia's flaunting that DRIP (postnasal), Krissy finally confesses she's Canadian (eh!), and Caitlin can't stop making offers…
more -
Summer of 2016
It's another week of THE SIDE CHAT and the ladies are living like it's the summer of 2016–even if they can't remember how old they were at that time. Things kick off with every parent’s worst nightmare: the ER visit. Specifically, when to casually (or not-so-casually) demand a plastic surgeon to...
-
Family Matters
This week on THE SIDE CHAT, the ladies are buzzin' and beefin' as Krissy and Tricia continue their blood feud with Caitlin and the pod caught in the crossfire. But while Trish actually attends to family matters (and not of the Steve Urkel persuasion), Krissy and Cait take yet another journey to…
more -
Buy the Pilot
It's a new week on The Side Chat and the cortisol coffers are DEPLETED thanks to the white-hot anxiety rollercoaster that is trying to sell a home. A ill-timed water leak leads to some serious waterworks–both literally and emotionally–as well as a cast of New Jersey characters parading through…
more -
Pay to Peep
The band is back together! This week on The Side Chat, Trish and Krissy officially end their beef (prayer hands) and at last the gals get a chance for a proper catch up (see also: trauma dump). Caitlin finally decides to stop vague-tweeting her life and the group dives into some major life…
more -
God Only Knows
To all the husbands reveling in our anguish: BEWARE. This week on The Side Chat, the girls are beefin'–or at least that's the rumor Caitlin's starting. Tricia has the week off and Caitlin feels like her mommies got divorced and are sharing custody of the pod. But the show must go on–even if that...
-
Murphy's Law
This week on The Side Chat, Murphy's Law is in full effect–and has even claimed one of our own! That's right, the ladies are down a mom and Tricia and Caitlin are forced to soldier on with a glaring Krissy-shaped hole in the pod (and their hearts). But fear not, the gals still manage to go HARD…
more -
Chicken Sleazer Salad
This week on THE SIDE CHAT, the ladies are doing great. No, really. GREAT. Totally thriving. Nothing to worry about here AT ALL. Sure, our mental health is hanging on by a chicken sleazer salad, but that won't stop the gals from getting Krissy up to speed on all things White Lotus just in time…
more -
That's a no for me, rawdawg
This week on The Side Chat, the gals are renting clothes and whole new identities postpartum–because snapback culture can lose our numbers. After divulging their go-to karaoke songs, the ladies JEREMY PIVOT into celebrity sightings, whether Krissy is actually tall, and selling feet pics to avoid...
-
No Appendix, No Party
This week on The Side Chat, the gals are wartime reporting from the trenches of motherhood. We’re talking about the consequences of parenting other people’s kids (spoiler: Caitlin is yelling at all the neighborhood kids), 4 year olds rocking full glam for dance recitals, and the surprisingly...
-
Social Limitations
Here's a little math problem for all you Side Chicks out there: what does 1.5 functioning brain cells after a girls weekend in Palm Beach + 1 sensory deprivation tank + 1 unsolicited email from a work colleague with limited social skills + 1 landscape architect on the brink of being DOGEd equal?...
-
Leave it to Bev
Ward, don't be so hard on the Side Chicks. It's a new week which can only mean one thing: the ladies of The Side Chat are crowning a new winner of "Worst Week Ever." It's a tight race to the bottom as the gals take on stomach bugs while a husband is out of town and a freak accident involving a…
more -
Hard Pivot
This week on The Side Chat, the ladies are giving away their home addresses, their husbands' blood types, and official licensed Side Hats to anyone who wants them (no questions asked). After talking entirely too much about producer Evan (cock in the hen house!), the girls unpack why motherhood...
-
Lose My Number
In this week's episode, the ladies of The Side Chat are kindly asking the universe and society at large to LOSE OUR NUMBERS. After a long week, the girls are bringing the Thursday energy as they grasp desperately for their words and come up with new shorthands for the sentiment "I want to go...
-
High Low
*Before you start the next episode, we highly encourage all registered Side Chicks to familiarize yourself with our customs: 1.) Always wear sensible shoes but most especially when violently expressing yourself on the dancefloor. 2.) Baby sprinkle registries will heretofore be known as glorified...
-
La Marcia
Welcome to Season 2 of The Side Chat, side chicks! We're happy to report we've been renewed for another season (by us) and to celebrate, we're joined by a surprise (even for Krissy and Trish!) special guest for the first time ever on the pod. After a few too many flutes of prosecco and some...
-
Feeling 22
It's the season finale, side chicks! The gals close this season with a banger of an episode: there's a low-stakes Ocean's 11 plot to infiltrate the WTC for "business reasons"; there's a requisite COCK IN THE HENHOUSE; and the ladies even experience another instance of double merch thanks to the...
-
Serious Avenue
This week on The Side Chat, the ladies take an uncharacteristic turn down Serious Avenue to confront death and combat grief the only way they know how: absolute silliness and a disturbing amount of takeout. After an epic intermission thanks to a puking child (put it on the leaderboard!!!), the…
more -
Alpha Couple
It's birthday week on The Side Chat! The ladies are celebrating Krissy inching one year closer to no longer being sufficiently under 40. In honor of the big day, the girls are examining why Millennials are aging so damn well (#humble) and sharing what their "Third Things" are. After opening bday...
-
Dearly Beloved
We are gathered here today To get through this thing called "life" Electric word, life It means forever, and that's a mighty long time But I'm here to tell you there's something else: The Side Chat. This week, the ladies (see also: Krissy) are two espresso martinis and a vodka sody deep and...
-
Scrudge
*This episode brought to you by Kean's Scrudge Fudge* If you were thinking to yourself, "Sure it's mid-January and the holidays are already a distant memory but MAN I wish I could listen to three stressed out moms discuss the societal pressures of sending Christmas cards for the second week in a...
-
Dopplegangers
Happy New Year, Side Chicks!!! New year, same overstimulated moms still trying to make the holidays magic. The ladies unpack the mom guilt driving so many December decisions including sending holiday cards (hello, Paperless Post?? we're available for sponsorship whenever you're ready) and…
more -
Chad Chat
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays, Side Chicks! The ladies of THE SIDE CHAT are broadcasting from the past into the future to help you survive another winter without Shining your family. The gals are handling the general stress of the season flawlessly (despite what the shingles may suggest) all...
-
Live Laugh Thrive
This week, the gals of The Side Chat are THRIVING as they take a break from their 3am Frasier binges to dish on their co-dependency issues, insomnia, and fears of leaving the protective safety of the antibiotic bubble. After three stings for the price of one, the ladies segue over to a SIDE CHAT...
-
C'est La Vie
Calling all FoFs! (that's Friend of a Friend for those who don't subscribe to our Patreon) This week, the ladies of THE SIDE CHAT are keeping things "light" (lolol) with awkward stories of watching sex scenes with their parents, close encounters with the medical system, and cautionary tales about...
-
Divorce Brunch
Norovirus & networking: that's what The Side Chat does best! This week's episode is not for the weak of stomach (so if you're one of those freaks who enjoys Good & Plentys, you should be fine). The ladies discuss stomach bug survival techniques while still doing insane mom things like…
more -
Prank Phone Calls
Don't pick up the phone–the SIDE CHAT is coming from inside the house. This week, the gals are tripping down memory lane as they discuss the middle school sleepover circuit, prank phone calls, and unsolved mysteries. After Caitlin finishes a 25 minute Ted Talk (that honestly could have been a…
more -
Pod Pod
*This episode was recorded live from the #PodPod... a thing Caitlin totally trademarked already so don't steal it* Is that a ring light on your screen or are we just happy to see Trish?? This week's episode marks a historic moment for the ladies of The Side Chat: the first time one of the gals...
-
Maid of Dishonor
Calling all empathetic sweaters! This week is all about parenting survival tactics. The gals discuss what to do when your kids are climbing the walls, why fences make good parents, and when to just take life easy, Frog and Toad style. They then dive into a boots on the ground SIDE CHAT with real...
-
Mud Ankles
**This week's episode is coming to you from the blissfully unaware past–join us if you need to dissociate from reality for an hour or so.** The girls are on their fall bullsh*t as they discuss people pleasing, hurricanes, and trypophobia (this one is for the #trypoFREAKS). They also have their…
more
About this show
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, the girls discuss (and let's be honest, judge) listener-submitted stories of wild, out-of-pocket, and otherwise wtf experiences popping off in real-life group chats. Along the way, they deep dive into everything pop culture, motherhood, adult friendship, and beyond–all while talking over each other and laughing too hard at their own jokes.
Hosted by
Kristen Walters, Tricia Olds, Caitlin Kean