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Midwest Besties

Midwest Besties

By: Lauren & Emily
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The pop culture podcast for the rest of us.

TV, Books, Reality, Movies, Celeb Gossip, and More.

© 2026 Midwest Besties
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  • FLYOVER DEEPDIVE - Yesteryear By Caro Clare Burke
    Apr 30 2026

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    Besties, it’s Book Club Time! This week, Emily and Lauren take a break from discussing TV the internet can’t stop talking about to discuss the BOOK the internet can’t stop talking about. Yesteryear, by political and pop culture podcaster Caro Claire Burke, takes us inside the mind of the fictional tradwife social media influencer Natalie Heller Mills. The story is about what happens when Natalie wakes up to discover she is actually in the 1855 pioneer era. This book is a WILD RIDE, and the Besties talk about it all—influencer culture, religious trauma, the manosphere, and of course, Goldie Hawn in Overboard. So many spoilers, so if you want to read this book and haven’t read it, don’t listen. If you have read it and are dying to talk about it with someone, welcome!



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    40 mins
  • The Loose Tum in Jennifer Tilly's $40K Purse
    Apr 23 2026

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    In this week’s pop culture potluck, we start off strong with the latest Summer House gossip. We chat about West and Amanda’s at the Yankees game, Ciara’s Glamour Cover, Mia’s WWHL interview, and recap S10 E12. We give our final thoughts on Real Housewives of Beverly Hills as the season finally wraps up, and get into Coachella Weekend Two. We chat Sabrina’s set, Olivia Rodrigo’s new single, and Kacey Musgraves’ last-minute show. We switch gears to TV, sharing what we’re watching now, including Big Mistakes, Running Point, and the final season of Hacks.



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    53 mins
  • Episode 117: Alex vs Alix: The Hot White Girls Are Beefing
    Apr 16 2026

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    What is up, Daddy Gang?! It’s us, your besties! And this week in our Pop Culture Potluck, we have quite the spread! First, we discuss the trailer for the new Summer House spin-off, In The City. Lauren talks about how Danielle has personally victimized her. We follow up on the Summer House Scamanda scandal and how we are low-key loving Amanda and West owning their pieces of SH*T era. We break down Sabrina Carpenter and Justin Bieber’s Coachella performances. Two artists living their truth, or the painful example of the double standard of female/male pop stars? PLUS, we break down Call Her Daddy’s Alex Cooper and TikTok’s Alix Earle’s mystery internet beef that we are LIVING FOR (Spoiler Alert: They are two different people). Plus, Jorginho clears Chappell’s name with another epic 3-point-font Instagram Story (we give him a big NO DUH), new books we're reading, and the exhausting GLP-1 discourse we can’t seem to escape.



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    52 mins
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