Somehow Still Besties

We're back — and we didn't even say hello before we started talking. Kim is here with her full post-surgery update (spoiler: they took the whole right side of her colon and nobody warned her until the morning of). We also get real about the mental side of going through two cancer diagnosis, which might be the most important thing we've said on this show. Also in this one: Kim's vir...

This week we're bringing you ALL the chaos — and a few updates we've been sitting on. Kim shares where things stand with Pol (the polyp) — including scan results, surgery, and a message she really wants every woman to hear. We also pay tribute to Dolly Parton, celebrate Kim's absolute farm takeover (20 lbs of potatoes — TWENTY), talk hot vs. cold weather debates, Karol's great-niec...

Episode 10 is a big one. Karol has news she's been waiting to share, and once it's out, the whole conversation shifts. Along the way, the besties cover the chaos of driving (passing lanes, four-way stops, and people who should not be on the road), what sleeping in your 50s actually looks like (hint: not great), Baby cuddles, how baby gear has become a luxury car situation, breastfeeding th...

Kim is back. You may have noticed the break. If you follow her on social media you already know why. If you don't — you will find out in this episode and in the ones coming up. The short version: she is doing great and she brought hot dog casserole. This week Kim and Karol pick back up with the struggle meals they grew up with — shit on a shingle, bingo surprise, meatloaf in muffin tins, hot d...

Karol brought the whole childhood in a bag. Candy cigarettes. Pop Rocks. Wacky Wafers. Ring Pops. NECO Wafers. Fun Dip. Candy necklaces. Razzles. Sugar Daddies. Bubble Yum. Then , the Bubble Yum story. Karol spits her grape Bubble Yum directly into Kim's open mouth on a dirt road at the campground. It still had flavor. Kim has never forgotten it. Also — Dave finds something frozen outside the...

Fifty years of friendship. One dock. One bowl of Cheerios and a burp that came out of nowhere. They still can't get through this story without crying. This week Kim and Karol take a trip back to the seventies and eighties — fashion crimes, stolen clothesline jeans, a coat hanger, tight Chic pants and a coat hanger. Then Tony puts something in his mouth he should not and Kim can't move past...

Episode 6 is the colonoscopy follow up nobody expected. The doctor found a very large polyp. Ulcerated. Firm. A 50-50 chance it was cancer. Kim has had breast cancer before and she could not stop crying. Then the results came back benign. And she named the polyp "Pol." Pol is being evicted next month. She is ready. Kim and Karol also cover medical PTSD — why the C word hits completely di...

Episode 5 opens with a gallon of colonoscopy prep solution, a nurse who is genuinely excited about the process, and Kim who has written tomorrow off completely. Kim and Karol get real about why colonoscopies matter — Karol's dad passed away from colon cancer and Dave's late wife was only 35 when she was diagnosed. Then they talk about the fart room (yes that is a real place, yes you have t...

A bonus for you! Eight years ago Kim gave a full roast speech at Karol's 50th birthday party — and we have the video. Deviled ham sandwiches, a bleeding pool incident that ended in two weeks of silence, a grape Bubble Yum spit story 40 years in the making, and the Gong Show act that Karol always won. This one is pure friendship chaos. Somehow Still Besties — the unfiltered podcast for women ov...

Episode 4 starts with two hours of technical issues, a computer that sounded like it was about to explode, and Karol waking up at 3am to discover she had a caterpillar on her face. From there Kim and Karol cover the photo shoot at Lilac and Birch Studio in Goffstown New Hampshire — including the turtling incident, the seesaw that destroyed Karol's legs for two days, and a spiral slide only one...

Episode 3 starts exactly where you would expect with a contaminated mug and a germaphobe best friend who has a no choice but to drink from it. Kim and Karol are back with devil ham sandwiches, the world's greatest Bestie Dance Party idea, CC DeVille hair, an interruption nobody investigated, a cigarette that disappeared inside someone's 80s hairdo, and the real conversation about turning 6...

Kim and Karol are back for Episode 2 This time they're going deep on growing up in the 80s. Sun-In orange hair. Baby oil on black tar rooftops. Parachute pants at the club. Roach clip feathers. California Raisins on a waterbed. And a first kiss that tasted like peanut butter.   Plus: Kim's hairdressing school state board disaster, the guidance counselor who tried to talk her out of being a...

Kim Russell and Karol Grato have been best friends for over 50 years and somehow they are still besties. In Episode 1: We take you all the way back to where it started, a seasonal campground called Lake Ivanhoe in Wakefield, New Hampshire, and the friendship that was never supposed to happen but did. Plus: a crappy inflatable tube , why Karol had "an hour to live," a baby left crying for 45 minute...