Kim Russell Karol Grato

Somehow Still Besties

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Two best friends. Both over 50. Friends for 50 years. Zero filters. Kim Russell and Karol Grotto have known each other since they were nine years old and somehow they still actually like each other. Somehow Still Besties is real talk, big laughs and 50 years of unfiltered stories about friendship, life after 50 and growing older without growing boring. Come for the laughs. Stay for the friendship. New episodes every other week.

Author

Kim Russell Karol Grato

Episodes

Pol the Polyp, Medical PTSD & the Menopause Armpit Situation | Ep. 6 10.07.2026 45:01

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...

She Left Her Husband for Dead on a Mountain & Is Not Sorry | Somehow Still Besties Ep. 5 26.06.2026 46:38

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...

BONUS: The Roast — Stories About Karol, Finally Told in Public 19.06.2026 15:27

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...

She Wore Fake Eyelashes to Bed & Woke Up Looking Like a Caterpillar | Ep. 4 12.06.2026 52:51

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...

The Contaminated Mug, Devil Ham & CC DeVille Hair | Ep. 3 29.05.2026 50:41

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...

Sun-In, Baby Oil & Peanut Butter Kisses - Growing Up in the 80s 15.05.2026 40:41

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...

50 Years of Friendship, Catfish Attacks & Chewed Up Chicken 01.05.2026 42:59

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...