{"id":262972,"date":"2025-11-05T08:51:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T08:51:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/262972\/"},"modified":"2025-11-05T08:51:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T08:51:10","slug":"a-giggly-evening-with-kate-baer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/262972\/","title":{"rendered":"A Giggly Evening With Kate Baer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/IMG_1350.jpeg\" alt=\"Kate Baer Joanna Goddard\" width=\"1206\" height=\"650\" class=\"size-full wp-image-347387\"  \/><\/p>\n<p data-image-hide=\"1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/IMG_1350.jpeg\" alt=\"Kate Baer Joanna Goddard\" width=\"1206\" height=\"650\" class=\"size-full wp-image-347387\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>Last night, I spent an hour laughing with poet <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/katejbaer\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Kate Baer<\/a> on stage\u2026<\/p>\n<p data-bleed=\"1\" data-article-image=\"1\" data-article-image-position=\"1\" data-article-image-position1=\"1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/IMG_1349.jpeg\" alt=\"Kate Baer Joanna Goddard\" width=\"1206\" height=\"653\" class=\"size-full wp-image-347386\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>Kate\u2019s fourth book \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/tidd.ly\/43DCdfS\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">How About Now<\/a> \u2014 came out today, and tackles friendship, marriage, parenting, and aging, with a nice dollop of existential dread. I know it\u2019s a bold statement, but it might be my favorite of her books so far.<\/p>\n<p data-bleed=\"1\" data-article-image=\"1\" data-article-image-position=\"2\" data-article-image-position1=\"2\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/IMG_1354.jpeg\" alt=\"Kate Baer Joanna Goddard\" width=\"1206\" height=\"640\" class=\"size-full wp-image-347388\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m an open book,\u201d Kate told me (evidenced by the fact that she has a poem called \u2018At Pelvic Floor Therapy\u2019). \u201cWhenever you tell the truth, you always hear, \u2018Me, too.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-offset=\"1\" data-article-image=\"1\" data-article-image-position=\"3\" data-article-image-position2=\"3\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/IMG_1335.jpeg\" alt=\"Kate Baer talk Brooklyn\" width=\"985\" height=\"1054\" class=\"size-full wp-image-347390\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>The audience was electric \u2014\u00a0and asked such good questions, too.<\/p>\n<p data-offset=\"1\" data-article-image=\"1\" data-article-image-position=\"4\" data-article-image-position2=\"4\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/IMG_1320-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"Williamsburg Pizza\" width=\"1920\" height=\"2560\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-347389\"  \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.williamsburgpizza.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Williamsburg Pizza<\/a> even sent a little snack before the talk. How cute is that?<\/p>\n<p data-bleed=\"1\" data-article-image=\"1\" data-article-image-position=\"5\" data-article-image-position1=\"5\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/IMG_6475-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"Kate Baer Joanna Goddard\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-347391\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019d like to watch the event, here\u2019s the video, below. I cut to our actual discussion, skipping the part where I tried to warm up the audience by asking them to do the wave lol. It\u2019s slightly hard to hear at the beginning, but gets better about 30 seconds later, once we figured out how to correctly hold our microphones.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019d like to skip around, here are some timestamps:<br \/>12:16 \u2014\u00a0talking about turning 40<br \/>13:52 \u2014\u00a0Kate reads the poem \u2018Frog Queen\u2019<br \/>14:33 \u2014 we talk about funny preteens and teens<br \/>15:32 \u2014 we made Freddie stand up hahahaha<br \/>17:22 \u2014\u00a0Kate reads the poem \u2018One Day\u2019<br \/>18:26 \u2014 Lily Allen album<br \/>20:09 \u2014 how Kate is an open book<br \/>21:08 \u2014\u00a0Kate\u2019s favorite line in the book<br \/>22:22 \u2014\u00a0lighting round with questions about her pets\u2019 names and her sex playlist<br \/>27:45 \u2014\u00a0Kate on planning trivia nights and themed parties<\/p>\n<p>Where should we come next? We have Boston and Minneapolis on our list. <\/p>\n<p>P.S. <a href=\"https:\/\/joannagoddard.substack.com\/p\/kate-baer-new-book\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Nine ways that Kate Baer is making her 40s her best decade yet<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/cupofjo.com\/2019\/06\/10\/kate-baer-motherhood-poems\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Kate\u2019s poems about having babies and toddlers<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/cupofjo.com\/2025\/11\/04\/a-giggly-evening-with-kate-baer\/#comments\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>73 COMMENTS<\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t<script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Last night, I spent an hour laughing with poet Kate Baer on stage\u2026 Kate\u2019s fourth book \u2014 How&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":262973,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[49,48,361,75],"class_list":["post-262972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=262972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262972\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/262973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}