<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<?xml-stylesheet href="/stylesheet.xsl" type="text/xsl"?>
<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:sy="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:itunes="http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd" xmlns:podcast="https://podcastindex.org/namespace/1.0">
  <channel>
    <atom:link rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" href="https://feeds.transistor.fm/bitch-fest-with-joseph-tito" title="MP3 Audio"/>
    <atom:link rel="hub" href="https://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/"/>
    <podcast:podping usesPodping="true"/>
    <title>Bitch Fest with Joseph Tito</title>
    <generator>Transistor (https://transistor.fm)</generator>
    <itunes:new-feed-url>https://feeds.transistor.fm/bitch-fest-with-joseph-tito</itunes:new-feed-url>
    <description>Marriage, parenting, family drama — someone's gotta say what we're all thinking, and Joseph Tito is just unhinged enough to do it. Every week Joseph — gay dad of twin girls, bestselling author, and a menace with a microphone — reads your messiest letters and torches the villains with savage wit, brutal honesty, and just enough heart to remind you you're not alone in the chaos. From husbands who treat wives like free secretaries with dental benefits, to in-laws who think love has a rulebook, nothing is safe from the roast. Therapy meets stand-up meets that friend who's three glasses of wine deep and finally telling the truth. Send your mess to betweenthecoversmag.com. This is Joseph Tito — and I bitch so you don't have to.</description>
    <copyright>© 2026 JEO Publishing / Between the Covers</copyright>
    <podcast:guid>01e7ab80-80ba-552b-9608-99a7b6d5834c</podcast:guid>
    <podcast:locked>yes</podcast:locked>
    <language>en</language>
    <pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2026 17:00:05 -0400</pubDate>
    <lastBuildDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2026 17:01:20 -0400</lastBuildDate>
    <link>https://www.betweenthecoversmag.com/podcast</link>
    <image>
      <url>https://img.transistorcdn.com/UwIbU2BipPWjXXjvyuGdFBOInQ47boOHBaBq6SIJwS0/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:1400/h:1400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS8xNDYy/NTM1Y2U2MzE2NzMx/NTVlYTdmZDBkZjdm/NTUwNC5wbmc.jpg</url>
      <title>Bitch Fest with Joseph Tito</title>
      <link>https://www.betweenthecoversmag.com/podcast</link>
    </image>
    <itunes:category text="Comedy"/>
    <itunes:category text="Society &amp; Culture">
      <itunes:category text="Relationships"/>
    </itunes:category>
    <itunes:type>episodic</itunes:type>
    <itunes:author>Joseph Tito</itunes:author>
    <itunes:image href="https://img.transistorcdn.com/UwIbU2BipPWjXXjvyuGdFBOInQ47boOHBaBq6SIJwS0/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:1400/h:1400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS8xNDYy/NTM1Y2U2MzE2NzMx/NTVlYTdmZDBkZjdm/NTUwNC5wbmc.jpg"/>
    <itunes:summary>Marriage, parenting, family drama — someone's gotta say what we're all thinking, and Joseph Tito is just unhinged enough to do it. Every week Joseph — gay dad of twin girls, bestselling author, and a menace with a microphone — reads your messiest letters and torches the villains with savage wit, brutal honesty, and just enough heart to remind you you're not alone in the chaos. From husbands who treat wives like free secretaries with dental benefits, to in-laws who think love has a rulebook, nothing is safe from the roast. Therapy meets stand-up meets that friend who's three glasses of wine deep and finally telling the truth. Send your mess to betweenthecoversmag.com. This is Joseph Tito — and I bitch so you don't have to.</itunes:summary>
    <itunes:subtitle>Marriage, parenting, family drama — someone's gotta say what we're all thinking, and Joseph Tito is just unhinged enough to do it.</itunes:subtitle>
    <itunes:keywords>comedy, advice, family drama, parenting, relationships, roast, gay dad, marriage, in-laws, boundaries, listener letters, Toronto</itunes:keywords>
    <itunes:owner>
      <itunes:name>Joseph Tito</itunes:name>
      <itunes:email>joseph@jeopublishing.com</itunes:email>
    </itunes:owner>
    <itunes:complete>No</itunes:complete>
    <itunes:explicit>Yes</itunes:explicit>
    <item>
      <title>Eleven Years of Forgetting Her Wallet</title>
      <itunes:episode>10</itunes:episode>
      <podcast:episode>10</podcast:episode>
      <itunes:title>Eleven Years of Forgetting Her Wallet</itunes:title>
      <itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
      <guid isPermaLink="false">78eded39-b662-47de-b1d2-4eb4948076f0</guid>
      <link>https://www.betweenthecoversmag.com/podcast</link>
      <description>
        <![CDATA[<p>Eleven years. Eleven years of dinners, brunches and group trips, and Christine has never once had her wallet on her. Not lost it. Just never had it.</p><p><br></p><p>A listener signing off as Still Waiting On That Etransfer writes in about the friend who is always three taps away from paying you back and somehow never arrives. Joseph gets into why the person who forgets is never the one keeping score, why "I'll get you next time" is a sentence with no next time in it, and what it actually costs to keep quiet for a decade to avoid one awkward conversation.</p><p><br></p><p>Next week: the friend who replies "haha" to actual news.</p><p><br></p><p>Got a mess of your own? Send it to info@jeopublishing.com.</p><p>More at betweenthecoversmag.com — or read the magazine free in the BTC Magazine app, iOS and Android.</p><p>Bitch Fest is a Between the Covers production.</p>]]>
      </description>
      <content:encoded>
        <![CDATA[<p>Eleven years. Eleven years of dinners, brunches and group trips, and Christine has never once had her wallet on her. Not lost it. Just never had it.</p><p><br></p><p>A listener signing off as Still Waiting On That Etransfer writes in about the friend who is always three taps away from paying you back and somehow never arrives. Joseph gets into why the person who forgets is never the one keeping score, why "I'll get you next time" is a sentence with no next time in it, and what it actually costs to keep quiet for a decade to avoid one awkward conversation.</p><p><br></p><p>Next week: the friend who replies "haha" to actual news.</p><p><br></p><p>Got a mess of your own? Send it to info@jeopublishing.com.</p><p>More at betweenthecoversmag.com — or read the magazine free in the BTC Magazine app, iOS and Android.</p><p>Bitch Fest is a Between the Covers production.</p>]]>
      </content:encoded>
      <pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2026 17:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
      <author>Joseph Tito</author>
      <enclosure url="https://media.transistor.fm/bef15547/84f500f2.mp3" length="9623911" type="audio/mpeg"/>
      <itunes:author>Joseph Tito</itunes:author>
      <itunes:duration>599</itunes:duration>
      <itunes:summary>
        <![CDATA[<p>Eleven years. Eleven years of dinners, brunches and group trips, and Christine has never once had her wallet on her. Not lost it. Just never had it.</p><p><br></p><p>A listener signing off as Still Waiting On That Etransfer writes in about the friend who is always three taps away from paying you back and somehow never arrives. Joseph gets into why the person who forgets is never the one keeping score, why "I'll get you next time" is a sentence with no next time in it, and what it actually costs to keep quiet for a decade to avoid one awkward conversation.</p><p><br></p><p>Next week: the friend who replies "haha" to actual news.</p><p><br></p><p>Got a mess of your own? Send it to info@jeopublishing.com.</p><p>More at betweenthecoversmag.com — or read the magazine free in the BTC Magazine app, iOS and Android.</p><p>Bitch Fest is a Between the Covers production.</p>]]>
      </itunes:summary>
      <itunes:keywords>friendship, money, splitting the bill, freeloader, etransfer, friends who never pay, boundaries, comedy</itunes:keywords>
      <itunes:explicit>Yes</itunes:explicit>
      <podcast:transcript url="https://share.transistor.fm/s/bef15547/transcript.txt" type="text/plain"/>
    </item>
    <item>
      <title>Four Inches From Losing It</title>
      <itunes:episode>9</itunes:episode>
      <podcast:episode>9</podcast:episode>
      <itunes:title>Four Inches From Losing It</itunes:title>
      <itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
      <guid isPermaLink="false">253d0013-227c-4b2f-910b-174b9f1c36ef</guid>
      <link>https://www.betweenthecoversmag.com/podcast</link>
      <description>
        <![CDATA[<p>A woman writes in about her neighbour Lorraine, who came out with string and stakes to measure the property line. Four inches. Four.</p><p><br></p><p>Joseph gets into the particular madness of people who treat a shared fence like a contested border, the ones who know exactly where your recycling bin sat on Tuesday, and why the person with the most free time on the street is always the one policing it.</p><p><br></p><p>Plus a confession about what he has personally let happen on a neighbour’s lawn.</p><p><br></p><p>Next week: the friend who has forgotten her wallet for eleven consecutive years.</p><p><br></p><p>Got a mess of your own? Send it to info@jeopublishing.com.</p><p>More at betweenthecoversmag.com — or read the magazine free in the BTC Magazine app, iOS and Android.</p><p>Bitch Fest is a Between the Covers production.</p>]]>
      </description>
      <content:encoded>
        <![CDATA[<p>A woman writes in about her neighbour Lorraine, who came out with string and stakes to measure the property line. Four inches. Four.</p><p><br></p><p>Joseph gets into the particular madness of people who treat a shared fence like a contested border, the ones who know exactly where your recycling bin sat on Tuesday, and why the person with the most free time on the street is always the one policing it.</p><p><br></p><p>Plus a confession about what he has personally let happen on a neighbour’s lawn.</p><p><br></p><p>Next week: the friend who has forgotten her wallet for eleven consecutive years.</p><p><br></p><p>Got a mess of your own? Send it to info@jeopublishing.com.</p><p>More at betweenthecoversmag.com — or read the magazine free in the BTC Magazine app, iOS and Android.</p><p>Bitch Fest is a Between the Covers production.</p>]]>
      </content:encoded>
      <pubDate>Sat, 22 Aug 2026 17:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
      <author>Joseph Tito</author>
      <enclosure url="https://media.transistor.fm/484df05e/bb927db3.mp3" length="9796934" type="audio/mpeg"/>
      <itunes:author>Joseph Tito</itunes:author>
      <itunes:duration>610</itunes:duration>
      <itunes:summary>
        <![CDATA[<p>A woman writes in about her neighbour Lorraine, who came out with string and stakes to measure the property line. Four inches. Four.</p><p><br></p><p>Joseph gets into the particular madness of people who treat a shared fence like a contested border, the ones who know exactly where your recycling bin sat on Tuesday, and why the person with the most free time on the street is always the one policing it.</p><p><br></p><p>Plus a confession about what he has personally let happen on a neighbour’s lawn.</p><p><br></p><p>Next week: the friend who has forgotten her wallet for eleven consecutive years.</p><p><br></p><p>Got a mess of your own? Send it to info@jeopublishing.com.</p><p>More at betweenthecoversmag.com — or read the magazine free in the BTC Magazine app, iOS and Android.</p><p>Bitch Fest is a Between the Covers production.</p>]]>
      </itunes:summary>
      <itunes:keywords>neighbours, property line, boundary dispute, suburbia, petty neighbours, homeowners, boundaries, comedy</itunes:keywords>
      <itunes:explicit>Yes</itunes:explicit>
      <podcast:transcript url="https://share.transistor.fm/s/484df05e/transcript.txt" type="text/plain"/>
    </item>
    <item>
      <title>Meetings About Meetings</title>
      <itunes:episode>8</itunes:episode>
      <podcast:episode>8</podcast:episode>
      <itunes:title>Meetings About Meetings</itunes:title>
      <itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
      <guid isPermaLink="false">1c8dbbb4-ec9a-47e0-96be-c199722d5531</guid>
      <link>https://www.betweenthecoversmag.com/podcast/bitch-fest-unpacks-corporate-meeting-culture-unpaid-overtime-and-deadlines</link>
      <description>
        <![CDATA[<p>A listener signing herself Death By Calendar Invite writes in with eleven hours of meetings a week and no time left to do the job those meetings are about. When she raises it with her manager, he books a call to discuss her bandwidth.</p><p><br></p><p>Joseph takes apart the whole performance: meetings to prepare for meetings, follow-up meetings to review them, and grown adults reading slides aloud to people who can read. The work does not vanish — it migrates into her evenings, unpaid and unacknowledged.</p><p><br></p><p>He also confesses his own version of it. He accepts nearly every invite he resents, nodding along while mentally somewhere else entirely — a man-shaped screensaver.</p><p><br></p><p>Three ways out: trade attendance for a written deliverable and a deadline, propose a short odd time slot, or ask for an agenda. That last one makes a surprising number of meetings quietly disappear.</p><p><br></p><p>Got a mess of your own? Send it to info@jeopublishing.com.</p><p>More at betweenthecoversmag.com — or read the magazine free in the BTC Magazine app, iOS and Android.</p><p>Bitch Fest is a Between the Covers production.</p>]]>
      </description>
      <content:encoded>
        <![CDATA[<p>A listener signing herself Death By Calendar Invite writes in with eleven hours of meetings a week and no time left to do the job those meetings are about. When she raises it with her manager, he books a call to discuss her bandwidth.</p><p><br></p><p>Joseph takes apart the whole performance: meetings to prepare for meetings, follow-up meetings to review them, and grown adults reading slides aloud to people who can read. The work does not vanish — it migrates into her evenings, unpaid and unacknowledged.</p><p><br></p><p>He also confesses his own version of it. He accepts nearly every invite he resents, nodding along while mentally somewhere else entirely — a man-shaped screensaver.</p><p><br></p><p>Three ways out: trade attendance for a written deliverable and a deadline, propose a short odd time slot, or ask for an agenda. That last one makes a surprising number of meetings quietly disappear.</p><p><br></p><p>Got a mess of your own? Send it to info@jeopublishing.com.</p><p>More at betweenthecoversmag.com — or read the magazine free in the BTC Magazine app, iOS and Android.</p><p>Bitch Fest is a Between the Covers production.</p>]]>
      </content:encoded>
      <pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2026 17:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
      <author>Joseph Tito</author>
      <enclosure url="https://media.transistor.fm/29f1b4d5/53f4bfe5.mp3" length="9486806" type="audio/mpeg"/>
      <itunes:author>Joseph Tito</itunes:author>
      <itunes:duration>590</itunes:duration>
      <itunes:summary>
        <![CDATA[<p>A listener signing herself Death By Calendar Invite writes in with eleven hours of meetings a week and no time left to do the job those meetings are about. When she raises it with her manager, he books a call to discuss her bandwidth.</p><p><br></p><p>Joseph takes apart the whole performance: meetings to prepare for meetings, follow-up meetings to review them, and grown adults reading slides aloud to people who can read. The work does not vanish — it migrates into her evenings, unpaid and unacknowledged.</p><p><br></p><p>He also confesses his own version of it. He accepts nearly every invite he resents, nodding along while mentally somewhere else entirely — a man-shaped screensaver.</p><p><br></p><p>Three ways out: trade attendance for a written deliverable and a deadline, propose a short odd time slot, or ask for an agenda. That last one makes a surprising number of meetings quietly disappear.</p><p><br></p><p>Got a mess of your own? Send it to info@jeopublishing.com.</p><p>More at betweenthecoversmag.com — or read the magazine free in the BTC Magazine app, iOS and Android.</p><p>Bitch Fest is a Between the Covers production.</p>]]>
      </itunes:summary>
      <itunes:keywords>meeting culture, corporate burnout, unpaid overtime, calendar invites, workplace productivity, work life balance, office life, comedy</itunes:keywords>
      <itunes:explicit>Yes</itunes:explicit>
      <podcast:transcript url="https://share.transistor.fm/s/29f1b4d5/transcript.txt" type="text/plain"/>
    </item>
    <item>
      <title>Already Married to Everyone’s Opinions</title>
      <itunes:episode>7</itunes:episode>
      <podcast:episode>7</podcast:episode>
      <itunes:title>Already Married to Everyone’s Opinions</itunes:title>
      <itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
      <guid isPermaLink="false">ca93aef8-392d-4774-bfcb-b745e0d82dc6</guid>
      <link>https://www.betweenthecoversmag.com/podcast/already-married-to-everyones-opinions-stop-explaining-wedding-choices-to-family</link>
      <description>
        <![CDATA[<p>A bride two months out writes in, worn down by relatives who have quietly promoted themselves to unpaid wedding planners. The dress, the decor, the honeymoon — everyone has notes, nobody was asked.</p><p><br></p><p>Joseph’s diagnosis is not the advice. It is her habit of answering it. Treating every relative’s opinion like a customer complaint that requires a justification is what turns a wedding into a deposition. And most advice-givers are not thinking about her wedding at all — they are relitigating their own.</p><p><br></p><p>Includes a three-line script for shutting it down: past tense, no reasoning, no debate. Plus the relative who swapped out his centrepieces mid-reception without asking.</p><p><br></p><p>Some hurt feelings are the price of a boundary. Pay it.</p><p><br></p><p>Got a mess of your own? Send it to info@jeopublishing.com.</p><p>More at betweenthecoversmag.com — or read the magazine free in the BTC Magazine app, iOS and Android.</p><p>Bitch Fest is a Between the Covers production.</p>]]>
      </description>
      <content:encoded>
        <![CDATA[<p>A bride two months out writes in, worn down by relatives who have quietly promoted themselves to unpaid wedding planners. The dress, the decor, the honeymoon — everyone has notes, nobody was asked.</p><p><br></p><p>Joseph’s diagnosis is not the advice. It is her habit of answering it. Treating every relative’s opinion like a customer complaint that requires a justification is what turns a wedding into a deposition. And most advice-givers are not thinking about her wedding at all — they are relitigating their own.</p><p><br></p><p>Includes a three-line script for shutting it down: past tense, no reasoning, no debate. Plus the relative who swapped out his centrepieces mid-reception without asking.</p><p><br></p><p>Some hurt feelings are the price of a boundary. Pay it.</p><p><br></p><p>Got a mess of your own? Send it to info@jeopublishing.com.</p><p>More at betweenthecoversmag.com — or read the magazine free in the BTC Magazine app, iOS and Android.</p><p>Bitch Fest is a Between the Covers production.</p>]]>
      </content:encoded>
      <pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2026 17:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
      <author>Joseph Tito</author>
      <enclosure url="https://media.transistor.fm/03d8c877/411d01d6.mp3" length="9857173" type="audio/mpeg"/>
      <itunes:author>Joseph Tito</itunes:author>
      <itunes:duration>614</itunes:duration>
      <itunes:summary>
        <![CDATA[<p>A bride two months out writes in, worn down by relatives who have quietly promoted themselves to unpaid wedding planners. The dress, the decor, the honeymoon — everyone has notes, nobody was asked.</p><p><br></p><p>Joseph’s diagnosis is not the advice. It is her habit of answering it. Treating every relative’s opinion like a customer complaint that requires a justification is what turns a wedding into a deposition. And most advice-givers are not thinking about her wedding at all — they are relitigating their own.</p><p><br></p><p>Includes a three-line script for shutting it down: past tense, no reasoning, no debate. Plus the relative who swapped out his centrepieces mid-reception without asking.</p><p><br></p><p>Some hurt feelings are the price of a boundary. Pay it.</p><p><br></p><p>Got a mess of your own? Send it to info@jeopublishing.com.</p><p>More at betweenthecoversmag.com — or read the magazine free in the BTC Magazine app, iOS and Android.</p><p>Bitch Fest is a Between the Covers production.</p>]]>
      </itunes:summary>
      <itunes:keywords>wedding planning, family boundaries, unsolicited advice, in-laws, bride, setting boundaries, relationships, comedy</itunes:keywords>
      <itunes:explicit>Yes</itunes:explicit>
      <podcast:transcript url="https://share.transistor.fm/s/03d8c877/transcript.txt" type="text/plain"/>
    </item>
    <item>
      <title>The Drop-Off Demons</title>
      <itunes:episode>6</itunes:episode>
      <podcast:episode>6</podcast:episode>
      <itunes:title>The Drop-Off Demons</itunes:title>
      <itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
      <guid isPermaLink="false">98c8fdac-7b2f-424b-82d0-9599f5574367</guid>
      <link>https://www.betweenthecoversmag.com/podcast/the-drop-off-demons</link>
      <description>
        <![CDATA[<p>Priya from Oakville writes in about the school pickup line, and honestly, she is not describing a traffic pattern. She is describing a hostage situation with minivans.</p><p><br></p><p>Joseph breaks down the five parents who turn twenty minutes into full institutional collapse: the early-arrival spot hoarder who shows up before lunch, the wrong-way driver who has decided arrows are a suggestion, the dramatic goodbye parent staging a wartime farewell, the phone-call parker, and the chronically late one holding up forty cars without a flicker of shame.</p><p><br></p><p>Grown adults. In cars. Behaving like this. Daily.</p><p><br></p><p>Got a mess of your own? Send it to info@jeopublishing.com.</p><p>More at betweenthecoversmag.com — or read the magazine free in the BTC Magazine app, iOS and Android.</p><p>Bitch Fest is a Between the Covers production.</p>]]>
      </description>
      <content:encoded>
        <![CDATA[<p>Priya from Oakville writes in about the school pickup line, and honestly, she is not describing a traffic pattern. She is describing a hostage situation with minivans.</p><p><br></p><p>Joseph breaks down the five parents who turn twenty minutes into full institutional collapse: the early-arrival spot hoarder who shows up before lunch, the wrong-way driver who has decided arrows are a suggestion, the dramatic goodbye parent staging a wartime farewell, the phone-call parker, and the chronically late one holding up forty cars without a flicker of shame.</p><p><br></p><p>Grown adults. In cars. Behaving like this. Daily.</p><p><br></p><p>Got a mess of your own? Send it to info@jeopublishing.com.</p><p>More at betweenthecoversmag.com — or read the magazine free in the BTC Magazine app, iOS and Android.</p><p>Bitch Fest is a Between the Covers production.</p>]]>
      </content:encoded>
      <pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2026 17:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
      <author>Joseph Tito</author>
      <enclosure url="https://media.transistor.fm/2982c17a/985f78cc.mp3" length="10159716" type="audio/mpeg"/>
      <itunes:author>Joseph Tito</itunes:author>
      <itunes:duration>633</itunes:duration>
      <itunes:summary>
        <![CDATA[<p>Priya from Oakville writes in about the school pickup line, and honestly, she is not describing a traffic pattern. She is describing a hostage situation with minivans.</p><p><br></p><p>Joseph breaks down the five parents who turn twenty minutes into full institutional collapse: the early-arrival spot hoarder who shows up before lunch, the wrong-way driver who has decided arrows are a suggestion, the dramatic goodbye parent staging a wartime farewell, the phone-call parker, and the chronically late one holding up forty cars without a flicker of shame.</p><p><br></p><p>Grown adults. In cars. Behaving like this. Daily.</p><p><br></p><p>Got a mess of your own? Send it to info@jeopublishing.com.</p><p>More at betweenthecoversmag.com — or read the magazine free in the BTC Magazine app, iOS and Android.</p><p>Bitch Fest is a Between the Covers production.</p>]]>
      </itunes:summary>
      <itunes:keywords>school pickup line, drop off, parking lot parents, Oakville, school run, parenting, suburban life, comedy</itunes:keywords>
      <itunes:explicit>Yes</itunes:explicit>
      <podcast:transcript url="https://share.transistor.fm/s/2982c17a/transcript.txt" type="text/plain"/>
    </item>
    <item>
      <title>Pinterest Moms &amp; The Competitive Birthday Party Industrial Complex</title>
      <itunes:episode>5</itunes:episode>
      <podcast:episode>5</podcast:episode>
      <itunes:title>Pinterest Moms &amp; The Competitive Birthday Party Industrial Complex</itunes:title>
      <itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
      <guid isPermaLink="false">9a58430c-7463-43b7-a224-b97ec62cf9de</guid>
      <link>https://www.betweenthecoversmag.com/podcast/pinterest-moms-the-competitive-birthday-party-industrial-complex</link>
      <description>
        <![CDATA[<p>When did a kid's birthday party turn into a production? Cake and pizza became balloon installations, live mermaids, and goody bags that cost more than groceries.</p><p><br></p><p>Two parents write in exhausted, broke, and quietly judged for not keeping up. Joseph gets honest about his own years of Instagram-perfect sponsored birthdays — and why he finally walked away from all of it.</p><p><br></p><p>Kids do not need spectacle. They need presence. And no parent needs to go into debt to prove they are doing it right.</p><p><br></p><p>Got a mess of your own? Send it to info@jeopublishing.com.</p><p>More at betweenthecoversmag.com — or read the magazine free in the BTC Magazine app, iOS and Android.</p><p>Bitch Fest is a Between the Covers production.</p>]]>
      </description>
      <content:encoded>
        <![CDATA[<p>When did a kid's birthday party turn into a production? Cake and pizza became balloon installations, live mermaids, and goody bags that cost more than groceries.</p><p><br></p><p>Two parents write in exhausted, broke, and quietly judged for not keeping up. Joseph gets honest about his own years of Instagram-perfect sponsored birthdays — and why he finally walked away from all of it.</p><p><br></p><p>Kids do not need spectacle. They need presence. And no parent needs to go into debt to prove they are doing it right.</p><p><br></p><p>Got a mess of your own? Send it to info@jeopublishing.com.</p><p>More at betweenthecoversmag.com — or read the magazine free in the BTC Magazine app, iOS and Android.</p><p>Bitch Fest is a Between the Covers production.</p>]]>
      </content:encoded>
      <pubDate>Fri, 19 Dec 2025 17:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
      <author>Joseph Tito</author>
      <enclosure url="https://media.transistor.fm/e5558e92/09ad89ae.mp3" length="12735645" type="audio/mpeg"/>
      <itunes:author>Joseph Tito</itunes:author>
      <itunes:duration>794</itunes:duration>
      <itunes:summary>
        <![CDATA[<p>When did a kid's birthday party turn into a production? Cake and pizza became balloon installations, live mermaids, and goody bags that cost more than groceries.</p><p><br></p><p>Two parents write in exhausted, broke, and quietly judged for not keeping up. Joseph gets honest about his own years of Instagram-perfect sponsored birthdays — and why he finally walked away from all of it.</p><p><br></p><p>Kids do not need spectacle. They need presence. And no parent needs to go into debt to prove they are doing it right.</p><p><br></p><p>Got a mess of your own? Send it to info@jeopublishing.com.</p><p>More at betweenthecoversmag.com — or read the magazine free in the BTC Magazine app, iOS and Android.</p><p>Bitch Fest is a Between the Covers production.</p>]]>
      </itunes:summary>
      <itunes:keywords>kids birthday parties, mom competition, party spending, goody bags, Pinterest parenting, gay dad, presence over presents, parenting, comedy</itunes:keywords>
      <itunes:explicit>Yes</itunes:explicit>
      <podcast:transcript url="https://share.transistor.fm/s/e5558e92/transcript.txt" type="text/plain"/>
    </item>
    <item>
      <title>The Pinterest Bitch &amp; The Part-Time Hero</title>
      <itunes:episode>4</itunes:episode>
      <podcast:episode>4</podcast:episode>
      <itunes:title>The Pinterest Bitch &amp; The Part-Time Hero</itunes:title>
      <itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
      <guid isPermaLink="false">ec2322a2-1c15-4cb4-afda-c9b662cc9982</guid>
      <link>https://www.betweenthecoversmag.com/podcast/the-pinterest-bitch-the-part-time-hero</link>
      <description>
        <![CDATA[<p>Modern parenting, where mothers get audited for everything and fathers get a standing ovation for showing up once a season.</p><p><br></p><p>First, the mom being emotionally tackled by a Pinterest-obsessed PTA queen who treats store-bought cookies like a federal offence. Then the mother whose ex is crowned Dad of the Year for attending one soccer game, while she has been doing the actual work for years.</p><p><br></p><p>If you have ever felt invisible, undervalued, or ready to scream into a steering wheel in a school parking lot — this one is for you. The double standards get dragged, the Disney Dads get named, and the myth of the perfect parent gets dismantled. You are not crazy. The system is.</p><p><br></p><p>Got a mess of your own? Send it to info@jeopublishing.com.</p><p>More at betweenthecoversmag.com — or read the magazine free in the BTC Magazine app, iOS and Android.</p><p>Bitch Fest is a Between the Covers production.</p>]]>
      </description>
      <content:encoded>
        <![CDATA[<p>Modern parenting, where mothers get audited for everything and fathers get a standing ovation for showing up once a season.</p><p><br></p><p>First, the mom being emotionally tackled by a Pinterest-obsessed PTA queen who treats store-bought cookies like a federal offence. Then the mother whose ex is crowned Dad of the Year for attending one soccer game, while she has been doing the actual work for years.</p><p><br></p><p>If you have ever felt invisible, undervalued, or ready to scream into a steering wheel in a school parking lot — this one is for you. The double standards get dragged, the Disney Dads get named, and the myth of the perfect parent gets dismantled. You are not crazy. The system is.</p><p><br></p><p>Got a mess of your own? Send it to info@jeopublishing.com.</p><p>More at betweenthecoversmag.com — or read the magazine free in the BTC Magazine app, iOS and Android.</p><p>Bitch Fest is a Between the Covers production.</p>]]>
      </content:encoded>
      <pubDate>Thu, 18 Dec 2025 17:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
      <author>Joseph Tito</author>
      <enclosure url="https://media.transistor.fm/ff9ac832/ad97d7ed.mp3" length="16055051" type="audio/mpeg"/>
      <itunes:author>Joseph Tito</itunes:author>
      <itunes:duration>1001</itunes:duration>
      <itunes:summary>
        <![CDATA[<p>Modern parenting, where mothers get audited for everything and fathers get a standing ovation for showing up once a season.</p><p><br></p><p>First, the mom being emotionally tackled by a Pinterest-obsessed PTA queen who treats store-bought cookies like a federal offence. Then the mother whose ex is crowned Dad of the Year for attending one soccer game, while she has been doing the actual work for years.</p><p><br></p><p>If you have ever felt invisible, undervalued, or ready to scream into a steering wheel in a school parking lot — this one is for you. The double standards get dragged, the Disney Dads get named, and the myth of the perfect parent gets dismantled. You are not crazy. The system is.</p><p><br></p><p>Got a mess of your own? Send it to info@jeopublishing.com.</p><p>More at betweenthecoversmag.com — or read the magazine free in the BTC Magazine app, iOS and Android.</p><p>Bitch Fest is a Between the Covers production.</p>]]>
      </itunes:summary>
      <itunes:keywords>PTA, mom shaming, double standards, Disney dad, co-parenting, mental load, school parents, parenting, comedy</itunes:keywords>
      <itunes:explicit>Yes</itunes:explicit>
      <podcast:transcript url="https://share.transistor.fm/s/ff9ac832/transcript.txt" type="text/plain"/>
    </item>
    <item>
      <title>The Emotional Vampire &amp; The Boss Babe</title>
      <itunes:episode>3</itunes:episode>
      <podcast:episode>3</podcast:episode>
      <itunes:title>The Emotional Vampire &amp; The Boss Babe</itunes:title>
      <itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
      <guid isPermaLink="false">b6f34f14-6ede-4816-8bb4-786cdee25182</guid>
      <link>https://www.betweenthecoversmag.com/podcast/the-emotional-vampire-the-boss-babe</link>
      <description>
        <![CDATA[<p>One-sided friendships — the kind that drain you faster than your phone at one percent.</p><p><br></p><p>Two letters. A twenty-two-year friendship that quietly turned into unpaid emotional labour, and a best friend lost to an MLM spiral where every conversation is now a sales pitch with a ground-floor opportunity attached. If you have ever been guilt-tripped into being someone's 24/7 support line, or watched a friend you love start talking like a pyramid scheme, this is your permission slip.</p><p><br></p><p>Real friendship needs reciprocity. Not extraction, and not a downline.</p><p><br></p><p>Got a mess of your own? Send it to info@jeopublishing.com.</p><p>More at betweenthecoversmag.com — or read the magazine free in the BTC Magazine app, iOS and Android.</p><p>Bitch Fest is a Between the Covers production.</p>]]>
      </description>
      <content:encoded>
        <![CDATA[<p>One-sided friendships — the kind that drain you faster than your phone at one percent.</p><p><br></p><p>Two letters. A twenty-two-year friendship that quietly turned into unpaid emotional labour, and a best friend lost to an MLM spiral where every conversation is now a sales pitch with a ground-floor opportunity attached. If you have ever been guilt-tripped into being someone's 24/7 support line, or watched a friend you love start talking like a pyramid scheme, this is your permission slip.</p><p><br></p><p>Real friendship needs reciprocity. Not extraction, and not a downline.</p><p><br></p><p>Got a mess of your own? Send it to info@jeopublishing.com.</p><p>More at betweenthecoversmag.com — or read the magazine free in the BTC Magazine app, iOS and Android.</p><p>Bitch Fest is a Between the Covers production.</p>]]>
      </content:encoded>
      <pubDate>Wed, 17 Dec 2025 17:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
      <author>Joseph Tito</author>
      <enclosure url="https://media.transistor.fm/5dd2f38d/5a207c4b.mp3" length="16691182" type="audio/mpeg"/>
      <itunes:author>Joseph Tito</itunes:author>
      <itunes:duration>1041</itunes:duration>
      <itunes:summary>
        <![CDATA[<p>One-sided friendships — the kind that drain you faster than your phone at one percent.</p><p><br></p><p>Two letters. A twenty-two-year friendship that quietly turned into unpaid emotional labour, and a best friend lost to an MLM spiral where every conversation is now a sales pitch with a ground-floor opportunity attached. If you have ever been guilt-tripped into being someone's 24/7 support line, or watched a friend you love start talking like a pyramid scheme, this is your permission slip.</p><p><br></p><p>Real friendship needs reciprocity. Not extraction, and not a downline.</p><p><br></p><p>Got a mess of your own? Send it to info@jeopublishing.com.</p><p>More at betweenthecoversmag.com — or read the magazine free in the BTC Magazine app, iOS and Android.</p><p>Bitch Fest is a Between the Covers production.</p>]]>
      </itunes:summary>
      <itunes:keywords>one-sided friendship, emotional labour, MLM, boss babe, toxic friends, boundaries, friendship breakup, advice, comedy</itunes:keywords>
      <itunes:explicit>Yes</itunes:explicit>
      <podcast:transcript url="https://share.transistor.fm/s/5dd2f38d/transcript.txt" type="text/plain"/>
    </item>
    <item>
      <title>The After-Hours Asshole &amp; The Public Executioner</title>
      <itunes:episode>2</itunes:episode>
      <podcast:episode>2</podcast:episode>
      <itunes:title>The After-Hours Asshole &amp; The Public Executioner</itunes:title>
      <itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
      <guid isPermaLink="false">628f3b17-5a1a-486f-8f80-210aa2a85fcd</guid>
      <link>https://www.betweenthecoversmag.com/podcast/the-after-hours-asshole-the-public-executioner</link>
      <description>
        <![CDATA[<p>Two workplace tyrants, one episode. The manager who thinks "after hours" is a suggestion and texts you like an emotional support employee. And the supervisor who runs staff meetings like a firing squad with a slide deck.</p><p><br></p><p>If you have ever been guilt-tripped for having boundaries, dragged in front of your coworkers for a mistake that was not yours, or told you can cover the weekend because you do not have kids — this one is your gospel. Joseph breaks down why these people thrive, how to shut them down, and how to get your time and your dignity back without setting your career on fire. Unless you want to. He supports that too.</p><p><br></p><p>Petty. Cathartic. Painfully accurate.</p><p><br></p><p>Got a mess of your own? Send it to info@jeopublishing.com.</p><p>Read the magazine free in the BTC Magazine app — iOS and Android.</p><p>Bitch Fest is a Between the Covers production.</p>]]>
      </description>
      <content:encoded>
        <![CDATA[<p>Two workplace tyrants, one episode. The manager who thinks "after hours" is a suggestion and texts you like an emotional support employee. And the supervisor who runs staff meetings like a firing squad with a slide deck.</p><p><br></p><p>If you have ever been guilt-tripped for having boundaries, dragged in front of your coworkers for a mistake that was not yours, or told you can cover the weekend because you do not have kids — this one is your gospel. Joseph breaks down why these people thrive, how to shut them down, and how to get your time and your dignity back without setting your career on fire. Unless you want to. He supports that too.</p><p><br></p><p>Petty. Cathartic. Painfully accurate.</p><p><br></p><p>Got a mess of your own? Send it to info@jeopublishing.com.</p><p>Read the magazine free in the BTC Magazine app — iOS and Android.</p><p>Bitch Fest is a Between the Covers production.</p>]]>
      </content:encoded>
      <pubDate>Fri, 12 Dec 2025 17:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
      <author>Joseph Tito</author>
      <enclosure url="https://media.transistor.fm/770ee48c/872906a7.mp3" length="13229655" type="audio/mpeg"/>
      <itunes:author>Joseph Tito</itunes:author>
      <itunes:duration>824</itunes:duration>
      <itunes:summary>
        <![CDATA[<p>Two workplace tyrants, one episode. The manager who thinks "after hours" is a suggestion and texts you like an emotional support employee. And the supervisor who runs staff meetings like a firing squad with a slide deck.</p><p><br></p><p>If you have ever been guilt-tripped for having boundaries, dragged in front of your coworkers for a mistake that was not yours, or told you can cover the weekend because you do not have kids — this one is your gospel. Joseph breaks down why these people thrive, how to shut them down, and how to get your time and your dignity back without setting your career on fire. Unless you want to. He supports that too.</p><p><br></p><p>Petty. Cathartic. Painfully accurate.</p><p><br></p><p>Got a mess of your own? Send it to info@jeopublishing.com.</p><p>Read the magazine free in the BTC Magazine app — iOS and Android.</p><p>Bitch Fest is a Between the Covers production.</p>]]>
      </itunes:summary>
      <itunes:keywords>toxic boss, workplace boundaries, after hours texts, bad manager, work life balance, office politics, career advice, comedy</itunes:keywords>
      <itunes:explicit>Yes</itunes:explicit>
      <podcast:transcript url="https://share.transistor.fm/s/770ee48c/transcript.txt" type="text/plain"/>
    </item>
    <item>
      <title>Family Fuckery</title>
      <itunes:episode>1</itunes:episode>
      <podcast:episode>1</podcast:episode>
      <itunes:title>Family Fuckery</itunes:title>
      <itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
      <guid isPermaLink="false">c5cb4c63-1c2c-4429-ba03-fec2b76b090a</guid>
      <link>https://www.betweenthecoversmag.com/podcast/family-fuckery</link>
      <description>
        <![CDATA[<p>Two letters, one theme: the people who are supposed to have your back and somehow keep standing on your neck.</p><p><br></p><p>Rachel from Thornhill is drowning in a household where she is the only adult doing adult things. Sarah from Vancouver has a mother-in-law with opinions about her family — the kind that arrive dressed up as concern. Joseph takes both apart: why doing everything yourself teaches everyone that you always will, why anger is information and not a character flaw, and why the standard you accept is the standard you get.</p><p><br></p><p>No coloring-book advice. Just the thing your friends are too polite to say.</p><p><br></p><p>Got a mess of your own? Send it to info@jeopublishing.com.</p><p>Read the magazine free in the BTC Magazine app — iOS and Android.</p><p>Bitch Fest is a Between the Covers production.</p>]]>
      </description>
      <content:encoded>
        <![CDATA[<p>Two letters, one theme: the people who are supposed to have your back and somehow keep standing on your neck.</p><p><br></p><p>Rachel from Thornhill is drowning in a household where she is the only adult doing adult things. Sarah from Vancouver has a mother-in-law with opinions about her family — the kind that arrive dressed up as concern. Joseph takes both apart: why doing everything yourself teaches everyone that you always will, why anger is information and not a character flaw, and why the standard you accept is the standard you get.</p><p><br></p><p>No coloring-book advice. Just the thing your friends are too polite to say.</p><p><br></p><p>Got a mess of your own? Send it to info@jeopublishing.com.</p><p>Read the magazine free in the BTC Magazine app — iOS and Android.</p><p>Bitch Fest is a Between the Covers production.</p>]]>
      </content:encoded>
      <pubDate>Wed, 03 Dec 2025 17:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
      <author>Joseph Tito</author>
      <enclosure url="https://media.transistor.fm/94928fee/15b5e2cc.mp3" length="13294405" type="audio/mpeg"/>
      <itunes:author>Joseph Tito</itunes:author>
      <itunes:duration>828</itunes:duration>
      <itunes:summary>
        <![CDATA[<p>Two letters, one theme: the people who are supposed to have your back and somehow keep standing on your neck.</p><p><br></p><p>Rachel from Thornhill is drowning in a household where she is the only adult doing adult things. Sarah from Vancouver has a mother-in-law with opinions about her family — the kind that arrive dressed up as concern. Joseph takes both apart: why doing everything yourself teaches everyone that you always will, why anger is information and not a character flaw, and why the standard you accept is the standard you get.</p><p><br></p><p>No coloring-book advice. Just the thing your friends are too polite to say.</p><p><br></p><p>Got a mess of your own? Send it to info@jeopublishing.com.</p><p>Read the magazine free in the BTC Magazine app — iOS and Android.</p><p>Bitch Fest is a Between the Covers production.</p>]]>
      </itunes:summary>
      <itunes:keywords>family drama, in-laws, mother-in-law, marriage, mental load, boundaries, gay dad, advice, comedy</itunes:keywords>
      <itunes:explicit>Yes</itunes:explicit>
      <podcast:transcript url="https://share.transistor.fm/s/94928fee/transcript.txt" type="text/plain"/>
    </item>
  </channel>
</rss>
