I Got Kuestions

Kadie buys a Harry Potter poncho in the rain at Universal Orlando. Turns out “poncho” doesn’t mean “waterproof.” She’s soaked, she’s annoyed… and then she realizes the poncho never lied to her — she just assumed. From there: why we constantly treat our assumptions like facts, the trap of thinking something’s “obvious” when it’s only obvious to us, and a dead-simple way to catch yourself before you get mad at the wrong thing. Plus No Stupid Kuestions and this week’s Kuestion of the Week. You asked. She answered. Now it’s your turn.

Kadie was waiting on Dolly Parton's Vegas dates. Then the news hit — and that show is never happening. It's not a sad episode though. It's the one where Kadie shares the vow she made after Whitney Houston died, the wild list of shows she's actually gone to since, and why "someday" is really just a story we tell ourselves to avoid committing right now. Plus No Stupid Kuestions and this week's Kuestion of the Week. You asked. She answered. Now it's your turn.

Kadie was waiting on Dolly Parton's Vegas dates. Then the news hit — and that show is never happening. It's not a sad episode though. It's the one where Kadie shares the vow she made after Whitney Houston died, the wild list of shows she's actually gone to since, and why "someday" is really just a story we tell ourselves to avoid committing right now. Plus No Stupid Kuestions and this week's Kuestion of the Week. You asked. She answered. Now it's your turn.

A couple at the next table sits down and goes straight to their phones — no eye contact, no conversation. That's the spark for this one: phones, text breakups, and whether AI is replacing human connection or just catching the overflow when no one else is awake to talk. Kadie also admits she's polite to AI. She's not sorry.

A couple at the next table sits down and goes straight to their phones — no eye contact, no conversation. That's the spark for this one: phones, text breakups, and whether AI is replacing human connection or just catching the overflow when no one else is awake to talk. Kadie also admits she's polite to AI. She's not sorry.

A stranger walks up to someone whose car just got hit and tells them not to be mad — because it was "just an accident." That real moment sends Kadie down a rabbit hole: why do we feel entitled to police other people's reactions when we're not even the ones living through the moment? She lays out where she actually stands — you can't tell someone how to react, that's their right, full stop — while also being honest about the tension she wrestles with: reactions should still be proportionate to what actually happened. She gets personal about being told "you're overreacting" and "don't be so dramatic" more times than she can count, and lands on a thesis that's equal parts validating and accountable: your reaction is always valid, but the size of it is yours to check — not a stranger's job to grade. Plus, a No Stupid Kuestions about getting mad at inanimate objects (RIP to one particular bed frame).

A stranger walks up to someone whose car just got hit and tells them not to be mad — because it was "just an accident." That real moment sends Kadie down a rabbit hole: why do we feel entitled to police other people's reactions when we're not even the ones living through the moment? She lays out where she actually stands — you can't tell someone how to react, that's their right, full stop — while also being honest about the tension she wrestles with: reactions should still be proportionate to what actually happened. She gets personal about being told "you're overreacting" and "don't be so dramatic" more times than she can count, and lands on a thesis that's equal parts validating and accountable: your reaction is always valid, but the size of it is yours to check — not a stranger's job to grade. Plus, a No Stupid Kuestions about getting mad at inanimate objects (RIP to one particular bed frame).

In this episode, Kadie asks: are you still the person people met, or have you become someone completely different? She opens with proof of her own evolution — from hating sparkling water to owning a soda stream, and a husband who's picked up new hobbies out of nowhere. That leads into the heart of the episode: after 20 years of marriage, she and her husband created "date and learn" sessions, where they intentionally share what they're newly into and what they're leaving behind, big or small. Kadie flips the lens to the frustration of being stuck in other people's outdated version of you — growing while someone else still relates to who you used to be. She lands on her core belief: people change constantly, so the real Kuestion isn't whether you're the same person anymore (you're not) — it's whether we're willing to keep updating our picture of each other. The episode closes with a new Kuestion of the Week: what have you outgrown that nobody else has noticed yet?