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Poog with Kate Berlant and Jacqueline Novak
Kate Berlant and Jacqueline Novak
298 episodes
An ongoing conversation about wellness from two obsessive friends. Jacqueline Novak and Kate Berlant have been inviting eavesdroppers into their conversations since 2020, and now their award-winning podcast returns. New episodes every Tuesday. Listen ad-free by becoming a premium Hag.
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Drop a Penny in the Sea
Kate’s micro-meltdown was intimacy and JN shook her body so an Italian tailor could identify her size. Primi, Secondi, and an instagram cleanse. It’s enough. Celebrate Tom Cruise now. How deep is the ocean? The hags…
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The Thought That Counts
Still an ocean between them, Kate and Jacqueline surmounting internet and audio issues to succeed in bringing forth an episode of Poog. They investigate the topic of the house gift and thank you notes, and they…
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A Monk at Night
Jacqueline loves radical healing and ponders making nighttime huge. Kate considers IV therapy and senses she’ll need snorkeling restoration in the winter. To build a spine back piece by piece, it takes hours. Fall…
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Smile Toward The Sun
A technical failure an ocean between them, the hags must converse without conversing. The art of conversation falls apart when rhythm is removed. And still the hags endure. Transparency at all costs. Jacqueline dines…
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Welcome to Delivery
Jacqueline will be in Rome this week and is eager for recs. Kate’s loving NYC and wants a facialist suggestion. They reminisce about a time Kate bailed. Kate is stunned by the miracle of food delivery. Staying at a…
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REMIX: The Hags Talk Film & Television
This week's episode is a remix, a recapitulation, indeed a recontextualization of the Hags' most erudite excursions into film and television. . . . . . This episode was edited and engineered by C. Tweedie. See…
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Depleted Poog
10% fat yogurt. Replacing mascara. The hags are stressed and tired and the product suffers. Kate is uninterested in Jacqueline’s arm. Jacqueline retaliates at end of episode with a reveal. Kate’s back on bottled water.…
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It Was Never Cake
The Hags are on an eight hour time difference from each other LA and Scotland. Indecision descends as Kate chooses her birthday treat at Sephora. Negative visualization and Stoicism are experienced via an app.…
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Dying Before Dinner
Poog in the AM and dinner in the PM. Does Kate have Prickly heat, darling? Going out to dinner with their gals clothes. Leechee Martini plans. Trying someone else’s drink. Los Angeles. Explosive meals and remembrances.…
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Talking About a Tortilla
Kate reclines as Jacqueline takes Kate through a depressive swirl. John Lithgow’s Churchill, the question of prosthetics and realism in film. Stella Adler. HBD, Kate. The Lychee Martini @ JAR. That which is overhead at…
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The Black Dog, Again
Depression’s passing through and Jacqueline discusses it at Kate’s request, nearly endorsing a sponsor to a priceless degree. Identity questions stymie her efforts. Lemon drinks continue, pith and all. Kate removed the…
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The Lemon Eclipses
Jacqueline had a back spasm, vasovagal symptoms, and can’t wait to talk about it. Kate is taken with a squirrel and not that interested in muscles. Spirits come alive when a new expression of lemon water is brought to…
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Intention in Math
Kate woke up without water. Jacqueline bought brushes at Target. Kate gears up to buy a computer and return a body shimmer. Time and space and weight in books, the internet, and ultimately math. Rose gold plastics.…
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Sometimes It's Personal
The hags consider the angle and proximity of foot to table. Jacqueline is showing two profound signs of depletion. Kate dines alone. The courage to be a dud. Friends as need fulfillment machines. Hellish detours.…
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Bad Moon
Fury and rage have unraveled the hags and changed them permanently. It feels like an ugly Poog. Comfort topics include: hotels, planes, and restaurants. A fresh longing emerges to remineralize and embrace amino acids.…
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High Octane Poog
This week the hags bring high octane energy. The Breton top is considered. Pinkberry is reconsidered. Boutique hotels have drawbacks. Kate experienced a psilocybin side effect. Jacqueline had a dark experience with…
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Come As You Are
The hags return this week, meeting their minds where they’re at and having no misgivings. The symbolism of high-SPF sunscreen, cartoonish inchworms, and self-hating magicians are discussed. The nature of comedy is NOT…
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The Monk's Office
KB is ice-rolling, live. Jacqueline is derma rolling but Kate’s afraid to. Jacqueline installed Burrow shelving. Kate revisited a name brand dish fluid. Mousse is on the table again. The hags have fallen off a few…
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The Prosecution Rests
The hags dance around the question of milk and meat. Halloween costumes, pre-school, dining. Childhood is probed. Acting class exercises and acting teachers, skirt suits and 90’s indie film. How to get in at a…
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You've Been Extraordinary
Kate had an interesting plane ride in Coach. Jacqueline journaled on a single sheet of parchment. A day was turned around. The hags revisit their trip into the ocean on sea bobs. Kate accepts candle hazards. Jacqueline…
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NO BEDROOM NO KITCHEN
Micro-dosing psilocybin despite the insufferable overtones. Probiotics but not just any Yoplait strain. JN did the research on NCBI. Sub-perceptual benefits don’t sell. Butterflies in the stomach, preserving energy,…
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Kitten At Your Side
The hags went to the spa together where Jacqueline’s knighthood was usurped. Kate is off dairy milk and back on Biologique Recherche p50. Ilia products are begged for. The chaos of the Notes app, the fantasy of…
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She's Still Talking
Kate is in NYC enjoying cocktails with twists. Are twist real? Props artisans. JN’s back from London for now where she secured an epipen through unsavory and brilliant British means thanks to generous hoteliers. She…
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What a Way To Go
Kate is soaring on b-12 and in a full face of makeup. Freak accidents, evisceration, and food diaries in magazines are considered. The hags discuss the skin spatula and remain unclear on what it does. . . . . .…
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A Gibson
Kate and Jacqueline are puffy faced, because…it’s morning Poog, again. Fresh off an airplane, Jacqueline is researching travel bags with a fervor never seen before. Kate is interested in a new travel pillow. Martinis…
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A God Among Men
Kate is in LA, enjoying a morning coffee smoothie and Jacqueline is in Philadelphia, trying to watch Netflix in the hotel room. Jacqueline is not sure about packing cubes after all. Kate listens to Matthew McConaughey.…
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The Guests Aren't Coming
The ziplock bag is discussed at length as the hags consider the cosmetic bag. Jacqueline reveals huge info about Kate’s pepper grinder. To starve the roots or not? A key question for rubber plants A peek behind the…
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Naked and Warm
Kate experienced dissociative moment at dinner that was arm based. Jacqueline wants to talk about the interiority of working out to videos. How many times has Kate fainted? The hags review a text exchange in which…
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Play Restaurant
Kate shares her facialist’s thoughts on new skincare technologies. Having a feel for various temperature. The pleasure of taking off your socks. Frappes and Frappucinos and the surface area of ice cubes. The desert…
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That Which Is
The tyranny of taste and how quickly we turn. Must one study fashion history to purchase something designer? The hags shred surf on Seabobs and google fish in a shared vacation bed. Minnie Mouse’s new look. Kate “lost”…
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You’re Not Having a Sip
Covid is caught. More airport bastards. Strep throat. Kate survives a week without community. Jacqueline is doing headstands now. Kate and Jacqueline share an experience around pina colada. The unholy trinity of fear,…
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Gross Poog
It’s Saturday night Poog. There’s a bitten lip, a canker sore, a rude doctor. Hemorrhoids, the sigmoid flex, and colonoscopies are discussed. The failures of VR and sex on camera. The Prestige, A Beautiful Mind, Ear…
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Every Pot Has Its Kettle
Kate inherits a bikini. Jacqueline praises Reddit. Elimination of caffeine, Andrew Johnson’s relaxation apps, and fresh flowers. Washing the brain. Power-washing the home. When you’re Half-you. The ocean as bucket.…
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Open Casket
Retinol, white strips, and burying our dead in the earth. Jacqueline teaches Kate the Pallbearer Shuffle. Kate tells Jacqueline about the first time she saw a corpse. Jacqueline woke up listening to Caroline Myss.…
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The Hat
Kate is born anew after being off Social Media and has an office now. Jacqueline proposes a technique for social media moderation. Benefits of negative self-talk are discussed. Pop psychology. Jacqueline shows off her…
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Hyperbole at All Costs
It’s evening Poog. Kate’s off Instagram. Jacqueline has a drink. Unitards versus sports bra and leggings, the War of Art, Who Moved My Cheese? Idiocy as genius is considered. Motherhood to forge character? A substance…
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Utter Bansheehood
It’s New Year’s Eve, and Kate had a soup issue. The ADD concerns are at a high. Sisyphus, et al. are touched upon as knowledge is limited. What is a pile of books? Can the Truth enchant? CBT techniques, writing on…
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Line It As It Is
Kate has morning voice and the hags discuss: writing in restaurants, alpinism, and the promise of the ocean’s effects on the mind. Jacqueline talks about her tightrope skills. Kate orders a new rug. The terror and…
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Elves at Work
Christmas is upon us. Kate overslept and makes coffee on air. Jacqueline shames no one for lateness. The hags realize what they’ve become. They reflect on the shocking bounty of a promotional package they both…
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Dying of the Light
Restaurant napkins, extravagance when a meal goes wrong, and food sharing are discussed. The hags explore the unfolding of a cup of coffee and impermanence. Kate had a meal ruined. The common cold, vocal rest,…
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A Mainstream Comedy That Delivers
Kate is displeased with her favorite kombucha. Jacqueline tells Kate about soap brows. The eucalyptus shower is reassessed. Nasal passages, device calcification, baggage claim, and Meet the Parents are discussed.…
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Souvenir Tiger
Jacqueline experiences a touch of the old depression and Kate reports on a chakra healing. The hags consider false idols, the white-knuckling of joy, spiritualized consumerism, and the fetishization of monk life.…
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Poogiversary!
The hags have been on terrestrial radio for a year. Kate marks the occasion by handling an errand on air and updates listeners on her basement situation. They try not to discuss planes again. Is there such a thing as a…
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Poog Air
This week the hags live symbolically, hovering over a pulsating rug. Kate reveals her laundry dungeon. Jacqueline vitalizes her chi. Moths dance. A salad is in the mix. Milk gets frothed on the brink of death. Airline…
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Relinquish the Olive
The hags recognize that all possessions in the home take up space in the mind and then proceed to beg for more. Hugs that hurt. Kate is back in LA. Jacqueline’s in Chicago. Canned cocktails are considered. Bandier,…
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Rainy Day Poog
Kate had a martini or two last night but in small glasses. Jacqueline's back to wearing her Apple watch and blowing into keto devices, a quest for data that illuminates. Kate records in repose. Hallows' Eve makes…
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The Poog Awards
The holidays are approaching and the hags have noticed. Jacqueline and Kate talk 911, the civil service and the Krause/Nate-led TV show. Kate reminds listeners of Sephora’s return policy and provides an Athletic Greens…
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The Friend in the Mirror
Kate and Jacqueline enter laughing after Jacqueline pushes Kate into empowerment. Kates tops Jacqueline technologically. Self soothing and parenting oneself is a theme. Moving hotels and liminality. Kate extends an…
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Poison Has Its Place
Kate and Jacqueline discuss their hair care. Jacqueline got her waves cut at Goo on Fairfax. a reminisces about McDonalds. . Kate years to sweat again. Jacqueline's commitment to Tracy Anderson remains strong. Shame is…
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Think Snow
Kate experiments with Dermatologica. The hags reflect on the psychological state of waiting in line. Jacqueline develops a powerful new hand signal and then goes to to describe an unfortunate incident with a coffee…
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