Comedy

Poog with Kate Berlant and Jacqueline Novak

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.

Latest Episodes:

A Monk at Night Sep 20, 2022

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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 asleep you start again. Jacqueline’s jealous of Kate’s vocal steamer. Normal marital hate. Neurons fire and wire and even prune from disuse.

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Smile Toward The Sun Sep 13, 2022

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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 and writes in a tiny romantic attic in Rome. Kates hustles to the theater under the scalding New York Sun. Juilliard is grasped.

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Welcome to Delivery Aug 30, 2022

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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 friend’s or an airbnb is a topic they only just begin to discuss. The scroll and the refresh. It’s been weeks.

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REMIX: The Hags Talk Film & Television Aug 23, 2022

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This week's episode is a remix, a recapitulation, indeed a recontextualization of the Hags' most erudite excursions into film and television.

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Depleted Poog Aug 16, 2022

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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. Jacqueline is wildly dehydrated. Being told to let the earth carry you and all of that. Two massages, neither quite right. Spider strategies.

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It Was Never Cake Aug 09, 2022

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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. Listeners may note: Jacqueline references her own metaphor from a previous episode, lake full of fish, and Kate does not recall it. Jacqueline wonders what makes a product purple, Kate finds the answer, says it twice, and Jacqueline does not hear her. Mirroring language back to the others. We can handle colorless product.

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Dying Before Dinner Aug 02, 2022

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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. Squash blossoms, patatas bravas. Hanicure. A facialist retires.

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Talking About a Tortilla Jul 26, 2022

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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 the pool. Tearing the curtains, throwing the laptop. Experimenting with not collapsing. JN's Grub Street breakdown. A warm ceramic lantern. The fear of being misunderstood as some breadless and soulless hag. JN begs for a Peabody with more tears.

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The Black Dog, Again Jul 19, 2022

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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 seeds. JN brings tyrannical skincare opinions to her old pals. It's time to face the home and for KB to face the basement. Let's pull out all the stops and use all the tools. The hags are interested in rock climbing walls. They might get dinner.

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The Lemon Eclipses Jul 12, 2022

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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 the table. Jacqueline’s favorite moment in District 9 is recounted. Kate will travel with a blender.

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