Defending Your Frogs
Poog with Kate Berlant and Jacqueline Novak
Kate Berlant and Jacqueline Novak
4.8 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 3 February 2026
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Standing by with joy in their hearts, a mosquito enters the frame. At the beach, Jacqueline and Kate expanded their fields before a setting sun. Reckoning with pendulums, the hags consider the one-song party, the subjectivity formation of teen shopping, and the dangerous effects of music. A cat in the home means new patent possibilities from Jacqueline. Condoms for your ear, analog visors, and sun hats.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi guys, it's us. This is what you might call an ad, a little pre-roll in the jargon of the biz. |
| 0:07.1 | And we're here, yeah, to annoy you with an ad that isn't the content. Why? So we can remind you the importance, the honor, the glory, the humility of joining premium, becoming a premium subscriber. |
| 0:19.6 | When you show us with cash that you enjoy the show, |
| 0:23.4 | we bring something to your life, who the hell knows, we're a community here. As you know, |
| 0:28.0 | and as you very well know, we are now, we're independent, we do this all ourselves, we are producing |
| 0:33.2 | the show. We have no suits. We have no big, you know, the headquarters. They're gone. It's just us. |
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| 0:57.4 | Two best friends both alike in dignity. |
| 1:00.0 | Nurturing phantoms and courting the muse. |
| 1:02.3 | The hag divines when something must die. |
| 1:04.6 | Yes, that was poog. |
| 1:05.8 | But this is huge. |
| 1:07.3 | The ego loves to seek, but never to find. |
| 1:10.1 | It was Berlant and Novak the whole time. |
| 1:14.5 | Hi. Hi. You sent me a nice text before we started. Yeah, what did I say? You said, |
| 1:22.6 | standing by with joy in my heart. Yeah. Why? You were excited to record? Whoa. |
| 1:28.4 | What happened? |
| 1:30.3 | Sorry, a mosquito has entered the frame. |
| 1:32.8 | I actually am going to close the door. |
| 1:33.3 | I'm so sorry. |
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