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Poog with Kate Berlant and Jacqueline Novak

He's God Fearin'

Poog with Kate Berlant and Jacqueline Novak

Kate Berlant and Jacqueline Novak

Spirituality, Comedy, Health & Fitness, Religion & Spirituality

4.82K Ratings

🗓️ 16 September 2025

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Motion light at ankle height gives way to a paranormal event. Praying for morning, staring at the doorway to the darkness of the woods. Deviant spiritual art on the internet. Masculinity that’s not afraid. Another river, energy flows across them. Spirits love to drain batteries, so we  tie the velvet bag a little tighter.

Producer: Annie Bernstein

Editor: Kati Skelton

Music: Naomi McPherson

 

 

 

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Two best friends both alike in dignity, nurturing phantoms and courting the muse.

0:07.3

The hag divines when something must die.

0:09.5

Yes, that was poog, but this is huge.

0:12.3

The ego loves to seek, but never to find.

0:15.1

It was Berlant and Novak the whole time.

0:20.0

It's just so wild that you see them, Kate.

0:23.9

And to everyone joining, we're talking about us.

0:27.4

Well, listen, I'm just going to get, I have a paranormal, she's cracked a Celsius,

0:34.0

I have a paranormal event that I'm going to talk about. And listen, I think people might go, people who will not, I mean, these aren't people. These are the hags. These are the eaveshopers. They know. But I think maybe I give off an impression of, oh, I'm a ghost person, not ghosts. I'm not, I don't want to see ghosts. I'm scared of ghosts. I have deference and fear. I just not open to it. You, Jacqueline, have helped me realize that I have seen a couple guys. I think so. I saw my. Sounds like it. I've got Grand Canyon floating bust woman smiling, but I had no fear. And then I had, and this really shocks me, I had no fear in London,

1:13.0

man, top hat, full coat, p coat, the whole thing, no fear. Which brings me to this where there was

1:22.3

fear. Okay, so I am arriving in Bend, Oregon, where I've never been before.

1:28.1

Have you ever been there?

1:29.2

No.

1:29.8

Which I've later learned is like an energy vortex or whatever.

1:33.1

Because I Googled it immediately, I think, when you were texting me.

1:36.9

Oh, really?

1:37.4

Okay.

1:37.6

And then someone running to Google.

1:39.8

A local told me that too.

1:42.9

Anyway, so I have to say i get there i land i'm like walking so

1:50.3

here's a classic i get there at like i get there at 340 the room's not ready i go guys and and the

1:57.1

the festival that was performing at they put me up at a hotel and. And I was there for two nights. I was, the point is, rooms aren't ready. I'm like, okay, so thank God there's a health food store across the street across the highway. So I walk across to the health food store. And I swear to God, just in the light, I was like, there was an eerie glow. You mean, once you're outside?

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