Kate Berlant on ADHD, Stand-up, and Being Influenced
Everything is the Best
Dear Media, Pia Baroncini
4.5 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 18 March 2026
⏱️ 87 minutes
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This week I’m joined by the endlessly funny Kate Berlant, and we get into everything- from being “influenced” into buying literally everything, to caffeine addictions, routines we can’t stick to, and the chaos of being chronically online. We talk about internet fame, impulse spending, and the very real struggle of trying to stay grounded while your brain is moving at 100 mph. Hope you enjoy!
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast is a Dear Media production. |
| 0:14.9 | You know, I just got a desktop. |
| 0:17.8 | I'm a different person. |
| 0:18.8 | A what? |
| 0:19.3 | A desktop computer. |
| 0:20.8 | Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. |
| 0:21.9 | And the girl at the apple store when I bought it for myself. |
| 0:25.6 | She said, she said, this is really going to ground you. |
| 0:29.2 | Oh, well. |
| 0:30.0 | And it did. |
| 0:31.1 | Well, for sure, I believe it. |
| 0:33.3 | I feel very grounded at my desk. |
| 0:35.3 | I have a literal slice wrinkle from. And I was like, it's good that it's, because it really, it's really. I'm like this now. Oh, God. I text to my friends, like, I'm doing P.S. podcast. They're like, no, stop. You are. You're my number one influencer. Thank you for coming into my, I feel like I'm cheesy, cheesy and you're way too cool and artsy and intellectual to be on my podcast. You are my number one. Influencer. What product have you bought that you love the most? Which products? Haven't I bought? I feel like we talk a lot about products. Well, no, because I said, yeah, I go, bought, I purchase. I'm like, it's been a year. I've been following you for years and so many times I got, got it. Okay, so the things, oh my God, okay. Has there been anything that I've influenced you to buy that you were unhappy? I know the answer no. I was going to cut you back. No. No, it's been no. No. So my God, high on coffee. it's happening. Okay, the Magromeda and the coffee's hitting. I'm jealous. I wanted that fucking, the line at community goods outside of a specific design center is a block. And it's everyone is in workout clothes, but like the mini shorts because it's so hot outside. Yeah. And I was like, I feel like a grandmother. I can't, I'm not doing it. What's your, because now I'm going no coffee. |
| 1:44.5 | I'm trying to do no coffee afternoon now because I really do think it interrupts my circadian, |
| 1:49.3 | right then and whatnot. |
| 1:50.0 | I know we're not supposed to. |
| 1:51.0 | You're a health girl, you know, but I need coffee for life. |
| 1:54.5 | But I do think that I'm like, fuck when I have caffeine. |
| 1:57.5 | By the way, but I can have espresso after dinner and I'm like, asleep, I'm dead. I don't know. |
| 2:01.6 | Gabby will have like four esposos after dinner. I love an afternoon espresso. Needs to have it. I try to do, I try to stick to afternoon match. Yeah. It runs right through my body. Because I'm a way that's really good. I'm going to be laughing a lot throughout this. Because I like, I'm really star-struck and also it's so funny because I'm like, |
| 2:19.7 | yeah, and you're the one that taught me that espresso has less caffeine than full drip. And that changed my life. And I go, we're getting a spread and I'm going, I'm doing espresso in the morning now. Do you drink more of it. And you're not so fucked up on it. Yeah. Unless you get the espresso from the espresso that's a Dobby Day store. I had one one |
| 2:34.0 | afternoon feeling cocky. I don't know why I didn't. I literally at two in the morning was like, there has to be a fucking pill in here that'll make me go to sleep, like rummaging through drawers. Yeah, yeah, fully. I believe it. But this is cold brew, so I'm like, I'm like jaw grinding cocaine pain. Like, this is really intense. Yeah. |
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