Let Her Rest
Poog with Kate Berlant and Jacqueline Novak
Kate Berlant and Jacqueline Novak
4.8 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 5 August 2025
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
The only thing worse than a bad show is a good show. The facts are the facts. The king leaves less floor room. Incoming hotel room calls. Ceremonial piss. Moved by soft technology. Attractive words. Contact stress. Watch the little lady go by. Medieval beans. Hoping for miracles day-of. Third eye pinned open by Insta. Danger, danger, danger. Kate tricks the algorithm with her perverse curiosity. Grill brush-free zone. Vegan grill-master. Barely there sports bra.
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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. |
| 0:09.6 | 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. |
| 0:20.5 | Hello. Hello. Greetings. I'm from Portland. Hello. |
| 0:21.7 | Hello. |
| 0:22.9 | Greetings. |
| 0:23.5 | I'm from Portland. |
| 0:24.8 | The best. |
| 0:26.5 | I love when one of us is on the road. |
| 0:29.1 | And we're texting like a couple of performers just talking about it rules. |
| 0:35.0 | I know. |
| 0:36.4 | I got to tell you, I'm happy to shout out Cascada, Cascada. |
| 0:40.5 | Really? Let's hear it. Here in Portland, which, by the way, they have a thermal springs element that I have not explored yet. And there's a gym attached to the hotel. |
| 0:50.5 | Wait, the hotel is called Escada? |
| 0:52.5 | Cascada. Oh. Okay, I thought you were pushing Escada, which is so present in vintage clothing shops. Have you noticed this? Oh, that's funny. Eskata, escada. Okay, anyway. Yeah, yeah. Hi. Cascada. Anyway, they have workout classes that you can go to if you're staying at the hotel. and I felt too scared, but I was considering like there's a yoga one. |
| 1:11.7 | I was like just go do it but isn't interesting the fear also |
| 1:18.2 | I can't do yoga because I don't have the right clothes like all I have are shorts yeah I mean I can't |
| 1:23.2 | like like kiss you out like at cascada I can't do it. Yeah. But I'm thinking about thinking about it. And |
| 1:28.9 | there's a sauna open till 11. There's still time today. So I think tonight's my kind of my only night off. |
| 1:34.9 | So thinking I might be brave and go do it. Go do it later. But Portland. So sweet. I mean, just |
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