Regardless, It’s Bad

Poog with Kate Berlant and Jacqueline Novak

Kate Berlant and Jacqueline Novak

Spirituality, Comedy, Health & Fitness, Religion & Spirituality

4.8 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 3 March 2026

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Let’s start with the goal, right? Eclipse season looms large, as Kate and Jacqueline meet eyes under the studio lights. A search for meaning around some light symptoms inspires a Novak analysis. Caroline Myss graces Hag ears as Jacqueline bemoans Kate not submitting to this recommendation earlier. The ego wants to call even when there is no question. Male healers are remembered for their unorthodox tools and middling results. When the phone dies, birds are singing. Amid the reckoning of generic Wellbutrin, a new ADD method is born. Deviated septum nose job culture and a boyfriend in medical school — act now or die!

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0:00.0	Two best friends both alike in dignity, nurturing phantoms and courting the muse.
0:07.2	The hag divines when something must die.
0:09.5	Yes, that was Pugue.
0:10.7	But this is huge.
0:12.2	The ego loves to seek, but never to find.
0:15.0	It was Berlant and Novak the whole time.
0:20.7	I had to sleep elevated because it was congestion.
0:24.1	Rebound congestion.
0:25.8	By the way, a hag, a hag, a hag DM'd me.
0:29.1	Most vile.
0:29.9	I must have talked about Afrin on the show because someone was like, I'm surprised to hear
0:34.6	you like Afrin.
0:36.2	It took my boyfriend's sense of smell away.
0:38.6	Kate.
0:39.6	I've been doing, so what you're hearing right now, this is not me being sick.
0:43.0	This is rebound congestion from a mild cold where I was using Sudafed decongestion spray,
0:48.4	which I've only ever seen available in the UK that I brought back.
0:52.4	And I used it for me, I think, yeah, six days. And then yesterday, I wake up with the level of congestion. Little Miss, I'm scared, I know. Little Miss, half a pill. I woke up by the shape. Take straight speed, okay, when she was given. I mean, here's a question. You're shocked I was doing the nose spray.
1:12.9	You went to, so can I tell the story?
1:13.8	Okay.
1:15.1	Yeah, yeah.
1:16.5	Okay, because it's borderline. So the headline is, I had slash have slash have had a mild cold.
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