The Judgment of a Child
Poog with Kate Berlant and Jacqueline Novak
Kate Berlant and Jacqueline Novak
4.8 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 9 December 2025
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
It’s top of the mornin’ Poog as the hags encourage eavesdropping at dawn. Jacqueline’s honest answer elicits laughter from a school psychologist. An attic tutor rewards Kate with candy. Cutting out the stain as the only elegant solution. The impossibility of appointments, referrals kept in a clock tower. Blue-blockers secured thanks to a strong relationship with a local optometrist. Mom and Popism, doubling back for a bouquet, a mailman’s doctor’s orders. What is the obvious, brutal, and necessary choice?
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| 1:39.6 | The hag divines when something must die. Yes, that was poog. But this is huge. The ego loves to seek, but never to find. It was Berlant and Novak the whole time. Give me the people, it's a free of my soul. All right. Oh my God, I know. The ecstasy. I know. It's happening. By the way, morning Pug, I repeat. Top of the morning. Top of the morning to you. And top of the morning to you. For all of you listening in the morning, good morning. Oh. Wait, there's people listening. What if I didn't know that these were live and they'd always been live? Live. Or I told you, we started live streaming two months ago. You didn't know that? Oh, no. We added that as a new feature. These are live now. Well, there's so much to talk about. It's just shocking. It's actually shocking. We almost have to be careful. We don't fly across so many things because a lot of these are very worthy of deaths. That's all... We can stretch them. I'm saying where it's like we've got, we've got weeks to work this shit out. I know, I know. We're going to, we're going to do a slow, so I'm going to encourage us. We're going to do a slow, slow progression. I'm making a couple notes. I'm writing medicine cabinet. I'm writing boo. |
| 2:52.3 | Okay. |
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| 2:55.0 | Can let me start with a slice of life from last night of my life, which doesn't really |
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