Thick with Fairies
Poog with Kate Berlant and Jacqueline Novak
Kate Berlant and Jacqueline Novak
4.8 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 19 August 2025
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Walking around like a mouthguard cooling into position. Prostrating before nature, bulking the facial muscles, and making money in the rock climbing position. There’s no WiFi in the Scottish caves. A crazy amount of ice, clanging against itself. Endlessly reproducing the past—the spectacle of continuation.
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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. |
| 0:10.8 | But this is huge. |
| 0:12.3 | The ego loves to see, but never to find. |
| 0:15.1 | It was Berlant and Novak the whole time. |
| 0:38.5 | Greetings. Oh, greetings. Hello. Oh, hello. Apologies. Let me. How are you? Actually, I'm not well because I just made a fucked, a macho that's not good. And I don't understand. And I bought premium-grade matcha. I've got the whisk. I've got the sifter now. Mm, the it's just, it's just a flavor thing. What's the milk? What's the milk? This, well, here we go. This is a cashew soy blend. |
| 0:44.5 | Okay. Is that the issue? Yes, it could be. Yeah. I mean, is that what's different? Yeah. |
| 0:51.7 | And miss you. You know what happened to me today? |
| 0:54.8 | Sorry to be all over the place, as if that's not what it always has been. |
| 0:58.4 | You know, we talk about when the walk doesn't heal, the walk healed today. |
| 1:01.7 | I feel like it heals for you. |
| 1:03.5 | Not a full heel. |
| 1:06.5 | Walks don't heal for me. |
| 1:07.9 | Walks, I mean, I've read the books. |
| 1:28.7 | Okay. It's ever lifted me out of depression. I was... Well, by the way, you know what's odd? The... It's just not big enough. It's just not extreme enough. It's too gentle. And I bought shoes. I also bought Manolo Blonick shoes. |
| 1:35.9 | You fucking serious? You bought shoes? So. I bought, well, on the real real, I bought Manolo Blonick discounted down to $92 heels. So that also gave me a little, a a little something boost before we go into the episode i just i need to |
| 1:50.6 | say this to the group we started burlant and novac six months ago and this was a you know a transformative |
| 1:56.3 | time for us it was a real risk we felt abandoned not by Not by you, by corporations. Anyway, we're not getting |
| 2:03.3 | into that. There's no anger. The point is that the people that are paying for the premium feed for our |
| 2:08.8 | show are the reason why this podcast exists. You keep us afloat. And this podcast would not exist |
| 2:15.8 | without our paid subscribers. So there are, you know, you don't see them, but we have, of course, people behind the |
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