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Poog with Kate Berlant and Jacqueline Novak
Kate Berlant and Jacqueline Novak
4.8 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 18 March 2025
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Kate texts Jacqueline whenever she drinks Celsius because it's that rare. Topical magnesium so special it’s kept in the back of Erewhon. To start a rumor you were cut out of The Brutalist. When Rocket Money points out you’re paying them monthly. Accepting your cold is the only way it lifts. A spaghetti squash is forever.
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| 0:18.2 | Two best friends both alike in dignity. Nurturing phantoms and courting the muse. |
| 0:23.2 | The hag divines when something must die. |
| 0:25.5 | Yes, that was poog. |
| 0:26.6 | But this is huge. |
| 0:28.2 | The ego loves to seek, but never to find. |
| 0:31.0 | It was Berlant and Novak the whole time. |
| 0:35.6 | I'm fresh off a nap. |
| 0:56.4 | Okay, by the way, I'm fresh off. A nap. I just made it an emergency miniature ice cream sundae. This is old poog. I feel the energy in me. By the way, here's what's huge, and this is the life lesson. I have a small cold. You can hear my voice. I had a huge realization today. Being under weather i i tend to you know me i if i'm sick something i live in fear of sick i live in i live in i live in fear of the |
| 1:01.4 | immune system failing or whatever yeah i look at the counter today go oh i've kind of had a cold for |
| 1:06.4 | seven days never got serious never got bad had to spend a day fully infirmed, you know, had to cancel the |
| 1:11.3 | whole day. Had to wipe a poog away. Had to. And something happened today. I go, I can still get through. This is what life is. Oh my God. Or it was more just like grow up. It was more like grow up, bitch. Like by the way, I'm a firm believer. If you're sick, you have to say home. Don't infect people. whatever, of course, right? |
| 1:28.2 | Of course. |
| 1:28.7 | But I'm not... |
| 1:29.5 | It's like a firm believer. If you're sick, you have to stay home. Don't infect people. Whatever. |
| 1:28.2 | Of course. Of course. |
| 1:28.6 | But I'm not. |
| 1:30.2 | Personal responsibility. I'm not blowing my nose. I'm not hacking. This is seven days. Yeah. Again, not a doctor. But the point is I have things talk about. I went to Air One for the first time today in a long time. my membership had laps that had expired. |
| 1:43.7 | I was humiliated at the checkout line. |
| 1:45.5 | Interesting. |
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