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Wellness is a trillion-dollar industry full of scams and snake oil salesmen but comedians and best friends Kate Berlant and Jacqueline Novak just can’t get enough. Join them as they try products and practices, consult healers and experts, and ask the ultimate question: is it truly wellness they’re after or just the thrill of the chase?

Poog with Kate Berlant and Jacqueline Novak Big Money Players

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    • 4.8 • 1.8K Ratings

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Wellness is a trillion-dollar industry full of scams and snake oil salesmen but comedians and best friends Kate Berlant and Jacqueline Novak just can’t get enough. Join them as they try products and practices, consult healers and experts, and ask the ultimate question: is it truly wellness they’re after or just the thrill of the chase?

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    Finally, a Medical Issue!

    Finally, a Medical Issue!

    Aligned with a doctor, and finding that the truth is apparent. Son baggage and punishment for the fertile. Griffin Dunne? Frank conversations about identity with medical staff… this is a privilege. Pee before you leave, don’t squeeze the neck. What kind of flower? The mother’s have a knot in their stomach, and the not-mother’s have a knot in their stomach. No one is immune.
    Edited and mixed by Allie Graham.
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    • 46 min
    Keep Going

    Keep Going

    Gesture, Jester... we all know the mirror’s flipped, right? The drink of the summer is in Kate’s loser tradwife sippy cup. Jacqueline reflects on the response to ‘plant points’. Has Kate been under-SPF-ing? Huge week for porridge and meal prep. These doctors need to know who they’re dealing with! Restating the Poog Promise, Kate recounts a heartbreaking moment at the pizza bar to 'Jacly'. To have been friends in college... imagine letting other people talk. Two knuckles to the sternum, swinging at the vegan restaurant. Every time people think things don’t fit, Jacqueline finds a way. Two Ferrari brains with Chevy brakes. A stomach on the table and sun in the retinas. 4 minutes...my purse hurts! 
    Mentioned: Superieur, Gerolsteiner Sparkling Water, Beauty of Joseon, Kosas, Supergoop, Dieux, Fatty15, Crossroads restaurant, Burger She Wrote, Planta, The Comeback, @Einsteins_NYC, Dr. Bulsiewicz (Plant Points), White Oleander (2002), What Lies Beneath (2000), Organizing Solutions for People with ADHD by Susan Pinsky.Edited & mixed by Allie Graham.
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    • 1 hr 4 min
    You’re… Really Pretty

    You’re… Really Pretty

    Whatever happened to Born This Way? Beyond notes, and placing the tiara on the coma patient. Orthopaedic shoes on each hand and a retainer stabilizing the ankle. Should you walk the room or stand dead center? A plan to heal Kate’s microbiome…add up the plant points and see who wins! You don’t have to hit someone just because Big Volkswagen told you to. Calling all patent experts and technical drawers, Jacqueline is inventing. Questions about the moon, sun and earth inspire diagrams. It’s all relative and it’s all moving. Is a dried flower rotting in water? Linguistic challenges and typing full sentences into Google. Kate’s colonicist shares book recommendations. Normal person, normal life... and then, something happened. Trapped in a tab somewhere. Paranormal for paranormal’s sake. Dreams of flying above the city and sipping hibiscus under a mosquito net. Why are the ants screaming for the hose?
    Mentioned: Flo Dose, NIRA Precision Laser, Dr. Will Bulsiewicz (@theguthealthmd), Journey of Souls by Michael Newton, and Many Lives, Many Masters by Brian L. Weiss.
    Begging For: PureLift Pro, an instant pot, a technical drawer/patent expert
    Edited and mixed by Allie Graham.
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    • 58 min
    How Do I Seem?

    How Do I Seem?

    A strange state drives Kate to watch the birds and the bees. Rest your coffee inside the ring. Using the language of Others, passing the window and not looking in, and grazing the fly. Regret, reflection and a promise to stop disobeying. The issue with anecdotal and getting sloppy with the journal. Are these all projections? Slow Cooker, Instant Cooker, Pressure Cooker… and The Whole Kitchen by Jacqueline Novak. Do you know nothing of barley? Post the bowls. Be wicken. 
    Brands: WHOOP, Pendulum, NIRA Anti-Aging Precision Laser, FlowdoseBegging For...WHOOP 
    Edited and mixed by Allie Graham.
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    • 56 min
    Laugh Lines

    Laugh Lines

    Reading The Sabbath and watching The Frisco Kid. Why scroll when you could build cathedrals in time? The orange tree gives two negronis and a troubling preference for bad movies is questioned. When blood becomes digital and gardens are raised. Why talk about the form at all? Sweating in the sheets…the WHOOP is consulted. There are robots that are friends, and then there are robots that are therapists. Thank God, Art. It was never about replication—it was always about being asked to stand in front of the color blue. Which containers are suitable for souls? Jacqueline as Politician and Kate as Public Relations. Creator, Realtor, Builder. On Poog, we’re always coming from a God-first place, and sometimes also scratching the neck while talking. To be introduced to jargon… No need to reply now.
    Brands mentioned: Marion Park, WHOOP, NIRA Anti-Aging Precision Laser, Eight Sleep, SharkNinjaBegging for: Misfits Market, simplehuman, PureLift Pro (please)
     
    Edited & mixed by Allie Graham.
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    • 1 hr 3 min
    River Flowing Backwards

    River Flowing Backwards

    The inevitability of developing cortisol face and the lawlessness of Zoom support groups. With talk of a rancher’s husband, Kate requires a Buddhism IV drip directly to the arm. With the instinct to avoid everything...a new whole-foods, plant-based lifestyle is embraced. If you’re dying, you’re alive. How to prepare hibiscus tea and acknowledge varying pronunciation. Jacqueline contemplates comedy on canvas and the impact of the Artist’s Posture. Dr. Greger's Daily Dozen is thoroughly reviewed. Having to both boil and cool the potatoes will drive Kate to shatter every glass in the house. When the student is ready, the teacher reappears. Poog is a rumor mill and this is not The Daily. Emergency egg bites and a seat next to a coughing stranger. Kate is confronted with a mysterious object in her hotel room…Jacqueline investigates.
    Brands: Our Place, Hurom Juicer, Rip Esselstyn's PLANTSTRONG
    Edited & mixed by Allie Graham.
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    • 57 min

Customer Reviews

4.8 out of 5
1.8K Ratings

1.8K Ratings

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