Poog with Kate Berlant and Jacqueline Novak - Hypochondriac’s Riddle

00:00:00.760 Hi, I'm Kate Berlant.

00:00:02.340 I'm Jacqueline Novak.

00:00:03.440 And this is POOG, an ongoing conversation about wellness between two obsessive friends.

00:00:08.160 Two untamable intellects.

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00:00:15.360 Today's topic, loosely speaking. 1.00

00:00:17.420 Box breathing, lip stain, poor girl. 1.00

00:00:25.680 Hello.

00:00:30.000 is that a lip stain yeah i found this lip stain it's like am i gonna throw it away and i was like

00:00:38.760 use it use it now you'll throw it away you know so first of all do you want to know like some

00:00:44.840 people don't this doesn't happen everyone okay like not to be like add is real right but like

00:00:52.240 i'm settling in to record with you and i'm like oh i'm gonna do something with my hair whatever

00:00:57.760 and then i glance up and note a tiny santa hat yeah okay now this by the way i didn't mean to

00:01:06.200 debut now i was saving this for us at the holidays it's a tiny santa hat my mom has been wearing it

00:01:13.100 the last couple years cute it's it's unmatched in its charm i literally was fantasizing you

00:01:20.360 having a holiday party and me showing up in it being the toast the fantasy is going to be real

00:01:25.000 that's for sure the toast of the town okay so you're oh my god you're on the sofa i said i'm

00:01:30.720 in bed oh no that's it i said to jacqueline novak i text her i go poop is hard i go it's not it's

00:01:35.800 not but it is but sometimes it is today's a day where it's really hard yeah we're just it's hard

00:01:42.400 i'm well first of all here's the context of the day i'm getting a everyone relax a ct angiogram

00:01:49.280 on my head and neck listeners will recall when i convinced myself i had dissected a nerve in my

00:01:54.640 neck or vein in my neck due to using the high zoo why you hadn't bled out instantly and talked to

00:02:00.280 my doctor and everyone was like but then when i was describing my neurologist was like let's just 0.84

00:02:04.460 get a neck head angio right kept pushing it it's today i'm like i guess i'll fucking go i wanted 0.52

00:02:11.220 to reschedule again but then i thought what if when they're in there they go oh my god we're 0.73

00:02:15.320 about to stop a stroke you know it's funny though because dissecting a artery it's like these are

00:02:21.140 all fictions of like there's no medical basis for the idea that dissecting an artery has anything

00:02:27.200 to do with a stroke has anything right absolutely 100 no yeah if you ever dissect it yeah but my

00:02:34.360 doctor was like this is by the way in june my doctor was like or maybe even may was like chances

00:02:40.920 of dissection very unlikely she's like because you're walking around you're not busy you're like

00:02:46.240 you know you're fine like you're not throwing up you know it's it's the hypochondriacs I know

00:02:52.240 riddle right like and even like we all know you're fine and like if you're not

00:02:57.540 you know it's just but then today last night and I need to talk to a doctor about this

00:03:03.280 lower left abdominal pain and I know what you're gonna say you go gas yes we all know gas can be

00:03:09.400 excruciating you could I've pulled over to the side of the road bent over I thought because I

00:03:13.980 have had an ovarian cyst burst last night the pain was like it's pretty bad but then I took

00:03:18.780 two Advil on a heating pad I fell asleep I'm okay but I woke up this morning it's still sore there

00:03:22.900 like it feels like someone punched me really hard there like it's still damn wait where lower left

00:03:30.540 abdomen get it checked no but but the lower left that's not even today on the docket I'm going for

00:03:36.260 the neck and head angio and while you're there because i forget is angio angio they're they're

00:03:44.020 gonna put dye in my veins they inject dye into my veins then they put me that's so cool it's the

00:03:50.180 dream well i'm gonna be needing you i'll be texting you it's just so funny because it's like

00:03:54.740 i don't know it'll be interesting it'll be interesting you're really lucky get a lot of

00:04:00.280 pictures of that vein shit hopefully they let you see be like turn the screen around be like i'm a 0.85

00:04:05.760 learner and i have friends who are scientists injecting dye in my vein i mean every time you 0.97

00:04:12.180 eat a muffin something's going into your veins i'm injecting your it's a really helpful point

00:04:17.140 i know aren't i good at your brain how long is this lip stain supposed to stay i feel like it's

00:04:22.140 already been too long well here's what i'll say i like it like this you look gorge in that gentle

00:04:28.560 waffle lightweight robe what is that is that cozy this is a parachute oh of course i'm such a 0.98

00:04:34.980 fucking millennial whore this is parachute look at that that is nice see what's happening the the 0.98

00:04:41.560 robe opening the robe is opening all the way down to the waist like a true plunge and there's clearly 1.00

00:04:48.640 nothing holding it at any moment it could break free kate just crawled her fingers pulling with 0.96

00:04:56.620 a little crawl who knows guys i'm premium my tit might come out soon 0.99

00:05:00.260 like the single like the idea of the single tit boob whatever like very like like silly and kind 0.97

00:05:10.380 of embarrassing you know like the idea of like my tit like like almost like the unit of measurement 0.97

00:05:15.860 is the tits right like almost like it shouldn't be hot until it's the hair well i'm literally 1.00

00:05:21.160 about to show my vagina wait hang on hang on i'm i'm in high risk of showing my vagina 1.00

00:05:25.760 one second give me one second 1.00

00:05:28.500 shit 1.00

00:05:30.440 she's thrown the mic onto the bed 1.00

00:05:33.200 now she's headed to the bathroom 1.00

00:05:35.300 with an open door

00:05:36.200 okay sorry I'm back now forever

00:05:41.080 I just wanted to wash the lip stain off 1.00

00:05:46.940 the wonder skin

00:05:48.620 wonder skin lip stain

00:05:51.020 that's interesting I wonder how long you're supposed to

00:05:52.500 because it's pretty gentle

00:05:54.660 Maybe for like an hour.

00:05:57.220 Wonder skin lip stain, how long?

00:06:02.000 10 to 15 seconds or 30 to 45 seconds.

00:06:04.800 That's up to 60 seconds.

00:06:06.600 That's hilarious.

00:06:07.600 Hysterical.

00:06:08.200 Because you did it for what, 10 minutes?

00:06:10.640 Meanwhile, I see nothing.

00:06:12.700 Nothing.

00:06:13.480 I don't know what your lips are normally like, but.

00:06:15.120 Well, great.

00:06:15.460 I'm throwing it away. 1.00

00:06:16.840 You're going in the trash, bitch. 1.00

00:06:18.940 Are you serious? 1.00

00:06:19.560 It's at 35 seconds.

00:06:21.580 Yeah.

00:06:21.900 Imagine if they tried to tell you that if you keep it on too long,

00:06:24.020 it does less color so by the way then i go oh so it's maximum poison they're like it's poison

00:06:28.420 they're like oh god forbid that was like a sitcom plot well by the way it's officially

00:06:32.800 summer i have a huge mosquito bite on my life don't scratch it it's all around it's all around

00:06:37.640 i don't know about it's all around because then you if you're aren't you still drawing

00:06:42.040 the histamine over there by scratching oh what are you gonna do not eat all around

00:06:46.880 ew ew okay now i'll just your little finger your little russian your little russian manicure

00:06:53.720 fingers scratch scratch scratching i might go to my dad's and my mom's there's a gym they belong to

00:07:01.040 lifetime fitness i might go with them um i might go during his his journey there's something like

00:07:11.280 okay like obviously like full-on like indie film and i'm not above making one to be clear

00:07:16.360 of this of this nature yeah back in the hometown of course but like you know like going over like

00:07:23.200 the alienated figure i'm an adult woman but i'm going to my like parents gym the alienated figure

00:07:30.140 yeah yeah there's nothing wrong with going to your parents gym so i think tired kate has a lot

00:07:38.740 lot of merit on the podcast for introducing i'm so energy tired so listen to me there's a yerba

00:07:48.840 mate unsweetened in my office fridge yes i have a micro fridge in the office good girl i need it

00:07:57.900 i got it black friday sale best buy just in case anyone thinks you're some kind of um

00:08:03.460 princess who dared buy it full price you mean that it's mini it's mini i go don't worry it's 0.95

00:08:11.020 mini and it was 35 off or whatever the fuck um ask me anything i'm tired i'm open so you were 0.94

00:08:21.100 saying um you were saying um it was really funny you go poog is hard and you go it's not okay you 0.86

00:08:28.420 go it's not you're like it feels hard and and folks it's like what did someone say once like

00:08:36.640 they were like they referred to it in a way that suggested like all like you just hang out with

00:08:43.060 your friend and like that's your job or something right or whatever whatever right they were

00:08:48.680 disparaging the the it was like you do nothing okay and it's just funny like the house sounds

00:08:56.660 that couldn't be more familiar to me in my life, right?

00:08:58.860 Like, nothing's more familiar than that particular garage door closing,

00:09:01.820 da-da-da, and that, you know what I mean?

00:09:03.240 You're hearing, like, the utter intimacy of me. 0.97

00:09:05.760 But it's like the, with every goddamn hour of this podcast 0.96

00:09:11.440 that goes out into the world, right, 0.93

00:09:14.420 I have allowed something out there where I'm not at my best,

00:09:20.360 I'm not doing my best.

00:09:21.880 Exactly. 0.99

00:09:22.320 I look like shit. 1.00

00:09:23.300 No, it's a huge practice. 1.00

00:09:25.400 Shit. 1.00

00:09:25.660 Shit. 1.00

00:09:26.020 Okay. 1.00

00:09:26.660 it's like a totally it's a it's a non-stop bleeding okay it's a law it's a loss with

00:09:32.900 every recording profound loss that yeah loss can be passive you can lie there i'm bleeding out

00:09:38.060 week after week on the podcast okay and so it's like you know obviously there's a layer of humor

00:09:42.860 here to bitching about it like oh by the way i just look what i just cracked open this is this

00:09:47.320 is wild what the hell is this right someone gave it to my mother she brought it jacqueline i was

00:09:53.160 reading about i was reading about caffeine and you and it was getting me worried about i have too

00:09:58.820 much way too much and that it's not about it's about the beats per minute over the week and

00:10:04.300 shit dying early as a result and over the lifetime well you know right now i am i am i'm going out to 0.94

00:10:13.320 get my green you know i mean no no but look at that california no caffeine past noon are you 0.99

00:10:19.200 serious yeah 100 that's what you heard because it affects your that's part of it affects your sleep 0.87

00:10:25.920 even if you're like so fucks your sleep which fucks your life which you know like right now

00:10:31.940 i'm basically at my cutoff i'm at noon it's noon it's 11 59 i'm gonna drink this to get through 0.97

00:10:38.520 the rest of the day to get through the angiogram well you know i got most of the boost i needed

00:10:44.440 just from the moment of cracking that thing and it's sitting here next to me it's it's like you

00:10:48.860 know i mean it's like when i like realized like the margarita like i love the taste of lemon i'm

00:10:54.060 sorry lime and salt and it's like as i said to you i'm just gonna start getting a seltzer water

00:10:58.200 with hey can i get a rim of salt and a lot of lime yeah but i like the way alcohol feels when 0.94

00:11:03.620 it hits me in the fucking brain okay that's also you know peaceful genius sheer glory okay okay 0.98

00:11:10.680 this is how we have addd yeah exactly exactly and um i'm still doing my mendi training you know 0.99

00:11:17.900 that the headband last night i've been doing it in bed which is not really the time to do it

00:11:21.420 because i'm practically falling asleep but getting the ball to move up doing like gratitude it's like

00:11:27.420 pretty wild man um by the way shout out to the um to the hag in the audience

00:11:35.020 just want to say i caught a couple hags in in poog um you know in poog merch and obviously

00:11:42.940 shouting out as well to be clear those in a jacqueline novak merch at a jacqueline novak show

00:11:49.040 i am not of course okay okay but here over on poog i just want to say you know it's really nice it's

00:11:56.440 really nice thing to see um and and i think poog poog x here we go folks toronto okay

00:12:08.680 Toronto Poog

00:12:10.820 we didn't go there right

00:12:12.000 we definitely didn't go there

00:12:14.040 no I haven't been to Toronto in years

00:12:15.740 I love Toronto crowds I'm very overdue for a visit

00:12:18.760 it's like we have talked so much about not 0.66

00:12:20.700 fucking up and making sure 0.96

00:12:22.700 we get Christmas in this year 0.99

00:12:23.880 you know

00:12:24.900 yeah

00:12:26.740 with every passing day

00:12:28.920 maybe we only agree to show up to a city

00:12:32.320 if we're filling in I don't know

00:12:34.560 1500 seater and so it's

00:12:36.680 upon the hags you sign up in advance

00:12:38.460 yes okay on an email because guys the costs don't work out okay okay i mean it's it's it's

00:12:45.960 not cheap to travel so i'm just going do we do we really think ew oh it tastes like b vitamins in

00:12:54.420 there so this is a weird sorry this is a weird energy drink that like how much caffeine's in

00:12:58.860 yours well i haven't taken a sip yet but i just want to be clear this is fit aid someone handed

00:13:03.920 it to my mother likely out of a barrel you know what i mean no clue what this is and she brought

00:13:09.780 it home for me and caffeine from green tea amino acid from l leucine electrolytes and magnesium

00:13:18.660 vitamin c d3 e and b complex and c you know or coq10 whatever however you say that all i'll say

00:13:26.760 is and you're fixing it on the caffeine b vitamins you know that they stink right no there was a

00:13:33.760 smell emitting in my closet and i was like where are they where is it finally found the b vitamin

00:13:39.680 or the b12 it emanates there was a period where my mom thought like she's like you really need to

00:13:45.460 like deep clean your room or something like like jack like something's up and then came out and 0.98

00:13:50.140 it was the b vitamins right next to the door whoa that's crazy for like a slob wait speaking of 0.97

00:13:57.200 vitamins did you order us neogen the poog headquarters i saw received neogen and i go 0.89

00:14:03.860 what's that it's like nad vitamins let's see what neogen is and you're anti nad i'm anti nad 0.92

00:14:11.720 this i went through steps to get the nose spray and i went through the whole thing and then

00:14:19.580 i saw in the warning it was like it can you know raise your chances of blah blah breast cancer like 0.97

00:14:28.760 double negative breast cancer what the fuck and i texted to my doctor my doctor goes i don't like 0.72

00:14:33.180 that like don't do that what is nad plus what is neogen okay i see it that's a trademarked version 0.98

00:14:41.360 of nicotinamide riboside i i think during the early like nad craze i ordered something for my

00:14:54.660 dad because as listeners may know he is he's the only person that can take a supplement and know

00:15:01.100 if it's had an effect do you know what i'm saying wow because he's so right right right introduces

00:15:06.340 things and then he went through that period where he was like tracking in excel his water and

00:15:10.200 figuring out his potassium and all this crazy stuff right so i'm always like dad like you're

00:15:15.880 the guy you know like when my psychiatrist like gave me a book about fish oil in like

00:15:20.820 you know 2000 or something he read it and has been on fish oil ever since as we know

00:15:26.080 and he didn't like it fish oil no no fish oil has been on the whole time with the nad

00:15:32.100 now there are bumps to these things because i'm always like dad maybe like those uncomfortable

00:15:37.300 feelings are like just the medicine you need right right like um you didn't like that he didn't like

00:15:43.540 the omelet powder which is devastating to me given it being a miracle ingredient didn't like the way

00:15:47.660 it made him feel he said that yeah i'm going what's going on dad did you dump a huge amount

00:15:52.940 into your wacko smoothie yeah you know he finally got vinegar out of the smoothie okay because you

00:15:59.200 know it's like it's like it's like dad you know what i mean like he he gets the message that it's

00:16:03.660 like okay apple cider vinegar yeah so he decides to like throw it in with everything else you know

00:16:08.260 but it's that's not the way to do it yeah he's still he won't give up ag god love him okay it's

00:16:16.240 i know and then meanwhile i'm barking i'm barking all this like like i had like a meltdown at sitting

00:16:22.300 having dinner with my parents like trying to like like a meltdown about like you know

00:16:27.560 like just health stuff and and and meanwhile like i my own health is a laugh and a half

00:16:37.120 you know what i mean meanwhile he is at the gym twice a day or whatever you know what i mean and

00:16:40.740 i haven't like moved like my my workout machine has been like margaritas for the last year and a

00:16:45.120 half yeah i mean so it's like although yesterday i will say you know and this is what we do here

00:16:49.500 on this podcast okay we get on and off we get on and off we just keep coming back i did a tracy

00:16:56.520 class on a computer wow on the on the rug in the den i didn't get into it i don't have any good

00:17:02.440 workout yeah i was in an unsupportive bra just got down on the mat and did it didn't go like

00:17:09.120 nutso if something was like you know whatever i did it i sweat man it's good i know

00:17:17.880 man any any way you can get it i'm like that is good anyway so i i enjoyed that woke up 0.53

00:17:26.060 sore ass muscle best and i'm just like so to healing august

00:17:34.280 now i know what you're saying folks okay it can't just be you can't heal for a month and then 0.76

00:17:41.660 go back to destroying so what's healing august for you it might be okay if i if i make it

00:17:47.860 at home because right now i've washed up at my parents house after a week of insane

00:17:51.800 so we all caught me at the end of we all caught me my last night in toronto oh no the shingles

00:17:58.260 resolved yeah i mean i still have a little bit of the rash hopefully that's not permanent um but

00:18:04.660 i'm assuming it's resolved and i'm i'm telling myself it's resolved you know what i mean but

00:18:10.680 the last the last episode i was in that amazing airbnb in toronto leaving the next morning so

00:18:18.340 early to go to straight to montreal do a montreal show leave the next morning after that early to

00:18:25.260 go to fly to la guardia to drive to my parents house to drive to bard college your your two-year

00:18:31.520 alma mater and and then drove back that night here and i've washed up for three days like

00:18:38.920 and this is what happens to me like if i'm on the east coast and it's like stressed it's like

00:18:42.380 i sort of like get my get my ass to my parents where for a moment time doesn't i don't have to

00:18:48.680 check out yeah time i'm safe you know what i mean like there's food it's like i can just space out 0.65

00:18:54.960 and so it's sort of like now figuring out my next moves you know i was supposed to go to

00:19:00.080 hudson and and chatham with my friend who was there for my that was gonna be a whole thing

00:19:03.520 that was gonna be july that fell apart on me now i go do i go up to hudson back to fleece in florida

00:19:08.680 with my friend chloe remember feast in florida i went like six nights in a row that was the

00:19:13.200 restaurant in hudson i went to like oh yeah yeah sure and then um you know go back up there

00:19:19.220 my building routine right where not routine but tradition oh in the summers i always pass

00:19:24.600 through hudson and that could be a nice lifestyle thing you know i started dreaming italy before

00:19:30.000 christmas yeah of course oh yeah lifestyle design right like i was going life design i was going 0.75

00:19:35.260 let's sit down and look at a fucking calendar and go what would I want my life to look like if I if 0.89

00:19:40.780 it could be anything right and then what if I figured it out around that this I instead I live 0.99

00:19:46.320 like like on a rabid treadmill of hell yeah you know what I mean like so I am feeling nurtured

00:19:54.780 by the trees the east coast trees the old trees around around the house so this is really terrible

00:20:00.760 but I have to go we did a lot of since you were gone I know sorry because I'm like I literally 0.97

00:20:05.100 have to get in my car and go drive to the fuck to cedars fucking sinai and get angiogram well i'm 0.98

00:20:09.560 really excited for your angiogram remember you wanted this you begged for it most people wouldn't 1.00

00:20:16.440 think there was an issue that was other than whatever you said maybe there is right yeah the 0.97

00:20:21.760 neurologist calls goes okay shit we got you an angiogram now i would love a full i'll call you 0.92

00:20:27.820 on this i would love video of this i want to see it i want to know everything okay so i would call 0.97

00:20:32.260 you on riverside and get this could be an extra bonus totally by the way you know how it goes i'll 0.71

00:20:36.000 probably be in the fucking waiting room for 10 000 years and you also are less scared when you're on 0.99

00:20:41.960 camera getting medical procedure remember i know shoot yourself with your you know things okay this 0.99

00:20:46.860 is great so guess what pick up i'm gonna i can literally do riverside from that okay i love you

00:20:52.000 i'll call you back literally you can bring your earbuds all right love you bye

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00:24:02.900 of you so we got kipra at the doctors and it's secured so you could move back you're under a

00:24:15.980 table there's no need i mean there's a needle there there's no there's no she's freaked wait

00:24:21.000 okay okay hi how are you okay it's on the go poog it's letting the people in so kate is going to

00:24:35.080 get her dye in the brain angio after her hyzu fears did she um bisect her artery etc as we

00:24:46.480 all know, her neurologist suggested she's still come in. So today she's getting dye in the veins.

00:24:52.000 I suggested we do our episode over here because one, historically, the fear can go away when

00:25:00.900 you're recording yourself. You become a character in a story. Kate has had success with filming

00:25:06.840 herself while giving herself a Movig migraine shots. So I think this is so cool. I'm hoping

00:25:13.440 we get to see some of the actual footage of her brain that would be really cool in her neck

00:25:19.480 so we'll just listen enjoy it yeah yeah all right so here's dad

00:25:27.000 you're gonna get injected with some contrast i heard you might also get the sensation you have

00:25:33.140 to pee very rarely oh no she did pee no no no not me let's hope even in young people

00:25:41.140 very rarely

00:25:44.620 wore my good jeans

00:25:46.680 that's the thing about

00:25:49.300 kaija too

00:25:49.840 so you feel like you have to

00:25:52.220 sometimes

00:25:53.400 traveling so fast throughout the whole vessels

00:25:56.700 and passing through the vessels 0.94

00:25:58.940 of the female 0.99

00:25:59.400 people get the sensation they have 1.00

00:26:02.860 creeps me out

00:26:03.920 so you don't

00:26:06.560 let's really hope I don't

00:26:08.720 it's quite quick right

00:26:10.160 the whole thing yeah it's about like 10 10 minutes again okay and just like a big donut you're not

00:26:15.700 like submerged yeah yeah and then you have to drink a lot of water so you can get 50 okay

00:26:22.780 any questions no i'm glad it's fast oh this is probably the worst part just like having something

00:26:31.480 in your arm no you don't like needles i mean who does some more than others i don't know if

00:26:38.380 Kate can hear me. I don't think she can.

00:26:40.540 Is it the thing where, like, you can't have any

00:26:42.240 metal? I'm only wearing a ring.

00:26:44.600 That's okay.

00:26:46.480 It's so weird.

00:26:47.900 Okay.

00:26:50.140 No, like, pins, no earrings.

00:26:52.260 No. Now I'm like, should I pee

00:26:54.180 first? I'm scared.

00:26:56.540 First, yeah.

00:26:57.660 First, yeah, scared? Yeah.

00:26:59.300 Oh, well, welcome. Thank you.

00:27:01.740 Yeah.

00:27:02.780 Yeah, just doing it for fun.

00:27:05.940 You're playing with that,

00:27:06.760 i'm looking at ct scan peeing sensation the contrast is warmed up to body temperature

00:27:14.520 before it goes in your veins opens your blood vessels tricked nerves sudden heat in your lower

00:27:20.520 body so you can see what's going on yeah that's pretty much it yes all right i just go you just

00:27:26.960 kind of push me in there on the ground push okay yeah exactly take a slide here to there

00:27:33.740 get that out a few times

00:27:35.120 while we take pictures

00:27:36.000 I just have my own pee

00:27:36.920 now I'm like

00:27:37.460 oh

00:27:38.020 you want me to use the bathroom

00:27:39.220 it's not 0.98

00:27:40.220 it doesn't induce urine

00:27:41.580 or urination

00:27:42.440 but it just kind of

00:27:43.260 makes you feel like

00:27:44.220 it's just a sensation

00:27:45.160 but if you feel like

00:27:46.180 you want to just

00:27:46.640 eat yourself

00:27:47.240 so you feel

00:27:47.900 you know

00:27:48.320 a little loose

00:27:48.920 or whatever

00:27:49.340 maybe the same page

00:27:50.140 yeah

00:27:50.340 yeah

00:27:50.740 feel free

00:27:52.000 yeah why not

00:27:52.660 why not pee first

00:27:53.520 right here

00:27:53.960 right here to the left

00:27:56.000 go to your head

00:27:56.920 oh she goes 1.00

00:27:58.200 she definitely can't hear me 0.99

00:28:00.180 or maybe she can

00:28:00.920 maybe she's about to reveal

00:28:02.040 she can't

00:28:02.560 I assume she took her headphones 0.99

00:28:03.720 out or her earbuds because that might seem a little weird in front of the doctor to keep the

00:28:09.340 buds in but i'm finding this all very exciting but i just did a little research and yeah it says that

00:28:16.880 um the warm fluid of the dye warm fluid moving through the blood vessels similar feeling can

00:28:23.940 make you feel like you have to pee but doesn't sound like it's going to actually lead you to

00:28:27.080 we'll see

00:28:28.680 medical professionals rule 0.90

00:28:35.500 all right because kate's basically gone i'm going to end this 0.82

00:28:49.400 and then um we'll check in with her after

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00:31:02.040 We're back, folks. Kate is back. I'm back. I'm updating her that we heard her talking.

00:31:07.460 We heard her talking. And by the way, and I got the results and they're normal. Amazing.

00:31:11.440 can you believe how quickly i'm only not reacting because i i got that via text

00:31:16.560 yeah you know exactly i already knew i just want to shout out the imaging specialists at cedar

00:31:23.520 sinai here in la i dealt with three men they were all friendly warm loved the guy we heard

00:31:30.920 loved him by the way did you feel the i looked it up the peeing sensation did you feel it the warmth

00:31:37.340 okay so just to catch everyone up they inject this dye into your veins and he said you're

00:31:42.460 gonna feel warm all over it'll go away we heard kate we all heard oh yeah okay and and i and i

00:31:49.120 like box breathing i was doing box breathing to calm down because i was really dreading it and

00:31:53.680 then i have to say it was not not intense when the dye went in it was more than just a warming

00:32:00.120 sensation it was like i felt i was like is this what injecting heroin feels like like it felt

00:32:05.540 like except i didn't enjoy it but i was like someone else might because i felt i felt like

00:32:11.340 drugs were entering my system like i couldn't really move or like like it was like oh like it

00:32:16.400 was all over so i would describe it almost as a high feeling but it was like i could feel it like

00:32:22.720 you could feel something coursing through your veins it was i felt it my hands my heart my chest 0.91

00:32:27.860 going into my like i fucking felt it entering like my neck like how much dye do they put in 0.95

00:32:33.780 i don't know very little and that it just sort of you know it's dye so you only need a couple 0.97

00:32:39.300 drops to like it did not feel mild i think what i'm feeling is not the dye itself but just the

00:32:43.820 fluid that's going through with the dye the saline no right that's what i mean yeah but i mean was

00:32:49.800 it like a banana bag or whatever but of like blue i didn't even see my eyes were closed but it was

00:32:55.260 like i would not describe it as a mild sensation and i was doing i had to visualize my mother in

00:33:01.060 the room and I visualized Naomi I visualized my partner and my mother in the room to keep me safe

00:33:06.000 no and then I don't know why I find it shocking it's very funny to me I know and then I was like

00:33:14.120 you're gonna be okay and I was like you're gonna go get your favorite smoothie after this because

00:33:17.960 Beverly Hills juice is on the way home so I was like you're gonna have a juice you're gonna be

00:33:22.060 talking to Jacqueline I was like you're fine doing the box breathing and quite simply before I knew

00:33:27.160 was over it really was over before it began did they talk to you while you're inside no

00:33:31.920 which I was a little bit like oh I kind of because I was a little confused I was like

00:33:36.000 wait when's the diet coming in but then he came out and he was like okay we're gonna put the diet 0.98

00:33:39.620 and I was like oh shit bitch but um the guy was wheeling me and then what's funny to me is I 0.99

00:33:46.900 couldn't help myself on the way I go I probably don't even need this you know it's not because I 0.99

00:33:51.040 felt suddenly they're dealing with people all day who are worried concerned panicked right

00:33:56.020 something's wrong with me and the people in that rating room everyone was over 65 right so i'm like

00:34:02.760 then i go in there and i and i'm looking at people's eyes going are they looking at me going 0.87

00:34:07.540 poor girl you know what i mean what the fuck is wrong with this girl and so i felt the urge to go 0.76

00:34:13.460 so i'm like i probably don't even need it you know i get migraines and i went a little hard 0.98

00:34:17.520 with a neck massager and uh i was like over like he doesn't he was just kind of like okay like

00:34:23.100 he does were you doing it almost like you wanted to own that because you thought he might be

00:34:27.720 doubting you or you you wanted him to become for he doesn't he's not to die not worry he's not he's

00:34:33.100 just the technician he's not like looking at the results no he's certainly not but i just didn't

00:34:38.320 want him to worry and i didn't like the idea that he could be thinking whoa i hope this like

00:34:43.980 what's going on with her because they were like are you going to get an mri like you have other

00:34:47.860 tests today and i was like no sit i didn't tell him honey i got the prenuvo the like this is um

00:34:52.460 elective I know well I thought because I did have the feeling I go what if the die what if I'm you

00:34:58.980 know the one that has an adverse reaction right and when I was in there I thought I should have

00:35:02.840 asked if anything if there's a chance of a freak accident like like I should have asked like is

00:35:08.220 there any chance freak accident with a die yeah like oh yeah like one in a million people like

00:35:13.300 has like suffers a whatever the fuck and they never come back yeah well I have another announcement

00:35:20.280 i think i got free valet so i pull up and i want to say it was fast as hell pulled up did valet 0.90

00:35:26.520 because i go not today and then i go how much is valet going to be sixty dollars right i look

00:35:31.460 all day valet is twenty dollars honey dinner at a nice restaurant at this point is twenty dollars

00:35:37.080 without tip right so i go twenty dollars for all day i'm looking at me here a couple hours 0.72

00:35:40.380 something happened with a ticket where i never fucking paid i had five dollars cash i tip the 0.86

00:35:46.480 valet five dollars i'm out of there it's kind of unbelievable when in your life do you not pay 0.91

00:35:51.540 for valet like it was it was meant to be i know and i go somehow like what the cedars has my amex

00:35:57.260 on file i guess they do 275 you don't think it's fundamentally the valet isn't fundamentally

00:36:04.720 what the fuck is the word for it i need to get it oh validated what is it no i had to get a thing

00:36:10.920 but i went to the thing it was like invalid ticket and the guy was like huh and then before 0.99

00:36:16.740 i knew it there was my car and i never let you go you let your ass go they didn't say like well 0.80

00:36:22.240 we can't charge you they just i was out of there but i have to say overwhelming gratitude on the 0.98

00:36:27.320 way back for health for life drank my smoothie from beverly hills juice with a real feeling of

00:36:33.040 nourishment and and also something that i don't think the listeners have heard since our last

00:36:38.980 recording mere hours ago i've officially the pain i'm having is officially ovulation pain 0.77

00:36:44.400 and i'm sorry but the aura ring fucking i can't help it sometimes it's just amazing 0.77

00:36:49.640 it pinpointed today is the day i'm ovulating it goes ovulation day 29 well that's today and 0.84

00:36:55.140 that's the day last night was when i had the extreme pain yeah i'm here in bed with a heating

00:36:59.160 pad i also googled fatigue during ovulation yes it's very common to have i was trying to get you

00:37:04.760 to download the app stardust it's very cute and it's very like pretty colors and stardusty things

00:37:13.460 and and folklore and luteal phase and okay you're on day 28 which symptoms do you have this many

00:37:19.080 other in the community had this symptom on this day i really think you'd like it is what i'm trying

00:37:24.280 to say anyway i can get into that and actually i think you can even have friends on there where we

00:37:29.460 could be like tuned in i think that sounds fun it's cute and it's pretty and i appreciate when

00:37:36.140 an app is pretty let's see here um and i'm actually feeling i mean those close to me know

00:37:42.020 i'm a little whore a red carpet a fun party oh friends are going i'm there i'm seriously

00:37:49.000 considering not attending a premiere tonight that i was looking forward to because i'm feeling so 0.81

00:37:53.600 tired well protect health to serve future red carpets i guess i don't know you know what i mean

00:38:03.380 super torn um i think you can't lose and i have a cute dress i am really into mobile poog like

00:38:16.080 i find it very exciting i'm very excited about on the go bringing the people into our lives and yes

00:38:21.940 i'm again thinking about going live in curious situations but i'm dreaming of like i'm on the 0.97

00:38:27.020 road talking to you we're passing through different towns the poog listener the hags 0.97

00:38:31.860 are right there with us they're waving from the gas stations i think it's possible oh you know 1.00

00:38:37.240 what i'm back on because i left it here last time so i haven't used it in like a year it's this

00:38:41.740 herbaceous oil cleanser from i have to check but you know oil cleanser is unbelievable it's not

00:38:49.200 It might be like Sanyo or something.

00:38:51.880 I have to check, but it's really nice.

00:38:54.760 And I have like nothing, can't find my moisturizer or whatever.

00:38:57.020 And I'm like washing my face with it and not feeling like...

00:38:59.960 I was like looking at my skin.

00:39:01.060 I'm like, what's up?

00:39:02.840 It was looking good.

00:39:04.440 And I was like, did it with single oil cleanser and the East Coast Air or Stormy?

00:39:09.620 I think oil cleansing really is good.

00:39:11.880 Yeah.

00:39:12.440 Here actually, given the nature of what we're doing, the mobile nature, I'm going to go look right now.

00:39:19.200 here it is manyo herb green cleansing oil oh what is that you must have gotten that

00:39:27.620 oh i paid out of pocket yeah a lightweight cleansing oil enriched with 19 plant oils

00:39:33.060 for deep impurity removal along with it anyway i just

00:39:36.900 and then do i have anything else in here of interest not really um but what i've been doing

00:39:44.060 is stealing my mother's items some of which i got for her back in the day not back in the day but

00:39:52.320 the botter bader the face mist which i still believe in and then i would mean which made me

00:40:00.960 go i really got to get back on that for real and then look what she's got this i haven't seen this 0.76

00:40:05.300 before leave-in spray this must have come from a salon because she's got the we dot curl quencher 0.95

00:40:11.460 i love products and then she's got oh you know what i was wondering about this she's got

00:40:17.520 drunk elephant miracle butter i go on the face could it be i guess

00:40:23.640 dab a tiny bit any plate no this is dry elbows this is stuff that's cracked

00:40:27.980 and then this was another do you remember this this estera brand i was into their cream and

00:40:36.180 then also the spritz you got me that barrier mist and i'm now on my third bottle and i have the

00:40:42.700 cleanser that same one from estura yeah that was i that was from a wild screen grab line at sephora

00:40:49.980 by the way a wild oh yeah i saw that when i was last there because this was i think pre then being 0.50

00:40:54.820 in sephora or something um speaking of sephora i saw such a fucking cute instagram video

00:41:00.720 of two like 18 year old girls spending that hiding at sephora after they close to spend the night 0.80

00:41:06.840 there no it's real and it's them like underneath oh it's completely real it's them like underneath

00:41:12.020 the things and then they're filming and it's like the lights are like they're like locked inside

00:41:16.480 it's like they are so that's real i'm having such a hard time believing that's real i'm gonna say

00:41:21.660 couldn't they like be arrested i guess so i mean if sephora was smart they would um you know they

00:41:28.700 would have paid them to do that i think what they could have done was we'll spend the night and then

00:41:33.940 when they will open up in the morning you wait for the first customers to come and then you just

00:41:37.580 stand up you mean stand up to blend in yeah see i would have fears like with things like that right

00:41:43.780 that something could go wrong where like you think you figured it all out but like somehow

00:41:49.380 you end up like dying in there you know what i mean like there's like you're locked in there's

00:41:53.380 like a fire you're locked in like just things could go wrong like this still great you don't

00:41:58.200 want to be under behind a steel grate yeah that's the thing glass is one thing you can break through

00:42:03.840 in an emergency now are they going to use the products all night or just like i think it's

00:42:08.100 live air like they're in the military yeah they're just under the they're just like stay awake all

00:42:12.620 night get followers it's really fun i was like these are my daughters back to being grateful

00:42:18.700 to being child free oh i hear my dad okay it is dinner time so i think i have to go

00:42:23.260 okay all right love you okay great okay love you bye

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Poog with Kate Berlant and Jacqueline Novak - August 04, 2026

Hypochondriac’s Riddle

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