Gonzo journalism. One sprig of parsley on every plane meal. Panic clouding the mind. The smell of the subway. Manifesting the illness, manifesting the solution. Hubris and negligence. A high self-diagnosis moment, proudly bearing pit stains. Take the online quiz and introduce Ollie to your pet. Visit https://ollie.com/HAGS today for 60% off your first box of meals! #ToKnowThemIsToLoveThem Head to Duckbill to get 50% off your first 2 months with the code HAGS. Get 15% off OneSkin with the code HA...
Jun 24, 2025•44 min•Ep. 36
Scrolling during sex. The novelty of rice and pasta in a drawer. The four-hour facial. Old writerly Novak reemerges. Tits or gossip for a mere fifty bucks. Maintaining mood across centuries. A bespoke app. Praying for more. Unwashed throws. ritual.com/HAGS Luxury shouldn't be out of reach. Go to cozyearth.com/HAGS for up to 40% off Cozy Earth’s best-selling temperature-regulating sheets, apparel, and more. 🎙️ Rate and Review. 🌟 Premium Feed: Subscribe 🛍️ Shop Our Favorites: Shop My Store 👕 O...
Jun 17, 2025•52 min•Ep. 35
Is this thing on? Sifting through comments. How to make a dog from white rice. Eyes on the road, for once. Anxiety dissolves into freedom. Fun to buy or fun to own? Clear-headed about the paranormal. The allure of people and their workflows. Appealing sounds at The Garden. Infant jest. Ollie Dog Food : Take the online quiz and introduce Ollie to your pet. Visit https://ollie.com/HAGS today for 60% off your first box of meals! #ToKnowThemIsToLoveThem Duckbill : Listeners can get 50% off their fir...
Jun 10, 2025•50 min•Ep. 34
Our ancestors stood on rocks. Who wants to be our guinea pig? Forgetting within minutes about owning it.Food as a palliative. Fantasies about mechanical automation. Wildly signing up for services seeking pure objective truth. A call down for a Nespresso machine. Aesthetic for cheap. Loretta Lynn suite. 🎙️ Rate and Review. 🌟 Premium Feed: Subscribe 🛍️ Shop Our Favorites: Shop My Store 👕 Official Merch: Merchtable Store 📱 Instagram: @poogpodcast Producer : Annie Bernstein Editor/Audio Enginee...
Jun 03, 2025•51 min•Ep. 33
Button up, button down. The one traveling woman in the world. Is warrior the hardest pose? Submit to waiting. The name is a word. Kate gets on better terms with London food. Unfiltered Roman amaro. Brought to tears by good copywriting. That’s a star, who is that? The cough of a child. Duckbill: Reclaim your time at getduckbill.com , and get 50% off your first 2 months with the code HAGS Ollie Dog Food: Take the online quiz and introduce Ollie to your pet. Visit https://ollie.com/HAGS today for 6...
May 27, 2025•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 32
The first cup of coffee is a doorway. Illegal tomato gallery in the fridge. Take the safety rails off the fidget spinner. Abandonment of the future self. There's no such thing as a dread-free artist. Get off the cross—we need the wood. Nursing Ascentia. So and so got up on the skis today for their first time. Cover the penalties later. Completely detach getting up from meaning. The Ecstatic experience. Lobbing a phrase. Purposeless in public. A set of books. 🎙️ Rate and Review. 🌟 Premium Feed:...
May 20, 2025•58 min•Ep. 31
The hippocampus 'delible after all? When there is no hack, just get it from the beet. A glorious return policy, shadows on the face, and melting suede coat. Another appointment booked. Accessing hyperfixation, raising horses on organic feed for the makeup brushes. KB in the fast lane, hands at 12 and 3. Kate’s Damn Tea. JN writing in Hudson. Six nights in a row at the same restaurant. Do not forget about lime. To wind a cuckoo clock each morning. Austere Norwegian bread and Fruit Corner. EPISODE...
May 13, 2025•54 min•Ep. 30
JN’s back in the states but still living out of her European suitcase. Kate’s new cocktail. A spiritual vapor, a bruised martini, a lemon tryst, and an evening prayer. Dilution is key after JN spends time with a cookbook. Voicing your greatest fears in the Apple store. Is it really ever the jeans that you’re hoping for? We’re getting the fish. A warm Celsius. The Merrel effect. You should be studied in a medical journal.Deep vein thrombosis. Sticker curious. The three week carry-on. Take control...
May 06, 2025•46 min•Ep. 29
Maintenance—it's not for all of us. The shock of girls being so messy. Can a nut milk ever be creamy? Kate's sudden interest in whole milk. The shape of the word despair. Intentionality visible in a hairstyle. We welcome all questions about the moon. Chips kept hot in a porcelain bowl over a flame. Beet red from anger or humiliation? Tap, tap, tap—making choices. Our commitment to dramatic narrative is deep in us. 🎙️ Rate and Review. 🌟 Premium Feed: Subscribe 🛍️ Shop Our Favorites: Shop My St...
Apr 29, 2025•49 min•Ep. 28
Both hags are stateside. Jacqueline comes at you from her childhood home. Kate shares her neurologist’s three pieces of parting advice. Something’s special is happening in a jar of non-organic Almond butter. A favorite barrier gel cream, smaller microphones, and weeping in JFK. In Act 4’s Product Corner (premium subscriptions only) Kate’s new preferred electrolyte is revealed and Jacqueline teases her sister’s recent nightie launch. Get 15% off OneSkin with the code HAGS at https://www.oneskin.c...
Apr 22, 2025•49 min•Ep. 27
Jacqueline has made it "home" to her preferred London rental after a harrowing journey through Ireland and Amsterdam*. Kate has left London where she saw the second ghost of her life and sawed through a grisly steak at a beloved restaurant. Which do you fear more? Oversalted or undersalted. Negotiating the greek drama of which hag was spared a cold or fated to have one. Bemoaning the phones, the fight for our lives. Making positive change means mourning years lost to the previous way. Jacqueline...
Apr 15, 2025•55 min•Ep. 26
The hags are in Europe. Jacqueline joins from a hotel room in Dublin, sick with a cold, praying to angels. Kate joins from London where in a state of suspension, she lives out of one suitcase and between two rooms. Bless the body when it does its job. Rumor is drain the necks. Decision-induced euphoria. Morsels of freedom. ‘Scuse me, ‘scuse me, I've got a show’ mode. An idea: institute draino between each hotel guest. An ASMR of JN packing is teased. 🎙️ Rate and Review. 🌟 Premium Feed: Subscri...
Apr 08, 2025•49 min•Ep. 25
With the "States" forgotten, Jacqueline and Kate are both in London, dealing with restaurant "bookings." An animal darts past Jacqueline explaining the screeches from the night before. Kate's suffering - broken headphones - needs to be witnessed by three. Competitive airplane seat wipe down. One-shot television. Name-brand meds hidden in a teddy bear. Two Y2K cameras found at Portobello Market. When a service you’ve ignored finally becomes relevant to you. The cover of the movie, stamped on a to...
Apr 01, 2025•48 min•Ep. 24
Jacqueline gets a fly fisherman’s vest to avoid crossing rooms while Kate diligently prepares for travel. The morning shed trend and how to use an hour? Two pomodoros or (10 +2)5. Kate asserts her place in line and immediately regrets it. Swallowed by a whale, you remain inside life. The daily reminder that it’s darkest before dawn. Adopting a mother and son cat duo. A cat called Yardwork. Mistaking mace for essence is a risk. cozyearth.com/HAGS Take the online quiz and introduce Ollie to your p...
Mar 25, 2025•57 min•Ep. 23
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. Control Body Odor ANYWHERE with @lumedeodorant and get 15% off with promo code HAGS at LumeDeodorant.com! #lumepod Take control of your online experience today. Head to surfshar...
Mar 18, 2025•53 min•Ep. 22
Jacqueline overhears two energy healers talking shit about a third. Ego versus essence. Not everyone spends their time in the aisles of self-help. Admiring angry. A decorative rug in the bathroom versus an absorbent stone. When ginger chews took a town by storm. Milkshake on a long car ride. Kate needs a burger twice a month. Burning $500 in the woods is an active sacrifice. Is hot sauce humor the lowest form of expression. Jacqueline invents a robe with two buttons. High school Kate goes to The...
Mar 11, 2025•52 min•Ep. 21
The human body can manage all manner of insults and injuries, but complimentary valet should be standard. Shiny versus glowy versus sliding down the hood of a car. Kate gets a hot towel at the barber shop. Jacqueline’s uncapped pen dries out. A Grecian marble wet t-shirt contest. Microdosing alcohol. A curly haircut takes three days to settle, but Kate needs someone to tell her it looks the same. Jacqueline wants to take up 3D printing and continues to yearn for a patent illustrator friend. Retu...
Mar 04, 2025•1 hr 4 min•Ep. 20
If you sleep eight hours, there's sixteen hours left with which to work. One cigarette in the front dummy pack and last night’s dessert is known in today’s lymphatic massage. The ice cream behind the topping, forgotten. A soft arrow. Finding anchors during self-checkout meltdowns. Nostalgia is the big killer. Shallow breaths while watching TV and Toto toilet’s eagerness to receive your piss. A letter’s formation on the page may or may not be relevant. Is that Orion bathing in the big dipper? Dre...
Feb 25, 2025•1 hr 3 min•Ep. 19
The hags are at a crossroads when it comes to brewing tea. To see a three-inch text, be touched by it, then be swept in the current of life. A read receipts reveal. Four serums, but who was the hero? Jacqueline drafts an auto-reply. Kate sees herself in the face of coin. Beetlejuice on a vision board? For lack of a better word…yeah. Don’t get your neck adjusted. The rise of subtle before and afters. To order out of pocket and have something waiting downstairs. The results of the dermaplaning hav...
Feb 18, 2025•49 min•Ep. 18
Construction paper, doilies, hearts drawn with varying depths of cleavage. Empty restaurants on Wednesday evenings. The Grove at closing time. A life in the arts rejects the calendar in favor of Valentine’s dinner on the 15th. The High School self misrepresented. Thespians, athletes, badges, and cut grass. Dating advice cannot save you, but have your fun hunting it down. Boom. This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp 🎙️ Rate and Review. 🌟 Premium Feed: Subscribe 🛍️ Shop Our Favorites: Shop My ...
Feb 11, 2025•58 min•Ep. 17
Agamemnon cries in the margins of The Odyssey. Honored to fear nature, the glacier melts in a time-lapse. Alka-Seltzer’s effervescence. Still waiting on Koia to send pallets. Would you rather a rickety bridge or a narrow beam across a deep ravine? 🎙️ Rate and Review. 🌟 Premium Feed: Subscribe 🛍️ Shop Our Favorites: Shop My Store 👕 Official Merch: Merchtable Store 📱 Instagram: @poogpodcast Producer : Annie Bernstein Editor/Audio Engineer: Matt DiMona Music by : Naomi McPherson If you ever he...
Feb 04, 2025•46 min•Ep. 16
NOTE: This episode was recorded before the devastating fires in Los Angeles began. Looking for a way to directly support those affected by the LA fires? Visit this link . A huge clock in every room changes everything. Virgin as an adjective, not waiting for seed. Reading is the only thing—it’s all that’s left—and it’s sitting there, waiting. Is there any value in a human producing sense? Dreams are more real than reality. A delivery robot named Esau delivers Elmo to a chimp. Jacqueline frees Kat...
Jan 28, 2025•50 min•Ep. 15
NOTE: This episode was recorded before the devastating fires in Los Angeles began. Looking for a way to directly support those affected by the LA fires? Visit this link . Sitting with a friend with a book and a finger. Kate and Jacqueline approach all books with the spirit of divination and discover the new Tarot. Only receive color analyses at the Hollywood Farmer’s Market. Eyes crossed toward the third eye, arranging words like furniture. Dropped into a bathtub in 1987—their hands prune—soakin...
Jan 21, 2025•45 min•Ep. 14
NOTE: This episode was recorded before the devastating fires in Los Angeles began. Looking for a way to directly support those affected by the LA fires? Visit this link . When Rocket Money fails to flag eight years of Masterclass. A healer suggests quitting caffeine. Maybe it was decaf the whole time? It’s not your hip; it’s your back. Recalling a flannel robe that needn’t be plaid. Little, magical budgets. Mirepoix cooked over a blender's engine. The good ones are called dump recipes. Throwing ...
Jan 14, 2025•42 min•Ep. 13
Decision making is violent. You have to murder the other options. Consequences do not inspire us, but passion, urgency, interest, challenge and novelty do. Jacqueline brings along a novel planner she’s testing and Kate goes rabid for it. To make peace with finite time…again? Marlton romance and the discovery of the Bowery’s history. Some clay figures purged then carried back from the trash. Looking at other people’s journal entries on reddit. Check out the Hag Shop for several referenced items. ...
Jan 07, 2025•52 min•Ep. 12
Clucking in the Hen House. It’s New Year’s Eve, a loaded time for many, if you forget there are endless ways to throw away your life without throwing away your life. Exit the the prison of potential. To only keep the listener company, wouldn’t this be enough. p.s. eager to go to costco with lavaliers 🎙️ Rate and Review. 🌟 Premium Feed: Subscribe 🛍️ Shop Our Favorites: Shop My Store 👕 Official Merch: Merchtable Store 📱 Instagram: @poogpodcast Producer : Annie Bernstein Editor/Audio Engineer:...
Jan 06, 2025•54 min•Ep. 11
Jacqueline and Kate are remote and eager to make their homes an environment where Christmas can thrive — but how? Clutter abounds. Coffee and chocolate is needed. The joy of the holiday persists, despite its intrinsic darkness. 🎙️ Rate and Review. 🌟 Premium Feed: Subscribe 🛍️ Shop Our Favorites: Shop My Store 👕 Official Merch: Merchtable Store 📱 Instagram: @poogpodcast Producer : Annie Bernstein Editor/Audio Engineer: Matt DiMona Music by : Naomi McPherson If you ever hear an ad during the ...
Jan 06, 2025•55 min•Ep. 10
The Christmas episode. 🎄 CLICK TO SHOP THE XMAS HAG SHOP ! Yes, it's here. Built during this week's episode, this store is a Santa sack of wonders bursting at the seams. ✨ Hit refresh regularly—items are being added as fast as the hosts can remember things they like. 🛍️ Shop now. 🎭 HAGS ASSEMBLE! Follow this show now, rate, and review—share your love for Berlant and Novak's podcasting through the years and your excitement for the new show ✨. Help launch the free feed! 🎧 Since all reviews wer...
Jan 06, 2025•39 min•Ep. 9
A new cobbler and Wifi in the car. Kate makes a friend in the airport lounge. Jacqueline makes a frozen snowman cocktail design. The art of not looking lost in luxury spaces, boarding time as the only time, and the international terminal as humanity’s greatest achievement. Everything is potentially interesting and nothing need be quick. Caroline Myss’s Sacred Contracts. 🎙️ Rate and Review. 🌟 Premium Feed: Subscribe 🛍️ Shop Our Favorites: Shop My Store 👕 Official Merch: Merchtable Store 📱 In...
Jan 06, 2025•51 min•Ep. 8
Experience Christmas through the lens of a woman. Do the unimaginable: trust one’s taste and execute it in the home. The IKEA parking lot is an office. The threat of the wired sconce. Kate rides high on decisiveness. Jacqueline discloses her recurring Christmas nightmare …again. The burden on Lost & Found doesn’t increase daily. Integrate the dead. As an actor genuine shock may look cliche. Entertain with your rug. 🎙️ Rate and Review. 🌟 Premium Feed: Subscribe 🛍️ Shop Our Favorites: Shop ...
Jan 06, 2025•55 min•Ep. 7