The girlies dive into the world of American talk shows — the modern circus helmed by formidable "experts." They track the history of syndicated television, the rise of popular figureheads like Dr. Phil and Judge Judy, and interrogate the philosophical carnival that makes these programs simultaneously appealing and horrifying. Digressions include our favorite Instagram Reels creators, and how one listener's family was ripped apart via the diet terrorism of Dr. Oz.

This episode was produced by Julia Hava and Eliza Mclamb and edited by Allison Hagan. Research assistance from Penelope Spurr.

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Admissible in a Court of Law: dna, paternity, and the talk show

And God Created Oprah

"America's Doctor" Dr Oz fights back against critics

Bodies Defined and Confined

Don't Be Funny: Litigation is no laughing matter to your clients

Electronic Carnival: spectacularizing talk

Family Experts on Television Talk Shows: Facts, Values, and Half-Truths

E-mails offer glimpse into launch of Dr. Phil-endorsed diet products

Life in the Bleep-Cycle: Inventing Id -TV on the Jerry Springer Show

Nielsen Ratings, 2007

Nobrow Culture

Oprah and The Party Crashers

Televised medical talk shows—what they recommend and the evidence to support their

The Commercial Logic of Vulture Culture: how corporate media shape talk show culture

The Commodification of Talk Show Culture

The People's Law versus Judge Judy Justice: Two Models of Law in American Reality-Based Courtroom TV

THE TALK SHOW AND THE TERROR OF CONVERSATION

The time Oprah Winfrey beefed with the Texas cattle industry

TV talk show therapy as a distinct genre of discourse

What's Wrong With Dr. Oz?

Dr. Oz Shouldn't Be a Senator--or a Doctor.

Redacted takes the third mic to pose some unique, hypothetical questions. Would you save your nephew from years of torturous bullying by striking David Delouise with lightning, just once? Would you believe your son, even if he was tinfoil? These questions are answered, and more.

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The girlies break down the establishments that plague our neighborhoods and corporatize our lunch hours: fast casual restaurants. From Cava to Chipotle, have we really elevated fast food or just made it more expensive? Digressions include a petty gripes section, the Olympics of transvestigation, and tens of thousands of rewards points.

This episode was produced by Julia Hava and Eliza Mclamb and edited by Allison Hagan. Research assistance from Penelope Spurr.

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10 storylines that defined the decade in fast food

90 Minutes With The Chipotle Boys

Calories Often Absent on Third-Party Food Delivery Platforms, Analysis Finds

Chipotle enhances partnership with top influencers

Chipotle is constantly searching for the intersection of its brand and culture

Chipotle is selling 'Chipotle Boy' bowls aimed at vest-wearing finance bros

Consumer control and customization in online environments

Fast-casual consumers: Who are they?

Food of the '90s: Fast, Fun, and Environment Friendly

How Sweetgreen turned itself into a restaurant that's known for food quality instead of a technology startup that happens to sell food

Impacts of the 2008 Great Recession on dietary intake: a systematic review and meta-analysis

In a Burger World, Can Sweetgreen Scale Up?

Kendrick Lamar kicked Sweetlife Fest founder off stage

Personalization Psychology: Why We Crave Customization.

Rise of the Restaurant Robots: Chipotle, Sweetgreen and Others Bet on Automation

Salad Days Are Gone: I Went to Sweetgreen's Music Festival

Server-less Restaurants Might Be the Future of Dining

Sweetgreen 2022 Impact Report

Sweetgreen beats 'sad desk salad' vibes to soar above fast-food competitors. It can thank fancy foods, high prices—and robots

Sweetgreen just pulled the plug on the Sweetlife Festival. Here's what's likely to replace it.

Sweetgreen makes boom at LA launch with performances by BANKS and Alvvays

Sweetgreen Marketing Strategy: Uncovering Key Ingredients Behind Growth

Sweetgreen stock soars after its IPO, valued at $5.5 billion

The Controversial Rise Of Fast Casual Bowl Restaurants

The Origin of the 9-5 Work Schedule and Its Crazy Incompatibility with the Modern World

The Role of Technology in Fast Casual Restaurants: Ordering Apps and Self-Service Kiosks

Two Years After Buying Spyce, Sweetgreen Launches Infinite Kitchen Robotic Restaurant

Unintentional food zoning: A case study of East Harlem, New York

When McDonald's was America and America was McDonald's

Why a Salad Company Has a Tech Team

Why fast-casual restaurants became the decade's most important food trend

Why is fast casual winning?

The girlies do a pop culture recap of the last several weeks. They discuss the Ballerina Farm article that broke the internet, the potential of falling out of a coconut tree during brat summer, and more. Plus, a #NotSponsored segment all about their favorite and least favorite products.

This is a teaser for a Patreon-exclusive episode. To listen to the full episode and access over 50 bonus episodes, mediasodes, and monthly zoom hangs visit patreon.com/binchtopia (http://patreon.com/binchtopia) and become a patron today.

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The girlies investigate our modern-day digital panopticon through an exploration on the history of surveillance in the US. From wiretapping to Watergate to hidden AirBnb spyware, Americans have been accustomed to and unsettled by being watched for decades. Digressions include the 2016 vibes and a pig named Heidi Klum.

This episode was produced by Julia Hava and Eliza Mclamb and edited by Allison Hagan. Research assistance from Penelope Spurr.

NOTE: This episode mentions the role of surveillance in cases of police brutality. We wanted to note that it was recorded before the horrific murder of Sonya Massey by the police — a tragic reminder, as mentioned in the episode, that surveillance alone is rarely enough to provoke justice. Our thoughts are with the Massey family.

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19th Century - The Origins of Surveillance

A Brief History of Surveillance in America

Airbnb Has a Hidden-Camera Problem

CAN THE USE OF 'NANNY CAMS' BE MORALLY JUSTIFIED?

Castle Doctrine

During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Electronic performance monitoring: a risk factor for workplace stress

George Holliday, Who Taped Police Beating of Rodney King, Dies at 61

How citizen journalism has changed since George Holliday's Rodney King video

John Locke and the labor theory of value

Psychological aspects of active surveillance

Psychology and Surveillance Capitalism: The Risk of Pushing Mental Health Apps

She Thought She Caught a Man Cheating, So She Posted on TikTok

Social anxiety disorder: more than just shyness

Sun on Privacy: 'Get Over It' | WIRED

Surveillance as Cultural Practice

Surveillance Culture: Engagement, Exposure, and Ethics in Digital Modernity

Surveillance of the intimate

Surveillance under the Patriot Act

Towards a psychology of surveillance: do 'watching eyes' affect behaviour?

The Employer-Surveillance State

The Work of Being Watched: Interactive Media and the Exploitation of Self-Disclosure

There's no place like home

They Used Smartphone Cameras to Record Police Brutality—and Change History

What constant surveillance does to your brain

'What have you caught?' Nannycams and hidden cameras as normalised Watching Me, Watching You

Where would racial progress in policing be without camera phones?

Who's watching?: Daily practices of surveillance among contemporary families

Why we must continue to turn the camera on police

Us and them - the social impact of 'new surveillance' technologies

The girlies discuss two internet figures who fell from grace before finding redemption: Bhad Bhabie and Trisha Paytas. Digressions include the Cody Ko situation and the potential of being coconut-pilled.

NOTE: This episode was recorded ahead of the announcement that Joe Biden would pull out of the Presidential race and endorse Kamala Harris.

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The girlies discuss the rise of pet culture — how we managed to domesticate animals, why we love them so much, and how a pet-centric world may not be best for either of us. Digressions include a heavily edited intro to save us from placement on an FBI watchlist.

This episode was produced by Julia Hava and Eliza Mclamb and edited by Olivia Burdette. Research assistance from Penelope Spurr.

Come see us on tour! Find tickets at linktr.ee/binchtopia

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A new airline for dogs takes flight

Animals Made Americans Human: Sentient Creatures and the Creation of America's Moral Sensibility

A Non-companion Species Manifesto: Humans, Wild Animals, and "The Pain of Anthropomorphism"

Are we loving our pets to death?

Ask Smithsonian: When Did People Start Keeping Pets?

Bulldogs are prone to health problems. New Hampshire could limit their breeding

Catland

Critical Pet Studies?

Dogs and Birds in Plato

Dogs and their collars in Ancient Mesopotamia

Earliest evidence for commensal processes of cat domestication

Elite Cultures

Fido, Fluffy, and wildlife conservation: the environmental consequences of animal domestication

From wild animals to domestic pets, an evolutionary view of domestication

How the Victorians engineered the dog breeds we love today

Hump stump solved: camels arrived in region much later than biblical reference

Industry Trends and Stats

Leona Helmsley and Her Millionaire Dog?

Looking to improve company culture? Offer pet bereavement

MEDIEVAL DOG NAMES

Most Americans can't afford a $1,000 emergency

Pawtriats: Our Changing Relationship With Pets Throughout History

Pet ownership statistics 2024

Pets: Why do we have them?

Prehistoric Puppy May Be Earliest Evidence of Pet-Human Bonding

Prevalence of pet anxiety in the U.S., 2022

Show dogs and breeding

Speculations on the Role of Animal Cults in the Economy of Ancient Egypt

The Benefit of Pets and Animal-Assisted Therapy to the Health of Older Individuals

The Cost of Cuteness: Health and Welfare Issues Associated with Brachycephalic Dog Breeds

The Changing Valuation of Dogs

The Family Pet

The Histories

"The Mayor is a dog": The coming of age of contemporary American pet culture

The Meaning of American Pet Cemetery Gravestones

The Taming of the Cat

The World of Medieval Dogs

Women, Pets, and Imperialism: the British Pekingese Dog and Nostalgia for Old China

The girlies get to the bottom of an age-old question: what type of woman are you? Normal or ugly? Through an exploration of aesthetic categorization trends, they interrogate the history of categorizing our bodies, choosing our colors, and finding new ways to hate ourselves. They also discuss their on-the-ground experiences at a color analysis studio and Kibbe typing themselves at home. Digressions include a dismal recap of The Debate That Makes You Old and decoding some listener's dreams.

This episode was produced by Julia Hava and Eliza Mclamb and edited by Allison Hagan. Research assistance by Penelope Spurr.

Come see us on tour! Find tickets at linktr.ee/binchtopia

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A Color Notation

A Dive into Chinese Colors

American's Can't Escape Long-Disproven Body Stereotypes

An Interview with Regina Lee Blaszczyk

Are You a 'Spring' or a 'Winter'? It Could Cost You $500 to Find Out.

Aristotle and Alexander of Aphrodisias on Colour

Color and Consumption

Color and Psychological Functioning

Color Me a Season

Color Symbolism Represented in Buddhist Traditions

Embodying Normalcy: Anthropometry and the Long Arm of William H. Sheldon's Somatotyping Project

Empedocles

First Impressions of Personality Traits from Body Shapes

Goethe on the Psychology of Color and Emotion

How this retro beauty theory became the latest TikTok craze

How to choose the right snacks for your body type

Perkins Mauve: Ancestor of the Organic Chemical Industry

Roger and Me

The Color Revolution

The Colors That Suit You Are Set for Life — & Here's How I Found Mine

The David Kibbe Story

The Great Ivy League Nude Posture Photo Scandal

The Industrial Design Reader

The Kibbe Body Type Test

The Laws of Contrast of Color

The Natural History

The Search for One's True Colors

Theories Of Vision And Color Perception Of Empedocles

What's Your Body Type?

What's Your Kibbe Type?

The girlies invite you to a slumber party and answer some of your queries: can I learn to see men as people? How do I go on living (without looking forward to the Next Big Thing)? Who is your crush right now????? Plus, our dream Survivor line-ups.

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The girlies talk genius. Is it a magical trait only available to a lucky few? Is it a practiced skill that can be honed by anyone? They use two geniuses from history — Temple Grandin and Leonardo DaVinci — as case studies to talk about what makes up the most ingenious among us.

This episode was produced by Julia Hava and Eliza Mclamb and edited by Allison Hagan. Research assistance from Penelope Spurr.

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A Conversation with Temple Grandin, Humane Animal Scientist

Against Algebra

Ahead of His Time: Leonardo Da Vinci's Contributions to Engineering

An Interview with Temple Grandin.

Animal Welfare: A Practical Approach

BBC: The Woman Who Thinks Like a Cow

Displaying Autism: The Thinking and Images of Temple Grandin (2010)

Emergence: Labeled Autistic

Emmys 2010: Who is Temple Grandin?

Epochs in Endourology: The da Vinci Robot

From Bullied to Brilliant: How Temple Grandin embraces autism

How the Squeeze Machine Came to Be

Is there a link between Asperger's and genius?

Leonardo da Vinci: Engineer, Bioengineer, Anatomist, and Artist

Leonardo Da Vinci's Invention

Leonardo da Vinci's last home - Chateau de Clos Lucé

Leonardo da Vinci may have had ADHD, leading professor says

Perspectives on Education from a Person on the Autism Spectrum

Q&A: Temple Grandin on the Autistic Brain

Qualities of an Animal Scientist: Cow's Eye View and Autism

Sources of Inspiration in the Science and Art of Leonardo da Vinci

Temple Grandin, Translator: Sounding Autism, Seeing Animals, Making a Difference

"We need all kinds of minds": Temple Grandin on why neurodivergent thinkers are essential

What Makes a Genius?