Rehash

By Rehash

What's Rehash about?

Rehash: The podcast about the social media phenomenons that strike a nerve in our culture, only to be quickly forgotten - but we think are due for a revisiting.

Hosted by Maia (Broey Deschanel) and Hannah Raine

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Rehash episodes:

04.22.2024
Girl Defined (TEASER)
Full episode available on Patreon: Kristen and Bethany Baird make Christian life advice content on Youtube for their modest audience of 100k followers. But when Cody Ko reacted to one of their videos on his channel, spawning an entire industry...
04.15.2024
AI Porn
If you thought women’s beauty standards were unrealistic before, just wait until you find out about AI porn. Not only do these girlies have cartoonish curves, the faces of young teens, and impossibly long hair… they also have eight fingers...
04.08.2024
Dating Apps
…We’re about to go off. Since what feels like the beginning of time (the 60s) dating companies have promised us that our soulmates are out there waiting for us, and they know just who it is. But in this current...
04.01.2024
OnlyFans
What do Uber and OnlyFans have in common? Did camgirilng really originate from a 24 hour live stream of a Trojan coffee pot? And fellas, is it cheating to have an OnlyFans subscription AND a wife? These burning questions (and...
03.25.2024
The Tumblr Ban
If you’ve ever wondered why there are so many annoying people on Twitter, you’ve got Tumblr to thank for that. Tumblr, the microblogging site that reigned supreme in the 2010s, was like Facebook’s cool cousin who has blue hair and...
03.18.2024
The Demise of Backpage
Why is it that whenever someone “thinks of the children”, a sex worker is harmed in the process? In this episode, Hannah and Maia tell the story of Backpage - the classifieds website that came crashing down when instances of...
03.11.2024
Is Anyone Up?
Sure, the computer gave us war. But sex gave us the iCloud email alert. Ever since Marilyn Monroe was on the cover of Playboy, men have been profiting off of women’s bodies without their consent. Yet if revenge porn has...
03.04.2024
Cybersex Chatrooms
Before “co-authored, interactive erotica” (otherwise known as sexting), we had chatrooms. Virtual spaces where anyone of any race, gender, class, or creed could come together to fornicate with their words. The MUD and MOO chatrooms of yore belonged to a...
02.26.2024
Sasha Grey: The Internet's First Porn Star
If you were a teenage boy in 2008 and you didn’t have a “God Bless Sasha Grey t-shirt”, did you even exist? Ever since indie sleaze darling, Sasha Grey, burst onto the porn scene in the mid aughts, its become...
02.19.2024
Pam and Tommy's Sex Tape
Before Paris or Kim, there was Pamela. Original martyrs of the sex tape leak, Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee are only now receiving their apology (via Hulu miniseries). But who knew that this “voyeuristic dive into the guileless intimacy of...
11.20.2023
The End of Vine (ft. Izzy from Be Kind Rewind)
When Vine died, the angels cried. No but seriously, in this era of late-stage internet, when it feels like politics, groupthink, and all around bad vibes are all exploding at once, it makes sense that we’re yearning for a simpler...
11.06.2023
Buzzfeed
When you think of “hard news”, a company that once published an article called “13 Potatoes That Look Like Channing Tatum” probably isn’t the first thing that comes to mind. Yes, in this episode Hannah and Maia are tackling Buzzfeed...
10.24.2023
#FreeBritney
For one brief, beautiful moment in history, the social media sleuths were right. When Britney Spears’ fans began to decode strange messaging in her quirky Instagram posts, it became clear that the formerly maligned popstar was living under the control...
10.09.2023
Bye Sister
Cover this podcast in prayers, because in this highly-requested episode, Hannah and Maia discuss the most political event on the internet to date: Tati Westbrook’s public disowning of James Charles. In this clashing of beauty guru titans, 38-year-old Tati Westbrook...
09.25.2023
Depp v. Heard
Has the sun set on the Me Too era? If you were following along with the Depp v. Heard defamation trial last April, it seems like it did. When Johnny Depp took Amber Heard to court for three vague quotes...
09.11.2023
Cuties
Remember when everyone freaked the f*** out about that French movie on Netflix? No? Well everybody, let us introduce you to: Cuties. In this episode, Hannah and Maia discuss Maïmouna Doucouré’s quaint 2020 coming-of-age film and the all out moral...
08.28.2023
Kim Kardashian Breaks the Internet
Remember when Kim Kardashian invented butts? Paper Magazine sure would like us to. When they released their scintillating cover issue of Kim K in a sequinned dress, balancing a champagne glass on her formidable silicone buttocks, Paper Mag declared: “Break...
08.14.2023
Gamergate ft. Fūnk-é Joseph
Men used to go to war. Today they are keyboard militias, defending the sanctity of video games and the Gamer™ identity from hysterical women and their evil feminine wiles. ... If you didn't know about Gamergate before today, we're jealous....
07.28.2023
A Conversation With Caroline Calloway
Exciting, but not surprising. Caroline Calloway, self-proclaimed “scammer” and queen of name-searching, reached out to promote her book on the pod. In this special interview, Hannah and Maia discuss the long-awaited memoir, Scammer, with the author herself (who characteristically conducted...
06.23.2023
The Writers Strike
Do androids dream of writing Succession? In the second part of this two-part special, Hannah and Maia discuss the 2023 Writers Strike - a hotly debated labour dispute between the Writer's Guild of America (WGA) and The Alliance of Motion...
06.19.2023
ChatGPT
What the hell is ChatGPT, and why are these pasty nerds telling us it's going to save the world? Hannah and Maia bring you a special, pre-season episode with a discussion of this new AI technology and what it means...
04.17.2023
Groomers
Welcome to the season 2 finale! This season has been all about words entering a dark tunnel and coming out on the other end looking completely different. And nothing better encapsulates that than "groomer". As a word that defines a...
04.10.2023
Karens
She's rude. She's got a bad haircut. And she will, indeed, be speaking to your manager. We've finally arrived at everyone's favourite pejorative, "Karen". The most contemptible lady in America today, Karen has had a bit of a reverse trajectory...
04.03.2023
Gymcels
Not quite an incel, not yet a Chad. The gymcel is a little-known, but hugely polarizing figure. Rather than swallowing the black pill and turning away from society (one where evil feminists govern man's ability to get laid), the gymcel...
03.27.2023
Himbos
He's hot. He's dumb. He's also a feminist ally. Househusband. Beef pillow. White knight. Clinically depressed golden retriever. And climate activist. Truly, what the f*** is a himbo? Is he a person who pops up in our everyday lives? Or...
03.20.2023
Pick Me's
No offence but... women are too much drama. No but seriously, we're living in a time of 'pick me' inception. Pick me's are calling other women pick me's, in response those women become pick me's and call the pick me's...
03.13.2023
Girlbosses
You wanna be on top? Well then girl, go do some exploitation! Hannah and Maia discuss the once revered, now maligned figure of the Girlboss™. Where did she come from? How did she get here? And why does she keep...
03.06.2023
Gatekeepers ft. Rayne Fisher-Quann
It's time to talk about the most misunderstood word in the Tiktok lexicon :( gatekeeping! Hannah and Maia dive into the history of the word, its sinister origins and the way it now bursts out of our mouths every time...
02.27.2023
Gaslighters
In the first instalment of our poignant, hard-hitting series: Gaslight, Gatekeep, Girlboss; Hannah and Maia breakdown "gaslight" and its terrible evolution. From a 1944 psycho-thriller starring Ingrid Bergman about a woman being tormented by her greedy husband, to a catchall...
02.20.2023
Dirtbags
Hannah and Maia discuss the post-woke, irony-poisoned community of Manhattan's lower east side - also known as Dimes Square. These podcasters (Red Scare, Chapo Trap House, Cum Town, and Wet Brain), filmmakers, literary ingenues, and bloggers have come together to...
01.16.2023
Man Repeller
Hannah and Maia unpack the horrors of the feminist fashion world and its posterchild, Leandra Medine (founder of Man Repeller). Was Man Repeller's demise really a death rattle for the girlboss, post-feminism era? Or was this just a blip in...
01.10.2023
Diet Prada
Who watches the watchdog? Hannah and Maia discuss the weird evolution of Diet Prada, and whether or not it can (or needs to) adhere to a code of ethics in the lawless wasteland that is social media. Brief digressions include...
01.02.2023
Bad Art Friend
Hannah and Maia try to make sense of the Rorschach test that is "Who is the Bad Art Friend?". Is the literary beef between Dawn and Sonya actually as juicy and layered as Twitter made it out to be? Or...
12.26.2022
West Elm Caleb
Caleb was a very bad boy. But did we have to John Tucker him x 1 million? Hannah and Maia get personal about life in the trenches of online dating, and whether or not doxxing is a justified means to...
12.19.2022
Caroline Calloway: The Art of Scamming Yourself
Is it possible to be both scammer and scammed? Hannah and Maia take a stab at the Rube Goldberg Machine that is Caroline Calloway's brilliant, chaotic mind. Is she actually staying one step ahead of the haters, or is she...
12.12.2022
Lindsay Ellis and the Wrath of Twitter
It's time to talk about what happened to Lindsay Ellis. In this episode we do a deep dive into Twitter psychology, confirmation bias, and the sad sad phenomenon that is "getting woman'd". Intro and Outro Song produced by our talented friend...
12.05.2022
Taylor Swift and the "Gaylor" Conspiracy
Has Taylor Swift orchestrated an clever conspiracy about her sexuality? Hannah and Maia discuss the fascinating war of the "Gaylors", and accusations of queerbaiting amongst the Taylor Swift fandom. Intro and Outro Song by Ian Mills: https://linktr.ee/ianmillsmusic Sources: Christobel Hastings, “How Lavender became a...
11.25.2022
The Try Guys
Hannah and Maia discuss the end of nuance, and feeling betrayed by Wife Guys™. Intro and Outro song by our talented friend Ian Mills: https://linktr.ee/ianmillsmusic Sources: Seth Abramovitch, “Why Are the Try Guys So Angry? Try Jeopardizing $6M a Year in Clicks” Hollywood Reporter...

What's Rehash about?

Download our free app to listen on your phone

Rehash episodes:

Girl Defined (TEASER)

AI Porn

Dating Apps

OnlyFans

The Tumblr Ban

The Demise of Backpage

Is Anyone Up?

Cybersex Chatrooms

Sasha Grey: The Internet's First Porn Star

Pam and Tommy's Sex Tape

The End of Vine (ft. Izzy from Be Kind Rewind)

Buzzfeed

#FreeBritney

Bye Sister

Depp v. Heard

Cuties

Kim Kardashian Breaks the Internet

Gamergate ft. Fūnk-é Joseph

A Conversation With Caroline Calloway

The Writers Strike

ChatGPT

Groomers

Karens

Gymcels

Himbos

Pick Me's

Girlbosses

Gatekeepers ft. Rayne Fisher-Quann

Gaslighters

Dirtbags

Man Repeller

Diet Prada

Bad Art Friend

West Elm Caleb

Caroline Calloway: The Art of Scamming Yourself

Lindsay Ellis and the Wrath of Twitter

Taylor Swift and the "Gaylor" Conspiracy

The Try Guys