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Binchtopia

Eau de Binch w/ Roxy Jamin

Binchtopia

Julia Hava & Eliza McLamb

Society & Culture

4.82.5K Ratings

🗓️ 18 March 2026

⏱️ 103 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Roxy returns to the pod to help Julia explore the fascinating history of scent: from ancient Greek perfumers on Aphrodite's island to Abercrombie cologne cloud terrorism. Plus, the girlies explain why smell is uniquely different from all our other senses, the Proustian relationship between scent and memory, and how capitalism has transformed our desire to smell good into a billion dollar identity crisis. Digressions include being flexed on by your parents, a man who generously donated his hair to a horse, and society's collective Mrs. Meyer's trauma.

This episode was produced by Julia Hava and Kylie Finnigan and edited by Livi Burdette. 

Roxy's Website: https://rjamin.net/

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to Binchotopia.

0:07.0

We hope you enjoy your stay.

0:16.0

Hi everybody, welcome back to Vinchotopia.

0:18.0

I'm Julia Hava and today I'm here with my bestie and big light hater, Roxy Jammann. Hi, everyone. Hey, Roxy. We're so happy to have you back. People loved your first episode. Oh my God. Let's talk about that. I love when you come on the pod and we talk about really abstract things. Like we talk about light. Now we're doing scent. Yeah. I'm like, if I want to do an episode on something really, I'm like, maybe we'll do air. I was like sound. Maybe we'll do the five, like we could do the five senses. We could do the elements. Oh my goodness. We could do an episode on water. I love the like the most like conceptual art school nonsense that I'm bringing to the table. No, it's crucial. It's very crucial. Speaking of conceptual art school nonsense. Oh, yes. I'm not sure when this episode is coming out, but Roxy and I have also recorded a bonus episode where we go into way more detail about her offline journey. She gives tip. She talks about the art world. The best I can. All the questions you guys are interested in. So check that out. We also have a segment on Patreon called What the Hell Sure, where we go over all the pop culture recap of the month. You might like it. I might need it. You might not know. So I should tune in. If you want to be, you'll be like, who are any of these people and why should I care. I think I listened to one one time and I was like, I really have no. You're like ripped in Winkle.

1:30.4

You're like, who are these people and why should I care? I think I listened to one one time and I was like I

1:27.7

really have no you're like ripped and winkle you're like who are these people I just woke up

1:32.1

hello hello oh my gosh usually we do some like pop culture catch up at the beginning of the pod

1:38.8

we can do it well I'll listen I would like to know what do you have anything to catch us up

1:43.8

pop culture wise I'm really racking my brain right now I would like to know. Do you have anything to catch us up pop culture-wise? I'm really racking my brain right now. I really want to know what comes to mind for you. That comes to mind for me. I was like, that guy who wore that jumpsuit and did a flip. Benson boo? But I was like, that was so long ago. That was like a year ago. And that's because I mentioned it to you like six months ago.

2:02.5

Yeah. We were in this hour. I was like, what is this guy? He's like tiny Tim.

2:06.2

Yes.

2:06.4

There's a lot of people on social media I think you would like.

2:10.9

I think you would like the woman who's building a tunnel under her house.

2:13.8

Oh, I've seen these videos.

2:15.0

She's just digging a tunnel under her house.

2:16.6

There's a lot of DIYers that I think you would like, like her whole bathroom is decorated with like keyboards that she just glued to the wall. And then she will make like a dress with a horse on it and then

2:22.1

she'll cut her own hair off and like add it as the main and the tail. It's very, I actually have a

2:26.8

friend who's donated his hair for a fake horse. Can you explain what that? I went to the diorama and saw it and I was like, that's his hair. Someone's like, I donated my hair. Oh my God, to kids with cancer. No to a fake horse. For a horse. Forever his hair is preserved in that horse. Yeah. So beautiful. In that horse. Yeah. Wow. That hair is preserved in that horse. Well, you're visiting New York right now. Yes. And I've had been awesome. You've been like just jet setting about seeing the art that's up in the world these days. A little bit. I actually saw like an amazing question that somebody asked and we had already recorded the episode. So maybe I'll ask you the question. Yeah, sure. This was like this was a really good question. This is a little peak of what you can get on the Patreon. So true, Roxy. What is the most influential piece of art for you? That's a really, really good question. I kind of have like a little bit of a pretentious,

2:31.7

obnoxious answer. This is binge-topia. You can have a pretentious and obnoxious answer. It's fine. Like they can come for me. I don't care. I have, um, okay, so the best movie I've ever watched in the way that like it changed my life forever when I first saw it is the color of pomegranates by Sergei Perrajanov.

3:24.9

I heard amazing things about that movie.

3:40.8

Oh my God.

3:42.1

I watched it in high school and it was like everything about me changed from that moment forward. That is like to me one of the best pieces of art in the entire world. And then like I had that experience for a second time when I watched, I think it was MIR by Tarkovsky. And then like every Tarkovsky film since.

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