Enshitted on 'Em
Binchtopia
Julia Hava & Eliza McLamb
4.8 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 15 April 2026
⏱️ 90 minutes
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Summary
Is everything getting worse? Well, yes! Julia and Nick break down enshittification, planned obsolescence, and the long history of things being made worse on purpose. From disposable culture to Facebook AI slop, they break down how we've all been conditioned to waste our time and money while being trained to expect basically nothing in return. Digressions include the implications of boyfriends entering the girls' rag hang unannounced, a brief stay in frog paradise, and the AI fridge that watches your baby.
This episode was produced by Julia Hava and Kylie Finnigan and edited by Livi Burdette.
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SOURCES
Enshittification by Cory Doctorow
How the Deadly 1918 Flu Pandemic Brought Dixie Cups to Easton
Made to Break: Technology and Obsolescence in America by Giles Slade
Pierre Bourdieu, Distinction, A Social Critique on the Judgement of Taste, 1984
Prospect Theory: An Analysis of Decision under Risk
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Binchotopia. We hope you enjoy your stay. |
| 0:17.2 | Hi everybody. Welcome back to Binchotopia. I'm Julia Hava and I'm here with Nick. |
| 0:21.7 | Hey. Hey. You guys, before we get into the episode, Nick and I have been doing some major healing on Patreon. |
| 0:28.6 | We've had some large personal journeys. Some large personal journeys. Our new bonus episode, |
| 0:34.4 | the episode of Unfathomable Healing, is out now on Patreon where we talk about |
| 0:38.3 | the Shrooms trip that actually did heal us. Yeah. We finally got our healing. We finally got our healing done. People are calling it Traumageddon part three, but it's actually Healageddon. Yeah. So Healageddon is up there for you guys. We also just did a brand new What the Hell sure with all the news from this month. |
| 0:54.8 | We're going to be posting clips of that on Patreon for free. |
| 0:57.6 | So even if you're not You guys, we also just did a brand new What the Hell Shore with all the news from this month. |
| 0:55.0 | We're going to be posting clips of that on Patreon for free. |
| 0:57.7 | So even if you're not a patron, you can still see the clips. |
| 1:00.2 | Nick and I took ourselves in a retreat to Joshua Tree. |
| 1:03.2 | We had a beautiful, wonderful time. |
| 1:05.9 | And when that episode was recorded, we had just done the healing. |
| 1:09.1 | And something that Sandy famously told us |
| 1:11.3 | many years ago at our Traumageddon experience is that the healings will unfold over time. |
| 1:15.6 | Yeah. Healings have unfolded over the course of weeks since that episode has come out. So I just |
| 1:20.1 | want to give some updates on like some of the healings that have happened since that episode actually |
| 1:25.4 | has been recorded. Sandy's promise came true. Sandy's promise came true. A lot of healing on my end. I'm currently in a shake, you guys. I'm shaking. I'm announcing the shake. I'm announcing the shake. I'm going public. I'm going public with my shake. And remember, if the shaking persists, seek medical attention. No shame in that. No shame in that. But if the shaking is just unfolding, |
| 1:46.1 | that's different. Yeah. If it's a great unfolding, it's a great unfolding. And also I've |
| 1:50.4 | technically prepared for the shake for a long time. But after our trip, I've really gained the |
| 1:57.4 | confidence that like I will always be okay. Yeah. Like I like stopped making decisions out |
| 2:02.6 | of fear and like I just I was like I trust myself like I'm going to be okay. I in less than two |
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