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If He Wanted to Wiretap You He Would

Binchtopia

Julia Hava & Eliza McLamb

Society & Culture

4.82.4K Ratings

🗓️ 14 May 2025

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Summary

The girlies are back for part two of the immigration series to unpack our modern-day McCarthyism. Starting with a recap of current events (aka The Horrible Things Update), they pick up where they left off in history, discussing Japanese internment, the second Red Scare, post-9/11 surveillance, and how fear of the 'other' has always justified oppression. Digressions include Khloe Kardashian’s venture into protein dust and the comforting fact that, as of today, sunlight is still legal to experience.

We’re going on tour!!!! Find tickets at https://linktr.ee/binchtopia 

This episode was produced by Julia Hava and Eliza McLamb and edited by Allison Hagan. Research assistance from Kylie Finnigan.

To support the podcast on Patreon and access 50+ bonus episodes, mediasodes, zoom hangouts and more, visit patreon.com/binchtopia and become a patron today.

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At $5 Million Each, 1000 ‘Gold Card’ Visas Have Been Sold. Could This Pay Off The US Debt?

Ask a Historian: How Many Japanese Americans Were Incarcerated During WWII?

Columbia University agrees to policy changes after Trump administration funding threats

Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians

Counterintelligence and Access to Transactional Records: A Practical History of USA PATRIOT Act Section 215

Eighty Years After the U.S. Incarcerated 120,000 Japanese Americans, Trauma and Scars Still Remain 

Edward Snowden: the whistleblower behind the NSA surveillance revelations

Edward Snowden Speaks Out: 'I Haven't And I Won't' Cooperate With Russia

Fact check: Is Tren de Aragua invading the US, as Trump says?

Florida lawmakers push legislation to weaken child labor laws 

Forced to live in horse stalls. How one of America’s worst injustices played out at Santa Anita

Harvard Renames Diversity Office As Trump Demands Dismantling of DEI

Harvard, Under Pressure, Revamps D.E.I. Office

Harvard Will Not Fund Affinity Group Graduation Celebrations Following Ed Department Warning 

Higher education, federal government ‘intimately connected’

History of the Certificate of Citizenship, 1790–1956

Hollywood Ten

How U.S. immigration laws and rules have changed through history

HUAC  

ICE Arrests Nearly 800 in Florida in Operation With Local Officers

ICE deported 3 children who are U.S. citizens, their families’ lawyers say  

Immigration and Naturalization in the Western Tradition

Invocation of the Alien Enemies Act Regarding the Invasion of The United States by Tren De Aragua

Japanese Internment Camps

Judge Blocks Deportations of Venezuelans Under Wartime Law

Law from the 1950s may play role in Columbia University student deportation case  

Maryland judge orders return of second man deported to El Salvador in violation of court order 

McCarran Internal Security Act of 1950 (1950)

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McCarthyism and the Red Scare

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National Security Entry-Exit Registration System

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PATRIOT Act   

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The Alien Enemies Act, Explained

The Alien Enemies Act Is a Weak Argument for Deportation

The Alien Enemies Act Paved the Way for Japanese American Incarceration. Let’s Keep It in the Past.

The Alien Enemies Act: The One Alien and Sedition Act Still on the Books

The case of Edward Snowden

This Is What Detention Under the Alien Enemies Act Looked Like in World War II

Truman’s Loyalty Program

Trump is promising deportations under the Alien Enemies Act of 1798. What is it?

Trump May Seek Judicial Oversight of Columbia, Potentially for Years 

Trump officials issue quotas to ICE officers to ramp up arrests

U.S. Immigration Timeline

Venezuela minister says no Tren de Aragua members among US deportees

When John Adams Signed a Law to Authorize Deportations and Jail Critics

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to Binchotopia.

0:09.0

We hope you enjoy your stay.

0:15.0

Hi everybody, welcome back to Binchotopia.

0:17.0

Hello and welcome back.

0:18.0

I'm Julia Hava.

0:19.0

I'm Eliza McClam.

0:20.0

And we're going on tour. We're going on tour, you guys. We're doing kind of a different tour than we've done before. We're doing a summer sleepover tour. If you like our vibe reports, it's going to be like a vibe report live. Yes, that's actually so true. I hadn't thought of it that way, but you're so right. Yes. It's going to be

0:37.7

sort of like an intimate experience. We may even sit for some of it. We may even sit, which is huge.

0:42.3

Which is crazy. It's going to be some things if you've been to our live, live,

0:44.9

some storytelling, but also some gossiping. Yeah. Some live laugh loving. We're trying to simulate

0:51.5

as though we could all have one big sleepover together.

0:54.9

Beautiful gorgeous sleepover.

0:56.0

Across multiple nights, across multiple cities.

0:57.6

Those cities being, I'm going to say the dates and the cities, we will make sure that

1:01.5

you are not being charged crazy prices for tickets.

1:03.8

Yes.

1:04.2

The dates and the cities are July 13th, D.C. July 17th, we will be in Philly, July 20th and

1:10.4

21st will be in Chicago. July 30th, we will be in Philly, July 20th, and 21st will be in Chicago.

1:12.2

July 30th, we'll be in Boston. And then we're rounding it out August 9th and 10th in New

1:17.0

York. We are so excited, guys. I'm excited to go back to Chicago. I'm so not to hate on the

1:22.5

other cities, but we did have a great time in Chicago and we didn't get to go back last year. I know. We're excited to go to Chicago.

1:28.3

Oh, also, once again, if you would like to get more bonus episodes from us, you can go

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