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Julia's Fireside Chat *TEASER*

Binchtopia

Julia Hava & Eliza McLamb

Society & Culture

4.82.4K Ratings

🗓️ 3 December 2025

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

Julia cozies up in her childhood bedroom for her first-ever solo episode, providing a little life update from the trenches of her PhD program and giving the binchies some sage advice. Digressions include whatever the hell is going on with the Wicked cast, New York apartment vermin, and the strange comfort of magical thinking.

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0:00.0

You can never really know how anyone is doing from social media.

0:03.7

Like seriously, especially now that they have that AI Nana Banana Pro or whatever it's called,

0:08.8

you can't even distinguish AI images from reality anymore.

0:12.6

So, like, you don't know anything.

0:14.3

I just think it's a fallacy.

0:16.2

Like absolutely everybody in the world has something going on with them.

0:20.0

And trust and believe if you

0:22.1

broke up with somebody because they were struggling with really intense issues. Like those issues

0:26.0

have not disappeared. People work for years and years and years in therapy on one issue.

0:30.7

And it's slow to change. Like I would say my anxiety is still like the biggest thing I struggle

0:35.2

with. Do I still have anxiety? Yes. I've been in therapy for

0:37.9

almost 15 years. So, you know, it doesn't just go away. The stuff that's difficult that you

0:43.5

struggle with, like it doesn't go away easily. So this idea that like somebody's left you and they're

0:48.7

doing amazing and like everything's wonderful for them, like it's just not realistic. I don't think

0:53.6

that's true. They might have a

0:55.2

partner. They might have a better job. But, you know, those things we look to them because we think

1:00.4

that they'll give us a sense of how somebody's doing, that they can tell us something. You know,

1:05.5

it's kind of like an easy way to judge somebody as you look. Do they have a partner? Do they have a job? Do they look happy on

1:12.0

Instagram? And you use those indicators as signs of whether or not somebody's doing well, because it

1:16.5

feels like an easy way to tell. But the truth is, there isn't an easy way to tell. Like,

1:21.3

the happiest people on Instagram might not be happy at all in real life. But it is really hard

1:27.1

when you feel jealous or angry or

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