Regime of Convenience

Binchtopia

Julia Hava & Eliza McLamb

Society & Culture

4.8 • 2.4K Ratings

🗓️ 13 August 2025

⏱️ 92 minutes

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Summary

This week, the girlies log on to discuss the strange and somewhat evil journey of content streaming. They track the rise from radio to Napster to Netflix, expose how labels teamed up with platforms to rob artists blind, and unpack how mood playlists and background noise culture encourage you to passively consume your music, not listen to it. They also hear from binchies who have done away with streaming entirely, and talk about hopeful alternatives for finding and interacting with art you love. Digressions include: Matt Rife’s new haunting business venture, Katy Perry’s stay at the Khia Asylum, and unfortunately, hitting the Sydney Sweeney button.

This episode was produced by Julia Hava and Eliza McLamb and edited by Livi Burdette. 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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Netflix Reveals the Shows That You Binge Watched the Fastest

Netflix’s 'Skip Intro' Button Makes TV Ever More Like an App

Stream a Little Dream: How Netflix Turned Our Culture into Content

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Swedish composer becomes Spotify’s most-famous musician you’ve never heard of

The Algorithm Killed the Radio Star by Eliza McLamb

The Best Streaming Services For 2025

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The Death of the Artist—and the Birth of the Creative Entrepreneur

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This ‘secret’ composer is behind 650 fake artists on Spotify. His music has been streamed 15bn times on the platform (report)

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome to Binchotopia.
0:09.0	We hope you enjoy your stay.
0:16.0	Hi everybody, welcome back to Binchotopia.
0:18.0	Hello and welcome back.
0:20.0	I'm Julia Hava. I'm Eliza McClam.
0:22.0	If you would like to support us on Patreon, you can go to patreon.com slash Binchotopia. We just did a bonus
0:27.4	episode on the road. On the road. On the road again. And some of you may be new to Patreon because
0:32.7	you may have seen our released media show. Oh yeah. We do every month. So maybe you have joined because
0:39.7	you love the media sod, in which case, love that. Love that and you'll get fed every month from now on.
0:45.2	You absolutely will. We're looking for non-depressing news to talk about and seems to be Matt Rife
0:51.9	focused. I mean, you need to explain to me what's going on with Matt Rive.
0:55.8	The unfortunate situation is that we've arrived to a point where Matt Rife news is the
1:00.8	best we have.
1:01.3	Is the less depressing news?
1:03.1	Well, the Matt Rife news is more sort of bizarre.
1:05.7	It's that he purchased the house from the conjuring, which then also includes the Annabelle
1:10.3	doll.
1:29.2	This photo of him is so haunting. Did he shave his mustache? Is that where he looks? There's something that he looks kind of like Ellen DeGeneres. There's kind of an Ellen degenrous look to him now. Did he used to have a mustache? I think that's what it is. Maybe that's where he looks. Face. No, I think now he has a little mustache.
1:30.0	That's it.
1:33.2	But it's kind of one of those wispy little moustaches.
1:34.9	The suggestion of a mustache. And also whatever's going on with the shirt is kind of giving Ellen DeGeneres in this photo.
1:39.2	Totally.
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