This week, Julia is joined by Allegra to investigate the enduring, mythical appeal of the music festival. From medieval carnivals to Woodstock, and Coachella brand trips to FYRE fest, the girlies explore the human desire to build temporary utopias — and how festival outcomes range from communal transcendence and PLUR to corporate-branded slop and FEMA-level weather events. Digressions include Billie Eilish starring in The Bell Jar for some reason, the ouroborous of influencer video essays, and Allegra's parents getting matching plastic surgery on her birthday.

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SOURCES

19 Worst Things About Woodstock '99

After the Astroworld Disaster, a Reckoning

Altamont : the Rolling Stones, the Hells Angels, and the inside story of rock's darkest day

Bakhtinian thought : an introductory reader

Burning Man: how a festival became a culture

Castlemorton 1992, the rave that triggered the ban

Castlemorton Common: The rave that changed the law

Criminal Justice & Public Order Act 1994, s.63 ("repetitive beats")

Crowds and Collective Behavior Get access Arrow

Dancing in the Streets: A History of Collective Joy

From Woodstock to Coachella: The ultimate music festivals

FYRE: The Greatest Party That Never Happened

Half a Million Strong: Crowds and Power from Woodstock to Coachella by Gina Arnold

Impact: From riots to crowd safety

'It was the peak of the flower power era': The story of the first ever Glastonbury Festival in 1970

How Music Festivals Became a Massive Business in the 50 Years Since Woodstock

Juggalos & the FBI "hybrid gang" label

Live Aid (1985)

Live Music in America: A History from Jenny Lind to Beyoncé

Lollapalooza's rise (Perry Farrell's acid precognition)

Monterey Pop

Murder at the Altamont Festival

Rabelais and His World

The Ritual Process: Structure and Anti-Structure

Of Other Spaces

The Oral History of Monterey Pop, Where Jimi Torched His Ax & Janis Became a Star: Art Garfunkel, Steve Miller, Lou Adler & More

Remembering Meredith Hunter

Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)

Trainwreck: Woodstock '99

The Elementary Forms of Religious Life

The Music Festival That Time Forgot: Inside Steve Wozniak's US Fest

The Night Bob Dylan Went Electric

The Sacred and the Profane

The Society of the Spectacle

"This Film Was My Chance to Correct History": Questlove on Summer of Soul and the Oscars

The Pop Festival: History, Music, Media, Culture

Woodstock '99 Predicted America's Future

Woodstock 1999 Ends in Violence

Wattstax (1972), the "Black Woodstock"

Wattstax drew 100,000 people — this 1972 concert was about much more than music

What's behind the decline of music festivals?

Without Helicopters, There Wouldn't Have Been a Woodstock

Woodstock: 3 Days of Peace & Music

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In honor of Pride Month, Binchtopia's lesbian correspondent Aliza joins Julia to open the loveline for exclusively sapphic dilemmas. Together, the girlies address lesbian horrors including falling for your D&D teammate, having a platonically shirtless sleepover with your bestie, and finding out the girl you're in love with has has a hideous back tattoo. Digressions include surviving the Subaru allegations, a new psychological diagnosis for boring people, and considering whether straight men have the capacity to yearn.

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Julia and Eliza reconvene for a long-overdue Girlboss Summit where they discuss two iconic indigenous women who survived by any means necessary: La Malinche and Sacagawea. Together the girlies explore the forgotten role of female translators in building the New World and investigate the fine line between traitor and victim. Digressions include society's rampant Michael Jackson psychosis, concert makeout etiquette, and celebs who are immune to being Woman'd.

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SOURCES

La Malinche by Carmen Tafolla

Malinche by Rosario Castellanos

Malintzin's Choices by Camilla Townsend

The Westerners: Mythmaking and Belonging on the American Frontier by Megan Kate Nelson

Traitor, Survivor, Icon: The Legacy of La Malinche

Julia and Nick explore the dark side of shaking up your life — because sometimes, the shake TAKETH! From accidental military enlistment to having a warrant out for your arrest, they tell the stories of tremendous flops and binchies who rose from the ashes. Digressions include Nick's failed attempt at heterosexuality, a horrifying clown-centric production of Moby Dick, and Kaitlin Bennett x Soho House.

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Julia is back with another solo episode to address some of your most pressing dilemmas: Should I convert to Mormonism for a man? Is beefing with my therapist warranted? Can I quit my job and be a stay at home girlfriend? Digressions include hearing out Clavicular, the abhorrent return of heroin chic, and RHORI providing some much needed diva representation.

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Julia is joined by cacklers Nick and Chase for their very first venture into the cursed depths of Reddit's Am I The Asshole. Horrors include: a husband's mysterious gaycation to Ibiza, a black market Labubu deal, a fuckboi horse with navy blue hay, and a man who is enchanted by his server's gongerous scalp. Plus, Chase's formative years herding sheep in Arizona, the sacred right to be rude at work, and personal legal drama… ALLEGEDLY!

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Julia is joined by cacklers Nick and Chase for another descent into Am I The Asshole and your IDGAF workplace moments. Essential questions include: can I neuter my neighbor's cat if he's wearing a Cuban link? What if Sky Ferreira drops an album while my wife is giving birth? At what point can one be jealous of a horse? And so much more!

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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.

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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

OFFICIALS EXPLAIN WAR SAVINGS PLAN; McAdoo and Vanderlip Open $2,000,000,000 Campaign at "Frugality Dinner." DIRECTORS THEIR GUESTS Speakers Predict National Response to the Appeals of These Patriotic Business Leaders.

Pierre Bourdieu, Distinction, A Social Critique on the Judgement of Taste, 1984

Prospect Theory: An Analysis of Decision under Risk

Pushbutton Magic - 1948

The Age of Enshittification

The Waste Makers

Toward a Throw-Away Culture. Consumerism, 'Style Obsolescence' and Cultural Theory in the 1950s and 1960s

Understaffing as a form of enshittification

1956 Frigidaire Refrigerator ice box Commercial

Julia and Eliza finally confront the question: is Ronald Reagan responsible for all the world's evils? To investigate, the girlies delve into Reaganomics, the groundbreaking idea to give rich people more money, and trace how its legacy has trickled down into the capitalist swamp we all wade through today. The girlies also examine Reagan's abysmal impact on human life including his murderously indifferent AIDS response, his systematic defunding of welfare, his IDGAF environmental policies, and many other evils. Digressions include Eliza's upcoming consultation with a pet psychic, Australians getting mad at vowels, and a callback to Nancy the throat goat.

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ADDITIONAL READINGS

Dark Alliance: The CIA, the Contras, and the Crack Cocaine Explosion

How a Historian Uncovered Ronald Reagan's Racist Remarks to Richard Nixon

Killing Asylum: How Decades of U.S. Policy Ravaged Central America

Ronald Reagan Made Central America a Killing Field

The Cold War 's Last Battlefield: Reagan, the Soviets and Central America

THE IRAN-CONTRA REPORT: Chronology; After 13 Years of Hide-and-Seek, a Bitter Chapter of U.S. History Ends

The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander

The war on drugs, explained

When Oliver North avoided prison time for his role in the Iran-contra scandal

You're Wrong About Podcast: Iran-Contra

SOURCES

A Timeline of HIV and AIDS

A troublesome legacy: The Reagan Administration's conservation and renewable energy policy

A Snapshot of Federal Student Loan Debt

Actor's Illness Helped Reagan To Grasp AIDS, Doctor Says

Aid To Dependent Children: The Legal History

Conservative Transition in American Social Policy

Decades of Distortion: The Right's 30-year Assault on Welfare

FAIRNESS OF REAGAN'S CUTOFFS OF DISABILITY AID QUESTIONED

How Ronald Reagan's Time at General Electric Pushed Him to Conservatism

How Ronald Reagan Tried to Shrink Government Spending

Looking Back On When President Reagan Fired The Air Traffic Controllers

Presidential Approval Ratings — Gallup Historical Statistics and Trends

Proposed cuts to public housing threaten a repeat of the 1980s' housing crisis

Reaganomics and the Welfare State

Reagan Administration's Chilling Response to the AIDS Crisis

Ronald Reagan and the Commitment of the Mentally Ill

REAGAN DEFENDS FINANCING FOR AIDS

Reagan, Deregulation and America's Exceptional Rise in Health Care Costs

Reagan Order Defines Drug Trade as Security Threat, Widens Military Role

Reagan Was a Disaster for the Labor Movement. A Second Trump Term Could Be Worse.

Republicans view Reagan, Trump as best recent presidents

Ronald Reagan and the Politics of Declining Union Organization

Ronald Reagan From the People's Perspective: A Gallup Poll Review

Ronald Reagan Has Shaped U.S. Labor Law for Decades

Ronald Reagan's Legacy: The Rise of Student Loan Debt in America

Ronald Reagan: Life Before the Presidency

Ronald Reagan on economics and political parties, 1962

Ronald Reagan's shameful legacy: Violence, the homeless, mental illness

The ideas in Project 2025? Reagan tried them, and the nation suffered

The Origin of Student Debt: Reagan Adviser Warned Free College Would Create a Dangerous "Educated Proletariat"

The Reagan Administration's Budget Cuts: Their Impact on the Poor

'The Reagans': TV Review.

The Shadow of Ronald Reagan Is Costing Us Dearly

The Welfare Queen

Who Is Receiving Social Safety Net Benefits?

Will History Repeat Itself? Like Reagan's Repeal of Carter's Achievements in Advancing Solar Energy, Will Trump Kill Biden's?.

Why Are Workers Struggling? Because Labor Law Is Broken

Join Julia and Nick in the desert at sunset as they recap the shrooms trip that finally healed them. Digressions include having extreme horse experience, society carrying the weight of Drake's pain, and the life affirming beauty of feeling it all. Plus, a crucial addendum recorded after Realizing Things on horseback.

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