About this podcast
Rehash: The podcast about the social media phenomenons that strike a nerve in our culture, only to be quickly forgotten - but we think are due for a revisiting.
Hosted by Maia (Broey Deschanel) and Hannah Raine
Find us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/rehashpodcast
Episodes
The newest 50 of 93 episodes
- Co-Star · 1 h 2 minHave a conversation about astrology without descending into solipsistic navel-gazing challenge? Impossible. In this episode, Hannah and Maia fail this task at every turn as they…
- LessWrong · 1 h 21 minWhat if Greatness in the wizarding world is not achieved by a mastery of magic, but of being really good at reasoning and rationality? Such is the discovery of Harry Potters…
- Perez Hilton (teaser) · 7 minYou’re twelve. You just got back from a horrific pool party where the boys made fun of your swimsuit. You also just got the news that Michael Jackson died. How are you going to…
- Tasteslop ft. Polyester (bonus) · 30 minCan AI have taste? Such is the question trend forecaster Emily Segal, progenitor of “normcore,” set out to ask in a recent Substack post. In her comprehension breakdown of the…
- Polymarket (teaser) · 6 minImagine a world where you can bet on anything. Celebrity breakups? Bet. Oil prices changing with the winds? Bet on it. Foreign leaders deposed seemingly out of nowhere? Bet on…
- Ashley Madison · 1 h 1 minShakespeare, Picasso, Tom Sandoval… what do these luminaries have in common? Well, reader. They were cheaters. Adultery has been a flash point on the internet for some time now…
- The Bop House · 57 minSex has become so ubiquitous online that now men pay NOT to see it. One of the internet’s recent perplexities is one such case: The Bop House, a hype house inhabited a bunch of…
- Kink at Pride · 1 h 18 minEvery year around June a debate emerges on Twitter that provokes the entire internet into a collective groan: Should kink be allowed at pride? Those who want to ban kink from the…
- Thirst Traps · 1 h 2 minWe know what boys like, we know what guys want. And that is plausible deniability. Out of the diaristic “artful nudes” of 2010s body positivity, to the horny-on-main boredom of…
- Seeking Arrangements · 58 minToday, male virgins inject peptides into their asses, dissociate on Kick, and disavow women. But twenty years ago, they simply took matters into their own hands and developed…
- Bonnie Blue · 1 h 7 minIt didn’t seem possible, but Britain has finally found a woman more reviled than Queen Camila Parker Bowles. With the face of a Love Island contestant and the business savvy of…
- Gooners (ft. Daniel Kolitz) · 1 h 14 minImagine: a reality where p*rn becomes so ubiquitous it invents its own sexuality. Just kidding, you’re living it. If you live under a rock and haven’t stumbled across Daniel…
- Clavicular · 1 h 8 min · Season 9 Episode 1Clavicular. The James Joyce of incel forums. The icarus of looksmaxxing. The Truman Burbank of Kick. The sleep paralysis bouncer of every fifteen year old’s dreams. The sex…
- Italian Brainrot (teaser) · 5 minFrom the anus of TikTok comes a version of slop so wacky, so delightfully dumb, so… Italian (???), that its managed to win the hearts of every iPad kid around the world…
- Emojis · 1 h 4 minBorn from a Japanese tech arms race and immortalized in Fred Benenson’s 2009 masterwork “Emoji Dick,” the emoji has become a staple of the way we communicate. Such that the…
- Hacktivism · 55 minCall them what you will: hactivists, cypherpunks, phone phreaks, e-bandits… these digital vigilantes may be the last bastions of hope in an Information Age where information is…
- Subtweeting · 57 minSubtweeting, or “the audible sigh of the internet,” if you will, was Twitter’s answer to WASPish passive aggression. Now, people had a platform in which they could…
- Memes · 1 h 3 min · Season 8 Episode 6“Oi Mista! You me dad?” …The evocative phrase heard around the world thanks to a beautiful little thing called memes. As per one definition by evolutionary biologist Richard…
- Chain Mail · 1 h 10 min · Season 8 Episode 4Everyone’s always saying “whatever happened to community”… yet no one passes along our chain mail. Chain mail is everyone’s least favourite thing to find in their inbox - an…
- Is Having a Boyfriend Embarrassing? (TEASER) · 2 minEver since British Vogue asked the rather incendiary question, “is having a boyfriend embarrassing?” the internet has been up in arms. With an astonishing number of people who…
- AI Boyfriends (ft. Internet Anthropology) · 1 h 20 min · Season 8 Episode 3Isn’t it so annoying when your partner can’t be therapist, lover, parent, and nutritionist all at once? Enter…ChatGPT! After a somewhat inflammatory study released by the…
- Notes App Apologies · 1 h 4 min · Season 8 Episode 2When Ariana Grande apologized for licking a doughnut in a doughnut shop display ten years ago, she had no idea she would be changing the world forever. Using the familiar notes…
- Creeping · 1 h 1 minThere is no greater candidate for a job with the FBI… than a woman with a crush. A recent study found that Gen Z and Millennials have “alarmingly relaxed attitudes towards online…
- TEASER: Taylor and Travis · 5 minTaylor Swift has entered a new era: Wifey. Rather than take a (much needed) vacation following her world tour, she’s announced not only a forthcoming album but also a forthcoming…
- Sabrina Carpenter's Album Cover [teaser] · 9 minIn a time where Sydney Sweeney is spreading her legs for a popular clothing retailer in the name of eugenics, it’s not so far-fetched to imagine that Sabrina Carpenter would also…
- Facetune · 1 h 16 min · Season 7 Episode 8Why isn’t “airbrushed skin for all” written in the constitution? For years, photoshop was a professional’s game, gatekept, if you will, from the masses. But then Facetune came…
- Glossier · 1 h 9 minFor those of us whose “smokey eye” and “blending” skills fell short during the beauty guru makeup regime, Glossier was our saviour. Founded by “super intern” Emily Weiss (who has…
- The BBL · 48 min · Season 7 Episode 6In 2021, a flight to Atlanta was delayed for two hours to accomodate for 24 wheelchair-bound women who had just received a little procedure known as the Brazilian Butt Lift…
- Baby Botox · 1 h 8 min · Season 7 Episode 5People have been trying to reverse the effects of aging since ancient times, and bored rich people have been trying to live forever since, well…forever. But historically the…
- Kibbe Body Types · 1 h 5 min · Season 7 Episode 4From the man who introduced self love, and even “love itself,” to the beauty and fashion industries, David Kibbe, comes a scale which can determine the very essence of a person…
- Looksmaxxing · 1 h 1 min · Season 7 Episode 3Beauty is not in the eye of the beholder, but rather in the eyes of 500 sl*ts who hold all society’s power and privileges. At least, according to incels. In this episode, Hannah…
- Skinnytok · 1 h 0 min · Season 7 Episode 2Liv Schmidt is a 24-year-old “health and wellness” coach who puts a populist spin on pro-ana content! She’s loud, rude, and ready to take our feeds by storm one almond at a time…
- Mar-A-Lago Face (ft. Biz Sherbert) · 58 min · Season 7 Episode 1The faces of women in the Republican Party have changed drastically, and people have noticed. As the likes of Kristy Noem and Kimberly Guilfoyle become ever-pouchier…
- K-pop Stans (teaser) · 6 minEver since Seo Taiji and Boys broke onto the scene in their baggy overalls back in 1992, Korea has been working to cast as wide a cultural net as possible on the world stage…
- Hypebeasts (teaser) · 5 min · Season 4 Episode 9Who said men can’t have hobbies? The world certainly did a few years ago, when hypebeasts seemed to dominate every sidewalk of every shopping district in just about every city…
- Homesteaders · 1 h 11 minNate Petroski is an off-the-grid recluse who has a girlfriend he met online, millions of fans all across the country, and a bespoke beard-oil brand. Something isn’t adding up…
- Seapunks · 59 min · Season 6 Episode 7You don’t know what seapunk is. We don’t know what seapunk is. Even seapunks don’t know what seapunk is. Well at least, most of them don’t. It all started with a guy named Lil’…
- Deadheads · 1 h 18 min · Season 6 Episode 6Whip out your tie-dye t-shit and skull-patterned socks, because it’s time to talk about the Grateful Dead. Or, rather, their die-hard, multigenerational, technologically…
- Weebs · 1 h 0 min · Season 6 Episode 5Weebs… and the people who hate them. Japan has always had a distinctive relationship with the West. But ever since it broke out on the global stage with its “gross national cool”…
- Murderinos · 1 h 7 min · Season 6 Episode 4Ever since Serial burst onto the scene back in 2015 , it birthed not only the world of podcasting itself, but an entire cottage industry of true crime podcasts, each one more…
- Emos · 1 h 7 min · Season 6 Episode 3If you never made your FB profile picture that “I made you a cookie, but I eated it :(“ meme in 2008, were you even living? In this episode, Hannah and Maia recall the long lost…
- Disney Adults · 1 h 13 min · Season 6 Episode 2Ever heard of the Disney theme park for adults called “Pleasure Island”? No? Well now you have - sorry! Disney has always been understood as a company for children. But Pleasure…
- Furries · 1 h 0 min · Season 6 Episode 1“Grandma, would you tell us that old adage again?” “Yes dears. A long time ago, your ancestors used to say: if all the computers in the world shut down, it’s because the furries…
- E-girls (bonus episode) · 56 min"She knows what she's doing". In this special release of a 2023 bonus episode, Hannah and Maia discuss the elusive "e-Girl" and how, beyond the blushed nose, winged liner…
- SSENSE (teaser) · 5 min · Season 5 Episode 10Once upon a time, there was a place you could go on the internet to buy all the strangest fruits that fashion’s best and brightest had to offer. Now, you’re more likely to hit it…
- Selfies (TEASER) · 4 min · Season 5 Episode 9When “selfie” was deemed the word of the year in 2013, people freaked it. How had society become so vapid? Were we all narcissists? Did this mean young people would spend all the…
- NFTs · 1 h 1 min · Season 5 Episode 8If you’ve ever vacantly nodded along while someone rants to you about NFTs, then this finale episode is for you. Welcome to Blockchain for Bimbos. From a genuine effort to put…
- "Balletcore" · 1 h 20 min · Season 5 Episode 7Considering every broad and her mother owns a pair of ballet flats these days, it’s safe to say ballet has successfully re-infiltrated popular culture. But that might not be a…
- Party Girl · 1 h 0 min · Season 5 Episode 6If you're enjoying the Parker Posey-aissance, then Party Girl is the film for you. This little freak of a movie, about a Manhattan club-goer who experiences an existential crisis…
- Hamilton · 1 h 29 min · Season 5 Episode 5Hamilton: the musical that launched a thousand lip-biting memes. Almost a decade ago, Lin Manuel Miranda’s race-bending rap-sical took broadway by storm and rose to unprecedented…
