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This week, Julia is joined by Dr. Jack Keefe to explore parapsychology, psychic phenomena, and the mysteries of human consciousness. From ancient oracles and telepaths to experiments attempting to test psychic abilities, they explain what we know about the mind, what we still don't understand, and why we're so drawn to the possibility that there's more to reality than meets the eye. Digressions include being psychically linked to your ex boyfriend, beefing with elves in the DMT realm, and the reparative experience of seeing a UFO with your mom.
Check out Dr. Jack's website here: http://Jack-Keefe.com
This episode was produced by Julia Hava and Kylie Finnigan and edited by Livi Burdette. 
To support the podcast on Patreon and access 50+ bonus episodes, mediasodes, and more, visit patreon.com/binchtopia and become a patron today.
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Behavioral Priming: It's All in the Mind, but Whose Mind? 
Clever hands: Uncontrolled intelligence in facilitated communication 
Cognitive styles and psi: Psi researchers are more similar to skeptics than to lay believers. Frontiers in Psychology,  
Daryl Bem Proved ESP Is Real 
Derangement of the senses or alternate epistemological pathways? Altered consciousness and enhanced functioning. 
Divination in Ancient Rome 
Extra Sensory Perception; Reality or Myth
Examining psychokinesis: The interaction of human intention with random number generators--A meta-analysis. 
Facilitated Communication as an Ideomotor Response 
Facilitated Communication—what harm it can do: Confessions of a former facilitator 
False-positive psychology: Undisclosed flexibility in data collection and analysis allows presenting anything as significant.  
Feeling the future: Experimental evidence for anomalous retroactive influences on cognition and affect. 
Healthy schizotypy: the case of out-of-the-body experiences 
Implications of near-death experiences for a postmaterialist psychology. 
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Psychoanalysis and telepathic processes. 
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Sensing the presence of gods and spirits across cultures and faiths 
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The experimental evidence for parapsychological phenomena: A review. 
The History of Divination Practices: A journey through time & space 
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"The Telepathy Tapes" is Taking America by Storm. But it Has its Roots in Old Autism Controversies. 
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Traumatic childhood events, perceived availability of emotional support, and the development of dissociative tendencies 
When the truth is out there: Counseling people who report anomalous experiences.

Is our food getting shittier, literally? Join Julia and Nick as they conduct an investigation into the complicated and deeply gross history of food safety. From murderous milk and The Jungle to RFK Jr. and diarrhea lettuce, they unpack the creation of our modern food system, America's addiction to ignoring science, and how one contaminated farm can suddenly become everybody's problem. Digressions include Johnny Crunkleseed, the FDA's young hoe era, and Insect Fragments George.
This episode was produced by Julia Hava and Kylie Finnigan and edited by Livi Burdette. 
To support the podcast on Patreon and access 50+ bonus episodes, mediasodes, and more, visit patreon.com/binchtopia and become a patron today.
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In the aftermath of the Lindsay Clancy trial, Julia and Eliza lock in for an investigation of the postpartum period, exploring the seismic changes that happen to your brain and body after giving birth. The girlies trace the shocking history of postpartum care, the highly misunderstood conditions of postpartum depression and psychosis, and the abysmal state of parental leave in America. Warning — this episode will leave you mad as hell!!! Digressions include welcoming new binchie babies into the world, being freed from the psychic torture of Tyra Banks, and having empathy for bad British food.
This episode was produced by Julia Hava and Kylie Finnigan and edited by Livi Burdette. 
If you're looking for postpartum support, Postpartum Support International offers support groups, provider directories, helplines, and other resources at https://postpartum.net/.
Carriage House Birth offers postpartum support groups and other resources at https://carriagehousebirth.com/.
To support the podcast on Patreon and access 50+ bonus episodes, mediasodes, and more, visit patreon.com/binchtopia and become a patron today.
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A scoping study of postpartum mental health problems and associated factors: opportunities for research and practice
Beyond "Baby Blues"
Biological Aspects of Postpartum Depression
Brooklyn Mother Sentenced to 20 Years to Life in Prison For Killing Her Three Children
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Fact Sheet: Maternal Mental Health
From Pregnancy to Postpartum: The Dynamic Reorganization of the Maternal Brain
Google Benefits
Inequities in CPS contact between Black and White children
Maternal Mental Health Conditions and Statistics: An Overview
Matrescence: Lifetime Impact of Motherhood on Cognition and the Brain
Mother Who Drowned 3 Children at Coney Island Is Sentenced to 20 Years Drownings at Coney Island Mark the End of a Mother's Descent
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Paid Leave: State Family and Medical Leave Laws
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Postpartum Baby Blues
Postpartum anxiety is invisible, but common and treatable
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Postpartum Psychosis: Madness, Mania, and Melancholia in Motherhood
Pregnant mothers with strong family support less likely to have postpartum depression, study finds
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Protecting body and soul in medieval childbirth
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Racial Disparities in Maternal and Infant Health: Current Status and Key Issues
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The Effect of Spousal Support on Postpartum Depression and Quality of Life
The hospital and the postpartum experience: a historical analysis
The Impact of Motherhood on Women's Career Progression: A Scoping Review of Evidence-Based Interventions
The Important Role of Partner Support in Women's Mental Disorders During the Perinatal Period. A Literature Review
The Intimate History of Confinement
The Landscape of Parental Leave-Taking in the United States
The phenomenology of postpartum psychosis: preliminary findings from the Massachusetts General Hospital Postpartum Psychosis Project
Understanding Infanticide in Context: Mothers Who Kill, 1870-1930 and Today
Waffle House Careers
What are Postpartum and Perinatal OCD?
What data does the BLS publish on family leave?
When can I go back to work after having a baby?
Who is Andrea Yates? A Short Story About Insanity
Women Should Rest for a Month After Childbirth—Myth or Fact?
Women With Postpartum Depression Experienced Brain Changes During Pregnancy, Study Finds

Binchtopia is on a little post-tour vacation this week, so we're releasing this healing episode from the vault This episode was originally released on March 25, 2026 as a Patreon exclusive. Become a patron today to support the show, keep us ad-free, and unlock our backlog of 50+ bonus episodes at patreon.com/binchtopia.

Julia is joined by Carina Hsieh, Deputy Features Editor at Women's Health and the writer widely credited with inventing the term "situationship," to revisit the term's origins and assess the current state of modern dating. They trace the history of dating from courtship and going steady to hookup culture and dating apps, unpack the anxious-avoidant trap, and examine whether dating advice reels, and other online rules actually protect women from heartbreak or just give them more ways to blame themselves. Digressions include the bygone thrill of being pinned, men who self-report as securely attached, and the horror of buying a cheater a PS5 with your own money.
Check out more of Carina's writing at Women's Health and follow her on Instagram @carinahsieh!
WE'RE GOING ON TOUR!!!! Find tickets for the Shake Up Your Life Tour at https://binchtopia.com/tour
This episode was produced by Julia Hava and Kylie Finnigan and edited by Livi Burdette.