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Hello content fans! Let's start the day off right with some pop culture convos. How about the explosive new Paul Thomas Anderson film, a much-maligned activist and getting back together with your ex? First (and with no major spoilers we promise!) One Battle After Another, where Leonardo Di Caprio plays Bob, a washed up revolutionary who has to dust off his go-bag and try to remember his code words...

This is an emergency broadcast from the EIC newsroom, on the third of October 2025 Taylor Swift released her twelfth studio album, The Life Of A Show Girl. Here at EIC headquarters we had been warming to Taylor after a collective indifference, but it seems we may have potentially picked a bad time to enSwifticate ourselves. TLOAS tracks were leaked just before release, and immediately, the drama b...

Hello Content Pups, strap in, seatbelts ON, we're going on a content road trip. This week on the podcast we’re talking about Emma Watson’s Jay Shetty interview (and the subsequent fall out), the way that GLP-1S, have democratised thinness - and what that means for body trends, and perhaps the biggest divorce in recent pop culture history  It's been a hefty week for celeb and pop culture stori...

Happy Wednesday EICollective! This week we're getting high and mighty in a conversation about whether making elitist attitudes unfashionable has actually harmed the culture. As Rachel Aroesti investigated in a recent piece for The Guardian... in an era of AI slop and mid TV, is it time for cultural snobbery to make a comeback?  With your help we puzzle over issues of misogyny and classism in...

Happy EIChicks! It's Friday, which means we're attempting to sail through the sea of Tiktok trends, mass hysteria and major headlines... This week on the podcast, we’re diving into why parts of TikTok were prepping for an apocalypse this week, America’s dystopian censorship of Jimmy Kimmell and queuing in pubs – should you? Thank you so much for your love thus far. You can follow us @everythi...

Pop your card into the EIC-ATM and get ready to withdraw some content- because this week we're talking all about the rise of "cute debt" and whether buy-now-pay-later schemes are really targeting the girls. In a recent piece for The Atlantic, Annie Joy Williams explores how female shoppers are being heavily marketed to by the likes of Klarna and Afterpay, who are drawing on fun, girly aesthetics t...

Happy Friday to all who celebrate. This week we’re serving up part two of our two part friendship deep dive, first discussing affirmation culture and how avoiding tough love can rob us of growth within relationships. Then we get into the meat of modern friendship and how influencers can further the idea that we're all better alone. Finally we ask whether we think more people should consider reinve...

Kisses from EIC – we're back with a spicy episode... The Bop House is a content creator house made up of OnlyFans creators with 3.6m subscribers on TikTok. They’ve had tonnes of controversy because lots of the creators who range from 18-24 exaggerate their baby faces and present what some say is a barely legal fantasy with braces they don't need, girly voices and cartoon PJs. Are they the natural...

Happy Friday EIC-heads, this week on the podcast we’re delivering part one of our two part friendship deep dive, sharing our favourite fictional friendships, before discussing how friendships change as we get older and the myth of being a low-maintenance mate.  From low maintenance and medium friends to friendship and motherhood, how does the modern world shape our friendships, and how do we...

Hello QTS, we're back with a not very cute subject, let's go to the dark side... Last week we read a piece on Substack called “We Have To Talk about Dark Romance” by Stella Tate, in which she grapples with a problematic literary genre. Dark romance, for anyone not aware, is a subgenre of romance literature, that features characters, relationships and dynamics that are typically taboo in other genr...

EIC school is in session – get your notebooks out! This week on the podcast we’re tackling Elizabeth Gilbert’s wild promo ride for her new memoir All the Ways to the River, which is out on 9th September. As part of it she shared some excerpts for The Cut in a long read titled, ‘My Once-in-a-Million-Years Love Story When my best friend was diagnosed with cancer, I promised to be there until the end...

Hello EIC heads, happy Wednesday, happy September, and happy Everything In Conversation day... Earlier this month Niamh Duffy wrote a Substack titled, ‘I’ve protected my peace so much, I’ve accidentally made myself boring.’ She writes, ‘I’ve been so busy safeguarding my mental health and pruning my life of stress that I seem to have pruned myself of… fun. I’m not even sure I remember how to have i...

Happy EICelebrations! This week on the podcast we've got... an analysis of the backlash to Millie Bobby Brown's adoption, our review of Netflix's latest reality TV retrospective and Celine Song's love triangle romcom The Materialists.  Thank you so much for listening. Could you please gift us a review on Apple or Spotify and vote for us in  the British Podcast Awards  <3 xxxxxx I...

A dream guest has joined the EIC studios... this week we're joined by actor, singer and dancer Alyson Stoner. Any child of the 90s and 00s will have grown up with Alyson on their screens. They were in Step Up, Cheaper By The Dozen, The Suite Life of Zack and Cody and Camp Rock and have since become a sharp analyst on the fame and the entertainment industry online. They've just released a memoir of...

TGIF from EIC! Let's just get into it, shall we? The first episode of Real Housewives of London aired this week and so of course, we're discussing it. What do we make of the franchise's latest crop of rich, glamorous and fiery women? Could this series hold a candle to earlier iterations or are British sensibilities too... sensible? Up next, the potential impact of weight loss drugs on restaurants...

Roll up, roll up! The EICircus is in town and for this week's extra episode we're discussing Molly Mae and the epidemic of mum shaming. Since having her daughter Bambi in 2023, the influencer Molly Mae Hague has been at the epicentre of all kind's of scrutiny, and perhaps never more so than when she candidly shared her frustration at having done "nothing fun" all summer. Does a multi millionaire g...

Hello EIC kittens, we're back with a brand new episode!    Katie Price is one of the UK's most famous reality stars and continues to dominate the tabloids today. Her daughter, Princess, is following in her parents' footsteps with a new reality series centred around her.    TikTok's latest viral storytime hinges on a woman claiming to have fallen in love with her psychiatri...

Welcome to your Wednesday dose of content! It’s giving Baywatch meets Taken... Pamela Anderson and Liam Neeson met while filming the 2025 reboot of The Naked Gun. For Vogue, Raven Smith writes, Why We're So In Love with Pam and Liam; ‘There’s an overarching feeling like Pamela Anderson is out of fucks. After years of pursuing a manicured perfection, she finally feels at home in her own skin—and sh...

Happy Friday EICers, this week on the podcast we’re talking about the sequel 20 years in the making, the end of Sex and the City, and the new beginnings for nostalgic music. First up, Freakier Friday, which is out TODAY! We were lucky enough to go to a screening on Monday and we did our best to not discuss the film until the record. 22 years after  Freaky Friday , Anna Coleman has become a mu...

Happy extra episode day for everything with a pulse and a podcast player app! This week we're diving into the depths of discourse... yes, Sydney Sweeney's genes/jeans. Is this a play for the American right-wing media, an orchestrated infamous marketing move or worse – just stupid? We answer this with your help and determine why Sydney Sweeney riles up the masses so much. Thank you for listening to...

Happy Friday EICers, settle in we've got some problems to solve...this week on the podcast, we’re talking about the problem with personal essays, and the trouble with wanting men. For The Bookseller, Caroline O'Donoghue wrote a piece titled 'up close and personal: Why are female authors asked to bare their souls to promote their books?'. She writes 'My 25-year-old self wrote about her smear t...

Welcome weary podcast traveller! Time to take a seat, kick off your dusty sandals and voyage with us, your hosts, into the murky land of digital nomad discourse. In a recent piece for The Guardian US, freelance journalist and former digital nomad Emily Bratt explores the less glamourous side of island hopping and beach bar working. She writes: " Somewhere around the midway mark of my most recent s...

Oi Oi! It's a brand new episode of EIC. This week, we weighed in on the fiery-hot online response to the tech CEO and colleague caught canoodling at Coldplay. We also took an unflinching look into the discourse of Gen Z are their allegedly blank-expressions. Annnnd, Charli didn't throw this wedding party 4 u – she clearly did it for herself. We get into the real Royal Wedding and the trends being...

Pssst... yes, you, want the latest hot gossip? We've got you covered, happy Wednesday :) Tattle Life describes itself as ‘a commentary website on public business social media accounts which allows commentary and critiques of people that choose to monetise their personal life as a business and release it into the public domain.' They say that they ‘have a zero-tolerance policy to any content that i...

This week on the pod we're LENA-ing into the drama by discussing the Girls & Too Much creator and trying to parse whether Lena Dunham's rise, fall and rise again have been fairly examined. First up the many scandals of Lena Dunham, her skewering online and what of her many controversies were actually controversial. Next up we revisit out fav eps of Girls and ask if the show has aged well or is...