Hello EICruisers! This week on the pod we're all over the map of pop culture, discussing everything from Brooklyn Beckham's tattoo cover-ups to cancelled RHONY stars to Taylor Swift's Croydon music video to France's open letter "reminding" 29-year-olds to have babies.

We also get deeper into the newly released batch of Epstein files and discuss the fallout so far, how we're choosing to consume this news and why nobody can seem to easily frame this story.

There's also some soul-searching to be had as the three of us ask... are WE performative? One commenter thought so after last week's episode. No hate to them (promise!) but it did make us think... where has this insult come from and what does it actually mean?

Beth's been loving Schitt's Creek and a dognapping drama, Ruchira's been loving Bad Bunny's Super Bowl Halftime Show and Oenone's been loving Industry and chatting to old men in Waterstones (more on her Substack here).

Thanks so much for listening! If you've read this far could we pleeeeease be cheeky and ask for a rating, review or a share of the podcast on your socials? It really helps us grow and keep making EIC. Love you! O, R, B

In collaboration with Cue.

Links:

The Guardian - France's letter to 29-year olds to remind them to have babies

Nasdaq - Ring Super Bowl Ad Promoting AI Pet Search Raises Privacy Fears

How to Survive the Broligarchy - We all live in Jeffrey Epstein's world by Carole Cadwalladr

"Jmail" (Epstein Files Gmail mirror)

Pod Save America

The Guardian - So the Epstein scandal is about politics? Silly me for thinking it's about the mass abuse of women and girls.

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