Paging EIC fans, we've got a controversial new extra episode for you... this week we're debating whether casual relationships exist for men and women in 2025.

While Carrie Bradshaw made casual dating look easy, breezy (cover girl), why are women all around us struggling to enjoy the romantic fruits of this arrangement? We read a brilliant Substack that posited many are confusing 'casual' with complete nonchalance and lack of care instead. We get into the weeds of it all and share our own experiences of dating in this episode, along with your insightful thoughts.

You can read her piece here!

If you like this or any other episode could you please, please, please (à la Sabrina Carpenter) gift us a review on your podcast player app. Also if you fancy joining in in these episodes, give us a follow on IG at @everythingiscontentpod <3

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Happy Friday EIC-heads, we're back with another dose of content.

On Saturday The Observer published an investigation by writer Chloe Hadjimatheou into the bestselling book The Salt Path and the couple behind it. The film adaptation was also just released about 6 weeks ago and stars Gillian Anderson and Oscar Isaac as the couple. The book has been billed by the Guardian as 'A beautiful, thoughtful, lyrical story of homelessness, human strength and endurance' 'Luminescent. A literary phenomenon' by Mail on Sunday and “a beautiful story and a reminder that humans can endure adversity' Stylist. But as Chloe Hadjimatheou discovers, it may also be a little too good to be true...

Next up, Ruchira's been utterly obsessed with Netflix’s The Ultimatum: Queer Love series 2 or what everyone actually calls it i.e. Queer Ultimatum. The series brings six couples together. Each of these couples have one person who desperately wants to get married and one who doesn’t. The latter have been issued an ultimatum by their partner I.e go on this show with me and by the end if you don’t change your mind we break up. We discuss!

And lastly, we need to talk about Brad Pitt. Allegations against him have been in the public eye for years now, so why is he still, Hollywood's golden boy?

We hope you enjoy, and always, thank you so much for listening. O,R,B xx

Beth's been loving: Here Comes The Guillotine

Ruchira's been loving: The Rehearsal Series 2

Oenone's been loving: NYT Games

The real Salt Path: how a blockbuster book and film were spun from lies, deceit and desperation

The Ultimatum: Queer Love

Brad Pitt's Fooling You

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Happy Wednesday and even happier EIConversation day to you and everyone you know. This week we're getting into Kylie Jenner's boob job recipe and what this new spate of plastic surgery disclosures from celebs means for the rest of us. Should we be grateful they're telling us or suspicious that it's not quite the whole story? Could it help keep comparison at bay or simply make it easier for people to spend £££ and risk their health to emulate their favourite famous person? We attempt to get to the bottom of all of this and more with the help from all of you lovely listeners.

We hope you enjoy, and as always please do follow + review the show on your podcast player app as it helps others to find the podcast :)

O,R,B x

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We are back. The two-weeks are over!

Oenone's new fav film is The Ballad of Wallis Island starring Tim Key, Carey Mulligan, Tom Basden and Sian Clifford. If you're after some joy, some tears and some meditations on life, this is for you.

Beth's rage bait of the week is.... Bezos' tacky wedding. We get a lil salty, and discuss the billionaire's bridal event, the guests and the questionable aesthetics.

Ruchira takes us through Jameela Jamil's beef with a Sunday Times profile of her. She's since sworn off female print journalists... is that fair?

Thank you for returning back to us and being so patient with our break. It worked a treat and we're so excited to be back. Could you please share us with a friend and review us? It's the reason we can keep going <3

In partnership with Cue

Oenone recommended.... Elis James and John Robins

Ruchira recommended.... The Rehearsal S1

Beth recommended.... Love Island USA

The Ballad of Wallis Island

The Dark Poetry of the Bezos Wedding

Forget quiet luxury. The wedding of Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez screamed ‘money’

Jameela Jamil: ‘I stood up for Meghan long before I met her’

I think I'm done with being interviewed by women.

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Happy Wednesday - we're back from our little break, hooray, we missed you! Grab a cuppa and please do join us for a mid-week natter.

This week's conversation is about the very divisive And Just Like That, reboot culture & the Spice Girls, with the help of the incredible Juno Dawson. Juno is a Sunday Times best-selling novelist, screenwriter, podcaster, and a former columnist for Attitude Magazine. Her books include This Book Is Gay and Clean, as well as her first adult fantasy trilogy Her Majesty's Royal Coven which launched in 2022, becoming an instant best-seller. Many will also know her as the co-host of the hit Sex and the City podcast, So I Got To Thinking.

We speak to Juno about why Bratz dolls are c*nt, where And Just Like That misses the mark, and the last novel in her best-selling series.

We hope you enjoy the episode - we will see you on Friday :) Byeeeeeee O, R, B x

So I Got To Thinking

Her Majesty's Royal Coven Juno Dawson

Queen B Juno Dawson

Human Rites Juno Dawson (pre-order)

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Huns, 365 partygirls, friends – lend us your ears! The latest EIC episode is a special one, as we take a look inwards and catch-up with you all. We dive into some of our best pop culture reccs from the year so far, before diving into a Q&A from you. You asked us about our friendship, how the podcast came to be and more...

Also, we are taking a speedy two-week break to come back bigger, better, stronger for you. Don't cry because we're on a break. Smile because we'll be back so very very soon <3 If you want to send us a virtual kiss, please do give us a 5* review and follow us on your podcast player app. We love everyone who does!! xxxxx

In collaboration with Cue

Adults

Overcompensating

Lady Gaga gig

Dept. Q

Dying For Sex

The Beach

Any Human Heart

Long Island Compromise

Dream State

Sinners

Paul Mescal Amazing Reply

The Handmaiden

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Happy Wednesday, it's time for our weekly chat, wahooo.

A recent piece in the New York Times asked Is All of This Self-Monitoring Making Us Paranoid?

It was all about wearable health technology such as Oura rings. Oura rings are smart devices worn on the finger that contain sensors so you can track over 20 biometrics such as sleep, movement, body temperature, stress, menstrual cycles and something called daily readiness. They’re between around £350 and £500, which I don’t believe covers a subscription to data and insights, which is an additional monthly or yearly fee, and they promise to “empower you to prioritise your long term health goals and build healthy habits that will last a lifetime.” The New York Times piece is really interesting, and explores how this kind of data isn’t always a gateway to good physical health habits, but can for some people, increase their anxiety and unhealthy body monitoring habits.  

We get into it and hear from you, the listeners, too!

We hope you enjoy, and as always please do follow + review the show on your podcast player app as it helps others to find the podcast :)

O,R,B x

Is All of This Self-Monitoring Making Us Paranoid?

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Welcome back EICuties!

This week on the podcast, we have to make an apology to an unlikely couple before we get into the long and short of the latest internet discourse- height filters on dating apps, after Tinder announced that they were joining other apps in allowing users to filter potential matches by how tall they are. Are the short men correct that this is blatant discrimination or is it just a harmless preference?

Next up we're discussing a social media wedding event after influencer Jaz Smith revealed the spreadsheet and planning that allowed her to post in real time through her recent nuptials. How many TikToks is too many TikToks for the happiest day of your life? 10? 20? 100? We discuss what it means to live a life so heavily online and if anything is really sacred anymore.

In partnership with Cue Podcasts.

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Ruchira's been loving Gossip Girl reruns

Beth's been loving LA Women by Ella Berman

Oenone's been loving Long Island Compromise by Taffy Brodesser-Akner and Mob Land

THE CUT - What It's Like to Date a Horse

THE ATLANTIC - Welcome to the Era of Branded Engagements

THE CUT- All Hail The New York City Influencer Who Posted TikToks Throughout Her Wedding

We hope you enjoy - please do rate, review & follow the podcast! Love ya, O,R,B

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Hallelujah! You've made it halfway to the weekend. To celebrate: a brand spanking new episode of Everything In Conversation. Corrrrr, aren't you lucky?

This week's midweek investigation is all about Justin Bieber's controversial Instagram caption, in which he revealed an argument where he told wife Hailey that she'd never be on the cover of Vogue. The post, which was to celebrate Hailey Bieber being on the cover of Vogue, divided audiences. Some say he's showing growth and accountability, other's have labelled him narcissistic & cruel. With the help of the listeners we go on a conversational jaunt that takes into the heart of bad husbands, via the politics of posting about rough patches and into the land of our own worst examples of male invalidation.

We hope you enjoy this episode. If you've read this far- I bet you were a pleasure to teach and always handed in your homework. So here's some more: we really rely on good reviews and ratings to help us grow and keep making the podcast, so we'd love if you could leave us a kind word and a cheeky five stars. Thank you so much.

See you on Friday!

R, B, O x

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GLAMOUR - "Why Justin Bieber's Vogue Comment Struck a Nerve"

Bad Influence by Oenone Forbat

Romanticise Your Life by Beth McColl

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Come hither into our watery lair... we three witchy mermaids want to drag you into our content cave... hehe. Happy Friday.

This week on the podcast, at 12:51, we travel to the fictional island of Port Haven, where Julianne Moore swans around in floaty Grecian gowns, rehabilitates birds of prey, and presides over her billionaire husband's palatial home. Meghann Fahy plays Devon, who starts the series coming out of jail and caring for her dad who has dementia. She reaches out in desperation to her younger sister Simone, played by Milly Alcock, and gets no reply. But she does get a fruit basket. She furiously travels down to confront Simone and unexpectedly breaks into her new world, where her younger sister is the personal assistant, really the emotional support assistant to Michaela, the aforementioned ultra-rich wife. Is this just another attempt to ride the coattails of White Lotus' success? Or something different?

Next up, at 34.52 we turn to one of the most unexpected rumoured romances of… potentially the century? That's right, it's Jojo Siwa + Chris Hughes. The Dance Moms & Love Island alumni have been setting tongues wagging since they appeared together on celebrity big brother. The duo are maybe the perfect product from the surveillance reality show... these two would likely have never met without it. Is it a showmance? is it a friendship? is it an us problem that we even care at all?

Ruchira's been loving The Real Housewives of Atlanta

Beth's been loving The First Bad Man, Miranda July

Oenone's been loving The Four Seasons, A Deadly American Marriage, The Last Of Us

Sirens

Lucy Mangan's Siren review

Kath Ebbs Podcast

What’s Going On With JoJo Siwa and Chris Hughes? - Vulture

We hope you enjoy - please do rate, review & follow the podcast! Love ya, O,R,B

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