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 their upbringing as a child star and (for the first time) shared details of acting from aged three, developing and seeking help for an eating disorder and having their finances mismanaged by their team.

It's an incredible conversation and we feel so honoured to have had it. If you enjoyed this episode please consider giving us a rating on your podcast player app AND voting for us in the British Podcast Awards. Thank you <3 xxx

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Semi-Well-Adjusted Despite Literally Everything

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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 and hospitality. Is fine dining falling victim to shrinking appetites and growing disinterest in food as a result of wider use of GLP-1s? We also discuss the upcoming Mounjoro price hike.

Finally, we're risking it all and talking about Taylor Swift. Last week we learnt that the high empress of pop was releasing her 12th album The Life of a Showgirl. While some fans are a little confused/fatigued, we actually might be the most on board we've ever been.

Pleeease could you vote for us in the British Podcast Awards Listener’s Choice category here? We’re in the top 20 and it would make our year if made the shortlist! (and a cheeky review on your podcast player app?)

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Beth has been loving Girls by Kirsty Capes, Oenone has been loving Twelfth Night or What You Will, Ruchira has been loving Crashing (although perhaps slightly less after finding out there's only one series).

Click here for tickets to Women of Fiction, an in conversation event with Beth McColl x Kirsty Capes & Ella Berman.

What is teeth-gate? Real Housewives of London episode one drama explained

'They're just not eating as much': restaurants in the age of weight loss drugs

NY Times - Anticipating Taylor Swift's 'The Life of a Showgirl'

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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 girl boss and influencer extraordinaire have a right to complain that mothering leaves little room for other things? Is she being ungrateful or is this exactly what we've been begging public figures to do for years?

Thanks so much for your thoughts on this & let us know what you made of the episode/ this discussion on Instragam @everythingiscontentpod or in our comments.

O, R, B x

Substack - Molly Mae Not

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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 psychiatrist. The ethics of the story are all over the place, as is the response to the videos. Are we watching the extreme soap operafication of TikTok confessionals?

Finally, ChatGPT updated last week and one community was left distraught: women with AI boyfriends. We dive into what happened and how concerned we should be.

In partnership with Cue Podcasts.

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This week Oenone loved Make Me a Offer, Ruchira loved Tart and Chappell Roan’s The Subway and Beth has been loving Fargo.

The Princess Diaries

The AI boyfriend ticking time bomb

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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 she’s got a nice new beau. Life does not end at 58 (duh!), and though Carrie, Miranda and Charlotte are ending their onscreen tale of 50-somethings’ love lives, Pam’s is apparently only beginning… In these uncertain times, Pamela Anderson and Liam Neeson’s idyll feels like just what the doctor called for. After decades of sun, sea, and sex tapes, the last showgirl has finally found love.’

Neeson is a widower, who lost his beloved wife and fellow actor, Natasha Richardson, in a skiing accident in 2009. Many echo Raven’s sentiment, and are happy to see the silver fox find new love in later life, however, a few are left asking, did we forget what Liam Neeson said in 2019?

Six years later can we forgive and forget? Is this another showmance? And how do we feel about this new Hollywood couple? Listen to find out!

Thanks so much for listening, and for all of your comments and takes on the topic this week. O,R,B X

Why We're So In Love with Pam and Liam

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Six years later, can we forgive and forget?

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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 music producer and manager and has the help of her mother Tess in raising her teenage daughter Harper. At almost 2 hours run time, is it worth it? You'll have to listen to find out!

On Friday night Ruchira was on her way to a night out in honour of Charli XCX’s birthday in Hackney when the news hit her… And Just Like That was dead. Showrunner Michael Patrick King said whilst writing the last episode of season 3 “it became clear this might be a wonderful place to stop”. @yoldafister tweeted: 'as someone who has spent 3 seasons trashing this show, i’m devastated'. We weigh in.

And lastly, guess who's back? Well, it seems, a lot of people! Specifically bands. From Blue, to Scouting For Girls and Busted vs Mcfly, it's nostalgia city out here, with pop musicians of the past riding a second wave of fame thanks to social media. How has the internet shaped the way we consume music?

We so hope you enjoy, as always please do rate, review, and share the podcast, it helps so much!

Please also if you would be so kind, do vote for us in The Listener's Choice Awards :)

Thank you to Cue for all your help! O, R, B x

Oenone's rec - A Flat Place, Noreen Masud

Beth's rec - Modern Nature, Derek Jarman, Let The Bad Times Roll, Alice Slater

Ruchira's rec - Pop Star Academy: KATSEYE

How some of the most derided bands of all time are making a comeback

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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 us! <3 please could you vote for us in the British Podcast Awards? We would be so grateful and bonus points if you leave us a review wherever you're listening to us.

love,

O, R, B xxx

Sydney Sweeney advert

The Banal Provocation of Sydney Sweeney’s Jeans

The Discourse Is Broken

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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 test because she was trying to crowbar her way into an industry that felt like a locked room. Now, at 35, I’m beginning to feel I’m trapped in a room that is locked from the inside.'

Why do we not trust women to be as smart and as interesting story tellers as men, why do we need this level of emotional investment in female writers' lives to buy their work?

Next up, The Trouble With Wanting Men. In a recent New York Times article of the same name, writer Jean Garnett asks what we as women should do with our desire when so many of find ourselves fed up of dating men. And she looks at this through the lens of “heteropessimism” or “heterofatalism” as it’s now been amended to, which is a term that was coined by sexuality scholar Asa Seresin in 2019 in a piece for the New Inquiry. And in this piece Seresin defines it as such “ Heteropessimism consists of performative disaffiliations with heterosexuality, usually expressed in the form of regret, embarrassment, or hopelessness about straight experience. Heteropessimism generally has a heavy focus on men as the root of the problem.” She goes on to discuss how, though sincere, this feeling most often isn’t accompanied by action, as most women who express it, will continue to date men.

We hope you enjoy, as always please do rate & review :) B,R,O xx

AND please vote for us in the British Podcast Awards listener nominations here

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Ruchira's been loving Friendship

Beth's been loving First Dates

Oenone's been loving Jurassic World Rebirth

Why Are Female Authors Asked To Bare Their Souls To Promote Their Books?

Where''s The 'You'? - Naoise Dolan

The Trouble With Wanting Men

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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 six-month trip, something happened. A whisper of a thought began to emerge at the back of my mind. By the final month, it was a pervasive shriek: What am I doing?” And in a world where more and more people are planning to ditch their desk and fixed address, we're forced to ask: is working on the move an F U to capitalism, or is it just the same old slog in slightly shorter trousers?

Thank you so much for all of your comments and takes on this topic- they were as thought-provoking, sensitive and honest as always.

Follow us on IG & TikTok @ everythingiscontentpod if you would like to take part in future episodes or see some BTS footage.

Talk soon!

O, R, B x

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THE GUARDIAN US - When The Digital Nomad Dream Turns Sour

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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 set in its wake.

Please give us a follow on IG/TikTok @everythingiscontentpod and we'd love a review wherever you're listening to this pleeease <3

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This week, Beth Loved Cole Escola on Good Hang With Amy Poehler

Ruchira loved Overcompensating

Oenone loved Untamed, Girls, The Ballad of Wallis Island & The Outrun

The Real Reason Everyone's So Mad At The Gen Z Stare - Vox

The Gen Z stare isn’t rude. We’re just not going to conform for your comfort

The ‘Gen Z stare’? Young people need to get over this limp act of defiance

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