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Hello EICreepy Crawlies…

This week on the podcast… Jennifer Lawrence has joined Instagram, and guess what ?! - she has a product to sell us! We discuss the entrepreneurification of everyone - why does every celebrity have a product that they claim will change our lives? And why do we keep buying them?

Next, we love gay Halloween - or do we?! We take a look at some of the celeb Halloween looks we’ve seen so far this spooky season and yearn back for a time when Halloween was more than just an opportunity for “content”.

And who do you think will be Amelia Dimoldenberg’s final chicken shop date? We’re starting a sweepstake - DM us or comment on Spotify with your guesses.

As always, we’ve got loads of recommendations that we’ve been loving which should help you keep the SAD away - from sexy baskets to vitamin D spray, there’s something for everyone. AND we celebrate the trailer drop for the first instalment of Beth’s upcoming YA series!!!

We love you - make sure you’re following us on Instagram, TikTok and Substack - and please do leave a review if you enjoy the show. We’ll see you next week - stay spooky! O, R, B xxx

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BETH MCCOLL - Girl, Unfiltered

NIAMH CONNELLY - We Go Way Back

WICKER

CYNTHIA ERIVO ON SNL

YOUTH

IT GETS WORSE

SUZANNE COLLINS - The Hunger Games

THE CUT - Jennifer Lawrence Hopes You Won’t Hate Her New Project

RIDE WITH BENITO SKINNER AND MARY BETH BARONE

CHICKEN SHOP DATE

THE CELEBRITY TRAITORS

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Pop open the EIChampagne - we have the best news ever for you hehehehehe!!!

This week we’ve all been loving the big news from Oenone HQ - and no, it’s not that she has been double fisting aliens on her way to New York.

Today, we’re going to fill you in on all the week’s headlines, including unrest in France, the trial of Russell Brand and rumours surrounding the Celeb Traitors cast.

From 6th November, Porn showing choking or incest will be banned in the UK. We discuss the impact of the ban and why some people are questioning how effective it may be.

The Victoria’s Secret Fashion show returned this week - featuring Kylie Jenner in a $50 million bra. Why do we feel so drawn to the VS show? And how has Victoria’s Secret managed to shake off controversy of the past? And in other Kardashian news, Khloe Kardashian’s brand has been caught up in some niche nano-influencer drama.

Stay tuned until the end of the podcast to hear the big news - we’re all giddy with excitement!

Love you loads, make sure you’ve followed us, subscribed to the review, left a review and we’ll see you next week. O, R, B x

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CLUB KID

JORDAN FIRSTMAN

JON RONSON

JON RONSON - Offline with Jon Favreau

JON RONSON - So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed

PROJECT HAIL MARY

DISCLOSURE DAY

RUSSELL T DAVIES - The Adam Buxton Show

MULHOLLAND DRIVE

THE GUARDIAN Pornography with strangulation and incest to be banned in England and Wales next month

EVERYTHING IS CONTENT - Porn: A Deep Dive

GINA MARTIN ON VICTORIA’S SECRET

OENONE FORBAT Bad Influence

REDDIT: The Good American Pop Up

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Dear EICorrespondents…

Oenone’s about to jet off to NYC to see if she can get cast in the Girls reboot (!!) but before then we have a week of delicious content to feast on…

Beth is back on her Bond Business, Ruchira is continuing her horror quest and Oenone’s been loving everything Larsson.

We’ve also been treated to some exquisite internet nonsense as Kelly Clarkson has reignited a lost art... complaining about customer service on main. What doesn’t kill you really make you stronger... or something?

Next up- a Reddit forum has given us hope that there might be a way out of the male loneliness epidemic via the kitchen.

And finally- all of us have been enjoying Netflix’s adaptation of John Steinbeck’s East Of Eden. We’re all discovering the story for the first time and so we want to hear from all of the Steinbeck-heads at home. Is the adaptation living up to its promise? Any notes/gripes or compliments to share?

Thank you so much as always for supporting the podcast - make sure you’re subscribed, leave us a review and give us a follow. We appreciate you! Love, O, R, B xx

Dr No

THE CONJURING

THE SIXTH SENSE

YOUNGER

THE CORRESPONDENT

AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF RED

NY TIMES: The Toy Store Feuding With Kelly Clarkson Over a $15 Million Bird

LOVE

GQ: Inside the viral Subreddit where men share dinners – and intimate feelings

EAST OF EDEN

BARRETT ADAIR: cathy ames can’t be a nine-year-old dominatrix bitch anymore, because of woke

LUCY MANGAN: East of Eden Review

Bliss Kolb design

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Hello EIClaudiaWinklemans….

Your diva chaperones are back to guide you through this week in pop culture.

This week we’ve all been loving movies… from Sheep Detectives to horror classics - we have not left any genres untouched.

The Sad Girl community has been celebrating this week - as the Primavera Sound 2027 line-up has been released, and it’s a real feast of gorgeous gloomy pop girlies. Will we (three non-festival gals) be tempted to attend? And how will festivals adapt to the extreme weather conditions we’ve seen as a result of climate change?

Sofa season is officially here - we’re deep into the second series of The Celebrity Traitors. And don’t worry - this episode was recorded before episode three was released, so we are (mostly) spoiler-free. And can someone tell us who is making all these James Acaster horny edits?

Lastly, we discuss Gen Z’s Me Too Moment - the Cornell 7. As a content warning, we will be discussing the case as the final item in the podcast, so feel free to leave us there if that’s what’s best for you.

And… James Blunt - if you’re listening, please get in touch!

We love you - thank you for supporting the podcast, and we’ll see you next week. Love, O, R, B x

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NOW – TV Youth

AMAZON PRIME - Younger

SENSE AND SENSIBILITY

THE SHEEP DETECTIVES

DIGGER

CARRIE

OBVIOUS CHILD

WAITRESS

ADAM BUXTON - Dylan Moran

BBC The Celebrity Traitors

THE CORNELL DAILY SUN

DAZED - Tear the frat houses down

LILY O’FARREL

TODAY EXPLAINED - What happened at Cornell

NY MAG - The Post–Me Too Generation Gets Its Me Too Moment

VOX - The Burnerverse

NY TIMES - In a Mattress

SNARLY CARLY

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Hello EICurmudgeons…

In the midst of some sitcom-worthy activities in our personal lives, we’re back with another episode breaking down the biggest- and weirdest- pop culture stories.

We’re heading to the Congo Basin (not literally, we hope) as British survivalist Ash Dykes prepares to embark on a 700km kayak expedition down the Sangha river.

With equal peril we’ve also decided to discuss Taylor Swift. Should we be applauding the encore to The Life Of A Showgirl? And why are her four new tracks leaving a sour taste in the mouths of some of her die-hard fans?

We break down our fashion highs and lows from the VMAs, before giving our takes on the mask-only lesbian bar that broke the internet.

As always thank you so much for supporting our independent podcast. We'd also love if you could subscribe to the show on your podcast player, leave a review/rating & follow us on Instagram, TikTok and now Substack. Love you! O, R, B x

This week Beth's been loving The Love Hypothesis, Ruchira's been loving Dog Day Afternoon & Oenone's been loving Younger, Have You Tried Unplugging The AI & this episode of the Ezra Klein Show.

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PR Daily - Taylor Swift’s latest album announcement raises a question about audience fatigue

TikTok - Thee Swiftologist “The Encore was a bad idea”

Substack - Taylor Swift’s Shrinking World by Candice Wuehle

Page 6 - MTV VMAs 2026 red carpet: See all the celebrity outfits

Ash Dykes - Project 6

NOE - Congo Basin forests: an ally against the climate crisis that must be protected before it's too late

The Guardian - The Love Hypothesis review

The Guardian- #NotAllLesbians – we can’t let the Massachusetts bar drama turn us all into a punchline

Hollywood Reporter - Viral Lesbian Bar Article From Boston Globe Is Piquing Hollywood’s Interest

The Boston Globe - Greenfield lesbian bar Last Ditch faces mask-rule backlash

Autostraddle - Excommunicate Me from the Church of Social Justice

YouTube - You Can See Everything Trailer

Instragram - Ash Dykes

YouTube - The Swiftologist / Life of a Showgirl: The Encore

Substack - What the fuck happened to Taylor Swift

YouTube GENER8ION ft Yung Lean at the VMAs

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Hello EICucumbers…

We’re all back and we’ve peeled Beth away from Vanderpump Rules to record this week’s episode of the podcast for you…

We’re piling in on the internet’s hot debate of the week - is it unprofessional to bring an iced coffee to a job interview? Matcha girls, prepare to be outraged… because we have strong opinions on this one.

EmRata has joined the ever growing list of celebrities advertising the prediction market PolyMarket. Does everyone have a price? We discuss how - when it comes to prediction markets - almost everyone loses.

Oenone’s been within touching distance of Sharon Horgan this week - we swoon over her and take a look at her new series Youth.

And - the mums are on SnapMaps… would you let your parents track you at Freshers Week? A mum has gone viral this week for detailing how she spies on her teenage son in a piece for The Times. We examine the dangers of surveillance and how location trackers may do more harm than good.

Stick around to the end of the episode to hear an announcement about our future plans for the podcast. Thank you so much for your support - whether that’s listening every week, contributing, following us or leaving a review… we appreciate you all. Love ya, O, R, B x

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Ruchira's been loving:Maggie Nelson - The Argonauts ,Bangerz

Beth's been loving: Fire of Love

Oenone's been loving:Tracey Emin - Strangeland ,The Gentlemen ,Lost Lambs

Maggie Nelson - Bluets

WSJ - Why Almost Everyone Loses—Except a Few Sharks—on Prediction Markets at freshers week — and I’m not the only one

EIC - The Girlification of Betting

WSJ - Helicopter Parents Are Co-Piloting Their Adult Children’s Careers

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Pick up, EICallers… It’s your favourite podcast calling!

In this week’s Everything In Conversation, we’re asking: is cold calling your friends the answer to sustaining a healthy friendship?

In response to a new Cut piece by Kathleen Walsh titled ‘I Should Be Allowed to Cold-Call My Friends’, we’re pondering how and why we seem to be so averse to calling our friends out of the blue to have a good old natter.

We consider all the benefits of phone calls, what we might be missing on without them, and discuss some ways to make a cold-call less anxiety-inducing.

This is an independent podcast and the best ways you can support us are giving us a follow on your podcast player, dropping a review and following us on Instagram, TikTok and now Substack. Thank you for being here, and we’ll see you next week. Love, O, R, B x

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THE CUT - I Should Be Allowed to Cold-Call My Friends

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Hello EICave Divers… 

It’s been a WEEK of bizarre stories and we’re here to (attempt to) guide you through them…

In the wake of the news that all of Ed Sheeran’s support acts have quit his tour in solidarity with Macklemore and the Palestinian people, we discuss the power of taking a stand in the face of billionaires. 

The HYROX Poo has been everywhere across our timelines this week. How well has the sport responded to this PR disaster? And what does this expose about the culture around HYROX? Meanwhile, another shitstorm (sorry) has been brewing around Sydney Sweeney - who has posed nearly-nude to advertise a sports prediction market. Have we come to expect this from her? What the hell is happening at Sweeney HQ? 

It’s the question we’ve all been asking this week: is AI really on track to kill us all within a decade? Jacob Coxon, former AI researcher at Anthropic who previously also worked at Open AI went viral earlier this month when he shared a post on X saying he’d resigned from the company over safety fears and that time is running out to ensure AI is safe. Before we get swept up in the panic, we’ve consulted several tech experts’ analysis and fact checks to try and wade through it all… 

And last up - we’ve been to see One Night Only, a new rom-com – or dystopian thriller depending on your reading which explores what it would be like if pre-martial sex was outlawed and singles only had one night to f to their genitals’ galore. Let’s just say, opinions are mixed within the team… 

Make sure you’re subscribed and please leave us a review, it’s the best way you can support our independent podcast. Enjoy the ep and we’ll see you next week. Love, O, R, B xx 

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LINKS: 

MEG MASON: Sophie Standing There

DISNEY PLUS: Adults

BBC NEWS: Hyrox apologises for allowing race to continue after athlete soils herself

THE ATHLETIC: The Sydney Sweeney advert ignores decades of progress

BBC NEWS: Why some experts increasingly fear AI will take over

METR - Brief independent investigation of agents’ behavior, reasoning and collaboration in the OpenAI / Hugging Face hacking incident

The Guardian - The Elon Musk v Sam Altman battle is a distraction

WIRED: The AI Researcher Who Just Quit Anthropic Says It’s ‘Crunch Time for Humanity’

X - AJEYA COTRA: Hugging Face explainer

Platformer - The AI safety vibe shift

NY TIMES: This is Really Bad

WASHINGTON POST: For years they warned that AI could kill all humans, now people are listening 

CIGI - AI National Security Scenarios / Special Report

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Hello EICritters… 

In today’s Everything In Conversation - we’re discussing North West. 

In August of this year, Dazed released images of their Autumn 2026 issue, which features North, the 13-year-old daughter of reality TV star, brand owner and actress Kim Kardashian and musician Kanye West, as their cover star. 

When we’ve spoken about North on EIC previously, we uniformly agreed that there was something about her music career that doesn’t sit right with us: a recently turned 13-year-old performing at festivals, travelling to events without her parents, being filmed and photographed by thousands of people at a time and being swarmed by paparazzi. 

Now her words, opinions and thoughts have been written up in media written for and by adults. Are we right to feel uneasy about this? Is this any different from the careers of the child stars from our youth? And is this a sign of things to come for the future of the children of the Kardashian dynasty?

Make sure you’re following us on Instagram for your chance to weigh in and give us your opinions in future episodes. Love you - enjoy the ep! O, R, B x 

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LINKS: 

DAZED - North West: ‘Music is what I wanna do with my life’

PARADE - North West's Latest Public Appearance Reignites Debate Over Child Fame

Call Her Daddy x Kim K

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Hello EICowboys…

It’s Beth and Ruchira steering good ship EIC this week as Oenone is taking a little break. Ruchira is turbo jet-lagged, and Beth is in a post-Cornwall haze… perfect podcasting conditions all round tbh. 

We catch up about Ruchira’s trip to the Big Apple and Beth has FINALLY seen The Odyssey. Was her teenage classist self impressed with Nolan’s interpretation of Homer’s epic? 

We fill you in on all the news from a week FULL of pop culture news and give you a hopeful look ahead at the TV coming our way this autumn that will hopefully keep the SAD at bay. 

And a new reality TV family has hit the scene - The Earles… 25-year-old American social media celebrity Alix Earle and her family star in new Netflix reality series Earle Meets World. Do we have space in our hearts for a new reality family or are they 20 years too late? 

As always, leave us a review wherever you get your podcasts - it’s the best way you can support our independent podcast. Enjoy the episode, and we’ll see you next time. Love, O, R, B x 

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Cat Cohen - Broad Strokes 

Emily Wilson · An Uncomplicated Man

Gloria Steinem, Personification of the Feminist Movement, Dies at 92 - The New York Times

'SNL UK' Adds 'Big Boys' Actor Freddie Meredith To Season 2 Cast

Glastonbury confirms ticket sale dates - and highest ever price - BBC News

Earle Meets World Is a Bleak Portrait of the New American Dream - The Cut

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