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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 xxDr No THE CONJURING THE SIXTH SENSE YOUNGERTHE CORRESPONDENT AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF REDNY TIMES: The Toy Store Feuding With Kelly Clarkson Over a $15 Million BirdLOVEGQ: Inside the viral Subreddit where men share dinners – and intimate feelingsEAST 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

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 FOLLOW US: INSTAGRAM TIKTOK SUBSTACK LINKS: 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

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 xThis 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.LinksPR Daily - Taylor Swift’s latest album announcement raises a question about audience fatigueTikTok - 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 outfitsAsh Dykes - Project 6 NOE - Congo Basin forests: an ally against the climate crisis that must be protected before it's too lateThe Guardian - The Love Hypothesis review The Guardian- #NotAllLesbians – we can’t let the Massachusetts bar drama turn us all into a punchlineHollywood Reporter - Viral Lesbian Bar Article From Boston Globe Is Piquing Hollywood’s InterestThe Boston Globe - Greenfield lesbian bar Last Ditch faces mask-rule backlashAutostraddle - 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

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 xSwyft Discount 🫶🏻Ruchira's been loving:Maggie Nelson - The Argonauts ,Bangerz Beth's been loving: Fire of LoveOenone's been loving:Tracey Emin - Strangeland ,The Gentlemen ,Lost LambsMaggie Nelson - BluetsWSJ - 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 BettingWSJ - Helicopter Parents Are Co-Piloting Their Adult Children’s Careers

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 swyfthome.com/pages/eic-podcastLINKS: THE CUT - I Should Be Allowed to Cold-Call My FriendsFOLLOW US: INSTAGRAMTIKTOK SUBSTACK

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 swyfthome.com/pages/eic-podcastLINKS: 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 overMETR - Brief independent investigation of agents’ behavior, reasoning and collaboration in the OpenAI / Hugging Face hacking incidentThe Guardian - The Elon Musk v Sam Altman battle is a distractionWIRED: 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 ReportFOLLOW US: INSTAGRAMTIKTOKSUBSTACK

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 swyfthome.com/pages/eic-podcastLINKS: DAZED - North West: ‘Music is what I wanna do with my life’PARADE - North West's Latest Public Appearance Reignites Debate Over Child FameCall Her Daddy x Kim KFOLLOW US:Instagram TikTok Substack

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 swyfthome.com/pages/eic-podcast Follow us: InstagramTikTok Substack LINKS:Cat Cohen - Broad Strokes Emily Wilson · An Uncomplicated ManGloria Steinem, Personification of the Feminist Movement, Dies at 92 - The New York Times'SNL UK' Adds 'Big Boys' Actor Freddie Meredith To Season 2 CastGlastonbury confirms ticket sale dates - and highest ever price - BBC NewsEarle Meets World Is a Bleak Portrait of the New American Dream - The Cut

Hello EICiggies, Is smoking cool again? Was it ever? With smoking once again at the epicentre of celebrity chic we asked YOU whether or not you think people are picking up their lighters and throwing away their cares. And if so, are we experiencing a trickle down from celebs which is reversing decades of public health campaigns? We also reflect on our own relationships with smoking, how our attitudes towards smoking have changed through the years and how smoking has come to re-enter the mainstream. It’s the comeback that none of us expected. Can we attribute the rise of smoking as an aesthetic marker to a resistance to wellness, a natural bedfellow to the rise of diet culture - or are the famous people to blame? We consider the measures that can be put in place to stop it. Hope you enjoy the episode and as always, please rate, review follow, subscribe and share the show. We're an indie podcast and it means the world & helps us keep going. O, R, B xswyfthome.com/pages/eic-podcast Linksinews - Smoking is cool again. How embarrassing. Grazia - What's With All The Performative Smoking?ASH - Use of vapes and other novel tobacco and nicotine products among adults in Great BritainInstagram - @cigfluencers