Everything Is Content

Beth, Ruchira & Oenone

In a world where Everything Is Content - Beth McColl, Ruchira Sharma and Oenone are here to guide you through the stories that have ignited the internet each week. Films, viral long reads, Instagram scandals, celebrity nonsense, reality TV obsessions and TikTok trends- if you can post about it online, then we can (and will) turn it into discourse. Every week, Beth, Ruchira and Oenone will delve into the biggest and splashiest pop culture stories, before weighing in on the conversations that they have ignited online. Why are we so interested in these stories? And what does this say about us as we try to navigate life in the "real" world? Get in huns, we're making content about content. Follow us on Instagram and TikTok @EverythingIsContentPod Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

  1. 11 HR AGO

    Ye's Return To Festivals, Diva Extinction & The Girlification of 'Betting'

    Hey EICrumpets, This week Wireless Festival announced that all three days would feature Ye as their headline off the back of his 12th studio album Bully. Ye was blocked from entering Australia last year after releasing the song ‘Heil Hitler’, and declared himself a Nazi around 2022, going on many X rants saying countless antisemitic things. We ask why now, and why are such comebacks easily dished out to men? Are the divas in for the same fate of dodos? Pop culture writer Louis Staples argues so. In a piece for Harper's, he says we're witnessing the extinction of divas in real-time. Women are the target for predictive market apps – platforms that sees users betting on everything from war, to Taylor Swift's wedding. Social accounts like @Polybaddies on X and @Kalshigirls have their eyes on young women through memes on matcha and starter packs. Why? Owners say they want women to be benefitting from the financial gains available to men, but is this really true? THANK YOU Cue Podcasts. And thank YOU for listening 3 We'd love to hear your thoughts in the Spotify comments or in our DMs xoxo O,R,B --------- This week Ruchira has been watching The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives and Last One Laughing S2. Oenone has been loving Nicole Daniels, and Beth loved Project Hail Mary. Kalshi and Polymarket are using influencers to lure in the 50% who don’t bet on sports gambling sites: women | The Independent  Exclusive: Federal prosecutors are exploring whether prediction market bets trip insider trading laws | CNN Politics Women Wanted: Kalshi Pushes to Expand Far Beyond Sport Bets Is the Diva in Danger of Extinction? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    53 min
  2. Everything In Conversation : The Age Of Attraction

    2 DAYS AGO

    Everything In Conversation : The Age Of Attraction

    Hello EICreatures, we're back, and so are TV producers! Did we ask for another dating show? No! Did we get one? YES! Netflix says ‘Age of Attraction is throwing out the rulebook — and birthdates — singles build connections based purely on chemistry, compatibility, and an undeniable spark that has nothing to do with the year they graduated from high school. In this dating experiment, there’s only one question they can’t ask: 'How old are you?’' Filmed in Whistler Canada, the 40 singles meet at a retreat and take part in different activities to get to know each other… if they feel a special connection they can go to the 'promise room', exchange rings and commit to each other before they reveal their age to each other… Ellie Muir for the independent writes it's ‘an Oedipus complex disguised as a dating show’ ‘Age, surprise surprise, turns out to be a bit more than that. Mommy and daddy issues are always the elephant in the room here, but rarely interrogated. The younger women lament the "immature" men in their own generation and seek out someone older with financial stability, while the older men — most of them with children from previous relationships — definitely signed up to this show with the sole intention of securing a 20-something girlfriend.’  Has the pendulum swung back on the stigma around age gap relationships? Or does this show prove that they can indeed be very tricky territory? We hope you enjoy, as always please do rate, review and follow the show on your podcast player app! O, R, B xx Age Of Attraction Netflix’s Age of Attraction is an Oedipus complex disguised as a dating show The Myth of the 25-Year-Old Brain Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    27 min
  3. 27 MAR

    SNL UK, Chappell Roan Vs. Kids & Shy Girl Cancelled

    Hello EICorgis! Happy Friday! This week we kick off by discussing a feel-good story involving seven courageous canines who went missing in China before returning home as a pack- led by a bossy little corgi called Da Pang (or Big Fatty). Then we get a first person report of Lily Allen's tour from Oenone. O is a huge fan, but does she think that the critics are right in calling Lily's 45 minutes of stage time a little... underwhelming? Then we're reviewing the show everyone was loving to hate (even before the first episode had aired)- SNL UK. Did we like it? Will we watch again? And do we think this could end up as enormous as the American OG? Up next, more Chappell Roan drama after she was slammed by former Chelsea footballer Jorginho. He claimed that she sent her security guard to scold his wife and 11 year old stepdaughter for bothering the singer at a hotel breakfast. Chappell (who has been banned from an upcoming festival in Rio de Janiero because of this drama) denies that this security guard was hers and says she never saw a mother or a child while having her breakfast. What do we make of it, why is Chappell such a target for these stories, and how the HELL is Jude Law involved? Finally: some literary drama after horror novelist Mia Ballard had her book Shy Girl pulled from shelves and cancelled after Hachette received claims it had been written with the help of AI. Mia denies these allegations and claims a third party editor was to blame. We discuss the book, the allegations and what it means for publishing that a partly AI book could potentially make it all the way to shelves before being detected. This week Oenone has been loving the group of seven dogs who travelled 17km home, Ruchira has been loving The L Word and Beth has been loving Ready or Not 2. Thank you SO much for listening and Cue Podcasts for the edit! You can find us on IG & TikTok @ everythingiscontentpod. See you on Weds- O, R, B x Links: The Guardian - Lily Allen Revew Deadline - Saturday Night Live UK: What the critics are saying The Guardian - Chappell Roan responds to criticism YouTube - i'm pretty sure this book is ai slop | frankie's shelf BBC - Publisher cancels horror novel's release over AI claims Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    53 min
  4. Everything In Conversation: Can AI Cure Grief?

    11 MAR

    Everything In Conversation: Can AI Cure Grief?

    Happy Wednesday EICorporeal beings. Last month, a BBC documentary posited the question, 'can AI ‘cure’ grief?', which got us wondering, should we want to cure grief? In AI confidential with Hannah Fry, Fry speaks to Justin Harrison, founder of You, Only Virtual. He ‘created the concept of the Versona after facing the dual challenges of his own near-fatal motorcycle accident and his mother's terminal cancer diagnosis. During this difficult period, he sought a way to preserve the unique bond he shared with his mother, leading to the development of YOV's Al technology. The Versona allows individuals to digitally recreate and continue conversations with their loved ones, even after they've passed, providing lasting emotional connection.’ Justin Harrison is not the only person working on this emerging technology, there are others such as Project December which is is an online AI platform created by video-game designer Jason Rohrer that allows users to simulate text-based conversations with specific personalities, including deceased individuals and, HereAfter AI which promises to ‘Preserve memories with an app that interviews you about your life. Then, let loved ones hear meaningful stories by chatting with the virtual you’. Is this something that we need? Is it something we want? Thank you so much for being so generous and sharing with us your experiences on such a sensitive topic, we're always so grateful. Love you! and hope you enjoy the episode O, R, B xxx AI Confidential with Hannah Fry The Dead Have Never Been This Talkative Alexis Ohanian thread The Year Of Magical Thinking - Joan Dixon The Obliterated Place Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    38 min

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In a world where Everything Is Content - Beth McColl, Ruchira Sharma and Oenone are here to guide you through the stories that have ignited the internet each week. Films, viral long reads, Instagram scandals, celebrity nonsense, reality TV obsessions and TikTok trends- if you can post about it online, then we can (and will) turn it into discourse. Every week, Beth, Ruchira and Oenone will delve into the biggest and splashiest pop culture stories, before weighing in on the conversations that they have ignited online. Why are we so interested in these stories? And what does this say about us as we try to navigate life in the "real" world? Get in huns, we're making content about content. Follow us on Instagram and TikTok @EverythingIsContentPod Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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