Everything Is Content

Hey EIChampions 🏆 ! Come and take an EIC-style spin 🚗 around the football ⚽️ block: it's the World Cup's world 🌍 & we're all just living in it, baby 💋. (It's coming home FYI.)

This week on the podcast we are without Ruchira, who is currently on honeymoon. She’ll be back in a couple of weeks and we’ll do a big wedding debrief then- but for this episode, as you will hear, we are joined by Jack Rivlin from The Upshot podcast! The show where he, alongside Zach Sweeney Lynch, covers brilliantly funny sports stories - everything from drunken dressing-room escapades to deep dives into famous sports personalities and their scandalous lives. Their current world cup coverage is also absolutely unmissable.

First up, we give our predictions for Saturday's game, recommend our favourite animals to get betting advice from, and discuss the hottest football managers (spoiler: it's all of them).

Then we talk about something messy- no, not Lionel - but ongoing allegations towards FIFA of corruption, US favouritism and collusion with Donald Trump. Perhaps the biggest recent example of this was the decision to rescind a red card suspension of US player Folarin Balogun and allow him to play in a last-16 match earlier this week against Belgium. As Jack calls it, it's a 'love-in' between Trump & Infantino.

Next up, we're sure everyone knows what a WAG is- but in case you’re waking up from a 30-year coma- it’s a term meaning 'Wives And Girlfriends', usually attributed to the partners of professional footballers. The origin of the term is somewhat disputed- some say it was christened in 2002 with coverage of teenage Colleen after Wayne Rooney’s first Premier League goal, others say it goes back even further to the infamous purple-outfitted Posh & Beck’s wedding of 1999. We reminisce on the best to ever do it!

And lastly, some salacious stories from some of the most famous men in sport! Plus lots of meandering, philandering, Haaland-pandering, tangents in the middle!

We hope you enjoy ☺️ , as always please do rate, review, and follow the show!

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Love you, byeeeeeeeeeee.

The Upshot

2026 World Cup: The murky ties between FIFA and the US

2015 FIFA corruption scandal

Trump Asked FIFA to Review U.S. Player’s Suspension. Now He’s Eligible to Play. - The New York Times

Bugs The Brussels Griffon

Hamster Racing League

The extraordinary story of Tony Powell, the secretly gay footballer

Neymar's Barcelona contract 'included orgy for his dad in a London hotel' - Daily Star

Wayne Rooney 'Spiked England Teammate With Viagra' Before Training

Shocking video shows Raheem Sterling driving 'all over the place' before crashing £270k car

WAGs gone wild: Baden Baden 2006

Baden-Baden all calm as normal service is resumed in Garibaldi's | World Cup 2006 | The Guardian

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Hello EICustard Creams! For this week's bonus we're discussing the ethics of wearing or owning smart glasses. It's a tech that has existed in various forms for over a decade, first with Google Glass, then Apple’s Vision Pro, which caused concern on release for featuring twelve cameras, six microphones and two depth sensors. And now Meta, along with other big tech giants, are expanding their own smart glass collections, ponying up for huge celebrity endorsements and seeking to normalise the tech for everyday wear. With your help- we discuss.

Thanks so much for your takes on this topic. We love love love being In Conversation with you all!

B, R, O x

Links
The Washington Post - Smart glasses record people in public. The most online generation is pushing back
CNIL - Smart Glasses: The CNIL calls for vigilance
TikTok - Alex Haddon matches songs
BBC - Woman covertly filmed for 'humiliating' social media content - then told to pay
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Hello ‘ello EICrashouts!

Happy Friday but even more importantly- happy wedding day to our beloved Ruchira! If you’ve not sorted your wedding gift yet don’t fret. The bride and groom have requested 5 star ratings and gorgeous reviews for the pod.

Onto the episode…

First up we’re discussing a truly bonkers run of celebrity endorsements. Timothée Chalamet for controversial prediction market Kalshi, his partner Kylie Jenner shilling Meta’s new Starfire AI glasses and Gwyneth Paltrow advertising luxury real estate in Israel… are some celebrities too famous for consequences? And how fat were those paycheques?

Next up a new philosophy on the block- Bimbo Stoicism. Described as “a viral internet subculture that blends ancient Stoic emotional detachment with hyper-feminine, reclaimed "bimbo" aesthetics” with “a core philosophy encouraging women to reject rigid patriarchal beauty hierarchies and embrace self-acceptance by identifying with a "twin animal" that matches their natural features and demeanour.” Word salad or a chance to escape a lifetime of female-coded suffering?

And finally: a steamy streamer to heatedly rival Heated Rivalry: Off Campus on Amazon Prime. Adapted from a book series of the same name by Elle Kennedy, the series is set at the fictional Briar University and follows music student Hannah Wells as she makes a deal with star hockey player and team captain Garrett Graham to start a fake relationship in exchange for her tutoring him. Perfect horny show or just a load of old fluff? One of us hated it, the other two have taste. No spoilers!

Thanks so much for listening! You can follow us @everythingiscontentpod for behind the scenes content and to help us decide future topics.

O, R, B x

This week Oenone was loving Two Weeks In August on BBC iPlayer, Queenie Is Working On It by Candice Carty-Williams (out now!) and kimchi cheese toasties. Ruchira was loving Girl, Interrupted and Beth was loving True Detective series 1 and sort of maybe (??) liking Alice and Steve.

Links
Dazed - Wtf is Bimbo Stoicism? Unpacking the internet’s wildest new beauty trend
The Guardian - From Goop to ‘Gwynocide’: why is Gwyneth Paltrow starring in a luxury Israeli real estate ad? by Arwa Mahdawi
Novara Media - Gwyneth Paltrow Appears in Ad for Israeli Luxury Real Estate Developer
The Guardian - Gwyneth Paltrow 'a crucial source' in Harvey Weinstein revelations
Elle - It's Time To Connect The Dots Between Stories About Gendered Violence And What Causes It by Gina Martin
Instagram - Gwyneth Paltrow Just Goopified Drone Warfare

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Hello EICherries 🍒 This week is a very special author episode with the incredibly talented and successful Candice Carty-Williams.

It was an honour to speak to her about her highly anticipated sequel to the beloved Queenie – her debut novel exploring the highs and lows of a 20-something young Black woman. She was very open about the struggles of adapting the story for TV; why she decided to bring the character back now; chosen families, and her experience of productivity pressure and desperately needing to switch off.

We loved speaking with her. Please do give us a rating or a Spotify comment on any topics we discussed, as we'd love to hear from you <3

Love O,R,B xxxx

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Queenie Is Working On It is OUT NOW. Go get a copy ASAP.

Candice's tour dates
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Hello EIClimate worriers, we're back with a new episode spanning heatwaves, hot wedding fashion and a temperature check on Gen Z's futures.

First up, our dear, dear friend Dua got married recently and kindly shared *the* dress publicly last weekend. Was it an EIC slay or nay? Find out. We also wade into the most ridiculous discourse we've ever encountered, arguably – all centred on Anne Hathaway's pregnancy.

Then there's only one subject on the UK's mind right now: heatwave. We dive into the frustrating and unreasonable online discourse around the climate. And finally, Generation Bedroom. No, these aren't fun teens sleeping in; they're a generation of unemployed, disenfranchised young people pushed out of jobs and entering the world.

Thank you for listening to us this week! Remember to keep hydrated and stay safe in the heat. Love O,R.B xoxo

This week Ruchira watched The Alien Autopsy Scandal and read I Who Have Never Known Men. Oenone loved Legends, Rivals s2 & The Harry Styles tour (as did Beth). Beth also recommended Fantastic Mr Fox.

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Dua Lipa Has Finally Revealed Her Wedding Dress – And It Took 1,155 Hours To Make

How hot a 1976-style heatwave would be today

Why even a mild UK heatwave can feel hotter than America's worst

Pop Crave's Anne Hathaway tweet

Women who postpone having babies until they are older make happier parents, study finds

Women Who Give Birth in Their Thirties Have Longer Telomeres, a Marker of Healthy Cellular Aging

Young people and work: interim report

Being NEET in early adulthood has scarring effect into midlife

Young bearing the brunt of UK tax and wage changes, says BoE economist

Number of job vacancies hits five year-low
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