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The Rest Is Entertainment

Gossip: The New Frontier Of The Culture War

The Rest Is Entertainment

Goalhanger

Entertainment News, News, Books, Arts, Tv & Film

4.5 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 2 June 2025

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Is entertainment being weaponised as part of a culture war? Why aren’t we celebrating OnlyFans? The business is a massive UK success story. What can the way The Guardian asks for money tell us about subscriptions? With left and right politics now firmly established, how are the right deploying entertainment as a means to further their ideology? Who are the protagonists behind the discourse we’re being subjected to?

 OnlyFans was started by Tim Stokely in London in 2016 and has risen to be a billion dollar company but it is rarely spoken about. Is the platform’s core content the reason people seem hesitant to shout about a British success story? The Guardian now has well over a million paying ’supporters’. How has what could be framed a polite way to request support driven their success? The Rest Is Entertainment AAA Club: Become a member for exclusive bonus content, early access to our Q&A episodes, ad-free listening, access to our exclusive newsletter archive, discount book prices on selected titles with our partners at Coles, early ticket access to future live events, and our members’ chatroom on Discord. Just head to therestisentertainment.com to sign up, or start a free trial today on Apple Podcasts: apple.co/therestisentertainment The Rest Is Entertainment is proudly presented by Sky. Sky is home to award-winning shows such as The White Lotus, Gangs of London and The Last of Us. Visit Sky.com to find out more For more Goalhanger Podcasts, head to www.goalhanger.com Assistant Producer: Aaliyah AkudeVideo Editor: Kieron Leslie, Charlie Rodwell, Adam Thornton Producer: Joey McCarthySenior Producer: Neil FearnHead of Content: Tom WhiterExec Producers: Tony Pastor + Jack Davenport Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

This episode is brought to you by our friends at Sky.

0:06.5

Now, they really know how to put on a show and to make it easy for us to enjoy them.

0:10.5

Everything is just there. No digging around, no endless scrolling.

0:13.9

Absolutely, and here's the magic. If you know what you're in the mood for, just say it into your remote.

0:18.2

You want something specific? Say, sweet pee. And sweet pee will appear. If you want something, a genre, just say, show your remote. You want something specific? Say sweet pee, and sweet pee will appear.

0:21.9

If you want something in a genre, just say, show me horror.

0:24.6

And your sky will show you horror movies, horror TV shows anything in that genre.

0:30.1

It really is magic.

0:31.0

It's not magic, it's technology, but it feels like magic.

0:33.6

It's like having a shortcut to your perfect evening.

0:35.6

You speak, it listened, and suddenly

0:37.5

you three episodes in. A feast of entertainment right at your fingertips. Feast Schmogersbaud

0:42.7

banquet. Which makes me very hungry. Yeah. I wonder if you can get snacks from your remote.

0:48.1

Try it. I'm being told you can't. It's just the world of entertainment at your fingertips. The world

0:53.3

of food, you have to go elsewhere.

0:54.9

So if you're ready to dive into top-notch entertainment, just head to sky.com to learn more.

1:05.1

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1:20.8

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1:25.5

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