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Pop culture is everywhere. But it's also a lot. If you need help making sense of like, everything in your feed, Beverley Wang is here to help. Every episode, Beverley and a special guest sort through the latest hot takes and Internet discourse to help you understand how pop culture reflects your world.
Want to know which new releases to watch or skip, which long reads to share with your group chat and which podcasts to follow? Stop Everything's got you.
New Podcast ep every Thursday.
Want to know which new releases to watch or skip, which long reads to share with your group chat and which podcasts to follow? Stop Everything's got you.
New Podcast ep every Thursday.
Latest episode
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Thriving on chaos with comedian Atsuko Okatsuka!
Stop Everything! and catch up with Atsuko Okatsuka – stand-up comic, social media star and bowl cut icon – who's coming to Australia with her new show, Full Grown. In 2022, Atsuko's debut HBO comedy special, The Intruder – and her viral "drop challe… -
On Trump assassination attempt, Tenacious D's Kyle Gass said the quiet part out loud
What happens when you say the quiet part out loud? For Tenacious D's Kyle Gass, it means a tour cancellation and possibly the end of the band, with co-founder Jack Black announcing "all future creative plans are on on hold" after Gass shared his birt… -
Horror and The Bear
2024 is a huge year for horror releases with features like The First Omen, A Quiet Place: Day One, Trap and The Moogai luring audiences into theatres for a good jump scare. Guest critic and horror aficionado Maria Lewis talks through what's exciting… -
Chinese social media, translated for the Western world
There are more than one billion smartphone users in China, and the only thing stopping many of us from understanding their social media world is language. Dr Candise Lin is a Chinese-American tutor who has amassed a 1.5m following on TikTok with her… -
Charli XCX and Lorde work it out on the remix
The remix of Charli XCX's The girl, so confusing featuring verses from Lorde has got the internet talking, Justin Timberlake's mugshot goes viral and "realistic" lunch packing mumfluencers are rotting our brains. Stop Everything! for guest critic Yu… -
BONUS: The Céline Dion scene that will shock the world
I am: Céline Dion captures a scene so confronting even its filmmaker didn't know whether Celine would be happy including it in the documentary. BW sits down with director Irene Taylor to discuss the journey with Céline in making this intimate and ra… -
We're coming for Bridgerton's feminist sex scenes
Now that the second part of Bridgerton season three has dropped, it's time to Stop Everything! for a loving critique of the hit Netflix series' sex scenes. They're hot, but perhaps a bit more time focusing on female pleasure wouldn't hurt? And we're… -
Heartbreak High + Māori excellence = Rachel House!
It's time to Stop Everything! for a chat with Rachel House, who's appeared in acclaimed Aotearoa/New Zealand films like Boy and Whale Rider; Netflix's hit reboot of Heartbreak High; and blockbusters like Moana and Thor: Ragnarok Rachel's celebrating… -
Baz Luhrmann + TikTok = DELICIOUS IRONY
That's the dealio when Oscar-nominated Australian auteur Baz Luhrmann gets bailed up by a TikTok street interviewer who's got no idea who she's talking to. Comedian and guest critic Kirsty Webeck is in to dissect that viral moment between TikTok cre… -
Celine Dion + Kween Kong = DIVAS!
Activist, performer and Drag Race royalty Kween Kong is back in the Stop Everything! guest critic chair to talk about the trailer to Celine Dion's new documentary, controversy on the Cannes red carpet and getting political at Drag Con.
