Stop Everything!

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Stop Everything!

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.

  1. 4 DAYS AGO

    Michelle Visage spills on her friendship with RuPaul

    Michelle Visage gets candid about her friendship with RuPaul, the art of critique, career longevity and honesty in friendships. The newly minted RuPaul's Drag Race down under host, Michelle Visage in The House of Stop Everything! and joins Beverley Wang as his week's guest critic.

    25 min

  2. 11 DEC

    ‘Flirty’ Luigi: UnitedHealthcare suspect is meme of the year 

    In a year filled with chaotic memes like brat summer, Moo Deng, Hawk Tuah and Where’s Kate, the most tumultuous of all is Luigi Mangione, suspect in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.  BW and ABC entertainment reporter Jared Richards break down how the internet turned Mangione into a folk hero, and the improbable conditions that mean someone charged with murder hasn’t been cancelled.

    41 min

  3. 4 DEC

    Best TV of 2024: What you need to put on your list – now! 

    If you need help figuring out which shows to catch up on over the holidays (yay!), this one’s for you.   TV critic Wenlei Ma is in to help BW countdown the most unforgettable, sexiest, funniest, surprising and entertaining shows of 2024.

    42 min

  4. 27 NOV

    Big feels for Moana 2! What Disney got right in this sequel 

    In Disney’s Moana sequel, our heroine is a wayfinding big sis and leader of her community, on the cusp of a new mission to unite the people of the ocean.   Guest critic Sosefina Fuamoli is in to talk about why Moana’s journey in this follow-up stirs up so many emotions. An award-winning music journalist, Sose also gives her take on how women in music won 2024.

    35 min

  5. 20 NOV

    Cynthia Erivo's Wicked & Paul Mescal's Gladiator II – "Glicked" is saving 2024 cinema

    Let’s go to the movies and feel joy again! Jon M. Chu’s Wicked and 86-year-old Ridley Scott’s Gladiator II are going head-to-head at the box office and we’re lapping it up. We haven’t had movies this big since 2023’s back-to-back releases of Barbie and Oppenheimer, aka “Barbenheimer”. Will “Glicked” save the movies and snatch the awards season trophies?     Guest critic Maria Lewis – screenwriter, film geek and pop culture etymologist is in the house. Also, something’s not right: John Krasinski aka Jim from The Office is People magazine’s sexiest man alive?

    37 min

  6. 13 NOV

    Live from Adelaide: US election results and The English Teacher

    We’re throwing what we think about celebrity endorsements out the window after the US election results. Endorsements from Taylor Swift, Beyoncé, Bruce Springsteen, Bad Bunny and Cardi B couldn’t help Kamala Harris in a race where Donald Trump had the likes of Joe Rogan – the world’s biggest podcaster – and Elon Musk – the world’s richest person – in his corner.   Stop Everything! show daddy Benjamin Law and English teacher-turned comedian Urvi Majumdar join BW live on stage from the OzAsia Festival in Adelaide to debrief on the US election, and chat through everything there is to love about hit comedy The English Teacher, created by TikTok singing and dancing star Brian Jordan Alvarez.  Show notes: Brian Jordan Alvarez on Stop Everything! ABC Fresh Blood series: "Urvi went to an all girls school"

    45 min

  7. 6 NOV

    Does Australia need a new version of The Office in 2024?

    Twenty-three years after the original series of The Office debuted, Australia has its own version of the mockumentary workplace comedy, for the first time featuring women in two of the core roles. Felicity Ward, who plays needy bad boss Hannah Howard, and show runners Jackie Van Beek and Julie De Fina talk to BW about how this 13th version of The Office, streaming on Prime Video, adapts itself to the post-pandemic world of work.

    30 min

  8. 30 OCT

    Kween Kong tells all: RuPaul's Drag Race Global All Stars

    Secure your wig, pour yourself a hot cup of tea, and settle in as Kween Kong – Stop Everything! guest critic and RuPaul's Drag Race Global All Stars finalist – speaks exclusively to BW about the series finale and her experience on the show. We get into the Nehellenia drama, RuPaul saying the 'L' word, fandom backlash, and of course – the final result which saw USA's Alyssa Edwards take home the $200,000 prize and a spot in the International Pavilion at the Drag Race Hall of Fame, located in Daytona Beach, Florida. Show notes: Vanity Vain on Nehellenia Stop Everything! Adelaide live show November 9

    38 min
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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.

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  • Creator
    ABC listen
  • Years Active
    2018 - 2024
  • Episodes
    213
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © Copyright 2024, Australian Broadcasting Corporation. All right reserved.
  • Show Website
    Stop Everything!

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