Stop Everything!

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Do you have complicated feelings about pop culture? Beverley Wang and Hannah Reich are here to help. Each episode Beverley and Hannah 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.

15.10.2025

Love you, bye

Stop Everything! We're stopping … everything. After nearly eight years of unapologetically overthinking pop culture, it's time to say goodbye. Bev shares the Stop Everything! origin story, Hannah has a chuffed to end all chuffeds, and we're sharing messages you've sent in from Stop Everything world.

39 min.
09.10.2025

Stop Everything! We have an announcement

Beverley's back from her trip and joins Hannah to share some news about the future of Stop Everything! Send us your thoughts about Stop Everything! Or what has you chuffed. Write or leave us a voice mail at stopeverything@abc.net.au

4 min.
08.10.2025

Where can we see “real mums” online?

Is it possible to authentically share the reality of being a mum, online? Hannah is joined by comedian and mum of two, Rhiannon Down, to compare algorithms and their fraught relationships with mumfluencer content. Whether it's mums in spotless kitchens showing off their meticulously organised nappy bags or chaotic scenes interspersed with skincare routines and over the top parties, finding accurate and relatable depictions of motherhood online can be a challenge. Hannah and Rhi also delve into their favourite fictional depictions of motherhood that have captured something true about the postpartum experience. Share your thoughts write or leave us a voice mail at stopeverything@abc.net.au Show notes: A review of season one of The Letdown: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-05-30/the-letdown-on-abc-is-painfully-real-and-painfully-funny/11156346 Kathryn VanArendonk's review of Jane the Virgin: https://www.vulture.com/2015/11/jane-the-virgin-recap-season-2-episode-6.html Rhiannon Down's instagram: rhi down (@rhidown) • Instagram photos and videos

34 min.
02.10.2025

CHUFFED: Sinners and Elementary

Hannah's chuffed by a southern gothic vampire horror film now available to stream, while Bec's binging police procedurals. Set in the 1930s and written and directed by Ryan Coogler (Black Panther), Sinners stars Coogler's long-time collaborator Michael B Jordan l. Jordan plays identical twins with dreams of setting up a juke joint, who instead face down the supernatural. And comedy writer Bec Shaw has delved into the archives to watch some cosy crime shows, rotating between Bones, Castle and Elementary. Her top pick is Elementary starring Jonny Lee Miller and Lucy Liu in a modern reimagining of Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes. Get in touch: write or send a voice memo to stopeverything@abc.net.au

10 min.
01.10.2025

The world is on fire but we still have gags

Hannah and comedy writer Bec Shaw talk about how hard it is for comedians to break through now that the site formerly known as Twitter is objectively wretched. Yet life (comedy) finds a way, so Bec shares her somewhat definitive list of the emerging comedians to watch, and how their work — from the silly to the political — can be a balm in these dark times. And we sidebar on the break-up of Australia's royal couple Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban. Show notes: Bec Shaw's viral article: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jan/16/i-knew-one-day-id-have-to-watch-powerful-men-burn-the-world-down-i-just-didnt-expect-them-to-be-such-losers Paloma Paris's single Good Boy: Paris Paloma — Good Boy [Official Music Video] The New Yorker profile on Jacqueline Novak: The Anxious Precision of Jacqueline Novak's Comedy | The New Yorker

32 min.
23.09.2025

Eat Pray Love … Enable?

Elizabeth Gilbert's 2006 self-help memoir Eat Pray Love turned the writer into a pop culture phenomenon, championed by Oprah. She became an emblem of white woman spiritual fulfilment/enlightenment/liberation. Almost two decades later, Gilbert is back with a new memoir titled All the Way to the River: Love, Loss, and Liberation. But as she herself admits, the Gilbert we come to know in this latest book is far from the "nice lady who wrote Eat Pray Love". It focuses on 18 turbulent months in Gilbert's life, after she gets together with her best friend Rayya who has a terminal cancer diagnosis. Both women are addicts and Gilbert goes into detail about the love and dysfunction that unfolds between them. Hannah and guest host Jen Wong ask: Where does the book's brutal revelations leave the acolytes living Gilbert's Eat Pray Love lifestyle? Do we now know too much about Elizabeth Gilbert? And why did she publish those poems? Show notes: The Conversation All the Way to the River review: Wealthy, whiny and wildly tone deaf: Elizabeth Gilbert's new memoir exemplifies 'priv-lit' Jennifer Wong's upcoming events: Events — Jennifer Wong

35 min.
18.09.2025

CHUFFED: Top end Bub and Who? Weekly -the podcast

We're chuffed about a new Australian sequel and a pop culture podcast that delves into the lives of c-grade celebrities. Hannah's sharing a long time listen; Who? Weekly, a pop culture podcast that delves into the celebrities you probably haven't heard of, reality contestants, YouTube stars, the "who?'s" of the world. And writer and film critic Jared Richards is chuffed by Top End Bub, a series sequel to the 2019 rom-com Top End Wedding, starring Miranda Tapsell and Gwilym Lee. Show notes: Who? Weekly podcast: https://www.whoweekly.us/

9 min.
17.09.2025

Why do we choose to watch ‘bad’ things?

From Twilight to the new War of the Worlds offering from Amazon and every bit of slop (AI or human) served up on social media, we're devouring it — but why? Hannah's joined by writer and film critic Jared Richards to try to understand why we can't look away from the unsavoury content being delivered up by our algorithms. Are we seeking it out for the feeling of superiority, the draw of the grotesque or simply the communal bonding experience of viewing and commenting on the obscure? Also, we sidebar on the Emmy Awards winners, snubs and highlights this year. Show notes: Kirbpiemayo mixes chicken with ice cream: https://www.tiktok.com/@kirbpiemayo/video/7463141724605451526?_r=1&_t=ZS-8zd4IG2Z61g The Princess Ayesha instagram: https://www.instagram.com/p/DM_WO0cz1Q7/

37 min.

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Beverley Wang

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Do you have complicated feelings about pop culture? Beverley Wang and Hannah Reich are here to help. Each episode Beverley and Hannah 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.