Stop Everything‪!‬ ABC listen

Deborah Frances-White host of the hit podcast The Guilty Feminist unpacks unattainable perfection, ageing and spills the tea on the Netflix series Baby Reindeer.

Plus Barbara Streisand's Ozempic post and the algorithms that are serving up outrage.

Vietnamese-Australian actor Hoa Xuande is breaking into Hollywood's big league as the star of HBO's The Sympathizer, a limited series based on Viet Thanh Nguyen's Pulitzer-prize winning novel.

Hoa is Stop Everything's special guest, and he's taking us behind the scenes of this A24-produced series, telling us about how he landed this huge role, and what it was like to act opposite heavyweights like Robert Downey Jr. and Sandra Oh.

How do Star Trek: The Next Generation and all the other Star Trek spin off series give us hope for the future? Guest Critic Steven Oliver shares how pop culture passions for sci fi and superheroes have helped sustain him through tough times.

BW also shares a glimpse into her nerdy teenage past; and stick around to the end of the episode for Steven's surprise spoken word performance.

New ABC comedy series White Fever follows Jane Thomas, a woman trying to cure her fetish for hairy white men while simultaneously processing the emotional and psychological impact of being a Korean transracial adoptee.

Ra Chapman, White Fever's creator and star, is this episode's guest critic and she's in to talk about everything from growing up Asian in a white family to … sex dolls.

Jojo Siwa's ditched her giant bow for a glam rock makeover, celebrity chef David Chang's chili crunch trademark grab is flaring nostrils, and a viral essay making the case for marrying an older man — have left us wondering 'What the hell are they thinking?!'

Guest critic Hannah Reich is back to update us on her addiction to mumfluencers and how she's spending her TikTok Time.

Well, a good chunk of them at least.
Guest critic and elite Beyhive member Maria Lewis is in to help decode the layers of meaning in Beyoncé's latest album, Act II: Cowboy Carter, a country album that transcends the country genre.

Also, a review of Oscar-nominated actor Dev Patel's directorial debut, Monkey Man.