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Beverly Wang helps you make sense of pop culture.
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Is it ok that "fake German heiress" Anna Delvey has appeared in the current season of Dancing With The Stars (US)? Can a convicted scammer dance her way to reputation rehab â and should she even have the opportunity?
Guest critic (and trained dancer!) Rudi Bremer is in to discuss.
Show notes:
"Maybe She Had So Much Money She Just Lost Track of It" by Jessica PresslerZiwe interviews Anna Delvey.
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After Taylor Swift made her politics clear by endorsing Kamala Harris for president, Donald Trump reacted by posting: I HATE TAYLOR SWIFT! But does he understand how that's activated Swifties?
Guest critic Steph Van Schilt is a writer, podcast producer and Taylor Swift specialist, and she shares her take on the situation.
Also: is The Bear really a comedy? We recap the Emmys and Steph explains why you should be watching Below Deck.
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Raygun, Australia's most famous breaker, is back in the news again â posting photos hanging out with Sir Richard Branson and Boy George â as foreshadowed in her interview with The Project's Waleed Aly.
Is this a coda to Raygun's viral moment, or a sign of things to come?
Guest critic Tahlea Aualiitia is in to ponder the question, as well as Beyoncé's lack of CMA nominations.
And we're also getting into our latest reality TV obsession â The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives.
Show notes:
Raygun interview on The Project
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Megan Thee Stallion may have originated Hot Girl Summer and WAP, but she's also a self-proclaimed Otaku Hot Girl, ie like millions of people around the world â an anime superfan.
If it's good enough for Thee Stallion, maybe you should check it out too?
Anime superfan and guest critic Ahmed Yussuf is in to make the argument for why you should get into anime too.
We're also weighing up our feelings about Beetlejuice Beetlejuice.
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Midwest Princess Chappell Roan is asking you to respect her boundaries, and we wish her good luck, babe!
The American singer songwriter is grappling with her meteoric rise to fame and calling out predatory behaviour, unwanted touching and asking "superfans" to stop being weird to her family and friends.
Guest critic Wenlei Ma is in to discuss this, J.Lo and Ben's Affleck's breakup, nostalgia for 1999 teen films like Cruel Intentions and 10 things I Hate About You, and a TV recommendation for the week â season 2 of Pachinko on Apple TV+.
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It's a very demure, very mindful episode of Stop Everything! in this the cutesy edition: How Chicago TikTok creator Jools LeBron is redefining demure and changing her life in the process!
Guest critic Jared Richards is in to analyse demure, Katy Perryâs comeback album launch missteps and the Olympics of Drag â Rupaulâs Drag Race Global All Stars â whose cast includes Stop Everything! family member, Kween Kong.
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We're talking about the moment B-girl Raygun, aka Dr Rachael Gunn, became the world's favourite meme.
Raygun's breaking performance at the Paris Olympics was instantly iconic â and divisive: Is this how people really dance in Australia? Was this the best Australia had to offer? Was this a weird academic stunt? Is Raygun an Aussie hero or taking the piss?
There's a lot of noise â guest critics Hannah Reich and Rudi Bremer (a trained dancer!) weigh in.
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Big feelings are in the air as Stop Everything! co-founding parent Benjamin Law returns to talk about Netflix's gay Japanese dating reality show The Boyfriend, and Beverley tells him about the latest chapter in the Ballerina Farm trad wife mumfluencing saga.
Also: Ben recounts his favourite horny moments from The Olympics.Show notes:The Times article "Meet the Queen of the Trad wives and her eight children"The Times follow up article "My day with the Trad wife queen and what I really thought of her"
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We're all over the Paris 2024 Olympics.
From the booze cruise boats of the opening ceremony to the uniforms, Simone Biles' comeback and becoming armchair experts in obscure sports, guest critic Tahlea Aualiitia is in to talk through all the details of the games that you actually care about.
Then stick around as we do our best to explain why US Republican vice-presidential nominee JD Vance is contending with baseless rumours that he had sex with a couch. And other things.
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Stop Everything! and catch up with Atsuko Okatsuka â stand-up comic, social media star and bowl cut icon â who's coming to Australia with her new show, Full Grown.
In 2022, Atsuko's debut HBO comedy special, The Intruder â and her viral "drop challenge" â marked her arrival as a comedy star on the rise.
Atsuko talks to BW about how full grown she actually feels, backup career plans and the power of the bowl cut.Show notes:
Atsuko Okatsuka's website
Atsuko Okatsuka's TikTok
Couple breaks up during Atsuko's comedy set
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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 birthday wish on stage: "don't miss Trump next time."
It's been a wild week of news from an assassination attempts on former US President Donald Trump to rubbernecking at the display of wealth, celebrity, and influence on display at the billionaire Ambani wedding in Mumbai.
Guest critic Gianni Di Giovanni is in to talk through it all, and why games journalism in Australia is important!
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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 her in horror right now.
And hands (up) if you've got mixed feelings about season three of FX's The Bear.
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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 quirky content, translating Chinese social media posts for her English-speaking followers. Candise opens a window into Chinese pop culture, WeChat, beauty standards and Gen Z trends in this deep dive episode.
Show notes:
Candise Lin Instagram accountCandise Lin TikTok account
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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 Yumi Stynes, author, foodie and host of Ladies, We Need To Talk, who's dropping insights on all the above like no one else can. This a fun one!
Show notes:I am: CĂ©line Dion reviewLadies, We Need To Talk: Horny Women
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I am: CĂ©line 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 CĂ©line in making this intimate and raw documentary, and what it was like to witness the superstar experiencing Stiff Person Syndrome firsthand.
Show notes:I am: CĂ©line Dion review
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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 jumping into the TARDIS with journalist, Whovian and guest critic Ahmed Yussuf, who's taking us on a journey through the latest season of Dr Who, a revamped BBC-Disney co-production featuring the joyfully charismatic Ncuti Gatwa.
Show notesLA Times: Being a 'Doctor Who' fan means learning how to love and lose and love againRawdah Mohamed
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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 her feature directorial debut, The Mountain, which follows three kids on their quest to climb Mount Taranaki, and is firmly set in the spirit of coming-of-age films like The Goonies, E.T. and Stand By Me.
Find out why Rachel thinks Aotearoa humour is such a hit overseas, and why she relishes acting in supporting roles.
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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 creator god_worthy and the director of Elvis, The Great Gatsby, Moulin Rouge, Romeo and Juliet, Australia and Strictly Ballroom. Kirsty's also got big thoughts on how social media is changing the game for standup comics.
Show notes:
god_worthy and Baz LuhrmannKirsty Webeck's TikTok
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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.Show notes:
I am: Celine Dion trailerKelly Rowland on Cannes red carpet incidentKween Kong's TikTok account
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