Stop Everything!
Benjamin Law and Beverley Wang host your end-of-week blitz on what everyone's watching and listening to right now. Featuring big-name interviews that go deep, and big thoughts on pop culture with your two smart friends — this is the show about how everything in your feed reflects – and affects – the world. Culture moves fast — so Stop Everything! and listen in.
Episodes
July 8, 2022 • 54 mins
It’s time to Get up, stand up, show up- the theme for NAIDOC week 2022.
Stop Everything presents highlights celebrating the depth of talent from First Nations creatives working in music, television and theatre.
BL is joined by BARKAA, a Malyangapa Barkindji woman from Western New South Wales signed to Briggs’ Bad Apples Music label to talk about the Blak Matriarchy she belongs to.
BL + BW dig into the ABC show, All My Frien...
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July 1, 2022 • 54 mins
He’s been at the top of Stop Everything!’s interview wish list for awhile and we got him: Taika Waititi talks to Ben Law about his latest film for the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Thor: Love and Thunder, the follow up to Thor: Ragnarok.
Podcaster Helen Zaltzman catches up with BW to talk about The Allusionist’s upcoming tour of Australia and Auckland, and her recap podcast, Veronica Mars Investigations.
We also take a look at how c...
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June 24, 2022 • 54 mins
We’re talking about new releases from superstars Beyoncé and JLo and chatting with silver Logie winner and ABC sweetheart Tony Armstrong and Gruen’s Wil Anderson.
Break My Soul is Beyoncé’s first single off her upcoming album Renaissance, Halftime documents JLo’s blazing run as she campaigned for an award for Hustlers and prepared for the Super Bowl halftime show in the same year.
Tony Armstrong tells us where he’s keeping his L...
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June 17, 2022 • 54 mins
The media debacle around Rebel Wilson’s coming out has implications for journalism, LGBTQIA+ safety and the right to privacy. The story’s travelled far and wide with everyone from Whoopi Goldberg to Magda Szubanski weighing in. Among many questions we’re asking — what’s the place of gossip columns in newspapers these days?
We know it’s cold outside, so we have a couple of winter warmers to keep you company as you snuggle down ...
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June 10, 2022 • 53 mins
Lettuce discuss the rising cost of living, the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee, Fire Island and Stranger Things 4.
Ben talks to queer comedy icon Margaret Cho, SNL favourite Bowen Yang and rising comedy star and now glossy magazine cover boy Joel Kim Booster about gay romcom Fire Island and explains why the queer-POC centred film has been criticised for failing the Bechdel test.
BW and BL talk through all the pop culture moments happeni...
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June 3, 2022 • 54 mins
Post Covid Beverley returns to the warm embrace of Stop Everything and Benjamin Law.
This week BL and BW discuss their ambivalence for ‘First Dog’ Toto Albanese’s social media presence, the etiquette of the Swedish dinner discourse and the return of old televisual IP: Borgen, Willow and Obi-Wan Kenobi.
Also hear from UK-born, Perth-raised electronic music producer and vocalist Kučka who’s back in Australia for headline shows at t...
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May 27, 2022 • 54 mins
This week, Benjamin Law is joined by guest co-host Tahlea Aualiitia to talk about creating and finding joy in safe spaces.
Award winning podcast host and comedian Deborah Frances-White dials in from “The Guilty Feminist” to talk about comedy, activism and peeing outdoors.
Ben and Tali discuss the charming and wholesome innocence of Netflix’s Heartstopper and how Stan’s RuPaul’s Drag Race: All Winners is a winner, baby.
Meanwh...
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May 20, 2022 • 54 mins
Logie nominated ABC series The Newsreader is a late 20th century period drama about sexual politics, egos and the stories that shaped our consciousness in the mid 1980s. Co-creator and writer Michael Lucas and series writer Kim Ho take us behind the scenes of the series.
MasterChef judge and Logie nominee Melissa Leong talks about how life has changed since stepping into one of the most coveted TV foodie jobs.
Cantopopstar and p...
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May 13, 2022 • 54 mins
This week Ben and Bev discuss the #WrongAsianing of Labor candidate for Reid, Sally Sitou, why these incidents cut deep and wonder why apologies can be so hard to come by when they happen.
We shove Whovians Rhianna Patrick and Ahmed Yussuf into a Tardis for their take on the news that Sex Education’s super charismatic Ncuti Gatwa will be Dr Who’s 14th Time Lord.
After falling into a coma in 2016, Dave has risen. Comedian Zoë Coo...
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May 6, 2022 • 54 mins
This week it’s all about curry, capes and … sex clubs.
The PM’s social media obsession with posting his curries hit new highs of engagement when the internet noticed the chicken in his questionably-garnished korma was also questionably cooked. Is the curry discourse a distraction, or can we talk about curry and scrutinise the campaign at the same time?
For those who observe, the first Monday in May is known as Met Gala Day. This ...
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April 29, 2022 • 54 mins
This week, BW and BL writhe their way through their feelings about the world’s richest man’s moves to buy twitter.
BL shares his bulging dossier documenting the rise of full frontal male nudity on television, and what to make of it.
Meanwhile in Australia, Jimmy Rees, formerly known as Jimmy Giggle, discusses exploring Australian history via the world of miniatures in Tiny Oz, life after Jimmy Giggle and how he reinvented his ca...
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April 22, 2022 • 53 mins
We're all over Everything Everywhere All at Once, the multiverse-hopping sci fi action movie starring Michelle Yeoh as Evelyn Wang, an exhausted mother and business owner with a tax problem.
You'll hear from Daniels, also known as Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, the filmmaking creative forces behind EEAO. BW and BL also share their review.
Also discussed: Harry Styles and Shania Twain at Coachella, worshipping Jesus Chr...
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April 15, 2022 • 53 mins
This long weekend we’re going red red red.
First up, Oscar-winning director Domee Shi on Turning Red, about 13-year-old Meilin Lee’s struggle to tame her inner Red Panda. Shi is the first woman to direct a feature-length film for Pixar, and talks to BW + BL about the film’s setting in her hometown of Toronto, Canada, and the universal themes in Turning Red’s coming-of-age story.
Then, Billy Porter — fashion’s king of the red...
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April 8, 2022 • 54 mins
This week we’re baffled by a few things:
A viral thread on ‘mind hacks’ for dealing with Gen X weirdos
Louis C.K. Grammy win for best comedy album in which he talks about how masturbating in front of people is “his thing”
The fourth and final season of Killing Eve, but we’re also kind of OK with that?
And Aaron Blabey — the New York Times-bestselling kids author talks about the Dreamworks Animation feature based on his huge...
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April 1, 2022 • 54 mins
We’re talking about what happened at the Oscars when Chris Rock made a joke about Jada Pinkett-Smith’s shaved head.
We can’t stop thinking about Will Smith slapping Rock on live television, his Oscars acceptance speech and all the commentary that has ensued in the aftermath.
Then comedian Rhys Nicholson is our guest. Rhys talks about why he’s not mentioning the pandemic in his new comedy show and what it’s like to be a judge on R...
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March 25, 2022 • 54 mins
Stop being poor: Ziwe remixes Kim Kardashian’s Work anthem.
Arnold Schwarzenegger appeals to Russian soldiers.
Amy Schumer has some Ukraine jokes ready for the Oscars.
And we raise our margarita glasses in solidarity with Lisa Wilkinson, a woman enjoying a solo dinner out.
We’re also covering two major screen releases this week.
Ben Law talks to the creative forces behind the Apple TV adaptation of Pachinko, the blockbuste...
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March 18, 2022 • 53 mins
Can you tell me who will still care … about MMMBop?
We do!
Twenty-five years after Hanson burst into pop music with their smash hit MMMBop, we’re looking at the lyrics and nodding sagely at the brothers’ precocious wisdom.
Isaac, Taylor and Zac Hanson talk to BL and BW about breaking into the music industry as children, their 30th year together as a band and what they see as their creative higher purpose.
We’re also picking...
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March 11, 2022 • 53 mins
This week we’re gorging on Byron Baes and falling in love with Turning Red.
Domee Shi, director of Pixar’s Turning Red, talks to BW and BL about family, feelings, red pandas and her passion for animation.
Then BW and BL brew up some cacao, gather their sound bowls and drape themselves in neutral linens for the release of Byron Baes, Netflix’s new unscripted reality series following the feuds and aspirations of a group of up-and-c...
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March 4, 2022 • 54 mins
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine prompted a former star of 90210 to share her spoken word fantasy about being Vladimir Putin’s mother; the new Batman movie starring Robert Pattinson and Zoë Kravitz is chock full of daddy issues.
Both choices have us clawing at our faces and asking why, a thousand times WHY?
Luckily we rise above it all with two GOATS of Asian American pop culture criticism, Jeff Yang, journalist and columnist, and P...
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February 25, 2022 • 54 mins
This week BL + BW take on the big questions:
Is Julia Fox Ye’s muse, and why is everyone around you suddenly saying ‘uncah jahmz’ with comical levels of vocal fry?
Will we survive the coming vibe shift? And is it cheugy to be worrying about this?
What’s behind Kirsty Webeck, comedian, Cool Change Ambassador ‘getting a tit out?’ [her words] on twitter?
Why does second season of Starstruck torture its devoted fans?
How much ...
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