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BW + BL explore Beyonce's visual album Black is King with artist Atong Atem, contemplate how to do nothing with Jenny Odell and how to do kids' books, with rapper and new author Briggs.

Megan Washington talks to BW and BL about the ABC comedy podcast Crossbread. Plus agony aunt Daniel M Lavery and the South Korean zombie-plague Netflix hit #Alive.

We're pretty sure we're going to survive 2020! BW + BL are walking the hard rubbish of 2020 to the nature strip, thanking it three times and saying goodbye. To celebrate, they're diving into the pop culture that made us happy in 2020. Featuring listener tweets, e-mails and voice memos sharing the podcasts, music, tv and social media stars that soothed, cheered and brightened their days, plus a few special guests: internationally renowned drag performer and star of RuPaul's Drag Race Season 6 and All Stars 3, BenDeLaCreme and Australia's own viral YouTube iso cooking comedian, Nat's What I Reckon. Show notes: Nats what I reckon youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEFW1E8QzP-hKxjO2Rj68wg Nats what: I reckon 'Uncook yourself:' https://www.penguin.com.au/books/un-cook-yourself-9781761040900 Uncle Roger reviews Nats fried rice: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-E9Ol4tMcI Jinkx and BenDeLaCreme holiday special: https://www.jinkxanddela.com/  What is Schitts Creek about anyway: https://www.abc.net

Thirty years since his death - Roald Dahl's family apologises for the beloved childrens author's antisemitic views. How and why was this done? As screen and theatre gigs have dried up during the pandemic, Australian actors have been finding new opportunities in podcast audio fiction. Noni Hazlehurst and Yael Stone co-star in Winding Road, an Audible mystery drama set in Queensland. Finally, BL + BW discuss two teen reboots, Saved By The Bell (2020) and Heartbreak High (2022) and whether they feel hungry and aroused by the trailer for A Recipe for Seduction a sponsored Lifetime 'mini movie' starring Mario Lopez as a sexy Col. Harland Sanders. Show notes: Heartbreak High gets a reboot: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-12-07/heartbreak-high-coming-back-netflix-new-generation-of-teenagers/12956722 Mario Lopez takes on a role as Col. Sanders: https://deadline.com/2020/12/mario-lopez-stirs-up-a-recipe-for-seduction-as-kfcs-colonel-sanders-in-new-lifetime-mini-movie-1234651880/ Roald Dahl's family issues ap

Sampa The Great on making her award-winning album, comedian and broadcaster Aamer Rahman, the wisdom of Dolly Doctor, plus Mario Bros under the lens.

Stop Everything! presents "The Big 20 pop culture quiz". Benjamin Law dons the quizmaster cape and Beverley Wang, AFLW star Darcy Vescio and comedian Zoë Coombs Marr on the buzzers. Journey through the last 20 years in television, music, Internet culture and tech trends and see how much you remember about the last two decades.

Just for a change of pace, we're talking about THE OTHER MAGA-hat-wearing, Covid-denying conspiracy-theorist, social-media-loving, mainstream-media-hating former reality TV star: Australia's own Pete Evans. The celebrity chef turned conspiracy theorist hit a shocking new low this week when he shared a cartoon depicting the sonnenrad – black sun – a sun wheel design that first originated in Nazi Germany, and widely employed by neo-Nazis, white supremacists and alt-right fascists now – including the Christchurch gunman, the Australian citizen who murdered 51 people in two mosques in 2019. What happened next and why shouldn't we be relaxed about this? BW and BL discuss.   Step inside Aunty Donna's Big Ol' House of Fun with Broden Kelly and Mark Samual Bonanno.  Two members of Melbourne's Aunty Donna Sketch comedy troupe talk to BW about the evolution of their comedy, making it big on Netflix, the joys and trials of absurdist comedy and the origin story of Aunty Donna.  show notes: Pete Evans is dropped fr

BW + BL pass the mic to First Nations creatives from music, screen, comedy and podcasting. Writer and podcaster Jack Latimore interviews rising hip hop star Birdz. And show business couple -- Kodie Bedford, Mystery Road screenwriter, playwright and filmmaker -- and Bjorn Stewart, actor, comedian, writer and director -- interrogate each other about their pop culture passions.   Show notes Birdz drops new single for Looky Looky here comes Cooky Take it Blak podcast Kodie Bedford's production, Cursed NAIDOC Week 2020- Always was, always will be Trump books the Four seasons... Landscaping Alec Baldwin farewells Trump      

"Votes cannot be cast after the Poles are closed." This is one true and factual statement tweeted by the US President, Donald Trump, as the world awaits US election results. Here in Australia, our existence in the future is doing nothing to help us glean who will win in this knife-edge race. So instead we do what Australian media does best, fish for an Adjacent Australian Angle ™ ​with thanks to The Chaser and Ronny Chieng. Big Mob Brekky is here to shake up breakfast television, even if it's only for one week — for now. Shahni Wellington and Ryan Liddle, hosts of NITV's NAIDOC Week breakfast TV show, Big Mob Brekky, join Stop Everything! to share their vision for this hotly contested network TV slot. The program will broadcast live from Taronga Zoo, Monday to Friday the week of November 9-14, with special segments presented by Luke Carroll, Elaine Crombie and appearances from Emma Donovan, Mitch Tambo and more. Reputation Rehab: Zoe Norton Lodge and Kirsten Drysdale talk to BW and HR about their new ABC T

2020 is haunted: As if this year hasn't been terrifying enough, BL and BW invite horror lovers Rhianna Patrick and Joel Meares to share their recommendations for a scary movie night just in time for Halloween. Rhianna Patrick is an ABC broadcaster on secondment to IndigenousX, and has written a listicle of Indigenous horror on TV and film, and Joel Meares is Editor-in-Chief of the film review site Rotten Tomatoes.  Borat Subsequent Moviefilm: Very nice? Kazakhstan's now-disgraced, formerly famous journalist Borat Margaret Sagdiyev has returned to US and A to gift his 15-year-old daughter Tutar to US Vice President Mike Pence, just as the coronavirus pandemic hits. What ensues is hard to put into words - but BW and BL make an attempt.  

In the debut of Stop Everything's Celebrity Memoir Book Club, BL, BW and special guests discuss The Meaning of Mariah Carey, the long-awaited, NY Times bestselling memoir written by pop diva Mariah Carey and Michaela Angela Davis. Mariah Carey super Lambs: Maria Lewis, author, screenwriter, broadcaster and possessor of deep cut Mariah knowledge and a Mariah Carey tattoo, and fellow lamb and celebrity memoir aficionado, Nick Bond, entertainment editor for news.com.au share their views.

BL and BW discuss how #TheFly overshadowed the entire US VP debate and the memes it rapidly inspired; run through some Aria nomination headlines AND chat with composer Dan Golding, who's been nominated for an Aria for his soundtrack to the hit Melbourne-made game, Untitled Goose Game. It's the first time in the Arias' history that music from a game has been nominated for an award. Travis and Texas De Vries of the Broriginals podcast have 80,000 years of cultural wisdom at their back as they dispense comedy advice to listeners.

BL + BW cruise down a freeway of dreams, satire and the politics of oversharing vs. unveiling on social media. The US President, true to form, tweets health updates via Twitter, Jim Carrey steps into his first 2020 Presidential debate on SNL, and his former advisor, Kellyanne Conway guest stars on her daughter's TikTok. TV personality Chrissy Teigen shares the raw grief of her and husband, John Legend's recent miscarriage on instagram, drawing support and ire from observers and we dream of a day where we can get outdoors and play an augmented reality game on our city streets.

BL + HR explode music and politics with musician, composer and creator of the hit podcast and new Netflix series, Song Exploder. They decode the Closing ceremony of the 2000 Sydney Olympics with Emmy award-winning artistic director David Atkins and deconstruct The Rock's decision to throw his weight behind the Democratic nominees in the upcoming US election.

One show truly dominated the 2020 Emmy Awards and that was Schitt's Creek, which took out best comedy and swept all four comedy acting categories. Benjamin Law and drop in host Hannah Reich analyse why the sixth and final season has been such a hit with viewers and Emmy voters. Plus Journalist and self-described “(retired) veteran of the wellness industry” Sarah Wilson connects the links between QAnon and wellness communities and celebrating Wong Kar-wai's film, In the mood for love with a musical homage at the Sydney Opera House. .

BW + BL dip into the pop culture news barrel, pulling out controversy, drama and a biopic announcement. They tune their walkie talkies to discuss #Alive, a South Korean film about an airborne zombie cannibal plague and take us trackside at the 2000 Sydney Olympics to Cathy Freeman's triumphant golden run that had a nation on its feet.

BL + BW break down the Academy Awards' new diversity requirements for Best Picture, before going all in on the new Disney remake of Mulan, made for USD$200 million, how does the film stack up against the 1998 classic?

BL + BW discuss actor Chadwick Boseman's legacy with filmmaker and journalist Santilla Chingaipe. Facebook Vs. the Australia Government: The Social Network threatens to stop users from posting news stories on FB and insta if an Australian government code of conduct requiring tech companies to pay for new content becomes law.

BW and BL chat about Canada's Drag Race. Featuring new judges, less RuPaul, and a slate of proud Canadian queens, the show is freshening up the competition franchise like a zamboni on ice. Kpop specialist Andy Trieu shares his expertise on Korean supergroup BTS' new hit single, Dynamite and comedian Craig Quartermaine shares how lockdown has taken the edge off his stand up fighting fitness and regular jousts with hecklers.

A picture is worth a thousand words of ... offense? protest? explanation? We talk about *that* Johannes Leak cartoon of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris in The Australian and the controversy it's kicked off. As a chaser - let's go to New York City and catch up with renowned Australian photographer Anne Geddes, whose ubiquitous photos of babies as peapods, bumblebees, sunflowers and other adorable imaginings became part of the zeitgeist in the 90s and early 2000s.