Synopsis
Stop Everything! and tune in for a savvy, critical look at pop culture and what's in the zeitgeist. Join our panellists each week for a discussion about what theyre reading, watching and listening to.
Episodes
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Designing podcasts, sneakers and rom coms
31/05/2019 Duration: 54min99% Invisible's Avery Trufelman lets us in on some of the design podcast's secrets, multi-hyphenate New York street culture vulture Bobbito Garcia on his autobiographical documentary and Golden Gibbo-nominated comedian Margot Tanjutco dishes on romcoms and performs a song for us.
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When fans go stan
24/05/2019 Duration: 54minFans are not happy with the Game of Thrones finale so what happens when fans turn and go full stan? ABC Indigenous' Margaret Ross on creating their deadly social media content and their mission to Indigenise cyberspace plus video artist Arthur Jafa on his short film Love is the Message, the Message is Death.
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Eurovision is the brat(wurst)
17/05/2019 Duration: 53minWe prepare for the grand finales of the Eurovision song contest (with academic Jess Carniel), the Australian election (with comedian Michael Hing) and Game of Thrones (with Ben's feelings).
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Let's go Camping
10/05/2019 Duration: 54minThis year's Met Gala theme was "camp" but did the celebs pull it off? NGV curator Katie Somerville and Miss First Nations finalist Chocolate Boxx weigh in. Plus journalist Eileen Ormsby takes us to the dark web.
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Live from the Sydney Writers' Festival
03/05/2019 Duration: 54minAt the SWF, Beverley and Benjamin are joined by writers Brittney Cooper, Omar Sakr and Zoe Norton Lodge.
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BONUS: Ben Law makes it through #GameOfThrones' longest night
30/04/2019 Duration: 16minIn a special podcast extra Benjamin Law is forced to relive the Battle of Winterfell with Beverley Wang, who has never seen an episode of Game of Thrones.
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Holy Homecoming!
26/04/2019 Duration: 57minBeyonce delivers the goods and creates her own black university with her Netflix concert film Homecoming, social documentary photographer and celebrated artist William Yang gives us a tour of Sydney's underground queer party scene, and Indian comedian Kanan Gill introduces us to some strange conspiracy theories about Finland and Britney Spears.
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Easter Eggtravaganza
19/04/2019 Duration: 55minIt's Easter/Passover so we're bringing you some eggcellent 2019 highlights from millennial burnout to some questions about the nature of Mario and Luigi's relationship.
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Yee-haw, trap and a new kind of popstar
12/04/2019 Duration: 53minWe get to know Lil Nas X and Billie Eilish, two chart-dominating teen stars who are shaking up the music industry with their internet savvy and genre non-conforming ways, and we cover the latest gaming news.
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Recapper's Delight
04/04/2019 Duration: 52minRecappers James Weir (MAFS) and Natalie Bochenski (Game of Thrones) on the art of the recap, and with Games of Thrones ending, what the heck should we watch instead? Plus emerging comedians Aurelia St Clair and Annie Louey on their shows at MICF.
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Briggs loves memes
28/03/2019 Duration: 54minBriggs takes us to his favourite place on the world wide web, we look at K-pop's #metoo reckoning and from Get Krack!n's finale to Egg Boy, it's all about eggs.
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Is it time to leave Neverland?
21/03/2019 Duration: 54minWe look at live streaming and the responsibility of social media platforms in the wake of the Christchurch terrorist attack, talk over the documentary detailing sexual abuse allegations against Michael Jackson and our teen correspondent mourns the cancellation of Netflix's One Day at a Time.
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#TeamRon (fish) vs #TeamBev (snake)
14/03/2019 Duration: 55minComedian Ronny Chieng tries to fill in for Benjamin Law and introduces us to a haunting video of a fish eating a bird, the world wide web turns 30 and documentary maker Claudia Sangiorgi Dalimore on her efforts to crew her music video shoots almost entirely with women.
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Festival of the Female
07/03/2019 Duration: 54minFor International Women's Day, Beverley talks feminism(s) with The Wave's Noreen Malone and journalist Joan Morgan. Plus Carly Findlay introduces us to five disabled and chronically ill fashionistas to follow online.
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Can the internet 'Do The Right Thing'?
28/02/2019 Duration: 54minGreen Book isn't our cup of tea, the internet seems to finally be making an effort to be less of a trash place (and speaking of the web, our pals at The Signal take us somewhere weird) PLUS Bev tries to get her podcast mojo back.
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Podcast extra: Stop Everything x The Screen Show's Oscar wrap
25/02/2019 Duration: 29minThe Screen Show's Jason Di Rosso and Lauren Carroll Harris pair up with Stop Everything's Beverley Wang and Benjamin Law with a hot off the press Oscars special podcast. We break down the winners, the losers, the memorable speeches and how the hostless Academy Awards played out.
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The Kates from Get Krack!n, Indigicon and Frozen 2
21/02/2019 Duration: 54minGet Krack!n's Kate McCartney and Kate McLennan - with the help of writer Jessica Walton - dedicate an episode of their distinktly inkompetent morning show to disability, Indigicon is coming to Australia so we speak to Lee Francis (founder of the US-based Indigicon) and Cienan Muir (director of the Australian Indigicon) PLUS Frozen 2, live-action Aladdin and some MAFS follow up.
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Clementine Ford on MAFS, Zan Rowe on the Grammys and Mario Luigi internet folklore
14/02/2019 Duration: 53minFeminist icon Clementine Ford shares why she's obsessed with Channel 9's Married At First Sight, Double J's Zan Rowe dishes on what went down at the Grammy Awards and The Guardian's Naaman Zhou asks whether Mario respects Luigi?
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Liam Neeson, Dolly Doctor vs Netflix's Sex Education, Electric Fields' Eurovision bid and Spotify buys Gimlet
07/02/2019 Duration: 54minLiam Neeson's inflammatory race-based comments (we wish we didn't have to do this), Dolly Doctor on Netflix's Sex Education, Eurovision-hopefuls Electric Fields and Spotify drops over $200 million on podcast production house Gimlet.
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Studio 10: Yumi vs KAK, RIP Buzzfeed and Midsumma's Drag A Thon
31/01/2019 Duration: 53minA recap of the Studio 10 showdown between Kerri-Anne Kennerly and Yumi Stynes over the January 26th protests, Assoc Prof Andrea Carson and former Buzzfeed head of quizzes Matthew Perpetua assess the legacy and future of Buzzfeed following a swathe of job cuts, and we take a trip to Midsumma's Drag A Thon to look at the impact of Rupaul's Drag Race on the Australian drag scene.