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Buzzfeed’s senior culture writer Anne Helen Petersen on her viral essay 'How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation", Junkee Music editor Jules LeFevre on the new Fyre Festival documentaries and teen correspondent Kasey Theuma unpacks the JJJ hottest 100 countdown.

Angharad Yeo on e-sports, Australian director Corrie Chen shares her feels on the first majority Asian-American Hollywood film for 25 years Crazy Rich Asians, and we're joined by one of the film's stars, Ronny Chieng.

Comedian Zoe Coombs Marr on her love of Xena: Warrior Princess and transitioning from her alter-ego Dave back to herself, the success of Chinese dating show If You Are the One with SBS translator Jing Han and Australian contestant Mandy Chan, and intimacy director Claire Warden on what she does and why it's taken off since #MeToo.

On this week's highlights episode, we bring you Benjamin Law's conversation with Get Krack!n and The Katering Show co-creators and stars Kate McLennan and Kate McCartney.

This week's highlights is all about fans and fandom, with Gates McFadden aka Dr Beverly Crusher from Star Trek: The Next Generation on the convention circuit, Australian filmmaker Jess Leski on her boy band fan documentary I Used to Be Normal, Alicon brings Bronies (male My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic) fans to Adelaide, and hosts of Fansplaining podcast Flourish Klink and Elizabeth Minkel.

We kick off summer highlights with Karamo Brown and Tan France on the Queer Eye reboot, Theo and Nathan Saidden are brothers and stars of the hit Youtube channel - and now ABC Comedy series - Superwog, Mel Campbell on the internet's quest for purity, and comedian Dilruk Jayasinha on his obsession with Friends growing up in Sri Lanka.

Yumi Stynes, Osman Faruqi, and Brodie Lancaster join Beverley and Ben to battle it out and state their case for the most stand-out TV, music, and internet moments of 2018.

How comic artist and historian Trina Robbins made history, Lauren Rosewarne on Christmas horror films, producer Hannah Reich on Hanukkah pop culture, Tumblr has banned adult content after child pornography concerns, and Rookie mag has folded.

Double J presenter Zan Rowe gives her take on this year's ARIA Awards, co-host of Guardian Australia's new #MeToo podcast Witch Hunt, a profile of Lena Dunham has set the internet ablaze, and Disney releases The Lion King remake trailer.

ABC tech reporter Ariel Bogle on the huge Chinese social video app TikTok, Brisbane animator Joe Brumm on his hit children's animation Bluey, Courtney Act hosts new bisexual dating reality show The Bi Life, Michelle Obama's memoir Becoming sells nine copies per second, and why are fake Australian accents so bad?

We remember Marvel Comics' Stan Lee, travel to the wild west to explore video game mega hit Red Dead Redemption 2 and the Spice Girls embrace "people power".

We unpack the return of the Spice Girls, Ariana Grande's new song and the (possible) return of power ballads, with Saskwatch's Nkechi Anele and Switched on Pop's Charlie Harding. Plus we catch up with Reni Eddo-Lodge, author of Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race, and look at the backlash to Rebel Wilson's claim that she's the first plus-size woman to star in a romcom.

What are "healthy conversations" and is Twitter the place for them? Plus, we speak to intimacy director Claire Warden, who choreographs sexual scenes for stage and screen, and Awaye's Rudi Bremer takes us through supernatural series.

Theo and Nathan Saidden - brothers and stars of the hit Superwog Youtube channel and now ABC Comedy series, New York Times video producer Taige Jensen on editorial satire in the 21st century, and Whovian Girl and ABC radio presenter Rhianna Patrick on Dr Who's encounter with Rosa Parks.

Miss First Nation co-organiser Ben Graetz and finalist Jay Jay Carroll/Bailey Legal, CBC documentary maker and podcast producer Veronica Simmonds and ABC pop culture and music reporter Paul Donoughue on the end of Cosmo Australia and the unfolding saga of Nick “Honey Badger” Cummins.

Australian Women in Music Awards founder Vicki Gordon, for Mental Health Week we discuss portrayals of mental illness on screen with Dr Fincina Hopgood, one of Australia's only female manga artists Queenie Chan and Taylor Swift finally declares her politics.

Writer and commentator Jane Caro on being an older woman and how they are represented on screen, Julian Rizzo-Smith discusses queerbaiting and queering X-Men, Brodie Lancaster on whether triple j has a stranglehold on the Australian music industry, Kanye West's on and off air SNL appearance.

This week we Stop Everything to bring you some of the year's highlights: Alia Shawkat on Arrested Development, Search Party, and films Duck Butter and Blaze, You Can't Ask That's Kirk Docker and Aaron Smith on the making of the popular question/answer program, and Mojo Juju speaks about the personal politics of Native Tongue and treats us to a live performance of her track Don't Stop Me Now.

Stop Everything! shares your - and our - pop culture happy places: Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, Terrace House, cookbooks, Instapoetry and more... Plus, Dalara Williams on season three of Black Comedy, and Gates McFadden on keeping up with Star Trek: The Next Generation fans.

Mark Knight's Serena Williams cartoon, My Little Pony fans have a new Bronies convention in Adelaide, and Pose brings voguing to TV drama