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Pop culture is everywhere. But it's also a lot. If you need help making sense of like, everything in your feed, Beverley Wang is here to help.

Every episode, Beverley and a special guest sort through the latest hot takes and Internet discourse to help you understand how pop culture reflects your world.

New Podcast episode every Thursday.

Airs Friday at 1:30pm. Repeated Saturday at 11pm, Sunday at 2pm and the following Friday at 2am.

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Have you got White Fever?

New ABC comedy series White Fever follows Jane Thomas, a woman trying to cure her fetish for hairy white men while simultaneously processing the emotional and psychological impact of being a Korean transracial adoptee.

Published: WedWed 17 Apr 2024 at 9:00pmwith Beverley Wang

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Duration: 34 minutes 12 seconds

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Jojo Siwa and Dave Chang's chili crunch are really going for it

Jojo Siwa's ditched her giant bow for a glam rock makeover, celebrity chef David Chang's chili crunch trademark grab is flaring nostrils, and a viral essay making the case for marrying an older man — have left us wondering 'What the hell are they…

A woman dressed in a black unitard poses on stares, she's staring into the camera and smiling

Duration: 33 minutes 18 seconds

Published: 10 Apr 2024Wed 10 Apr 2024 at 9:00pmwith Beverley Wang

All our thoughts on Beyoncé's Cowboy Carter

Well, a good chunk of them at least. Guest critic and elite Beyhive member Maria Lewis is in to help decode the layers of meaning in Beyoncé's latest album, Act II: Cowboy Carter, a country album that transcends the country genre.

Beyonce on a white horse, carrying an American flag and wearing red, blue and white, with a white cowboy hat on

Duration: 36 minutes 34 seconds

Published: 3 Apr 2024Wed 3 Apr 2024 at 10:15pmwith Beverley Wang

Alone Australia S2 drops Aussies in NZ

We're talking about SBS' hit survival show Alone Australia, because season two has just kicked off, with 10 Aussies dropped into the wilderness of Te Waipounamu, the South Island of Aotearoa/New Zealand.

A group of people are gathered together sitting on green moss in front of a tree

Duration: 39 minutes 41 seconds

Published: 27 Mar 2024Wed 27 Mar 2024 at 8:00pmwith Beverley Wang

Drag Race's Michelle Visage on RuPaul, living your truth and the art of critique

RuPaul's Drag Race royalty is in The House of Stop Everything! Michelle Visage, Drag Race judge and incoming host of Drag Race Down Under, is this episode's guest critic.

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Duration: 27 minutes 30 seconds

Published: 20 Mar 2024Wed 20 Mar 2024 at 8:00pmwith Beverley Wang

Feature Articles

When Jennifer Lopez dance-montages her way through three failed marriages, it's breathtaking

Jennifer Lopez reclaims her wild rollercoaster of a love life from our judgmental gaze in new musical This Is Me … Now.

Jennifer Lopez wears a flower garland and carries a bouquet as she walks down an aisle surrounded by dances forming an arch.

Published: 19 Feb 2024Mon 19 Feb 2024 at 3:55amby Beverley Wang

Yes, I know mumfluencer videos show me an unattainable ideal. But can I give them up?

From Ballerina Farm to Nara Smith, we can't help but fixate on the perfect lives of mumfluencers, no matter how problematic. But, for my own wellbeing, I need to look away.

Illustration of a woman applying makeup in a mirror with a crying baby on her hip, flames all around them, phone glowing

Published: 5 Feb 2024Mon 5 Feb 2024 at 11:50pmby Hannah Reich

The US screen industry is facing an existential crisis. Is Australia next?

Australian screenwriters and actors say our local industry provides a worrying blueprint for their US counterparts, as a reckoning over royalties and writer's rooms begins to brew here.

The cast of Heartbreak High pose on set in colourful outfits.

Published: 19 Sep 2023Tue 19 Sep 2023 at 2:02amby Hannah Reich

'If you're a lover of cinema, Barbie is cinema': A guide to the cultural moment that is Barbie

It's produced by Margot Robbie, directed by Greta Gerwig and stars Issa Rae as President Barbie — and it's become a cultural moment before it even opens in cinemas. Here's what you need to know.

The actor Margot Robbie in a pink dress and long blonde hair playing the character Barbie in the movie, standing in a pink set

Published: 18 Jul 2023Tue 18 Jul 2023 at 10:11pmby Hannah Reich

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