Roundtable: Stranger Things, Black Friday, and Christmas Wish Lists

Roundtable: Stranger Things, Black Friday, and Christmas Wish Lists

Three Big Conversations:

  1. Season 5 of Stranger Things is already Netflix's biggest English-language release. - 09:08
  2. 2025 Black Friday shopping cost more but yielded less. - 29:30
  3. Making sense of expensive Christmas wish lists for Gen Z and Gen Alpha. - 29:30

Song of the Week - "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree" by Brenda Lee - 1:10

In Other News... 53:52

Oxford named "rage bait" as its word of the year and the internet immediately proved their point by fighting about it. It's officially "Wrapped" season as Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube, Twitch, and many others put nice packaging on all the user-data they gathered this year. Sabrina Carpenter and the White House have beef. On Monday, the White House social media team posted a video of ICE agents making arrests with Carpenter's song, "Juno" playing in the background. Carpenter responded with disgust. Do you know the band Geese? Some are calling them "Gen Z's Nirvana" and the generation's "first great rock band." On TikTok, the word "genuinely" (language) has now become a comically overused way to emphasize anything and everything.

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Roundtable: The Super Bowl, The Grammys, and Etsy Witches

Roundtable: The Super Bowl, The Grammys, and Etsy Witches

Three Big Conversations: The Grammys offered a chaotic celebration of modern music. - 8:08 "Etsy witches" are getting kicked off of Etsy. - 21:12 Sports betting looms large over Super Bowl LX this Su...

6 Feb 55min

CT: The Super Bowl, The Grammys, and Etsy Witches

CT: The Super Bowl, The Grammys, and Etsy Witches

The Grammys offered a chaotic celebration of modern music, "Etsy witches" are getting kicked off of Etsy, and sports betting looms large over Super Bowl LX this Sunday. Song of the Week: "Aperture" by...

5 Feb 9min

Pure Desire's Nick Stumbo on Healing Your Sexual Story

Pure Desire's Nick Stumbo on Healing Your Sexual Story

Nick Stumbo is the Executive Director of Pure Desire, an organization that exists to provide hope, freedom, and healing from compulsive sexual behavior and betrayal trauma through Jesus Christ. Their ...

3 Feb 49min

Roundtable: TikTok Censorship, The Rise of Sad Music, and Antisocial Media

Roundtable: TikTok Censorship, The Rise of Sad Music, and Antisocial Media

Three Big Conversations: TikTok has a new US owner, which users worry is muddying the platform's approach to censorship. - 10:16 Data shows that sad and angsty songs are ruling the streaming charts. ...

30 Jan 55min

CT: TikTok Censorship, Popular Sad Music, and Antisocial Media

CT: TikTok Censorship, Popular Sad Music, and Antisocial Media

TikTok has a new US owner, which users worry is muddying the platform's approach to censorship; data shows that sad and angsty songs are ruling the streaming charts, and it's official: our algorithms ...

29 Jan 8min

Jenna Mindel on Slang, Cultural Trends, and Discipling the Next Generation

Jenna Mindel on Slang, Cultural Trends, and Discipling the Next Generation

Jenna is a writer and content creator based in Orange County, California. She works at Axis as a content specialist. She is currently working on a Master's in Spiritual Formation and Soul Care at Talb...

27 Jan 50min

Roundtable: 2016 Nostalgia, Mental Health Improvements, and Voice Memos

Roundtable: 2016 Nostalgia, Mental Health Improvements, and Voice Memos

Three Big Conversations: Nostalgia for 2016 hits social media. - 8:54 Some hopeful, if complicated, mental health statistics about college students. - 24:40 Teens would rather send a voice note than ...

23 Jan 57min

CT: 2016 Nostalgia, Mental Health Improvements, and Voice Memos

CT: 2016 Nostalgia, Mental Health Improvements, and Voice Memos

Nostalgia for 2016 hits social media, some hopeful, if complicated, mental health statistics about college students, and teens would rather send a voice note than make a phone call. Slang of the Week ...

22 Jan 8min

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