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

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

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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 ...

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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 ...

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Ask Axis: "Should we encourage teens to go to parties?"

Ask Axis: "Should we encourage teens to go to parties?"

A question on "camp skits not aging well." Libby asks, "We generally have just substituted current pop culture references into old skits to bring them up to date. But it's so necessary right now to he...

20 Jan 7min

Roundtable: Trade School, Grok Deepfakes, Fiber vs. Protein

Roundtable: Trade School, Grok Deepfakes, Fiber vs. Protein

Three Big Conversations: Gen Z heads to trade school en masse - 05:14 The controversy around Grok's creation of deepfake images - 21:26 Fiber is the new protein - 42:00 Slang of the Week: "Choppelga...

16 Jan 57min

CT: Trade School, Fiber vs. Protein, and Grok Deepfakes

CT: Trade School, Fiber vs. Protein, and Grok Deepfakes

Gen Z heads to trade school en masse, fiber is the new protein, and the controversy around Grok's creation of deepfake images. Slang of the Week: "Choppelganger" --> Check out the defenition in our re...

15 Jan 10min

Ask Axis: "How do I talk to my teens about swearing?"

Ask Axis: "How do I talk to my teens about swearing?"

"I recently had a conversation with my teen son about how words he (and everyone else) uses regularly were not considered ok when I was growing up. Can you speak to how language has changed and what i...

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