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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