Roundtable: Goodnight Phone Calls, Annabelle, and Gen Z Tech Restrictions
Release Date: 05/30/2025
Roundtable: I Have One Daughter, Tea Dating Advice, and The Fantastic Four
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Three Big Conversations: A TikTok creator named Lewky takes idiotic dating app exchanges and turns them into the social media app Tea which allows women to share red flags about specific men Marvel’s explores the power of family bonds in the face of total annihilation Slang of the Week - "Chopped" Elsewhere in culture: Memes about Ozzy Osbourne dying and being reincarnated as a baby named started trending. Twitch streamer Ninja with 19 million followers. Labubu plushies are now , selling for up to $170,000. The book series will be adapted into an Amazon TV show. is the new social...
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CT: I Have One Daughter, Tea Dating Advice, and The Fantastic Four
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A TikTok creator named Lewky takes idiotic dating app exchanges and turns them into , the social media app which allows women to share red flags about specific men gets hacked, and Marvel’s explores the power of family bonds in the face of total annihilation. Welcome to the Roundtable. Slang of the Week - "Chopped" Elsewhere in culture: Memes about Ozzy Osbourne dying and being reincarnated as a baby named started trending. Twitch streamer Ninja with 19 million followers. Labubu plushies are now , selling for up to $170,000. The book series will be adapted into an Amazon TV show. is...
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Roland Warren on Why Being Pro-Life Is Not Enough
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After 20 years in the corporate world (with IBM, Pepsi and Goldman Sachs), Roland Warren spent 11 years as president of the National Fatherhood Initiative before joining Care Net in 2012 as president and CEO. A graduate of Princeton University and the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania, Roland is an inspirational servant leader with a heart for Christ and a mind for business. His new book is called For more Axis resources, go to .
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Roundtable: Septum Theory, the Coldplay Kiss Cam, and Short-Form Videos
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Three Big Conversations: The term is being used online to suggest that women with septum piercings make trauma their whole personality - 13:16 What the footage going viral says about our culture - 32:44 Why are going from social media to news outlets and other publications - 50:44 Song of the Week - -1:12 Elsewhere in culture: - 1:02:46 Netflix officially an Assassin’s Creed live-action series, said the new Donkey Kong Bananza game is “shockingly good,” Superman may have just murdered , Stranger Things star Sadie Sink is executive producing a modern reimagining of The Crucible...
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CT: Septum Theory, the Coldplay Kiss Cam, and Short-Form Videos
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The term is being used online to suggest that women with septum piercings make trauma their whole personality, what the going viral says about our culture, and are going from social media to news outlets and other publications. Song of the Week - To read the lyrics click (language). Elsewhere in culture: Netflix officially an Assassin’s Creed live-action series, said the new Donkey Kong Bananza game is “shockingly good,” Superman may have just murdered , Stranger Things star Sadie Sink is executive producing a modern reimagining of The Crucible called , and comedian Shane Gillis...
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Ask Axis: "How do we encourage free play without moral anarchy?"
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Eric writes in with this question: “We have had issues with seeking to encourage the type of free play that Jonathan Haidt discusses in the Anxious Generation with children AND their parents who have not done the moral formation to know what is appropriate on the playground or in free spaces. When parents haven’t done the formative work, those kids seem to struggle the most with free play with others. Would love to know more about how to square that circle of less oversight when kids don’t have the “chests” to use Lewis’ language of moral character and formation.” For more Axis...
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Roundtable: The Gen Z Stare, Superman, and Grok
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Three Big Converserations: The “Gen Z Stare” was a on TikTok this week, as generations debated social expectations and faux pas - 22:12 What it is: James Gunn’s Superman is the genesis for a , domestically and $217 million worldwide in its opening weekend - 40:40 A to xAI’s chatbot Grok resulted in the AI praising Hitler and sexually harassing others on X - 57:08 Song of the Week: - 0:24 Click for the lyrics. Elsewhere in culture: - 13:54 An AI-generated protest song called “” is trending on Spotify, the 2025 Emmy nominees were with the show Severance receiving a...
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CT: The Gen Z Stare, Superman, and Grok
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Generations are debating why Gen Z so often at people who ask them questions, the new Superman movie is for its sincerity, and what it means that the AI chatbot Grok went and started praising Hitler. Song of the Week: Click for the lyrics. Elsewhere in culture: An AI-generated protest song called “” is trending on Spotify, the 2025 Emmy nominees were with the show Severance receiving a 27 different nominations, people online debated whether giving girlfriends the “” was chivalrous or patronizing, more people started using the “Solid Snake method" of conversation which...
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Bible Project’s Dr. Tim Mackie on Making Sense of the Bible
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Dr. Tim Mackie serves as the lead scholar and creative director for BibleProject. Tim’s spiritual journey began when, as a teenager, he met a group of skateboarders who were creatively communicating the story of the Bible. With his brand-new faith, Tim enrolled at Multnomah University. After taking classes in biblical studies, he became fascinated with the Scriptural story of Jesus. Determined to deepen his understanding of Jesus’ cultural and historical context, Tim went on to pursue a degree in theology at Western Seminary in Portland, and a PhD in Hebrew Bible and Jewish Studies at...
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Roundtable: KPop Demon Hunters, Porn Age-Verification, and Tragedy in Texas
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Three Big Conversations: The U.S. Supreme Court recently a Texas law requiring actual age verification for access to pornographic websites - 13:58 An animated film called “KPop Demon Hunters” released on Netflix, and it's been dominating both music and video - 32:28 Communities in Texas are reeling from grief as the death toll from last weekend’s flash floods continues to climb. At least two dozen victims were children attending the Christian, all-girls camp known as Camp Mystic - 44:54 Resource of the Week - (Youtube) - 0:25 Elsewhere in culture: - 08:57 A new report claims...
info_outline- A new trend involves young men calling each other to say goodnight (11:22)
- A supposedly haunted doll named Annabelle is blamed for a plantation burning down (33:20)
- Gen Zers explain why they would give significant restrictions on technology to their own kids (48:28)
Meme of the Week: "Holy Airball" (0:26)
Elsewhere in culture (5:02):
- Lilo & Stitch had a bigger box office opening than the new Mission: Impossible movie
- A newly published study from JAMA found that social media use can predict depression but that depression doesn't necessarily predict social media use
- Transformers Director Michael Bay plans to direct a Skibidi Toilet movie
- Dr. Jordan Peterson debated 20 atheists simultaneously in a Jubilee video
- And, New York influencer @justjazzzyidk posted 20 TikToks on her own wedding day.