Roundtable: Pokémon Cards, Punch the Monkey, and Family Resilience
Release Date: 02/27/2026
Freya India on How to Care for Teen Girls in a Digital Age
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Freya is the author of the Substack GIRLS, where she writes about the challenges girls and young women face in the modern world. She’s also a staff writer for Jonathan Haidt’s newsletter, After Babel. She has contributed to publications including The New Statesman, The Spectator, and The Free Press. Today, we are going to be discussing her debut book, GIRLS, Generation Z and the commodification of everything, which will be out in the US in May. Her book serves as both an account of her upbringing in the digital age, as well as an inside look for parents and caring adults about what...
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Roundtable: Birdwatching, Snapchat Posting, and Ruthlessly Eliminating Hurry
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Three Big Conversations: Teens are - 13:12 Posting on - 26:50 from John Mark Comer - 41:34 Song of the Week: - 2:08 → Click to read the lyrics (language). → Click to watch The Conversation Starter on Offline Hobbies. In other news: - 58:36 Young people are their Bachelor’s or Master’s degrees, finishing them in as quickly as three months, as less traditional forms of University attendance become more popular. Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream is the in Nintendo’s oddest series, which plays as a mix between The Sims and Animal Crossing, and its brand of social...
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CT: Birdwatching, Snapchat Posting, and Ruthlessly Eliminating Hurry
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Teens are , posting on , and from John Mark Comer. Song of the Week: → Click to read the lyrics (language). In other news: Young people are their Bachelor’s or Master’s degrees, finishing them in as quickly as three months, as less traditional forms of University attendance become more popular. Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream is the in Nintendo’s oddest series, which plays as a mix between The Sims and Animal Crossing, and its brand of social engineering makes for a lot of . Coachella continued into its , highlighted by Justin Bieber inviting Billie Eilish on stage,...
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Roundtable: We will be back with you next week!
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This week, we’re taking a break from the Axis Conversations podcast—including the Roundtable, Ask Axis, and our interview series. We are meeting with members of our Axis community to dream and pray together about this upcoming year and beyond. We appreciate your support, and we’re excited to see you back here next Thursday and Friday, when our regular schedule will resume—including the CT Audio Podcast and the Culture Translator Roundtable! See you then! - The Axis Team 🎧 Listen / Follow / Connect → Become a monthly donor today, join → Check out the podcast now on our ...
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CT: Bieber Headlines Coachella, Teen Texts Go Emo, and AI Jesus
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People are paying to talk to an , texts from teens make , and of why he became a pop star in the first place. But first: Resource of the Week - Check out our YouTube Episode → In Other News: In a strange TikTok trend (as opposed to a normal one), young men are seeing how far they can for social media clout as they film themselves dodging security and sprinting deep into the buildings of the secretive pseudoreligion. The Drama, starring Zendaya and Robert Pattinson, is on track to become the fifth A24 title to cross the $100 million mark, according to . Sunrise on the...
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Dr. Amy Adamczyk on The Scientifically Proven Influence of Parents
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Amy Amy Adamczykis Professor of Sociology at John Jay College of Criminal Justice and the Programs of Doctoral Study in Sociology and Criminal Justice at The Graduate Center, City University of New York. Trained as a sociologist of religion, her research focuses on how different contexts (such as nations, counties, friendship groups), and personal religious beliefs shape people’s deviant, moral, and health-related attitudes and behaviors. We’ll be talking today primarily about the findings from her book 🎧 Listen / Follow / Connect → Become a monthly donor today, join → Check...
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Roundtable: The Night We Met, Pimple Patches, and Super Mario
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Three Big Conversations: The is BookTok’s latest darling - 6:30 teenagers are in public - 20:16 brought tweens to the box office on Easter weekend - 28:16 Slang of the Week - - 1:58 In Other News: - 41:34 A squishy stress-relieving toy has taken over the internet, and they are sold out everywhere. It’s safe to say that teens and tweens are . Olivia Rodrigo her first single from the album is called “drop dead” and will be out on April 17. Anticipation is building for I Have Proof, a new horror movie that will be recording on old VHS tapes. purchased 30 tapes from...
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CT: The Night We Met, Pimple Patches, and Super Mario
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The is BookTok’s latest darling, teenagers are in public, and brought tweens to the box office on Easter weekend. Slang of the Week - In Other News: A squishy stress-relieving toy has taken over the internet, and they are sold out everywhere. It’s safe to say that teens and tweens are . Olivia Rodrigo her first single from the album is called “drop dead” and will be out on April 17. Anticipation is building for I Have Proof, a new horror movie that will be recording on old VHS tapes. purchased 30 tapes from eBay and recorded the movie over people’s old home...
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Ask Axis: “How do I help my daughters decide which influences (and influencers) to embrace?”
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“Thanks for your awesome content. As a father of 3 girls in a hybrid homeschool setting (they are in a classroom two days a week), we are fairly sheltered from outside influences/influencers. I would love practical advice on how and when to guide my girls in developing good judgement and discernment regarding which influences to embrace and which to ignore.” - Matthew 🎧 Listen / Follow / Connect → Become a monthly donor today, join → Check out the podcast now on our → Get your question on Ask Axis! Send in your questions to . → For more Axis resources, go to .
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Roundtable: 90s Fashion Boom, Meaningmaxxing, and Easter
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Three Big Conversations: Teens are inspired by the - 08:22 Everybody, everywhere is - 21:34 The meaning of Easter might feel lost somewhere in the - 37:28 Song of the Week - - 02:50 → Click for the lyrics In Other News: - 54:16 If you thought the popularity of wouldn’t survive into 2026, look no further than your McDonald's, which has Huntr/x and Saja Boys themed meals (and a Derpy the Tiger McFlurry). With the , NASA is sending astronauts to the moon for the first time since the Apollo missions (over 50 years ago!). The four astronauts won’t land on Luna, just...
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- A Pokémon card sells for $16.4 million - 3:15
- Barna research sheds light on the three things resilient families prioritize - 19:04
- Everyone seems to relate to an abandoned monkey in a Japanese zoo - 33:22
Resource of the Week - Conversation Starter - YouTube Video - 1:42
In Other News.. - 46:06
USA hockey set viewership records at the Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics, with both men's and women’s teams winning gold, setting hockey up to hang on to its place as the fourth most-followed sport in the US—at least, until the FIFA World Cup in Los Angeles enters the chat. The so-called “boy blush” trend is gaining traction, with artists like Sangwon and Bad Bunny wearing noticeable blush on major stages, and teen boys increasingly experimenting with makeup as part of their personal style. A TikTok meme called “baby boo” started with people dancing to a clip that repeats “she gon’ call me baby boo” and has since morphed into users calling it “baby boo syndrome.” Eric Dane, known for his roles in Grey’s Anatomy and Euphoria, passed away on February 19, one year after announcing his ALS diagnosis. Since then, TikTok has filled with edits of his most emotional scenes. At the BAFTA film awards, a guest with Tourette's syndrome involuntarily shouted a racial slur while Michael B. Jordan and Delroy Lindo were onstage. The moment sparked conversations about the real harm that racial slurs carry for Black people, alongside questions about the awareness around Tourette’s and the responsibility of live broadcasting.
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