Axis Conversations

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Each week on Axis Conversations, we survey cultural trends, host expert interviews, and answer listener questions to help parents and caring adults understand and disciple the next generation

  1. 6d ago

    CT: Midterm Elections, The World's Youngest F1 Champion, and Watching YouTube on School iPads

    Kimi Antonelli becomes the world's youngest F1 champion, what teens are really watching on their school-issued devices , and how to talk to the next generation about the midterms. Resource of the Week: Advent In Other News: Nintendo's remake of the iconic and influential Ocarina of Time is out this week, and critics are raving about the return to the musical and time-twisting game.After nearly a year of delays, The Cat in the Hat film starring Bill Hader is finally out. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the Dr. Seuss adaptation captures the silliness of the book, but misses the charm.Screentests have wrapped for British cinema's most coveted role: James Bond, Agent 007. While an official decision still hasn't been made, Callum Turner appears to be the favorite, potentially beating out other big names like Jack Lowden, Josh O'Connor, and Robert Pattinson. "Disney Adults" have gotten a rebrand. "Disney Cool Girls" are decidedly less earnest in their Disney-inspired outfits (think sporting a Mickey keychain instead of Mickey ears), and more casual about their love of the park. Elon Musk says that Neuralink's Blindsight implant, designed to help those who are blind gain (or regain) their vision, is ready for the world. However, he still has to wait on regulation before it can officially go to market. 🎧 Listen / Follow / Connect → Become a monthly donor today, join the Table. → Check out the podcast now on our YouTube Channel! → Get your question on Ask Axis! Send in your questions to ask@axis.org. → For more Axis resources, go to axis.org.

  2. Nov 3

    Beyond Meta's Teen Safety Settlement: Living a Tech Life Worth Copying with Andy Crouch

    Andy Crouch is a partner for theology and culture at Praxis, which is a venture-building ecosystem advancing redemptive entrepreneurship. His writing explores faith, culture, and the image of God in the domains of technology, power, leadership, and the arts. He is the author of several books, but most recently, The Life We're Looking For: Reclaiming Relationship in a Technological World. 🎧 Listen / Follow / Connect → This podcast is entirely Q&A based! Send in your questions to ask@axis.org. → Become a monthly donor today, join the Table. → Check out the podcast now on our YouTube Channel! → Get your question on Ask Axis! Send in your questions to ask@axis.org. → For more Axis resources, go to axis.org.

  3. Oct 30

    Roundtable: CaseOh vs. TheBurntPeanut, Protests in France, and Niche Halloween Costumes

    Three Big Conversations: Meet the Twitch livestreamers taking over YouTube - 6:00 how the riots in France are translating onto social media - 22:58 get ready for a hyper-specific Halloween. - 39:04 Slang of the Week: "Booooo" - 00:48 Click here for: The Conversation Starter: Looksmaxxing In Other News: - 45:50 JAŸ-Z, who once rapped, "I said no to the Super Bowl. You need me, I don't need you," is the official halftime performer of 2027's Super Bowl.The Milwaukee Brewers defeated the Tampa Bay Rays Wednesday night to earn their first ever World Series title, and more people watched than expected!The finale of YouTuber Amelia Dimoldenberg's hit interview show Chicken Shop Date, where she interviews celebrities on, well, a date in a chicken shop, is getting a one-night theatrical release.Dictionary.com's word of the year is "maxxing," which is technically a suffix, not a complete word. ☝️🤓(It's a little better than last year's, which was 6-7). Also, we made a YouTube video about Looksmaxxing. Jennifer Lawrence has had quite the week, making Dancing with the Stars contestant Connor Wood crash out (in a good way), appearing on the podcast Call Her Daddy (confirming that she's in the forthcoming The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping), and getting meme'd over her deadpan stare in the announcement of her haircare line. 🎧 Listen / Follow / Connect → Become a monthly donor today, join the Table. → Check out the podcast now on our YouTube Channel! → Get your question on Ask Axis! Send in your questions to ask@axis.org. → For more Axis resources, go to axis.org.

  4. Oct 30

    CT: CaseOh vs. TheBurntPeanut, Protests in France, and Niche Halloween Costumes

    Meet the Twitch livestreamers taking over YouTube, how the riots in France are translating onto social media, and get ready for a hyper-specific Halloween. Slang of the Week: "Booooo" Click here for: The Conversation Starter: Looksmaxxing In Other News: JAŸ-Z, who once rapped, "I said no to the Super Bowl. You need me, I don't need you," is the official halftime performer of 2027's Super Bowl.The Milwaukee Brewers defeated the Tampa Bay Rays Wednesday night to earn their first ever World Series title, and more people watched than expected!The finale of YouTuber Amelia Dimoldenberg's hit interview show Chicken Shop Date, where she interviews celebrities on, well, a date in a chicken shop, is getting a one-night theatrical release.Dictionary.com's word of the year is "maxxing," which is technically a suffix, not a complete word. ☝️🤓(It's a little better than last year's, which was 6-7). Also, we made a YouTube video about Looksmaxxing. Jennifer Lawrence has had quite the week, making Dancing with the Stars contestant Connor Wood crash out (in a good way), appearing on the podcast Call Her Daddy (confirming that she's in the forthcoming The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping), and getting meme'd over her deadpan stare in the announcement of her haircare line. 🎧 Listen / Follow / Connect → Become a monthly donor today, join the Table. → Check out the podcast now on our YouTube Channel! → Get your question on Ask Axis! Send in your questions to ask@axis.org. → For more Axis resources, go to axis.org.

  5. Oct 23

    Roundtable: The Tesla Rocket Car, Friction in Teens' Faith, and Why Gendered Messaging Often Backfires

    Three Big Conversations: Cars are (briefly) flying- 04:12 teens who engage with their faith wrestle more with hard topics- 12:14 why championing a female winner's gender might not inspire more girls to compete.- 25:58 Slang of the Week - "Diff" - 00:56 In Other News: - 37:24 The Nathan Fielder documentary feature film You Can See Everything, focusing on disgraced (and convicted) Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes, is the darling of critics and fans alike, boasting nearly perfect scores on Metacritic, Rotten Tomatoes, and the user-review app Letterboxd (possible language in user reviews). Electronic Arts is shutting down Bioware, the once-revered game studio that arguably defined the modern role-playing genre with iconic and influential games like Baldur's Gate, Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, and Mass Effect. Youth baseball is becoming even more expensive, as MLB styles, complete with things like gold chains and custom gloves, are becoming the standard. Paying five figures for a travel league is just the beginning now (exasperated tone). Popular YouTube crew Dude Perfect is entering into an official partnership with Disney, with some of their existing content coming to Disney+ and exclusive content being planned around Avengers Doomsday, Star Wars, and even the Super Bowl. The reign of the gummy could be at an end, with the rather dystopian-sounding "supplement strips" rising in popularity. Fans argue the strips are easier to take than pills and have less sugar than gummies. 🎧 Listen / Follow / Connect → Become a monthly donor today, join the Table. → Check out the podcast now on our YouTube Channel! → Get your question on Ask Axis! Send in your questions to ask@axis.org. → For more Axis resources, go to axis.org.

  6. Oct 23

    CT: The Tesla Rocket Car, Friction in Teens' Faith, and Why Gendered Messaging Often Backfires

    Cars are (briefly) flying, teens who engage with their faith wrestle more with hard topics, and why championing a female winner's gender might not inspire more girls to compete. Slang of the Week - "Diff" In Other News: The Nathan Fielder documentary feature film You Can See Everything, focusing on disgraced (and convicted) Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes, is the darling of critics and fans alike, boasting nearly perfect scores on Metacritic, Rotten Tomatoes, and the user-review app Letterboxd (possible language in user reviews). Electronic Arts is shutting down Bioware, the once-revered game studio that arguably defined the modern role-playing genre with iconic and influential games like Baldur's Gate, Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, and Mass Effect. Youth baseball is becoming even more expensive, as MLB styles, complete with things like gold chains and custom gloves, are becoming the standard. Paying five figures for a travel league is just the beginning now (exasperated tone). Popular YouTube crew Dude Perfect is entering into an official partnership with Disney, with some of their existing content coming to Disney+ and exclusive content being planned around Avengers Doomsday, Star Wars, and even the Super Bowl. The reign of the gummy could be at an end, with the rather dystopian-sounding "supplement strips" rising in popularity. Fans argue the strips are easier to take than pills and have less sugar than gummies. 🎧 Listen / Follow / Connect → Become a monthly donor today, join the Table. → Check out the podcast now on our YouTube Channel! → Get your question on Ask Axis! Send in your questions to ask@axis.org. → For more Axis resources, go to axis.org.

  7. Oct 20

    How Welcoming Every "Part" of Ourselves Can Transform Our Faith and Parenting (with Jenna Riemersma)

    Jenna Riemersma is a certified IFS (or Internal Family Systems) therapist and IFS clinical consultant. She is the best-selling author of Altogether You and IFS Integration, and the developer of the Move Toward shorthand tool for IFS therapy. We'll be talking today about her book Move Toward: A Simplified IFS Therapy Tool to Welcome All Parts of You.  🎧 Listen / Follow / Connect → This podcast is entirely Q&A based! Send in your questions to ask@axis.org. → Become a monthly donor today, join the Table. → Check out the podcast now on our YouTube Channel! → Get your question on Ask Axis! Send in your questions to ask@axis.org. → For more Axis resources, go to axis.org.

  8. Oct 16

    Roundtable: PlayStation 5 Prices, Girls' Flag Football, and Why AI Researchers Are Smoking Cigs

    Three Big Conversations: PlayStation 5 consoles cost more than they ever have - 13:34 girls-only flag football leagues are taking root nationwide 20:54 the surprising reason tech employees are taking up smoking. - 29:55 Song of the Week: "Boston" by Stella Lefty - 00:48 In Other News: - 40:34 The first trailer for Greta Gerwig's film adaptation of C.S. Lewis's The Magician's Nephew, featuring Led Zeppelin and multi-colored, psychedelic visuals, is available for all to see (and have divided opinions about). Have you heard "Higher" by Creed more in the past two years than you ever did in the 2000s? Apparently Instagram was suggesting the song too much. We'll let you decide whether this was a genuine software bug or an intentional Creed psyop. Dressmaker, a video game about, well, making dresses, is the talk of the (internet) town this week. Even if consoles are getting more expensive, wholesome indie "cozy games" that run on your pre-COVID laptop will never die. Speaking of wholesome, "bloomscrolling," an awkwardly named counterpoint to doomscrolling, is catching on. The goal is to fill your feed with "uplifting, calming, or inspiring content." Will this make you feel better than doomscrolling? Probably. Would it be better to just go experience those things in person? Also probably. Mike Flanagan's television adaptation of Carrie has dominated Prime Video's streaming charts this week. It's a modern take on the twisted coming-of-age story and doesn't pull its punches with language and intense depictions of bullying. 🎧 Listen / Follow / Connect → Become a monthly donor today, join the Table. → Check out the podcast now on our YouTube Channel! → Get your question on Ask Axis! Send in your questions to ask@axis.org. → For more Axis resources, go to axis.org.

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