"How do you get your tween daighter to talk and share things about her day, her friends and school?" - Erin

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Three Big Converserations:

1. A new cooperative game called Peak requires players to climb a mountain together - 10:00
2. the psychological thriller We Were Liars has teens weeping on TikTok - 22:14
3. posts about going #monkmode are romanticizing the minimalistic life of the monastery - 31:40

Resource of the Week - The Pour Over- 9:07

Elsewhere in culture:

A new TikTok trend involves saying the phrase “bacon avocado” as a prelude to your actual message, Jurassic Park: Rebirth debuts in theaters this week, the humanoid robot Neo is learning how to do laundry and walk up stairs, a Supreme Court ruling will allow parents to opt their elementary-aged kids out of LGBTQ+ instruction, and today marks the 249th 4th of July holiday in the United States!

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A new cooperative game called Peak requires players to climb a mountain together, the psychological thriller We Were Liars has teens weeping on TikTok, and posts about going #monkmode are romanticizing the minimalistic life of the monastery.

Resource of the Week - The Pour Over

Elsewhere in culture:

A new TikTok trend involves saying the phrase “bacon avocado” as a prelude to your actual message, Jurassic Park: Rebirth debuts in theaters this week, the humanoid robot Neo is learning how to do laundry and walk up stairs, a Supreme Court ruling will allow parents to opt their elementary-aged kids out of LGBTQ+ instruction, and today marks the 249th 4th of July holiday in the United States!

For more Axis resources, go to axis.org.

Molly Worthen is a professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a freelance journalist. She teaches courses on North American religion and politics, global Christianity, and the history of ideas. She writes on these themes for The New York Times and has contributed to The New Yorker, Slate, The American Prospect, Foreign Policy, and other publications. She has also created video and audio courses on the history of Christianity and the history of charismatic leadership for the Great Courses and Audible. Her new book is called Spellbound: How Charisma Shaped American History from the Puritans to Donald Trump.

Check out the book Spellbound.

For more Axis resources, go to axis.org.

Three Big Conversations:

1. AI-generated videos of people cutting and eating glass fruit are trending on social media - 18:55
2. the movie 28 Years Later makes the 28-numbered zombie saga worse - 30:10
3. TikTokers are reminiscing about 90s summer—whether or not they actually experienced it - 52:38

Song of the Week: “Manchild” - Sabrina Carpenter - 0:35

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Elsewhere in culture: - 12:38

AI-generated “Would You Rather?” videos involving fruit with special powers began trending on TikTok, the live-action How to Train Your Dragon movie continued to be a theatrical success, Netflix’s “Trainwreck” anthology landed documentaries about Astroworld and the so-called “Poop Cruise” in the top 10, people on #BookTok defended annotating books, and teens shared memes about World War 3.

For more Axis resources, go to axis.org.

AI-generated videos of people cutting and sometimes eating glass fruit are trending on social media, the movie 28 Years Later makes the 28-numbered zombie saga worse, and TikTokers are reminiscing about 90s summer—whether or not they actually experienced it.

Song of the Week: “Manchild” - Sabrina Carpenter

Click here for the lyrics.

Elsewhere in culture:

AI-generated “Would You Rather?” videos involving fruit with special powers began trending on TikTok, the live-action How to Train Your Dragon movie continued to be a theatrical success, Netflix’s “Trainwreck” anthology landed documentaries about Astroworld and the so-called “Poop Cruise” in the top 10, people on #BookTok defended annotating books, and teens shared memes about World War 3.

For more Axis resources, go to axis.org.

"I’ve been struck lately about how much teenage boys are getting into poker and gambling, even from good Christian families. Unfortunately, some of them are doing well, and gaining money doing it… I feel that is dangerous. Is it just something fun to do, or is it a bad habit that will develop into something else? These boys come from very well to do families, so I feel that they don’t know how to work for money, or would prefer to just gamble in poker, or in the stock market to get their money.” - Anita

This podcast is entirely Q&A based! Send in your questions to ask@axis.org.

And for more resources, go to axis.org.

As we broaden the scope of this podcast to include some fun new things, you will see this feed has changed to Axis Conversations!

This will be the schedule you can expect:

Interviews - Every other Tuesday

Ask Axis (Our new show!) - Every other Tuesday (Alternating)

The Culture Translator (CT Audio) - Every Thursday

The Culture Translator Roundtable - Every Friday

We are excited to continue to provide engaging resources including our new show Ask Axis premiering tomorrow!

For more Axis resources, go to axis.org.