Three Big Conversations:

1. Nostalgia for 2016 hits social media. - 8:54
2. Some hopeful, if complicated, mental health statistics about college students. - 24:40
3. Teens would rather send a voice note than make a phone call. - 38:08

Slang of the Week - Ragebait - 1:48

In Other News: - 54:22

The Indiana Hoosiers won an electrifying College Football Playoff National Championship on Monday, punctuated by an iconic, fourth-down touchdown run from Heisman winner Fernando Mendoza. BookTok's beloved People We Meet on Vacation, an Emily Henry book-to-movie adaptation, has debuted at No.1 on the Netflix film chart with 17.2m views. A new trend on TikTok involves impersonating owls. "Bringing random items to school" is a TikTok trend where kids pull increasingly unhinged objects out of their backpacks purely for laughs. The tremendous success of a stationery store in Chicago is being hailed as indicative of the "return to analog" trend, as the popularity of journals, calligraphy, and sending snail mail letters surges.

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