Have you ever felt unequipped and in the dark when it comes to what’s going on in your teen’s world?

Come take a deep dive with us into some of the biggest topics in today’s culture – from music to movies to TV to social media, and everything in between. Each episode will focus on one relevant piece of pop culture, digging under the surface to discuss why teens like it, what it’s about, and the deeper themes and meaning behind it.

This podcast will give you everything you need to know to make conversations with your kid count.

Launching in December 2022

 This week we are taking a deeper dive into a New York Times op-ed calling for a return to courtship, family set-ups, and paid match-makers,  how using tech to communicate can make our interactions more shallow, and the show "Cyberpunk: Edgerunners". 

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This week we take a deeper dive into Notion templates, Twitch's announcement that they are banning streams featuring unlicensed gambling sites, and a new book on the Mappiness Project.

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This week we are taking a deeper dive into Apple launching the ability to unsend text messages, the lingering stresses of the COVID 19 pandemic raising the prevelance of nightmares, and tips for how to spot a teen who may be headed for a mental health crisis.

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This week we are taking a deeper dive into the Rings of Power taking over streaming, Mr. Beast's new burger joint, and some online communities rewarding posts about symptoms and sickness. 

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This week we are taking a deeper dive into how Instagram's "Close Friends" feature is keeping people on the app, what makes a song or soundbyte go viral on TikTok, and a dark way some teens are alluding to not wanting to go back to school. 

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This week we are taking a deeper dive into an influencer campaign to boycott Amazon, the growing #NoSleepovers movement among parents, and Snapchat's new set of parental controls giving parents new visibility into how their kids are using the app. 

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This week we are taking a deeper dive into TikTok moderators being trained to spot child abuse using already censored content, hashtags being used to evade these content moderators to get more views, and why teens where sweatshirts in the summer heat. 

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This week we take a deeper dive into talking with your kids about inflation and household budgets and a new documentary about a man who created a website specifically for posting explicit pictures of people without their consent.

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This week we are diving into why 40% of young people are using TikTok like google, why some parents are deleting posts of past children, and why Instagram is trying to be like TikTok, even though users just want it to be itself.

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