Axis Conversations

Updated: 19 Aug 2025 • 385 episodes
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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

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"How do you think artificial general intelligence will affect our children? How do we prepare our families for AGI's advent in 2 to 3 years?" - Christina This podcast is entirely Q&A based! Send in your questions to ask@axis.org. And for more resources, go to axis.org.

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Three Big Conversations: The “Nicki Minaj stiletto challenge” encourages influencers to film themselves balancing on one stiletto-clad foot. - 05:50 OpenAI released GPT-5 and users hate it. - 16:08 Why time (unfortunately) flies when we’re using social media. - 43:22 Slang of the Week - "Dogwater" - 01:25 Elsewhere in

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OpenAI released GPT-5 and users hate it, the “Nicki Minaj stiletto challenge” encourages influencers to film themselves balancing on one stiletto-clad foot, and why time (unfortunately) flies when we’re using social media. Slang of the Week - "Dogwater" Elsewhere in culture: Taylor Swift announced (on her boyfriend’s f

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After earning a journalism degree at the University of Missouri, Strobel was awarded a Ford Foundation fellowship to study at Yale Law School, where he received a Master of Studies in Law degree. For fourteen years he was a journalist at the Chicago Tribune and other newspapers, winning Illinois’ top honors for investi

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Three Big Conversations: The Summer I Turned Pretty is back for its 3rd season and is taking over Amazon Prime. - 3:00 What it means that 40% of 18 to 29-year-olds get their news from TikTok. - 25:32 Why it feels like most people aren’t paying attention to the same parts of culture this summer. - 46:04 Survey of the We

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The Summer I Turned Pretty is back for its 3rd season and is taking over Amazon Prime, what it means that 40% of 18 to 29-year-olds get their news from TikTok, and why it feels like most people aren’t paying attention to the same parts of culture this summer. Survey of the Week - The Miraculous Elsewhere in culture: Ge

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