Roundtable: Glass Fruit, 28 Years Later, and 90s Summers
Jun 27, 2025•1 hr 6 min
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Episode description
Three Big Conversations:
- AI-generated videos of people cutting and eating glass fruit are trending on social media - 18:55
- the movie 28 Years Later makes the 28-numbered zombie saga worse - 30:10
- 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.
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