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Pablo Torre
Welcome to Pablo Torre Finds Out. I am Pablo Torre. Today's episode is brought to you by DraftKings. DraftKings. The Crown is yours. And today we're gonna find out what this sound is.
Katie Nolan
Oh, my God. Oh my God. A nightmare. Oh my God. A nightmare.
Pablo Torre
Right after this ad.
Mina Kimes
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Pablo Torre
We should, you know, we should do what we always do when we're waiting for Katie to, to show up. We should do what we always do when she's running late, which is let's talk about our kids. Let's get that out of that way. How's Nino doing? What, what are his measurables?
Mina Kimes
Huge. Still. I keep waiting for him to get smaller and it's not happening. In fact, our latest weigh in, he actually went up to 93rd percentile.
Pablo Torre
What are you feeding him? What's he, what's he like into food wise these days?
Mina Kimes
He's into everything, which is great, but he eats really what we eat. But I am not trying to be cocky about it because I have heard too many horror stories of. And you can weigh in here, obviously babies who were like parents who were like, oh, our child loves like you know, Sichuan food and like escargot and then all of a sudden they turn two and they only want chicken fingers. So I am not overconfident. I am. I'm enjoying this period where we can take him to restaurants while he lasts. While it lasts.
Katie Nolan
Part of me but.
Mina Kimes
But I have no compunctions about it going on forever.
Pablo Torre
Yeah, like Violet loves grilled cheese. Like that's a 99% success rate. But also sometimes you just won't want to eat it.
Mina Kimes
There's one thing I have noticed with our kid. He just likes food when it's better. Like he vastly prefers restaurant food. We take him to a restaurant, he eats everything. And then when we're home and Nick like makes him something in the moment, like grills some salmon, he will eat it when, when we are in a hurry and we'll like, reheat stuff like frozen meatballs. He'll like, be like, nah, nah. Which is funny because, like, that. I guess that means he's like, an adult, right?
Pablo Torre
Well, it's the opposite of, like, the typical child psychology thing of, like, they like playing with the cardboard box more than they like what's in it. Like, Nino has fancy tastes. Nino is ordering, like, from the bottom of the menu up. He's looking at the prices.
Mina Kimes
I want to be clear here. I do not believe my child has a uniquely sophisticated palette. I think. Yeah. Like, have you ever, like, so how do we feel about, while we're on this topic, when people do, like, IG posts about their child, but, like, long, like, like, dear Cassandra, you're four today.
Pablo Torre
I can't. I can't handle it.
Mina Kimes
You love early Miles Davis and. And grilled cheese, but only with Gruyere. And I feel like, why are you trying to make your child sound, like, sophisticated? Right.
Pablo Torre
You know, honestly, any Instagram post that's in, like, the second person.
Katie Nolan
That's the thing.
Mina Kimes
It's a thing, right? You'll do it.
Pablo Torre
Yeah. It's like you're a Civil War general writing to. I just. My. I. I'm. I may be. Full disclosure, I may be related to some people who do this, and I can't.
Mina Kimes
I just definitely have people in my life. I'm nervous about putting this out there into the universe.
Pablo Torre
Yeah. Everyone's, like, compiling, like, a beautifully, like, intentionally crafted and tattered scrapbook. Oh, hello.
Mina Kimes
My main objection is just the positioning of your. It's like, making your dating profile. I know it sounds weird for your child where you're trying to make them sound more interesting than they really are. Like, if there was honest, it would be like, dear Nino, like, you love shitting on everything. You are passionate about loud noises. Right? Like, you're not, like.
Pablo Torre
Yes. Dear Violet.
Mina Kimes
Bright neon colors.
Pablo Torre
Dear Violet, you never wipe your hands after you eat. And you like drying those same hands on our leather sofa, which your father admits was a terrible investment in retrospect, given your personal disrespect for it.
Katie Nolan
Hey, how's everybody doing? I'm dressed like Parappa the Rappa today.
Pablo Torre
I was going to say you do look like a boombox holding Panda. Is that what para was?
Katie Nolan
Sometimes I feel something like that. Sometimes I just feel like this is right. And then you leave the house and you're like, it was wrong, but here we are.
Mina Kimes
You look like you make YouTube videos for children right now.
Katie Nolan
Yeah, and I pretty much don't.
Pablo Torre
We All Parappa was a dog, I'm.
Katie Nolan
Informed, but with black ears and white. It was white and black.
Pablo Torre
Yeah. Had like a. Had like a.
Katie Nolan
A winter beanie, which is what Completed outfit. I did take it off before I got on camera, though.
Pablo Torre
Yeah, yeah, yeah. We were talking about our watch.
Mina Kimes
Any of this. Yeah, but we're done now. We promise.
Katie Nolan
Do you watch Ms. Rachel? Is that what the. Is that what we were chatting about? Everybody loves Ms. Rachel.
Pablo Torre
Ms. Rachel. I'm not familiar with Ms. Rachel.
Katie Nolan
She's like Pablo. What? Yeah. What are you talking about?
Pablo Torre
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh. This is the cinematic. The Sesame street cinematic universe.
Mina Kimes
Wait, Katie, there's a guy in Ms. Rachel's crew who looks exactly like Pablo. Show her the guy.
Pablo Torre
Okay, hold on, hold on.
Mina Kimes
He's a Filipino guy.
Pablo Torre
Okay? So whenever Mina says, this guy looks like you, I start offended and then begrudgingly admit that she's right.
Mina Kimes
Right.
Pablo Torre
So I'm gonna Google Ms. Rachel. Filipino guy.
Mina Kimes
It's gonna come up immediately.
Katie Nolan
Let me see. Show me. Show me. To me, Rachel.
Pablo Torre
If I grew like a. I mean, hot. Pablo, we gotta stop doing that.
Katie Nolan
That's hot.
Pablo Torre
We gotta stop inventing hotter me's. We got to stop labeling.
Katie Nolan
Tell people to stop.
Pablo Torre
The Gary Strieskies of the world. The only person I've banned from this program for being.
Mina Kimes
Yeah, hablo.
Pablo Torre
I regret this episode already.
Katie Nolan
No, you don't.
Pablo Torre
I. I have. I have missed this.
Katie Nolan
Yeah.
Pablo Torre
We haven't done this since the pandemic.
Katie Nolan
The three of us.
Pablo Torre
I think so. I mean, certainly on this show, I think we. We've certainly, like, seen each other in life, in which, again, we talk about our kids and then you show up late and we pivot.
Katie Nolan
Because I like to miss that part. It's on purpose. It's. Get that out of the way.
Pablo Torre
Should we start with a very visual game, or do you want to get into some of the stories that I think we're all legitimately into? What should we do?
Katie Nolan
I just did mine, hearing the same message.
Pablo Torre
Oh, that's right. Hello. Hello. Katie Nolan, host of Casuals, a new podcast for all of us to like and subscribe.
Katie Nolan
Not on YouTube yet. Everybody's very mad about.
Pablo Torre
I have not been invited. I've merely just been waiting.
Mina Kimes
Awkward. Because I'm booked.
Pablo Torre
I'm unbooked and unbusy.
Katie Nolan
Oh, shoot. I'll make sure that we fix that.
Pablo Torre
Well, that's now very sad. Katie, what did you bring us?
Katie Nolan
I brought an article from the Atlantic because I'm fancy. I'm a fancy lady who reads the Atlantic. It was about how we're not partying enough. Basically, you know, a conversation we've been having a lot is about how we. People don't have friends or we're not seeing each other ever since the pandemic, or all these other various cultural factors are affecting how often we're seeing and interacting with our social circles. And this piggybacks off of that and says that America is in a party deficit. They cite the fact that Party City is closing place where you get all of your.
Pablo Torre
Which is a. Which is a massive story. Oh, no. It's a massive story. It's a massive story.
Mina Kimes
I.
Pablo Torre
In fact, can I just explain how. How massive this story is? Because I was looking for the. The news coverage of Party City's demise, and we did find this. It appears the party is over for Party City. Party is over for one business that specializes in just that.
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Mina Kimes
The party's over for Party City.
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Pablo Torre
Of the largest supplier of Mylar balloons, disposable plates, other things that we need streamers. Done.
Katie Nolan
Done. After 40 years, the party, you could say, is over.
Mina Kimes
Okay, so I think this article is interesting. I will say the Party City as closing, as I know party. It's like, who has ever thrown an adult party and gone to Party City? It's honestly purely the Provence of children's events and costumes.
Katie Nolan
Yeah, it's like goodie bags where you go to get all the little stuff to put in a bag that nobody's gonna want.
Pablo Torre
How dare. How dare both of you.
Katie Nolan
Yeah, we did, though.
Pablo Torre
I don't know where you get balloons anymore.
Katie Nolan
Only 4.1% of Americans attended or hosted a social event on an average weekend or holiday in 2023. This is a 35 decrease since 20 since 2004.
Pablo Torre
I mean, look, there are a lot of. There are a lot of articles now where it's like, did you know that only 1.7% of Americans have smiled this year? And it's like, people stop smiling. But this is an article that resonates because the whole notion of people throwing parties for each other has, like, objectively declined. It's happening less and less, and we are. Mina, you are headed to the party capital of the sports world very soon.
Mina Kimes
Yeah. Super bowl week is a big, big party week for Me, I am definitely bringing down that average because I don't go to many parties anymore. I don't think you guys can speak to your own experiences outside of children's parties, which are beginning to happen, which is a whole separate thing. Children's parties, though, I gotta say. And Pablo, you could speak to this more. They're really adult parties. Because being in LA is such. Everybody now has to go to every party, Katie. That's different. So when we were kids, it was like, ooh, like a big, like, who's invited?
Pablo Torre
You gotta invite all the kids now.
Mina Kimes
Everybody'S gotta go to every party gets a trophy.
Katie Nolan
Yeah.
Mina Kimes
Which means every weekend you just see the same parents and you sit around drinking beers at like 3pm watching your children just, like, rip each other apart. And I gotta say, I love it. My husband and I were talking about this. We were like, this is the dream. We're just sitting around making small talk with, like, a set designer from Pasadena, having some, you know, hard seltzers, eating their home state tacos. I love it. But the super bowl thing is a big deal for me because I don't go to like, late night drinking type parties, except for like three times a year, the super bowl, the combine, and the draft, which are unfortunately in succession. So it's like a very intense. It's like the closest thing in my life to like those Alabama sorority rush weeks where by the end my liver is like. Because I'm so unused to partying that hard.
Pablo Torre
My philosophy on the children's birthday party, first of. First of all, either you gotta make it under an hour or like an hour or less, or it needs to be equipped for parents to just hang out and talk. And I am so appreciative for these, like, what do you call them? Like, these, like, bouncy, floored, like, like, oh, you can have the kids just like run around like tornado some. And then we're done. Yeah, and then. And then we're done. But the thing about, like, the party as an institution is that it seems like even the young people are wondering. There was, again, the anecdotal evidence here. Six months ago on Reddit, someone asked one of the, quote, saddest questions anyone ever seen on the social platform, which was, quote, did anybody else think there would be more parties? Question mark, end quote. And the way we grew up and the movies we see. Yeah, I feel like that's, that's. It feels like that is not happening in the way that the TV shows had promised us.
Katie Nolan
Yeah. Like, I feel like in my ideal World. It's. In a lot of ways, it isn't like this, but it's like Mad Men, you know, those. That party he throws where they've got that, like. Remember in that era, the, like, sunken in living rooms that have, like the little step down and everybody just has a cocktail. Yeah. And it's just like sitting and check. That's my dream is if socializing meant everybody just came to my house and we just sat around and like, watched and talked and mingled. But I also just feel like. And maybe this informs what's happening or maybe this is just my mental illness, but I feel like inviting somebody over, especially in New York City, is a cop out by me. I feel like it's me being like, want to come to my house? It's like, no, of course they don't. They're in New York City. They want to go out to a bar or a restaurant or a. And I'm like, well, just come over.
Mina Kimes
To my house, a hut in a.
Katie Nolan
Bar, and like, sit around and watch, like, sports and control the volume ourselves and like, order some food and hang out. But that feels like an. I don't know. That feels like a cheap. It's like, get up, get up, dressed, leave Katie, get out of the house. But I would love if people we. I'd throw a party every week. If you guys would come over.
Pablo Torre
I would.
Mina Kimes
I love house parties.
Pablo Torre
So. But okay, so the house party, I should say, because I grew up in New York, you've never really. Not a thing.
Katie Nolan
Yeah.
Pablo Torre
Like, not a real thing. So much about New York apartments that they're too small to have people over.
Katie Nolan
Yeah.
Pablo Torre
And so my view of, like, the house party really was just like, when I got to college, I got a sense of like, oh, it's what. This is what that's like. But I never actually experienced or hosted anything or attended anything like that. Never, Never. No one's parents were back in the driveway and we had to rush to.
Katie Nolan
There were no driveways. Happened to me.
Pablo Torre
There were no driveways.
Katie Nolan
Oh, yeah.
Pablo Torre
Yeah.
Mina Kimes
We. I grew up in a major house party high school culture. Not that I was invited to many of them.
Katie Nolan
You have to throw them. Your parents have to go away. You have to throw them. And then everyone shows up and they still don't talk to you. That's my experience. They're just here for the house.
Mina Kimes
Speaking of speaking of that, they're just there for the house. Once one weekend when I went to Washington D.C. to for to be a presidential scholar, my parents went with me and my Brother famously threw, like, the biggest house party our town had ever seen at our house. And it was, like, the kind of house party that people talk about for years, like, da, da, da. And he. So my brother was a lot cooler than me. He took photos of everything in the house. He hired professional cleaners.
Katie Nolan
Isaac.
Mina Kimes
So we come home, and it's like nothing has happened. So my parents come home from this, like, nerd thing I went to with me, and we're walking through the house, and my mom, sometimes she's just like, something's off. And she noticed, like, the smallest, tiniest difference. Something had been moved. And my brother cracked immediately when she called him out on it.
Pablo Torre
I recently did wonder, while I was just unable to sleep one night recently, like, could I recreate my entire living room from memory? No, I could not. No, I could not. No.
Katie Nolan
My memories are. Oh. So the point. My point was partying. We need to do it more.
Pablo Torre
Well, that's the takeaway from this article, is that, like, if we all threw two parties a year, that's the action item. America would be in a better place.
Katie Nolan
Yeah. Lucky for you, my birthday is next week, so get started.
Mina Kimes
Are you gonna have a party?
Katie Nolan
I don't think so. I don't know. I. Look, I haven't worked in a while, and I'm working a bunch now, so I'm like. I don't know if we're gonna have a party. It's just gonna have to happen to me. I'm not gonna be. I haven't put any thought into it.
Mina Kimes
But I do throw myself a birthday party every year.
Katie Nolan
You should. Everybody should. I think it's like an excuse to bring your friends, even if they're not all friends with each other necessarily. It's like a.
Mina Kimes
This is my favorite part about adult parties, if I'm the organizer, is watching people from different worlds.
Katie Nolan
Yeah.
Mina Kimes
Speak to each other and, like, very. Yeah.
Pablo Torre
That.
Mina Kimes
I enjoy that.
Katie Nolan
Are you renting, like, a venue?
Mina Kimes
Some. I have in the past.
Katie Nolan
I'll.
Mina Kimes
I'll get, like, a room at a bar or I.
Katie Nolan
But I.
Mina Kimes
We do house parties. For me, a couple years ago, before I got pregnant. Rager. Absolute rager.
Katie Nolan
I've never been to a party yet.
Pablo Torre
I was. I was at a wedding recently with Mina, and she got hammered.
Katie Nolan
Nice. I love that irrelevant story.
Pablo Torre
It's a. It's. It's entirely relevant. It's the one topic where it is relevant.
Katie Nolan
No, it's not. Because it's not. It wasn't really a party. It was a wedding. Weddings are different.
Pablo Torre
Weddings are the ultimate party, but it's.
Katie Nolan
Like they're not really. They're a separate thing. They're their own thing.
Mina Kimes
There's one thing I did, by the way, that tells you that you have no evidence.
Katie Nolan
How'd you know she was hammered?
Pablo Torre
Because I was talking to her and she was saying. And she said, you're just talking like this.
Mina Kimes
That's not how I sound. No, no. If anything, I am incredibly nice and overly complimentary.
Pablo Torre
They can't stop my home.
Mina Kimes
No, that's not how I sound.
Pablo Torre
They're trying to go too deep. They're trying to do too deep.
Mina Kimes
No, no, no, no, no, no, no.
Katie Nolan
What?
Mina Kimes
That's a horrible impression, first of all. Secondly, if anything, I was like, pablo, you're doing great.
Katie Nolan
Everything's great. Pablo, we don't say it until you're doing it. Man, I do love you. I'm so proud of you.
Mina Kimes
So, please. I'm sure it was closer to that.
Pablo Torre
You know what I mean? There was a lot of slurred positive reinforcement. Now that I think about it.
Mina Kimes
That's great.
Katie Nolan
That's ideal. People would pay for that. From Mina Kynes.
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Pablo Torre
Mina, what did you bring us? Clear headedly to discuss today.
Mina Kimes
So it's not one story, it's obviously just more like a broader news story that's being written about a great deal. But I am curious to hear guys thoughts on the TikTok ban, which as of this recording, TikTok is available because the President of the United States signed an executive order basically delaying the band the ban. Pardon me, it's unclear to me, even after reading about 20 articles, what is legal and what's not in terms of whether or not he can actually stop it. Because this was something that Congress passed a law, the Supreme Court, by the way, like just to I, for folks who haven't followed, I guess I should lay out the reason why Congress did so is this belief that a foreign government shouldn't control like a major US media outlet. It's less about actually propaganda and more about their ability to collect information. And you can collect a lot of information on people based on TikTok usage. And the crazy thing that happened too, like we live in a world which Congress doesn't agree on anything. The Supreme Court doesn't agree on anything. It was like unanimous, right. So both sides of the aisle were like, yeah, this seems bad. The Supreme Court was like, yeah, this is probably a bad idea. So just that's the backstory for people to know.
Katie Nolan
But full backstories. It was Trump's idea originally, was it?
Mina Kimes
Not exactly.
Katie Nolan
Sorry, he's not the first person who.
Pablo Torre
Came out when he was. We should ban this 45th president.
Katie Nolan
Right.
Pablo Torre
And then 47. Very much in disagreement.
Katie Nolan
Now he saved it.
Pablo Torre
Yeah, yeah, well.
Mina Kimes
And so now he likes it because. And he's asked about it. He likes it because he's like, young people love it. And I'm popular on there.
Pablo Torre
A reporter asked him at a press conference, why did you change your mind about TikTok? And Trump's quote was because I got to use it. And remember, TikTok is largely about kids, young kids. If China is going to get information about young kids, I don't know.
Katie Nolan
I think TikTok, to be honest, I.
Pablo Torre
Think we have bigger problems than that.
Mina Kimes
We do have bigger problems.
Pablo Torre
I mean, not wrong, not wrong. Also incoherent.
Mina Kimes
Well, that for me that was kind of like in some ways my experience of this story over the last week was I was a little first, I was a little bit put off. I'm like put off by the fact this was like the biggest story in America on a moment when things that I felt were much more significant were happening. Other executive orders, other things. But you know, I think as I've kind of read more or not read more but thought more about it, I do think setting aside the legality aspect of it, I would like to hear your guys thoughts on. I don't know whether you think it's like a bad or a good thing. I guess if it goes away.
Pablo Torre
Katie.
Katie Nolan
Yeah, I'm.
Pablo Torre
You use this. You know, among us are clearly the most power user and I have like.
Katie Nolan
I have like 9,000 like disparate thoughts on it that like don't all. So number one, I think a lot of the narrative about TikTok is like it's just stupid dances. And I feel like we are glossing over a lot of the value that TikTok provides. Like I feel like people were very, oh, I don't use TikTok. I'm not, I'm not a child, I'm not dancing on the Internet. And it's like well there's a lot of people, there's a lot of people who like run businesses on TikTok. There's a lot of like interesting commentary on TikTok musicians that you would never have heard of that you know now because of Tik Tok. Like it's. It, it is what it is. It's a, it's a social media app. It is a center for brain rot. But it is also like it's. It has its. Let's not like paint it with a broad brush and say that it's just like garbage like it's. They all are. Then in that case, do you agree.
Pablo Torre
That TikTok and its popularity is rooted in this branding? That it's the one social media app where you actually tend to feel good. Like that seems to be. It's joyous.
Katie Nolan
I think the comment sections in my experience tend kinder. I think when they're mean they can be very mean. But I do think my first reaction when I was first started scrolling through TikTok was that like whoa, the comments are like hyping this person up instead of bullying them. I will also say it's a place where like I know that the government's issue with it mainly as you said Mina, wasn't the propaganda aspect of it. But it is a place where you can hop on and share your opinion and it's possible your opinion is being influenced by these opinions that are being put out there by people that have nefarious means or like it is. You can see how it could be used as any media could be used to spread propaganda effectively.
Pablo Torre
Right. So like part of my understanding was that TikTok in America was very different from TikTok in China, and that we got the version that is far more brain rotting than the one in China. And that to your point about, like, is it corrupting its user's health in some way? I can see the argument there that made sense. When it comes to, like, privacy though, which is another big plank in this sort of argument, it just feels like nobody cares.
Katie Nolan
Yeah.
Pablo Torre
Like as much as it is on paper, a really important priority. Nobody cares. Yeah.
Katie Nolan
I think kids were born into a world where that's everything. They just watched an inauguration where the owners of all of the social media were with the president, including the TikTok CEO. Right. And you're like, okay, so the government's always got my data. Kids care so little that when they got rid of TikTok for a few hours, they downloaded an app officially owned by the government of China to replace it.
Pablo Torre
But Mina, the whole thing about, like, kids, it's also adults who just, I think, are like, we are so far gone. Yeah. Like, we're not losing sleep over this. And so who's actually fighting for the banning of this thing other than people who are worried about, you know, the Chinese government from a governmental, political perspective?
Mina Kimes
Well, that's the other side of it. So, yeah, I think most of the legal case seems to be about the kind of data collection side, but the other side is like, you know, the Chinese government is involved in these things and they have influence over their companies. And there's been a lot of studies about whether or not that's affected the actual content put out on TikTok. And I found a lot of it to be like, pretty convincing and credible, by the way. I guess for me to go back to kind of what Katie said about like, just setting aside again, the, the data side, let's just kind of cut to like, is this a net good or a net bad? That's kind of what I, I'm thinking through. And Pablo, you hit on something which is, I think, a point in his favor, which it does seem like a more positive place in a lot of social media. I guess for me, I kind of have two thoughts and, or two ideas in my head at once. One of which is, I think, Katie, you're right. Like, there is a lot of, like, actually like lovely content on there. You know, I've watched things about parenting and cooking and science and educational things. So. So it's, it's not a wasteland devoid of culturally significant or enlightening content. It's there right But I am still so, like, profoundly uncomfortable with the fact that so many people get not just their news, but how they feel about major events. Stories, public figures, to your point, is dictated not by facts, but by an algorithm. It's by what's popular. And that's where I really feel like it's largely a net negative. And that, to me, kind of outweighs the good things that I'm saying.
Pablo Torre
Katie, like the whole thing about we're gonna lose all of this stuff. What would you have missed the most as you were contemplating TikTok being at least temporarily banned?
Katie Nolan
If I'm honest, if I'm. If I'm completely honest, I think what I would miss the most is hearing other people's drama. Drama that does not affect me, but that someone else is really fired up about. I would miss that. I would miss getting face to. I feel like I've watched a lot of TikToks where I feel like I'm FaceTiming with somebody who I don't know and they're telling me a juicy story. And yeah, sometimes you're like, I don't really care what this is, and you scroll away. But there's like something to like an. An average American tv. It just feels like. And obviously everybody's putting on some. They're presenting some sort of a something. So I'm not. Everyone's being authentically. Yeah, but it was like where you hear from just people. Anybody can upload. Anybody can upload and it can get enough traction and can go like, I could just bump into the experiences of regular people scrolling through my phone.
Pablo Torre
So wait, did it feel like that, though? Is that part of Tik Tok's whole thing is that unlike Instagram, where it's like tied to your. To some real account, Like, Tik Tok was sort of a more open field of. Well, it's video.
Katie Nolan
No, I think there probably was mechan to it that I don't understand. But if you put up a banger of a video, it's going to get out to more people and more people will see it no matter who you are. So you could be a big account. But, like, my TikTok algorithm didn't have any of the, like, TikTok influencers that I know of through, like, people talking about TikTok. But it had like, just like, like Lola Young. I don't know if anybody knows her. She's a musician that I love from England. I never would have heard her music if I hadn't had TikTok I doi on Tik Tok forever ago. Like, that's just like where, like find stuff.
Pablo Torre
Yeah, so, but, but that, but that question mean of like, what can you not get elsewhere? Like, what is this doing that the other places that we're all subscribed to in ways that make us think we're all so far gone on privacy that why do we even care anymore? We have so many of these apps. Like that part. Like, is there a unique argument for what TikTok was able to cultivate?
Mina Kimes
I think Katie just made it right, which is like the idea of like regular people surfing a wave and that discovery you would get from seeing someone who either was just very funny, sometimes unintentionally, or maybe had some kind of artistic talent that they never would have found a platform for elsewhere. And I think that's all true. My problem is sort of that it had become sort of overtaken by one. The fact that so many people started treating it as a business and you are just selling you stuff or just, you know, shoveling or. And the fact that, you know, it has replaced a lot of traditional media in functions that I don't think it's capable of or prepare for. But that goes beyond TikTok, of course, Pablo. That's, you know, all of social media as a news source. So I think it's just. It still does great things, but it also became everything for people. And I think that's not a good thing.
Pablo Torre
Yeah, I think that it's hard to say that this is uniquely harmful, even if it is maybe uniquely compromised by the government that had sort of co. Signed it and exported it to us. But I guess the question is, would you rather have newspapers or this?
Katie Nolan
Newspapers.
Pablo Torre
This is where I would insert that song that you said you were gonna find.
Mina Kimes
I think he's gonna play something.
Katie Nolan
Oh, fair enough. Do you want me to, you know.
Pablo Torre
The crib like money?
Mina Kimes
This is my other favorite thing about TikTok that I will miss when it goes away, which is the universal experience of playing a TikTok you love for everyone else. You guys are out of your mind. If that's not catchy to you, you're.
Katie Nolan
Out of your mind. That's a banger. That song is a banger.
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Pablo Torre
So our producers, using a sophisticated artificial intelligence adjacent technology did a bit of scouting. They found some faces from around the NFL playoffs and the outer regions therein. And we're going to see what it's like when some people look like, I don't know, what is this? What's the, what's the weight? I want to say this. What's the way I want to say this?
Mina Kimes
So confused by this game show.
Pablo Torre
The first photo.
Mina Kimes
Like once a year somebody puts out NFL quarterbacks as women.
Katie Nolan
Right.
Mina Kimes
And then doing it with coaches immediately turns into who's the hottest.
Pablo Torre
Yeah, we're, we're hotter. Nodding the coaches. Female versions of a variety of men involved in the NFL. Because I looked for that list that Mina had referenced. No one had done it. And so we were the change we wanted to see in the world.
Katie Nolan
Mandy Reed.
Pablo Torre
Yeah.
Katie Nolan
Andrew Candy. That's probably Candy Reed.
Mina Kimes
I'm not getting a candy vibe.
Pablo Torre
Does she look friendly to you?
Katie Nolan
Yes, yes, yes. She makes those seven layer bars that have the chocolate chips and the coconut and the. Yeah, yeah. That's what she brings to the bake sale. And she always makes more than enough, like it's a good amount of bars.
Pablo Torre
I think that she has lots of things that she has recipes for that have numbers in the title. Like a six cheese macaroni.
Katie Nolan
Right. A five layer dip.
Mina Kimes
Andy Reid famously makes like a six cheese macaroni. Do you not know this?
Pablo Torre
What do we got next?
Katie Nolan
Oh, my God.
Pablo Torre
Here we go.
Mina Kimes
Looks the same.
Pablo Torre
Speaking of precocious, almost identical to male. Also. Also named cj. CJ Works, I think both of us.
Katie Nolan
Katherine Jane.
Pablo Torre
Katherine Jane Stroud. I'm getting High School Musical. I'm getting a sunniness in her eyes. I think this person likes to dance in a group setting. I think she's cool.
Katie Nolan
I'm getting that we didn't slide the slider over far enough. I'm seeing too much C.J. stroud in this woman. This isn't.
Mina Kimes
He looks like C.J. stroud.
Katie Nolan
Yeah. The eyes are a little different. I Think they look. They probably gave her some like lashes or something and maybe made them a little bit more like up a little like we do with our makeup, whatever that's called. But it's. This is still just CJ Stroud.
Pablo Torre
Was the hair changed? Was the hair changed at all?
Mina Kimes
Fairly? A little, A little bit. I mean, just turned into a curl. Pablo, this is thing on Instagram and TikTok that many that women use where all. It's like a filter is where you just get lashes. And that's what happened here. Right. It's like it'll have. They always have names like light makeup.
Katie Nolan
Or flawless filter, Flawless face.
Mina Kimes
And then you put it on, you're like, whoa. Yesified. But that. This just looks like CJ Strat with lashes. It stays. Right.
Pablo Torre
What's next?
Mina Kimes
Oh my God.
Pablo Torre
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. We know this person, right?
Mina Kimes
Okay, so this brings me to an interesting memory that I feel like everybody has forgotten, which is, do you remember when Travis Kelce shaved his beard and America was like, is he actually hot?
Pablo Torre
I don't remember this.
Katie Nolan
No. I have memory holes.
Mina Kimes
Nobody remembers this one. Like, this is pre Taylor Swift, obviously.
Katie Nolan
I was gonna say the way that Travis Kelsey was pre Taylor Swift, I think is also being memory holed. Just as a dick.
Pablo Torre
Personality wise, he did host a reality show.
Katie Nolan
Yeah.
Pablo Torre
That seemed less likable than he is now.
Katie Nolan
Yes. Yeah. This person's name is Samantha. I knew that right away. I looked right at the picture and I said, oh, Samantha. So that's. I know that doesn't rhyme with any of his name in any way, but that's a Samantha if I've ever seen one. She's a coach of a women's high school team. Field hockey or softball.
Pablo Torre
Yep. Part down the middle.
Mina Kimes
This gal has a big smile, but she's a bully.
Katie Nolan
Wow, look at her.
Pablo Torre
Mina's encountered Samantha before.
Mina Kimes
This girl. Yeah. This girl pointed out in front of everyone that my Doc Martens were not real Doc Martens. They're forgetting.
Katie Nolan
Oh, no.
Pablo Torre
Damn.
Katie Nolan
The stitches are the wrong color.
Pablo Torre
Damn.
Mina Kimes
What stitches? Katie, what stitches?
Pablo Torre
What's next, guys?
Mina Kimes
Oh my God.
Katie Nolan
Oh my God. Oh my God. Hard to look at.
Mina Kimes
So who is this?
Katie Nolan
That's.
Pablo Torre
This is. This is Senator Elizabeth Warren that's snuck her into this.
Katie Nolan
What's his name? That's. What's his face? Pablo, say his name.
Pablo Torre
You're so close they cannot tell. Shares a first name with someone in your life.
Katie Nolan
Yeah. Dan Quinn. It's Dan Quinn.
Pablo Torre
It's Dan Quinn.
Mina Kimes
Yeah, that's Dan Quinn.
Katie Nolan
Yeah.
Pablo Torre
That's Dan Quinn.
Katie Nolan
God, that's so funny.
Pablo Torre
That's like a. Yo. Dan Quinn is a milf. Can I just say that?
Katie Nolan
Yeah, I'm into Dan Quinn. Oh, my God. So hot.
Mina Kimes
I've seen it.
Katie Nolan
So hot.
Pablo Torre
Yeah, I'm gonna. I'm gonna go the other way on that. I'm gonna go.
Mina Kimes
All of them are.
Katie Nolan
It's not for you. You don't want to bang Patricia Mahomes.
Pablo Torre
Patricia Mahomes is a little too eager.
Katie Nolan
Eager.
Pablo Torre
I'm getting. I'm getting, getting eager thirst.
Katie Nolan
Is this hot male Mina. Because this is gonna me up.
Pablo Torre
So the reason this is remarkable.
Katie Nolan
Zoom into the face if you can.
Mina Kimes
That's.
Katie Nolan
This is.
Mina Kimes
This is my brother. This is my brother.
Pablo Torre
Straight up my body.
Katie Nolan
Ah, interesting.
Pablo Torre
Like the thing about that theory.
Katie Nolan
I love that outfit, by the way.
Pablo Torre
We didn't superimpose your brother's face onto your body. That's actually what the technology gave us.
Katie Nolan
Why did it do that gray thing with her shoulder then?
Pablo Torre
Yes, it is. Hold. Is that true?
Katie Nolan
On her shoulder?
Pablo Torre
Yeah. Everybody behind the glass. This is Mina. This is the AI. This is not.
Mina Kimes
It's not. I literally took a picture of my. Shut up.
Pablo Torre
It's not. Katie's walking up to the. To the screen to evaluate her.
Katie Nolan
I mean, look, her right ear is hers. The left ear. It does look like you cut a picture and put it on her. Oh, it's her hair. It's trying to. Okay.
Pablo Torre
For various reasons, this looks identical to Isaac Kimes, which I.
Katie Nolan
For the record, I'm not saying Mina said it.
Pablo Torre
And that's the best part.
Mina Kimes
For various reasons. Perhaps it's our shared DNA. Perhaps that's the reason I've done this. When we did this back with HQ and we did the male version, I looked a lot like Isaac. I remember.
Katie Nolan
I don't think I would look like my brother at all.
Pablo Torre
Well, let's see.
Katie Nolan
Oh, boy. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. A nightmare.
Pablo Torre
Oh, my God, a nightmare. Look at. Look at him.
Katie Nolan
Look at him.
Mina Kimes
I see Jimmy Garoppolo.
Pablo Torre
Yep.
Katie Nolan
Thank you.
Pablo Torre
We're getting.
Mina Kimes
I know. That's a win.
Pablo Torre
Some top notes of Garoppolo.
Mina Kimes
Big win for you.
Katie Nolan
Thank you, guys.
Pablo Torre
There is. There is, you know, some matchmaker Jack, some Ricky Martin, some are saying looks.
Mina Kimes
A little bit like Henry Cavill.
Pablo Torre
Wow.
Mina Kimes
That now looks a lot now that I'm looking at it.
Pablo Torre
Katie.
Katie Nolan
This is weird.
Pablo Torre
Sebastian. Stan, also, people are saying. Many are saying, but you're.
Katie Nolan
You're.
Pablo Torre
You're a chad. I mean, this is. You're Incredible. A tetra giga chat tetra. Chad, how does this compare to your brother Kevin?
Katie Nolan
I mean, I'm actually. I kind of see it more than I've ever. When I look at my brother, and I'm like, we don't look alike. I kind of weirdly do see it here, but not a lot. Not a lot, but a little more than I usually do.
Pablo Torre
We have another angle on this that we can examine.
Katie Nolan
It's also the same haircut I had my whole childhood.
Pablo Torre
It looks incredibly.
Katie Nolan
That's what it looked like for my childhood.
Pablo Torre
Incredibly natural.
Katie Nolan
Okay. Now that I'm dating.
Pablo Torre
That is Jimmy. This. Hello. This guy, Keith Nolan, loves and deserves the finest adults. Adult film star to join him at dinner.
Katie Nolan
Yeah, that's right. He wears a deep V and a necklace or two. Not bad. Okay, that's Dan as a lady. Okay, girl. Yeah. What a sweetie. Look at Myrtle.
Pablo Torre
Myrtle looks completely nonplussed.
Katie Nolan
It's her birthday, by the way. Happy birthday, Myrtle.
Pablo Torre
Happy birthday, Myrtle.
Mina Kimes
What if the technology did it to Myrtle, too, and you just couldn't tell the difference?
Katie Nolan
It might have. I think Dan looks cute. I think he looks like the. Not the lead, but a supporting character in, like, a teen movie like Divergence or something. Like one of those movies about, like, the world has ended and we're all teenagers. What do we do?
Pablo Torre
Okay.
Katie Nolan
Oh, my God. A teacher. My third grade teacher.
Pablo Torre
I'm not just saying this, but, like, if you were to split screen this with Melissa McCarthy, it would be pretty.
Katie Nolan
I think there'd be similarities. There'd be similarities, pretty much. Is that what Dan wore that night, or is that an updated. Yeah. Did Dan wear that blouse with that jacket? She's like, look at me. Oh, my God, Pablo. Damn. Are you the hottest of all of us?
Pablo Torre
I look, I look again. Katie is a predator. We're learning. But objectively speaking, you know, you want to protect this. You want to protect this. This vulnerable creature. Bright eyes, whole life ahead of her.
Katie Nolan
She's sweet.
Mina Kimes
I think she looks.
Katie Nolan
I'm sorry, I won't be saying anything further so as not to incriminate my. That's a beautiful woman. I watch her do dances on TikTok.
Mina Kimes
She looks like my primary rival for valedictorian high school. We're both doing, you know, extra studies to try to jack up our GPAs.
Pablo Torre
I think we're. I think we should probably stop doing this now.
Katie Nolan
The visual segment on the audio medium, probably.
Pablo Torre
This was a successful podcast.
Katie Nolan
Yeah.
Pablo Torre
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Pablo Torre
What I found out out of your mind? What I found out at the end of today's episode of Pablo Torre Finds Out a Show about finding stuff out is that I will never take lightly Katie Nolan's vulnerability when showing us a TikTok. Sorry, I'd prefer to save journalism instead of whatever the that was newspaper.
Katie Nolan
It's owned by Jeff Bezos. You think that the Washington Post is better? It's owned by Jeff Bezos. They didn't endorse a political candidate.
Mina Kimes
We don't have. When you play one that you're like, this is so funny. And then you play it in front of people and they don't.
Katie Nolan
I did a whole episode of that.
Pablo Torre
Yeah, this is. This is. This is unfortunately a recurring and genuine phenomenon.
Katie Nolan
Okay, what about this then?
Mina Kimes
Listen, we've all. No, don't do. Don't.
Pablo Torre
What about this one?
Mina Kimes
I gotta go, guys. I gotta go do NFL stuff.
Pablo Torre
Why is there a dancing, small white child in front of Kendrick, Rick Lamar. I. I feel like.
Katie Nolan
Bye. What'd you find out before you leave?
Mina Kimes
I found out that Pablo did not go to a lot of parties. And did I really find that out? Because I could have guessed it. All right, bye, guys.
Pablo Torre
Okay, very good.
Katie Nolan
Bye, Mina. Love you.
Pablo Torre
Pablo Torre finds Out is produced by Walter Averoma, Ryan Cortez, Sam Dawig Juan Galindo Patrick Kim, neely Loman Rob McRae, Rachel Miller, Howard Carl Scott, Matt Sullivan, Claire Taylor, Chris Tuminello and Juliet Warren. RStudio Engineering by RD Systems Our Sound Design by NGW Post Our Theme song. As always, this is by John Bravo and we will talk to you next time.
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Summary of "Share & Party & Tell with Mina Kimes, Katie Nolan and Patricia Mahomes"
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz presents an engaging episode titled "Share & Party & Tell" featuring guests Mina Kimes, Katie Nolan, and Patricia Mahomes. Released on January 24, 2025, the episode delves into a variety of topics ranging from parenting and social media dynamics to the evolving landscape of party culture in America and the controversial TikTok ban. Below is a detailed summary capturing the key discussions, insights, and conclusions from the episode.
The episode opens with Mina Kimes and Pablo Torre discussing their children, focusing on Nino's eating habits and behaviors.
Mina Kimes shares insights about her son Nino's food preferences, highlighting his inclination towards restaurant meals over home-cooked food:
"He vastly prefers restaurant food. We take him to a restaurant, he eats everything. And then when we're home... he will eat it when we're in a hurry..." (02:14)
Pablo Torre humorously contrasts Violet's love for grilled cheese with Nino's sophisticated tastes:
"Violet loves grilled cheese. Like that's a 99% success rate. But also sometimes you just won't want to eat it." (02:14)
The conversation transitions into a critique of how parents portray their children on social media platforms like Instagram.
Mina Kimes expresses discomfort with the curated and sophisticated depictions of children:
"I do not believe my child has a uniquely sophisticated palette... like, dear Cassandra, you're four today. You love early Miles Davis and grilled cheese, but only with Gruyere." (03:08)
Pablo Torre adds his disdain for second-person narratives in Instagram posts about children:
"Honestly, any Instagram post that's in, like, the second person... It's like you're a Civil War general writing to." (03:30)
A significant portion of the episode revolves around the decline of party culture in the United States, sparked by the closure of Party City.
Katie Nolan introduces an article from The Atlantic discussing America's "party deficit":
"Only 4.1% of Americans attended or hosted a social event on an average weekend or holiday in 2023. This is a 35% decrease since 2004." (09:47)
Mina Kimes and Katie Nolan elaborate on how Party City's closure symbolizes the waning of traditional party preparations:
"Party City is closing place where you get all of your... Mylar balloons, disposable plates, other things that we need streamers. Done." (09:15)
Pablo Torre reflects on societal changes affecting social interactions:
"People stop smiling. But this is an article that resonates because the whole notion of people throwing parties for each other has, like, objectively declined." (09:59)
The hosts discuss the shift from adult to children's parties, noting how modern children's events have transformed into adult-centric gatherings.
Mina Kimes comments on Super Bowl week being a major party time for her, contrasting it with the decline in general social gatherings:
"The Super Bowl thing is a big deal for me because I don't go to like, late night drinking type parties, except for like three times a year... like a very intense." (11:08)
Pablo Torre emphasizes the importance of accommodating both children and adults during parties:
"Either you gotta make it under an hour or like an hour or less, or it needs to be equipped for parents to just hang out and talk." (12:06)
The discussion shifts to the controversial TikTok ban, exploring its legal, social, and cultural implications.
Mina Kimes provides context on the TikTok ban, citing concerns over data collection and foreign government influence:
"Congress passed a law... the belief that a foreign government shouldn't control like a major US media outlet... ability to collect information on people based on TikTok usage." (20:07)
Katie Nolan defends TikTok's multifaceted role beyond just "stupid dances," highlighting its utility for businesses and creators:
"People were very, oh, I don't use TikTok. I'm not, I'm not a child, I'm not dancing on the Internet... it's a social media app... it's also a place where like I know that the government's issue with it..." (22:02)
Pablo Torre questions the prioritization of banning TikTok over other pressing issues, suggesting that the platform's positive aspects might outweigh the negatives:
"Do you agree... TikTok and its popularity is rooted in this branding? That it's the one social media app where you actually tend to feel good... it's joyous." (23:50)
Mina Kimes concludes that while TikTok offers valuable content, the platform's dominance and data privacy concerns present significant drawbacks:
"It's not a wasteland devoid of culturally significant or enlightening content. But I am still so, like, profoundly uncomfortable with the fact that so many people get not just their news... dictated not by facts, but by an algorithm." (27:36)
The hosts engage in a lighthearted segment involving AI-generated images, leading to humorous misidentifications and playful banter.
Katie Nolan and Mina Kimes react to AI-generated images of NFL personalities transformed into women, highlighting the uncanny similarities and humorous inaccuracies:
Katie Nolan: "I think there'd be similarities, pretty much. Is that what Dan wore that night, or is that an updated." (37:06)
Mina Kimes: "This gal has a big smile, but she's a bully." (36:33)
This segment underscores the fascination and challenges with AI technology in recreating and altering visual content, blending humor with commentary on digital transformations.
As the episode concludes, the hosts reflect on the discussions and share final thoughts.
Pablo Torre muses about the nature of social media and its impact on personal interactions:
"But that question mean of like, what can you not get elsewhere? Like, what is this doing that the other places that we're all subscribed to in ways that make us think we're all so far gone on privacy..." (29:48)
Katie Nolan emphasizes the loss of authentic, spontaneous interactions that platforms like TikTok facilitate:
"I would miss hearing other people's drama... There's something to like an average American TV. It just feels like." (27:48)
Mina Kimes reiterates the duality of TikTok's value and its societal implications, balancing positive content against privacy and influence concerns:
"It's not a wasteland devoid of culturally significant or enlightening content. It's there right. So it's not a wasteland... but it also became everything for people. And I think that's not a good thing." (30:44)
The episode wraps up with the hosts expressing mutual appreciation and concluding their engaging discussions.
Mina Kimes on Social Media and Authenticity (03:08):
"Dear Cassandra, you're four today. You love early Miles Davis and grilled cheese, but only with Gruyere."
Katie Nolan on TikTok's Multifaceted Role (22:02):
"There's a lot of people who run businesses on TikTok... It has its... It's a social media app... it's a center for brain rot. But it is also like it's... Let's not paint it with a broad brush."
Pablo Torre on Party Culture Decline (09:59):
"People stop smiling. But this is an article that resonates because the whole notion of people throwing parties for each other has, like, objectively declined."
Mina Kimes on TikTok's Societal Impact (27:36):
"It's not a wasteland devoid of culturally significant or enlightening content. But I am still so, like, profoundly uncomfortable with the fact that so many people get not just their news... dictated not by facts, but by an algorithm."
The episode underscores the shifting dynamics in American social life, highlighting a decline in traditional party culture and the complex role of social media platforms like TikTok. The hosts convey a nuanced perspective:
Social Media Authenticity vs. Curation: There's a tension between authentic representations and curated portrayals of personal lives, especially concerning children on platforms like Instagram.
Decline of Traditional Parties: Economic and social changes have led to fewer traditional gatherings, with a noticeable impact on how Americans socialize and celebrate.
TikTok's Duality: While TikTok serves as a platform for creativity, business, and authentic interactions, it also poses significant concerns regarding data privacy, governmental influence, and the potential erosion of fact-based discourse.
Overall, the episode invites listeners to reflect on how evolving social norms and digital platforms shape personal interactions, cultural practices, and societal values.