Roundtable: Glass Fruit, 28 Years Later, and 90s Summers

1. AI-generated videos of people cutting and eating glass fruit are trending on social media – 18:55
2. The movie 28 Years Later makes the 28-numbered zombie saga worse – 30:10
3. 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.