We are taking this platform as an opportunity as a mother and a son to talk through … everything: pop culture, current events, sensitive subjects that most parents and kids avoid. Our hope is that instead of the conversations being an expression of virtue signaling, in which each of us tries to give the other person the “right” answer, we’re willing to tell the truth.  Why podcasting, and why would a teenager agree (voluntarily!) to do this with his mom?    How are you doing? What a garbage question!  Instead, we ask: Who got into trouble today?    FaZe Clan drop Kay over ‘crypto pump’ allegations, suspend Jarvis, Nikan & Teeqo   The most famous banjo player on earth quits Mumford & Sons to tweet freely about conservative, right-wing propaganda  The banjo is more than just an instrument. “It was born in slavery, gained popularity on the minstrel stage, and, eventually, in Pete Seeger's hands, turned against its own past, becoming a "machine [that] surrounds hate and forces it to surrender.’”  What the hell are my kids talking about?    Ice in my veins trend on Tik Tok, thanks to D’Angelo Russell    SHEESH!: King Julio the Frog sparked an audio trend that will melt your ears   What the hell is my mom talking about?   Will Gen Z ever be able to buy a house? (Spoiler: no.)   What are you watching?    The Lobster: In a dystopian near future, single people, according to the laws of The City, are taken to The Hotel, where they are obliged to find a romantic partner in forty-five days or are transformed into beasts and sent off into The Woods, directed by Yorgos Lanthimos  Killing of a Sacred Deer: Steven, a charismatic surgeon, is forced to make an unthinkable sacrifice after his life starts to fall apart when the behavior of a teenage boy he has taken under his wing turns sinister.   Loki - The multiverse is best understood while watching on heavy medication.    2001: A Space Odyssey - The Ultimate Trip and how mushrooms re-branded Kubrick’s masterpiece   What’s next? Have a question you’d like us to answer? Send it here! [email protected] --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/virtue-signaling-podcast/support