ICYMI - Nobody Wants To Party Anymore
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🗓️ 20 September 2025
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
On today’s episode, host Kate Lindsay is joined by sociologist and content creator Josh Lora, who goes by @tellthebeees on TikTok and Substack. In his viral piece, “The Mainstreaming of Loserdom,” Lora explores how a generation of people is becoming proudly anti-social, often in favor of staying home on their phones. While less and less people may be partying, they’re not exactly happy about it. Are we doomed to doomscroll, or can we fight for our right to party again?
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| 0:51.3 | And I don't know about you, but I want people to party again. Like, I am the |
| 0:55.0 | friend who is always trying to get everyone to go out, but it is getting harder and harder, and I am |
| 0:59.8 | not the only one who is noticed. Someone who has written a lot about this is Josh Laura, who goes |
| 1:05.0 | by Tell the Bees on both SubSack and TikTok, where he takes a sociological approach to pop culture |
| 1:10.6 | analysis, and, funnily enough, |
| 1:12.9 | who you've probably already heard when listening to our episodes because we play as TikToks all |
| 1:16.9 | the time. Josh, welcome to the show. |
| 1:23.6 | Thank you so much for having me. That is very funny. I feel like I am constantly involving myself in other people's drama and like kind of eye in the sky saying, well, this is the sociological analysis, you know, but at the end of the day, I think the core is that I unfortunately am nosy and messy. And so I'm able to couch it in like explainers, but I do appreciate it. Thank you so much. |
| 1:46.4 | Well, so now that we do have you here, there's a question that we ask everyone when it's their first time on the pod. |
| 1:51.5 | And that is, what is your first internet memory? |
| 1:55.3 | Oh, my goodness. That's such a good question. I feel like definitely aim, because I unfortunately am a millennial, so I, |
| 2:03.6 | you know, I put the CDs in the desktop and like listen to the clanging and the clicking |
| 2:09.6 | and the clacking. I will say that my first internet memory is like Googling X-Men and like |
| 2:16.6 | joining an X-Men forum at like 10 years old, having no |
| 2:20.5 | context, no knowledge of the 40 years of history that the team already had, or 30 years, |
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