On March 13, 2025, Netflix released Adolescence, and ever since, parents have been learning that Andrew Tate is bad. What are we to do? Ryan talks to Grant about how the problems we have on the internet now are not dramatically new, it’s just that everyone has the internet in their pocket all the time — and, to borrow a 2010s phrase, the solution to that might surprise you.

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Credits

- Host: Ryan Broderick

- Producer: Grant Irving

- Engineer: Rebecca Seidel

- Researcher: Adam Bumas

- Business Manager: Josh Fjelstad

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