School Reunions

Do you ever wonder what happened to that kid at school? Are there classmates with whom you've lost touch, but would love to catch up with? Or does the whole thing fill you with dread? In this week’s podcast, we discuss school reunions. We start by probing the reasons behind the popularity of the school reunion film trope of the 1970s and 80s, ask whether school reunions are more than just a benchmarking exercise with our peers, and question the impact of social media on getting together with our schoolmates. Finally, we attempt to guess what our fellow podcast participants were like during their school days. A few things we mentioned in this podcast: - The Impossibility of The Big Chill Today https://www.splicetoday.com/moving-pictures/the-impossibility-of-the-big-chill-today - Google Books Ngram for ‘School Reunion’ https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=school+reunion&year_start=1800&year_end=2019&corpus=26&smoothing=3&direct_url=t1%3B%2Cschool%20reunion%3B%2Cc0#t1%3B%2Cschool%20reunion%3B%2Cc0 - Just before COVID-19, American migration hit a 73-year low https://www.brookings.edu/blog/the-avenue/2020/12/15/just-before-covid-19-american-migration-hit-a-73-year-low/ For more information on Aleph Insights visit our website https://alephinsights.com or to get in touch about our podcast email podcast@alephinsights.com Image: Joe Shlabotnik via Flickr