Touching Grass
Hosted by James Ball and Lucy Reade · The New World
5.0from 5 ratings
- 22
- Episodes
- 17
- Transcribed
- 5
- Ratings
- Weekly
- Cadence
- 2026
- First episode
About Touching Grass
In online culture, to tell someone to touch grass is an encouragement to get off their screen and get back in touch with reality. In this podcast, The New World's Gen Z-er Lucy Reade and Millennial James Ball try to explain what's happening on the internet to people with much healthier lives - and each other. Expect confusing discourse, culture wars and bizarre influencer scandals. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy (https://acast.com/privacy) for more information.
- Publisher
- The New World
- Category
- technology
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 15 May 2026
- Latest episode
- 13 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
17 of 22 episodes have a transcript.
13 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Kelly Clarkson gets Pretty-Womaned, and should you use ChatGPT to answer all your questions?
6 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Is Zionism racism and an update from Elon Musk
29 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Fairford falsehoods and KFC cannibalism claims
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Kelly Clarkson gets Pretty-Womaned, and should you use ChatGPT to answer all your questions?
Published 13 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] Chat GPT. And then, you know, there's people like in the replies sharing kind of Basically, it's kicked off a lot of discourse of some people going, it's insane how much everyone relies on ChatGPT now, saying they literally, they don't Google anything anymore. They just ask ChatGPT. I'm old enough to remember when everyone complained that everyone was Googling things instead of like actually learning it for themselves. […]
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James Ball and Lucy Reade host the show. Published by The New World.
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