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Touching Grass

The New World

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.

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Episodes

24 episodes

  1. You Can Touch Every Grass 54:37
  2. Right wing Harry Potter fanfiction and 2 Kelly 2 Furious 47:03
  3. Kelly Clarkson gets Pretty-Womaned, and should you use ChatGPT to answer all your questions? 51:39
  4. Is Zionism racism and an update from Elon Musk 54:23
  5. Fairford falsehoods and KFC cannibalism claims 53:37
  6. The great iced coffee row, and is internet hustle culture getting out of hand? 53:31
  7. Aella, and why BookTok has changed how people read 47:01
  8. The tragic case of Lindsey Clancy, and are GLP-1 drugs fascist? 56:44
  9. Right wing pick me influencers and dating app discourse 52:16
  10. Dobby's grave and problematic internet boyfriends 54:20
  11. The Sex Purge Movie, and catching predators 45:29
  12. Panopticons and the fall of the Magaverse 43:29
  13. Deal or No Deal, and should men pay for everything? 45:54
  14. The worst Odyssey reactions and the Washington Post’s very bad YouTube channel 42:20
  15. Minions, God and AI climate anxiety 39:46
  16. Taylor Swift's wedding and the latest BookTok drama 45:05
  17. Chargebacks and time blindness 37:57
  18. Starmtroopers over here, Looksmaxxers over there 33:34
  19. Should the UK government be banning social media for under-16s? 44:37
  20. Phone bans at concerts, and Pattie Gonia v Patagonia 45:03
  21. Crying on LinkedIn and the latest Bonnie Blue controversy 45:33
  22. Can you fall in love with AI, and the great UK v US food debate 39:03
  23. The fascist video game row, and why are teens obsessed with New Labour politicians? 40:22
  24. Touching Grass - Coming Soon 1:24