60 acast.com Touching Grass https://shows.acast.com/touching-grass en The New World Internet,Social media,Online The New World 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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]]> 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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]]> false The New World info+6a072b76d98ee73f632bbed6@mg-eu.acast.com 6a072b76d98ee73f632bbed6 touching-grass episodic https://assets.pippa.io/shows/cover/1778854296681-d0f9fbbd-69c3-4d2a-a375-dec49ee4f853.jpeg https://shows.acast.com/touching-grass Touching Grass The fascist video game row, and why are teens obsessed with New Labour politicians? The fascist video game row, and why are teens obsessed with New Labour politicians? Tue, 19 May 2026 23:00:00 GMT 40:22 6a0c6b3bd86692e2e995c141 false https://shows.acast.com/touching-grass/episodes/the-fascist-video-game-row-and-why-are-teens-obsessed-with-n 6a0c6b3bd86692e2e995c141 6a072b76d98ee73f632bbed6 the-fascist-video-game-row-and-why-are-teens-obsessed-with-n full Welcome to Touching Grass, where two extremely online people attempt to explain internet discourse to people sensible enough to spend their time offline. This week, James Ball dives into the debate over whether video games can be fascist, while Lucy Reade unpacks the baffling teen obsession with New Labour politicians – and their love lives. 


Links from the episode:


Links to full Mass Effect thread: https://bsky.app/profile/machineiv.bsky.social/post/3mksstm3vss2u 

Links to Tiktoks: https://vm.tiktok.com/ZNRtaYvwn/ 

https://vm.tiktok.com/ZNRtaURon/

https://vm.tiktok.com/ZNRtaF1m2/


Presented by James Ball and Lucy Reade


Produced by Matt Withers


Subscribe to The New World for just £5 for five weeks here

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]]> Welcome to Touching Grass, where two extremely online people attempt to explain internet discourse to people sensible enough to spend their time offline. This week, James Ball dives into the debate over whether video games can be fascist, while Lucy Reade unpacks the baffling teen obsession with New Labour politicians – and their love lives. 


Links from the episode:


Links to full Mass Effect thread: https://bsky.app/profile/machineiv.bsky.social/post/3mksstm3vss2u 

Links to Tiktoks: https://vm.tiktok.com/ZNRtaYvwn/ 

https://vm.tiktok.com/ZNRtaURon/

https://vm.tiktok.com/ZNRtaF1m2/


Presented by James Ball and Lucy Reade


Produced by Matt Withers


Subscribe to The New World for just £5 for five weeks here

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

]]> Touching Grass - Coming Soon Touching Grass - Coming Soon Fri, 15 May 2026 14:38:36 GMT 1:24 6a072fecefd1f558b09e76e8 false https://shows.acast.com/touching-grass/episodes/touching-grass-coming-soon 6a072fecefd1f558b09e76e8 6a072b76d98ee73f632bbed6 touching-grass-coming-soon full Welcome to Touching Grass, the new podcast on online culture from The New World.


Telling someone to 'touch grass' means they need to get off their screen and get back in touch with reality - an insult which has been levelled many times at Lucy Reade and James Ball. This podcast is essentially two people who spend way too much time on the internet trying to explain what's going on there to people with much healthier lives.


James provides the Millennial perspective. Lucy explains what Gen Z are up to. Expect confusing discourse, culture wars and bizarre influencer scandals. They'll try to explain why you should care about any of this - and also, sometimes, why you shouldn't. It's 2026, after all - there's no escaping the internet.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

]]> Welcome to Touching Grass, the new podcast on online culture from The New World.


Telling someone to 'touch grass' means they need to get off their screen and get back in touch with reality - an insult which has been levelled many times at Lucy Reade and James Ball. This podcast is essentially two people who spend way too much time on the internet trying to explain what's going on there to people with much healthier lives.


James provides the Millennial perspective. Lucy explains what Gen Z are up to. Expect confusing discourse, culture wars and bizarre influencer scandals. They'll try to explain why you should care about any of this - and also, sometimes, why you shouldn't. It's 2026, after all - there's no escaping the internet.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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