Deal or No Deal, and should men pay for everything?
James Ball takes us through how choosing between £50,000 or a 50% chance of a million is actually very political and Lucy Reade unpacks High Value Womanhood
PODCASTS
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.
Episodes
The worst Odyssey reactions and the Washington Post’s very bad YouTube channel
This week Lucy Reade unpacks the very worst online reactions to Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey, and James Ball introduces us to the Washington Post’s very bad YouTube channel.
Minions, God and AI climate anxiety
This week James Ball manages to link the new Minions movie to questioning the meaning of God, and Lucy Reade discusses how climate anxiety around AI might be more of a moral panic than we think
Taylor Swift’s wedding and the latest BookTok drama
This week Lucy Reade and James Ball talk about the highly controversial wedding of global megastar Taylor Swift, as well as the latest BookTok drama.