Do you feel stressed?

Have you accepted that the anxiety isn’t going anywhere and that terrible sleep is just the norm?

Do you yearn for a bygone era where the soul-sucking slab hadn’t left a crease so deep in the palm of your hand that it changed the lifeline stretching across it?

Are you thinking these questions are absurd because everyone’s answer is obviously "yes," it’s 2026, you have an internet connection, and you feel some strange obligation to play your part?

Same.

If scrolling through your phone has become your primary source of human interaction and dopamine, it might be time to indulge a little nostalgia and reconsider what nature and a bit of self-awareness can offer.

And, as counterintuitive as it sounds, a new podcast might be exactly what nudges you in that direction.

Queue up How to Touch Grass and let it challenge the shallow gratification of life lived through a screen, where technology has quietly become both companion and crutch.

You just might find yourself taking a deep breath, peeling back a few superficial layers, and reconnecting with the kind of happiness that can’t be found in pixels or posts.

Maybe you'll even understand why so many people keep yearning for the monoculture of the '90s.

At a fundamental level, technology has reshaped nearly every aspect of how we socialize, but there are signs of a much-needed over-correction fuelled by Gen-Z’s need for something of substance, and paradoxically their TikTok feeds.

Have a listen and let us know what you think.

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