{"podcast":{"title":"The Two Matts","slug":"the-two-matts-1119331","podcast_index_feed_id":1119331,"rss_url":"https://feeds.acast.com/public/shows/648c40140701dc00113b4626","website_url":"https://www.thenewworld.co.uk","image_url":"https://assets.pippa.io/shows/648c40140701dc00113b4626/1770294289897-5eaff282-7ad4-42d1-879f-aac66a205a2c.jpeg","author":"The New World","episode_count":676,"summary":"Join The New World's Matt Kelly and Matt d'Ancona plus occasional guests for weekly chat on politics and media with a side of cultural stuff. A podcast in the spirit of the award-winning New World newspaper - irreverent, witty, surprising, argumentative ... and annoying all the right people. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-24T00:17:21.288305+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-two-matts-1119331"},"episode":{"title":"Have you been Touching Grass? You should be","slug":"have-you-been-touching-grass-you-should-be","published_at":"2026-07-09T12:30:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-two-matts-1119331/have-you-been-touching-grass-you-should-be","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-two-matts-1119331","url":"https://shows.acast.com/the-new-european-podcast/episodes/have-you-been-touching-grass-you-should-be","audio_url":"https://sphinx.acast.com/p/open/s/648c40140701dc00113b4626/e/6a4f9092f8a80edf8535b5ce/media.mp3","summary":"The Matts are joined by James Ball and Lucy Reade, hosts of The New World ’s new podcast Touching Grass - the internet culture podcast. If you like The Two Matts , you’ll love this. We’ll let Lucy and James explain all. And the four of us also reflect on a bizarre 72 hours in the life of Nigel Farage. Has he completely lost it? Did the main parties do the right thing in letting him twist in the wind - alone apart from the company of a man with a bin on his head? Enjoy! Produced by Matt Withers OFFER: Get The New World for just £1 for the first month. Head to https://www.thenewworld.co.uk/2matts/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.","meta_description":"The Matts are joined by James Ball and Lucy Reade, hosts of The New World ’s new podcast Touching Grass - the internet culture podcast. If you like The Tw…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2685,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-two-matts-1119331/episodes/have-you-been-touching-grass-you-should-be/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-two-matts-1119331/have-you-been-touching-grass-you-should-be.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}