Lacey Duncan and Macy Brink strip away the hype, the jargon, and the fear — for a grounded, human-first look at how AI actually fits into your daily routine.
"Touch grass" means exactly what it sounds like. Put the phone down. Walk outside. Feel actual ground under your feet instead of another feed under your thumb. No screen, no notifications — just you, some fresh air, and whatever's real and physically in front of you. It's grounding, in the most literal sense: your feet on the earth, your attention back in your own life instead of somewhere else's feed.
AI is moving fast. Every app you open is adding it, every headline promises it's about to change something else. You can have actual conversations with it now. It's showing up at work, at home, in your kids' homework, in the group chat. It's not a niche interest anymore; it's just part of the world now, whether you opted in or not.
And with something moving that fast, wrapped in that much hype and some uncertainty at the same time, it's easy to get pulled in — to end up consumed by it instead of actually using it.
That's why we're here. To help you navigate the tools, cut through the noise, and hand you a grounded, human perspective you can actually trust. We ask the questions nobody else will. We do the research so you don't have to. We test what needs testing and tell you the truth about what holds up. Not hype. Not fear. Just what's real — and what it means for your life.
We test claims against real use, not press releases.
We cut through the technical noise and give you exactly what you need to know — no more, no less. Just the parts of AI that actually matter to your life.
Close your tabs. Turn off notifications. Go touch grass. That's the whole goal — and we're here to help you actually get there, one grounded conversation at a time.
Close your tabs.
Turn off your notifications.
Go touch grass.

Lacey works at Google and is heavily integrated in the tech world — surrounded by the tools, the language, and the hype long before most people ever hear about them. But her real skill isn't building the technology, it's translating it. Making AI make sense, cutting through the noise, and empowering people to actually understand what they're using — that's her superpower, on this show and off it.

Macy works at an IT company where she's helping shape its shift from a traditional managed service provider into an AI-forward business — figuring out, in real time, what that transition actually looks like for a company and its customers. She brings that firsthand, in-the-trenches perspective to the show: less theory, more "here's what's actually happening."
Every week, like clockwork — new episodes drop every Wednesday.
Yes, please. Email Lacey and Macy at whenaitouchesgrass@gmail.com or submit an idea on our contact page — we read every message.
Nope — not a thing. If you can send a text, you're qualified. We explain every term in plain English the moment it comes up, and if something needs a buzzword to sound impressive, we probably aren't covering it. Come curious, leave with one thing you can actually use before dinner.
Thirty seconds on the clock. Send the busywork to AI, keep the human stuff human — every good call is minutes back on your week.