1KHO 784: Reality Privilege and the War on Real Life | Joshua Pauling, Are We All Cyborgs Now?

The 1000 Hours Outside Podcast

Ginny Yurich

Kids & Family, Parenting

4.8 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 30 April 2026

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Reality is starting to get a bad reputation and that should concern all of us. In this thought-provoking episode of The 1000 Hours Outside Podcast, Ginny Yurich talks with Joshua Pauling, co-author of Are We All Cyborgs Now?, about the growing idea that real life is something to escape rather than engage. From AI relationships and digital avatars to the subtle ways technology reshapes how we think, relate, and even define what it means to be human, this conversation goes into all of it! What happens when ease replaces effort, when simulated connection replaces real relationships, and when the friction that forms us is engineered out of everyday life? And what do we lose when reality itself is framed as a privilege? This episode is both a warning and an invitation to step back into the kind of life that builds resilience, depth, and meaning in a world increasingly designed to pull us away from it. Get your copy of Are We All Cyborgs Now? here ** A huge thank you to our sponsors! Check them ALL out below: BetterHelp: Visit ⁠www.BetterHelp.com/1000HOURS⁠ today to get 10% off your first month. Quince - Visit ⁠www.quince.com/outside⁠ and get free shipping and 365 day returns IXL Learning - Head to ⁠www.ixl.com/1000hours⁠ to get an exclusive 20% savings on your membership Whisker - Take care of your cats while taking an additional $50 off bundles with code 1000HOURS when you shop ⁠www.whisker.com/1000HOURS⁠ Skylight - Right now, Skylight calendar is offering our listeners $30 off their 15-inch calendar when you go to ⁠wwwlMySkylight.com/1000Hours⁠ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:29.6	Welcome to the 1000 Hours Outside podcast.
0:31.6	My name is Ginny Urge.
0:33.6	I'm the founder of 1000 Hours Outside.
0:35.1	And today's topic is a fantastic one. I read a book
0:38.9	called Are We All Cyborgs Now, reclaiming our humanity from the machine. I'm super interested in
0:44.7	these topics. And one of the co-authors, Joshua Pauling, is here. Welcome, Josh. It's such a
0:50.3	pleasure to talk with you. I really excited about the conversation today. Thank you.
0:53.6	I mean, these are the pertinent topics of our time.
0:56.0	Like what are we going to do with all of this technology and sort of what are the underlying
1:01.0	concepts that we need to be thinking about before we accept and insert all of these new technologies
1:07.0	into our lives?
1:08.0	Can you tell us where the interest came in your life? And I know you co-wrote it with
1:12.8	Robin Phillips. So how did the two of you come together to write this book? Sure. Yeah, great starting
1:17.8	point. So Robin and I met through the publishing world. We both were writing about similar topics,
1:22.3	thinking about technological questions, educational questions, family questions. And so we started communicating
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