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The 1000 Hours Outside Podcast

1KHO 856: The Opposite of AI Slop | Malcolm Guite, Galahad and the Grail

The 1000 Hours Outside Podcast

Ginny Yurich

Kids & Family, Parenting

4.82.3K Ratings

🗓️ 13 July 2026

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

English poet, singer-songwriter, Anglican priest, academic, YouTube sensation, and bestselling author Malcolm Guite joins us today! In this episode we explore why stories, poetry, imagination, and childhood wonder matter more than ever in an age of algorithms and artificial intelligence. From climbing trees with a wooden sword to reading great books aloud as a family, Malcolm makes a compelling case that the things shaping our humanity are the very things technology can never replace. This episode is an invitation to recover beauty, rediscover the classics, and remember that the richest life is still lived with real people in the real world. Learn more about Malcolm at Malcolm Guite's website and find Galahad and the Grail through Rabbit Room Press and listen to Malcolm read stories on his YouTube channel ! A huge thank you to our sponsors! Check them 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  woom Bikes - Go to woom.com and use code 1000HOURS at checkout for 10% off your new bike purchase, excluding the woom WOW. Muzzle Sleep Tape - Go to MuzzleSleep.com and use code 1000HOURS for 10% off.  Ethos Life Insurance - Get your free quote at ethos.com/1000hours  Active Skin Repair - Don’t forget to put this in your first aid kit! Visit ActiveSkinRepair.com and use the code 1000HOURS to save 20% on all Active Skin Repair products. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:37.8

Actually, I'm not super familiar with.

0:40.6

I was thinking back as I read this new book I have and it's poetry.

0:45.3

It's talking about Galahad.

0:47.4

And I was like, I have some touch points with this, but I don't know.

0:50.7

With my schooling experience, I think I missed a whole lot.

0:54.0

And so there is this brand new book out called Galahad and the Grail with phenomenal

0:59.1

illustrations.

1:00.6

And also it's this poet, it's all in poetry.

1:05.0

And so the author who has done so much, so many books, music as well. You can find him on YouTube reading all of the classics.

1:15.0

Malcolm Gite, welcome. Hello, very nice to be with you, Ginny. I'm glad to be on your podcast.

1:21.7

I'm all in favor of hours spent out playing in woods and by streams. That's how I grew up.

1:28.0

So I'm glad to see there are people trying to help that make happen now.

1:33.3

Yes, it's definitely a big change that's happened in society where kids are inside so much more.

1:38.3

But I was thinking back through my own educational journey and I felt like I had a pretty good education but I do think I missed a lot of

1:47.4

the classics in literature growing up and so I just was curious about your story growing up were you

1:55.6

exposed to a lot of this literature in your youth yeah I was I was. I mean, of course, you know, I'm English rather

2:02.7

than American, so obviously I guess maybe some of the more distinctively English stories. Well,

2:06.8

I'm actually only half English. My mother was Scottish and my father was English. And I have to say

2:11.9

that it's from my mother that a lot of the poetry side of me comes and the love of story and

2:16.8

storytelling.

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