{"podcast":{"title":"Where It All Starts","slug":"where-it-all-starts-7043127","podcast_index_feed_id":7043127,"rss_url":"https://www.spreaker.com/show/6110761/episodes/feed","website_url":"https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/where-it-all-starts--6110761","image_url":"https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/c78bae52656cb95bdf892db0cd285738.jpg","author":"Zandile Qhuqha","episode_count":1000,"summary":"Introducing where it all starts, hosted by two VERY normal teenage girls who talk about dream lives, family experiences, expressing feelings and differences in a more of a comedic way. Like any other teenagers, they talk about how tiktok has influenced their lives ESPECIALLY during corona and how they are trying to keep their mind off the pandemic. They end it off with a very memorable quote, one that'll surely have an impact on your day to day life.","last_synced_at":"2026-08-01T18:19:04.625105+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/where-it-all-starts-7043127"},"episode":{"title":"Is Social Media Hype Even Real?","slug":"is-social-media-hype-even-real","published_at":"2026-06-01T07:30:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/where-it-all-starts-7043127/is-social-media-hype-even-real","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/where-it-all-starts-7043127","url":"https://www.spreaker.com/episode/is-social-media-hype-even-real--72273011","audio_url":"https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/72273011/8910088.mp3","summary":"It’s no secret that what we see on social media is highly choreographed. But a recent article in New York Magazine by Lane Brown confirms it by uncovering the world of artificial hype that drives what we perceive as buzz. The piece dominated the groupchats these last few days, and for good reason: it taps into a general unease about how we’ve ceded our reality to platforms that are manipulated by shadowy ad campaigns. Brown joins the show to lay it all out for us.And in headlines, Trump’s “walk back weekend,” protestors clash with police outside a New Jersey ICE detention center, and voting begins in the the Colombian presidential election.Show Notes: The Feed Is Fake, by Lane Brown – https://www.vulture.com/article/social-media-feeds-chaotic-good-projects-clipping.html Call Congress – 202-224-3121 Subscribe to the What A Day Newsletter – https://tinyurl.com/y4y2e9jy What A Day – YouTube – https://www.youtube.com/@whatadaypodcast Follow us on Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/crookedmedia/ For a transcript of this episode, please visit crooked.com/whataday","meta_description":"It’s no secret that what we see on social media is highly choreographed. But a recent article in New York Magazine by Lane Brown confirms it by uncovering…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1297,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/where-it-all-starts-7043127/episodes/is-social-media-hype-even-real/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/where-it-all-starts-7043127/is-social-media-hype-even-real.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}