{"podcast":{"title":"Wow If True","slug":"wow-if-true-3090465","podcast_index_feed_id":3090465,"rss_url":"https://rss.art19.com/wow-if-true","website_url":"https://art19.com/shows/wow-if-true","image_url":"https://content.production.cdn.art19.com/images/52/bf/a3/46/52bfa346-c6d5-43d5-9d8b-dc311cf77b34/888d15b0dcc5a5da1f92ab2f2d1284b0e90cda9c215dca32ded5812fd51c6fb37f8c8bf74d9185f5ec06865c648d143f8c6f20db2cfaeb525b8aeeb7165ee93c.jpeg","author":"Multitude","episode_count":139,"summary":"​​Wow If True is your one-stop internet culture shop, explaining how what’s happening online shapes the real world. And we’re the internet experts and real-life besties to unravel it: tech culture journalist Amanda Silberling and science fiction author slash attorney Isabel J. Kim, Esq. More importantly, we’re the only podcast that will mention Neopets and horizontal mergers in the same episode. New episode every other Wednesday.","last_synced_at":null,"page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/wow-if-true-3090465"},"episode":{"title":"126: Gooning and Heterofatalism","slug":"126-gooning-and-heterofatalism","published_at":"2025-11-12T10:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/wow-if-true-3090465/126-gooning-and-heterofatalism","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/wow-if-true-3090465","url":"https://rss.art19.com/episodes/4b63953d-8537-49ee-882e-d6746912e6df.mp3?rss_browser=BAhJIg90cmFuc2NyaWJyBjoGRVQ%3D--952c5701c84ad333c69d5faa668f8177091704f0","audio_url":"https://rss.art19.com/episodes/4b63953d-8537-49ee-882e-d6746912e6df.mp3?rss_browser=BAhJIg90cmFuc2NyaWJyBjoGRVQ%3D--952c5701c84ad333c69d5faa668f8177091704f0","summary":"We read a bunch of articles about the state of dating/dating apps and yes, THAT gooning article, and talked about them. It's like English class where you read a bunch of stuff and talk about it except you haven't done the reading!!! But you can do the reading. It's right here. This is the reading. Reading The Goon Squad (Harper's) \"But PornosexualGooner101 Died 35 Years Ago...This Very Night!\" (The Chatner) The Trouble With Wanting Men (NYT) Is Having a Boyfriend Embarrassing Now? (Vogue) Other Stuff Follow-up interview w/ Goon Squad writer Wait, people actually use Facebook Dating? The best dating apps aren't even dating apps Meet the goonettes About Us  Wow If True was created by Isabel J. Kim and Amanda Silberling . Our editors are Allison Mills and David Newtown. Wow If True is a member of Multitude , a podcast collective, production studio and ad sales provider. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .","meta_description":"We read a bunch of articles about the state of dating/dating apps and yes, THAT gooning article, and talked about them. It's like English class where you…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3457,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/wow-if-true-3090465/episodes/126-gooning-and-heterofatalism/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/wow-if-true-3090465/126-gooning-and-heterofatalism.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}