{"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":"137: Chinese Peptides (ft. Tiny Matters)","slug":"137-chinese-peptides-ft-tiny-matters","published_at":"2026-05-13T09:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/wow-if-true-3090465/137-chinese-peptides-ft-tiny-matters","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/wow-if-true-3090465","url":"https://rss.art19.com/episodes/c92e0bd1-f728-4690-8e02-f53bffe80fd0.mp3?rss_browser=BAhJIg90cmFuc2NyaWJyBjoGRVQ%3D--952c5701c84ad333c69d5faa668f8177091704f0","audio_url":"https://rss.art19.com/episodes/c92e0bd1-f728-4690-8e02-f53bffe80fd0.mp3?rss_browser=BAhJIg90cmFuc2NyaWJyBjoGRVQ%3D--952c5701c84ad333c69d5faa668f8177091704f0","summary":"Party drugs are out, and injecting grey market peptides with your LinkedIn connections at Silicon Valley house parties is in. Yes, the biohacker tech bros have peptide dealers in China who are sending them dubious chemicals to construct things like \"the Wolverine stack,\" which are supposed to make them more alert and/or younger and/or tanner? This doesn't make any sense, which is why we brought in our friends and actual scientists from Tiny Matters -- Dr. Sam Jones and Dr. Deboki Chakravarti -- to explain to us the science (or lackthereof?) behind the peptide craze. Links Tiny Matters Find Us Online  Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/wowiftrue.bsky.social Twitter: https://twitter.com/wowiftruepod Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wowiftrue Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/wowiftrue Website: https://wowiftrue.com/ Email: wowiftruepod@gmail.com 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":"Party drugs are out, and injecting grey market peptides with your LinkedIn connections at Silicon Valley house parties is in. Yes, the biohacker tech bros…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3732,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/wow-if-true-3090465/episodes/137-chinese-peptides-ft-tiny-matters/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-3090465/137-chinese-peptides-ft-tiny-matters.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}