Most of the millennial leftist podcast culture is like this. Brace Belden regularly makes a lot of jokes about being various characters as a bit in the podcast. He pretended to be a software CEO called Racial Jake (Rachel Jake) when he got interviewed by the Falun Gong. He’s got a cryptobro gremlin persona called the Coindexter. A gourmet enjoyer called the Gourmand. He once opened a podcast episode and introduced himself as Adolf Hitler. The thing is, his actual, honest to God, real life story is also so bizarre and something out of a Pynchon novel (he was addicted to hard drugs, was reading a lot of Mao and other leftist theory, flew to Syria when he heard about the YPG, then fought there for a few years before coming back to the US and becoming a labor organizer) so it becomes a bit hard to tell when he’s telling a real anecdote or if he’s doing a bit.

He’s had a recurring bit about generating AI porn of John Fetterman for the last couple of months that I could’ve sworn was just a joke, but it became apparent that he wasn’t kidding when he actually showed it to Hasan on camera. You just can’t really tell lol