Episode Summary Today’s Sideshow takes a hard turn into cursed family legacies, educational collapse, animal-hoarder motherhood, and a man who apparently fell in love with Google Gemini. Also, new listeners get a crash course in Linda Finkel, because everyone has to suffer eventually. Opening Chaos Happy birthday, Leslie, sponsored into the show on your own damn birthday like a true and honorable freak. A fresh Raja William Smith-style birthday performance goes completely sideways, complete with electrocution vibes and malfunctioning keyboard trauma. New listener orientation includes a trip through the horrible wonderland of Linda Finkel, from post-9/11 patriot garbage to anti-war nursery-rhyme politics to soul-killing songs about doing laundry and being a mom. Episode Highlights A brand new porno nightmare emerges: ancestry porn, where a guy uses AI to animate old family photos and turns his dead great-grandfather into a smiling cum target. The man behind this filth insists it is not hateful, just “naughty,” then proudly gives his ancestors a brand-new digital legacy of facials, grave jerking, and family-tree desecration. Tim pitches the obvious next step, an XXX genealogy service where you can watch your relatives from the Great Depression getting plowed in historically accurate filth. Relationship Rot An ex-girlfriend grabs her former boyfriend’s junk, denies it counts, half-apologizes, asks for $50, and keeps circling back like horny legal evidence with emojis. Her master plan seems to be: acknowledge sexual assault in writing, then immediately try to turn it into a hookup. When pity and fake accountability fail, she switches tactics and calls him a p***y for not wanting to be assaulted. Romance is alive and deeply stupid. Public School Horror Show A Baltimore student finds out he is not graduating after all, mainly because he passed only three classes in four years and somehow still ranked near the middle of his class. The transcript is a work of modern art: failures in almost everything, a glorious 0.13 GPA, and promotion into classes he had absolutely no business taking. Mom blames the school, the school definitely deserves some blame, but the kid also missed a cartoonish number of days and even managed to fail gym. ️ Distorted News Florida Mother of the Week: a woman allegedly dumps her barefoot teenagers at a hospital because she is “done with them” and blames them for the death of one of her many dogs. Deputies find a home crawling with neglect, including 44 living dogs, pigs, a cat, a snake, dead animals, feces, and enough warning signs to fill a county fair. A Washington man sues Google, claiming Gemini made him psychologically dependent through emotionally engaging chatbot behavior. He says his ADD left him especially vulnerable, and now he wants damages because apparently the real villain here is a chatbot that kept replying. Listener Interaction / Voicemails Jagu Bleached A*****e wonders if Mead Skelton is an elaborate troll and is forced to hear the sad truth: no, he really is just that way. A listener tries to explain Mead’s weirdly low heart rate, prompting more speculation about how a sedentary chaos goblin could possibly have marathon-runner vitals. Leo calls in with fighting-game filth about a new Street Fighter character whose big romantic ending may involve cousin love, because of course it does. Ongoing Freaks / Updates Mead remains infuriating, fascinating, and medically suspicious. Linda Finkel gets dragged back out for another lore refresher, proving once again that the Hall of Fame exists because humanity refused to stop recording. The show closes with the comforting reminder that somewhere out there, a man named SorryDad is still probably masturbating to cursed family memorabilia. Support the Show Join the Sideshow for exclusive episodes, support the madness, and get more Distorted View at distortedview.com.