This is the On the Media Midweek podcast. I'm Brooke Gladstone.

Last week, the website for Enron, yeah, that Enron, the disgraced fraudulent energy company that went bankrupt in 2001, came back online.

We're rolling? Awesome. What does being the new CEO of Enron mean to me?

How much time do we have?

And on Monday, the new CEO introduced himself.

When I was a child, my father would renovate houses.

And something that he would tell me was, son, all that really matters is to have a strong foundation.

He called it good bones.

Well, I believe that Enron has good bones.

I believe that Enron has a strong foundation.

Connor Gados seems to have resurrected the company to poke fun at corporate America.

The finer print gives us the answer we've been looking for. The information

on the website is First Amendment protected parity, represents performance art, and is for entertainment

purposes only. And sell a few hoodies. There's a company store selling Enron merch for as little as

$118. Holiday gift, anyone?

And it so happens that Gatos is a source of another satirical piece of news.

Birds are real!

Birds aren't real movement marched through downtown Springfield today to give one message,

Birds are not real.

The group believes all the birds in the United States have been killed by the government.

The United States government replaced them with robot replicas

that look like, mimic, and act like real birds in every single way.

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