Hey I'm Brian Hyatt and this is Rolling Stone Music Now.

And I have with me Jonah Weiner.

He's a contributing writer at New York Times magazine. He also has a really cool newsletter called

Blackbird Spy Plan that you can check out at Blackbird Spy Plan.com and he's a lot of

fashion stuff but he's interviewed people like Phoebe Bridgers it's a lot of fashion stuff but he's interviewed people like Phoebe

bridges it's a lot of fun and Jonah is joining me because he wrote a definitive

cover story on a couple of robots who have left our world.

Daph punk have broken up in a very daph punk way.

They're gone. We miss them already. I feel like I honestly feel like this is like one of the

episodes we do after someone dies but no human being to our knowledge of has died but the

robots are gone. But in 2013, Jonah wrote this piece on

Daph punk and they haven't done much since actually which makes it kind of all the more

weird and hilarious that they broke up so publicly.

But first of all, Jona, welcome and second of all, what do you make of the breakup, the

announcement of the breakup, the timing, like what are we to make of this?

Yeah, so I guess what you were saying

is we can front load any conspiracy theorizing.

You don't have a later conspiracy theory segment,

you know, plan, so we can hop right in. I don't know, you know, plan.

So we can hop right in.

I don't know, like, I haven't gone deep into the,

like kind of like Reddit, you know, rabbit hole on this.

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