So in other words they were doing something like the movie CSA?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/C.S....tes_of_America
It’s very hard to know if their explanation holds water without personally knowing these guys, but as I’ve said before, if you have to explain something is satire, it probably isn’t very good satire.
And even if it WAS good satire (like the movie cited above) people will chop it up and take it out of context.