Meet Beebs: The Sphynx Cat Who Rules the Internet (and Now, Our Podcast)

Episode 1 of Debugged with Patrick Bass is here, and we kicked things off with the most unexpectedly perfect guest you could imagine.

If you told most people that the first guest on a podcast about technology, crime, conspiracy, and the paranormal would be a cat, they’d probably back slowly toward the door. But most people don’t know Beebs. And after listening to Episode 1 of Debugged with Patrick Bass, you will understand exactly why a naked, opinionated, internet-famous Sphynx cat from North Georgia is the only logical way to launch this show.

First Things First: Who Is the Debug Crew?

Before Beebs made her entrance, listeners got to meet the team that’s going to be breaking things down week after week.

Patrick Bass is the host, and his resume runs deep: ordained minister, former law enforcement officer, paramedic, firefighter, cybersecurity professional, and stand-up comedian. Yes, all of that is one person. He sets the tone right out of the gate. The pitch for the show is simple and it hits: You’re smart. You think critically. But somewhere in the back of your mind, there’s a question you can’t quite shake. Something you saw, something you read that just doesn’t fit the official story. That’s where Debugged lives.

Co-host Jason Zuk is a licensed attorney in five states who has spent two decades doing hurricane recovery work. He’s also, as he calmly explains to the audience, a psychic medium. His grandfather passed in 2004, and that night Jason says he knew with certainty that life doesn’t end when we do. That experience put him on a spiritual path that now includes working knowledge of UAPs, paranormal phenomena, and what he calls the non-3D perspective. Having a lawyer who talks to the dead as your co-host is, objectively, a power move.

Contributor Tom Russell is a Marine veteran (a “devil dog,” in his words) who describes himself as “an old man with a sour look on the world” who can’t wait to pick things apart. Tom is the crew’s designated skeptic, and he plays it beautifully.

Contributor Anthony Roldan is a self-described New York nerd with a pottery hobby, misplaced confidence, and the comedic instincts of someone who probably should have his own show. His two truths and a lie revelation that he was almost in Peru on September 10th, 2001, and that he’d nearly been trapped there, was genuinely one of the more startling moments of the episode.

Beebs Has Entered the Chat

The main event of Episode 1 is an introduction to Beebs, a Sphynx cat with over 70,000 followers on Facebook, fans spanning 56 countries, and a personality that has been described, by her own human, as “an anger ball” with a Napoleon Complex.

Her human, known to the audience simply as “Ma,” is a former veterinary radiographer from North Georgia who medically retired after a lupus diagnosis. Before that career, she survived a massive brain hemorrhage at age 20: one of the youngest people in Georgia to come through cerebral gamma knife surgery at the time. She woke up in 1999, legally blind in one eye, furious that she missed what was supposed to be a great New Year’s Eve party. That’s the kind of person Beebs chose, and frankly, the fit makes sense.

What Makes Beebs Different?

Here’s the quick rundown on why this particular Sphynx cat has built what Ma calls “an empire.”

Beebs was an owner surrender, multiple times over. She was taken from her mother too early, had her ears cut by a previous owner, was never properly socialized, and is allergic to nearly everything in her environment. She doesn’t make typical happy cat sounds. What she makes instead is something between a complaint, a threat, and a philosophical statement about the nature of injustice.

She also happens to be a Sphynx, meaning she has no fur, which means she frequently shows everyone in the neighborhood things neighbors don’t typically expect to see. Ma confirmed that every person on their street could describe Beebs’ anatomy from memory if asked.

The trolls who flood Beebs’ comment sections accusing Ma of shaving the cat, abusing her, or generally being a monster have, over five years, become a kind of sport. Ma doesn’t flinch. “I’m old and in menopause,” she explains. “It’s like a free online rage room.” Some fans have reportedly called animal control. Beebs’ former practice managers just laugh and hang up.

The Psychic Reading

In what might be a Debugged first, Jason Zuk offered a psychic reading of Beebs live on air. His instinct (that there’s something Ma does with Beebs in the evenings that the cat genuinely appreciates) was immediately confirmed as wet food. Beebs is, by Ma’s account, “the most food-motivated cat on planet Earth.”

Jason’s broader point resonated with the whole crew though: animals perceive things on frequencies we don’t. Patrick mentioned his own cat, Flipper, who he’s convinced interacts with things invisible to the human eye. Ma backed it up. Beebs, about once or twice a month, will have what looks like a perfectly pleasant conversation with absolutely nothing. Not spooked. Not hiding. Just catching up with whoever’s there.

Whether that’s something vibrating on a higher plane or just a very confident cat, Beebs does not offer clarification.

The Flow Master, the Bort Hole, and Other Essential Beebs Vocabulary

If you’re going to be a member of Beebs Nation, you need the vocabulary.

Bort Hole: Beebs’ posterior region, a word Ma coined as a baby-talk alternative. Off limits unless Beebs decides otherwise. The neighborhood can draw it from memory anyway.

The Flow Master: Beebs’ alter ego, activated when her upper region is being washed. She has apparently started beatboxing during this process, unprompted, in the last several months. “She is the Flow Master,” Ma explains, “and when she’s just existing in her usual perfectness, she is Beebs.” Eminem has Slim Shady. Beebs has this.

Foop: The loose skin from Beebs’ dramatic weight loss (15 pounds down to under 9). It’s hers. Don’t stare at it.

A fan-authored haiku read on-air during the episode captures the full Beebs experience: Nipnops. Not now, Ma. Twat waffle. Bort hole cleaner. Don’t stare at my foop. It’s somehow both absurd and deeply personal.

Why Beebs as Episode One?

It’s a fair question, and Patrick addresses it in a way that lands. Beebs isn’t a gimmick. She’s a creature who came into the world under rough circumstances, got handed from owner to owner because she wasn’t easy, and then found the right person. She built a following not because she’s cuddly or conventional, but because she’s exactly herself: unapologetically, loudly, constantly.

That’s kind of the whole ethos of the show.

The questions Debugged wants to ask aren’t comfortable ones. The people asking them aren’t always easy to pin down: a psychic attorney, a Marine who expects the worst, a New Yorker who was almost stuck in Peru. And the host is a man who has held more job titles than most people have hobbies.

Beebs fits.

Find Beebs. Listen to More.

Beebs’ Facebook page is linked on the Debugged website: head to debuggedthepodcast.com, click “About Us,” scroll to the bottom. She’s the official mascot. She earned it.

New episodes of Debugged with Patrick Bass are on the way: fringe science, paranormal, crime, tech, and whatever else refuses to fit the official narrative. If you’ve got a question, a tip, or just want to talk to someone from the crew, call in: 888-243-DEBUG (888-243-3284).

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