Hour of Slack #1228 -- Balloon Boy Live Special 10-18-2009

Published: Oct. 19, 2009, 11:04 p.m.

b'For\\nonce, Hour of Slack offers a news scoop. It turns out that in 2002, the son of\\nStang (now a director in Hollywood) was employed by Richard Heene, father of\\nthe kid known as Balloon Boy. This live show (featuring guest cowpoke Lonesome\\nCowboy Dave) is a look into the minds, such as they are, of the Heenes, with\\nrather revealing recordings of their 911 calls, testimony about them by young\\nStang and another former employee of the Heenes, and numerous poems by the\\nwriters of alt.slack that were composed during the hoax-news event. We also\\ndelve into kookdom in general and the relationships of various kooks with the\\nmass media. A big song by Little Fyodor caps the show.'