Post by CampKohler (Sacramento CA) on Mar 22, 2018 1:08:14 GMT -5
Back in the day,Tom Sullivan, like Rush Limbaugh, started out on Sacramento's KFBK. One upon a time a few years ago, i was stuck in bed with a sprained knee when the topic of a "ballon boy" came up on the show.
Supposedly somewhere in the valley a young boy's parents built some kind of big balloon in their back yard. Also supposedly the kid crawled into it when the parents weren't looking, and the ballon took off, sailing across the valley. The story was: was he in the ballon or wasn't he? Supposedly law enforcement was tracking the balloon and would obtain the answer whenever and wherever it landed.
This story occupied his show for a full day. Thinking about how big the balloon was and how much the kid likely weighed, it became evident to me that there was no kid inside, and I could prove it scientifically. So I called the show and explained my reasoning to the screener. He said that the topic was about done and that they were not continuing with it. Liar!
The next day they continued to follow the balloon, stretching it into a two-day story. No kid was found, and they were looking for the parents for committing a hoax, yadda, yadda. The point is that the screener shut me down, because he didn't want me to be a buzzkill; he didn't want any scientific reasoning if it was going to kill the topic before they got their two days out of it. So he was a big fat liar.
Now that I think about it, what happened in the 22 or so intervening hours while the show was off overnight? Were the cops tracking at night, or did they go home when it got dark?How far did the ballon go overnight? It's not like the balloon stopped In midair waiting for the show to return to the air. Little things like that didn't come up on the show the next day. There's no business like show business.
Supposedly somewhere in the valley a young boy's parents built some kind of big balloon in their back yard. Also supposedly the kid crawled into it when the parents weren't looking, and the ballon took off, sailing across the valley. The story was: was he in the ballon or wasn't he? Supposedly law enforcement was tracking the balloon and would obtain the answer whenever and wherever it landed.
This story occupied his show for a full day. Thinking about how big the balloon was and how much the kid likely weighed, it became evident to me that there was no kid inside, and I could prove it scientifically. So I called the show and explained my reasoning to the screener. He said that the topic was about done and that they were not continuing with it. Liar!
The next day they continued to follow the balloon, stretching it into a two-day story. No kid was found, and they were looking for the parents for committing a hoax, yadda, yadda. The point is that the screener shut me down, because he didn't want me to be a buzzkill; he didn't want any scientific reasoning if it was going to kill the topic before they got their two days out of it. So he was a big fat liar.
Now that I think about it, what happened in the 22 or so intervening hours while the show was off overnight? Were the cops tracking at night, or did they go home when it got dark?How far did the ballon go overnight? It's not like the balloon stopped In midair waiting for the show to return to the air. Little things like that didn't come up on the show the next day. There's no business like show business.
