461: Trainwreck: Balloon Boy

True Crime Obsessed

True Crime, Comedy, Society & Culture

4.2 • 34.9K Ratings

🗓️ 14 October 2025

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Summary

A six-year-old boy is trapped in a weather balloon when it accidentally takes of for over an hour of flight time. Or... was he? Fam, we have a loooooooooooooooooot of thoughts on both sides as we discuss the Heene family and the media firestorm this brief flight created. Were they distraught parents... or faking it for the attention?

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0:00.0	I can't believe we're going to be talking about this for the next hour. I hope everyone's ready for yet another extended episode. Because I feel like this is going to go on forever. We've been texting about it all day, but in very vague terms. Because I keep saying, like, we can't talk about it. I know. We have to wait. I think we disagree. Which I can't believe. I think we really disagree. Well, let's get into it and find out.
0:26.0	Hi, Julie, Benzbole.
0:26.6	Hello, Patrick.
0:26.9	Hi.
0:30.9	Sam, we just hit 100,000 subscribers on YouTube.
0:34.0	Which means you'll hear about it in a month because we're pretty ahead.
0:34.4	That's right. But in our world, it was kind of a big deal.
0:37.0	We just got like a day or two ago. Apparently we get a plaque or something from YouTube. Yeah, for hitting 100K. We get like a silver plaque or something. Go find us on YouTube with TrueGram Obsessed Podcasts. We are so fun to watch. There's so many videos there. Full, full, full episodes as YouTube videos free. Yeah, go watch them. Like this one. What's the other thing? The Discord. Okay, great. Tell them about it. We have a Discord channel and it's, or no, we have a Discord place. And in that place, there are a lot of other channels where you can talk about like the episodes. You can like leave questions for AMAs that we'll get to. You can also post about like music or your family or your pets.
1:27.2	It's just a really fun time. I always jump in there on recording days and be like, this is what we're recording today. Oh my God. Are people excited? Yeah. People are very excited. Do they want this? Yes. All right, girl, tell them. What are we doing today? You know that series train wreck? Yeah, it's so good.
1:30.8	This is the episode called Balloon Boy about Balloon Boy, kind of.
1:30.8	Kind of.
1:31.6	Kind of.
1:35.8	This is a very unusual situation.
1:39.5	It involves a home-built UFO powered by helium.
1:43.0	It looks like this jiffy pop thing floating across the sky.
1:45.2	I couldn't wrap my head around it.
1:47.4	It's so bizarre that you want to laugh.
1:49.1	What is this thing?
1:50.8	But then it turned serious.
1:53.4	What if my stupid experiment kills my son?
2:00.2	Richard always wanted to build a flying saucer.
2:01.6	When he said, we're going to try to make a flying saucer, and we're like, cool.
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