Balloon Boy, The Hoax Within a Hoax | Multi Level Mondays

iilluminaughtii

Blair Zoń

Documentary, Education, Business, Society & Culture

4.4 • 961 Ratings

🗓️ 27 September 2022

⏱️ 27 minutes

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0:13.0	melm 65. So before we get started in today's episode, I want to let you know that there has been a common
0:28.9	scam recently where people will recreate pages to impersonate youubers and message our audience asking for personal
0:34.4	information and pretending that you've won something from them.
0:37.6	Just so you know, I'm never going to directly message fans like this, so if you receive
0:40.8	this, please ignore it. It's a scam, do not fall for it. I'm letting you know now, so
0:46.8	ta-da, let's get into today's episode.
0:49.2	I'm going to ask all three of you to hang on just a minute because we have rather an incredible
0:53.5	breaking news story that we're following right now and this is coming to us out of
0:56.8	Colorado. What you all see right there is an experimental aircraft that inside of which is a six-year-old boy.
1:07.0	Almost exactly 13 years ago in October 2009, the country watched in horror as a balloon floated 10,000 feet in the air.
1:14.4	And no, I don't mean a birthday balloon or even a hot air balloon, but a homemade flying saucer.
1:20.2	Inside the saucer, the news reported a six-year-old boy was trapped inside and quite possibly fighting for his life.
1:26.5	The news reports were honestly pretty grim.
1:29.0	For over an hour, MS NBC streamed footage of this balloon soaring across the Colorado skies.
1:35.1	There was no question of if a child was trapped on board.
1:38.3	People genuinely believed that this was the case and newscasters didn't argue otherwise.
1:42.8	After all, why would someone lie about something like this, right?
1:45.6	To make sure it wasn't a hoax because it seems like just the most extraordinary story,
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