cleve elle magazine wrote in his piece balloon boy predicted the entire trash fired world we're currently living in a great title for an article. that basically you could see it was it was as the start of an ongoing operating failure to react skeptically and proportionally to what turns up on our personal screens it was big news before we have the phrase a literal object lesson the calm during a by burroughs by unchecked in influence i have to ask you do you right away do you remember where you were when when this story broke and do you agree with the premise that this was truly arbiter of things to come that this was a sign of what we deal with today on a bill that was like the gary c. the kennedy assassination but it was a series of hours and i and i was walking out into the street with cars honking and i was saying but i don't think he can actually float from fort collins to but here's my question for you chicken or the egg is it the media is it their fault did the media create this did we feed it back to the media who was responsible i mean are we a clapping the stones or the stones p