Publicity for what?
I don’t get it. How do the parents profit from making their kids pretend to be on a weather balloon?
He is an amateur scientist, he sends videos to CNN all the time chasing tornadoes and such. He probably wanted publicity for his stupid balloon which looked like a bowl of jiffy pop. Going on Wife Swap, TWICE. Media whores from what it looks like. If this wasn’t a stunt, how come the kid said that. Kids that age can’t keep a story straight when told to lie
Book deals, movie deals, attention for their new invention...numerous ways.
They were on that idiotic Wife Swap reality show a few months back. I think they just couldn’t let their 15 minutes of fame go.
Daddy gives out bad vibes.
He said in the press conference that this was some kind of invention in the early stages to put on your car so you can hover in traffic.
It's a kind of a weird thing, now. You can get publicity by being talented, infamous, or weird. Talent is tough. Being infamous, like Lee Harvey Oswald, can get you killed. Being weird is a lot easier than putting in the hard work to be good at something. Look at Octomom, Paris Hilton, Jon and Kate, and numerous others. Anna Nicole Smith made a bundle off being a train wreck in her reality TV show. The Farrah Fawcett series was a bomb because Farrah Fawcett was fairly intelligent and people didn't tune in to see what idiocy she would commit on camera.
Welcome to the monkey house.