Bright lights, beef jerky

Thomas Frank, the cultural historian and token liberal Wall Street Journal op-ed columnist, also grew up in the Kansas City area. Frank marvels at the region’s history of radical social and religious movements in What’s the Matter With Kansas? (2004). What would he make of Richard Heene? The Heene family video shows influences of mid-Nineties X-treme advertising, for example, which Frank lambastes as completely pussified in his doctoral thesis The Conquest of Cool.

At least Frank
S old magazine, The Baffler, is coming back soon, because this Heene to-do has been very confusing.

A picture of a cow udder comes up here

One wonders if the boys will continue to support Richard Heene’s projects as they get older

It’s a quid pro Ryo.

One of the children seems to be saying “uck” after the yelling, probably to cover up “fuck” for the television broadcast

Likely “snot”

Cock (one of the boys holds a picture of a rooster)

Traditional playground response to: “what time is it?”

Perhaps prescient of Richard Heene’s vehement denial that Falcon Heene “did this for the show” during the family’s interview with Wolf Blitzer of CNN … he is good at making a meme stick, that’s for sure!