Short Stuff: Weather Balloons
Josh and Chuck take a breezy, joke-filled tour of weather balloons: what's inside them, how high they fly, why meteorologists launch tens of thousands of them a year, and the legendary lawn chair guy who tried to ride them to the Rockies.
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