Short Stuff: Balloonfest

Stuff You Should Know

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Society & Culture

4.6 • 79.3K Ratings

🗓️ 3 February 2021

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

In 1986 Cleveland released more than a million helium balloons at once! It didn’t go at all according to plan!

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0:00.0	There's so much news happening around the world that we're somehow supposed to stay on top of.
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0:34.4	Hey and welcome to the short stuff I'm Josh and there's Chuck and this is short stuff
0:39.2	and one I'm excited about because I've been wanting to do this one for a very long time, Chuck.
0:45.8	Yeah, I kind of remember this a little bit.
0:48.9	Do you?
0:49.9	A little bit.
0:50.7	It's just it definitely when I was researching it.
0:53.4	I was like, I think I remember just like walking through the living room when the news was
0:57.2	on and hearing about this when I was whatever like 15.
1:00.7	It's so sad to think about that this happened the way that it did because what are we talking
1:06.2	about?
1:07.2	We're talking about something called Balloon Fest 86 and it was a publicity stunt initiated
1:15.9	by the United Way of Cleveland to basically rehabilitate Cleveland's image because back
1:23.8	in the 80s and earlier Cleveland did not have a very good image.
1:27.7	Apparently it was referred to as the mistake on the lake this time like year.
1:34.5	The Koihoge River that flows through it had caught fire very famously in the 60s and it
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