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Hey, Shortwaivers, Regina Barbara here with an extra bonus episode for you this weekend.

We wanted to give you a chance to hear something from our friends over at The Indicator,

which is NPR's daily economics podcast.

And this particular episode is about something science-y we think you'd be into.

So, thanks for checking it out.

And here are your Indicator hosts, Waylon Wong and Adrienne Ma. We think you'd be into. So, thanks for checking it out.

And here are your Indicator hosts, Waylon Wong and Adrian Ma.

Adrian Ma, what is an app on your phone that you use every single day?

Like besides the text messaging app?

Yeah, or like Candy Crush or whatever.

Um, I would have to say the weather app.

It's like the first thing that I open in the morning.

Me too.

Now, here's another question.

Do you ever think about where the weather forecast on your phone comes from?

You know, until very, very recently, I had not thought about this at all.

I just assumed, like, somebody was beaming it to me from a satellite somewhere.

Yeah, I never really thought about this either until I started using a specific weather app on my phone. The app lets me toggle between almost a dozen forecasting

sources. And confession, sometimes if I'm hoping for a particular forecast, I'll just shop around

in the app until I get the forecast that I want. You're like, oh, it's going to rain today. Or is it?

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