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The Chicago Way

Chicago Way w/John Kass: Chasing the eclipse

The Chicago Way

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4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 5 April 2024

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Chicago Way w/John Kass (04/05/24): This week, an update from Kass on his health and Jeff Carlin tags in Rick DiMaio, longtime meteorologist and adjunct professor of Aviation Meteorology at Lewis University, to celebrate the total eclipse on April, 8th and the outlook for cloud cover or clear skies. Check out more from Kass at JohnKassNews.com or […]

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0:00.0

So what's going on with John Cass? Well, you know, that's my favorite subject, me. I guess I might feel, you could say I could feel like the people of Dalton, Illinois, whose Mayor Tiffany Henniard refuses to resign, and I'm sure that's

0:16.0

excruciating for them. Well me I've had gallstones, an attack of the pancreas, so I've been in a lot of pain, but in the meantime,

0:27.0

the World Cup of Astronomy is going on right now, and so excited he's like a little kid going to the

0:36.4

Harry Potter Fest. Yeah, John, no it's it's the solar eclipse that's happening

0:41.5

April 8th.

0:42.6

Yeah, and it's a really cool thing and I'm excited because I went in 2017.

0:46.1

I went down to Central Illinois,

0:47.8

well, Southern Central Illinois, Southern University.

0:50.8

Carbondale, that would be where NASA held their headquarters for it, which is funny because

0:56.4

it's Carbondale is ironically getting another shot at this and seeing it again

1:00.5

for the second time in seven years but then it won't come

1:05.6

through there for another 600 years or so at least. But it's something to

1:11.6

behold that it's an amazing humanistic feeling like the idea of you feel so small and comparison of you know the world around you and it's amazing that we get to see it twice in my life

1:24.5

and I'll have seen it in a partial clips

1:26.4

when I was a kid.

1:27.8

And it's just a cool feeling that thinking,

1:31.1

over the eons, people have seen this and

1:33.5

experienced it and it's just the thought process that snapshot of time when it

1:37.4

happened you know where is humanity what was the technology like and those

1:42.1

jumps a staple of science fiction.

1:45.7

Exactly time traveler going back and forth through time standing in front of

1:50.9

Dalton you could be in front of the Dalton Town Hall and she's refusing to resign

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