Stay Tuned: A special eclipse episode is coming tonight!

The Atlas Obscura Podcast

SiriusXM Podcasts & Atlas Obscura

Society & Culture, Places & Travel

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🗓️ 8 April 2024

⏱️ 2 minutes

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Summary

Millions of people will be getting in their cars, breaking out the cardboard glasses and looking to the sky for today's Great North American Eclipse … which won’t occur again for another TWENTY years. Host Dylan Thuras will be smack dab in the path of totality in Hot Springs, Arkansas, where Atlas Obscura’s Ecliptic festival has been in full swing for the past few days. And for the first time ever, our podcast team will be marking this monoculture event by making and releasing and episode all in one day. Come back to your feed tonight for a very special episode!

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0:00.0	Hey everyone it is me your host Dylan. We're doing something really unusual today,
0:12.8	something we've never attempted to do,
0:14.6	may never attempt to do again.
0:17.0	We're going to make and publish an episode in one day.
0:20.4	Today, it will be on your feed American eclipse. The reason we're doing this is because today is the eclipse.
0:28.0	It is the great North American eclipse.
0:30.0	There's not going to be another total solar eclipse in America for the next 20 years.
0:36.1	And it's happening today in just a few hours.
0:38.4	The moon is going to pass in front of the sun.
0:40.9	It is going to cast a shadow that stretches from Mexico to Canada, the path of
0:46.1	totality. And along with millions of other people, I am watching this today in
0:52.1	Hot Springs, Arkansas, where we have been throwing this enormous
0:56.9	Eclipse festival that has been going on for the past few days. I've got my recording gear with me. I'm here with some of my co-producers and
1:06.7	we're going to be reporting what we witness as this thing happens. It's going to be a really
1:11.9	special moment for not just in the sky, but for people
1:15.8	across the entire continent, this true kind of cross-sectional moment that's so much bigger than any single person who's watching it.
1:25.8	So we are going to be back soon with an update from that moment, from the center of totality.
1:32.6	In the meantime, if you are somewhere in North America,
1:35.2	consider trying to get to the path of the eclipse.
1:37.7	If you go to great American eclipse.com,
1:40.6	you can find out where a partial eclipse is happening near you. It's really going to be something to behold.
1:47.0	All right, I'll talk to you later today. You're going to be.
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