This Total Solar Eclipse Is Gonna Be Trippy AF

Great Moments in Weed History

David Bienenstock

Tv & Film, Comedy, History

4.8 • 659 Ratings

🗓️ 20 March 2024

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

What's the most psychedelic experience you can have on Earth without ingesting so much as a microdose? A solar eclipse, no question—but you've got to be in the path of totality. Our guest on this episode, astronomer Nour Skaf, from the Black Rock Observatory, explains what exactly happens during an eclipse, and why it's such a profoundly trippy phenomenon. Nour will be presenting a talk at the upcoming Texas Eclipse Festival outside Austin, Texas on April 5th-9th. Bean will be there too, reporting for DoubleBlind magazine. If you have the time and resources, please don't miss a chance to see an eclipse. It is truly life-changing. PATH OF TOTALITY Check out this map to track the path of totality, and find the closest location for you to experience the eclipse. EPISODE ARCHIVE Visit our podcast feed for 100+ episodes of Great Moments in Weed History , and subscribe now to get a new weekly podcast every Weednesday. PATREON Please support Great Moments in Weed HIstory on Patreon. Supporters get exclusive access to video versions of this podcast and private seshes, plus cool rewards like a signed book. And it truly helps us make the best show possible

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0:00.0	Hi, everybody.
0:03.0	Hi, everybody.
0:20.0	It's been, welcome to an allnew, great moments in weed history.
0:25.6	In this week's episode, I'm going to expose myself as an umbraphile.
0:30.6	Uh, no, don't call the cops.
0:33.8	That just means that I'm an eclipse chaser.
0:36.2	And really, the solar eclipse happening on April 8th is
0:40.0	only going to be my second time experiencing totality. So I'm a very inexperienced umbra file at that.
0:48.4	Right at the top, let me just say that my main motivation for making this an eclipse stand podcast for one episode is that really I
0:58.5	want to share this amazing life-changing experience with you. And, you know, there is still time
1:06.4	for you to make plans and reach the path of totality, at which point, on top of everything else,
1:13.2	you'll get to say cool shit like this.
1:17.8	A solar eclipse.
1:19.8	The cosmic ballet goes on.
1:23.2	Does anyone want to switch seats?
1:24.8	Also, I just think this subject fits our general sort of vibe here at great moments in weed history because a total solar eclipse is actually trippy as fuck as you are about to hear.
1:41.2	Now, my guest for this exploration of the cosmos will be Noir, Schoff, a postdoctoral
1:48.4	researcher in astronomy at the University of California, Santa Cruz. In 2001, Noir received the
1:57.0	L'Oreal UNESCO Award for Women in Science Young Talent Category.
2:01.8	She specializes in the study of exoplanets, meaning planets beyond our solar system,
2:09.2	including looking for signs of alien life.
2:12.5	At one point in the interview, she actually told me all about this highly classified research into aliens,
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