749 Totally Eclipsed; Mekong Paddle Pilgrim; Strange Food

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🗓️ 30 March 2024

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

A nature filmmaker and self-proclaimed "umbraphile" shares tips for viewing the next total solar eclipse, when the moon will cast its otherworldly shadow on a narrow band across North America on April 8 — and explains why he thinks it’s worth a trek to the totality zone. Then the "Paddle Pilgrim" returns to tell us about the unexpected challenges along his month-long Southeast Asian adventure kayaking down the Mekong River, where he was forced to learn to "linger with the lotus." And Cecily Wong from Atlas Obscura describes some of the strangest potions and fermented foods concocted before the era of refrigeration.

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0:00.0	Once you've seen one you can hardly wait for the next total eclipse.
0:05.0	People describe it as like being in a dream as the landscape takes on sort of hues and colors that you've never experienced.
0:14.0	In a minute, filmmaker Mike Day gets us ready to experience the great American Solar Eclipse.
0:19.8	Just take it all in.
0:21.6	Just enjoy it for how alien it is. The paddle pilgrim
0:26.0	encounters the holy places of Cambodia on a kayaking trip down the Mekong
0:30.6	River. You have a Watt which is Buddhist Buddhist, a Bot, which is Hindu, and a stupa is a little personal
0:38.7	shrine.
0:40.2	And Cecily Wong from Atlas Obscura cautions us about some of the world's strangest
0:44.4	fermented foods, like the hallucinogenic honey you might find in Turkey.
0:49.3	There's a long history of using this honey for good and evil.
0:53.0	Stick around for the hour ahead.
0:55.0	It's Travel with Rick Steves.
0:57.0	Pretty much all of North America is expected to see a partial solar eclipse coming up on Monday, April 8th.
1:07.0	But to experience the otherworldly total eclipse, a narrow zone extends from Central Texas and Indiana to Lake Erie in the
1:15.9	north country of New York State before it reaches Newfoundland. In just a moment
1:20.8	we'll hear why so many people are traveling in hopes of an otherworldly two or three minutes under a total eclipse.
1:28.0	Also on today's travel with Rick Steve's, the paddle pilgrim returns to report on his kayaking adventure down the Mekong River
1:35.5	in Laos, Cambodia, and Vietnam.
1:38.9	And Cecily Wong tells us about some of the world's most curious fermented foods.
1:45.0	A total eclipse of the sun is about to darken parts of America on April 8th.
1:50.0	It's like nothing else you've ever experienced.
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