Total Solar Eclipse Explained: Live!

It's time for a bonus episode! this time, we flew all the way to Spain to record a live podcast under the total eclipse. We brought a ton of gear and crew to do our best to make it feel like you were right there with us so we hope you enjoy! This episode is in partnership with AirBnB! Thanks to AirBnB for helping make this possible. Watch BTS on The Studio channel: https://youtu.be/ZrAkCJS9H1s Follow us on socials: Marques: https://www.threads.net/@mkbhd Andrew: https://www.threads.net/@andrew_manganelli David: https://www.threads.net/@davidimel Adam: https://www.threads.net/@parmesanpapi17 Ellis: https://twitter.com/EllisRovin Waveform Threads: https://www.threads.net/@waveformpodcast Waveform Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/waveformpodcast/?hl=en Waveform TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@waveformpodcast Join the Discord: https://discord.gg/mkbhd Intro/Outro music by 20syl: https://bit.ly/2S53xlC Waveform is part of the Vox Media Podcast Network. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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• 0:00Speaker 00

  Marquez told me that if I can tell him a fact he's never heard about an eclipse, he'll give me a hundred dollars per fact.

• 0:04David Imel?

  And then what did you do? Did you look up a bunch of crazy obscures?

• 0:06Speaker 00

  I looked up facts Marquez did not know about the eclipse.

• 0:09David Imel?

  He literally Googled.

• 0:10Speaker 00

  Bring him on. All right. Did you know?

• 0:16Speaker 00

  Yo, what is up, people of the internet? Welcome back to another very special bonus episode of the Waveform Podcast. We're your hosts. I'm Marquez.

• 0:24Andrew Manganelli?

  I'm Andrew.

• 0:25David Imel?

  And I'm David.

• 0:26Speaker 03

  And I'm Ellis.

• 0:27Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 0:27Andrew Manganelli?

  I'm Adam.

• 0:28Speaker 00

  So, uh, audio listeners, this one, I'm, I don't usually say this, but I'm gonna recommend fully a hundred percent that you switch to the video version, because if you are watching that, you can see we're in a totally different location. The Waveform studio is, uh, out in Zaragoza, Spain today. And I say out because we're outside.

• 0:46David Imel?

  Literally, under the sun.

• 0:47Speaker 00

  Yeah, we're baking in the heat.

• 0:49David Imel?

  102.

• 0:49Speaker 00

  But, uh, for a very special occasion, because, uh, we're here to see a total solar eclipse today. The eclipse has already started, uh, but the total is gonna be happening during this episode, which is very exciting.

• 1:01Andrew Manganelli?

  And about how long?

• 1:02Speaker 00

  In about, well, there's a, there's a little clock in front of you, Ellis.

• 1:05Speaker 03

  A little clock, excuse you. This.

• 1:07Speaker 00

  Sorry, it's huge.

• 1:08Speaker 03

  This is the Elio Rufus 9000. This is a custom-built eclipse timer, complete with live ambient temperature, live light meter reading, like obscurity percentage reading. This is, this is the real deal, bro.

• 1:20Speaker 00

  And, uh, I can't read it quite from here, but I think there's probably about 41 minutes till totality, which is very exciting. Thanks to Airbnb for helping make this possible. Uh, this is a very different podcast. I'm so excited. I'm so excited we got to do it. Okay. So I just wanna jump in real quick to explain, just in case anyone doesn't know, what is a total solar eclipse? Why are we doing this? Why are we here? Why do we wanna see it? As you probably already know, the moon orbits the earth, and every once in a while, they line up in just the right way, where the moon casts a shadow on the earth.

• 1:49David Imel?

  Prove it.

• 1:51Speaker 00

  You'll see. You'll see. Give me 40 minutes. You'll see. Uh, but when that does happen, in that shadow, it creates a pretty phenomenal effect. Uh, and in the center of that shadow, a total solar eclipse, uh, turns day to night briefly. Uh, I have all sorts of fun facts I wanna go through with you guys as we lead up to that, but, um...

• 2:09Andrew Manganelli?

  Real quick, why are we in Spain to see this versus New Jersey?

• 2:13Speaker 00

  It's a really great one.

• 2:14David Imel?

  There's a lot of reasons, Andrew.

• 2:16Speaker 00

  Fantastic question. Uh, I'll start with one of our fun facts, which is the width of that shadow is only 50 to 150 miles wide as it passes on planet earth. And so there's just a very narrow band where you actually get to see the moon block out the sun. And for this particular eclipse, we are right near the end of that band. Uh, this, this shadow goes from Greenland to Iceland to the edge of Portugal and through Spain. We thought about many of these other places to possibly shoot this podcast, uh, but we ended up landing here. Maybe we should go over, uh, the backstory of how we got here.

• 2:50Speaker 03

  Yeah, definitely.

• 2:51Speaker 00

  And, uh, how we ended up choosing and actually putting this together at this spot.

• 2:55David Imel?

  Yeah, how did this all start?

• 2:56Speaker 03

  Well, like all great stories, this one begins in Ohio.

• 3:00David Imel?

  I knew that's what you were gonna say.

• 3:01Speaker 00

  Like every good story. Yeah. Okay, so this is a complete, a literal complete coincidence that this happened, right? You might've watched our, uh, our autofocus video about hybrids, right, on the main channel? We went out to a car collector in Ohio to go shoot that. And then I remember seeing a bunch of headlines on Twitter about how, oh, there's gonna be this, uh, this total solar eclipse in the continental United States. If you get the chance to make the road trip to get to the path of totality, you should totally go see it. And I looked it up, and unfortunately, it was conflict during our, uh, our shoot. But luckily, it happened to be exactly where we were shooting. So we went out and we shot that, and when the eclipse happened, we put all our cameras down, or most of them, and we paused the car shoot, and we just watched an unbelievable eclipse happen.

• 3:47Speaker 00

  And, uh, to me personally, that's the coolest thing I've ever seen.

• 3:51Andrew Manganelli?

  It was the coolest thing I've ever seen.

• 3:52Speaker 00

  And so I, you know, we've, several of us now have seen it.

• 3:55Speaker 03

  You weren't even there!

• 3:56David Imel?

  He was in Ohio.

• 3:57Speaker 00

  I was in Ohio. Well, I, I would love if by the end of this eclipse, you guys can all weigh in on, on what you think of it. But yeah, this, this was the, my inspiration to see another one, so...

• 4:08Andrew Manganelli?

  And that was 2024.

• 4:09Speaker 00

  That was 2024.

• 4:10Andrew Manganelli?

  The last one.

• 4:10David Imel?

  And we have clips in Slack of you putting, of footage on, of you guys all freaking out, trying to yell like, "Oh my God, what's happening? Oh, the click hits. Oh my God, I can't hear anything."

• 4:20Speaker 00

  It was so cool. Yeah, it was so cool. So here we are, uh, for this eclipse. It has actually already begun, so...

• 4:26Speaker 03

  Oh, oh, I'm so sorry.

• 4:27Speaker 00

  Oh, that's an interruption.

• 4:28Speaker 03

  Yeah, yeah, that's the, the Elio Rufus 9000 will be interrupting us from time to time. That one is, uh, just to announce that we are about 20% obsuration, obscurity. I don't, I don't know what the actual word is. I probably should've Googled that before, flying all the way to Spain. But, um, yeah, so at 20% obscurity, as I'm sure you know, Marquez, there's no difference.

• 4:49Speaker 00

  There's no difference.

• 4:49Speaker 03

  It's not, you can't tell.

• 4:51Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 4:52Speaker 03

  But, uh, can anyone actually read the temperature, just so we can take note of, of how much? Cause the temperature will be dropping, perhaps not the steely...

• 5:01Andrew Manganelli?

  Yeah, 91, 92.

• 5:04David Imel?

  Fahrenheit.

• 5:05Speaker 00

  91.

• 5:06Speaker 03

  It's begun.

• 5:07Andrew Manganelli?

  Almost as hot as the podcast studio.

• 5:10Speaker 00

  It's true, almost. Uh, it is...

• 5:12David Imel?

  That's degrees Fahrenheit, by the way. Even though we're in Spain, we're still doing Fahrenheit.

• 5:15Speaker 00

  Yeah, it's very hot out here.

• 5:16David Imel?

  Yeah.

• 5:17Speaker 00

  Okay, so, so the original plan was, we gotta go, we gotta see this eclipse. But which one of these places do we choose to go see it, right? Cause it goes through Greenland, which is really close to like the, the North Pole. It's super remote. That was already a little bit wild. There's kind of no roads and no plans out there. Then it goes through the west coast of Iceland. That one is interesting.

• 5:39David Imel?

  Very tempting.

• 5:39Speaker 00

  I would love to go to Iceland and see a total solar eclipse.

• 5:43David Imel?

  Seeing is the harder part in Iceland.

• 5:45Speaker 00

  Yeah, we're a little spooked.

• 5:46David Imel?

  The weather changes very quickly in Iceland. It can be sunny and then it's cloudy. If you have a weather app, don't even have a weather app. There's no point.

• 5:52Speaker 03

  Yeah, just look up.

• 5:53Andrew Manganelli?

  Marquez will still have a weather app?

• 5:54Speaker 00

  Yeah, I'll still have the weather app, but it is, is constantly cloudy out there.

• 5:58Speaker 03

  Marquez has a weather app for that, okay, somewhere.

• 6:01Speaker 00

  I have my Doppler predictions. I can see when it's, it is currently, as of this very moment, cloudy and a little bit of rain in Iceland, so I think we made the right call.

• 6:14Speaker 00

  But then we saw that it also went through Spain and a little bit of Portugal, and that sounds fun. So, we started this whole long scouting journey, because as you can see by this video setup, we have this all very well planned. So we've got our chair, our tables and our chairs and everything. I'm dead serious, but if you, if we get a behind the scenes of this, we have this wide shot where the eclipse, where the sun sets behind us, will be right in the middle of the frame, which is amazing.

• 6:37David Imel?

  Pretty crazy.

• 6:38Speaker 00

  It's pretty sick. Uh, and then we all...

• 6:40Andrew Manganelli?

  If you wanna see, there will be a studio video up by the time this comes out, so you can see how all of this was shot.

• 6:46Speaker 00

  This came together in, in quite the flurry, but there's so many moving parts. We also had to find, you know, a, a place that we could actually shoot this and not be surrounded by other people trying to look at the eclipse, cause it's a pretty common thing to actually go travel, to go see the eclipse and experience it, photograph it, video it, and that's all of Spain right now. It's people trying to find cool places to shoot this. So we had to find a place that we could get like a low on the horizon view of the sun that would not be filled with people. So we, we actually managed to do that. Shout out to Harper, she's also behind this camera over here. And so there's many more, many more factors that we all went through. We had to find a hotel that wasn't already booked, cause people are traveling here. It was a whole thing. But now, we have found this spot, and I think we did a pretty good job.

• 7:31Speaker 00

  What do you guys think of the scenery?

• 7:32Speaker 03

  Oh my gosh, are you kidding? I don't know if the exposure will let you see super clearly, but behind us is the most gorgeous valley of vineyards. It's just lush, green pastures all the way to the mountains in the back of our scenes.

• 7:45David Imel?

  Yeah, you can superimpose this in, uh, in post.

• 7:47Speaker 03

  It's unbelievable.

• 7:49Speaker 00

  Audio listeners, close your eyes and imagine.

• 7:51Andrew Manganelli?

  Unless you're driving, keep them open.

• 7:53Speaker 00

  Don't do that. Wash the dishes.

• 7:55David Imel?

  Yeah.

• 7:57Speaker 03

  Turn away from the dishes momentarily to appreciate the scenery.

• 7:59David Imel?

  You can imagine that your plate you're washing is the sun and the cup.

• 8:02Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 8:03Andrew Manganelli?

  The sponge.

• 8:06Speaker 00

  So what's cool about this, and I think we're gonna try to get a drone up later to really get a good view of it, but what's cool about this is we're elevated a little bit, and there are some very distant mountains. I'm gonna, I'm gonna guess they're like 100 miles away. I really have no idea how far away they are, but they're pretty far away on the horizon. And there's this huge valley between us and the mountains. And when the shadow finally reaches us, we're gonna see that shadow like race across the valley at like a thousand miles an hour.

• 8:33Speaker 03

  What?

• 8:34Speaker 00

  And it's gonna be a pretty cool sight to see.

• 8:35David Imel?

  That I didn't know.

• 8:35Speaker 03

  A thousand miles an hour?

• 8:37Speaker 00

  By the way, I, I have looked up a lot of eclipse facts. I am full of them. I was, I was saying earlier, I'm approaching Neil deGrasse Tyson levels of, uh, complete coverage of this topic, so...

• 8:48Speaker 03

  Was that an eclipse pun?

• 8:49Speaker 00

  Yeah, coverage, yeah, it's good.

• 8:50Speaker 03

  Oh my God, he's on it today.

• 8:51David Imel?

  For weeks, I've been like, "Marquez, how's the doc coming along?" He's like, "Don't worry, I got it."

• 8:56Speaker 00

  I got a doc. I have a separate doc that I haven't shared with you guys, which has a bunch of trivia questions about eclipses. And if you're down, I would like to be like the sort of interim trivia czar and ask you guys, these are meaningless points, it doesn't matter.

• 9:09David Imel?

  Wait, no, what do we win? I wanna win something.

• 9:11Andrew Manganelli?

  You get the eclipse classes if you get one right.

• 9:13David Imel?

  Oh, yeah, deal.

• 9:15Speaker 00

  But I do have, I do have a separate doc secretly that you haven't seen, full of eclipse facts. At some point, I'll ask you some questions about eclipses. Um, okay. One thing that comes up a lot when shooting or when looking at eclipses is people want to take pictures of them, take videos of them. We are actively doing that right now. We have a couple of methods that we're using that we'll get into in a second, but I figured since we have David, we should talk a little bit about like what it's like to point a camera at the sun, or if that's even a good idea.

• 9:41David Imel?

  It's a bad idea, generally. We're kind of doing it because we have solar filters, we have all this kind of stuff. If you have enough NDs, you can stack them, you can make sure that you're not setting your camera on fire.

• 9:51Andrew Manganelli?

  You said a lot of words I don't know.

• 9:52David Imel?

  That I think you probably know.

• 9:53Speaker 00

  Yeah, break it down. What's a solar filter?

• 9:55David Imel?

  A solar filter, okay. There's a lot of different types of radiation that are coming out of the sun. You know, it's heat, it's gamma radiation, it's all these types of radiation. Solar filter is basically a really, really, really, really strong ND. ND is neutral density, basically just cuts the amount of light that goes through the filter and reaches the other side. These are effectively solar filters, these little glasses that you would put on. This is what we use to look at it. Fun fact about these eclipses, until it gets to a very, very certain point near the center, the amount of light that's coming at you, like relative to what your eyes are picking up, is almost the same. So when you look through these, these glasses and you look at the sun, that eclipse could be half done, and still, if you look at the sun with your bare eyes, which you shouldn't do, especially if you're a human.

• 10:39Andrew Manganelli?

  Bare eyes?

• 10:40Speaker 03

  Unless you're driving.

• 10:41David Imel?

  Unless you're driving. It's still gonna be way too bright and you're gonna set your brain on fire. Now, what a lens is, is basically a tele, it's like a telescope, it's like a microscope. What happens when you raise, you know, a microscope off from the concrete, it sets ants on fire. You don't want to do that to your camera sensor. That's bad. That's really bad.

• 10:58Speaker 00

  Yeah, so the lens is focusing whatever light comes through onto the sensor.

• 11:01David Imel?

  Yes.

• 11:02Speaker 00

  Pointing it directly at the sun's probably not the best idea.

• 11:06David Imel?

  Probably bad.

• 11:06Speaker 00

  So that's why we're putting the filters on in front of it.

• 11:08David Imel?

  Yeah.

• 11:08Speaker 00

  I'm pretty proud of our setup. Over on this side right here, you've got a little close-up camera with a, what is that, a 500 that we're all the way zoomed in on with the solar filter in front of it?

• 11:17David Imel?

  Just a 100 millimeter is about the right focal length, generally, to shoot an eclipse, by the way. If you want to get like the, the whole corona and everything going on.

• 11:24Speaker 00

  It's gonna be moving through the sky, and so we'll, we'll adjust that. I'm, I'm just proud of this setup. I've looked online for videos of people watching eclipses, and yes, there's lots of videos of this, but I don't know if it's ever been done quite like this. We're gonna try to like lock exposure so you can see the, the light change as we sit here. We're gonna try to get close-ups of the sun. We obviously have Ellis's.

• 11:43Speaker 03

  The Elio roof is 9,000.

• 11:44Speaker 00

  The Elio roof is 9,000.

• 11:46David Imel?

  Trademarked.

• 11:46Speaker 00

  So it's a whole thing. Yeah, very exciting.

• 11:48David Imel?

  Your camera, if it has autofocus, do not use the autofocus to, to take a picture of the sun. It's really bad at tracking the sun.

• 11:55Speaker 00

  Yes, it's essentially infinity.

• 11:57David Imel?

  It is infinity, effectively. And your camera is not good at focusing at infinity. It uses like contrast and things like that to focus, so set it to manual, go all the way, use it between F8 and F11, that's where the lens is the sharpest.

• 12:10Speaker 00

  Nice.

• 12:10David Imel?

  You've really got to, you know, hone in right there.

• 12:12Speaker 00

  Would all this also apply to film?

• 12:15David Imel?

  Um, uh, the film thing is weird because you don't want to be taking pictures of the sun at all until the actual total solar eclipse is happening. That is mostly true, however, you're metering for middle gray, which means everything's gonna be a little bit of like a mid-tone. If you want to be able to bring out those highlights, you want to overexpose by a little bit. Um, but the cooler photos, when you're taking a photo of an eclipse, a lot of people will just zoom in, zoom in all the way and just get the eclipse happening, that's cool. In my opinion, way cooler photos is to get environmental photos. Your friends, your family, context. Some very cool photos from Mexico of an eclipse happening, and there's like crazy birds flying around because animals famously freak the hell out when the eclipse happens because it gets really cold really quickly.

• 12:59David Imel?

  You can actually feel it getting colder already.

• 13:01Andrew Manganelli?

  Yeah, the crickets going off, I think, was my favorite thing that happened in 2024. Just like, it's night? Trip time.

• 13:08Speaker 00

  Yeah, it went from suddenly daytime to suddenly nighttime, and, and all the animals behaved in weird ways.

• 13:13Andrew Manganelli?

  I slept through my alarm.

• 13:14Speaker 00

  I did see cricket earlier, so I'm kind of hoping we get some of that.

• 13:18Andrew Manganelli?

  Confirmed, they're here.

• 13:20Speaker 00

  So another fun fact about eclipses is, uh, well, we know enough about the solar system and the celestial bodies in it that they're predictable. Like, we know when they're gonna happen and where. And for the next thousand years, we know all the eclipses that are gonna happen and when they're gonna happen, and where in the sky they'll happen. And we knew that this one was going to be low in the sky. And at first, that concerned me a little bit. I thought, oh, it's not gonna be really that bright when it turns to night, so maybe it'll be less dramatic. And the one we experienced in Ohio was the middle of the day, it was overhead, and it went to nighttime, and that was crazy. But from what I understand, because this one is right at the very end of the eclipse, the shadow is really elongated and will sweep in really fast, and it'll get darker faster.

• 14:03David Imel?

  Oh, no.

• 14:03Speaker 00

  And so I'm looking forward to seeing that.

• 14:04David Imel?

  That's gonna be crazy.

• 14:05Speaker 03

  Faster than the last one, because the last one felt like a light switch.

• 14:07Speaker 00

  The last one, and I have videos of this because I, our memories are cruel, they sometimes confuse us. I, I thought it was like a 10-minute eclipse.

• 14:15Speaker 03

  An elephant over here, baby.

• 14:16Speaker 00

  I, I went back and watched my video of it, and it's about the last two minutes that it started to really rapidly get darker. Yeah, two minutes of getting darker, which is still very fast.

• 14:25Speaker 03

  I would track the elephant comment.

• 14:27Speaker 00

  But I'm excited to see that be a little bit different, plus the different colors of it being Spain and having, you know, this little sunlight, light that we're having. It'll, it'll be cool.

• 14:36Speaker 03

  I just looked at the sun again.

• 14:37Speaker 00

  Yeah, don't.

• 14:37Speaker 03

  Stop looking at the sun. It's so tempting.

• 14:39David Imel?

  Perceived brightness and luminance is also logarithmic. It's gonna be like, we can see, we can see, we can see, we can see, and then instantly just boom, when it gets to the center.

• 14:47Speaker 03

  And why is it logarithmic, David?

• 14:48Speaker 00

  I don't know.

• 14:49Speaker 03

  It's the inverse, it's your favorite thing, it's the inverse square law.

• 14:51David Imel?

  Oh, yeah, inverse square law. Yeah, that's true. The further away a light source is.

• 14:54Speaker 00

  I know, it is my favorite thing. It's fine. So there's, so there's a trivia question I'd like to ask you guys.

• 15:01David Imel?

  Oh, God, okay.

• 15:01Speaker 00

  Okay. All right, so there's, there's a very special reason why a total solar eclipse is possible and why it looks the way it does. Uh, there's a term actually that I want to just jump in and make sure we have here called magnitude. And when the magnitude of the sun and the magnitude of the moon are equal, essentially when they're the exact same size in the sky, and they overlap each other, coverage, magnitude is one, 1.0. And so a perfect 1.0 is a total solar eclipse, right? Does anyone know why that's possible, why that happens exactly perfectly in the sky?

• 15:35Andrew Manganelli?

  Magic?

• 15:36Speaker 03

  Magic.

• 15:37Andrew Manganelli?

  Coincidence?

• 15:37Speaker 03

  I'm gonna play, we don't have the speaker out, but in post, I'm gonna add the trivia waiting music.

• 15:42Speaker 00

  Nice. Nobody knows?

• 15:45Andrew Manganelli?

  Why does it happen?

• 15:45Speaker 00

  Why the moon? Yeah, why is it possible? Because lots of other planets have moons, but if you watch a solar eclipse on Mars with its moon Europa, you just see a chunk floating in front of the sun, and it doesn't fully eclipse the sun, it doesn't cover the sun. Magnitude never reaches one. But on Earth, for some reason, we have this perfect one-to-one.

• 16:04Speaker 03

  It's not just like luck.

• 16:05Speaker 00

  It's not coincidence. It is luck. Oh, I guess that's a fair answer. But the, the answer is because, uh, it appears, so the moon is, what, 250,000 miles away, something like that?

• 16:18Speaker 03

  I wouldn't know. How many kilometers?

• 16:20David Imel?

  250,000 miles away.

• 16:21Speaker 00

  Yeah, so the sun is 400 times further away, but it's 400 times bigger.

• 16:26Speaker 03

  Whoa.

• 16:27Speaker 00

  So because of that perfect ratio, they appear the same size.

• 16:31Speaker 03

  So that's how we get the one?

• 16:32Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 16:33David Imel?

  So it really is just the random stroke of luck.

• 16:36Speaker 00

  That's crazy.

• 16:36Speaker 03

  Mark, has yesterday, you asked me my favorite moon fact. Is that your favorite moon fact?

• 16:41Speaker 00

  It might be, honestly. So the one, you want to say the one that you said?

• 16:45Speaker 03

  I said my favorite moon fact is, I, what I assume is also based on luck, that the moon rotates at about the same rate it revolves, so that we always see the same.

• 16:55Speaker 00

  The same par.

• 16:56Speaker 03

  I just think, I think that's very beautiful and poetic, but I don't know if that's because of some law of the universe, or if, again, it's just got based.

• 17:02Speaker 00

  Pure, pure chance, which is pretty crazy.

• 17:04David Imel?

  So some things just spin in the sky, is what you're saying?

• 17:06Speaker 03

  What?

• 17:07Speaker 00

  Well, one revolution of the moon, since it revolves, is the same length as one orbit, so it always faces us perfectly.

• 17:15David Imel?

  Are there other moons that are turning?

• 17:18Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 17:18David Imel?

  For other planets?

• 17:19Andrew Manganelli?

  The moon is hitting a perfect parallax at all times.

• 17:22Speaker 00

  Exactly.

• 17:22Andrew Manganelli?

  The moon, best camera person, confirmed.

• 17:25Speaker 03

  Yeah, the moon is actually just hitting trick shots all day and night.

• 17:30Speaker 00

  Anyway, okay, a quick break.

• 17:40Speaker 05

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• 18:18Andrew Manganelli?

  Shout out to Marquez for that.

• 18:19Speaker 03

  Wow, one take.

• 18:20Andrew Manganelli?

  It's live. We couldn't screw it up because of the clock.

• 18:23David Imel?

  Yeah, this is all real time.

• 18:24Speaker 03

  This is real time.

• 18:26David Imel?

  Yeah.

• 18:26Speaker 03

  I was waiting for you to screw up so that I could be like, everyone always asks what we do in ad breaks. And you didn't screw up.

• 18:31David Imel?

  Nah, we're cooking. Marquez told me that if I can tell him a fact he's never heard about an eclipse, he'll give me a hundred dollars per fact.

• 18:36Speaker 00

  And then what did you do? Did you look up a bunch of crazy obscure stuff?

• 18:38David Imel?

  I looked up facts Marquez did not know about the eclipse.

• 18:41Speaker 03

  He literally Googled.

• 18:42David Imel?

  Bring him on. Alright, did you know? Did I know? That helium, let me, let me try to see if I know before you reveal the whole fact.

• 18:48Speaker 03

  Alright, word for word, word for word.

• 18:50David Imel?

  Did you know that helium?

• 18:51Speaker 00

  Uh huh.

• 18:52David Imel?

  Do you know it yet?

• 18:53Speaker 00

  Is one of the gases in the corona?

• 18:54David Imel?

  Hmm, no. Is the only element?

• 18:58Speaker 00

  Uh huh.

• 18:59David Imel?

  We didn't discover on Earth.

• 19:02Speaker 03

  Huh?

• 19:02David Imel?

  Helium is the only element we didn't discover on Earth.

• 19:04Speaker 00

  But rather that we discovered on the sun, no?

• 19:07Speaker 03

  Wait, you mean that like balloons predate? Like are after space travel in the, in the tech tree?

• 19:13David Imel?

  That's exactly what I'm saying.

• 19:15Speaker 00

  You're saying that the periodic table had no helium on it? And that was the first element, maybe the only element that was discovered by looking out into the sun.

• 19:22David Imel?

  1868 during an eclipse in, um, in India.

• 19:27Speaker 00

  Uh huh.

• 19:27David Imel?

  They saw a band of color that they didn't know what it was.

• 19:31Speaker 03

  Wait, who banned it?

• 19:34David Imel?

  Oh, they banned the color, yeah.

• 19:35Speaker 03

  I can't see it.

• 19:35David Imel?

  They saw a band of color, yeah, sorry. Uh, and just like in our episode about how the James Webb W, JDWST, James Webb Space Telescope, uh, sees into the past.

• 19:45Speaker 00

  Uh huh.

• 19:45David Imel?

  They used that to pinpoint the exact, uh, element that was happening. And they didn't know what it was. And they named it Helios, helium, Helios, after the sun. That's why it's called helium. And that's how they discovered it.

• 19:59Andrew Manganelli?

  Do you know how I know you get the hundred bucks? Cause Marquez went, ah.

• 20:03David Imel?

  Yeah.

• 20:04Andrew Manganelli?

  You don't say that when you know it already.

• 20:05Speaker 03

  Can I get a chance at a hundred bucks?

• 20:07David Imel?

  That's good. I don't know if that's an eclipse, I guess it's an eclipse fact.

• 20:10Speaker 03

  It was during an eclipse?

• 20:11David Imel?

  Yeah, yeah, yeah, okay, that's fair. I'll give you that. They saw it around the corona.

• 20:14Speaker 03

  What year did you say?

• 20:15David Imel?

  1868.

• 20:17Speaker 03

  But the James Webb Space Telescope?

• 20:19David Imel?

  No, no, no, no, no. Just like during our JDWST episode where they used that, used the elements. Yeah, they discovered, they, whatever. You just listen to it. Listen to the episode.

• 20:29Speaker 00

  That's a good one, that's a good one. I did not know that. Wow.

• 20:31Speaker 03

  Hundred bucks.

• 20:32David Imel?

  Hundred bucks.

• 20:32Speaker 03

  There it is, please.

• 20:33David Imel?

  I have another one.

• 20:35David Imel?

  You wanna go back to back? You can go for back to back. You want me to go back to back? I would love to hear another fun fact.

• 20:39Speaker 03

  Now, if you didn't know this one, you owe Marquez a hundred bucks.

• 20:41David Imel?

  No, no, no, no, no.

• 20:42Andrew Manganelli?

  It's double or nothing.

• 20:45David Imel?

  Uh, I'm trying to remember it. I have to open my laptop.

• 20:47Andrew Manganelli?

  Alright, can I throw one out there?

• 20:49David Imel?

  You do.

• 20:49Andrew Manganelli?

  Which, Marquez knows because he read this. So, uh, listener of the show, Tom, is an astronomer and sent us a bunch of facts. Asked him to get as obscure as possible. And the way I know Marquez research much is he was like-

• 20:59Speaker 03

  Obscure.

• 21:00Andrew Manganelli?

  I've-

• 21:00Speaker 03

  Nice. Another eclipse pun.

• 21:01David Imel?

  Nice.

• 21:02Andrew Manganelli?

  I was working on that. But there was one where he knew a little bit about it, but, um, so in 2024, amateur astronomers discovered a comet during the eclipse.

• 21:11Speaker 03

  Oh. Sorry, that one's not really anything either. It's just 50% obscurity.

• 21:15David Imel?

  Oh, okay.

• 21:15Speaker 00

  I can tell, yeah, I was looking at it.

• 21:16Andrew Manganelli?

  Which was then, so Marquez knew about the comet during the eclipse, but it was then destroyed the next day during its closest approach to the sun.

• 21:24David Imel?

  Yeah.

• 21:24Andrew Manganelli?

  Where something also similar happened in 1882 in Egypt where they saw a comet and then never saw it again.

• 21:29David Imel?

  Wow, crazy. That's crazy.

• 21:31Andrew Manganelli?

  That's wild.

• 21:31David Imel?

  Okay, I remembered mine. Okay, so maybe this one doesn't count, but the other one did, for sure. Alright. So, uh, the Spanish are preparing for a really intense hit to their power grid. Because five megawatts of energy is going to drop between the 90 seconds that the eclipse is happening. Which is 13% of their total grid capacity during that time.

• 21:52Speaker 03

  Yeah, we passed a lot of solar panels.

• 21:53David Imel?

  I was noticing that.

• 21:54Speaker 00

  Yeah, that's a lot of solar-

• 21:55David Imel?

  13% of the total energy they are receiving at any given time is just going to disappear. And so they are like a little bit worried that people might lose power. And they need to make sure that like, all of the stored energy actually can get pushed through the grid.

• 22:08Speaker 03

  That is a fun fact.

• 22:08David Imel?

  13%.

• 22:09Speaker 03

  Wait, did you know that?

• 22:10David Imel?

  I did not know that.

• 22:11Speaker 03

  That's a hundred bucks!

• 22:12David Imel?

  I did not know that.

• 22:13Speaker 03

  I'm telling you!

• 22:14Speaker 00

  That's good.

• 22:14David Imel?

  That's really good.

• 22:15Speaker 00

  I'm telling you.

• 22:16David Imel?

  We got fun facts. Yeah, Marquez, your turn.

• 22:19Speaker 00

  I can see it, I can see it slowly starting to get slightly dimmer. I don't know if you guys are feeling that too. The shadows are a tiny, the sun is officially half-covered.

• 22:29David Imel?

  Yeah.

• 22:29Speaker 00

  And it feels a little different.

• 22:31David Imel?

  Yeah.

• 22:32Speaker 00

  But it's not like dramatic yet.

• 22:33David Imel?

  Yeah.

• 22:34Speaker 00

  Just a little, oh, I looked, okay. Uh, don't do what I did. Okay, uh, let me see if I have another fun, oh yeah, okay. So eclipses are, uh, eclipses are-

• 22:43David Imel?

  Very predictable, as you know.

• 22:45Andrew Manganelli?

  You look so excited to tell us this.

• 22:47Speaker 00

  So we can look forward on the calendar and just decide, like, you guys have probably already heard about the next major eclipse, which is-

• 22:55Andrew Manganelli?

  Egypt.

• 22:56Speaker 00

  Uh, Egypt in 2028, or 2027.

• 22:59David Imel?

  Yeah.

• 22:59Speaker 00

  Uh, which has a famously six and a half minute totality.

• 23:04David Imel?

  Crazy.

• 23:05Speaker 00

  Which is insane. The one that we are going to witness when we reach a 1.0 magnitude is, uh, about 90 seconds long, which is still crazy. 90 seconds of no sun in the sky is still crazy. But six and a half minutes is historically long.

• 23:19Speaker 03

  That's long.

• 23:20Speaker 00

  Do you guys know the longest total solar eclipse that is theoretically possible on planet Earth?

• 23:24David Imel?

  Seven minutes and 28 seconds.

• 23:26Andrew Manganelli?

  I feel like you spoiled us at dinner last night.

• 23:27David Imel?

  I think you did. But I can't remember correctly.

• 23:29Speaker 03

  Seven minute 29 seconds.

• 23:30David Imel?

  Were you paying attention?

• 23:33David Imel?

  To Marquez talking at dinner?

• 23:34Andrew Manganelli?

  I thought it was closer to eight.

• 23:35David Imel?

  Nah, it was seven. We don't have whiteboards, but you can all just, uh-

• 23:38Speaker 03

  Yeah, I'm saying seven 29.

• 23:39David Imel?

  It was like 728 or something.

• 23:41Speaker 03

  I'm gonna put in the sixes. I'm gonna go say, 645.

• 23:43Andrew Manganelli?

  Taking the over.

• 23:46David Imel?

  Yeah, David know that it's a, just short, just short of seven and a half minutes.

• 23:49Speaker 03

  I knew David was paying attention because he wanted a hundred bucks.

• 23:51David Imel?

  Theoretical eclipse possible. So that one next year, not that I have plans to go, but if anybody's gonna be in northern Egypt or northern Africa in 2027, you're in for a treat, my friends.

• 24:01Speaker 00

  So long, it's so long, you have to go.

• 24:03Andrew Manganelli?

  How far did we travel for the 90 second eclipse?

• 24:07David Imel?

  For this?

• 24:07Andrew Manganelli?

  We brought nine people.

• 24:09David Imel?

  Yeah.

• 24:11Andrew Manganelli?

  We traveled an eight hour flight, a three hour car ride.

• 24:14Speaker 03

  Seven cameras.

• 24:15Andrew Manganelli?

  Closer to like 10 hours for some of us.

• 24:17David Imel?

  This is funny. It breaks my, my golden rule. Actually, maybe you have this rule too. I have a golden rule whenever I'm playing frisbee, uh, for like pickup or any random stuff. I, I don't like to drive for longer than I'm going to play. So if it's like an hour long of pickup, I won't drive more than an hour to go.

• 24:30Andrew Manganelli?

  Yeah.

• 24:31David Imel?

  We totally broke that rule for us. We are witnessing a 90 second event that we traveled, uh, days for.

• 24:38Speaker 03

  Yeah, but we're podding for eight hours, so.

• 24:40David Imel?

  True. And this is, this is an elite, amazing podcast.

• 24:42Speaker 03

  Wait, Andrew, you said for some of us, the drive was more than three hours.

• 24:45Andrew Manganelli?

  We got a flat tire on the way.

• 24:48David Imel?

  That's true.

• 24:49Speaker 03

  Full story on radio channel. But at least you got a flat tire in like a super fun populated area full of stuff to do, right?

• 24:55Andrew Manganelli?

  Listen. I'm gonna say truck stop, but compared to truck stops like in Kearney, it was a pretty sweet truck stop. And there was an adorable dog that kind of looked like Mac, so if I'm gonna sit behind, uh, at a truck stop, I'm gonna do it with a dog that looks like my old one.

• 25:08David Imel?

  Very cute.

• 25:09Speaker 00

  That's pretty fire.

• 25:10David Imel?

  Working on pixel content in the Spanish sun.

• 25:12Andrew Manganelli?

  I have a bunch of sweet pictures of David working on a bunch of articles in random spots. A long side of the highway. And Spanish. Nice.

• 25:20David Imel?

  Alright, I have another, I have another-

• 25:22Andrew Manganelli?

  Please.

• 25:22David Imel?

  Random trivia question for you guys. Give it to us. So David has one point. I don't know if we're keeping track.

• 25:26Speaker 00

  One, I thought it was two.

• 25:27Andrew Manganelli?

  One point and $200.

• 25:29David Imel?

  Oh yeah, well that's, that's separate. Alright, so officially, this is the second solar eclipse that some of us have seen, which, uh, we traveled and went specifically out here to see this one. Wow, it's getting a little darker.

• 25:39Speaker 03

  Yeah, you can tell it's getting-

• 25:41David Imel?

  There is a term.

• 25:42Speaker 03

  61% obscurity and, uh, we've dropped about 4,000 lux brightness already.

• 25:49David Imel?

  I feel like it's not hot.

• 25:50Speaker 00

  It's getting colder for sure.

• 25:51David Imel?

  Nice and chilly.

• 25:51Speaker 00

  What's the temperature, 88?

• 25:52Speaker 03

  88.

• 25:53David Imel?

  88? It feels like 78. It's, that's crazy.

• 25:56Speaker 03

  Sweet.

• 25:57David Imel?

  There is a term specifically, a Google dictionary defined term for people who go and travel and go see eclipses specifically. Do you know what this word is?

• 26:06Speaker 00

  Eclipse chaser.

• 26:07David Imel?

  An eclipse chaser.

• 26:08Speaker 00

  Yeah, buddy. I knew this one.

• 26:10David Imel?

  Soul, you know the word?

• 26:11Speaker 03

  Oh, it's an actual word for eclipse chaser?

• 26:13David Imel?

  It is a word for-

• 26:14Speaker 00

  Solarometer.

• 26:15Speaker 03

  Wait, yeah, is it, uh, like a, is it a, a Portman tow is like two words combined or is it just? Is it just one word?

• 26:21David Imel?

  Um, it is, it is one word.

• 26:24Speaker 00

  Solar file?

• 26:25Speaker 03

  Damn, I was gonna say helio file.

• 26:27Andrew Manganelli?

  Is it just astronom-

• 26:28Speaker 00

  Lover of the sun.

• 26:28David Imel?

  You guys are on the right track. I don't wanna give it away, but that's not a bad guess.

• 26:31Speaker 03

  Uh, is it a?

• 26:34Speaker 00

  Solarometer.

• 26:36David Imel?

  It has a, I'll keep giving you hints until you get it.

• 26:38Speaker 03

  On a scale of one to 10, how silly is it?

• 26:40David Imel?

  It's like a five. It's kinda silly.

• 26:42Speaker 03

  Oh, it's kinda silly.

• 26:43Andrew Manganelli?

  Mid whimsy.

• 26:45David Imel?

  Mid whimsy.

• 26:46Speaker 03

  Is it a coverage enthusiast?

• 26:47David Imel?

  You're close. You're so-

• 26:49Speaker 03

  Solar enthusiast.

• 26:49David Imel?

  Combine what you just said with what you said earlier.

• 26:52Speaker 00

  The file or the?

• 26:53David Imel?

  Yeah.

• 26:53Speaker 00

  Solar file?

• 26:54Speaker 03

  Is it a cover file?

• 26:55David Imel?

  You're close now. You're close now.

• 26:58Speaker 03

  It's a?

• 26:58David Imel?

  It's a Latin root.

• 27:00Speaker 03

  Oh!

• 27:00David Imel?

  Co- cover file.

• 27:03David Imel?

  You're so close.

• 27:03Speaker 03

  Uh, what's the Latin?

• 27:04David Imel?

  If you don't know it now, it's a cover file.

• 27:06Andrew Manganelli?

  That's fine.

• 27:07Speaker 03

  Hit, hit me.

• 27:08David Imel?

  An umbra file.

• 27:09Speaker 03

  Ah!

• 27:10David Imel?

  The Latin word for shadow, uh, is someone who chases eclipses and travels for them. That is an umbra.

• 27:15Speaker 00

  So we're all umbra files.

• 27:16David Imel?

  I'm gonna go look at the sun.

• 27:17Speaker 03

  Apparently, yeah.

• 27:17Andrew Manganelli?

  Do you have a look recently? It's, it's like crescent moon right now.

• 27:21David Imel?

  Holy moly. Okay, that is a full crescent sun.

• 27:23Speaker 00

  We can get in there.

• 27:25Andrew Manganelli?

  We might be close to the podcast where none of us are looking at the camera anymore.

• 27:28Speaker 03

  Marquez, is this what you'd call a waxing gibbous sun?

• 27:30David Imel?

  This is waning, but yes. Yes, it is a wax, a waning crescent, the opposite of what you said, actually.

• 27:37Speaker 00

  But it's pretty cool.

• 27:38David Imel?

  Give us the sun.

• 27:39Speaker 00

  Oh, I looked at it and it didn't hurt. Yeah, it did.

• 27:44David Imel?

  It did hurt for a second.

• 27:45Speaker 00

  It was a quick glance. Don't do it. Don't do that. Don't do that.

• 27:48Andrew Manganelli?

  So we're getting close.

• 27:49Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 27:49Andrew Manganelli?

  I think you'll have to excuse me. I'm gonna try and put the drone up.

• 27:53Speaker 00

  We're gonna do it.

• 27:53David Imel?

  Hmm.

• 27:54Andrew Manganelli?

  Yeah.

• 27:54Speaker 00

  It's happening.

• 27:55David Imel?

  I like this idea.

• 27:57Speaker 00

  Good luck.

• 27:57Andrew Manganelli?

  So I will just.

• 27:58Speaker 03

  While you do that, can I talk a little bit?

• 28:01Andrew Manganelli?

  I'm gonna start getting it ready.

• 28:02Speaker 00

  What's the time left? So we're about fourteen and a half minutes from.

• 28:06David Imel?

  That's crazy.

• 28:06Speaker 00

  Totality.

• 28:08David Imel?

  It's crazy how interesting the light is getting right now.

• 28:10Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 28:11David Imel?

  This looks beautiful.

• 28:11Speaker 00

  Do you think if we held up like a... You see that hat Harper has right there?

• 28:16David Imel?

  Yeah.

• 28:16Speaker 00

  Can you bring that hat over here? So what I see a lot of people doing.

• 28:19David Imel?

  Yeah.

• 28:20Speaker 00

  When the sun gets really, really small, it's like a point light in the sky. And people will bring literally like a colander, like a, like a.

• 28:26David Imel?

  Like a strainer or whatever.

• 28:27Speaker 00

  Yeah. And when you do and you hold it up to the light, the shadows are like crescent shaped.

• 28:32David Imel?

  This is because it's like a pinhole camera.

• 28:33Speaker 00

  Exactly.

• 28:34David Imel?

  So this is a bunch of pinhole cameras.

• 28:35Speaker 03

  I am seeing the thing where depending on the angle you hold stuff at, your shadows get softer and sharper.

• 28:40Speaker 00

  And this specific eclipse, uh, the shadows go horizontally. So you're gonna have to have some sort of surface to shine it onto.

• 28:48Speaker 03

  Thank you, Harper.

• 28:48David Imel?

  This is bringing a crate over.

• 28:50Speaker 00

  This is a total coincidence that we have this crate, but it's got these slots in it.

• 28:53Speaker 03

  Great coincidence.

• 28:54David Imel?

  Oh, that's so weird.

• 28:55Speaker 00

  Wait, take a video.

• 28:56David Imel?

  Look at these.

• 28:57Speaker 00

  You can kinda see it.

• 28:58David Imel?

  You can kinda see it.

• 29:00Speaker 00

  Yeah, it'll get more interesting.

• 29:01David Imel?

  Okay, as we go.

• 29:02Speaker 00

  A pinhole camera is basically any small, tiny, tiny little hole that inverts the light that's coming through that hole. The more circular, the smaller.

• 29:10David Imel?

  Oh, there it is. Look at that. Look at that.

• 29:12Speaker 00

  You can, uh, you can basically make a pinhole camera out of anything. And the reason it gets really interesting is because the light source is the sun, which has a mask on it now. And because it has a mask, all of the little doplets are gonna have little shapes.

• 29:24David Imel?

  So you ready for this?

• 29:25Speaker 00

  I'm ready.

• 29:26David Imel?

  See the bottom? See the holes in this? See the circle in the middle?

• 29:28Speaker 00

  I said, oh, there's a circle. We got a circle.

• 29:30Speaker 03

  Whoa, that ain't no circle.

• 29:32Speaker 00

  It's a crescent.

• 29:32David Imel?

  Oh, I see it. There's a singular circle.

• 29:35Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 29:35David Imel?

  It's a crescent circle.

• 29:37Speaker 00

  It's a crescent.

• 29:37David Imel?

  It's supposed to be.

• 29:38Speaker 00

  I don't know if you're gonna be able to catch that.

• 29:41Speaker 00

  Adam's pointing his camera at it. We'll cut it in if it looks any good.

• 29:43David Imel?

  Yeah, if not, sorry.

• 29:44Speaker 03

  We'll just bump the contrast up to one thousand.

• 29:46Speaker 00

  Thousand, yeah.

• 29:47David Imel?

  I'll just put on Michael graphic. How quickly can he turn these around?

• 29:50Speaker 00

  Yeah. That is pretty awesome.

• 29:52David Imel?

  Yeah.

• 29:53Speaker 00

  All right. I did mention the width of the path of totality earlier, so I guess that's off the table for points. Only a hundred and fifty miles or so, uh, to really be in the path.

• 30:02David Imel?

  And we're in that hundred and fifty miles.

• 30:04Speaker 00

  Yeah, if you're, that's the path of like how wide it is for you to be in the center of the shadow where a magnitude is one and you get a total solar eclipse.

• 30:10David Imel?

  Of the heart.

• 30:11Speaker 00

  A ninety-nine percent solar eclipse will look like this. It will look like it's daytime. It won't get nearly as dark. So I'm very excited for the dramatic.

• 30:19David Imel?

  Yeah, I remember last time when you guys were in Ohio, I remember going to the beach that day to try to get a better look at it. And I, it couldn't, you couldn't tell.

• 30:26Speaker 00

  Cause you had a partial.

• 30:27David Imel?

  Yeah, unless you had the glasses. With the glasses and you looked at it, then you can see a little bit of, uh, the obscurity, but.

• 30:32Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 30:33David Imel?

  Other than that.

• 30:33Speaker 00

  It's crazy. All right, here's a crazy fact. And there's zero shot you'll ever get it, so I won't even try to ask. I'm just gonna tell you the fact.

• 30:39Speaker 03

  Okay.

• 30:39Speaker 00

  The next Halloween total solar eclipse.

• 30:42David Imel?

  What?

• 30:42Speaker 00

  Twenty-six ninety-two. That's a while.

• 30:45David Imel?

  Oh, wow. I'm gonna go to that.

• 30:46Speaker 00

  The last New Year's Day total solar eclipse.

• 30:49Speaker 03

  The last one?

• 30:50Speaker 00

  Was eighteen eighty-nine.

• 30:51David Imel?

  Oh.

• 30:51Speaker 00

  That's actually pretty recent.

• 30:52David Imel?

  That's a run for that one.

• 30:53Speaker 03

  When's the next one?

• 30:53Speaker 00

  Which holiday?

• 30:55Speaker 03

  Uh huh.

• 30:56Speaker 00

  Can you never get a total solar eclipse?

• 30:59Andrew Manganelli?

  Cinco de Mayo.

• 30:59Speaker 03

  Leap year day.

• 31:01Speaker 00

  Holiday.

• 31:01David Imel?

  The leap year.

• 31:02Andrew Manganelli?

  My birthday.

• 31:03Speaker 00

  Um.

• 31:04David Imel?

  Holiday.

• 31:04Speaker 00

  Christmas?

• 31:05David Imel?

  For sure?

• 31:06Speaker 00

  Is it Christmas?

• 31:06David Imel?

  I'm pretty sure.

• 31:07Speaker 03

  Cinco de Mayo.

• 31:08Andrew Manganelli?

  I said that already.

• 31:08Speaker 00

  No, holiday. July fourth. No. In Spain.

• 31:13Speaker 03

  That is, uh, sorry, that's a call for our temperature check, which I guess we sort of already did, but, uh, Rufus, I can't, can you, can you yell at me? Eighty-seven point nine. So we dropped a whole point one degrees.

• 31:23Speaker 00

  It feels a lot cooler though.

• 31:25David Imel?

  Yeah.

• 31:26Speaker 03

  It's getting breezy, that's why.

• 31:27Speaker 00

  The droplets on my back are not falling as often now.

• 31:31Speaker 03

  All right.

• 31:31David Imel?

  Six fifty-six.

• 31:34Speaker 03

  Yeah, we have, we have a, a recording, a graph that just is.

• 31:38Speaker 00

  Nice.

• 31:38Speaker 03

  Watching, probably should've screen recorded that computer when we started, but you know, whatever.

• 31:41Speaker 00

  It's cool.

• 31:41Speaker 03

  Um, but, uh, we started about.

• 31:44Speaker 00

  Oh my gosh.

• 31:44Speaker 03

  Seven thousand lux of light, so we've dropped.

• 31:47Speaker 00

  Broad daylight.

• 31:47Speaker 03

  So much.

• 31:48Speaker 00

  It is so crazy. You still can't stare at the sun, but it's almost completely covered. Oh, it got way dark.

• 31:53David Imel?

  Yeah, it got way dark.

• 31:54Speaker 00

  Whoa, it's getting dark fast now. Which is cool.

• 31:57David Imel?

  Back to your question, I'm gonna say Valentine's Day.

• 32:00Speaker 00

  No.

• 32:00David Imel?

  Damn.

• 32:01Speaker 03

  Uh.

• 32:01Speaker 00

  It's light as a.

• 32:01Speaker 03

  Is it a holiday in the United States?

• 32:03Speaker 00

  Yes.

• 32:03Speaker 03

  Is it the Fourth of July?

• 32:05Speaker 00

  It is not.

• 32:06Andrew Manganelli?

  Did we say, you said Thanksgiving?

• 32:07Speaker 03

  Is it Christmas?

• 32:07Speaker 00

  I said.

• 32:08David Imel?

  It is not. I didn't say Thanksgiving.

• 32:10Andrew Manganelli?

  New Year's Eve.

• 32:11Speaker 00

  No.

• 32:12Andrew Manganelli?

  Easter.

• 32:12Speaker 00

  Yes.

• 32:13Speaker 03

  What?

• 32:14David Imel?

  Wait, why?

• 32:14Speaker 03

  Why?

• 32:15Speaker 00

  Because of the way Easter is drawn into the calendar, it's always.

• 32:18David Imel?

  Oh.

• 32:19Speaker 00

  A specific set of dates relative to the full moon.

• 32:23David Imel?

  Relative.

• 32:24Speaker 00

  And, uh, by definition, a total solar eclipse can only happen during a new moon, which is about four weeks after. And Easter is typically two weeks after the first full moon of the month. So you can never have a total solar eclipse.

• 32:37David Imel?

  Of the heart.

• 32:37Speaker 00

  On Easter.

• 32:38David Imel?

  That's crazy.

• 32:39Speaker 00

  It's wild, right?

• 32:40David Imel?

  Yeah.

• 32:40Speaker 00

  That's crazy. Yeah. Anyway, okay, it is, it is cooking now.

• 32:44David Imel?

  Oh my god, the light is getting so good.

• 32:45Speaker 00

  Yeah, looking across the fields is insane. Don't, don't look at it.

• 32:49David Imel?

  Oh, yeah.

• 32:49Speaker 00

  The shadows are pin sharp.

• 32:51David Imel?

  Yeah.

• 32:52Speaker 00

  Pin sharp right now.

• 32:53David Imel?

  Drone's up. Film camera.

• 32:54Speaker 00

  You don't even need the glasses? You're doing this.

• 32:55David Imel?

  You're not using the glasses? Andrew's just free soloing the drone right now.

• 32:59Speaker 00

  Drone is up.

• 33:01Speaker 03

  While Andrew gets that drone in the sky, I just wanna say, while I have thirty seconds.

• 33:04Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 33:04Speaker 03

  Rufus devised a genius way to measure the light out here with this little clip with a piece of sort of diffused soft white plastic.

• 33:13Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 33:13Speaker 03

  Uh, so we're actually using the iPad's camera, uh, looking at that piece of white, uh, to deduce how bright it is outside.

• 33:21Speaker 00

  Is it the front-facing camera?

• 33:22Speaker 03

  Yes, it is the front-facing camera.

• 33:23Speaker 00

  I think it would be more dramatic if we were.

• 33:26Andrew Manganelli?

  Looking the other way.

• 33:27Speaker 00

  Facing the sun.

• 33:28Speaker 03

  Well, we're, we're going for ambient light, so if it was facing the light, the camera would just be looking right at the sun and it would.

• 33:32Speaker 00

  It would always be hot.

• 33:33David Imel?

  That's an incident meter over there.

• 33:34Speaker 03

  It is literally an incident meter and we've been checking with an incident meter and it is just so accurate. It's crazy. Rufus absolutely.

• 33:41David Imel?

  No, not spot on. That would be spot me.

• 33:42Speaker 03

  Yeah, incident on.

• 33:44Andrew Manganelli?

  An interesting.

• 33:44David Imel?

  Incident on.

• 33:45Speaker 03

  Shout out Rufus and his genius technological skills.

• 33:49David Imel?

  He was like, what if we just get clip, put clip on iPad? And we're like, okay.

• 33:55Speaker 00

  This is so cool.

• 33:55Andrew Manganelli?

  This is interesting. It says, I currently have weak satellite signal.

• 33:59Speaker 00

  Whoa.

• 33:59Andrew Manganelli?

  And I can't go more than ten meters. So.

• 34:02Speaker 00

  So hopefully that's.

• 34:03Andrew Manganelli?

  Is there a potential that that's because of?

• 34:05Speaker 00

  Uh, satellites shouldn't be affected, I think.

• 34:07Speaker 03

  Why does a satellite need to talk to the drone?

• 34:10Andrew Manganelli?

  Sorry.

• 34:11Speaker 00

  I think it should be fine.

• 34:11Andrew Manganelli?

  Uh, yeah.

• 34:12David Imel?

  Reasons.

• 34:13Speaker 00

  Oh, there's a bird. Oh, the birds are leaving. They're so upset.

• 34:17Andrew Manganelli?

  Oh, there's only two.

• 34:18David Imel?

  It's fine. They're going crazy.

• 34:19Speaker 00

  They're just having a good.

• 34:20David Imel?

  This is so.

• 34:20Speaker 03

  There's only two birds in Spain.

• 34:22David Imel?

  The light is so wild.

• 34:23Speaker 03

  There they are.

• 34:24Speaker 00

  The light is so wild. Yeah, we're entering the last couple of minutes where we're just gonna be looking around and gawking at what's happening and hopefully video viewers, hopefully if you're an audio listener, you've switched to the video version so you can really feel what's going on, uh, with us.

• 34:36Speaker 03

  We're about, we're about to hit eight minutes.

• 34:38Speaker 00

  Yeah, eight minutes. The light turns metallic. Now, I read this in the description that the light turns metallic. I'm not sure what metallic means, but the light feels really.

• 34:47Speaker 03

  I, I think I can actually explain this one, Marques.

• 34:50Speaker 00

  Sure.

• 34:50Speaker 03

  Uh, I believe it is something called the Perkinji effect.

• 34:53Speaker 00

  Okay.

• 34:54Speaker 03

  And the reason the Perkinji effect is that the, uh, our eyes, um, wow, okay, I.

• 35:00Speaker 00

  You're doing great, sweetie.

• 35:01Speaker 03

  I reread this so many times and I know I'm gonna get it like slightly off, but our eyes deduce brightness from reds much more than blues.

• 35:12Speaker 00

  Oh.

• 35:12Speaker 03

  And so as the sun begins to go away, our eyes use.

• 35:17Speaker 00

  You're not thinking of greens.

• 35:18Speaker 03

  Fewer cones which see color and more rods which see luminosity, so we become way less sensitive to red light.

• 35:25Speaker 00

  Okay.

• 35:26Speaker 03

  Which is a lot of what's around us. And that's also why faces sort of look monochromy.

• 35:32Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 35:32Speaker 03

  During an eclipse.

• 35:33Speaker 00

  Yeah, certainly, I don't know, I can't see the camera feed, but I bet we look really different than we did.

• 35:37Andrew Manganelli?

  Do you think mantis shrimp freak out during the eclipse?

• 35:40David Imel?

  Wait, why?

• 35:41Andrew Manganelli?

  Cause they can see like nine times the amount of colors that humans can.

• 35:44David Imel?

  Oh, really?

• 35:44Speaker 03

  Was that a shrimp fact during the eclipse?

• 35:46Speaker 00

  Wow.

• 35:46David Imel?

  I think.

• 35:47Speaker 03

  Whoa.

• 35:48Andrew Manganelli?

  No one.

• 35:49Speaker 03

  Where's Mariah?

• 35:50Speaker 00

  Yeah, they're either above ground.

• 35:51David Imel?

  Mantis certainly.

• 35:52Speaker 00

  Which can also punch the speed of a bullet.

• 35:54Andrew Manganelli?

  It's wild.

• 35:54Speaker 03

  Whoa, we can't have two shrimp. That's a.

• 35:58Speaker 00

  I'll do the fun facts around here.

• 35:59Speaker 03

  The underwater eclipse.

• 36:01Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 36:01David Imel?

  The.

• 36:02Speaker 00

  I think that green light is half, uh, your eyes are half as sensitive to green light because, uh, that's why there's two green pixels for every red and blue.

• 36:09David Imel?

  Right.

• 36:09Speaker 00

  On a, on a display.

• 36:11David Imel?

  Yeah.

• 36:11Andrew Manganelli?

  The, the vibe's getting weird.

• 36:13Speaker 00

  The vibe is getting weird.

• 36:14David Imel?

  Feeling like an accelerated sunset right now.

• 36:16Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 36:16David Imel?

  The wind is picking up.

• 36:17Speaker 03

  It's like if you put a sunset on like two X speed.

• 36:20Speaker 00

  Yeah, like five X speed.

• 36:22Andrew Manganelli?

  It feels like a photo filter on.

• 36:24Speaker 00

  This is crazy.

• 36:25Speaker 03

  This is, it, the, the dynamic range of the environment is very low right now.

• 36:30Speaker 00

  This is, okay, yes.

• 36:31David Imel?

  I'm gonna take some photos of you guys.

• 36:32Speaker 00

  I'm gonna take a photo of this. It's not gonna show up.

• 36:34David Imel?

  Yeah, no, good luck.

• 36:35Speaker 00

  This is crazy.

• 36:36Speaker 03

  Uh. Do you have any other fun facts?

• 36:38Speaker 00

  I do have one more.

• 36:38Speaker 03

  I knew it.

• 36:39Speaker 00

  And this is maybe. This is maybe the, I don't know if I say this is a fun fact or just a crazy, a strange fact. So first of all, this is sort of blended. There are several different types of eclipses. There's lunar eclipses, as you know. There's this, which is a total solar eclipse. There's also partial solar eclipses. There's also something else.

• 36:57David Imel?

  The wind's.

• 36:58Speaker 00

  Called.

• 36:58David Imel?

  Crazy.

• 36:59Speaker 00

  An annular eclipse. Does anybody know what that is?

• 37:01David Imel?

  Every year.

• 37:02Speaker 03

  It's when the moon blocks the year.

• 37:05Andrew Manganelli?

  Oh.

• 37:05Speaker 00

  Not annual, annular.

• 37:09Andrew Manganelli?

  Isn't it like, uh, it has to do with another eclipse, correct?

• 37:14Speaker 00

  No.

• 37:15David Imel?

  Does the eclipse eclipse the eclipse?

• 37:17Speaker 03

  Is it like yo anulo to anulas?

• 37:21Andrew Manganelli?

  In Spain for three days.

• 37:22Speaker 03

  Cause we're in Spain?

• 37:23Speaker 00

  Oh, the shadows are getting long.

• 37:24Speaker 03

  Nice.

• 37:24Speaker 00

  I'll just, okay, an annular eclipse, so as you probably know, the moon orbits the earth. Sometimes the moon is a little bit further away from earth. And so. When it does line up perfectly and cast a shadow on Earth at its maximum furthest distance from the Earth, it's actually not big enough in the sky anymore to fully cover the sun. And so it will do the line, the alignment in the sky, but the magnitude never reaches one. And you see some of the outside of the sun as well as the corona, and it's called a ring of fire.

• 37:51David Imel?

  Oh, that's

• 37:52Speaker 00

  It's a very special, very different looking eclipse.

• 37:53David Imel?

  And that one you still probably can't look at? Question mark?

• 37:56Speaker 00

  I think you probably want to play it safe and not look at it because it's not a total solar eclipse. You're seeing some of the

• 38:01Andrew Manganelli?

  Default answer should be, don't look at sun.

• 38:02David Imel?

  Yeah, that's fair.

• 38:03Speaker 00

  But, uh, very, very interesting phenomenon that leads to my final fun fact, which is that the moon is moving away from the Earth very slowly at a rate of about one inch per year.

• 38:16David Imel?

  Wait, so there's a future where it just like spins away?

• 38:19Speaker 00

  Yes. Which means

• 38:21Speaker 03

  That means there won't be solar eclipses forever.

• 38:23Speaker 00

  Which means there's a finite number of solar

• 38:25Speaker 03

  Wait, so there will be a last total solar eclipse?

• 38:28David Imel?

  Will we be here for that?

• 38:29Andrew Manganelli?

  We're podding.

• 38:30Speaker 00

  We will not be there for the last. It is so much darker.

• 38:33David Imel?

  Yeah, it got real dark. I mean, especially when you take the glasses off.

• 38:35Speaker 00

  Yeah. So the, the question is, how long till the last total solar eclipse?

• 38:38David Imel?

  Is it before or after?

• 38:40Speaker 00

  You can just, just random, totally random guess.

• 38:43Speaker 03

  Please be more than like 500 years.

• 38:44Speaker 00

  That's

• 38:45David Imel?

  I mean, you're gonna be dead, it's fine.

• 38:47Speaker 03

  Well, I like my

• 38:48Speaker 00

  Any guess?

• 38:49David Imel?

  10,000 years.

• 38:50Speaker 00

  10,000 years?

• 38:51David Imel?

  I'm gonna go with 1 million.

• 38:52Speaker 00

  1 million years?

• 38:53David Imel?

  1 million years.

• 38:54Speaker 03

  Okay, wait, let's

• 38:55Andrew Manganelli?

  1,165

• 38:56Speaker 03

  I can, I can do some napkin math. You said it moves away at one inch, and I know it's, the ratio is 400 to 400, right? And that's miles?

• 39:04Speaker 00

  Oh, yeah.

• 39:05Speaker 03

  And it's not 400 miles, but so

• 39:06Speaker 00

  400 times, 25

• 39:07Speaker 03

  How many miles are, how many inches are in a mile?

• 39:09Andrew Manganelli?

  One Somerville.

• 39:10Speaker 00

  250,000.

• 39:11Speaker 03

  That's 5,000 times 12, so that's like 60,000 inches. So I'm gonna guess, uh, I've lost track of the math. Uh, I give up.

• 39:18Speaker 00

  It's about half a billion years.

• 39:20Speaker 03

  Oh, swag.

• 39:21David Imel?

  So I win.

• 39:22Speaker 00

  Oh, we're good.

• 39:23David Imel?

  It's completely covered.

• 39:24Speaker 00

  We're good.

• 39:25David Imel?

  It's almost completely covered, guys.

• 39:26Speaker 00

  Oh, it's happening.

• 39:27Andrew Manganelli?

  It's like

• 39:28Speaker 00

  You know what's crazy? Three minutes left till totality.

• 39:30David Imel?

  Yeah, this isn't even totality yet.

• 39:31Speaker 00

  If you look through the glasses right now, it's almost completely covered, but outside it's still pretty bright.

• 39:33David Imel?

  What is the, what does the magnitude look like? It's like 90% coverage, you think?

• 39:37Speaker 00

  It's probably 90, 98.

• 39:39Andrew Manganelli?

  That's gotta be

• 39:40Speaker 00

  97, 97.

• 39:41Speaker 03

  Wow.

• 39:42Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 39:43Speaker 03

  My coverage estimate is 94, but it's just an estimate.

• 39:45Speaker 00

  It's a sliver in the sky right now.

• 39:47Andrew Manganelli?

  Here's something that I remember last time that happened. That automatic light just turned on.

• 39:51Speaker 00

  Oh, yeah.

• 39:52Andrew Manganelli?

  Because it's getting dark enough that the lights are starting to think

• 39:54Speaker 00

  All the sunset

• 39:55David Imel?

  Oh, it's getting so dark!

• 39:56Speaker 00

  All the sunset stuff

• 39:57Speaker 03

  There's no more K, or I guess there hasn't been a K.

• 39:58Speaker 00

  If you're driving a car, your headlights just turned on, like all the sunset stuff is happening right now.

• 40:03Andrew Manganelli?

  I think I heard my first cricket also.

• 40:05Speaker 03

  Uh, that was me.

• 40:07Speaker 00

  Starting to get cold.

• 40:09David Imel?

  Cricket, cricket!

• 40:10Speaker 00

  The birds have gone quiet.

• 40:11David Imel?

  Yeah, it's silurds.

• 40:13Speaker 00

  The two Spanish birds. The light is dropping.

• 40:15David Imel?

  It's getting so crazy right now.

• 40:17Speaker 00

  And we're closing in on that last phenomenon, which we're going to be able to see, which is the shadows racing through this valley. In about a minute, they're gonna start really accelerating and coming towards us for that last 1% to get to totality.

• 40:29David Imel?

  Do you think we're gonna be able to like see it coming, or is it gonna be like blink and now we're covered fast?

• 40:34Speaker 00

  That's a great question. I have no idea, and I'm really excited to find out.

• 40:37Andrew Manganelli?

  We're like up a little bit.

• 40:39David Imel?

  Yeah, we're like elevated.

• 40:40Andrew Manganelli?

  Yeah, we're like elevated over the valley, which I'm excited to see what that means. Because last time we were in the middle of a field in Ohio at the same level as all the other grounds, so

• 40:47Speaker 00

  We're basically

• 40:48Andrew Manganelli?

  I can see lights turning on on farms over there.

• 40:50Speaker 00

  Oh, it's getting darker. I can visibly see it getting darker.

• 40:52David Imel?

  Wait, still don't look at the sun, guys.

• 40:53Speaker 00

  Yeah, don't, don't look directly at the sun, but look

• 40:56David Imel?

  You can kinda look a little bit.

• 40:57Speaker 03

  The, uh, the Eleo Rufus 9,000 will alarm for when we need to put our glasses back on.

• 41:04Speaker 00

  Okay. Back right at the end of totality.

• 41:06Speaker 03

  Yes.

• 41:07Speaker 00

  When it pokes out the other side. That's a great

• 41:09Speaker 03

  When you hear the auga, it's time to be safe.

• 41:10David Imel?

  Guys, it's getting so dark!

• 41:12Speaker 00

  90 seconds, 90 seconds till full coverage.

• 41:16David Imel?

  Oh, look at the birds, they're freaking out.

• 41:18Speaker 00

  The birds are flying away.

• 41:19David Imel?

  Wow, the birds are leaving.

• 41:20Speaker 00

  It is getting dark fast.

• 41:22David Imel?

  Oh, my gosh, it's getting so dark so fast.

• 41:23Speaker 03

  Oh, my gosh!

• 41:25David Imel?

  Wow.

• 41:27Speaker 00

  We got a perfect day, guys. No clouds.

• 41:29David Imel?

  This is insane.

• 41:30Speaker 00

  No obscurity.

• 41:31Speaker 03

  This is a perfect day because my four friends are here.

• 41:32Andrew Manganelli?

  We're here with buddies.

• 41:33David Imel?

  Yeah, screw the rest of you guys. Sorry.

• 41:36Speaker 03

  I, I, continuity, man. I'm building the scene.

• 41:39David Imel?

  Only the people you can see.

• 41:40Speaker 03

  Sorry, Harper was on camera, so

• 41:42Speaker 00

  Okay, imagine.

• 41:43Speaker 03

  And I didn't acknowledge this, so my six friends are here.

• 41:44David Imel?

  Wait, I can see the eclipse.

• 41:47Speaker 00

  There's less

• 41:48David Imel?

  Sorry, Brandon.

• 41:49Speaker 03

  Brandon, come on camera, then it's continuity!

• 41:50David Imel?

  Oh, my gosh, it's getting so dark!

• 41:52Speaker 03

  My seven friends are here.

• 41:53David Imel?

  Sorry, everyone's just watching us freak out because we have like 30 seconds left.

• 41:58Andrew Manganelli?

  45 seconds.

• 41:59Speaker 00

  How am I supposed to have my mic and take photos? Oh, my gosh! So the, the last 30 seconds, uh, shadow bands rippling, shadows

• 42:08David Imel?

  It's getting real dark.

• 42:09Speaker 00

  I'm not seeing shadow bands, but wow, there's a lot more shadows.

• 42:11Speaker 03

  All right, 30 seconds, folks, 30 seconds.

• 42:13David Imel?

  It's so dark, it's so dark!

• 42:14Speaker 00

  It's the slimmest sliver of a pinpoint of a sun in the sky you can imagine.

• 42:18David Imel?

  Marquez, wear your glasses.

• 42:20Speaker 00

  20 seconds, I'm not looking at the sun.

• 42:21David Imel?

  Okay.

• 42:22Speaker 00

  But it got dark really fast. That was incredible.

• 42:26Andrew Manganelli?

  That's

• 42:27David Imel?

  We're almost there, we're almost there. Oh, guys, it's happening! It's happening right now! It's happening! Look at it. You can see, you can look at it now.

• 42:33Andrew Manganelli?

  Can you look? No, you can't.

• 42:35David Imel?

  I'm waiting.

• 42:36Speaker 00

  I mean, I'm looking.

• 42:37David Imel?

  Whoa, it's dark.

• 42:38Speaker 00

  There's a shadow, there's a shadow, there's a shadow.

• 42:39David Imel?

  God, it looks like a ring right now.

• 42:41Speaker 00

  It wiped across the sky from right to left.

• 42:42Andrew Manganelli?

  Holy

• 42:43Speaker 00

  From right to left.

• 42:44Speaker 03

  My god!

• 42:45Speaker 00

  So the right side, across the left, and there it is, and that's the coolest thing I've ever seen.

• 42:51Andrew Manganelli?

  That? This is way cooler than last time. I think this sun is more down.

• 42:54David Imel?

  That's so freaking cool. It's so cool.

• 42:56Speaker 00

  Enjoy the next 90 seconds. No, you're good.

• 42:59David Imel?

  You're good. Video viewers hopefully are getting this crazy shot that Brandon is manning right now on the camera.

• 43:05Andrew Manganelli?

  Look at the like kind of flare off to the left side of it.

• 43:06David Imel?

  Everyone looking at the total solar eclipse.

• 43:07Andrew Manganelli?

  Does the, it sees it? Oh, my god, I can't wait to see that.

• 43:11Speaker 00

  So what you're seeing is, uh, Bailey's beads, so there are craters on the moon that slivers of the, of the sun are actually peeking through. So you can still see a bit, so the, the glow around the moon is the corona, and then the little Bailey's beads and the, the little birds flying around too.

• 43:26David Imel?

  Marquez, you did prove it. I did ask early to prove it.

• 43:29Speaker 00

  I don't hear any crickets, but I do see one very lucky pilot getting an airborne view of this insane flying

• 43:36David Imel?

  This is so crazy, guys.

• 43:38Andrew Manganelli?

  It's, it's like I remember it being the coolest thing I've ever seen.

• 43:41Speaker 03

  Oh, wait, sorry, I want to acknowledge, the horizon is bright, bright, bright, bright, bright, bright, dark by the sun, bright, bright, bright, bright, bright.

• 43:47Speaker 00

  So to the right, you can see the end of the shadow.

• 43:50Speaker 03

  Oh, and there's a crazy cloud over there. I don't know if that's related

• 43:53Speaker 00

  We couldn't see during the daytime. It'll go away again when the sun comes out.

• 43:55David Imel?

  Like the sky has a shadow on it.

• 43:57Speaker 00

  Yeah. It's crazy that you can see it moving from right to left.

• 44:00David Imel?

  And you can see the corona's blowing up on the edge.

• 44:03Speaker 00

  On the left edge, there's a big solar flare.

• 44:05David Imel?

  Oh, my god.

• 44:06Speaker 03

  Oh, my goodness.

• 44:07Speaker 00

  Oh, my god, it's so beautiful.

• 44:08Andrew Manganelli?

  This, I mean, maybe because it's closer, you know, the sun seems brighter than last time we did it. Maybe because we're in Spain and not Ohio.

• 44:17Speaker 03

  Oh, glasses on, glasses on, folks!

• 44:19David Imel?

  I, oh, oh, glasses on? Oh, wow, that's so fast!

• 44:23Speaker 03

  The Eleo Rufus 9,000! It did it!

• 44:26Speaker 00

  Nicely done, Rufus.

• 44:27Andrew Manganelli?

  And now everything's gonna

• 44:28David Imel?

  The Eleo Rufus, Eleo Rufus!

• 44:29Speaker 03

  Comes first, you know?

• 44:32Andrew Manganelli?

  And the drone, luckily I checked again because it stopped recording at one point, but now it recorded through that whole part.

• 44:37David Imel?

  And it is getting lighter again, almost immediately. It's like sun, sunrise.

• 44:41Speaker 03

  Oh, my gosh!

• 44:42David Imel?

  Holy crap, that was so cool.

• 44:43Speaker 00

  Nice little, uh, sunrise from right to left for you.

• 44:45Andrew Manganelli?

  That is

• 44:46Speaker 00

  So what I noticed already immediately, remember the super high overhead one we saw? We had a 360 degree sunset?

• 44:52Andrew Manganelli?

  Yes.

• 44:53Speaker 00

  That one was far more directionally right to left, which is cool that we got to see that. That's not a bad

• 44:58David Imel?

  I'm literally shaking right now.

• 44:59Andrew Manganelli?

  That was so cool.

• 45:00David Imel?

  That was so cool.

• 45:01Speaker 03

  Wow!

• 45:02Speaker 00

  That was amazing.

• 45:03David Imel?

  It feels like you stepped into a sci-fi movie, because you see this stuff happen in sci-fi all the time, there's eclipses happening in Star Wars and all that stuff, and seeing it with your eyes is, it just doesn't feel real.

• 45:14Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 45:15David Imel?

  It's so wild.

• 45:16Speaker 00

  That was so cool.

• 45:17Andrew Manganelli?

  I know it is like very privileged of us to say, if you get the opportunity, go see one, because it's not easy to, but if you have the chance.

• 45:25Speaker 03

  Yeah. It's not, I will say

• 45:27Andrew Manganelli?

  I don't want it yet.

• 45:28Speaker 03

  It's not as good as like Instagram reels.

• 45:30David Imel?

  Yeah. But

• 45:32Speaker 00

  Seeing this on YouTube is way better.

• 45:33Andrew Manganelli?

  Yeah, you can't share this with one click. YouTube still hasn't figured that out.

• 45:35Speaker 00

  I really, I'm hoping the capture was as amazing, I mean, obviously seeing it in person is gonna be the coolest thing ever, but I hope our capture gives people a taste of what we just got to see. Um, can you imagine that for six and a half minutes? That would be pretty surreal. I mean, appreciating it for 90 seconds is fun.

• 45:52David Imel?

  That was so cool.

• 45:53Speaker 00

  Getting to stare at it for six minutes would be insane.

• 45:55David Imel?

  Can you imagine seeing that not knowing it was a solar eclipse, just?

• 45:58Speaker 00

  Yeah. There's a lot of stories about that.

• 46:00Speaker 03

  I, I would make the Scooby Doo sound. I would go, "Arrgh!"

• 46:04Speaker 00

  The sun is coming out, guys. This is crazy.

• 46:06David Imel?

  Good morning!

• 46:07Speaker 03

  Good morning!

• 46:08Speaker 00

  The fact that eclipses are predictable has led to a lot of crazy stories in the past, and will of course lead to crazy stories in the future. Um, have I convinced anyone here to become an Umbrafile?

• 46:19David Imel?

  Kinda.

• 46:20Speaker 00

  With us?

• 46:21David Imel?

  We kind of already are. We've already done two.

• 46:23Speaker 00

  We've already done this. We did the first one by accident. This one is our, two is a coincidence, three is a pattern. If you do three

• 46:27David Imel?

  That's fair.

• 46:28Speaker 00

  You're in the club.

• 46:29Andrew Manganelli?

  If you're paying for it again?

• 46:30Speaker 03

  No, actually, Marquez, I'm gonna, I'm gonna go back to one of my favorite German expressions ever, which is "Einmal ist kein Mal." Once is never.

• 46:39Speaker 00

  That's right.

• 46:40Speaker 03

  And now that we have done this twice, we have done it once, which is never.

• 46:43Speaker 00

  It feels like we are way more prepared.

• 46:45David Imel?

  What does that mean?

• 46:46Andrew Manganelli?

  What just happened?

• 46:47Speaker 00

  I don't know, it's German, it's not a stroke.

• 46:48David Imel?

  I don't know what that's supposed to mean.

• 46:50Speaker 03

  No, it's like, I, I don't even know why I'm going to this right now, but the idea that like if you do something once, it's like, yeah, you do, but as soon as you do something twice, it's a part of you. You know what I mean? Once is never.

• 46:58Speaker 00

  Okay.

• 46:59Speaker 03

  I like it.

• 47:00David Imel?

  That was beautiful.

• 47:01Speaker 00

  Thank you. Landing the drone very safely and

• 47:04David Imel?

  Safely.

• 47:05Speaker 00

  Hopefully we got that shot.

• 47:06David Imel?

  It's day again, guys.

• 47:07Speaker 00

  It's day again.

• 47:08David Imel?

  I hope you slept well.

• 47:09Speaker 00

  The sun's coming back out.

• 47:10David Imel?

  Good morning. God, seeing that with your eyes is so insane.

• 47:12Speaker 00

  That was crazy. Wow. I, I don't have much more to say, I mean, you feel the breeze, you see the coming, the sun coming back out.

• 47:16David Imel?

  That was beautiful.

• 47:17Speaker 00

  Beautiful mountains and all the shadows that we just witnessed. Um, I, I think this is a perfect time to end this little podcast.

• 47:23Speaker 03

  Before we end, can we give a big, big thank you to our amazing Spanish crew who who helped us out over there?

• 47:30Andrew Manganelli?

  Well, first, this podcast doesn't happen without Harper, Rich, Rufus, Brandon coming to help us, and it really doesn't happen

• 47:39David Imel?

  Thank you, guys.

• 47:40Andrew Manganelli?

  without Juan, Isabella, and Lucia. Um, if you guys all want to come in camera for a minute

• 47:44David Imel?

  Everyone cover the shot!

• 47:46Speaker 00

  If you want to be in a YouTube video.

• 47:48Andrew Manganelli?

  This is like, seriously, you guys put so much work into this, and it's been a long two days, and it's, I mean, this was the coolest thing ever. I hope all of you thought that was really amazing also.

• 47:58Speaker 00

  Glad we got to see it, glad we all got to show it to some people, and, uh, without any further ado, we'll catch you next week.

• 48:06Speaker 03

  Yeah, regular episode.

• 48:07David Imel?

  So I want the pixel, baby!

• 48:10Speaker 03

  Oh, yeah, there's a pixel thing.

• 48:11Speaker 00

  There, I don't know. There might be.