Total Solar Eclipse Explained: Live!

Speaker 0:00 Marques told me that if I can tell him a fact he's never heard about an eclipse, he'll give me $100 per fact.

Speaker 0:04 Yeah.

David Imel 0:04 And then what did you do? Did you look up a bunch of crazy obscure stuff?

Speaker 0:07 I looked up facts Marques did not know about the eclipse.

David Imel 0:09 [laughs]

Speaker 0:09 So-

David Imel 0:09 He literally Googled

Speaker 0:10 ... bring him on.

David Imel 0:10 [laughs]

Speaker 0:11 All right. Did you know? [upbeat music] 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 Marques.

Speaker 0:24 I'm Andrew.

David Imel 0:25 And I'm David.

Speaker 0:26 And I'm David.

Speaker 0:26 And I'm Ellis.

Speaker 0:27 Yeah.

Speaker 0:28 I'm Adam.

Speaker 0:29 So, uh, audio listeners, this one, I'm... I don't usually say this, but I'm gonna recommend fully 100% 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.

Speaker 0:44 Mm-hmm.

Speaker 0:44 And I say out because we're outside.

David Imel 0:46 Literally here-

Speaker 0:46 And we're here

David Imel 0:47 ... under the sun, baking.

Speaker 0:48 Yeah. We're, we're baking in the heat.

Speaker 0:49 102.

Speaker 0:50 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.

Speaker 1:01 And about how long?

Speaker 1:03 In about... Well, there's a, there's a little clock in front of you, Ellis.

Speaker 1:05 A little clock. Excuse you. This-

Speaker 1:07 [laughs]

David Imel 1:07 [laughs]

Speaker 1:07 Sorry, it's huge

Speaker 1:08 ... 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.

Speaker 1:18 You put this together.

Speaker 1:18 This is, this is the real deal, bro.

Speaker 1:21 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.

David Imel 1:27 About right.

Speaker 1:27 Thanks to AirBnB for helping make this possible. Uh, this is a very different podcast.

Speaker 1:32 [laughs]

David Imel 1:32 [laughs] This is not AirBnB.

Speaker 1:33 But I'm so excited. I'm so excited we got to do it. Okay, so I just wanna jump

Speaker 1:36 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.

David Imel 1:49 Prove it.

Speaker 1:50 If- [laughs]

David Imel 1:50 [laughs]

Speaker 1:51 [laughs]

Speaker 1:51 You'll see.

Speaker 1:52 I will-

Speaker 1:52 You'll see.

David Imel 1:52 [laughs]

Speaker 1:52 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-

Speaker 2:09 Real quick, why are we in Spain to see this versus New Jersey?

Speaker 2:13 It's a really great question. [laughs]

Speaker 2:14 [laughs]

David Imel 2:14 There's a lot of reasons, Andrew. [laughs]

Speaker 2:16 Fantastic question. Uh, I'll start with one of our fun facts-

Speaker 2:19 Okay

Speaker 2:19 ... which is the width of that shadow is only 50 to 150 miles wide as it passes on planet Earth.

David Imel 2:24 Narrow band.

Speaker 2:25 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-

Speaker 2:50 Yeah, definitely.

David Imel 2:50 Yeah

Speaker 2:51 ... and, uh, how we ended up choosing and actually putting this together at this spot.

David Imel 2:55 Yeah. How did this all start?

Speaker 2:56 Well, like all great stories, this one begins in Ohio. [laughs]

Speaker 3:00 [laughs]

David Imel 3:00 Knew that's what you were gonna say.

Speaker 3:01 Like every good story.

Speaker 3:02 Yeah. Okay. So this is a complete, a literal complete coincidence that this happened, right? You might have watched our, uh, our Auto Focus 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.

David Imel 3:33 Yeah.

Speaker 3:33 But luckily, it happened to be-

David Imel 3:35 [laughs]

Speaker 3:35 ... exactly where we were shooting.

David Imel 3:37 [laughs]

Speaker 3:37 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. And, uh, to me personally, that's the coolest thing I've ever seen.

Speaker 3:51 It was the coolest thing I've ever seen.

Speaker 3:52 And so I, you know, we've-

David Imel 3:53 Up there

Speaker 3:54 ... several of us now have seen it.

Speaker 3:55 You weren't even there. [laughs]

Speaker 3:56 He was in Ohio.

Speaker 3:57 I was in Ohio.

David Imel 3:57 Just not with us.

Speaker 3:58 Oh, yeah.

Speaker 3:58 Oh. [laughs]

Speaker 3:59 Well, I w- 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.

Speaker 4:08 And that was 2024.

Speaker 4:09 That was 2024.

Speaker 4:10 The last one.

Speaker 4:10 Yeah.

David Imel 4:10 And we have clips in Slack of you putting [laughs] of footage on the, of you guys all freaking out, trying to yell. Like, "Oh my God, what's happening? Oh, the crickets. Oh my God, I can't hear anything."

Speaker 4:20 It was so cool.

David Imel 4:21 Yeah.

Speaker 4:21 It was so cool. So here we are, uh, for this eclipse. It has actually already begun, so- [alarm blaring]

Speaker 4:26 Oh, oh, I'm so sorry.

Speaker 4:27 Oh, that's an interruption.

Speaker 4:28 That is... Yeah, yeah, that's the, the Elio Rufus 9000 will be inter- interrupting us-

Speaker 4:31 [laughs] It has the craziest sound

Speaker 4:32 ... from time to time. That one is, uh, just to announce that we are about 20% obscuration, obscurity. I don't, I don't know what the actual word is. Um-

Speaker 4:40 I do know the word

Speaker 4:41 ... probably should Google that before-

Speaker 4:42 Yeah

Speaker 4:42 ... flying all the way to Spain.

Speaker 4:43 Yeah.

Speaker 4:43 But, um, yeah. So at 20% obscurity, as I'm sure you know, Marques-

Speaker 4:48 Wow

Speaker 4:48 ... there's no difference.

Speaker 4:49 There's no difference.

Speaker 4:49 It's not-

Speaker 4:50 That's the human window

Speaker 4:50 ... you can't tell.

Speaker 4:51 Yeah.

Speaker 4:52 Um, but-

Speaker 4:53 What?

Speaker 4:53 Uh, can anyone actually read the temperature, just so we can take note of, of how much? 'Cause the temperature will be dropping.

David Imel 4:58 Brandon-

Speaker 4:59 Perhaps not as stealer

David Imel 5:00 ... can you see the temperature out there?

Speaker 5:00 It's right on it, yeah.

David Imel 5:01 Yeah, no.

Speaker 5:02 91. 92. 92.

Speaker 5:03 92.

David Imel 5:04 Fahrenheit.

Speaker 5:05 91.

Speaker 5:05 91.

David Imel 5:05 Oh.

Speaker 5:05 91. Okay.

David Imel 5:06 It's begun.

Speaker 5:07 Almost as hot as the podcast studio when we record. [laughs]

Speaker 5:09 Yeah. [laughs]

Speaker 5:09 Almost. It's true. Almost. Uh, it is, it is gonna be-

David Imel 5:12 That's degrees Fahrenheit, by the way.

Speaker 5:14 Yeah.

David Imel 5:14 Even though we're in Spain, we're still doing-

Speaker 5:15 Yeah

David Imel 5:15 ... Fahrenheit.

Speaker 5:15 Yeah, it's very hot out here.

David Imel 5:16 Yeah.

Speaker 5:17 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.

David Imel 5:39 Very tempting.

Speaker 5:39 I, I would love to go to Iceland and see a total solar eclipse. Um, seeing-

David Imel 5:44 But we-

Speaker 5:44 ... is the harder part in Iceland.

David Imel 5:45 Yeah.

Speaker 5:45 Yeah, we were a little spooked.

David Imel 5:46 A little spooked.

Speaker 5:47 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.

David Imel 5:52 Yeah.

Speaker 5:52 There's no point.

David Imel 5:53 Yeah, just look up.

Speaker 5:53 Marques will still have a weather app.

Speaker 5:54 Yeah. I'll still have the weather app. But it is, it is-

Speaker 5:56 [laughs]

Speaker 5:56 [laughs]

Speaker 5:57 ... constantly cloudy out there.

Speaker 5:58 Marques has a weather app for that.

Speaker 6:00 Okay.

Speaker 6:00 Somewhere.

Speaker 6:01 I have my Doppler predictions.

Speaker 6:03 Every three seconds.

Speaker 6:03 I can see when it's fr- It is currently, a- as of this very moment- ... uh, cloudy and a little bit of rain in Iceland.

Speaker 6:10 Damn.

Speaker 6:11 So I think we made the right call. Um, 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.

Speaker 6:37 Pretty crazy.

Speaker 6:38 It's pretty sick. Uh, and then we all-

Andrew Manganelli 6:40 If you want to see, there will be a studio video up by the time this comes out.

Speaker 6:44 Oh, yeah.

Andrew Manganelli 6:44 So you can see how all of this was shot.

Speaker 6:46 This came together in-

Speaker 6:47 [laughs]

Speaker 6:48 ... in quite the flurry, but there are 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-

Speaker 7:06 [laughs]

Speaker 7:06 ... is people tr- 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.

Speaker 7:15 Mm-hmm.

Speaker 7:15 So we a- we, uh, actually managed to do that. Shout-out to Harper. She's also behind this camera over here. Um, 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.

Speaker 7:30 Mm-hmm, yeah.

Speaker 7:31 What do you guys think of this scenery?

Speaker 7:32 Oh my gosh.

Speaker 7:33 It's beautiful.

Speaker 7:33 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 scene here.

Andrew Manganelli 7:45 Yeah, you can superimpose this in, uh, in post-

Speaker 7:47 It's unbelievable

Andrew Manganelli 7:48 ... on some photos.

Speaker 7:49 Audio listeners, close your eyes and imagine. [laughs]

Speaker 7:51 [laughs]

Andrew Manganelli 7:51 Unless you're driving-

Speaker 7:52 Unless you're driving

Andrew Manganelli 7:52 ... keep 'em open.

Speaker 7:54 Don't do that. Wash the dishes. Yeah, no, so- [laughs]

Speaker 7:56 [laughs]

Andrew Manganelli 7:56 Yeah.

Speaker 7:57 There's also-

Speaker 7:57 Turn away from the dishes momentarily to appreciate the scenery.

Speaker 7:59 You can imagine that your plate you're washing is the sun, and the cup is-

Speaker 8:03 Yeah. [laughs]

Andrew Manganelli 8:04 The sponge. [laughs]

Speaker 8:06 Movie and cut. 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 tr- 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, 1,000 miles an hour.

Speaker 8:33 What?

Speaker 8:34 And it's gonna be a pretty cool sight to see.

Andrew Manganelli 8:35 Okay, that I didn't know.

Speaker 8:36 Yeah.

Speaker 8:36 1,000 miles an hour?

Speaker 8:37 By the way, I- I have looked up a lot of eclipse facts.

Speaker 8:40 [laughs]

Andrew Manganelli 8:40 Yeah.

Speaker 8:41 I am full of them. I was, uh, I was saying earlier I'm approaching Neil deGrasse Tyson levels of, uh-

Andrew Manganelli 8:45 Confidence

Speaker 8:46 ... complete coverage of this topic, so if anybody comes-

Speaker 8:48 It's funny. Oh, was that an eclipse pun?

Speaker 8:49 Yeah, coverage, yeah.

Andrew Manganelli 8:50 Nice.

Speaker 8:50 Oh my God, he's on it today, folks.

Andrew Manganelli 8:51 For weeks, I've been like, "Marques, how's the doc coming along?" He's like, "Don't worry. I got it." [laughs]

Speaker 8:55 [laughs]

Speaker 8:56 I got a doc. I also, I have a separate doc that I haven't shared with you guys-

Speaker 8:59 Oh, yeah

Speaker 8:59 ... 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-

Speaker 9:07 Mm.

Speaker 9:08 These are meaningless points. It doesn't matter if you get them right or not.

Speaker 9:09 Wait, no, what do we win? I wanna win something.

Speaker 9:10 I mean, you have-

Andrew Manganelli 9:11 You w-

Speaker 9:11 It'd be cool if you win

Andrew Manganelli 9:11 ... you get the eclipse glasses if you get one right.

Speaker 9:13 Oh, done.

Speaker 9:13 Yeah.

Speaker 9:14 Deal.

Speaker 9:15 But I do have-

Andrew Manganelli 9:15 You're keeping tabs

Speaker 9:15 ... I do have a, a separate doc secretly that you haven't seen full of eclipse facts.

Andrew Manganelli 9:19 Nice.

Speaker 9:19 Oh my God.

Speaker 9:20 So at some point I'll ask you some questions about eclipses. Um, okay.

Speaker 9:24 One thing that comes up a lot when shooting or when looking at eclipses is people wanna take pictures of them, take videos of them. We are actively doing that right now, and we have a couple methods that we're using that we'll get into in a second. But I figure since we have David-

Speaker 9:37 Yes

Speaker 9:37 ... 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 in the first place.

Andrew Manganelli 9:41 It's a bad idea.

Speaker 9:42 [laughs]

Andrew Manganelli 9:42 Generally. We're kind of doing it 'cause we have solar filters, we have all this kind of stuff. If you have enough NDs, you can stack 'em. You can make sure that you're not setting your camera on fire, because-

Speaker 9:51 You said a lot of words I don't know

Andrew Manganelli 9:52 ... that, I think you probably know more than I do.

Speaker 9:53 Yeah, break it down. What's a solar filter?

Speaker 9:55 Yeah.

Andrew Manganelli 9:55 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. Uh, 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, uh, until it gets to a very, very certain point near the center-

Speaker 10:23 Ooh

Andrew Manganelli 10:23 ... the amount of light that's coming at you, l- like, relative to what your eyes are picking up, is almost the same.

Speaker 10:30 Mm-hmm.

Andrew Manganelli 10:30 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-

Speaker 10:39 Don't do that

Andrew Manganelli 10:40 ... with bare eyes-

Speaker 10:40 Unless you're driving

Andrew Manganelli 10:41 ... 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- uh, 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.

Speaker 10:54 [laughs]

Andrew Manganelli 10:55 You don't wanna do that to your camera sensor.

Speaker 10:57 Yeah.

Andrew Manganelli 10:57 That's bad.

Speaker 10:57 Mm.

Andrew Manganelli 10:57 That's really bad.

Speaker 10:58 Yeah, so the lens is focusing whatever light comes through onto the sensor.

Andrew Manganelli 11:02 Yes.

Speaker 11:02 Pointing it directly at the sun's probably not the best idea.

Andrew Manganelli 11:06 Probably bad.

Speaker 11:06 So that's why we're putting the filters on in front of it.

Andrew Manganelli 11:08 Yeah.

Speaker 11:08 I'm pretty proud of our setup. Over on this side right here we've got a little close-up camera with a... What is that, a 500 that we're-

Andrew Manganelli 11:15 500

Speaker 11:15 ... all the way zoomed in on with the solar filter in front of it.

Andrew Manganelli 11:17 Yeah.

Speaker 11:17 Five-

Andrew Manganelli 11:18 Just, a 100 millimeter is about the right focal length generally to shoot an eclipse, by the way.

Speaker 11:21 Yeah.

Andrew Manganelli 11:21 If you wanna get, like, the, the whole corona and everything going on.

Speaker 11:24 Yeah. 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.

Andrew Manganelli 11:40 Yeah.

Speaker 11:40 We're gonna try to get close-ups of the sun. We obviously have Ellis's-

Speaker 11:43 The Elio Roof is 9000.

Speaker 11:44 The Elio Roof is 9000. Uh-

Speaker 11:46 Trademarked.

Speaker 11:46 So it, it's a whole thing.

Andrew Manganelli 11:47 Yeah.

Speaker 11:48 Uh, very exciting.

Andrew Manganelli 11:48 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. Um-

Speaker 11:56 Yes. It's essentially infinity.

Andrew Manganelli 11:57 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. F- uh, use it between F8 and F11. That's where the lens is the sharpest.

Speaker 12:10 Nice.

Andrew Manganelli 12:10 You really gotta, you know, hone in right there, you know?

Speaker 12:12 Would all this r- also apply to film?

Andrew Manganelli 12:15 Um, uh, [laughs]

Speaker 12:17 [laughs]

Andrew Manganelli 12:17 The film thing is weird because you don't wanna be taking pictures of the sun at all until the actual total solar eclipse is happening.

Speaker 12:24 Mm-hmm.

Andrew Manganelli 12:25 That is mostly true. However, uh, you're metering for middle gray, which means everything's gonna be a little bit of like a mid-tone. And if you wanna be able to bring out those highlights, you wanna overexpose by a little bit.

Speaker 12:35 Okay.

Andrew Manganelli 12:36 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.

Speaker 12:46 Context

Andrew Manganelli 12:47 ... 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-

Speaker 12:56 [laughs]

Andrew Manganelli 12:56 ... when the eclipse happens 'cause it gets really cold really quickly. You can actually feel it getting colder already.

Speaker 13:01 Yeah, the crickets going off, I think, was my favorite thing that happened in 2024.

Andrew Manganelli 13:05 Yeah.

Speaker 13:05 Just like, "It's night?" [laughs]

Andrew Manganelli 13:07 [laughs]

Speaker 13:08 "Trip time."

Andrew Manganelli 13:09 Yeah, it went from suddenly daytime to suddenly nighttime and, and all the animals behaved in weird ways.

Speaker 13:13 I slept through my alarm. [laughs]

Andrew Manganelli 13:14 [laughs] I did see a cricket earlier, so I'm kinda hoping we get some of that.

Speaker 13:17 Yeah.

Andrew Manganelli 13:17 [laughs] We'll see. Um, but-

Speaker 13:19 Confirm they're here.

Andrew Manganelli 13:20 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 of 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. Oh, no. And so I'm looking forward to seeing that. That's gonna be crazy.

Speaker 14:05 Faster than the last one? 'Cause the last one felt like a light switch.

Andrew Manganelli 14:07 The last one, and I have videos of this, 'cause I... our memories are, are cruel.

Speaker 14:11 Altered.

Andrew Manganelli 14:11 They sometimes confuse us.

Speaker 14:13 For you.

Andrew Manganelli 14:13 I, I, I thought it was like a 10-minute eclipse.

Speaker 14:14 My elephant over here, baby.

Andrew Manganelli 14:15 [laughs] I we- 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.

Speaker 14:22 It was two minutes?

Andrew Manganelli 14:23 Yeah, two minutes-

Speaker 14:23 Okay

Andrew Manganelli 14:23 ... of getting darker, which is still-

Speaker 14:24 I re-

Andrew Manganelli 14:25 ... very fast

Speaker 14:25 ... I retract the elephant comment.

Andrew Manganelli 14:26 [laughs] 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. Yeah.

Speaker 14:36 I just looked at the sun again.

Andrew Manganelli 14:37 Yeah, don't. [laughs] Stop looking at the sun. Yeah, Dad, please don't do that.

Speaker 14:39 It's so tempting.

Andrew Manganelli 14:39 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. Can't see.

Speaker 14:47 And why is it logarithmic, David?

Andrew Manganelli 14:49 I don't know.

Speaker 14:49 It's the inver- it's your favorite thing. It's the inverse-square law.

Andrew Manganelli 14:51 Oh, yeah. Inverse-square law. Yeah, that's true. The further away-

Speaker 14:53 It's like your thing, man

Andrew Manganelli 14:54 ... a light source is... I know. It is my favorite thing.

Speaker 14:56 [laughs]

Andrew Manganelli 14:57 [laughs] It's fine.

Speaker 14:58 Yeah.

Andrew Manganelli 14:58 So there's, so there's a trivia question I'd like to

Andrew Manganelli 15:01 ask you guys.

Speaker 15:01 Oh, God.

Andrew Manganelli 15:01 Mm-hmm. Okay. All right. So there's, there's a s- 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 wanna just jump in and make sure we have here called magnitude, and, uh, when the magnitude of the-

Speaker 15:17 Oh, come on

Andrew Manganelli 15:17 ... 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? Magic.

Speaker 15:36 Magic.

Andrew Manganelli 15:37 Coincidence.

Speaker 15:37 I'm gonna play...

Andrew Manganelli 15:38 [laughs]

Speaker 15:38 We don't have a speaker out, but in post-

Andrew Manganelli 15:40 Magic

Speaker 15:40 ... I'm gonna add the trivia wave music while we think.

Andrew Manganelli 15:42 Trivia music? [laughs] Nice. Nobody knows? Why does it happen? Okay.

Speaker 15:46 Why the moon and the Earth go perfectly-

Andrew Manganelli 15:46 Yeah, why is it possible? Because lots of other planets-

Speaker 15:49 Have moons

Andrew Manganelli 15:49 ... 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-

Speaker 16:04 It, it's not just, like, luck?

Andrew Manganelli 16:05 ... coverage. It's not coincidence.

Speaker 16:05 It's not just, like, for-

Andrew Manganelli 16:06 Yeah. It is luck. Oh. I guess that's a fair answer. [laughs]

Speaker 16:10 But-

Andrew Manganelli 16:11 But the, the re- the answer is because, um, it appear... So the moon is, what, 250,000 miles away, something like that?

Speaker 16:18 I wouldn't know.

Andrew Manganelli 16:19 Uh, the sun-

Speaker 16:19 How many kilometers is that?

Andrew Manganelli 16:20 150,000 miles away. Yeah. So the sun is- Yeah ... 400 times further away, but it's 400 times bigger.

Speaker 16:27 Whoa.

Andrew Manganelli 16:28 Oh. So because of that perfect ratio, they appear the same size in the sky.

Speaker 16:31 So that's how we get the one.

Andrew Manganelli 16:32 Yeah.

Speaker 16:33 Marques-

Andrew Manganelli 16:33 So it really is just the random stroke of luck. It's just a random stroke of luck.

Speaker 16:36 Stroke of luck. That's crazy.

Andrew Manganelli 16:37 Yeah.

Speaker 16:37 Marques, yesterday you asked me my favorite moon fact.

Andrew Manganelli 16:40 That's true.

Speaker 16:40 Is that your favorite moon fact?

Andrew Manganelli 16:41 It might be, honestly. So the one... You wanna say the one that you said?

Speaker 16:45 I said my favorite moon fact is I, what I assume is also based on luck, that the-

Andrew Manganelli 16:49 Yeah

Speaker 16:49 ... moon rotates at about the same rate it revolves so that we always see the same-

Andrew Manganelli 16:55 The same part. Same side

Speaker 16:56 ... I just think, I think that's very beautiful-

Andrew Manganelli 16:57 We always see the same side

Speaker 16:58 ... and poetic, but I don't know if that's be- because of some law of the universe, or if, again, it's just luck based.

Andrew Manganelli 17:02 Pure, pure chance, which is pretty crazy. So some things just spin in the sky, is what you're saying.

Speaker 17:06 [laughs] What?

Andrew Manganelli 17:07 Well, one revolution of the moon, since it revolves, is the same length as one orbit, so it always faces us perfectly. Yeah. Right. Are there other moons that are turning- I guess ... for, for other planets? Yeah.

Speaker 17:19 The moon is hitting a perfect parallax at all times.

Andrew Manganelli 17:21 Exactly.

Speaker 17:22 All the time.

Andrew Manganelli 17:22 [laughs] For millions of years.

Speaker 17:23 The moon, best camera person, confirmed.

Andrew Manganelli 17:25 [laughs] That's true.

Speaker 17:25 Yeah. The moon is actually just hitting trick shots all day and night.

Andrew Manganelli 17:29 [laughs] Anyway,

Andrew Manganelli 17:31 okay. Uh, quick break. Uh, this bonus episode is done in partnership with Airbnb, so shout out to them. Uh, you don't need an eclipse to go to Spain. The travel is a lot of the joy that we get to experience in the first place, and it should be immersive. It's not just about the tourist landmarks. It's about getting to know the people, and the culture, and seeing the world through fresh eyes. Uh, and so Airbnb is really the perfect way to do that. I've used Airbnb to book a lot of stays in the past. I've been lucky enough to travel all over the world for ultimate frisbee, as you guys have probably noticed by now, and, uh, I'm going directly to the World Club Championships after this-

Speaker 18:02 Whoo

Andrew Manganelli 18:02 ... in Ireland. Uh, and of course, my team booked, uh, a really nice place to stay, uh, with Airbnb. The last time we had a World Championships four years ago, we also booked a place to stay with Airbnb, and it was awesome. And we won. So we can't rule out AirBnB being partially responsible.

Speaker 18:20 Can't rule it out. Nope.

Andrew Manganelli 18:20 Can't rule it out. Uh, so thanks to AirBnB. Uh, when you explore new cultures and meet new people, you discover new things about yourself, and AirBnB is the best way to book the perfect stay for your next adventure. So shout-out to them for sponsoring this episode.

Speaker 18:32 Shout-out to Marques for that one take.

Andrew Manganelli 18:33 Wow, one take.

Speaker 18:34 Hit it live.

Speaker 18:35 That's crazy.

Speaker 18:35 We couldn't screw it up-

Andrew Manganelli 18:36 That was crazy

Speaker 18:36 ... because of the clock.

Andrew Manganelli 18:38 Yeah.

Speaker 18:38 Yeah.

Andrew Manganelli 18:38 This is all real time.

Speaker 18:39 This is real time.

Speaker 18:39 Real time.

Andrew Manganelli 18:40 Yeah.

Speaker 18:40 All right, so-

Speaker 18:40 I was waiting for you to screw up so that I could be like, "Everyone always asks what we do in ad breaks."

Andrew Manganelli 18:44 [laughs] Yeah.

Speaker 18:44 [laughs]

Speaker 18:44 And you didn't screw up.

Andrew Manganelli 18:45 Nah, we're cooking. Marques told me that if I can tell him a fact he's never heard about an eclipse, he'll give me $100

Andrew Manganelli 18:50 per fact.

Speaker 18:50 And then what did you do? Did you look up a bunch of crazy obscure stuff?

Andrew Manganelli 18:53 I looked up facts Marques did not know about the eclipse.

Speaker 18:55 [laughs] You literally Googled.

Andrew Manganelli 18:56 So bring 'em on.

Speaker 18:57 All right. Did you know-

Andrew Manganelli 18:58 Did I know?

Speaker 18:59 ... that helium-

Andrew Manganelli 19:00 Let me, let me try to see if I know before you reveal the whole fact.

Speaker 19:03 All right.

Speaker 19:03 Yeah, that's how we figure this out.

Speaker 19:03 Word for word, word for word.

Andrew Manganelli 19:04 Yeah.

Speaker 19:04 Did you know that helium-

Andrew Manganelli 19:06 Uh-huh. Do you know it yet?

Speaker 19:07 ... is one of the gasses in the corona?

Andrew Manganelli 19:09 Mm, keep going.

Speaker 19:10 Is the only element-

Andrew Manganelli 19:13 Uh-huh

Speaker 19:13 ... we didn't discover on Earth.

Andrew Manganelli 19:16 Okay.

Speaker 19:17 Oh.

Andrew Manganelli 19:17 Helium is the only element we didn't discover on Earth.

Speaker 19:18 But rather it was discovered on the sun.

Andrew Manganelli 19:20 Because Einstein... No?

Speaker 19:21 Wait, you mean that, like, balloons predate, or like, are after space travel in the, in the tech tree?

Andrew Manganelli 19:28 That's exactly what I'm saying.

Speaker 19:29 You're saying that the periodic table had no helium on it, and the, that was the first element, maybe the only element, that was discovered by looking out into the sun and stars.

Andrew Manganelli 19:37 In 1868, during an eclipse in, um, in India-

Speaker 19:41 Uh-huh

Andrew Manganelli 19:41 ... s- they saw a band of color, but they didn't know what it was.

Speaker 19:45 Wait, who banned it?

Andrew Manganelli 19:46 [laughs] Oh, they banned the color, yeah.

Speaker 19:49 I can't see it.

Andrew Manganelli 19:50 They saw a band of color.

Speaker 19:51 [laughs]

Andrew Manganelli 19:51 Yeah, sorry. Uh, and just like in our episode about how the James Web- W- J- J- JWST, James Webb Space Telescope, uh, sees into the past-

Speaker 19:59 Uh-huh

Andrew Manganelli 19:59 ... 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-

Speaker 20:08 Oh

Andrew Manganelli 20:08 ... Helios, after the sun.

Speaker 20:10 Ooh.

Andrew Manganelli 20:10 That's why it's called helium, and that's how they discovered it.

Speaker 20:14 Do you know how I know you get the 100 bucks? 'Cause Marques went, "Oh."

Andrew Manganelli 20:17 Yeah.

Speaker 20:17 [laughs] You don't say that when you know it already.

Speaker 20:20 You know?

Speaker 20:20 Can I, can I get a chance at 100 bucks?

Andrew Manganelli 20:21 That's good. I don't know if that's an e- I guess that's an eclipse fact.

Speaker 20:25 It was during an eclipse.

Andrew Manganelli 20:26 It's, yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay, that's fair.

Speaker 20:26 Wait, wait.

Andrew Manganelli 20:27 I'll give you that. I'll give you that.

Speaker 20:27 They saw it around the corona.

Speaker 20:29 What, what year did you say?

Andrew Manganelli 20:29 1868.

Speaker 20:32 But the James Webb Space Telescope?

Andrew Manganelli 20:33 No, no, no, no.

Speaker 20:34 No, no, the eclipse in 1868.

Andrew Manganelli 20:34 Just like during our JWST episode where they-

Speaker 20:37 Oh, oh

Andrew Manganelli 20:37 ... use that, use the elements-

Speaker 20:39 Okay. I was so confused for a second.

Andrew Manganelli 20:39 Yeah. They discovered, they... Whatever. You, you just listen to it.

Speaker 20:42 Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 20:43 [laughs] Listen to the episode.

Andrew Manganelli 20:43 That's a good one. That's a good one. I did not know that. Wow.

Speaker 20:45 100 bucks.

Andrew Manganelli 20:46 100 bucks.

Speaker 20:47 There it is. Clean.

Andrew Manganelli 20:47 I have another one.

Speaker 20:48 [laughs]

Andrew Manganelli 20:49 You wanna go back-to-back? You can go for back-to-back.

Speaker 20:51 Yeah, you want me to go back-to-back?

Andrew Manganelli 20:52 Yeah, I would love to hear another fun fact.

Speaker 20:53 Now, if you didn't know this one, you owe Marques 100 bucks.

Andrew Manganelli 20:55 No, no, no, no, no.

Speaker 20:56 Double or nothing.

Andrew Manganelli 20:57 It's worth

Andrew Manganelli 20:58 it.

Speaker 20:58 [laughs]

Speaker 20:58 [laughs]

Andrew Manganelli 20:59 Uh, I'm trying to remember it. I have to open my laptop.

Speaker 21:01 All right.

Andrew Manganelli 21:02 No worries.

Speaker 21:02 Can I throw one out there-

Andrew Manganelli 21:03 You do it. Yeah

Speaker 21:03 ... which Marques 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, as obscure as possible. And the way I know Marques researched them much is he was like-

Speaker 21:13 Obscure

Speaker 21:14 ... "I've read this."

Andrew Manganelli 21:15 Nice.

Speaker 21:15 Another eclipse pun.

Andrew Manganelli 21:16 Nice.

Speaker 21:16 I was working on that. But there was one where he knew a little bit about it.

Andrew Manganelli 21:20 Mm-hmm.

Speaker 21:20 But, um, so in 2024, amateur astronomers discovered a comet during the eclipse.

Speaker 21:25 [air horn] Oh.

Andrew Manganelli 21:26 [laughs]

Speaker 21:27 Sorry, that one's not really anything either. It's just 50% obscurity.

Speaker 21:29 Oh, okay.

Andrew Manganelli 21:30 I can tell. Yeah, looking at you.

Speaker 21:30 Uh, which was then-

Andrew Manganelli 21:31 [laughs]

Speaker 21:32 So Marques knew about the comet during the eclipse, but it was then destroyed the next day during its closest approach to the sun.

Andrew Manganelli 21:38 Yeah. Oh, that makes sense.

Speaker 21:39 But something also similar happened in 1882 in Egypt, where they saw a comet and then never saw it again.

Andrew Manganelli 21:44 Wow.

Speaker 21:44 That's kind of crazy.

Andrew Manganelli 21:45 That's crazy.

Speaker 21:45 That's wild.

Andrew Manganelli 21:46 Okay, I remembered mine. Okay, so maybe this one doesn't count, but the other one did, for sure. All right.

Speaker 21:51 I'll do the count.

Andrew Manganelli 21:52 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-

Speaker 22:03 Oh

Andrew Manganelli 22:03 ... which is 13% of their total grid capacity during that time.

Speaker 22:06 Yeah, we passed a lot of solar panels driving there.

Andrew Manganelli 22:07 I was noticing that.

Speaker 22:08 Yeah, and windows. That's-

Speaker 22:09 A lot of solar-

Andrew Manganelli 22:10 13% of the total energy they re- 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 the, like, all of the stored energy-

Speaker 22:20 Whoa

Andrew Manganelli 22:20 ... actually can get pushed through their grid.

Speaker 22:22 Whoa.

Speaker 22:22 That is a fun fact.

Andrew Manganelli 22:23 13%.

Speaker 22:23 Wait, did you know that?

Andrew Manganelli 22:25 I did not know that.

Speaker 22:25 That's 100 bucks.

Andrew Manganelli 22:26 I did not know that.

Speaker 22:27 Benji.

Speaker 22:27 I'm telling you.

Andrew Manganelli 22:28 That's good. That's really good.

Speaker 22:29 I'm telling you. We got fun facts.

Andrew Manganelli 22:31 [laughs] Yeah, me-

Speaker 22:32 All right, Marques, your turn

Andrew Manganelli 22:33 ... I can see it.

Speaker 22:34 [laughs]

Andrew Manganelli 22:35 I can see it slowly starting to get slightly dimmer.

Speaker 22:38 Yeah. Yeah.

Andrew Manganelli 22:38 I don't know if you guys are feeling that, too.

Speaker 22:39 Logarithmically dimmer.

Andrew Manganelli 22:40 The shadows are a tiny... The sun is officially half covered.

Speaker 22:43 Yeah.

Andrew Manganelli 22:44 And it feels a little different.

Speaker 22:45 Yeah.

Andrew Manganelli 22:46 But it's not, like, dramatic yet.

Speaker 22:48 Yeah.

Andrew Manganelli 22:48 Just a little... Oh, I looked dir- okay.

Speaker 22:49 [laughs]

Andrew Manganelli 22:50 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 very predictable-

Speaker 22:58 Mm-hmm

Andrew Manganelli 22:58 ... as you know. So we can-

Speaker 22:59 You look so excited to tell us this. [laughs]

Andrew Manganelli 23:02 So we can look forward on the calendar and just deci- like, you guys have probably already heard about the next major eclipse, which is-

Speaker 23:10 Egypt

Andrew Manganelli 23:10 ... uh, Egypt in 2028, or 2027.

Speaker 23:13 '27. Yeah. Also awesome.

Andrew Manganelli 23:14 Uh, which has a famously six-and-a-half-minute totality.

Speaker 23:19 Crazy.

Andrew Manganelli 23:19 Which is insane. The one that we are going to witness when we reach a 1.0 magnitude is, uh, about 90 seconds long.

Speaker 23:26 Ugh.

Andrew Manganelli 23:26 Which is still crazy. 90 seconds of no sun in the sky is still crazy. But six and a half minutes is historically long.

Speaker 23:33 That's long.

Andrew Manganelli 23:34 Do you guys know the longest total solar eclipse that is theoretically possible on planet Earth?

Speaker 23:39 Seven minutes and 28 seconds.

Speaker 23:40 I feel like you spoiled this at dinner last night.

Speaker 23:42 I think you did, but I can't remember correctly.

Andrew Manganelli 23:43 Seven minute 29 seconds.

Speaker 23:44 Were you paying attention?

Speaker 23:45 I thought it was like- [laughs]

Andrew Manganelli 23:47 [laughs]

Speaker 23:47 To Marques talking at dinner?

Speaker 23:48 I thought it was closer to eight.

Andrew Manganelli 23:50 No, it was seven. We don't have whiteboards, but you can all just, uh-

Speaker 23:53 Yeah, I'm saying 7:29.

Andrew Manganelli 23:53 It was like 7:28 or something.

Speaker 23:55 I'm putting the sixes. I'm gonna go say 7:45.

Andrew Manganelli 23:57 Nah.

Speaker 23:58 I'm taking the over

Andrew Manganelli 24:00 Yeah, David know that it's, uh- Oh ... just short- Damn ... just short of seven and a half minutes I knew David was paying attention- Is the longest- ... 'cause he wanted the 100 bucks ... theoretical eclipse possible. So that- [laughs] ... one next year, and 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. Yeah. Six and a half minutes.

Speaker 24:16 Long. It's so long, you have to go.

Speaker 24:17 How far did we travel for the 90-second-

Speaker 24:19 [laughs]

Speaker 24:20 ... eclipse?

Andrew Manganelli 24:21 For this?

Speaker 24:22 We brought nine people.

Andrew Manganelli 24:23 [laughs] Yeah. [laughs]

Speaker 24:24 [laughs]

Speaker 24:25 We traveled an eight-hour flight.

Andrew Manganelli 24:27 You-

Speaker 24:27 A three-hour car ride

Andrew Manganelli 24:28 ... seven cameras

Speaker 24:29 ... closer to, like-

Andrew Manganelli 24:30 From the-

Speaker 24:30 ... 10 hours for some of us.

Andrew Manganelli 24:31 This is funny.

Speaker 24:31 But-

Andrew Manganelli 24:32 Like, 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.

Speaker 24:41 Mm-hmm.

Andrew Manganelli 24:42 So if it's, like, an hour long of pickup, I won't drive more than an hour-

Speaker 24:44 That's-

Andrew Manganelli 24:44 ... to go.

Speaker 24:44 Yeah.

Andrew Manganelli 24:45 We totally broke that rule for this. [laughs] We are witnessing a 90-second event that we traveled, uh, days for. Yeah, but we're podding for eight hours, so- True ... yeah, it makes sense. And this is, this is an elite, amazing podcast.

Speaker 24:56 Wait, Andrew, you said-

Andrew Manganelli 24:57 So this is cool

Speaker 24:57 ... for some of us, the drive was more than three hours.

Speaker 25:00 We got a flat tire on the way.

Speaker 25:01 [laughs]

Andrew Manganelli 25:02 That's true. Full story on the video channel. Seriously, you should. You should.

Speaker 25:04 But at least you got a flat tire in, like, a super fun, populated area full of stuff to do, right?

Speaker 25:09 Listen-

Andrew Manganelli 25:09 [laughs]

Speaker 25:11 ... I'm gonna say truck stop, but compared to truck stops like in Kearney, it was a pretty sweet truck stop.

Andrew Manganelli 25:15 Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 25:15 And there was this adorable dog that kind of looked like Max. So if I'm-

Speaker 25:18 Oh

Speaker 25:18 ... gonna sit behind, uh, at a truck stop, I'm gonna do it with a dog that looks like my old one, so.

Speaker 25:23 Very cute.

Andrew Manganelli 25:23 That's pretty fire. Working on pixel content in the Spanish sun. Yeah.

Speaker 25:26 I have a bunch of sweet pictures of David working on a bunch of articles in random spots-

Andrew Manganelli 25:30 [laughs] Of a truck stop

Speaker 25:31 ... along the side of the highway [laughs]

Andrew Manganelli 25:33 Yeah

Speaker 25:33 ... in Spain.

Speaker 25:33 Nice.

Andrew Manganelli 25:35 All right, I have another, I have another-

Speaker 25:36 Please

Andrew Manganelli 25:36 ... random trivia question for you guys. Hit it to us. So David has one point. I don't know if we're keeping track. One? I thought it was two.

Speaker 25:41 One point and $200.

Andrew Manganelli 25:43 Oh, yeah. Well, that's- [laughs] ... that's separate. All right, so- [laughs] ... 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. Yeah, you can- Uh ... tell it's getting stranger ... there is a term-

Speaker 25:56 61% obscurity, and, uh-

Andrew Manganelli 26:00 It's getting-

Speaker 26:00 ... we dropped about 4,000 lux-

Andrew Manganelli 26:02 It's, uh-

Speaker 26:02 ... in brightness already

Andrew Manganelli 26:03 ... it's chilly, too. Yeah. I feel like it's gotten- Yeah, it's getting colder, for sure. Nice and chilly. What's the temperature? 88. 88.

Speaker 26:07 It's 88.

Andrew Manganelli 26:07 88?

Speaker 26:08 It dropped three degrees.

Andrew Manganelli 26:09 It feels like 78. It's- Yeah ... that's crazy.

Speaker 26:10 Sweet.

Andrew Manganelli 26:11 There is a term, specifically, a Google, a dictionary-defined term for people- Oh, God ... who go and travel and go see eclipses-

Speaker 26:18 This is awesome

Andrew Manganelli 26:18 ... specifically. Do you know what this word is? Eclipse chaser.

Speaker 26:21 People that travel.

Andrew Manganelli 26:22 An eclipse chaser. Wait, wait. Yeah.

Speaker 26:23 Oh, buddy. I knew this one.

Andrew Manganelli 26:24 That's sol- You know the word? Oh, it's an actual word for eclipse chaser? It is an o-

Speaker 26:28 It's a word for an eclipse chaser

Andrew Manganelli 26:28 ... solarometer. God damn it, I know it.

Speaker 26:30 Wait, uh, is it, uh, like a c- is it a-

Andrew Manganelli 26:32 Solar-

Speaker 26:32 ... a portmanteau? As, like, two words combined, or is it just, is it just one word?

Andrew Manganelli 26:35 Um, it is, it is one word. Solarphile? Damn it. I was gonna say heliophile.

Speaker 26:41 Is it just astronomer?

Speaker 26:42 Lover of the sun.

Andrew Manganelli 26:43 Yeah. You guys were on the right track. I don't wanna give it away, but that's not a bad guess.

Speaker 26:46 Hmm.

Andrew Manganelli 26:46 Uh, is it a-

Speaker 26:48 Solarometer.

Andrew Manganelli 26:50 It has a... I'll keep giving you hints until you get it. Okay. You may not get it.

Speaker 26:52 On a scale of one to 10, how silly is it?

Andrew Manganelli 26:54 It's, like, a five. It's kinda silly.

Speaker 26:57 Oh. Oh, so it's mid-

Andrew Manganelli 26:57 Kinda silly

Speaker 26:58 ... mid-whimsy.

Andrew Manganelli 26:58 Yeah.

Speaker 26:58 Uh-

Andrew Manganelli 26:59 Mid-whimsy

Speaker 27:00 ... is it a coverage enthusiast?

Andrew Manganelli 27:01 You're close. You're so cl-

Speaker 27:03 No, no.

Andrew Manganelli 27:03 Solar enthusiast. Combine what you just said with what you said earlier. Phile or the- Yeah ... solarphile?

Speaker 27:08 Is it a coverphile?

Andrew Manganelli 27:09 Coverage phile? You're, you're close now. You're close now.

Speaker 27:12 It's a-

Andrew Manganelli 27:13 It's Latin root of-

Speaker 27:14 Oh

Andrew Manganelli 27:15 ... co- coverphile. You're so close.

Speaker 27:18 Uh, what's the Latin word for cover?

Andrew Manganelli 27:18 If you wanna know now, just Google it. Yeah, I give up. I give up.

Speaker 27:20 Coverphile.

Andrew Manganelli 27:20 That's fine.

Speaker 27:21 Hit, hit me.

Andrew Manganelli 27:22 An umbraphile.

Speaker 27:23 Oh.

Andrew Manganelli 27:23 Umbra. The, the Latin word for shadow, uh, is someone who chases eclipses and travels for them. That is an umbraphile. So we're all umbraphiles then. I'm gonna go look at the sun. Apparently, yeah. Quickly.

Speaker 27:32 Wait, you haven't looked recently. It's, it's, like, crescent moon right now.

Andrew Manganelli 27:35 Holy moly. Holy moly. Okay, that is a full crescent sun.

Speaker 27:38 We getting there.

Speaker 27:38 Wow.

Andrew Manganelli 27:39 That is so cool.

Speaker 27:39 We might be close to the podcast where none of us are looking at the camera anymore.

Speaker 27:42 Marques, is this what you'd call a waxing gibbous sun, or is that a whole other-

Andrew Manganelli 27:45 This is waning, but yes.

Speaker 27:46 Damn it.

Andrew Manganelli 27:47 Yes, this is a wax- a waning crescent, the opposite of what you said, actually. [laughs]

Speaker 27:51 Waxing. [laughs]

Andrew Manganelli 27:52 But it's pretty cool. Give us the sun. Oh, I looked at it, and it didn't hurt.

Speaker 27:56 Don't.

Andrew Manganelli 27:56 Yeah, it did for a second.

Speaker 27:57 Stop.

Andrew Manganelli 27:57 [laughs] Yeah, it did hurt. It did hurt for a second. [laughs] It was a quick glance. Don't do it. Don't do that. Don't do that.

Speaker 28:02 So we're getting close.

Andrew Manganelli 28:04 Yeah.

Speaker 28:04 I think you'll have to excuse me. I'm gonna try and put the drone up.

Andrew Manganelli 28:07 We're gonna do it. Mm.

Speaker 28:08 Yes.

Andrew Manganelli 28:08 It's happening like I said, yeah. We're getting close. Good luck.

Speaker 28:11 So I will just-

Speaker 28:12 While you do that-

Speaker 28:13 Well, we... Yeah, go

Speaker 28:13 ... can I talk a little bit?

Speaker 28:15 I'm gonna start getting it ready in case.

Andrew Manganelli 28:16 What's the time left? So we're about 14 and a half minutes from- That's crazy ... totality.

Speaker 28:21 Yeah, from totality.

Andrew Manganelli 28:22 It's crazy how, how interesting the light is getting right now. Yeah.

Speaker 28:25 Yeah. This looks beautiful.

Andrew Manganelli 28:26 Do you think if we held up, like, a... You see that hat Harper has right there? Yeah. Can you bring that hat over here? So what I see a lot of people doing- Yeah ... 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- Like a strainer ... strainer or whatever. Yeah. And when you do, and you hold it up to the light, the shadows are, like, crescent-shaped. This is because- I'm gonna- ... it's like a pinhole camera. Exactly. So this is a bunch of pinhole cameras.

Speaker 28:50 I am seeing the thing where depending on the angle you hold stuff at, your shadows get softer and sharper.

Andrew Manganelli 28:55 And this specific eclipse, uh, the shadows go, uh, horizontally. So you're gonna have to have some sort of surface to shine it onto.

Speaker 29:02 Mm-hmm. Thank you, Harper.

Andrew Manganelli 29:03 Marques is bringing a crate over. Yeah, this, this is a total- Thank you, Harper ... coincidence that we have this crate, but it's got these slots in it.

Speaker 29:07 Crate-incidence.

Andrew Manganelli 29:08 Oh, that's so weird. Wait, take a video. Look at these. You can kinda see it. You can kinda see it. Yeah, it'll get more interesting- Okay, as we go ... as we go. A pinhole camera is b- basically any small, tiny, tiny, little hole that inverts the light that's coming through that hole, the more circular, the smaller. Oh, there it is. Look at that. Look at that. 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 droplets are gonna have little shapes. So you ready for this? I'm ready. See the bottom? See the holes in this? See the circle in the middle? I see... Oh, there's a circle. Now we got a circle.

Speaker 29:44 Whoa.

Andrew Manganelli 29:45 Where is it?

Speaker 29:45 That ain't no circle.

Andrew Manganelli 29:46 It's a crescent all the way around. Oh, I see it.

Speaker 29:48 Oh, over there. Oh.

Andrew Manganelli 29:48 There's a singular circle. Yeah. That little- It's a crescent circle ... circle is a crescent. It's supposed to be a circle. [laughs] I don't know if you're gonna be able to catch that.

Speaker 29:54 No camera can catch that.

Andrew Manganelli 29:55 [laughs] Adam's pointing his camera at it. We'll cut it in if it looks any good, but that is- Yeah, if... We'll- ... not sorry. I tried

Speaker 29:58 ... we'll just bump the contrast up to 1,000.

Andrew Manganelli 30:01 1,000, yeah. Yeah, yeah. I'll just put it on Michael Graphic. How quickly can he turn these around? Yeah. [laughs] Yeah, that is pretty awesome. Yeah.

Speaker 30:07 All right. I did mention the, the width of the path of totality earlier, so I guess that's off the table for points.

Speaker 30:12 Yes.

Speaker 30:12 Only 150 miles or so, uh, to really be in the path of totality.

Speaker 30:16 And we're in the middle of 150 miles.

Speaker 30:17 If you're... 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.

Speaker 30:25 Of the heart.

Speaker 30:25 A 99%-

Speaker 30:26 Of my heart

Speaker 30:27 ... solar eclipse will look like this. It will look like it's daytime.

Speaker 30:29 Yeah.

Speaker 30:29 It won't get nearly as dark. So I'm very excited for the dramatic-

Speaker 30:33 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.

Speaker 30:40 'Cause you had a partial.

Speaker 30:41 Yeah.

Speaker 30:41 Yeah.

Speaker 30:41 Unless you had the glasses.

Speaker 30:43 Yeah.

Speaker 30:43 With the glasses, and you looked at it, then you can see a little bit of a- the obscurity. But-

Speaker 30:47 Yeah

Speaker 30:47 ... other than that.

Speaker 30:47 That's crazy. All right. Here's a crazy fact.

Speaker 30:49 Let's go.

Speaker 30:50 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.

Speaker 30:53 Okay.

Speaker 30:53 The next Halloween total solar eclipse-

Speaker 30:55 [laughs] What?

Speaker 30:56 ... will be 2692. That's a while.

Speaker 30:58 [laughs]

David Imel 30:59 Oh, wow.

Speaker 31:00 Uh-

Speaker 31:00 I'm gonna go then

Speaker 31:00 ... the last-

David Imel 31:00 [laughs]

Speaker 31:01 ... New Year's Day total solar eclipse-

Speaker 31:03 The last one

Speaker 31:04 ... was 1889.

Speaker 31:05 Oh.

David Imel 31:06 Oh.

Speaker 31:06 That's actually pretty recent.

Speaker 31:06 That's around for that one.

David Imel 31:07 When's the next one?

Speaker 31:08 Which, which holiday-

Speaker 31:09 Uh-huh

Speaker 31:09 ... can you never get a total solar eclipse?

David Imel 31:13 Cinco de Mayo.

Speaker 31:13 Leap year day.

Speaker 31:15 Holiday.

Speaker 31:16 The leap year. [laughs]

David Imel 31:16 My birthday.

Speaker 31:18 Um, holiday.

Speaker 31:19 Christmas?

David Imel 31:19 Do you know that for sure?

Speaker 31:20 Is it Christmas?

Speaker 31:20 I'm pretty sure.

David Imel 31:21 Cinco de Mayo.

Speaker 31:22 No.

David Imel 31:22 I said that already.

Speaker 31:23 No.

Speaker 31:23 Oh, damn.

Speaker 31:23 Holiday. July 4th. No.

Speaker 31:26 Oh. Oh.

Speaker 31:26 In Spain.

Speaker 31:27 That is, uh... Sorry, that was 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? 87.9. 87.9.

Speaker 31:35 Fair enough.

Speaker 31:36 So we've dropped a [laughs] whole .1 degrees since the last time.

Speaker 31:38 I don't think that that's-

David Imel 31:38 It feels a lot cooler, though.

Speaker 31:40 Yeah, it feels way cooler.

Speaker 31:40 It's getting breezy. That's fine.

Speaker 31:41 The droplets on my back are not-

Speaker 31:42 How much light do we have

Speaker 31:42 ... falling as often now.

Speaker 31:44 Uh, we're at 656 lux. All right.

Speaker 31:46 656.

Speaker 31:47 The line on the graph is dramatic. Yeah, we, we have a, a, a recording, a graph that just is-

Speaker 31:52 Nice

Speaker 31:52 ... watching it. We probably should've screen recorded that computer when we started, but, you know, whatever.

Speaker 31:55 It's all good.

Speaker 31:55 Um, but, uh, we started about-

Speaker 31:58 Oh my gosh

Speaker 31:58 ... 7,000 lux of light.

Speaker 32:00 Yeah.

Speaker 32:00 So we've dropped-

Speaker 32:01 Broad daylight

Speaker 32:01 ... so much.

Speaker 32:02 Wow. It is so crazy. You still can't stare at the sun, but it's almost completely covered.

Speaker 32:06 We-

Speaker 32:07 Oh. It got way darker.

David Imel 32:08 Yeah, it got way darker.

Speaker 32:08 Whoa, it's-

David Imel 32:09 I thought you were looking

Speaker 32:09 ... getting dark fast.

Speaker 32:10 Okay. Uh-

Speaker 32:11 Which is cool

Speaker 32:11 ... back to your question. I'm gonna say Valentine's Day.

Speaker 32:14 No.

Speaker 32:14 Damn.

Speaker 32:15 Slight is-

Speaker 32:16 Is it a holiday in the United States?

Speaker 32:17 Yes.

Speaker 32:18 Is it the 4th of July?

Speaker 32:19 It is not.

David Imel 32:20 Did we say... You said Thanksgiving?

Speaker 32:21 Is it Christmas?

Speaker 32:22 I said Fourth. It is not.

David Imel 32:23 Oh.

Speaker 32:23 I didn't say Thanksgiving.

David Imel 32:24 New Year's Eve.

Speaker 32:25 No.

David Imel 32:26 Easter.

Speaker 32:27 Yes.

Speaker 32:28 What?

David Imel 32:28 Easter.

Speaker 32:28 Wait, why?

Speaker 32:28 Why?

Speaker 32:29 Because of the way Easter is drawn into the calendar, it's always-

Speaker 32:33 Oh.

David Imel 32:33 Oh

Speaker 32:33 ... a specific-

Speaker 32:34 This changes too often

Speaker 32:34 ... set of dates relative to the full moon.

David Imel 32:37 Relative. Yeah.

Speaker 32:38 And, uh, by definition, a total solar eclipse can only happen during a new moon.

David Imel 32:43 Oh, yeah

Speaker 32:43 ... which is about four weeks after. And Easter is typically two weeks after the first full moon-

David Imel 32:47 Oh, wow

Speaker 32:48 ... of the month.

David Imel 32:49 Okay.

Speaker 32:49 So you can never have a total solar eclipse-

David Imel 32:51 Of the heart

Speaker 32:52 ... on Easter.

David Imel 32:52 That's crazy.

Speaker 32:53 [laughs] It's wild, right?

David Imel 32:54 Yeah.

Speaker 32:55 In fact-

Speaker 32:55 That's crazy.

Speaker 32:55 Yeah. Anyway, okay, it's, it is cooking now.

David Imel 32:58 Oh my God.

Speaker 32:58 Oh, wow.

David Imel 32:59 The light is getting so good.

Speaker 33:00 Yeah, looking across the field-

Speaker 33:01 It's-

David Imel 33:01 Oh, God

Speaker 33:01 ... is insane.

Speaker 33:02 [laughs] Don't, don't look at it.

Speaker 33:03 Oh, yeah.

Speaker 33:03 The shadows are pin sharp.

David Imel 33:06 Yeah.

Speaker 33:06 Pin sharp right now.

Speaker 33:07 I can't believe it.

Speaker 33:07 The drone-

David Imel 33:07 Where is that film camera?

Speaker 33:08 You don't even need the glasses? You're doing this-

Speaker 33:10 You're not using the glasses?

Speaker 33:10 ... no scoping it?

Speaker 33:12 Andrew's just free soloing the drone right now.

Speaker 33:13 The drone is up.

Speaker 33:15 While Andrew gets that drone in the sky, I just wanna say, while I have 30 seconds-

Speaker 33:18 Yeah

Speaker 33:18 ... 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.

Speaker 33:27 Yeah.

Speaker 33:28 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.

Speaker 33:35 Is it the front-facing camera?

Speaker 33:37 Yes, it is the front-facing camera

Speaker 33:37 Oh, that's why

Speaker 33:37 ... this right here.

Speaker 33:38 I think it would be more dramatic if we were-

David Imel 33:40 Looking the other way?

Speaker 33:41 ... facing the sun.

Speaker 33:42 Well, we're, we're going for ambient light, so if it was facing the light-

Speaker 33:44 Oh, okay

Speaker 33:44 ... the camera would just be looking right at the sun, and it would-

Speaker 33:46 It would always be-

Speaker 33:47 ... it would blast.

Speaker 33:47 That's an incident meter over there.

Speaker 33:49 It is literally an incident meter, and we've been checking with an incident meter. And it is just so accurate.

Speaker 33:53 Spot on.

Speaker 33:53 It's crazy.

Speaker 33:54 That's awesome.

Speaker 33:54 Rufus absolutely-

Speaker 33:55 No, not spot on. That would be-

David Imel 33:56 See Andrew? [laughs]

Speaker 33:56 ... spot me.

Speaker 33:57 Yeah, incident on.

David Imel 33:58 That's an interesting-

Speaker 33:58 Incident on.

Speaker 33:59 So shout out Rufus and his genius technological skills.

Speaker 34:03 He was like-

David Imel 34:03 Skills

Speaker 34:04 ... "What if we just get clip, put clip on iPad?"

Speaker 34:06 Yeah. [laughs]

Speaker 34:06 And we were like-

David Imel 34:07 Yeah

Speaker 34:07 ... "Okay." [laughs]

Speaker 34:09 This is so cool.

David Imel 34:10 This is interesting. It says I currently have weak satellite signal.

Speaker 34:13 Whoa.

David Imel 34:14 And I can't go more than [laughs] 10 meters. So-

Speaker 34:16 So hopefully that shot-

David Imel 34:17 ... is there a potential that that's because of-

Speaker 34:19 Uh, satellites-

David Imel 34:20 ... what is happening right now?

Speaker 34:20 ... shouldn't be affected. I think it's-

Speaker 34:22 Why does a satellite need to talk to the drone?

David Imel 34:24 Sorry.

Speaker 34:25 I think it should be fine.

David Imel 34:25 Uh, yeah. Don't worry.

Speaker 34:27 Reasons. Oh, there's a bird. Oh, the birds are leaving.

David Imel 34:29 Oh, oh, they're freaking out.

Speaker 34:30 They're so upset.

David Imel 34:32 Oh, there's only two.

Speaker 34:32 It's fine.

Speaker 34:33 They're going crazy.

Speaker 34:33 They're just having a good time.

Speaker 34:34 This is so-

David Imel 34:34 Fun fact, there's only two birds in Spain

Speaker 34:36 ... interesting.

Speaker 34:36 [laughs]

Speaker 34:36 The light is so wild.

Speaker 34:37 There they are. [laughs]

Speaker 34:38 The light is so wild.

Speaker 34:39 We got 'em. Yeah, we're entering the last couple 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 switch to the video version so you can really feel what's going on-

Speaker 34:49 Mm-hmm

Speaker 34:49 ... uh, with us.

Speaker 34:50 We're about, we're about to hit eight minutes.

Speaker 34:52 Yeah, eight minutes.

Speaker 34:53 Oh, man.

Speaker 34:53 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 different.

Speaker 35:02 I, I think I can actually explain this one-

Speaker 35:04 Yeah.

David Imel 35:04 Marques

Speaker 35:04 ... Marques.

Speaker 35:04 Sure.

Speaker 35:04 Uh, I believe it is something called the Purkinje effect.

Speaker 35:07 Okay.

Speaker 35:08 And the reason... The Purkinje effect is that the, uh, our eyes, um... Wow, okay, I-

Speaker 35:15 You're doing great, sweetie

Speaker 35:15 ... 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.

Speaker 35:26 Oh.

Speaker 35:26 And so as the sun begins to go away, our eyes use-

Speaker 35:32 You're not thinking greens

Speaker 35:32 ... fewer cones which see color, and more rods which see luminosity. So we become-

Speaker 35:37 Oh, yeah

Speaker 35:38 ... way less sensitive to red light-

Speaker 35:40 Okay, yeah

Speaker 35:40 ... which is a lot of what's around us. And that's also why faces sort of look monochromey-

Speaker 35:46 Yeah.

David Imel 35:46 Yeah

Speaker 35:46 ... during an eclipse.

Speaker 35:48 Yeah. Certainly-

David Imel 35:49 Now-

Speaker 35:49 I don't know. I can't see the camera feed, but I bet we look really different than we do

David Imel 35:52 ... do you think mantis shrimp freak out during the eclipse?

Speaker 35:54 [laughs]

Speaker 35:55 Wait, why?

David Imel 35:55 'Cause they can see, like, nine times the amount of colors that humans can.

Speaker 35:58 Oh, really?

Speaker 35:59 Was that a shrimp fact during the eclipse?

Speaker 36:00 Wow.

Speaker 36:01 Whoa. [laughs]

Speaker 36:01 I think it's six, seven, eight, right?

David Imel 36:03 No one cares.

Speaker 36:03 Where's Mariah?

Speaker 36:04 Yeah, it's crazy.

David Imel 36:04 Many of them are above ground.

Speaker 36:05 Mantis shrimp-

Speaker 36:06 That certainly freaks me out

Speaker 36:06 ... which can also punch the speed of a bullet.

David Imel 36:08 It's wild.

Speaker 36:09 Whoa. We, we can't have two shrimp facts.

Speaker 36:10 They can break glass.

Speaker 36:10 That's a, that's a-

Speaker 36:11 That's the last one on fun facts. I'll do the fun facts around here.

Speaker 36:13 That one's a hundred mile an hour eclipse.

Speaker 36:14 All right, guys. Let's relax.

Speaker 36:15 [laughs] Okay.

Speaker 36:15 Yeah.

Speaker 36:16 The-

Speaker 36:16 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-

David Imel 36:23 Right, on TVs and displays

Speaker 36:25 ... on a, on a display. Yeah.

David Imel 36:25 Yeah.

Speaker 36:26 So.

David Imel 36:26 The, the vibe's getting weird

Speaker 36:28 The vibe is kind of feeling like an accelerated sunset right now.

Speaker 36:30 Yeah.

Speaker 36:30 The-

Speaker 36:30 It's-

Speaker 36:30 The wind is picking up. There are degrees

Speaker 36:32 ... it's like if you put a sunset on, like, 2X speed.

Speaker 36:34 Yeah.

Speaker 36:34 [laughs]

Speaker 36:35 Like, 5X speed.

David Imel 36:36 It, like, feels like a photo filter on.

Speaker 36:38 It's-

Speaker 36:38 Yeah

Speaker 36:38 ... crazy.

David Imel 36:38 Obviously, yeah.

Speaker 36:39 This is, it, the li- the dynamic range of the environment is very low right now.

Speaker 36:44 This is w- fuck yes.

Speaker 36:45 I'm gonna take some-

David Imel 36:45 Yeah

Speaker 36:45 ... photos of you guys.

Speaker 36:46 I'm gonna take a photo of this. It's not gonna show up.

Speaker 36:49 Yeah, no. Good luck.

Speaker 36:49 It's crazy. Uh-

Speaker 36:51 Do you have any other fun facts?

Speaker 36:52 I do have one more.

Speaker 36:53 I knew it.

Speaker 36:53 And this is maybe-

Speaker 36:54 One more?

Speaker 36:54 This is maybe the l- I don't know if I say this is a fun fact or just a cra- a strange fact. So first of all-

Speaker 37:01 Uh-huh

Speaker 37:01 ... this is sort of blended. There are several different types of eclipses. There's lunar eclipses, as you know.

Speaker 37:06 Yeah.

Speaker 37:06 There's this, which is a total solar eclipse.

Speaker 37:08 Oh, sorry.

Speaker 37:08 There's also partial solar eclipses. There's also something else-

Speaker 37:12 Oh, the wind's starting to get crazy

Speaker 37:13 ... called an annular eclipse. Does anybody know what that is?

Speaker 37:16 Every year.

David Imel 37:16 Uh-

Speaker 37:16 It's when the moon blocks the year.

David Imel 37:18 [laughs] Oh.

Speaker 37:20 Not annual, annular.

David Imel 37:23 Isn't it, like, uh, it has to do with another eclipse, correct?

Speaker 37:29 No.

David Imel 37:29 Okay. I'm just kidding.

Speaker 37:29 Does the eclipse eclipse the eclipse?

Speaker 37:31 An-

Speaker 37:31 Is it, like, yo annual to anulass? Like-

David Imel 37:35 Oh my God, I've been in Spain for three days.

Speaker 37:36 'Cause we're in Spain.

Speaker 37:37 Oh, the shadows are getting long.

Speaker 37:38 Nice.

Speaker 37:39 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.

Speaker 37:55 Mm.

Speaker 37:55 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.

Speaker 38:03 Whoa.

Speaker 38:03 And it's called a ring of fire.

Speaker 38:05 Oh, that's crazy.

Speaker 38:05 It's a very special, very different looking eclipse in the sky.

Speaker 38:07 And that one you still probably can't look at, question mark?

Speaker 38:10 I think you probably want to play it safe and not look at it, because it's not a total solar eclipse.

Speaker 38:14 Yeah.

Speaker 38:14 You're seeing some of the sun.

David Imel 38:14 Default answer should be, "Don't look at sun."

Speaker 38:16 Yeah, that's fair. [laughs]

Speaker 38:18 Yeah. 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-

Speaker 38:28 Yeah

Speaker 38:28 ... of about one inch per year.

Speaker 38:31 Wait, so there's a future where it just, like, spins away?

Speaker 38:34 Yes. Which means-

David Imel 38:35 Wait

Speaker 38:35 ... we die.

David Imel 38:36 That means there won't be solar eclipses forever.

Speaker 38:37 Which means there's a finite number of solar eclipses.

Speaker 38:39 What?

David Imel 38:40 So-

Speaker 38:40 Wait, so there will be a last total solar ecl- that's, that's-

David Imel 38:42 Will we be here for that?

Speaker 38:43 We're potting.

David Imel 38:44 [laughs]

Speaker 38:44 We will not be there for the last.

Speaker 38:46 It just got really dark.

Speaker 38:46 It is so much darker.

Speaker 38:47 Yeah, it got real dark.

Speaker 38:47 I mean, especially when you take the glasses off.

Speaker 38:49 Yeah.

David Imel 38:49 Yeah.

Speaker 38:49 So the, the question is, how long till the last total solar eclipse?

Speaker 38:53 Is it-

David Imel 38:53 That's gonna be weird

Speaker 38:53 ... before or after? [laughs]

Speaker 38:54 You can just, just s- random, totally random guess.

Speaker 38:57 [laughs]

Speaker 38:57 There's no way-

David Imel 38:58 Please be more than, like, 500 years.

Speaker 39:00 That's a good guess.

Speaker 39:00 I mean, you're gonna be dead. It's fine.

Speaker 39:01 Any, a-

David Imel 39:01 Well, I'd like my-

Speaker 39:02 A guess?

Speaker 39:02 10,000 years.

Speaker 39:03 10,000 years?

Speaker 39:04 I'm gonna go with one million.

Speaker 39:06 One million years?

Speaker 39:06 One million years.

David Imel 39:08 Okay, wait. Let's do, like, a 10-

Speaker 39:09 No, probably like 10 million

David Imel 39:10 ... I can, I can do some p- napkin math. You said it moves away at one inch, and I know it's f- the ratio is 400 to 400, right?

Speaker 39:17 Mm-hmm.

David Imel 39:17 And that's miles?

Speaker 39:18 Oh, yeah.

David Imel 39:19 I mean, it's not 400 miles, but so-

Speaker 39:20 400 times 25-

David Imel 39:21 ... one in, how many miles are in, how many inches are in a mile? That's like-

Speaker 39:24 One Somerville.

Speaker 39:24 250,000.

David Imel 39:25 That's-

Speaker 39:25 5,000

David Imel 39:25 ... 5,000 times 12.

Speaker 39:26 12 miles.

David Imel 39:26 So that's like 60,000 inches.

Speaker 39:28 600,000 miles. Getting crazy.

David Imel 39:28 So I'm gonna guess, uh, I've lost track of the math.

Speaker 39:31 Yeah.

David Imel 39:32 Uh, I give up.

Speaker 39:32 It's about half a billion years.

David Imel 39:34 Oh, swag.

Speaker 39:35 So I win.

Speaker 39:35 So we're good.

Speaker 39:36 Nice.

David Imel 39:36 What?

Speaker 39:36 It's almost completely covered.

Speaker 39:37 We're good.

David Imel 39:37 Waveform is not gonna make it.

Speaker 39:38 It's almost completely covered, guys.

Speaker 39:39 Oh, it's happening.

David Imel 39:39 It's like sliver.

Speaker 39:40 I am looking at it without glasses.

Speaker 39:41 You know what's crazy? Three minutes left till totality.

Speaker 39:43 Yeah, this isn't even totality yet.

Speaker 39:44 If you look through-

Speaker 39:44 We got three minutes left

Speaker 39:45 ... the glasses right now, it's almost completely covered, but outside it's still pretty bright.

Speaker 39:48 What is the-

David Imel 39:48 Yeah, it's totally

Speaker 39:48 ... what does the magnitude look like? It's like 90% coverage, you think?

Speaker 39:51 It's probably 90, 98.

Speaker 39:53 I have an answer.

David Imel 39:53 It's gotta be 94, 95 or-

Speaker 39:54 97.

Speaker 39:55 97.

David Imel 39:56 Wow.

Speaker 39:57 Yeah.

Speaker 39:57 My coverage estimate-

Speaker 39:58 94?

Speaker 39:58 ... is 94, but it's just an estimate.

Speaker 40:00 It's a sliver in the sky right now.

David Imel 40:01 Oh, here's something that I remember last time that happened. That automatic light just turned on.

Speaker 40:05 Oh, yeah.

Speaker 40:05 Oh, yeah.

David Imel 40:05 Because it's getting dark enough that the lights are starting to think it's nighttime.

Speaker 40:08 All the sunset-

Speaker 40:09 Oh, it's getting so dark.

Speaker 40:10 All the sunset stuff-

Speaker 40:11 There's no more K. Or I guess there hasn't been a K the whole time

Speaker 40:13 ... if you're driving a car, your headlights just turned on. Like, all the sunset stuff-

David Imel 40:16 There goes the crickets

Speaker 40:16 ... is happening right now. This is crazy.

David Imel 40:18 I think I heard my first cricket also.

Speaker 40:20 Starting to get-

Speaker 40:20 Uh, that was me.

David Imel 40:21 [laughs]

Speaker 40:22 It's starting to get cold.

David Imel 40:24 Cricket, cricket, cricket.

Speaker 40:24 The birds have gone quiet.

Speaker 40:26 Yeah, it's silence.

Speaker 40:27 The two birds. [laughs]

David Imel 40:27 Oh my gosh.

Speaker 40:27 The two Spanish birds.

Speaker 40:29 The light is dropping.

Speaker 40:30 It's getting so crazy right now.

Speaker 40:31 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.

Speaker 40:44 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?

Speaker 40:48 That's a great question.

Speaker 40:49 What-

Speaker 40:49 I have no idea.

Speaker 40:50 [laughs]

Speaker 40:50 And I'm really excited to find out.

David Imel 40:51 We're, like, up a little bit in terms of-

Speaker 40:53 Yeah, we're, like, elevated

David Imel 40:54 ... yeah, we're, like, elevated over the valley, which I'm excited to see what that means.

Speaker 40:58 Yeah.

David Imel 40:58 'Cause last time we were in the middle of a field in Ohio at the same level as all the other ground, so-

Speaker 41:02 We're basically on

David Imel 41:02 ... I can see lights turning on at farms over there.

Speaker 41:03 Oh, it's getting darker. I can visibly see it getting darker.

Speaker 41:06 Wait, still don't look at the sun, guys.

Speaker 41:08 Yeah, don't-

David Imel 41:08 Not yet

Speaker 41:08 ... don't look directly at the sun, but look all around it.

Speaker 41:10 You can kind of look a little bit at it.

David Imel 41:11 [laughs]

Speaker 41:12 [laughs]

David Imel 41:13 The, uh, the Elio Rufus 9000 will alarm for when we need to put our glasses back on.

Speaker 41:17 Okay.

Speaker 41:18 Okay.

David Imel 41:18 Back-

Speaker 41:18 Right at the end of totality.

David Imel 41:19 Yes.

Speaker 41:20 When it pokes out the other side.

David Imel 41:21 Yeah, don't worry.

Speaker 41:21 That's a great, great call.

David Imel 41:22 When you hear the awooga-

Speaker 41:23 [laughs]

David Imel 41:24 ... it's time to be safe.

Speaker 41:25 That's the sign.

Speaker 41:25 Guys, it's getting so dark. It's getting so dark.

David Imel 41:26 Whoa.

Speaker 41:27 90 seconds.

Speaker 41:27 This is crazy.

Speaker 41:28 90 seconds till full coverage.

Speaker 41:31 Oh, look at the birds. They're freaking out.

Speaker 41:32 The birds are flying away.

Speaker 41:34 Wow, the birds are leaving.

Speaker 41:34 It is getting dark fast.

Speaker 41:36 Oh my gosh, it's getting so dark so fast.

Speaker 41:37 Oh, look at the- oh wait, that's a mirror. Never mind.

Speaker 41:38 Oh my gosh. Wow. I mean-

Speaker 41:41 We got a perfect day, guys.

Speaker 41:42 This is-

Speaker 41:42 No clouds

Speaker 41:43 ... insane.

Speaker 41:44 No obscurity.

Speaker 41:44 It's a perfect day 'cause my four friends are here.

Speaker 41:46 We're here with buddies.

David Imel 41:47 Aw.

Speaker 41:47 Yeah, screw the rest of you guys.

Speaker 41:49 [laughs] Sorry.

David Imel 41:49 [laughs]

Speaker 41:49 [laughs]

David Imel 41:50 Well, I, I, uh, uh, continuity, man. I'm, I'm bu-

Speaker 41:52 [laughs]

David Imel 41:53 ... I'm building the scene.

Speaker 41:54 Only the people he can see. It's fine.

David Imel 41:55 Sorry, Pepper was on camera, so-

Speaker 41:56 Okay, imagine-

David Imel 41:56 ... and I did acknowledge him

Speaker 41:57 ... I can see it on my phone

David Imel 41:57 ... so my six friends are here.

Speaker 41:59 Imagine. Wait, I can see the eclipse.

David Imel 42:00 [laughs]

Speaker 42:01 There's less-

Speaker 42:02 Sorry, Brandon

Speaker 42:03 ... less than-

David Imel 42:03 Brandon, come on camera. Then it's continuity.

Speaker 42:05 Oh my gosh, it's getting so dark.

David Imel 42:06 My seven friends are here.

Speaker 42:07 Less than a minute.

Speaker 42:08 Guys. Sorry, everyone's just watching us freak out-

David Imel 42:10 Oh my God, I can't. This is wild

Speaker 42:10 ... because we have, like, 30 seconds left.

David Imel 42:12 I'm, like, freaking out.

Speaker 42:12 45 seconds.

David Imel 42:13 How am I supposed to have my mic and take photos? Oh my gosh.

Speaker 42:17 So the, the last 30 seconds-

David Imel 42:18 Oh, this crazy

Speaker 42:18 ... uh, shadow bands rippling. Shadows-

David Imel 42:22 I haven't seen shadow bands yet.

Speaker 42:22 It's getting real dark.

Speaker 42:23 I'm not seeing shadow bands, but wow, there's a lot more shadows.

David Imel 42:25 All right,

David Imel 42:26 30 seconds, folks. 30 seconds.

Speaker 42:27 Oh, it's so dark. It's so dark.

Speaker 42:28 It's the slimmest sliver of a pinpoint of a sun in the sky you can imagine.

David Imel 42:33 Marques, wear your glasses.

Speaker 42:34 20 seconds. I'm not looking at the sun.

Speaker 42:35 Oh, okay.

Speaker 42:36 But it got-

Speaker 42:37 I'm watching

Speaker 42:37 ... dark really fast. That was incredible.

Speaker 42:40 That's-

Speaker 42:40 It's-

David Imel 42:41 Wow

Speaker 42:41 ... we're almost there. We're almost there. Oh, guys, it's happening.

Speaker 42:42 It's happening right now. It's happening. Look at it.

David Imel 42:44 The-

Speaker 42:44 You can see... You can look at it now.

David Imel 42:45 Can you look?

Speaker 42:46 No, you can't.

David Imel 42:46 I'm waiting.

Speaker 42:46 I mean, I'm looking. [laughs]

David Imel 42:47 What is this sh- [laughs]

Speaker 42:49 Whoa.

Speaker 42:49 Oh, it's so crazy.

David Imel 42:50 Whoa, it's dark.

Speaker 42:51 There's the shadow.

Speaker 42:52 There it goes.

Speaker 42:52 There's the shadow.

David Imel 42:52 Oh my God.

Speaker 42:53 There's the shadow.

David Imel 42:54 It looks like a ring right now.

Speaker 42:55 It wiped across the sky-

Speaker 42:56 Look at it with the filters

Speaker 42:57 ... from right to left.

Speaker 42:57 There you go.

David Imel 42:57 Holy sh-

Speaker 42:57 From right to left

David Imel 42:58 ... crap.

Speaker 42:59 Oh my God. [laughs]

Speaker 42:59 So the right side, across the left-

David Imel 43:02 Wow

Speaker 43:02 ... and there it is, and that's the coolest thing I've ever seen.

Speaker 43:04 That-

David Imel 43:05 Wow

Speaker 43:05 ... this is way cooler-

Speaker 43:06 This is-

Speaker 43:06 ... than last time. I think the Sun is more down

Speaker 43:08 ... so freaking cool

Speaker 43:09 ... I know it

Speaker 43:09 ... it's so cool.

David Imel 43:11 Enjoy the next 90 seconds.

Speaker 43:13 Am I blocking any shot?

Speaker 43:13 No, you're good.

David Imel 43:13 You're good. Video viewers hopefully are getting this crazy shot that Brandon is managing right now-

Speaker 43:18 That's... Look at the, like-

David Imel 43:18 ... on the camera

Speaker 43:19 ... kind of flare off to the left side

David Imel 43:20 ... everyone looking at the total solar eclipse

Speaker 43:21 ... of it. Does the cam-

Speaker 43:22 Does the-

Speaker 43:22 It sees it?

Speaker 43:24 Oh my God.

Speaker 43:24 This is nuts.

Speaker 43:25 I cannot wait to see that

David Imel 43:25 ... holy crap

Speaker 43:26 So what you're seeing is, uh, Baily'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.

David Imel 43:35 This is-

Speaker 43:35 So the, the-

David Imel 43:35 Wow

Speaker 43:35 ... glow around the Moon is the corona, and then the little Baily's beads-

Speaker 43:38 Whoa

Speaker 43:38 ... and the [laughs] the little birds flying around, too.

David Imel 43:40 Marques, you did prove it.

Speaker 43:42 No, no crickets.

Speaker 43:42 Yeah.

David Imel 43:42 I did ask earlier-

Speaker 43:43 I don't hear any crickets

David Imel 43:44 ... to prove it.

Speaker 43:45 I don't hear any crickets, but I do see one very lucky pilot getting a-

David Imel 43:48 Yeah

Speaker 43:48 ... airborne view-

Speaker 43:49 There's a pilot driving by

Speaker 43:49 ... of this insane flying eclipse.

David Imel 43:51 This is so crazy, guys.

Speaker 43:52 It's-

Speaker 43:53 It's-

Speaker 43:53 ... nighttime

Speaker 43:53 ... like I remember it being the coolest thing I've ever seen-

David Imel 43:55 Oh, wait, sorry

Speaker 43:56 ... in person

David Imel 43:56 ... I wanna acknowledge, the horizon is bright, bright, bright, bright, bright, bright, bright, dark by the Sun, bright, bright, bright, bright, bright, bright, bright.

Speaker 44:01 So to the right you can see the end of the shadow.

David Imel 44:05 Oh, and there's-

Speaker 44:05 Wow

David Imel 44:05 ... a crazy cloud over there. I don't know if that's what it is.

Speaker 44:07 Yeah, which we couldn't see during the daytime. It'll go away again when the Sun comes out.

Speaker 44:09 Like the sky has a shadow on it.

Speaker 44:12 Yeah. It's crazy that you can see it moving from right to left, so-

David Imel 44:14 And you can see the coronas-

Speaker 44:16 Yeah

David Imel 44:16 ... blowing up on the edge. On the left edge there's a big solar flare.

Speaker 44:19 Oh my God, that's awesome.

David Imel 44:20 Oh my goodness.

Speaker 44:21 Oh my God, it's so beautiful.

Speaker 44:22 This, I mean-

Speaker 44:23 It's crazy

Speaker 44:24 ... maybe because it's closer, you know, the Sun seems brighter-

David Imel 44:27 Couple seconds left

Speaker 44:28 ... than last time we did it. Maybe because we're in Spain and not Ohio. [horn blaring]

David Imel 44:31 Oh, glasses on.

Speaker 44:32 [laughs]

David Imel 44:32 Glasses on, folks.

Speaker 44:34 I, uh, uh-

David Imel 44:35 Glasses on. Oh, wow, that's so fast.

Speaker 44:37 That's wild.

Speaker 44:38 It's immediately back.

David Imel 44:38 The El Rufus 9000. It did it.

Speaker 44:40 Nicely done, Rufus.

David Imel 44:41 What?

Speaker 44:41 And now everything's gonna-

Speaker 44:42 The Elio Rufus

David Imel 44:43 ... the audio part comes first

Speaker 44:43 ... Elio Rufus.

David Imel 44:43 You know? [laughs]

Speaker 44:44 [laughs]

Speaker 44:46 [laughs]

Speaker 44:46 And the drone, luckily I checked again-

Speaker 44:48 Saved our eyes

Speaker 44:48 ... 'cause it stopped recording at one point, but now it recorded through that whole part.

Speaker 44:51 And it is getting-

Speaker 44:51 That's awesome

Speaker 44:52 ... lighter again-

Speaker 44:53 And it's getting lighter

Speaker 44:53 ... almost immediately. It's like sun- sunrise.

David Imel 44:55 Oh my gosh.

Speaker 44:56 Holy crap, that was so cool. Nice little, uh, sunrise from right to left for you.

Speaker 44:59 That is so-

Speaker 45:00 So what I noticed already immediately-

Speaker 45:02 ... so crazy

Speaker 45:02 ... remember the super high overhead one we saw? We had a 360-degree sunset.

Speaker 45:06 Yes.

Speaker 45:06 That one was far more directionally right to left, which is cool that we got to see that.

Speaker 45:10 [exhales]

Speaker 45:11 That's not a bad, is it?

Speaker 45:12 I'm literally shaking right now.

Speaker 45:13 I know. [laughs]

David Imel 45:13 That is so cool.

Speaker 45:14 I'm sh-

Speaker 45:14 That was so cool.

David Imel 45:15 Wow.

Speaker 45:17 That was amazing.

Speaker 45:17 That was beautiful.

Speaker 45:18 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-

David Imel 45:24 Yeah

Speaker 45:24 ... and all that stuff, and h- seeing it with your eyes is... It just doesn't feel real.

David Imel 45:28 Yeah.

Speaker 45:29 It's so wild.

David Imel 45:29 Yeah, it doesn't. That was so cool.

Speaker 45:31 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.

David Imel 45:39 Yeah.

Speaker 45:40 Even seeing it on sunny sides-

David Imel 45:41 It's not a-

Speaker 45:41 I don't want to... Yeah

David Imel 45:41 ... I will say it's, it's not as good as, like, Instagram Reels.

Speaker 45:44 Yeah.

David Imel 45:45 But-

Speaker 45:45 [laughs] Seeing this on YouTube is way better.

Speaker 45:47 Yeah, you can't share this with one click.

Speaker 45:48 [laughs]

Speaker 45:48 YouTube still hasn't figured that out yet.

Speaker 45:50 Have you seen this on TikTok? I really... I'm hoping the capture was as amazing... I mean, obviously seeing it in person is gonna be the coolest thing-

David Imel 45:55 Wow

Speaker 45:55 ... ever, but I hope our capture gives people a taste of what we just got to see. Um, that was awesome. Can you imagine that for six and a half minutes? [laughs] That would be pretty s- surreal. I mean, appreciating it for 90 seconds-

Speaker 46:06 Oh, yeah

Speaker 46:06 ... was fun.

David Imel 46:07 That was so cool.

Speaker 46:07 Getting to stare at it for six minutes would be insane.

David Imel 46:09 Can you imagine seeing that not knowing it was a solar eclipse, just...

Speaker 46:12 Yeah. [laughs]

Speaker 46:13 Oh my God.

Speaker 46:13 There's a lot of stories about that.

David Imel 46:14 I, I would make the Scooby-Doo sound. I would go, "Aroog."

Speaker 46:17 [laughs]

Speaker 46:17 [laughs]

Speaker 46:18 The sun is coming out, guys. This is crazy.

David Imel 46:20 Wow. Good morning.

Speaker 46:21 Good morning.

David Imel 46:21 Good morning.

Speaker 46:22 Yeah, 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 umbraphile-

David Imel 46:33 Kinda

Speaker 46:33 ... with us?

David Imel 46:34 We kind of already are.

Speaker 46:35 Yeah.

David Imel 46:35 We've already done two.

Speaker 46:35 We've already done this.

David Imel 46:36 [laughs]

Speaker 46:36 We did the first one by accident.

David Imel 46:38 Yeah.

Speaker 46:38 This one is our... Two is a coincidence, three is a pattern. If you do three-

David Imel 46:42 That's fair

Speaker 46:42 ... you're in the club.

David Imel 46:43 All right.

Speaker 46:43 If you're paying for it again.

Speaker 46:44 [laughs]

David Imel 46:45 Um, actually, Marques-

Speaker 46:46 It's gonna be free

David Imel 46:46 ... I'm gonna, I'm gonna go back to one of my favorite German expressions ever, which is-

Speaker 46:51 Oh, God

David Imel 46:51 ... einmal ist keinmal, once is never.

Speaker 46:53 That's right.

David Imel 46:54 Now that we have done this twice, we have done it once, which is never.

Speaker 46:57 It feels like we-

David Imel 46:58 We've never done it

Speaker 46:58 ... we are way more prepared.

David Imel 46:59 What does that mean? [laughs]

Speaker 47:00 [laughs]

Speaker 47:00 What just happened?

Speaker 47:01 I don't know, it's German. It sounded good.

David Imel 47:02 I don't know what to say.

Speaker 47:02 [laughs] I don't know what that's supposed to mean.

David Imel 47:04 No, it's like, like, ag- I, I don't even know where I'm going with this right now, but it's the idea that, like, if you do something once it's like, yeah, you did, but as soon as you do something twice, it's a part of you.

Speaker 47:11 Mm.

David Imel 47:11 You know what I mean?

Speaker 47:11 Yeah.

David Imel 47:12 Once is never.

Speaker 47:13 I see. Okay.

David Imel 47:13 I like it.

Speaker 47:14 That was beautiful.

David Imel 47:14 Thank you.

Speaker 47:15 I can see that.

David Imel 47:15 Thank you, Adam.

Speaker 47:15 Landing the drone-

David Imel 47:17 Wow

Speaker 47:17 ... very safely, and, uh-

David Imel 47:18 Safely

Speaker 47:18 ... hopefully we got that shot

David Imel 47:19 ... responsibly. Um-

Speaker 47:20 It's day again, guys.

Speaker 47:21 It's day again.

Speaker 47:22 I hope you slept well.

Speaker 47:22 The sun's coming back out.

David Imel 47:23 Yeah. Good morning.

Speaker 47:24 God, seeing that with your eyes is so insane.

David Imel 47:25 That was crazy. Wow.

Speaker 47:26 I, I don't have much more to say. I mean, you feel the breeze, you see the coming-

Speaker 47:29 It's back

Speaker 47:29 ... sun coming back out.

David Imel 47:30 Yeah. That was beautiful.

Speaker 47:31 The beautiful mountains and all the shadows that we just witnessed. Um, I, I think this is a perfect time to end this little podcast.

David Imel 47:37 Well, before we end, can we give a big, big thank you-

Speaker 47:40 Yes, I have a-

David Imel 47:40 ... to our amazing-

Speaker 47:41 Yeah, let's do it

David Imel 47:41 ... Spanish crew who-

Speaker 47:43 We have-

David Imel 47:43 ... who helped us out over there

Speaker 47:44 ... this... Well, first, this podcast doesn't happen without Harper, Rich, Rufus, Brandon coming to help us-

Speaker 47:51 Whoo

Speaker 47:51 ... and it really doesn't happen-

Speaker 47:53 Thank you, guys

Speaker 47:53 ... without Juan, Isabella, and Lucia. Um, if you guys all wanna come in, you can refer a minute.

Speaker 47:58 Get on the camera.

David Imel 47:59 Get on the camera.

Speaker 48:00 Everyone come in the shot.

David Imel 48:01 If you wanna be in a YouTube video-

Speaker 48:02 Huddle around. Huddle around

David Imel 48:03 ... this is... Like, seriously, you guys put

David Imel 48:05 so much work into this, and it's been a long two days-

Speaker 48:08 Crushed it

David Imel 48:08 ... and it's... I mean, this was the coolest thing ever.

Speaker 48:10 Yeah.

David Imel 48:10 I hope all of you thought that was really amazing also. [laughs]

Speaker 48:13 Yeah.

David Imel 48:13 It's-

Speaker 48:13 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.

David Imel 48:20 Yeah, regular episode.

Speaker 48:21 Regular episode.

David Imel 48:21 [laughs]

Speaker 48:22 Regular episode.

Speaker 48:22 Talk about the Pixel, maybe. [laughs]

David Imel 48:25 Oh yeah, there's a Pixel thing.

Speaker 48:26 The... I don't know.

Speaker 48:26 Pixel. [laughs]

Speaker 48:27 There might be. [upbeat music]