[GROUP CLAMORING]
(Group) No way bro!
(Group) That's wild
(Sam) On April 8th, a total solar eclipse is passing through North America.
(Sam) Somehow I was lucky enough to go to school
(Sam) in Upstate New York, in the path of totality,
(Sam) right near the center line.
(Sam) The forecast was looking a bit cloudy, but
(Sam) I decided to host an eclipse viewing picnic
(Sam) and invite my friends for this once-in-a-lifetime experience.
(Fanny) Look at Elsa!
(Tayo) She looks jank as hell, bro.
(Tayo) I'm sorry.
(Tayo) Um, I think an eclipse is when...
(Tayo) um
(Tayo) So the sun is there, and it gets really shy.
(Tayo) And then the moon goes in front of it, and they do a little kiss,
(Tayo) and nobody can see it, and that's why it's dark.
(Fanny) Okay, last thing here, Chick-fil-A sauce.
(Sam) That is not what it said.
(Fanny) It said pickles.
(Jackson) Are you vlogging right now?
(Jackson) Tomorrow is the day.
(Sam) And you're not prepared?
(Self-service checkout robot lady) And you're not finished.
(Jackson) Not even close to being prepared!
(Jackson) Pay now.
(Sam) What's your credit card information?
(Gaby) But the whole point is like, either like the
(Gaby) barbecue or getting drunk during the eclipse.
(Gaby) Cartoon characters when they're nervous?
(Gaby) *gulp*
(Joy) Double bread!!
(Gaby) The two or three hours I've been here, we've gone a
total of five minutes when we can see the sun.
(Sam) Look at Jackson stealing our food.
(Zach) yo lens dirty as hell
(Jackson) Your camera is gaslighting you, I can see it right now.
(Zach) Call me daddy.
(Zach) I hope the cameraman dies in this one.
[LAUGHTER]
(Fanny) Did you try these on yet?
(Zach) I can't see shit dude
(Gaby) 18 minutes on the clock.
(Matt) I don't know why I was thinking.
(Matt) I don't know why I was thinking it was just going to be like instantly dark.
(Phil Plait) A friend of mine had to sit down after the
(Phil Plait) eclipse and sit on the ground and like catch her breath
(Phil Plait) because she was so overwhelmed in 2017 with her first eclipse.
(Phil Plait) My reaction was the same way, I had a huge lump in
(Phil Plait) my throat and I was just overwhelmed with emotion.
(Phil Plait) Why?
(Phil Plait) It's more than the beauty, I think.
(Phil Plait) It's a shared event.
(Phil Plait) That's why I said if you go with other people, it's
(Phil Plait) a shared event and you can let those emotions out.
(Phil Plait) Part of it, I think, is because the partial phase takes a long time.
(Phil Plait) It takes about an hour.
(Phil Plait) And for a lot of it, you're just not even going to notice.
(Phil Plait) Crickets might start chirping.
(Phil Plait) Temperature starts dropping and it takes time.
(Phil Plait) It takes minutes.
(Phil Plait) It builds.
(Phil Plait) And if you do the math for every planet
(Phil Plait) in the solar system, our moon and the Earth
(Phil Plait) we're the only system where the satellite,
(Phil Plait) the moon, is roughly the same size as the sun.
(Phil Plait) That's a coincidence.
(Phil Plait) We are very lucky.
(Sam) Dude, this is insane.
(Phil Plait) The thing is, people's reaction is really big.
(Phil Plait) People laugh, they cry
(Phil Plait) People weep!
(Phil Plait) And then this amazing, ethereal, pearly glow of the corona comes out.
(Phil Plait) And its Baily's beads and it always is absolutely gorgeous.
(Gaby) Dude, what the fuck?
(Gaby) Wait, it's actually getting so dark.
(Gaby) This is insane.
(Gaby) Dude, this is insane.
(Gaby) It looks like it's nighttime.
(Gaby) Oh my god.
(Gaby) That was so cool.
(Tayo) I'm a changed person
(Tayo) I love the sun
(Gaby) That was genuinely so fucking cool.
(Zach) It's back to cloudy!!
(Tayo) Maybe the eclipse is just God turning on low power mode.
[LAUGHTER]
(Phil Plait) We're lucky to be on the Earth.
(Phil Plait) And in fact, we're lucky to be alive right now.
(Phil Plait) Just in general.