After the Show: Who Cares About The Total Solar Eclipse?

MOST people are excited to see the total solar eclipse on Monday, but it can be dangerous and damaging to your eyes. Luckily, Sam has a solution for that and a few tips to follow in order to protect your eyes if you plan on checking it out.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
So the total eclipse is coming Monday. This is the
after the Show podcast, So thank you for being a Murphy,
Sam and Jody podcast subscriber.

Speaker 2 (00:06):
Makes you want to insert a Bonnie Tyler joke there,
doesn't it?

Speaker 3 (00:09):
He does, but I won't, I think.

Speaker 1 (00:12):
And this is the more that I hear Sam talk
about these glasses that you're supposed to be using, and
I know, I just remind my mom was always like,
I don't trust that either, And I just remember, you know,
when I was in high school and there was a
I guess it wasn't a total eclipse. It was a
partial eclipse, but there were the heart there were the

(00:33):
milar glasses in those things, but everybody said, no, don't
use those. If you're going to view it safely, you
need to have a box and a pinhole and something like.

Speaker 3 (00:41):
Boy Scouts of America team how to make that, and.

Speaker 1 (00:43):
Then you would actually be watching the projection of the eclipse,
which is safer than turning and looking onto something. So
I can't get my head wrapped around buying glasses. And
by the way, I won't be buying them to look
around and look at the sun. Saying, speaking of the
Boy Scouts Jody.

Speaker 2 (00:56):
They're actually giving a patch for the Scouts that oh
I can't remember. It's to observe it or take part
and that's kind of cool. Okay, we'll get that. Yeah,
the actual the approved glasses, they have to meet a
laboratory standard of is O one two three one two
two mm ah. Anyway, we memorized that. We do have

(01:16):
a link on the website to tell you. You know,
so there's there's been a lot of scam or fake
you know, Murphy type glasses going around. Amazon was selling
some of them, they had an issue recalls, and so
the national the American Astronomical Society has listed you know,
the right brands, the ones that are approved, even some
chains where you can go like best Buy and Circle

(01:37):
k and Kirklands and pick up the glasses that are proof,
so you know you're getting the right thing. And we
got that link on the website for you. And by
the way, you're also not supposed to use a colander
to look at this eclipse, and you know why, because
it's stupid. Use a column because it strains your eyes. Hello, anybody,

(01:58):
that's cute?

Speaker 1 (01:59):
Why I felt I never know I should have seen
that one coming from a mile away.

Speaker 3 (02:04):
You're too upset about the prospect of hurting your you know.

Speaker 1 (02:08):
And and I don't, you know, ignorance is bliss. I'm
just not going to buy glasses to look at it.
I'm not. I'll watch the coverage. There'll be plenty of
And you know what, there are a number of different
observatories and astronomical societies and those kind of things who
they know what they're doing. If you want to attend
one of those events, that's probably the way to go about.

Speaker 2 (02:25):
NASA's website is going to be carrying it from different locations.
The Weather Channel is going to have a couple of
Jim cantre is of course, it's going to be one
of the coverage people. You know when you see him coming,
that's right. But they're going to be covering in a
couple of places as well. So there's even some of
the network TV channels are going to be carrying different Yeah,
coverage out it's a big deal. Yeah, but you know

(02:46):
who doesn't want to see it?

Speaker 3 (02:47):
I don't. I didn't. I'm just not as interested in
it as the whole world.

Speaker 1 (02:52):
So it's not for you, this is you, really.

Speaker 3 (02:55):
I'm just not in it doesn't happen often.

Speaker 2 (02:58):
I know, we have one other co work. We were
talking yesterday and it's like, I.

Speaker 4 (03:02):
Just really see I'm not really hair And I said earlier,
Am I the only one who doesn't care about this?

Speaker 3 (03:08):
And Producer really goes yep.

Speaker 2 (03:09):
I mean, granted, I am enthralled with space. I want
to be an astronaut, and when Monday comes, I'll go
out and if it's not too cloudy, I'll look to
see when I with what I can see. But it's like,
I'm not going to fixate on it all day. I
didn't want to see it and go oh wow, that
is cool, okay.

Speaker 1 (03:27):
Well, or see the shading that it creates and not
actually look at it. That's me now.

Speaker 2 (03:31):
You know.

Speaker 1 (03:31):
The thing Jody about this is that it should be
a big deal today. I wonder if the I wonder
if it's being so technologically advanced now causes some people
to go yeah, whatever, because that's just the clip back
before science, probably around the time they thought the world
was still flat. This probably scared people, you know what
I mean. Yeah, but wow, there are no clouds in
the sky yet, the sun is going away.

Speaker 4 (03:52):
Yeah, maybe it's a flaw in me. Maybe I'm ignorant
that I don't. I'm not that interested in it. But
I'm just a flaw not.

Speaker 3 (04:00):
Honest about it. I get it.

Speaker 4 (04:01):
I know it only happens once in a great while
and it's cool.

Speaker 2 (04:04):
And you know, I'll bet if we special things, you
got ahold of the pair of glasses and took you
outside to look at it, and you looked up, I
bet you would go, oh, a pair of the approved classes.

Speaker 4 (04:13):
Mister Safey's gonna step in. He'd rather be protect my
eyes and not care.

Speaker 1 (04:18):
I mean, you know, otherwise what you could do is
just take a nap with the curtains open in the
darkness for a little bit.

Speaker 3 (04:24):
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