Eclipse tips with Mike DeWine

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Episode Transcript

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Happy that the weekend is here andyou are going to be doing, you
know, some fun stuff on Monday. You took the day off and you're
going to be hanging out with thefamily and watching the eclipse. I know,
I know, I'm a gee comingdork. I know it's not for
everybody. I know, there area lot of people right now, like
I actually guy on my Facebook feed, Harry, if you're out there having

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to be tuning in, he's rootingfor clouds on Monday to basically, you
know, he doesn't understand why peoplelike me are geeked out about this.
But even though it's only going tohappen for the first time and oh,
I don't know, two hundred andeighteen years and it'll be almost another what

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fifty five before it happens again.Yeah, anyway, but I'm having a
good time and we're looking forward toit, and we've got family coming in.
I've got the wife's aunts from RhodeIsland and I believe one from Minnesota's
coming in. I mean, thisis a it's big. This is gonna

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be hard for you. Those areliberal areas, Josh that you're we don't
but yeah, there's no discussion.I don't pot. I don't ever talk
politics to my wife side of thefamily. Oh no, no, they're
not political. Well they're not openlypolitical people, but I can. I
just know when not to talk tocertain people because they just won't we won't
see eyed eye. I'll just putit that way. Are there conservatives in

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Rhode Island. I don't know.I don't know. No, I do
not know about that. Yeah,I know. My kids are off school.
Every school's offense. Well, well, I was reading there are some
schools who I saw a gal postsomething earlier who was complaining about it,
saying, yeah, our school districthas not decided, they have not taken

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it off the table, but theyalso said they're going to make a decision
Monday morning. And I was like, why you can't do that. You
can't screw with parents like that.That's exactly her point. She was like,
you can't do that, like wehave to make It's not the parents
have to go to work. It'snot like work is going. Hey,
you guys get a day off becauseyou know, we're gonna be in totality

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for you know whatever, if you'rein the path or you know whatever.
People aren't getting up the kids arethough they're off specifically for this. We
get crazy. We get one personalday year, and that's what I put
in on. It was my Itwas my personal day because this is personally
really exciting for me. And youknow, bosses didn't care, you know,
They're like, that's your personal day, you personally use it doing what

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you want. I am right,Yeah, I'll be I'll be going on
right around when it's happening three oheight, it starts, and Chuck's gonna
be in with me, Douglas isgonna hang out with me, all right,
excellent, excellent, Yeah, becauseI know for a fact, I
am just southeast of Tiffan, Ohiois where my father in law lives,
and our path of totality is oneof the longest in the country. It

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can be up to four minutes.Where I'm going to be is three minutes
fifty two seconds. I will bein the part of Ohio with the longest
part of totality you can have.And dude, I'm I'll tell you what
though, if it does end upbeing cloudy and rainy, I'm going to
be crushed. According according to this, it's not going to be around that

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time here in Ohio anyway, afew showers early Monday, but partly sunny,
and Marshall will check in with us, sure so we can you know.
But that's right now. It lookslike it's going to be okay in
the afternoon here in Ohio anyway.Okay, good, So don't worry man,
all right. I think it's gonnabe all right. Faith. So
NASA they have given some tips forthis, and some of them are.

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One of them is, you know, depending on where you're at due to
the anticipated cloud cover, they're saying, the best shot at seeing all of
this is close to the US Mexicoborder, So there's up if you're if
you're thinking that you might want todo that in case, but I think
in Ohio, I think we're gonnabe all right. Look away immediately as

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the sun starts to reappear and putthose glasses back on, because they say
it's not just knowing about when toput the glasses on, but when you
can take them off. And thatpoint is when the sun disappears and you
can't see anything at all through thelenses. So they say it's okay then
to pull the glasses off, butmake sure you put them back on look
away immediately as soon as the sunstarts to you know. I was talking

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last night. The kids are likejoking around and all that, and I
said, listen to me. Ifyou do something stupid to your eyes during
this. I tried to explain toStone. I'm like, look, I
know you're ten and you feel invincibleand you're never gonna you know, nothing
ever is going to happen to you. But I can tell you if you
mess your eyes up, that's it. You only get one set. There

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is no coming back from this.There are no cures for this. You
will be whatever happens to you allthe way to the grave. I was
just trying kind of I'm trying tolike scare him or whatever into making sure
he doesn't mess around during it.Well, I'm gonna stay. Oh I
stared at you know what I mean? How kids are like, oh yeah,
I think they're pretty much. Youknow, they're taking they're eating the

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warning if you will. I sawan article on the New York Post yesterday
where parents were saying the school districtneeds to do more to protect our children.
I'm gonna hold them responsible. Ifmy idiot kid looks at the sun
like they didn't say my idiot kid, but saying like, if anything happens
to my little person Johnny or Julie, I'm gonna hold the school district responsible.
They need to do more. Whatcan they do? What if you

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are hell, Ben, I'm lookingat the sun. You can't stop somebody
from looking at the sun. Ifwhat are we gonna do if the gas
stations run out of fuel? Yes, that is clips uh Ohio located in
the path of totality. The state'sexpecting an influx of visitors. Yes,

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there's already be a lot of visitors. Local organizations are urging residents to fill
up their tanks before the weekend dueto the possibility of gas shortages. I'm
so the feeling I get when whenthese as clowns put out these moronic articles
like that. It really like youstart twitching and sometimes you go, oh,

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now I know why people mentally breakand do bad things. That is
the dumbest scare tactic article I haveever heard in my life. Oh,
the eclipse is going to cause gasshortages? Dude, what's next? We
need to send Ukraine another one hundredbillion dollars because of the eclipse. Now,
somehow connect that I well, ifCongress could somehow do that, they

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would be doing that right now forsure. I also saw yesterday that there
was a it was like some sortof special I can't remember what one of
the channels, but there was alady on there, some sort of psychiatrists
or psychologist something going, well,there are people who have a lot of
anxiety as we're approaching the eclipse andthe solar eclipse, there are people that

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this is filling them with anxiety.And for them, I suggest, and
she starts talking about a dark roomand maybe some tranquil music, and I
was like staring at the TV,going is this really happening? Is this
really happening? Stop it? Letme tell you something. We are such
a weak, pathetic group of people. Talk about yourself. That ain't me,
man, I know, but itjust collectively it feels that way.

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Let me tell you about the powerof an eclipse real quick. And Zach,
he's strong too, well no,I mean look at him, Zach
looks like I could break him bysneezing. Ah. No, anyway,
And five eighty here welcome Zach attack, I love you. And five eighty
five BC. There was this warthat was going on on the it's a

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history. Listen, good, Okay, here we go. There was a
war going on between the Meads andthe and the Ldians and five eighty five,
they had been worrying for five yearsand the eclipse of totally eclipse breaks
out in the middle of their battle. They stop and it was They took
it as an omen and both leadersfrom both sides came together and negotiated a

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peace and they never fought again.That's the power of an eclipse. So
if you wonder why I get geekedout about this, it's because of how
important it's been in human history.If you'll remember when Christ was crucified,
the sun went by, there wasan eclipse on the day Christ was crucified.
It's a big deal, man,big deal. I just it was
one of those things for me withthis when it was all announced initially and

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then I heard you were taking theday off, I was like, wow,
And look, I respect if you'reone of the people that you're totally
geeked out about this, I respectthat. For me. I'm like,
eh, it's Monday, you know, it's April eight, and yeah,
this will happen. It's a fewbut but that's I mean that's just how
I'm wired. Most people go,really, you sit down and play blackjack?
How boring is that? See?You know? So it's to each

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their own. I find five hoursinvested at a blackjack table, just like
I glaze over. Whereas you glazeover on certain things I find interesting.
And that's okay because I don't wanteveryone to be just like me. I
want, I want I love peoplefrom all different walks away. I'm Berto,
how are you welcome to the show. Hey, not a big deal.

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So I was, you know,driving to Bellfounding so I can get
a total you know, totality kindof thing. But I was thinking here
today, what if I drive allthe way to Bell Fountain, It's gonna
think me about an hour from Columbus, and then I get over there and
it's cloudy and I don't get tosee nothing, and then I'm still with
a bunch of people trying to getback here. That would just be tragic.
What Belt Fountains a beautiful community.You better, you better really a

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monitor of the forecast, because yeah, that is a possibility. It is
Ohio and Berto, and if youlive here, you know that, man,
that's a great point. You spendall that time getting there and you
finally get there and then the eventis like wan wh and then you're like,
oh, look at this traffic.Oh no, yeah. If I
were you, I'm berto, whatwhat time are you planning on leaving?

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Because you better get up at thecrack of dawn if you think you're gonna
make it to leave now, umbertoleave now. I think I want to
leave here out in the morning,pick up my mom and up. Oh
you ate on Monday, like dayof yeah, oh no, yeah,
no, no, don't do it. Man, that's too late, dude,

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seriously, I'm kidding. Yeah,I mean, I look, you
can roll the dice. And bythe way, make sure hey call back
in Monday. By the way,I go on it three, make sure
you call back in. I wantto hear, like, what has happened
with you? If you're there,and like the the whole journey. I
want to hear about it. Iwant to hear about it. I will
do thank you, cool, thankyou man. I mean it's not like

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he'll call and I'll be like,which umberto is this? You know?
I mean that's I don't know thatwe've ever We have a lot of craigs
and tims and mats and marks,but not a lot of them BeRTOS.
They call the show no Hey.So, from what I understand, Governor
de Wine had some information, hewas given some tips and so on about
this solar eclipse. And as youknow, look, if you've listened to

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the show over and over, we'veheard the governor talking about it's, you
know, save lives. It's gotto be safe here in Ohio, so
on and so forth. And Iknow the governor has offered up his thoughts
on some of this state. Butyou don't want to wear your clips glasses
while you're driving here in the stateof Ohio. That just will not save

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lives. So you don't wear yourglass, your clips glass. No,
don't wear your clips goggles while you'redriving goggles. It's not safe here in
Ohio. Okay. Also, justmake sure your gas tank is full.
Bring a cell phone charger, snacks, water, and a paper map,

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just you know, in case theGPS goes down globally. We're trying to
be proactive. We're all Ohios.We're in it together. We're in this
eclipse together, Ohio. Say,let me get this straight. A paper
map from snacks, snacks are veryimportant. For what kind of snacks would

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you suggect pie? I guess Iwould suggest bugles. You can put them
on your fingers and maybe point atthe sun and pretend you're whitch making the
sun go black. Yeah, butwhatever you do, if you point your
bugle fingers at the sun, don'teat them. Not safe. Why is

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that governor that like once you've gottenthem closer to the sun. I guess
with that eclipse they could get toohot. Wouldn't one should burn your mouth
like on a hot piece of pizza? Some sage advice there from our governor,
the great governor of great state ofEye. Thank you Government. If
I stand on ten phone books,I'll be even closer to the eclipse.