 We have a... Now I'm trying my best not to actually look at the sun. I know. So I've been doing research and prepping for this for a better part of two months now. We have purchased a Tiffin solar filter for this camera here. Do you want me to hand it so we can kind of get a view of it? Fix the focus. This is a neutral density filter that reduces sunlight and glare. It's like that, but really absent or something. We have it plugged into one of our nice 4K Panasonic camcorders. I'm just trying to be mindful because the sun's moving. One of our nice Panasonic camcorders, I believe this is an HCX2. Something like that. They have a really powerful built-in zoom lens. So we can get quite close to the sun and get a good view of it. Now I have that plugged into an external monitor I have that's... So we can get a better view, but mainly I've been framing through the viewfinder here. When it comes time for totality, we will be using this Teradeck backpack that we have. This is what we use to live stream certain events. We'll use these little boxes called the Teradeck Go. That's just a little box that plugs into Wi-Fi or Ethernet. We prefer Ethernet. But for situations where we don't have access to those things, we have this backpack that is essentially a really high-end cellular data receiver. This is the equivalent of six cell phones, basically. So this uses cellular data that we'll use to live stream. I have a battery that I'll plug into it. And as soon as we turn it on, we get charged money. Not too too much, but still enough that we only break it out for special events like this. Once we get closer to totality, I'll be live-streaming it. I also have it plugged into a microphone that's just leading to headphones on my laptop playing classical music just for... Is your laptop plugged into power? Yeah. Anything else you want to talk about? I'm pretty nervous about this day. Because I wanted to go out, because I think it'll be cool. But so far, things are going good. I have a lot of great people helping me out. Hi, Ian. It's my roommate Ian. He's also photographing it for his own use. And, of course, Jordan. This will play when we trap it. Okay, we're strapping it for a while. We're having a great time. It's the eclipse! Why would you schedule a flight now? Also, 400 million equivalent distance away. Yeah. So the fact that we get eclipses to the intensity that we do is kind of a miracle. It's also like it won't happen forever. No. Eventually the last eclipse. Why will that happen? The sun's getting bigger. Well, the faster thing is the moon every year is moving like a millimeter away from the earth. Oh. And so what's happening is that's going slightly faster than the sun's expanding. Interesting. And so what's happening is that eventually there'll be one last eclipse and then all the annular eclipses. So it's just hard work. Yeah, so Bailey's Beads. You'll see them during the eclipse right as totality starts and ends. And basically what those are is you're actually seeing the sun passing between valleys on the moon. And because the moon is so much smaller on the earth, there's not a lot of surface area. And so you get like little divots of light. You can see those really, really brightly with binoculars or a telescope. And the corona is what you're going to see around is essentially the sun's atmosphere, which is actually a lot hotter than the sun. I don't know. That's about it. More sun facts. What are you doing here? I'll talk about that. What have you got? So I just have a 50 millimeter M4 lens. And I've got a solar filter. I'm not looking through the viewfinder, though it's a digital viewfinder, so it shouldn't matter. And I've hit it to the max ISO. And I can't really... I set the exposure to... I mean the aperture fairly low or fairly high, large aperture. And I'm just hoping to get some good photos. And hopefully, because I don't have binoculars, it'll look a little bit better than just through glasses. Yeah. You can do quite a lot with little. Have you looked through the glasses yet? I have. I mean, obviously I want to capture the shot and I want to get on. But it is quite beautiful to see with your own eyes. And this is just the partial. And I've seen the partial eclipse before because in the 2017 eclipse on the East Coast, I was in New Jersey at the time, we had the partial. And it was really impressive then. And it's... There's nothing quite like it. Five seconds, let me go over to YouTube. I'm also going over to YouTube here. Let me restart my YouTube app and see if that does anything. We usually take about 30 seconds to get from... Oh, I mean, TV is live. Hell yeah. You're good to go, Steve. Thank you, Drew. You're very welcome. Enjoy the eclipse. Enjoy the rapture. See you on the other side. Yeah. Now what are we doing, Steve? We're live streaming. Now the nerve-wracking stuff begins because people are watching us. Four people are watching us so far. You got our stream going? You can see. Hell yeah. Hell yeah. And there's music too. That's us. That's us. And the music sounds all right. It's... I think it's cutting right now, but yeah. It's 85%. This is 85% right now. That's crazy. Oh man, I should have set up with you. It's not... It's not really coming off on this camera, but it is... It feels visibly darker while there still being sunlight. Set up like a stop motion. Time lapse. You could totally notice that. Yeah. Yeah. But to the human eye, it does look darker while there still being sunlight. It's colder. It's colder. It's getting cold. Yeah, it's nighttime, guys. Go to sleep. Birds are going crazy. And it looks like day for night in an old movie. Two nights. What are you doing? Five minutes. I'm switching over. I want Strauss's Blue Danube to play in the midst of totality. Sort of a cheeky reference to 2001, a space Odyssey. But I didn't want to play also Strauss's Veracuca or whatever the iconic 2001 song is. I don't know how to pronounce German. And the nice thing is that Strauss's Blue Danube is like 10 minutes long. So it'll be playing whilst totality is grusting. And it'll last throughout totality and then also ease us out of it. It's crazy. How is the darkness coming on that camera? It's definitely a little darker. It's definitely a little darker. Oh, you can change it. Oh, there you go. We're three minutes away. Let's get our glasses on. Oh, I'm blind. Here. Now you got to get me. It's not bad. Oh, yeah. You look fashionable. I'm not giving you the camera. I got it. I got it. I took my glasses off. Put the camera down. Watch the eclipse. Let's go. How much of a ring of light we'll get because the after is pretty down close to closed. I've lost it. Where'd it go? Where's the sun? Oh, my God. It's tiny. You can barely see it. It's so dim. One minute. Look at the clouds over there. Oh, my God. It's so weird. I'm trying to clear out space on my phone. Just delete full apps. 30 seconds. 30 seconds. You can see a star. Holy shit. You can't. Holy shit. Oh, the lights went on. What the fuck? We're losing light. We're losing light. Ten. Seven. Six. Five. Holy fuck. Holy shit. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. You can see the spots. You can see the dots. It does not. Oh, my God. You can't even see it. Okay. We got one minute. So Bailey, those are mountains. You're seeing in between the mountains. Holy shit. Yeah, they were all waiting for this moment. Beautiful. No wonder people went absolutely nuts and had to predict these. Like... I'm afraid of the moment where we... I'll give you a heads up. It's coming. How do you feel? I don't know. It was like... I've seen so many images of it. But like... Seeing that up in the sky at the thing you can't look at. Like, yeah. Dude, I don't know. It was pretty sweet. So glad I got to see it. How are you, Jim? It's crazy. Scraps falling in the background. Are you kidding me? Completely lost the shot. What do you mean? During the actual clips, it was just black. You can see it. Did you get it? What? No, no. No, no. It was too dark. Yeah, I put the filter back on and I couldn't see it. There goes the spotlight. Oh, here we go. Here we go. Check this. Check it. You did it. You guys did it. It is on otherworldly. It gave me more of a forlorn melancholy than I was expecting. And I had a little bit of a not to make everything a movie reference, but at the end of Raiders of the Lost Ark when they opened the Ark of the Covenant and oh my god, look at those birds. Yeah, no. It had a real look away, Marion. Whatever you do, don't open your eyes. Sensation to it. I felt like I shouldn't be looking at it. Speaking of things you should be looking at, it's time to move your frame. There it goes. Eyes. No pressure. I'm turning. No, it's a shaman. I don't think it's even streaming, but... There's this thing about primates and anthropologists and biologists were like, well apes and humans that slept under trees did a lot better. And it was only 5% of heat energy radiating off them at night that would hit the leaves and come back down. And that was enough to give them an edge against being out in the cold. But it was like, you really just realized that is a hot day. That is so hot. Yeah. Any change to that, all the heat would irradiate away instantly. Yeah, we'd freeze. There's nothing keeping us warm except for that. I will say now that I think about it, the road there right behind us, people did stop driving right before it. There's so much cold... Yeah, I'm struggling to put into words just the amount of energy that's coming off the sun and how it fuels everything. And that even a slight decrease or increase in cloud cover could drastically change the planet. Like there was one volcano that spewed out magma for a million years straight. And that was enough just to cool down the planet. Just a slight... cause almost an extinction level event in ancient Earth. I'm afraid to look up. Like off this side. How do you feel? I don't know it was like I've seen so many images a little bit but like seeing that up in the sky at the thing you can't look at like wow. I don't know. It was pretty sweet. So glad I got to see you. Hell yeah. Happy to share it with you too. Strauss playing in the background very faintly.