Leonard Bates was nine years old when he saw his first eclipse.

The 80-year-old made his own viewer instead of using solar glasses.

I didn't think it was necessary to buy smoke glass, so I smoked some glass myself.

That decision cost him.

Bates permanently lost some vision in his right eye.

And she joins us for a moment and try to talk a little bit of sanity into what everyone's been mentioning here on the show this morning. Hey, Pam, thanks for coming on with us. Hey, thanks for having me. How are you guys doing? We're trying not to stare into the sun. And first question, can I wear 3D glasses? No. I can't. Okay. Guys, it's a normal day. do you normally stare at the sun? No. A little bit. I can't speak for Marshall Hook. No, I know. We keep saying, big solar eclipse. You've got to check it out, but you have to have those special sunglasses. No sunglasses, actually. More specifically, those glasses approved by the American Astronomical Association or with that

ISO label. That's what you need. Okay. So how sure can we be that just because it has that number on the

glasses that it's not some sort of knockoff? Well, you can test it out actually. We did it all morning in our

studio and we put the glasses on and you can't see anything unless you see the sun.

So we couldn't see a thing, and you know it's working.

Okay.

You put the glass on and went out and stared at the sun.

Never heard of our eyes.

We're like, nope, not approved.

Give me the next ones.

Throw these out.

You know, there is one question, though, that I, well, first of all, when is this supposed to happen?

So it begins in Boston at 128 this afternoon.

The maximum is at 246, and that's where you're going to have 63% of the sun blocked out by the moon in front of it.

Then it comes to an end at 359.

Okay, that's when Ben Volan's going to be inside Gillette Stadium transcribing quotes about

DJ Foster. That's right. Bill Belichick is scheduled to do his press conference during

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