Reactions to the Total Solar Eclipse
The Brian Lehrer Show
WNYC
4.6 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 9 April 2024
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Listeners talk about their experiences of the total solar eclipse.
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| 0:00.0 | Brian Lear on |
| 0:09.0 | on WNYC and listeners what about you after all the buildup to yesterday's eclipse how was your |
| 0:15.6 | experience to one two four three three w nyc two one two four three three nine six nine nine two we're inviting you if you 212 433 992. |
| 0:23.6 | We're inviting you if you were in town |
| 0:26.8 | or if you travel to be in totality in Indiana |
| 0:31.1 | where Umeer was up in the Adirondacks or the Burlington area or wherever |
| 0:36.2 | you may have gone, call up and share your experience of yesterday's total solar eclipse. Where did you go? Who are you with is another thing. It was |
| 0:46.4 | called for me to be out in my local park and see a lot of people had come out to enjoy the experience. |
| 0:54.2 | I know people who are parents of kids currently in school who had, |
| 0:59.8 | you know, feelings of community with the kids, whether it was out in the school yard or |
| 1:04.2 | out in the park wherever you were and what are some of the memories of the total |
| 1:09.0 | solar eclipse that you'll carry on with you what do you think you'll remember from yesterday? |
| 1:14.2 | 212 433 WNYC. |
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| 1:21.8 | I talked on yesterday's show about the one time that I was in a total solar eclipse and that one of the things that I've remembered ever since was the birds kind of freaking out when it became dark in the middle of the day. |
| 1:37.0 | Yesterday, for me in New York City, it was kind of underwhelming, |
| 1:44.3 | except for the actual looking at the sun |
| 1:48.3 | through those special glasses |
| 1:49.9 | and seeing the moon actually pass over the sun. |
| 1:52.4 | That was cool. |
| 1:53.5 | But what I had said yesterday was, as my tip, |
| 1:58.5 | if you go out to experience the eclipse, |
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