Eclipse Nonsense

Jeff Probst voice: Previously on... Where's Minty... Tevin says some stuff. Minty comments on some pictures. Will there be pictures from the eclipse?

Busted! Did you ever watch Survivor and wonder: Are those really random people, or are they actors? Boom! Tevin is listed as an actor, right on the screen! Of course, if they ARE all pulled from the same pool of people, it is possible that there would be some "regular" people, who would then "also" be actors. On other stuff. Not on Survivor. Did that make sense? Still, very funny to see that on the TV, unhidden.

Who has $360 for a D&D Lego set? That's THREE HUNDRED and sixty dollars. That's a TON of money! A Nintendo Switch only cost $300, and that's a whole video game system. What did they think the market for a Dungeons and Dragons Lego set would be? Sometimes I think Lego is insane. Maybe that Dragon can buy itself with it's horde of treasure.

Lego busts itself again by selling a set with FOUR minifigures for only TEN dollars. And the set even has other things in it than just four figures. There's no consistency to their pricing madness.

I got a laugh while watching a particularly dramatic episode of Star Wars: The Bad Batch. It was a very serious episode where a bad thing happened right at the end... cliffhanger, how will they get out of this horrible situation? Oh no! Credits. Screen zooms to the corner, and Disney+ is all "Hey! You might like to watch Rapunzel's Tangled Adventure! Look how HAPPY she is!" Hahahaha, what?!

I had to go into the State Farm place to fill out some papers for something, and they had an epic Agent State Farm movie poster on the wall! I told them it was awesome and asked if I could buy one somewhere, and they kind of chuckled and did not directly answer my question. So I don't know if these are available. There's a CHOPPAH! on the poster! So cool.

We are watching the sequel? There's a Patrick Mahomes 1? Will we get Patrick Mahomes III next year?

I'm not sure if I'd like Churro Oreos. I mean, I like Churros, and I like Oreos. Should some things not be combined?

My friend glanced at the G.I.Joe figure and thought, hey, is that Recondo? Neat. You can see the name is covered up. Indeed it is Recondo. And then he laughed at... what an obscure thing to remember. He never even had the Recondo figure back in the 80's, yet he still instantly knew it.

Yo Joe! We got a picture of his file card in case you were curious about who Recondo was. I guess he's a memorable kind of guy. Is it because of the 'stache? Maybe the hat?

I just took a picture of a State Farm thing! This is a joke on their catchphrase "like a good neighbor, State Farm is there." I guess they don't get a piece of this sale, but I think maybe they should? At the very least it's kind of like seeing an ad for them, indirectly.

A mounted Nerf Gun cannon? WHAT?! That's so crazy! I'm soooo curious to see what kind of nightmare/awesomeness this thing is capable of. 

Now this is actual crazyness. I'm scared to even look at this thing. I dare you to bring a pen to -anywhere- that looks like a .50 Calibur Bullet. Yet, I just know that some jerk is bringing this through the airport to be funny. Hey, it's A PEN! Yeah, I'm with the TSA people on this one... NOT funny.

Polly Pocket of Monster High? Does that make these... Pocket Monsters? Or.... Pokemon? HA! You knew that Pokemon was short for "Pocket Monsters", right?

I saw all these metal folding chairs and thought about WWE Wrestling. They must get bulk deals on all the chairs they smash over the wrestler's backs.

Whoa! Burlington had the adorable plushies we saw at Disney World not too long ago. Only $6! Mike Wazowski as an Avocado Bagel. We totally picked one up. Was it too cute to pass up for $6? Yes, yes it was. My friend almost bought one at the theme park for like... $40? I think. It was way more than 6.

Another thing we saw at Burlington. Some people are like: "What the heck is that?" and others who know are like: "WOW! It's Omeega's doll from The Bad Batch!!!" It can count as a very obscure Star Wars thing, but... here it is! This one did not have a tag on it, and we did not feel like going through the process of asking how much. Maybe we should have, it's a cool thing on the show.

Laughed at this Grumpy Dragon in the art store, and had to get a picture of it. I don't think it was happy about getting it's picture taken.

Concept art of the character Sunstreaker, for the Bumblebee movie. I guess if they cut him from the film, at least they can use the work to still produce the action figure. Is that cool of them to do that? Sure. This one turns into a random space car, which is a huge step-down from his original car mode, a Lamborghini. The red car Sideswipe is his brother.

Remember back in the 80's when you bought the Yoda action figure, and were a little bummed that he cost the same at the bigger figures, despite being much much smaller? Well... Grogu! Look how tiny he is! Much like Yoda, Grogu is totally worth it.

Solar Eclipse y'all! Check out the top where they covered the Wegman's logo with the black circle. Clever.

We went out to lunch at a favorite place, Mission BBQ. We figured if the world was going to go crazy, we might as well have a good meal for lunch. There were small rumors about a random crazy thing happening during the eclipse. We weren't worried, but still needed any excuse to have a good lunch.

Oh! There it goes! This should be the beginning, where the first little bit gets covered up! Don't worry, only the camera is looking at the sun directly, not my friend. But taking a picture like this seems like he was, doesn't it?

The Mission BBQ is in the shopping center with a ton of places, but they were ALL out of the special glasses you need to look at the sun. At least the Five Below had a funny sign up. I did not get any Eclipse Gum, if you were curious.

The nice lady at the Cracker Barrel came outside and let me get a peek at the sun with her glasses! She said "I better get back inside before I get in trouble..." and my friend said "Get in trouble?! They should give you a raise for being so nice to somebody!" Thank you, Cracker Barrel lady!

This was what we saw through the glasses. It was about 20% covered? Maybe more, maybe less. But through the glasses you could clearly see it had a munch taken out of it.

No luck at the Walmart. Everyplace we went was like "Probably Walmart has some left" but nope. The funny part is that we still had some from last time, it was maybe 7 years ago, since the last ecplise? But last night we went to look in the place we thought they would surely be, and nope. We couldn't find them. So there we were while it was going on, still trying to find some glasses.

It's hard to see, but if you zoom in enough on this photo, you can see the crescent shaped sun. It was behind the dark clouds, which were making it just not-super-bright-enough to glance at, without the glasses, for like... .005 seconds. Like... one blink's-worth. So we did the dumb "Trump" thing, and simply looked at it. Barely. This was about the most-covered-up it was going to get in our area of the path.

Back home to watch the news programs going bonkers on the TV. Every single news caster is freaking the heck out. Sorry but it's kind of funny, in a way. Watching them over-sell the thing with every passing moment.

We're not in "THE PATH OF TOTALLITY", which is a funny, but cool, name for the thing. I think where we were, it was going to be about 90% covered. It did look a little dark outside, but not "nighttime" for sure.

I mean, it's a testament to how bright the sun is, that even with 90% of it covered up, it was still very bright outside. Our camera has good night-vision, so I'm not sure if this picture is showing the darkness enough. Or brightness. You know what I mean.

My friend did think he was funny wearing his Apollo's Chariot t-shirt that day. Apollo is the Sun God, get it? I wonder if Busch Gardens did a fun thing with Apollo's Chariot that day. THAT would have been a cool thing.

Busted! You know how the news doesn't like to get caught doing un-cool things, right? Well, here's a CHILD. LOOKING DIRECTLY at THE SUN. For like, a loooooong time. To be fair, the kid is at a place where the sun is completely covered by the moon. But EVERY news program has been saying FOR WEEKS "Don't look at the sun without the protective glasses, EVEN if it's ALL covered up. DON'T! You NEED glasses!" And for minutes the reporter is asking this little girl what she thinks of the cool eclipse. Not once did he say "Whoa! Put your glasses on!" So yeah,... ya busted.