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Photo of the Year? Get Real. · The Wes Carroll Morning Show

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Speaker 1: The news, opinions, commentary, and interviews. You need to start
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Speaker 1: your day, and you're listening to the West Carrol Morning Show.
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Speaker 2: Thursday morning, eighth day of may O Show Tomayo. I'm wes.
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Speaker 2: Thanks for joining. I'll stop. I might do one more tomorrow. Maybe,
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Speaker 2: I don't know, we'll see. Maybe getting ready to enter
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Speaker 2: a way into this weekend. It's coming up fast. I'm excited.
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Speaker 2: Tonight is the hooding ceremony for graduates Columbus State University.
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Speaker 2: I often talk about the privilege that I get to
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Speaker 2: read the names at graduation as graduates walk across the stage.
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Speaker 2: The hooding ceremony is something I've only done a few
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Speaker 2: times now, and there's a little extra something to that,
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Speaker 2: and that this is obviously the postgrads, and this is
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Speaker 2: a little bit more to it. I'm reading off some
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Speaker 2: sentiments and thoughts and things that they want to express,
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Speaker 2: whether it be to you, professors or faculty staff, whoever
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Speaker 2: along the way they feel like helped out, plus to
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Speaker 2: their family or friends, anybody they want to acknowledge. No
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Speaker 2: one's acknowledged me yet in there. You know, there's no like, hey,
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Speaker 2: thanks to the guy reading the names. You know that'd
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Speaker 2: be nice, just a little tip of the hat if
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Speaker 2: I get their name right. At least I think, you know,
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Speaker 2: maybe I asked too much, but no, it's a special
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Speaker 2: ceremony that we'll be doing tonight for Columbus State graduates
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Speaker 2: in the hooting ceremony, and then tomorrow is graduation day,
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Speaker 2: Spring graduation day, as all day long, will be graduating
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Speaker 2: a lot of students tomorrow. It's a bigger class in
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Speaker 2: spring than it is in the fall. The December graduation,
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Speaker 2: and we always want to call it winter, but it's
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Speaker 2: technically considered fall. I mean by the you know, astronomical calendar,
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Speaker 2: right it is. We haven't hit winter yet, not until
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Speaker 2: the solstice. But we'll do it Friday tomorrow all day
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Speaker 2: and you know, we'll be just lining them up, they'll
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Speaker 2: be crossing the stage. I'll be firing the names out.
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Speaker 2: And again it's a privilege to be part of that.
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Speaker 2: And I've had a number of people that have now
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Speaker 2: we've gotten to that stage where people have come back
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Speaker 2: maybe to get you know, they I called their name
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Speaker 2: when they graduated, then I called their name for hooding ceremonies,
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Speaker 2: or they've come back for friends and some that have
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Speaker 2: been there at ceremonies for friends or family, and they're like,
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Speaker 2: I'm glad you're here. And I really get that. I'm
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Speaker 2: glad you're here. You did a great job for you know,
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Speaker 2: my older brother or something. So his name's tricky, mine's
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Speaker 2: not as bad. And I've said this before. I can
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Speaker 2: mess up an easy name that is definitely in my
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Speaker 2: uh it's in a possibility, it's in my capabilities. I
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Speaker 2: guess I messed up and called a girl by the
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Speaker 2: name of Olivia Oliver once because their middle name started
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Speaker 2: with an R. And I'm just pointing that out because
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Speaker 2: that's how simple and that one still haunts me. But
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Speaker 2: how simple of a thing you can It can run
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Speaker 2: together and you kind of get ahead of yourself and anyway.
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Speaker 2: But I'm looking forward to it. I always like being
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Speaker 2: a part of it, and I really appreciate that they
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Speaker 2: continue to ask me to do it. And I'll do
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Speaker 2: it as long as they ask, as long as I'm
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Speaker 2: able to do it, long as my tongue allows me
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Speaker 2: to speak. You know, that's just the or the old
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Speaker 2: it's the old expression. Sometimes in radio when you mess
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Speaker 2: up a few times, they'll say first day with a
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Speaker 2: new mouth, or first day with a new tongue. That's
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Speaker 2: the reason. But anyway, I'll happy to keep doing it
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Speaker 2: and I appreciate being part of it. I want to
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Speaker 2: talk about this, uh, this photo that I've seen a
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Speaker 2: few places people talking about this particular photo and it's
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Speaker 2: won an award in the Journalism Awards for the White
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Speaker 2: House Correspondence Association, the WHCA Journalism Awards, and one of
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Speaker 2: the things that they give out is there's an award
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Speaker 2: for Photo of the Year, and it's actually the Award
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Speaker 2: for Excellence in Presidential News Coverage. And you probably when
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Speaker 2: I say the twenty twenty four Photo of the Year
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Speaker 2: as the Award in Excellence in Presidential News Coverage, just
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Speaker 2: take a minute and think to yourself. You know what
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Speaker 2: that photo might be. You probably have a photo, an
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Speaker 2: image in your head right now, probably a very vivid
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Speaker 2: image that you've seen many times that was certainly a
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Speaker 2: significant moment in the election last year. And yes, it's
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Speaker 2: a photo of a president. So there's that. So if
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Speaker 2: the photo you've pictured fits that description, chances are you're wrong.
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Speaker 2: Chances are you got the wrong you got the wrong president,
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Speaker 2: you got the wrong photo. You probably even have you know,
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Speaker 2: if you're thinking that that vivid color photo. This is
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Speaker 2: a black and white photo, so you probably don't even
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Speaker 2: have the right setting. If the photo you're imagining took
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Speaker 2: place outdoors, No, no, the winner was indoors. If you're thinking, oh,
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Speaker 2: maybe like in a field somewhere with a sky in
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Speaker 2: the background, No no, not that one. It's a photo
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Speaker 2: that took place indoors. If you think, man, this is
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Speaker 2: maybe a moment that's significant for a president getting re elected,
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Speaker 2: a moment that maybe led to a president being re
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Speaker 2: elected part of this great comeback, one of the great
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Speaker 2: presidential political comebacks in the history of our country. No, no,
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Speaker 2: it's really more of the sad declining end of a
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Speaker 2: career politician who kind of became president because of a pandemic,
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Speaker 2: didn't really get asked to do very much campaigning. He
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Speaker 2: just kind of wanted on name and the fact that
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Speaker 2: people were being told to stay home and mail in
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Speaker 2: their ballots, and you know, maybe you just go out
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Speaker 2: and grab some ballots and fill them out for people
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Speaker 2: in your family, help them out. I mean, certainly not
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Speaker 2: breaking the law. You're not filling them out, and you're
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Speaker 2: not asking anybody in your neighborhood or anything to sign
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Speaker 2: ballots and turning them in, even though there was a
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Speaker 2: large number of people who admitted to doing those sorts
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Speaker 2: of things. This is the sad decline of of a
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Speaker 2: man who is, you know, at this point when the
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Speaker 2: photo was taken, I guess is getting ready to you know,
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Speaker 2: have a debate and get pushed out of the reelection campaign.
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Speaker 2: It's a photo and the fact that it involves Ukraine
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Speaker 2: only makes it even better. It's a president of the
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Speaker 2: now for photo of the now former President Joe Biden.
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Speaker 2: He's given some remarks, He's just signed a ceremony. This
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Speaker 2: is from the White House Correspondence Association. I'll read their
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Speaker 2: exact words. President Joe Biden walks from the podium after
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Speaker 2: his remarks after the signing ceremony for the ninety five
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Speaker 2: point three billion dollar package of aid to Ukraine, Israel
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Speaker 2: in Taiwan in the State Dining Room of the White House, Wednesday,
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Speaker 2: April twenty fourth of twenty twenty four. That's their description
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Speaker 2: of the photo. It goes on to say, a somber
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Speaker 2: President Joe Biden and wrestling with historic challenges from international
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Speaker 2: crises to domestic calls for him to end his re
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Speaker 2: election campaign is centered in the image, yet surrounded and
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Speaker 2: visually almost overwhelmed by the physical infrastructure and the historic
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Speaker 2: weight of the White House. This is what the judges wrote.
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Speaker 2: The only other living human in the picture is looking
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Speaker 2: away from Biden, but the President is not unseen. He
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Speaker 2: moves under the gaze of reflective President Lincoln, completing this
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Speaker 2: striking portrait of both the sitting president and the presidency
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Speaker 2: of itself. Okay, so jump to the photo you were
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Speaker 2: probably imagining when I was talking Evan Vucci's. This is
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Speaker 2: from the AP. Now, the photographer I don't know if
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Speaker 2: I mentioned, but of the other photo was New York Times.
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Speaker 2: I think, yeah, New York Times photographer Doug Mills gets this,
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Speaker 2: captured this amazing black and white. It almost looks blurry.
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Speaker 2: But maybe it wasn't blurry. Maybe it's just the version
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Speaker 2: of it I'm looking at. But this other photo that
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Speaker 2: was taken by now, wait, that says Doug Mills the yeah,
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Speaker 2: I think maybe they got it wrong in this particular
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Speaker 2: second version of it, because there's a couple of or
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Speaker 2: maybe no, maybe Doug Mills has actually also got one
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Speaker 2: of the two photos of Trump that was the remarkable
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Speaker 2: ones at least according to this. So there's the shot
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Speaker 2: first of all, of Trump standing at the podium and
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Speaker 2: the bullet is going right past his head. And remember
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Speaker 2: that photo, that one wasn't picked. And then of course
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Speaker 2: the photo that most people are thinking maybe the one
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Speaker 2: should have been the winner. You know, it's Trump moments
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Speaker 2: after being shot, getting back on his feet, surrounded by
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Speaker 2: Secret Service and holding his fist in the air, saying fight, fight, fight,
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Speaker 2: with an American flag up above him. They're very different photos,
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Speaker 2: aren't they. They're very distinctly different photos. I mean, even
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Speaker 2: if you just wanted to give the award to Mills, right,
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Speaker 2: if you wanted to give it to him, give it
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Speaker 2: to him for the picture of the bullet going by,
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Speaker 2: I don't know that anybody would would have. I mean,
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Speaker 2: the only harm in giving this award to Trump is
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Speaker 2: that it's an award that's acknowledging this photo. And this photo,
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Speaker 2: by the way, realistically should be in history books, you
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Speaker 2: know forever. I mean, this is something that should be
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Speaker 2: is going to have to be taught in school, right,
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Speaker 2: It's going to have to be discussed. I know, we
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Speaker 2: have this thing where people like to try to, you know,
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Speaker 2: rewrite history. And change things and claim political parties flipped
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Speaker 2: and all these fun things. They like to just go
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Speaker 2: back and have this revisionist history, and maybe there'll be
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Speaker 2: some revisionist history of that. But the very fact that
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Speaker 2: this isn't the winner, it doesn't make any sense. You
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Speaker 2: could say the bullet going by, but that's not really
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Speaker 2: even the photo. That's not the winner. I don't know
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Speaker 2: how anyone could make the case that Joe Biden just
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Speaker 2: kind of slumping away, And I'd love to know what
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Speaker 2: he was thinking about. I'd love to know what was
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Speaker 2: really going through his mind as he walked away. We've
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Speaker 2: seen so many times, and again not mocking, We've seen
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Speaker 2: so many times Joe Biden having to be led somewhere.
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Speaker 2: He's walking, he's confused, he doesn't know where he's going.
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Speaker 2: Some of those times it was even you know, around
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Speaker 2: the White House, the White House grounds, he got confused.
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Speaker 2: The Easter Bunny had to walk him around. So I
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Speaker 2: do wonder if maybe he's just trying to think where
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Speaker 2: am I supposed to go? Or you know, right foot,
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Speaker 2: left foot, whatever, he's thinking just to stay upright, just
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Speaker 2: to stay moving forward. Maybe he's hoping that he did
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Speaker 2: press record on the DVR before you know, he left
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Speaker 2: his bedroom because he wants to make sure that he
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Speaker 2: gets to stay caught up on Murdersy Road or Matt
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Speaker 2: Locke or whatever it was. I don't know. I know
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Speaker 2: what was going through the mind of Donald Trump while
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Speaker 2: he was standing there pumping his fist in the air.
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Speaker 2: I know what was going through the mind of the
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Speaker 2: three or four Secret Service agents we can see in
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Speaker 2: the photos surrounding him. I know what was going on.
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Speaker 2: Then people at home watching it because this was live.
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Speaker 2: Remember we all saw this and then this photo emerged,
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Speaker 2: and most Americans would look at this photo and say,
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Speaker 2: this is the moment that things changed. This is the
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Speaker 2: moment that Trump probably won the presidency. It's certainly the
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Speaker 2: moment that Elon Musk says when he decided, that's who
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Speaker 2: I've got to vote for. That's the guy that's going
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Speaker 2: to keep us out of World War three, that's what
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Speaker 2: we have to do, and this is the guy that's
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Speaker 2: going to help save the country. There's even another photo
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Speaker 2: that summer saying how about this one? And this is
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Speaker 2: a French photographer or Jim Watson, from the Agency of
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Speaker 2: France Press, and he had a photo called I think
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Speaker 2: his name wouldn't be Jim Watson if he was French,
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Speaker 2: but he works for them. Photo of Trump speaking and
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Speaker 2: Elon Musk standing behind him, kind of hopping up in
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Speaker 2: the air. The photo titled Musk's Giant Leap. You can see,
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Speaker 2: you know, Elon Musk's belly button in the photo and
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Speaker 2: his hands in the air. He's got his hands up
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Speaker 2: the double hile for those of you at home that
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Speaker 2: are looking for any excuse to call somebody a Nazi.
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Speaker 2: But really he's just jumping in the air, having his
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Speaker 2: moment at a rally. This was when they were back
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Speaker 2: in Butler, same location, same place, just added the presence
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Speaker 2: of Elon Musk and as much impact and influence as
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Speaker 2: Elon Musk had on the election, and with Doge into
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Speaker 2: this new presidency in the first hundred days. Yeah, I
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Speaker 2: don't know. You have to go out of your way
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Speaker 2: to miss this one. This is like saying that, you know,
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Speaker 2: the Cleveland Browns really won the Super Bowl last year.
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Speaker 2: You know, this is just missing it on so many levels.
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Speaker 2: There's nothing accurate about this choice, other than, of course,
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Speaker 2: the agenda behind it. We don't want Trump to have
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Speaker 2: that as a win. We don't want Trump to be
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Speaker 2: able to say, hey, this photo of me, this moment
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Speaker 2: where I thought to do this was an iconic moment
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Speaker 2: instead of a moment where someone had the presence of mind.
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Speaker 2: And we've had this discussion here lately where some folks
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Speaker 2: on the left are trying to say, well, it's time
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Speaker 2: for the twenty fifth Amendment. Trump's not capable of doing
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Speaker 2: his job. He's not capable of fulfilling his duties as president.
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Speaker 2: So think about the difference between these two guys. It's
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Speaker 2: a photo of Biden kind of slumping away from a
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Speaker 2: podium all by himself, versus Trump, who had the presence
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Speaker 2: of mind while lying on the ground covered by Secret Service,
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Speaker 2: to say, you know what, I'm getting up. They'd gotten
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Speaker 2: the call, the announcement that the shooter was down. Of course,
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Speaker 2: not really a great move. He should have stayed down
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Speaker 2: at least, but he didn't. He decided, this is when
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Speaker 2: I'm going to stand up and let people know whoever
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Speaker 2: did this, you're not going to win. And I'm still here,
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Speaker 2: not going anywhere, and I need to encourage people to fight.
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Speaker 2: And he said, nope, not this time, this isn't happening. Well,
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Speaker 2: first he said, you know, get my shoes, and then
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Speaker 2: he stood up and said fight, fight, fight, as people
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Speaker 2: were you know, around him, secret Service protecting him. It's
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Speaker 2: one of the most iconic political photographs ever and it
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Speaker 2: certainly should have won in any other contest of political photos.
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Speaker 2: If you're having more water, that's a plus, and I
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Speaker 2: would guess that you're having more I don't know. If
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Speaker 2: you're having this instead of your regular water, maybe you're
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Speaker 2: breaking even. But you're not gonna get fiber from okra.
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Speaker 2: You need to eat it. Enough from Okra water, I
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Speaker 2: should say, you'll get it from eating it. So basically,
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Speaker 2: if you like okra water, go ahead, drink it. You're
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Speaker 2: gonna get the hydration. That's all you're going to get,
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Speaker 2: though there's not really any benefit other than just the
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Speaker 2: water aspect of it. Now I can tell you this.
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Speaker 2: You know, this is just a little thing I'll throw
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Speaker 2: at you. You know, you grill up a little okra,
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Speaker 2: that's all right, you can eat it that way. That's
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Speaker 2: a great way to have okra and actually get the
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Speaker 2: fiber and the benefits of the okra. We like to
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Speaker 2: do it on the George Forman grill at Dragon con
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Speaker 2: out on our balcony. That's a great place to grill
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Speaker 2: up some okra and you know, share it with others.
23:31
Speaker 2: Because what good is grilled okra if you can't share
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Speaker 2: it with others. There's some scientists that are exploring space.
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Speaker 2: Some like to explore the deep oceans. And then there's
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Speaker 2: a small group of researchers who are exploring the dirt
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Speaker 2: and rock underneath the crust of the Earth. That team
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Speaker 2: drilling into the rock at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean.
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Speaker 2: They plan to drill for two hundred meters. Things were
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Speaker 2: a little easier than expected, so they just kept drilling.
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Speaker 2: They've gotten more than twelve hundred and sixty eight meters deep,
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Speaker 2: which is more than three fourths of a mile, the
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Speaker 2: deepest ever recorded. The drill got through most of the crust,
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Speaker 2: nearly got into the Earth's mantle layer. Future missions are
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Speaker 2: being planned to push even deeper, which would bring even
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Speaker 2: more information about our planet up to the surface. That's
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Speaker 2: pretty exciting stuff, I mean, And this kind of brings
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Speaker 2: those elements of astronomy as well as the deep sea
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Speaker 2: aspects of things. This is kind of a good combination
24:36
Speaker 2: of those two things, isn't it. California Utah are cracking
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Speaker 2: down on wealthy residents who register their supercars in Montana
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Speaker 2: to avoid taxes. Apparently if you spend around one thousand
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Speaker 2: dollars and open an LLC in Montana and then use
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Speaker 2: the LLC to purchase a car with no sales tax,
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Speaker 2: that seems to be a workaround. And then the car
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Speaker 2: is registered in Montana and it's not subject to vehicle
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Speaker 2: inspections and smog testing. The politicians have caught on though,
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Speaker 2: especially since Montana has more than five times the number
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Speaker 2: of Ferrari registrations compared to Washington, even though the population
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Speaker 2: is you know, not a lot of people. Both California
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Speaker 2: and Utah now taking steps to close the loophole and
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Speaker 2: crack down on the wealthy. That's how they're getting the oligarchy,
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Speaker 2: those Californians and Utans. I don't know what the utes is.
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Speaker 2: What they are the utes? All right. That'll do it
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