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Speaker 1: there's Chuck, and there's Jerry, and Elvis is in the

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Speaker 1: building in spirit at least, and so is Richard Nixon.

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Speaker 1: Everybody's mad about that. So this is short stuff. Like

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Speaker 1: I said, that's right, and this is about the very

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Speaker 1: famous meeting of Elvis Presley and Richard Nixon. And uh

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Speaker 1: we got this information from uh December two thousands ten

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Speaker 1: article in Smithsonian magazine by Peter Carlson which had some

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Speaker 1: great details about this very famous meeting on December twenty one. Yes,

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Speaker 1: which is that you might have thought was photoshopped. Well,

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Speaker 1: do you remember one of the first photoshops we ever

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Speaker 1: got from our pal Van Nostrin was of us as

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Speaker 1: Elvis and Nixon. That's right. And then totally unrelated to it,

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Speaker 1: our other pale who photoshops as sometimes as Aaron Cooper,

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Speaker 1: actually he does it all the time, and he um

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Speaker 1: photoshopped us as Elvis and Nixon too, and I think

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Speaker 1: The thing is, though, right, The thing is is this

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Speaker 1: is not a photoshop to image. It's a very famous

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Speaker 1: image that you could get well before photoshop was ever

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Speaker 1: meeting that very few people knew about until a Chicago

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Speaker 1: bunch of pictures of Elvis and Nixon together shaking hands,

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Speaker 1: and you can buy them if you want, and it

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Speaker 1: became the most requested picture in National Archives history in

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Speaker 1: like a week. Yeah, and like Elvis as Elvis, it

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Speaker 1: wasn't like he wore He's like, well, I'm gonna I'm

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Speaker 1: like he's fully Elvis purple lure suit with a cape

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Speaker 1: if I remember correctly. And there's a movie about this too,

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Speaker 1: one from ninety seven and one from I think like

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Speaker 1: the most recent one with Michael Shannon, Yes, as as Elvis. Yes,

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Speaker 1: so not about it wasn't great, but Michael Shannon's awesome

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Speaker 1: they make like is it a fink feature length movie? Yeah? Weird,

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Speaker 1: But I followed the story, you know, um, because I

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Speaker 1: mean this is about like forty eight hours is the

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Speaker 1: whole story. Yeah, so here's how it goes. Is it's

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Speaker 1: a lot to imagine Elvis totally wasted on speed throughout

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Speaker 1: this entire story. Okay, okay, just better than mine. So

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Speaker 1: impression that they were on the same side against Elvis. Oh,

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Speaker 1: is it? It is? But it's not. It's it's on airbnb.

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Speaker 1: But you all the dates were blacked out and it

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Speaker 1: It's pretty sweet as you would imagine. Okay. Uh So,

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Speaker 1: So the letter is delivered to an aid of Nixon

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Speaker 1: I would love Elvis. Sure. So Um, the Secret Service,

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Speaker 1: um having a talk with him, a very serious talk

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Speaker 1: It's very interesting. The whole thing was so odd because

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Speaker 1: his shirt. Uh. But like we said, there was that

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Speaker 1: one very famous photo. Uh, and no one knew about this.

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Speaker 1: Elvis wanted to keep it quiet. Um. I imagine Nixon

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Speaker 1: wasn't uh sadly wasn't able to use it as like

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Speaker 1: a as a pr move. Yeah, which although I think

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Speaker 1: also he was probably like what just happened? After Elvis

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Speaker 1: came and went? He was just available. Yeah, it isn't

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Speaker 1: little crazy. The whole thing is pretty crazy, Chuck for sure.

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Speaker 1: But the year after, a columnist named Jack Anderson broke

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Speaker 1: the story and apparently nobody really it didn't go anywhere,

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Speaker 1: No one, it didn't become part of the cultural memory.

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Speaker 1: And it wasn't until that that Chicago newspaper reported about

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Speaker 1: the photos. That that was when it hit just right.

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Speaker 1: I think in people were like, it didn't there, it

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Speaker 1: wasn't kitchy yet, but in people were ready to be

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Speaker 1: blown away by the idea of Nixon and and Elvis together.

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Speaker 1: That's right, And so it was in the National Archives.

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Speaker 1: Then all of a sudden, you can make a request

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Speaker 1: for the copy of that photo, and uh, within one week,

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Speaker 1: eight thousand people requested that. And it's still I'm not

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Speaker 1: sure if it still is, but for a while it

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Speaker 1: was the most requested photograph in the history of the

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Speaker 1: National Archives. Pretty amazing, there you go. Yeah, it was

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Speaker 1: finally supplanted by Obama meeting with that alien in the

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Speaker 1: Oval Office, that famous photograph. That's right. No, when Obama

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Speaker 1: met with the lead singer of corn A right here

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Speaker 1: you go. Yeah, you got anything else? Nope? Well good

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Speaker 1: because we don't have time for it anyway. It's a

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Speaker 1: short stuff. We'll see you guys later for more on

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