#131 Photographing the President w/ Pete Souza
The Road to Now
Benjamin Sawyer
4.8 • 628 Ratings
🗓️ 3 June 2019
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
As the person responsible for documenting the Obama Administration, Pete Souza spent more time with Barack Obama than almost anyone else, which left him with some deep in sights on Obama and the office of the Presidency. In this episode, Pete joins Bob for a conversation about his work as Chief Official White House Photographer, the state of American politics, and the power of photography. Pete's most recent book, Shade: A Tale of Two Presidents (Little, Brown, & Co, 2018) uses photography to contrast the stark differences between the Presidency of Barack Obama and that of Donald Trump.
This episode is the third in our "Wolftrap Series" recorded during The Avett Brothers' three night run at Wolftrap in Vienna, VA. Click here for our conversation w/ Robert Costa and click here to become a Patron and get the "Maycember in Wolftrap" Patreon Extra episode.
This episode was edited by Gary Fletcher and Bob Crawford.
The Road to Now is part of the Osiris Podcast Network.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Richard the Rostafarian from Fear of a Craft Beer Planet, a podcast that talks a lot about the parallels between the beer industry and the music business. But really, we talk about whatever we want. The show is made up of four of us. Me, Richard the Rostafarian, the radio guy, Jay Rose, Ryan Egan, and Rob Forzic. |
| 0:23.2 | They're the beer guys. |
| 0:24.6 | They're the ones that teach me about craft beer, and I'm the one that gets the show on |
| 0:27.9 | the air. |
| 0:29.0 | You can find us on all social media platforms at Fear of a Craft Beer Planet. |
| 0:41.8 | I'm Bob Crawford. |
| 0:44.7 | I'm Ben Sawyer, and this is the road to now. |
| 0:47.0 | Bob, where's the road taking you this week? |
| 0:58.3 | Well, you know, tomorrow will be Saturday, and my wife, Melanie, and I are hiking 13 miles for Cure Search, which is an organization that funds pediatric cancer research. So we have raised thanks to many of the |
| 1:05.5 | listeners of this podcast and friends and family and more and Ava Brothers fans and just a lot of really beautiful, |
| 1:15.2 | generous, kind people. |
| 1:17.1 | We've raised over $2,500. |
| 1:20.0 | Wow, that's awesome, man. |
| 1:21.5 | And Melanie and I are goals. |
| 1:23.8 | I think each of us was a $500 goal each. |
| 1:26.8 | That's incredible. |
| 1:27.4 | So we are, I want to thank |
| 1:30.1 | everybody out there who's donated and I will do my best to not pass out tomorrow and complete |
| 1:36.0 | this hike and fulfill my end of the bargain. That is awesome. 13 miles, man. That's like, |
| 1:42.4 | that's almost 200 bucks a mile. |
| 1:45.1 | That's all you got to think, man. |
| 1:46.2 | You got to make it those last ones. |
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