Okay, so yesterday I had this little project pop into my head – trying to figure out the exact moment Biden was giving a particular speech. Sounds simple, right? Wrong!
First things first, I started with the obvious: Google. Typed in “Biden speech time [topic of the speech]” and sifted through news articles, official White House transcripts, and YouTube videos. You’d think someone would have the exact timestamp plastered everywhere, but nope. Just a bunch of articles saying “Biden spoke about X at Y time,” with no precise minute marker.
Next up, I hit YouTube. Figured the official White House channel would be my best bet. I searched for the speech and scrolled through the comments, hoping someone had pinpointed the exact moment. Nada. Lots of political commentary, but no helpful timecodes.
So, I decided to get my hands dirty. I downloaded the video of the speech. (Yeah, I made sure it was from an official source, didn’t want any edited nonsense). Then, I fired up VLC player, because that thing can handle anything. I started scrubbing through the video, watching for specific visual cues – maybe a clock in the background, a particular phrase he started with, anything.
This is where it got tedious. I was basically frame-by-framing through the first few minutes, trying to align the speech with any news reports that gave a general timeframe. Like, if an article said “Biden began his address around 2:15 PM,” I’d skip to that point in the video and then fine-tune it.
Then I had an idea! Closed captions! Most of these official videos have them. I enabled them in VLC and started paying attention to the first few lines he spoke. Then, I went back to Google and searched for those exact lines, hoping someone had quoted them with a timestamp somewhere.
And bingo! Found a transcript on some obscure blog that had the first few sentences time-stamped. It wasn’t perfect, but it got me within a few seconds. I went back to the video, cross-referenced the timestamp with the closed captions, and finally nailed down the exact second the speech started.
To wrap it up, it took way longer than I expected. What I learned is that even with all the information available online, finding a precise timestamp can be a real pain. Sometimes you just gotta dig in and do it the old-fashioned way. Now I’ve got the exact time saved for future reference. Worth it? Eh, maybe. Satisfying? Definitely!
Here is what I did step by step:
- Googled the speech and topic
- Checked for articles with timestamps
- Searched for the speech on the official YouTube channel
- Downloaded the video using VLC Player.
- Scrubbed through the video, looking for visual cues.
- Enabled closed captions in VLC.
- Searched for the first few sentences of the speech online.
- Cross-referenced timestamps and closed captions.
- Saved the exact time.
So, yeah, that was my “biden speech time” adventure. Sometimes, the simplest tasks turn into the biggest time sucks!
