00:00We have to celebrate a winner this morning. We have to celebrate Dev Shaw.
00:05Oh.
00:06Dev Shaw is the 14-year-old kid from Largo that won Scripps National Spelling Bee last night.
00:15That's amazing.
00:16Dev's winning word.
00:18Yes, what was the winning word?
00:22I can't. I don't know how to say it.
00:24Stop it. It can't be that bad, right?
00:27Okay. I know how to read.
00:28Yeah, yeah.
00:29But it starts with a P and the next letter is an S.
00:33So that makes it a little difficult for me.
00:35It's like an S sound.
00:36Yeah.
00:38Samophile.
00:39Samophile?
00:40Yes.
00:41Samophile.
00:41Samophile. And don't ask me to use it in a sentence.
00:43His winning word was samophile.
00:45And I've already told you the first two letters.
00:49Are we trying to spell it?
00:50You want us to spell it?
00:51Oh.
00:51I mean, if you're going to take a stab at it.
00:54Samophile?
00:54You got a little Dev in you?
00:56No.
00:5614-year-old can pretty much lap you on this word.
00:59P-S-A.
01:00Why are you writing things down?
01:01I was just saying.
01:03Say it M.
01:04Okay.
01:05You said P-S-A.
01:06P-S-A-M-A-F-I-L-L-E.
01:11Okay.
01:12No.
01:13Samophile.
01:14P-S-A-P-H.
01:19P-H?
01:21Samo.
01:21Oh, no, no, no.
01:22See, I don't know.
01:24We give up.
01:25Yeah.
01:25Okay.
01:25So, Samophile, which I don't know what the definition is.
01:28It's P-S-A-M-M-O-P-H-I-L-E.
01:34Samophile.
01:36Samophile.
01:36Whatever it is.
01:37Charlotte Walsh is a 14-year-old kid from Arlington.
01:40She was runner-up.
01:41Dev's got $50,000 in cash and prizes.
01:44He is the 22nd champion in the past 24 years that have been of South Asian heritage.
01:52Okay.
01:53His father, Deval, is a software engineer, immigrated to the United States from India 29 years ago
01:59to get his master's in electrical engineering.
02:02He has since added his MBA at the University of Florida.
02:05His older brother, Neil, is a junior at Yale.
02:08Oh, my gosh.
02:09They do these things with books.
02:12Breeding geniuses.
02:12They are definitely a studious family up in here.
02:16So, big shout-out to the Shaw fam for representing Largo and the Bay Area.
02:20Lovely with the Scripps National Spelling Bee.
02:23A Samophile is a plant or animal that prefers or thrives in sandy areas.
02:29There we go.
02:30There you go.
02:30Yeah.
02:31Okay.
02:32I feel like a Samophile.
02:33I would have messed around and said S-A-N-D-O-File.
02:35Yeah.
02:36It's not saying no file.
02:37All right.
02:38Big shout-out to Dev.
02:39He is definitely making the Bay look good.
02:41What's great in the Bay?
02:43Being able to spell them words.
02:44We can't spell.
02:45Go ahead, Dev.
02:46I hope they cheer for him like they do in sports.
02:48Spell that damn word for him.
02:50You better spell that damn word.
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