we asked research fellow and political maven bill wayland at the right-leaning hoover institution. >>on't think it's so much a matter of when. it's a matter of if your announcement is right on if you will. candidates spend a phenomenal amount of time trying to make their announcement symbolic. thematic. what it is and what it says about you as a candidate. >> reporter: let's take this idea a step further. as more and more candidates craft their identity to voters. first the facts about timing. we looked at the major candidates appearing in at least one televised presidential debate in the last three elections. who were the first to declare? political heavyweights like gary johnson. sam brownback, mike gravel and dick gephardt. none of those men captured their party's nomination. how about the last major candidates to declare? rick peri. allen keys. barack obama and dennis cue sin itch. only one president in the lot. president obama who entered the race back then in this fashion. >> for that is our unyielding faith. that in the face of impossible odds people who love their country can

. >> it's douglas wayland. i go by doug. >> what is your nickname? >> what is my nickname? bozo. bozo the clown. >> why? >> why? i don't know. i think it was because alex said i didn't have any hair. >> one day i was having a conversation with whitlow and he told me he had worked in a circus which was ironic considering his nickname being bozo and the kind of wild laugh he had. out of nowhere you would hear him just you know, ha, ha, ha. >> other than his hairline, douglas bozo whitlow had little in common with his namesake and his crime was no laughing matter. when we met him, he was in his 13th year of a 65-year sentence for rape and criminal confinement. and when we saw his scars, it was evident that his status as a sex offender made his time in prison anything but a circus. >> when i was burned with hot water out of a hot pot with baby oil and hair grease. it got on my arm, my stomach. it burned my stomach, it burned my back too. and i healed up pretty good but that's a permanent scar forever. >> he claimed to not know who exactly attacked him. but he offered multiple possibi

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>> wayland jennings. >> are you going to talk about mcdonald's sirloin burger. >> we can go to your -. one thing you don't know at mcdonald's but you do at wendy's, we'll tell you what the fish is that we're serving, mcdonald's, they're trying to figure out what it was -- i think it's called hack or -- it's something that is very common but wendy's said we serve cod. dewayne the rock johnson which is starring in fast and the furious. >> huge numbers. >> the rock is -- he has built -- we have similar builds in that we both have two arms and two legs. >> and a head. big head. >> yeah big head. but he eats 821 pounds of cod per year in case you were wondering. he eats 7 meals a day. 2.3 pounds of cod every day. 12 eggs every day plus steak and chicken. also a couple of potatoes. >> he eats ten pounds of food every day and most of it very few carbs. almost all of it -- not much fat either and i'm doing something where they tell you have to keep the burn going. so you have to eat five or six meals a day. smaller meals, mostly protein and that way, supposedly if you -- i don't know i'm just