Holy Shit, I Interviewed the President

WRITTEN ON JAN 24 BY Hank Green

For the past six years, Google has been hosting post-State of the Union interviews with the President on YouTube. Some of these used pre-recorded questions, others incorporated Google Hangouts. My brother John even asked a couple of questions during the Hangout they did in 2013.

This year, Google and the White House worked together to actually have the interviews happen in the same physical space as Obama. I’m sure it was not easy to get buy-in from all of the necessary parties, but they did it.

The media did not complain about (or even really discuss) the last five years of post-SOTU interviews but, as we’ll see, this year was a bit different. This post is mostly about why that is.

Of the people they asked to participate this year, I was the safest bet. I’m a 34-year-old white male with a graduate degree. My videos sometimes involve farting and humping things, but my most common topics are science and thoughtfulness.

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