John co-hosts a stop on Joe Biden's book tour and is struck by his listening
story · status: told 2×, last update 2022 · last event: retold (2022-04-05)
John recalls that Joe Biden once asked him to co-host a stop on his book tour, and that Biden was such an empathetic and careful listener that John made a whole video about it.
Told alongside: PodCon 2017 (Seattle, December 9-10): podcast convention with Night Vale Presents and the McElroys
About: Joe Biden
| date | event | what | video |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2017-11-07 | update | John will miss PodCon's first day, Saturday, because he is interviewing former Vice President Joe Biden; there will still be plenty of live Dear Hank and John. | Definitely Not A Pecan Orchard: A Pizzamas Question Tuesday 00:01:08 |
| 2020-10-27 | told | A while back John was asked to host a book event with Joe Biden. | The time I met Joe Biden 00:00:00 |
| 2022-04-05 | retold | Several years ago Joe Biden asked John to co-host a stop on his book tour; Biden was so empathetic and careful a listener that John made a whole video about it. → refers to The time I met Joe Biden | Celebrities I've Met and Whether I'd Vote for Them??? 00:01:27 |
What is said about it
12 statements, by date (the events above are the turns of the thread; these are the details).
- 2017-11-07 · Definitely Not A Pecan Orchard: A Pizzamas Question Tuesday — John says he is not that sad because he is pretty psyched about interviewing Joe Biden. — 00:01:18
- 2020-10-27 · The time I met Joe Biden — John generally dislikes political memoirs but was moved by Biden's book, about grief and what serving the public means: sad, human and openly conflicted. — 00:00:00
- 2020-10-27 · The time I met Joe Biden — John says he had no particularly strong opinion about Joe Biden then; he just liked the book. — 00:00:00
- 2020-10-27 · The time I met Joe Biden — The description corrects the video: on reflection the Biden event was not in St. Louis. — video description
- 2020-10-27 · The time I met Joe Biden — John flew to somewhere like St. Louis for the Q&A and was editing a Crash Course script backstage when someone asked if he'd like to meet Vice President Biden. (hedged) — 00:00:29
- 2020-10-27 · The time I met Joe Biden — John says he had become used to people saying kind things they didn't mean, because even modest fame works as a filter distorting how people look at you. — 00:00:29
- 2020-10-27 · The time I met Joe Biden — John: Meeting the actor who played Gilligan in the early 2000s, John blurted that he loved Gilligan's Island, never having seen it, and was asked his favorite episode. (playful) — 00:00:58
- 2020-10-27 · The time I met Joe Biden — John: Biden told John his family loved The Fault in Our Stars and it helped them process his son's cancer diagnosis; he asked about Esther, with tears in his eyes as John talked. — 00:00:58
- 2020-10-27 · The time I met Joe Biden — John was struck that Biden wanted to talk about Esther more than about the success of the book or the movie. — 00:01:27
- 2020-10-27 · The time I met Joe Biden — John: On the way to the stage a stagehand, Tim, asked Biden for an autograph and they fell into intense conversation; Biden asked Tim to wait and resumed talking with him after the hour-long Q&A. — 00:01:27
- 2020-10-27 · The time I met Joe Biden — John says Biden gave him exactly the same attention he gave Tim, which, among the many famous and powerful people John has met, is very rare. — 00:01:56
- 2020-10-27 · The time I met Joe Biden — John thinks Biden would be a fundamentally different president: listening with empathy, building teams of experts instead of concentrating power, leading with decency and humanity. — 00:02:55