John's Google+ Hangout interview with President Obama (2013)
story · status: told 2×, last update 2025 · last event: retold (2025-11-14)
In February 2013 John interviewed President Obama in a Google+ Hangout, where the President told John's unborn child not to forget to be awesome; years later Hank recalled Obama's answer on the penny about small changes blocked by entrenched interests.
Told alongside: Birth of John and Sarah's second child, Alice (2013)
About: Barack Obama, Google+, Google, DFTBA, Abolish the US penny
| date | event | what | video |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2013-02-12 | told | John announces he will be in a Google+ Hangout with President Obama on Thursday (14 February 2013), after someone at Google invited him to ask the President a few questions. | Talking to the President 00:00:37 |
| 2013-02-15 (happened 2013-02-14) | update | Hank reports that John got to interview the President a bit, and plays a highlight (the penny question). | Baby, Harlem, Obama, Dance Crazes, Big Week 00:01:47 |
| 2013-02-19 (happened 2013-02-14) | update | John recalls that the President told his unborn child not to forget to be awesome. | Doing Things, On the Importance of 00:00:08 |
| 2025-11-14 (happened 2013-02-14) | retold | Hank recalls that when John interviewed Obama on a Google+ Hangout about the penny, Obama said many small things that should be done are blocked by entrenched structures or the interests of a few. | The End of The Penny (and of Congress??) 00:00:56 |
What is said about it
5 statements, by date (the events above are the turns of the thread; these are the details).
- 2013-02-12 · Talking to the President — John says that on Thursday he will be in a Google+ Hangout with President Barack Obama, and will probably have a cold sore, which he has begun to develop. (hedged) — 00:00:37
- 2013-02-12 · Talking to the President — John: Someone at Google called John a couple of days earlier asking whether he wanted to be in a Google Hangout with President Obama and ask him a few questions. — 00:01:04
- 2013-02-12 · Talking to the President — announcement: John: The Hangout will be live on YouTube at 4:50 PM Eastern on Thursday. — 00:01:58
- 2013-02-15 · Baby, Harlem, Obama, Dance Crazes, Big Week — Hank says President Obama gave Nerdfighteria a shoutout during the Hangout, which still leaves him without words. — video description
- 2013-02-19 · Doing Things, On the Importance of — John and his wife are expecting their second child, whom the President told not to forget to be awesome. — 00:00:05