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[Part 1] Hey what's up, mkbhd here

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so as you may have seen

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barack obama's been on a pretty massive book 
tour for his new book a promised land

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uh it's been a pretty great read so far for 
me but

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then youtube reached out, and they were like, 
hey

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do you want to ask obama anything about what 
he talks about in this book

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and so of course i said yes that would be 
awesome

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but that's that's a big moment for me like

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what do i ask the president if i could ask 
him anything

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[Part 2] so anyway what i have for you are 
the two questions that i chose

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and this is actually part of a larger uh 
youtube originals project called booktube

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where he answers a bunch of questions from 
a bunch of other creators about that book 
and what he wants to talk about

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including a really good one from mark rober 
about nasa and the origins of the white house 
science fair which i thought were really 
interesting

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so i'll link that below for you to check 
it out

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but this is sort of extended cut of a little 
chat and uh i wanted to share

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enjoy [Music]

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[Part 3] mr president my name is marquez 
brownlee

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i run a youtube channel called mkbhd

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so that's mkb which is my initials plus hd 
that's high definition

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that's where i get to be a huge nerd basically

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i talk all kinds of tech products review 
tech try to make high quality videos and 
we like to have fun with it

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you know these days tech is in everything 
it feels like it's a part of the fabric of 
the culture we live in

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so on my channel it's everything from smartphones 
to 5g to computers to electric cars

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basically anything with an on button all 
the way to interviews with people with unique 
perspectives on tech

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it's a lot of fun

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i'm 26 years old i've been doing this for 
about 10 years now over 10 years

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so a long time in my own life

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and i also happen to be a professional ultimate 
frisbee player

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so shout out to the new york empire we had 
an undefeated season last year in 2019

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and i'm also an avid golfer and a pretty 
big nba basketball fan

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so i gotta say i'm pretty excited to be able 
to talk about your book a promised land

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which is your third book and uh first in 
a two-part presidential memoir

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so i started my youtube channel in 2009 so 
a year after your inauguration which i was 
at by the way

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um i wish i had some some pictures or something 
from that but i didn't have a camera then 
believe it or not but i do remember it was 
very cold

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the timing of this isn't lost on me i feel 
like i feel like i owe a lot of my position 
now to the rise of technology and its accessibility

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and i feel like maybe to an extent you can 
say a lot of the same like a lot of people 
have called you the first social media president

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but more than that it's just you know you 
look at the administration before you they 
hadn't quite used it hadn't quite cracked 
it

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then you came along and all of your teams 
using social media embracing technology embracing 
this new stuff

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so can you speak to that level of embracing 
technology and and how it affects our politics 
and activating new audiences and speaking 
to new people

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you know obviously we can see it has its 
ups and downs but i feel like a unique challenge 
of yours was finding a balance there that 
we hadn't really seen before you

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thanks mark has unbelievable hops uh on that 
clip of you in uh ultimate frisbee

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you're right technology had a big impact 
on my campaign

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first of all the reason we were really early 
adapters of a lot of technology as a tool 
for reaching out to voters was because i 
had a bunch of folks in their 20s working 
for me

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young people who would come to me and say 
listen we had this thing called myspace and 
meetup

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what it turned out was that those early iterations 
of social media became a really powerful 
way for us to build a volunteer base and 
a movement

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it made me hugely optimistic about the possibilities 
of technology as a force for democratization

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during the presidency what we learned was 
that that same technology could be used for 
ill or for good

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you know hatred could be communicated as 
well as love and compassion

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that's something that i think we still struggle 
with and i write about in a promised land 
how do we harness this technology for good 
and try to mitigate uh some of the problems 
that uh that it creates

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