Can she see me yet?
I can!
This is pretty cool technology you got here.
So, let me try that.
We’re playing footsies!
We should have done this in outer space!
We could have both been sitting on, like, Neptune,
in a bubble.
Hey, what have you been doing for fun?
I have not left home since March 8.
At all?
I went to an eye doctor’s appointment
because I could no longer fix my eye infection
on telemedicine.
And then I went for a mammogram.
I asked what did you do for fun.
Eye doctors and mammograms do not qualify.
I have never had a mammogram, myself
Okay, so for fun.
but it doesn’t sound fun.
You can do better than that.
No, it is, definitely, not. Here’s what I did for fun:
I’ve had two girls here, the whole time,
who were living in Los Angeles,
who moved here during the pandemic
They’ve been fun.
We have movie nights, just the two girls, Stedman, and I.
We do regular movie nights,
and I’ve seen all the movies I wished I’d seen and didn’t.
We watched every episode of “The Crown.”
We started a whole thing with Popsicles, so we now have—
That sounds fun.
—twenty-three different flavors of Popsicles,
including pumpkin, and sweet potato.
And we have Friday-night dance nights
We put puzzles together.
And I’ve read a lot. What have you done?
You know, we went—
—for example—Michelle and I went bike riding yesterday,
which was fantastic,
because it was a beautiful day.
And game nights
—big!—although sometimes, I get too competitive.
At least, that’s what Michelle says,
because she’s been losing.
Hello, President Barack Obama!
Hey you! How are you?
I’m so good! You’re in Washington, DC,
and I’m home, in Santa Barbara,
but—through the miracle of technology
—we get to be face to face in the same room,
and we don’t even have to wear masks!
And we have a fire going, apparently!
And we have a fire going
—a real one, too!
I’m excited to talk to you about your extraordinary
—I mean, I don’t even have words for it,
—it’s a masterful rendering of your presidency and life,
“A Promised Land.”
But first, I just want to ask you,
What was the one word that would
best describe how you felt when it was
announced that Joe Biden and Kamala Harris will be
the next President and Vice President
of the United States?
I was thrilled!
"Joe Biden"!
First of all, obviously, Joe
is somebody who
stood by me
on every major decision I had for eight years.
He's become a brother -a genuinely good friend.
Kamala was one of my
earliest supporters when I first launched my presidency
So, I’m personally invested in them.
And they have the character and experience, I think,
to do an outstanding job
in a very difficult time,
a very challenging time, in this country.
But, beyond the personal investment I have in them,
I think this gives us a chance to
get back to the kind of competent,
caring government that we so badly need,
and that the world expects out of the United States of America.
So, it’s not going to immediately solve every
every problem that we have
—because you have enormous challenges, around COVID
and the economic after effects;
you’ve got long-standing issues,
like racial bias in the criminal justice system,
and rising inequality
—but without this change, I think,
things would have continued to deteriorate,
and our democracy would have been much more fragile.
And I’m confident
a new President and Vice President
are gonna help us right the ship.