Former President Barack Obama is teaming up with Bruce Springsteen on a new podcast for Spotify. In Renegades: Born in the USA, the friends will sit down to discuss everything from race to fatherhood to modern manhood to the state of America today. "On the surface, Bruce and I don't have a lot in common.
He's a white guy from a small town in Jersey. I'm a black guy of mixed race born in Hawaii. He's a rock and roll icon. I'm not as cool," Obama says in a video promoting the podcast.
But he notes, "In our own ways, Bruce and I have been on parallel journeys." The eight-episode series is the second podcast project from Higher Ground, the production company launched by Obama and wife Michelle Obama after leaving the White House.
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