Renegades: Born in the USA is a series of conversations between President Barack Obama and Bruce Springsteen about their lives, music, and enduring love of America—despite all its challenges.
Introducing Reconstruction: The Unfinished Promise
Former President Barack Obama and Malcolm Gladwell explore America's struggle with the unfinished promise of Reconstruction and its enduring impact.
15 Oct 2025TRANSCRIPT
Introducing Fela Kuti: Fear No Man
If you loved The Wonder of Stevie, you cannot miss Higher Ground and Audible's newest music show. In Fela Kuti: Fear No Man, Jad Abumrad—creator of Radiolab, More Perfect, and Dolly Parton's America—tells the story of one of the great political awakenings in music: how a classically trained 'colonial boy' traveled to America, in search of Africa, only to return to Nigeria and transform his sound into a battering ram against the state—creating a new musical language of resistance called Afrobeat. In a world that’s on fire, what is the role of art? What can music actually…do? Can a song save a life? Change a law? Topple a president? Get you killed?
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17 Jul 2025TRANSCRIPT
A special episode of IMO featuring Barack Obama
Your favorite Renegades co-host President Barack Obama was a recent guest on the IMO podcast, and we wanted to share it with you! On IMO, Michelle Obama and her brother Craig Robinson bring wit, wisdom and hot takes to answer your real questions, alongside some special guests. In this episode, Mr. Obama gets candid about raising emotionally intelligent young men. He shares how being raised by a single mother impacted his definition of manhood, and how a formative experience in Indonesia taught him about self-sufficiency. Michelle and Craig reflect on the example of masculinity their own father set, and the group shares why community is key to raising boys in today’s day and age. Plus, Mr. Obama shares why he’s optimistic about the future generation of men.
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12 Mar 2025
Introducing IMO with Michelle Obama and Craig Robinson
Introducing a new show hosted by Michelle Obama and her big brother, Craig Robinson. On IMO, they’ll bring their candid perspectives to the everyday questions shaping our lives, relationships and the world around us. Each week, they’re joined by a guest to tackle real questions from real folks just like you, offering practical advice, personal storytelling, and plenty of laughs. Topics range from dating and relationships, to family and faith. In this episode, Michelle and Craig share stories about being there for each other throughout their lives, from first crushes and fraught college years, to landing at the White House, to losing our mom. For six decades they’ve been each others’ most trusted counsel—and now, they want to be that counsel for you. And for you fans of The Boss, follow IMO now and be sure to catch Bruce’s episode, coming later this season at imopod.com.
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26 Sept 2024
Music of My Mind from 'The Wonder of Stevie'
Renegades listeners! We'd like to share the first episode of an exciting new Audible Original podcast. It's called The Wonder of Stevie.
You might think you know Stevie Wonder. You might think you know his music. But you’ve never heard it like this.
Host Wesley Morris is taking you on a deep-dive through Stevie's Classic Period: five legendary albums back-to-back in just four years. Hear about the record deal that started it all, the technology Stevie adopted to create never-before-heard sounds, and his influence on our culture. There will be appearances from legends like Barack and Michelle Obama, Questlove, Smokey Robinson, Dionne Warwick, Babyface, Janelle Monae and more.
In this episode, Wesley details how, years after signing his first recording deal with Motown Records, Stevie decides to renegotiate his contract. One of the things on the table? Complete creative freedom. What follows is the beginning of one of the greatest streak of albums in American popular music: Music of My Mind.
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19 Mar 2024
Introducing "Ways To Win"
Coaches Craig Robinson and John Calipari use their on-court wisdom to solve your off-court problems in Ways To Win, a new podcast from Higher Ground. In the first episode, President Barack Obama (and Craig’s favorite brother-in-law) drops by to break down his bracket. Find out who’s in his Final Four and how far he thinks Coach Cal’s Kentucky Wildcats will go (even if Cal doesn't want to know). Plus, the guys chat about how Cal's preparing his players for the first round of the tournament and what it takes to lead teams under pressure.
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27 Jul 2022
Introducing “The Sum of Us”
In a new series from Higher Ground, author Heather McGhee embarks on a road trip across Covid-era America, unearthing stories of American hope and solidarity in a time of great division and peril for our democracy.
In the first episode of the podcast, we’ll meet Heather and learn more about her journey—from rural Maine to the coast of California— as she meets extraordinary Americans who are crossing demographic, cultural and political lines to shape their communities for the better.
To listen to more of the show, subscribe to The Sum of Us (https://open.spotify.com/show/19VMtc487rqmrb6GC8eRvd) on Spotify.
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7 Jun 2021
Looking Towards American Renewal
President Obama and Bruce discuss the hope for American unification, they ask themselves what defines cultural appropriation, and Bruce shares memories from when he was writing "Born in the USA."
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31 May 2021
Fatherhood
President Obama and Bruce discuss starting their families, the feelings experienced when their children were born, and balancing fatherhood with their careers. They reflect on what they’ve learned from becoming fathers and husbands.
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24 May 2021
Relationships with Our Fathers & Masculinity
President Obama and Bruce open up about their complicated relationships with their fathers, what it means to be a man, father figures, and role models.
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17 May 2021
Money & the American Dream
President Obama and Bruce discuss the relationship between money and economic class, growing up with income inequality. They unpack what it meant to not be aware of your lack of economic privilege/wealth prior to a US economic and cultural shift in the 1980s.
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10 May 2021
Traveling the U.S. & Finding Home
President Obama and Bruce Springsteen discuss the loss of American innocence during the 1960s. They relate on the romance of the open road when young Bruce traveled to see concerts and President Obama road-tripped across the US when he first visited the mainland. They discuss the moments when they settled down, faced domestication, and defined their definition of home.
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3 May 2021
American Music
President Obama and Bruce sit down to talk popular music, their early musical influences and memories, and the inspiration behind Springsteen’s Broadway show. They share some of their favorite artists (think: Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye, Joni Mitchell, and more).
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26 Apr 2021
Race in the United States
President Obama and Bruce Springsteen discuss protest songs, reparations, and their relationships with John Lewis and Clarence Clemmons. They reflect on their early experiences with race and racism and the uncomfortable conversations we need to have.
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19 Apr 2021
Our Unlikely Friendship
President Barack Obama and Bruce Springsteen discuss how their friendship began. They share how race and racism in their hometowns defined their feelings of belonging and what it was like growing up as teenagers in the 1960s and 1970s. Bruce sings some of "My Hometown."
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13 Apr 2021
Renegades: Born in the USA Trailer
Welcome to the new podcast from President Barack Obama and Bruce Springsteen.
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Introducing Reconstruction: The Unfinished Promise
Published 18 Jun 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] They feature some of America's most accomplished scholars and storytellers. Dozens of voices to take us through one of the most chaotic, complicated, and fascinating times in the modern era. There's not a more revolutionary moment in American history than Reconstruction. We get to use the word unprecedented sometimes because it fits. The country had never been in this situation, the end of a massive civil war. America was now being reinvented, but how? What would it do? Who were the freed people? How would they be defined? They're no longer slaves, but will they be equal citizens? The crucial question of reconstruction is not just to put the country back together, but on what terms. […]
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