11 episodes

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.
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Renegades: Born in the USA Higher Ground

    • Society & Culture
    • 4.6 • 102 Ratings

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.
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    Introducing "Ways To Win"

    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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    • 49 min
    Introducing “The Sum of Us”

    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. 
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    • 23 min
    Looking Towards American Renewal

    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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    Archival clips courtesy of Sofa Entertainment, MLB, and Drew Associates' ´The Children Were Watching.´ Watch the whole documentary on the Criterion Channel.¨

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    • 50 min
    Fatherhood

    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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    • 40 min
    Relationships with Our Fathers & Masculinity

    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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    • 37 min
    Money & the American Dream

    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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    • 47 min

Customer Reviews

4.6 out of 5
102 Ratings

102 Ratings

AtelierDickson ,

From two golden loving hearts to millions of others

One of the most brilliant conversations!
Inspiring and incredibly relatable in unspeakable ways!

PonyVomit ,

Brilliant

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Aleksandra Tintinfan i UK ,

Political motives warp everything

Disappointing. As a confused and politically homeless listener I had hoped for more intelligence and nuance, but everything here is aimed at and driven by narrow ideological convictions and a frankly unpleasant tendency to self-hagiography.

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