Obama and Springsteen launch eight-episode Spotify podcast series

The tweet included a video trailer, which is narrated by Obama, who happens to be one the best orators in American history: 

"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-'n'-roll icon. I'm not as cool. In our ways, Bruce and I have been on parallel journeys. Looking for a way to connect our own individual searches for meaning, truth, then community with the larger story of America. And over the course of a few days, all just a few miles from where he grew up, we talked. What we discovered during these conversations was that we still share a fundamental belief in the American idea. Not as an act of nostalgia but as a compass for the hard work that lies before us."

The first two episodes dropped Monday—"Outsiders: An Unlikely Friendship" and "American Skin: Race in the United States." Both begin with powerful monologues by the 44th President of the United States.

The series is produced by Higher Ground, Barack and Michelle Obama's production company that also revealed a new slate of upcoming projects with Netflix earlier this month. Higher Ground previously entered a podcast partnership with Spotify in June 2019. The former first lady's podcast, The Michelle Obama Podcast, debuted last summer.

Springsteen, meanwhile, has a legendary discography and 20 Grammy Awards to his name that all speaks for itself, but the 71-year-old Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee got even more vulnerable in his 2016 New York Times bestselling memoir Born to Run. The 

Outside of Higher Ground-related work, the Obamas spent the last year campaigning for Joe Biden. President Biden, who was inaugurated alongside Vice President Kamala Harris on Jan. 20, previously served as vice president for both of Obama's terms.