{"id":39242,"date":"2026-08-11T20:19:40","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T15:19:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=39242"},"modified":"2026-08-11T20:19:40","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T15:19:40","slug":"obama-launching-his-own-podcast-and-its-not-about-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=39242","title":{"rendered":"Obama Launching His Own Podcast \u2014 and It\u2019s Not About Politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script>\r\n  atOptions = {\r\n    'key' : '644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6',\r\n    'format' : 'iframe',\r\n    'height' : 90,\r\n    'width' : 728,\r\n    'params' : {}\r\n  };\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script src=\"https:\/\/www.highperformanceformat.com\/644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5700745\" src=\"https:\/\/am11.mediaite.com\/med\/cnt\/uploads\/2026\/02\/obama.jpg\" alt=\"Barack Obama\" width=\"1200\" height=\"628\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Just call him the podcaster in chief<\/p>\n<p>Former President <strong>Barack Obama<\/strong> announced this week he&#8217;s entering the podcast space, hosting his own show about one of his favorite interests \u2014 books.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;At a time when fewer people are able to sit down with a book, it\u2019s important to remember the joy and power that can come from reading,&#8221; the former president said in <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BarackObama\/status\/2086830099408519195\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">an X post<\/a> on Monday. &#8220;And some books don\u2019t just tell a story \u2013 they change the way we see the world. That\u2019s why I\u2019m excited to share my latest podcast from [Audible] and [Higher Ground Media], <em>A Great Book with Barack Obama<\/em>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"embed_container\" id=\"e3e553b7ab3f3f9eb6bf4f16d999567f\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">At a time when fewer people are able to sit down with a book, it\u2019s important to remember the joy and power that can come from reading. And some books don\u2019t just tell a story \u2013 they change the way we see the world. That\u2019s why I\u2019m excited to share my latest podcast from\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/217Df4SwBF\">pic.twitter.com\/217Df4SwBF<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Barack Obama (@BarackObama) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/BarackObama\/status\/2086830099408519195?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 10, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p>In a subsequent post, Obama listed some of the writings that influenced him over the years \u2014 including <em>The Fire Next Time<\/em> by James Baldwin, <em>Song of Solomon<\/em> by Toni Morrison, and <em>All the Pretty Horses<\/em> by Cormac McCarthy \u2014 and revealed he will sit down with friends to &#8220;explore why these books resonate.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The first episode of <em>A Great Book<\/em> will drop on September 24.<\/p>\n<p>Obama joins his wife, <strong>Michelle Obama<\/strong>, in the podcast realm.<\/p>\n<p>She has been hosting <em>IMO With Michelle Obama <\/em>with her brother, <strong>Craig Robinson<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/media\/news\/michelle-obama-launches-weekly-video-podcast-with-her-brother-amid-dem-messaging-struggles\/\">since last year<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/media\/podcasts\/obama-launching-his-own-podcast-and-its-not-about-politics\/\">Obama Launching His Own Podcast \u2014 and It\u2019s Not About Politics<\/a> first appeared on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\">Mediaite<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><script async=\"async\" data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/pl30214220.effectivecpmnetwork.com\/9ab3d4df8a7e1a6171e16ddbf732cc19\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<div id=\"container-9ab3d4df8a7e1a6171e16ddbf732cc19\"><\/div>\r\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just call him the podcaster in chief Former President Barack Obama announced this week he&#8217;s entering the podcast space, hosting his own show about one of his favorite interests \u2014 books. &#8220;At a time when fewer people are able to sit down with a book, it\u2019s important to remember the joy and power that can&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39243,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/am11.mediaite.com\/med\/cnt\/uploads\/2026\/02\/obama.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-newsweek-trending"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39242\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/39243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}