A special episode of IMO featuring Barack Obama
Renegades: Born in the USA
Higher Ground
4.5 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 17 July 2025
⏱️ 80 minutes
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Summary
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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| 0:00.0 | Hey, Renegades listeners. I'm a producer for Higher Ground's new show, IMO. IMO is a podcast |
| 0:07.1 | hosted by Michelle Obama and her big brother Craig. On the show, they bring wit, wisdom, and hot |
| 0:13.4 | takes to answer your real questions alongside some special guests. This week, your favorite |
| 0:19.7 | renegades co-host, President Barack Obama, |
| 0:22.4 | is joining them. And we wanted to share that episode with you now. In the conversation you're about to |
| 0:28.2 | hear, Mr. Obama gets candid about raising emotionally intelligent young men. He shares how being raised |
| 0:34.7 | by a single mother impacted his definition of manhood and how a |
| 0:38.8 | formative experience in Indonesia taught him about self-sufficiency. |
| 0:44.0 | Michelle and Craig reflect on the example of masculinity their own father set, and the group |
| 0:49.2 | shares why community is key to raising boys in today's world. Plus, Mr. Obama shares why he's optimistic about the future generation of men. |
| 0:59.4 | Okay, here it is. |
| 1:00.7 | You can listen to more IMO episodes wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 1:05.7 | This woman came up to me and she was so nice. |
| 1:08.7 | She's like, can I have a picture? |
| 1:09.8 | Yeah, yeah, yeah. |
| 1:10.6 | And then so you know how you get the side hug? And she's like, what did he do? And you knew she was going to say what he did. And I was like, it wasn't like what happened to him. That is so terrible. How'd he mess up? How'd he mess up? And I said, well, what makes you think he messed up? |
| 1:28.3 | Why couldn't have been hurt? |
| 1:29.4 | Well, why did you just say no one messed up? |
| 1:31.0 | Well, because I wanted to keep this conversation going so that I can tell you about it. |
| 1:37.7 | Oh, Lord. |
| 1:44.0 | This episode is brought to you by Rivian and Chase Home Lending. |
| 1:49.5 | Hey, little girl. |
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