Accept Your Parents’ Limits with Bruce Springsteen

Michelle Obama: The Light Podcast

Higher Ground

Self-improvement, Education, Society & Culture, Relationships

4.4 • 9.1K Ratings

🗓️ 11 June 2025

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Legendary musician Bruce Springsteen joins Michelle (Craig is out sick!) to answer a question from a listener who is struggling with her relationship to her father. Bruce talks about therapy and how it helped him become a better father to his kids. Michelle talks about the joy of having an adult relationship with her children, and Bruce shares advice on how to accept the limits of other people. Plus! A special musical interlude from Michelle.

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0:00.0	I loved my father deeply throughout my entire life.
0:04.0	The last 10 years of his life, he was able to see my children.
0:07.5	And we had one interaction that made the world a difference to me.
0:14.7	Patty and I were going to have our first son.
0:18.0	And I came down and visited me one day, and we were living in Los Angeles.
0:24.0	I just knocks on my door. This is my dad. He doesn't tell me he's coming, comes down from San Francisco.
0:29.7	He comes in. He wants a beer. It's 11 in the morning. I give him a beer. I take one from myself.
0:38.2	And he looks at me and says, hey, you know, you've really been very good to us.
0:44.8	I says, yeah, it's my pleasure, you know. It was, well, you guys, the house.
0:51.6	I wasn't very good to you.
0:55.6	It looks at me.
1:00.0	And I said, well, you did the best you could.
1:11.4	This episode of IMO is brought to you by Progressive Insurance and Pinesol.
1:22.2	Well, I have the special honor of having one of my dear friends join me for this conversation. He needs no introduction because everybody knows this dude.
1:29.2	20-time Grammy winner, Hall of Fame, all that.
1:34.8	The one and only Bruce Springsteen, thank you for being here and taking time off your tour.
1:41.5	You're in the middle of touring.
1:42.7	It is my pleasure.
1:44.0	Yeah, yeah. Last time I saw you was on stage in Barcelona.
1:50.3	That's right. And you did an excellent job as a backup singer, may I say.
1:54.4	Say that one more time, just for the record.
1:56.7	You did an excellent job as a backup singer.
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