When listening to this podcast you must keep reminding yourself – as part of the theater of the mind – that this is the President of the United States sitting in someone’s garage, in California, doing a podcast called “WTF.” And WTF does in fact stand for what you think it stands for.
Near the beginning of the interview, President Obama talks about the improbability of the moment and explains why a president would do such a thing. Obama spent his first two years of college in a school not far from Marc Maron’s home.
And for insight into what it is like to have the President of the United States in your garage, here is a de-brief of Maron by Terry Gross.
