(As Obama puts it in the series’ premiere: “We both felt like outsiders as kids.”) But the rule of thumb is, if, like the former POTUS and the Boss, you’ve been spotted off the coast of Tahiti, lunching with Oprah Winfrey and Tom Hanks on David Geffen’s $300 million “superyacht,” your claim to the mantle “renegade” must be rescinded. At one time, Obama and Springsteen may have qualified as rebels, or something along those lines. It has the feel of a much-workshopped and whiteboarded compromise, hammered out in bleary Zoom sessions by people who know that money is at stake and that the interests of three big brands-including Spotify, the exclusive outlet for the eight-episode series-must be met. It lacks the zing of, for example, Dreams From My Father, to say nothing of plain old Born in the U.S.A. The podcast co-hosted by Barack Obama and Bruce Springsteen is called Renegades: Born in the USA.