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This is the election of the longform podcast

20 October 2024

5:00 PM

20 October 2024

5:00 PM

We’re a long way from 2015.

Nine years ago, Barack Obama rolled up to a soundproofed garage outside the comedian Marc Maron’s California home, and entered podcasting lore. Not only the first black president, the first president on a podcast.

Fast forward to 2024, and the first three-President podcast. By March, when Obama, Bill Clinton and Joe Biden all turned up on Jason Bateman and Will Arnett’s mega-bucks big-network vehicle, SmartLess, something had shifted.

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