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The 7 Things We Learned From Barack Obama’s Interview With Oprah Winfrey

Obama made the appearance with Oprah to coincide with the release of his new book, ‘A Promised Land.’…

“I have not left my home since March 8th,” Oprah Winfrey confesses to former President Barack Obama on the latest episode of her AppleTV series The Oprah Conversation. These are certainly bizarre times, and as our current political landscape becomes more bizarre with each passing day, it’s oddly comforting to see Obama and Oprah conversing—albeit virtually—as though it’s 2008 again.

Obama made the appearance to coincide with the release of his new book A Promised Land, and those who can’t wait to get their hands on it might consider the Oprah interview a preview. Below, seven things we learned about Obama from his morning with Oprah.

The 7 Things We Learned From Barack Obama's Interview With Oprah Winfrey
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  1. He’s been getting extremely “dad” in quarantine. Obama and his wife, former First Lady Michelle Obama, have been biking and instituted game nights, although “sometimes I get too competitive,” he admits.

  2. “There may have been some liquor involved” in the Obama family’s celebration when Joe Biden was officially announced as the next president of the United States. Pizza, too!

  3. He’s all too aware of the irony contained in the fact that his choice to wear a tan suit was what constituted a scandal during his presidency, and he’s looking forward to a democracy in which the president “doesn’t routinely lie.”

  4. Obama was already working on this book a month after he left office in 2016, which isn’t surprising, given that it’s over 700 pages.

  5. In a vulnerable moment, Obama admitted that the Sandy Hook shooting was “the hardest day” of his presidency.

  6. In an audio excerpt from the book that aired during the interview, Obama questions his own motivations behind running for president, wondering if he’s still trying to prove himself to his absent father.

  7. Obama admits that his marriage to Michelle was tested by the stresses of two campaigns and the presidency, noting that they “went through our rough patches in the White House … but I tell you that the thing that I think we were good about was talking stuff through, never losing fundamental love and respect for each other, and prioritizing our kids.”

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A$AP Rocky Turned An Entire Manchester City Kit Into His Album Rollout

A$AP Rocky at South by Southwest 2019
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A$AP Rocky doesn’t do album rollouts quietly, and this one recruited an entire Premier League club to help. Manchester City, PUMA, and Rocky teamed up on a limited apparel run tied to “Don’t Be Dumb,” his 2026 album, timed around his September 5th show at Co-op Live.

The centerpiece is a long-sleeve PUMA King jersey in black and archive gold, with “DON’T BE DUMB” running down the sleeve and AWGE branding worked in throughout. A bold “MANCHESTER” graphic covers the back. Fans could also add limited “A$AP 11” name-and-number printing onto the club’s actual Home, Away, or Third kits, while supplies lasted at retail.

There’s a players-only version too, and it never went up for sale. That one sticks closer to City’s usual sky-blue identity, with its own sleeve detailing and back graphic — the kind of piece that exists purely because a handful of people got lucky.

The whole rollout kicked off with a one-night pop-up on September 4th, when PUMA turned a spot in Manchester’s Northern Quarter into a pop-up cafe for the night, mixing football, music, and street style into one room before the wider release hit the stadium store the next morning. Some of those jerseys even came with golden tickets to the concert or that Saturday’s match.

Rocky has called the project true to his own design language, and it’s not even his only club collaboration this cycle — a similar drop with AC Milan landed around the same time. At this point, the line between fashion week and matchday has basically disappeared.

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Quavo And Lids Are Going All In On Atlanta With Their New Cap Pack

Quavo photographed in 2019
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Quavo has never been shy about his hat obsession, and Lids just gave him another outlet for it. Their new “Atlanta” pack drops September 12th, marking another round in a partnership that’s been running strong since 2019.

The collection is a love letter to the city, spread across three very different caps. One mashes up pinstripes, script lettering, and Braves branding into a single design, working navy, red, white, and light blue into the mix. Another goes the opposite direction entirely — fully iced out in crystal detailing, done up in black and red, with both the Falcons and the Braves showing up in the design. The third strips things back to an old-school “ATL” trucker cap in red, white, and gold, the kind of understated piece that lets the city’s name do the talking.

None of this is new territory for Quavo. He’s talked before about waiting on hat releases as a kid, and that same excitement seems to be what’s kept this partnership going years past most celebrity collabs. His earlier Lids run leaned on one moment — the Braves’ 1995 World Series win — but this pack pulls from the city’s whole sports history instead of just one highlight.

Lids has called Quavo one of the rare voices who can blend music, fashion, and sports without it feeling forced, and this drop backs that up. Given how fast his past releases have moved, Atlanta might want to set an alarm for September 12th.

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