On David Letterman's new Netflix show first guest Barack Obama talks dad moves and taking Malia to college.

Courtesy of Time: 

As the inaugural guest on David Letterman’s new, six-episode Netflix series, My Next Guest Needs No Introduction, the Dad-in-chief divulged that, like most people, he sometimes has issues when it comes to assemble-yourself furniture. According to Obama, when he and the rest of the family moved in his daughter Malia into her new college digs (she’s currently a freshman at Harvard,) he was feeling pretty emotional about firstborn moving out, so Malia suggested that he help her put together a lamp that she had gotten for her desk. 

While the lamp initially appeared to be easy to put together, Obama ran into some challenges assembling it. 

“I was basically useless. Everyone had seen me crying and misting up for basically the previous three weeks, so Malia, who’s very thoughtful, she goes, ‘Dad, you know, I’ve got this lamp in this box, could you put the desk lamp together?’ I said, ‘Sure.’ It should have taken five minutes or three minutes and it had one of those little tools. It only had like four parts and I’m just sitting there, toiling at this thing for half an hour and meanwhile, Michelle has finished scrubbing and she’s organizing closets and I was just pretty pathetic.”

So I actually watched this show last night. 

I had not planned on it, but I had some free time before bed and I thought "Why not watch something pleasant before turning in?"

I'm really glad that I did.

After this year of Trump you almost forget just how charming, cool, and genuinely funny our former president was while in office.

Just hearing Obama's voice almost makes everything feel okay in the world.

Of course we know that it most certainly is not okay in the world, but he also reminds us that we have the power to correct that.

And in 2020, we most certainly will.