* Oberst was, however, reluctant to repeat the feat. When one radio station asked him to play “When the President Talks to God” during an interview, he declined. “I just wasn’t into it,” he explained to the Guardian’s Laura Barton. “And they really wanted to talk about politics, to carry this torch for them that was obviously their idea of what I was all about. And when I sort of refused, it turned on a dime to almost anger or resentment.”