Former President Barack Obama is back in the spotlight with a podcast appearance that quickly went viral. While most people focused on a playful extraterrestrial exchange, the conversation itself centered on how movies and television — especially streaming — shape culture today.

Former President Barack Obama told Brian Tyler Cohen in an interview this weekend that aliens are "real." "They're real, but I haven't seen them," Obama said. "And they're not being kept in Area 51. There's no underground facility,

"During the course of Obama's two terms, from 2009 to 2017, 56 individuals died in ICE custody. ... 56 deaths translates into a rate of 0.007% -- roughly one death for every 14,314 detainees. "By comparison, the rate last year under Trump was slightly lower: 0.0054%, or one death for every 18,594 detainees.