Photo by Pete Souza. Courtesy WTF With Marc Maron.

If you didn’t hear, President Barack Obama visited comedian Marc Maron’s Cat Ranch on Friday to be the guest on his wildly popular podcast WTF With Marc Maron.

The episode is now up on Maron’s website for you to listen to at your leisure. During their nearly hour-long conversation, Maron talked with Obama about a variety of issues our nation is currently dealing with—gun violence, college, and race relations, during which Obama dropped the “N-word.”

“Racism, we are not cured of it,” Obama said. “And it’s not just a matter of it not being polite to say n****r in public. That’s not the measure of whether racism still exists or not. It’s not just a matter of overt discrimination. Societies don’t, overnight, completely erase everything that happened 200 to 300 years prior.” Well said, Mr. President.

It’s quite a candid and fascinating interview, especially considering that the podcast doesn’t have to adhere to any FCC rules or regulations. In light of the recent tragedy in Charleston, South Carolina, the two discussed the state of gun violence in the nation and Obama had some harsh words for Congress. “I will tell you, right after Sandy Hook, Newtown, when 20 6-year-olds are gunned down, and Congress literally does nothing – yes, that’s the closest I came to feeling disgusted,” he said. “I was pretty disgusted.”

The whole thing is well worth a listen and, in the mean time, check out some photos of the President’s visit to Maron’s garage-studio here.