Talk show host David Letterman's new interview show debuted on the Netflix streaming service earlier today, and in the first episode, Letterman makes a visit to Selma for a walk across the historic Edmund Pettus Bridge.

Letterman's new show, his first since "Late Night with David Letterman" ended its 33-year run in May 2015, is titled "My Next Guest Needs No Introduction."

The first episode features an interview with former President Barack Obama, his first television interview since leaving office in January 2017.

The Obama interview is interspersed with clips of Letterman's on-location visit to Selma, where he and longtime Georgia Congressman John Lewis talked about the 1965 Bloody Sunday march, during which a then-25-year-old Lewis was beaten and had his skull fractured when he and other demonstrators tried to cross the Edmund Pettus Bridge on their way to Montgomery.

"Barack Obama would have been here with you had he been the right age, wouldn't he?" Letterman asks Lewis as they walk across the bridge together.

"Oh, he would have been here," Lewis replies. "He would have been an unbelievable spokesperson, an unbelievable leader."

Letterman and Lewis visited Selma in November to record the interview, according to the Selma Times-Journal.

"We've only been here a few hours, but my impression of Selma in fact is entirely different than I thought it would be, you know," the Times-Journal quoted Letterman during his visit. "And beyond that, a factor that I hadn't even considered, the people have been so nice to me. I'm so unaccustomed to people being nice to me that it's just made it a delight."

The next episode of Letterman's "My Next Guest Needs No Introduction" features an interview with actor and filmmaker George Clooney.

For more about the show, go here.

UPDATED at 2:21 p.m. CST on Friday, Jan. 12, 2018, to add more information about David Letterman's interview with John Lewis.