IMO Live at SXSW: Combatting Hopelessness with Dr. Laurie Santos
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Yeah.
Remind me. What are you thinking?
I am thinking about the 2008 convention. And that was a big moment for me because that was Barack's first campaign. And in that campaign, people didn't know me. So I... got accused in the press of being angry and combative because of the way I spoke. So I found that I had to use this speech to reintroduce myself to the country. So this was a big speech, major speech at the DNC. I remember that. And my big brother introduced me. And we were on stage together.
It was quite an honor.
It was quite an honor. But in his introduction, when you're on stage and you're doing a big speech, you have teleprompters. So you have a prompter in the front, have a prompter on the left, prompter on the right, because you're reading from the prompter because it's timed. You've got to hit it right. It's national. It's live.
But let me cut in here. She had to read from a prompter. I memorized mine.
Here we go. favorite child. He memorized everything. Well, my speech was a little longer, a little more impactful. So I needed the teleprompter, right? So he does this beautiful introduction of me. It's all action-packed. And he says, and ladies and gentlemen, the next first lady of the United States, Michelle Obama. And I come on stage and they're cheering. And we do this greet in front of the prompter where I think that my big brother is gonna lean down and give me a hug and say, you got this girl, I love you, I'm so proud of you. So I go out there and we're on national TV and do you remember what you said to me?
I do, I do.
You leaned down to my ear and you said, left prompter out. And he walked off.
I was looking out for her. Left prompter out. I was looking out for you. I knew you hadn't memorized it, so I didn't want you to be surprised.
But, you know, I mean.
When that wasn't working.
So now I'm thinking, what was he talking about? I'm waving, trying to play it off, and I'm walking up to the stand. And what he meant was the left prompter was out. And I was like, okay, good looking out. But anyway, that was my brother looking out. But that was the last time we were on stage together.
That was the last time. And look at us now. We are here launching our new podcast, IMO. Yeah. Yeah. And we're already doing a live show.
I know this is our first live show. Okay, y'all.
But before we go any further, I just want to say how grateful we are to partner with the folks at Rivian who have enabled us to do this podcast. Thank you, folks. I really appreciate it.
Now, we're really excited. We've got a lot of great partnerships, and Rivian has been top of the heap, and we're going to be doing something with them after this. So we'll be able to talk to RJ, the head of that joint. So we're excited to be here.
So how's this working? How are we going to do this, this podcast?
Well, what we've been doing, we're going to chat a little bit so you guys will get a sense of our dynamic and sort of some of the lessons we learned growing up. And some of this podcast was started because, you know, this last year was pretty interesting. I won't say completely rough, but we had some... We lost our mom this year. For those of you who don't know, Marion Robinson. And as a result... Yeah, yeah. Thank you. Our mom. She and our dad were some amazing people, and I think as a result of that loss, Craig and I... You know, it brought us even closer together. We were already close, but... I don't know about you, but there's just something about losing what was our last parent.
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