You Should Start a Podcast with Your Sibling with Michelle and Craig
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What is the purpose of Michelle and Craig's podcast?
A lot of people have questions they want to know, especially when they see somebody of note with a platform who, you know, by every measure looks successful. The first question is how? I think this podcast, first and foremost, gives us an opportunity to hear from folks. You know, we're going to be taking, you know, questions from listeners who are going through some things and just need a little advice. They want to hear from people in conversations. And folks are looking for a place where they can just... They can hear stories, you know? I mean, what I realize is like by sharing some of these stories, you know, it always taps into something from somebody else. People... You know, they want to hear some honest kind of conversation about how people are working it through. And we don't have all the answers, you know. I mean, this show isn't about us being experts at anything other than the lives that we've lived. But what we do have are a lot of opinions.
Hence the name, In My Opinion, IMO.
This episode is brought to you by Rivian and Pinesol.
Well, I'm Craig Robinson, and you all know my sister, Michelle Obama, and we're doing this podcast together. And it's really exciting to be working with you on this project.
Some people react like, you're doing a podcast with your brother?
Why would you do that?
I know, really. But our dynamic is so, in my view, unique. I think there are plenty of siblings who have great relationships. But I think when we think back to where that came from, I think about just the physical closeness that we had. I mean, we weren't wealthy. Right. And- Dad was working class. We lived in the same apartment our whole lives and had to grow into that. And as a result, you and me, we were physically close growing up.
Remember when we used to share a bedroom?
Of course, that was our life growing up. We shared the same room until you went to high school, right?
That's right.
Well, let's first just recall how small the apartment we lived in. It seemed like it was huge, but it was essentially two bedrooms. Right?
No, it was one bedroom.
Well, that little offshoot bedroom that mom and dad stayed in, you would consider that a bedroom.
But that was the only bedroom. The room we were in was actually the living room. And the living room that we, what we called the living room was actually the dining room.
Huh. Okay. All right. So that's how small it was. That's how small it was, yes. We had to turn it into something else. But the biggest room was always ours. Yes. And we were little, little, like baby littles.
Like five and three.
The twin beds were head to head with like an end table in between. Right.
And we had matching spreads.
That mom made.
That mom made.
She sewed them. They were these big, bold stripes. And the twin beds were up against the wall. And she had the concept of creating these little padding boards.
Yes.
You know, she was so crafty, so she created these foam pads that she hung along the side to make them decorative, but to also provide us with a little cushion against the wall, which we thought was so cool.
I remember you had a bed guard because you were so little.
Yeah, I sort of remember that, yeah.
You still probably should have been in a crib.
Maybe so, but yeah, I do remember. You remember that? You guys would tell me I'd fall out of bed, start crying, get put back in the bed, and I wouldn't remember anything about it. You wouldn't remember any of it.
Everybody else would be wide awake, and you'd be snoring.
I didn't snore. Now you're making stuff up.
But then from there, from there, we went to, and I'm trying to remember what age, when our grandfather, Southside, built us this tea plant.
Partition wall.
Partition wall. So then we had our own bedrooms in that same room. So it went from a one room, one big room into three small rooms. Your bedroom was on the right. Mine was on the left. And then we had a common area in the front where mom, once again, crafty, built us desks on each side where we could do our homework.
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