Michelle Obama loves bedtime. Amy hangs with the former First Lady as they talk about her new podcast, IMO With Michelle Obama and Craig Robinson; filming 'Parks and Rec' together; keeping the thermostat at 68 degrees; and teasing as a love language. Host: Amy Poehler Guests: Craig Robinson and Michelle Obama Executive Producers: Bill Simmons, Amy Poehler, and Jenna Weiss-Berman For Paper Kite Productions: Executive producer: Jenna Weiss-Berman; coordinator: Sam Green; supervising producer: Joel Lovell For The Ringer: Supervising producers: Juliet Litman, Sean Fennessey, and Mallory Rubin; video producers: Jack Wilson, Chris Wholers, and Aleya Zenieris; audio producer: Kaya McMullen; video editor: Drew van Steenbergen; and booker: Kat Spillane Original Music: Amy Miles Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Chapter 1: Who are the guests and what is the episode about?
Hey everyone, welcome to another episode of Good Hang. I am Amy Poehler and I'm very excited to introduce our guest today. It is Michelle Obama. Wow, we talk about some really cool stuff today. We talk about HGTV and how much we love it. We talk about the time that I drooled in front of her. We talk about bedtime.
We talk about allergies, which is what I currently have right now, which is why I'm sounding so sexy and sophisticated. But before we start this episode, we do what we always do, which was we ask someone that knows our guests really well or is a fan of our guests or is familiar with our guests' work to give me a question to ask them.
And who better to ask about Michelle than her older brother, Craig? So Craig Robinson is joining us, the co-host of their new podcast, IMO, in my opinion. So let's welcome Craig Robinson to the studio. This episode is presented by the Toyota Grand Highlander. Life is going to throw grand challenges your way, and the Toyota Grand Highlander is ready for them.
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Everyone, I'm very, very excited to have Craig here, who is Mrs. Obama, Michelle Obama's brother. Do you call her Mrs. Obama?
See, this is what I mean. You just quickly make me laugh. I only call her Mrs. Obama when I'm mad at her.
Yeah, exactly. Or yes, when there's a formal request.
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Chapter 2: What is Craig Robinson's relationship with Michelle Obama?
The Obama family. Everybody talks. Malia, Sasha, we all have many opinions. Yes. And we share them openly. So why not have a...
where I'm sharing my opinion. Well, when we saw each other, I mean, I have such many, many memories, of course, of getting to do, luckily getting to do a bunch of things with you. And one of the most fun things is when you came into Parks and Recreation.
It was so cool. I was just, my assistant, who's young, she's a baby. We were just saying, I was sitting in the car right over her. I said, I haven't seen, I don't think we've seen, seen each other since Parks and Rec. And she was like, you were on Parks and Rec? Yeah. I was like, yeah, I'm kind of a big deal.
I mean, okay, do you have a memory of that day? I'm sure you didn't because you were probably in the middle of your work day, but I have a very strong memory about something.
It was a blur because the thing is, I'm not an actress, and I'm running lines and trying to figure out cues.
Well, God is fair. I mean, you can't be a good actress on top of everything else.
But I was nervous. I was like, you know, I want to get it right, but I want to be myself in a natural way. So it was very much a blur. What do you remember about that day?
Okay, well, I do remember the very first take.
Uh-huh.
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Chapter 3: What was it like growing up with Michelle Obama?
Like, I know she just passed. Yeah, so much. And she was really with you during a lot of mothering and in the White House.
Oh, my gosh, yeah.
Like, what did you learn from her about being a mom?
That's a great question. I love talking about my mom. I love talking about my parents. And I was so glad to have told some of her story in my second book, The Light, before she passed so that I could give her her flowers back. when she could see it, you know. But my mom loved kids. And she, I think at the core of her being was this understanding that every kid was special.
I mean, she loved us for sure, but she loved all kids that she came in contact with. We didn't have a lot of money, but my parents made the choice that my mom would stay home with us. And she didn't, use that time frivolously. I mean, she wasn't just looking after us.
She would come up to school and help kids that were struggling, teach kids that, you know, the room mom before there were room moms, because she just believed in the power and intelligence that little people, as she called them, brought into the world. And she just wanted to feed into that. And we got a lot of that. But, you know,
why I'm such an advocate for kids is it comes from my mom because she fully believes that we underestimate kids. And that we, you know, we don't come here, that we as adults are the ones that mess them up. That all kids are born into this world really special. And so I felt that, right? And I think that's one of the reasons, that's where confidence began for me.
Is sitting at my kitchen table, me and my brother, with a mom who really, really loved our voices. She liked to hear our thoughts. She thought we were funny. We made her laugh. We felt special in her presence. And sadly, we needed that because as kids, Black kids, poor Black kids, there would be a lot of people who would try to dim the light that she was pouring into us.
So we had an abundance of it, which allowed us to steel ourselves for what was to come, probably prepared me in ways I couldn't have imagined for those White House years, that time in the spotlight, because I was still fortified with the light she had given me all my life. So I could handle a lot of the negativity. I could handle the stress and the pressure. So I agree with you.
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