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Michelle Obama says she is "so glad" she didn't have a son on the latest episode of her podcast, "IMO with Michelle Obama and Craig Robinson".

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00:00Michelle Obama talking on her podcast with her brother and talking about the possibility of having a boy.

00:09Remember, of course, she has two girls. They were talking about what it would be like to have a boy.

00:14And listen to how she described it.

00:16People say mothers, mothers raise their girls and love their sons.

00:21And I'd say love your son, but raise him to raise him to be as strong as you know he's going to have to be, you know.

00:30Teach him about how to deal with a traffic stop, but also teach him how to communicate in a marriage and be a listening father.

00:38You should have threw a boy in the mix.

00:41I'm so glad I didn't have a boy here.

00:43Why would you have a third?

00:44Because he would have been a Barack Obama.

00:47Oh, baby Barack. It would have been amazing.

00:51No, I would have felt for him.

00:52How is that not shade?

00:54I mean, I was trying to figure out what's the point.

00:58This is absolutely an unintended jab.

01:02Whether or not that's true, that is a topic up for debate.

01:04But what I'm thinking here, the main thing I think of when she's talking about a mini Barack Obama,

01:09I'm thinking of Barron Trump, kind of where the spotlight's been on him since he was 10 years old.

01:14Can you imagine the pressure on a young Barack Obama, his son, just trying to fit in to everything?

01:21She is not saying that at all.

01:23She is saying that Barack Obama is a—look, if you've read their books, their various books, and I have,

01:32they're very open that they've had marital trouble over the years.

01:36And especially when he was a state legislator in Illinois, she felt he was just absent and wasn't connecting with them.

01:45So I think there's a lot of history, and I think she's kind of talking about some of that.

01:50Let's do the more charitable version of what she could be saying.

01:53What is that?

01:54Is it possible that she's saying that it's hard to be a black man and black boy in America right now,

01:59that that could be complicated?

02:01She said that, about traffic stops and whatnot.

02:03And so that's hard.

02:04And then you add on top of that the pressure of being the male heir to the Obama family and being the next in line heir could be hard.

02:11Here's why I disagree with you there.

02:13Here's why.

02:13She's not talking about the pressure of having a kid in the White House because the girls had the same pressure.

02:18I know.

02:19She's talking—

02:20But if you're a guy and you're the son, it is a little different.

02:23Yeah, but she's talking about, hey, I think you should teach a boy about how to communicate, to communicate in a marriage.

02:32What does that mean, other than what I just said?

02:35Yeah.

02:35Well, this podcast doesn't seem to be great for their marriage.

02:39Or it's great for their marriage because they just put it out in their book already.

02:44Yeah.

02:45My name is Big Teeth.

02:46It's from Chicago.

02:47I think she's just saying that the public would put a lot of pressure on if there was a baby Barack.

02:51They would be asking, you know, what school is he going to?

02:53When is he going to run for office?

02:55Is he going to be in Chicago?

02:56I don't think, you know, whatever gender they would have been handed, whether it was a boy or a girl, I think they would have been successful.

03:01But also, I think being a little Michelle Obama is much better anyway.

03:05Why?

03:06Why?

03:06Yeah.

03:07What do you mean why?

03:08Being a little Michelle Obama is everything.

03:10You know, there's the education side.

03:11There's the personality side.

03:13There's the fashion side.

03:14But also, you know, being a little Michelle Obama, you're commanding the room.

03:17Like, everyone's looking at you.

03:19Everyone's looking to you for guidance.

03:20Like, he commanded the world.

03:23He was the commander-in-chief.

03:25And he played basketball.

03:26He's Michelle Obama.

03:29He's Barack Obama.

03:30He's Barack Obama.

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