Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, you're listening to Ratchet and Respectable with

Dimitria El Lucas.

My first podcast is here.

I'm so excited.

In my head, I had decided that I was going to use the entire first podcast to talk about

Michelle Obama's bestselling book, Becoming.

Because 3 million people have read this book and I can't find a book club.

I can't find a place online where everyone's talking about it and that may just be a failure

on my part of not knowing where to look.

I'm obsessed with this book.

I'm obsessed with Michelle Obama.

If you follow me online, you know that I call her mom.

And people are always like, why do you call Michelle Obama mom?

She's totally not old enough to be your mother.

But I call her mom because she used to call herself mom in chief.

I think it was part of her whole plan to not fall into the same role that Hillary Clinton

did when she was first lady in office because Michelle Obama is clearly qualified to do policy

and all of those things.

But she chose not to.

She wanted to take care of her family and she made her daughter's a priority and she

wanted to help kids be unfathomable and she wanted to have a garden.

She wanted to help military family.

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