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...other folks are cool, but in terms of just the honest answer of who has moved me, it's sort of - it's the real-life people that I've had contact with...
...weren't ... I'm trying to think of who would have been playing the role you're playing now when you were a child. Were there people? Did you imagine in public life there were people like you then? Or do you see what you're doing now as sort of a new thing? No, I don't. I don't think it's new. I mean, my mother said this in an interview and I completely agree with her, and it's something that, you know, I want young people to remember, is that, my mom said in this...
...sort of think of all that balance, and we were lucky because we could have ... anything could have happened, you know, and I realize ... looking back on the ... where my grandparents lived, they lived in this housing development called Parkway Gardens. I was actually born there. But I saw it as a wonderful, small apartment building. That's how I remember it. But now when I pass it, it's - I was like, God, I never saw that apartment in the way that I'm seeing it now ... you know, without ... but that's where my grandparents lived...
Switching gears a little bit, I wanted to ask you about the, sort of the public perception of Michelle Obama to the extent that you have to grapple with it. During the campaign, the sort of prism was, Is she radical? Is she too negative? Is she this, is she that? And since the Inauguration, there's a Pew poll that says even among Republican women, since the Inauguration, since January, your approval rating has gone up 21 points or something like that, to high levels, even by First Lady standards. What do you make of that shift...
...walk Bo, usually no one is screaming, or whatever. So there are just ways that you can either be in the midst of all the excitement, and there are many ways you can avoid it. And the longer you're around, you learn all the little channels of sort of, Oh, I'm not going in that door, not right now. [Laughter...