Tell Your Story with Jonathan Capehart
1/7/20261 hr 1 min
Pulitzer-Prize-winning journalist and MS NOW host Jonathan Capehart joins the show to discuss his memoir, Yet Here I Am. Michelle and Craig turn the tables and learn more about how Jonathan ended up in journalism— from his childhood shuttling between New Jersey and North Carolina, to his early career in the New York, and his experience as a gay Black man in media.
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First 90 secondsJonathan Capehart· Guest0:00
... the formal name was Main Street.
Michelle Obama· Host0:01
Mm-hmm.
Jonathan Capehart· Guest0:02
The colloquial name was White Street.
Michelle Obama· Host0:04
Mm-hmm.
Craig Robinson· Host0:04
Mm-hmm.
Jonathan Capehart· Guest0:04
And so grand- my mother would make that right, and I never understood why. I was like, "Mom, you just go down there and go."
Michelle Obama· Host0:10
Yeah.
Jonathan Capehart· Guest0:10
But, you know, driving down south in your, um, brown 450 SL Mercedes.
Michelle Obama· Host0:17
Which I was like, "Stop there."
Jonathan Capehart· Guest0:19
Convertable.
Michelle Obama· Host0:19
(laughs) "Stop. Stop. Stop there, Mama Capehart." (laughs) (laughs) "With your Benz."
Jonathan Capehart· Guest0:25
I know, with her Benz.
Michelle Obama· Host0:26
She was like, "And we going down White Street in our Benz."
Jonathan Capehart· Guest0:28
(laughs) In our Benz.
Michelle Obama· Host0:29
Yes.
Jonathan Capehart· Guest0:29
And as I write in the book, it was like her... (laughs) It was a slow motion protest at 15 miles an hour.
Craig Robinson· Host0:35
Yeah. Right.
Michelle Obama· Host0:38
(instrumental music) This episode is brought to you by Theraflu. How are you?
Craig Robinson· Host0:48
I, I am really well. I got a good night's sleep last night. And I have, I have the beds at the Airbnb to thank for it too because- Oh, that's right.
Michelle Obama· Host0:57
Yeah, you, you've got... So the beds are comfy?
Craig Robinson· Host0:59
Oh, man.
Michelle Obama· Host0:59
Comfy where you're staying?
Craig Robinson· Host1:00
And, you know, not everybody i- i- not everybody has the same mattresses, right?
Michelle Obama· Host1:04
Mm-hmm.
Craig Robinson· Host1:05
But this one is, uh, on a platform. And so it's not like a box spring in a mattress.
Michelle Obama· Host1:10
Mm-hmm.
Craig Robinson· Host1:10
This is, uh, just the mattress on a platform, but it feels like I'm on a regular bed.
Michelle Obama· Host1:16
Oh, well, that, there you go.
Craig Robinson· Host1:17
Yeah.
Michelle Obama· Host1:18
That, that's a good tip-off.
Craig Robinson· Host1:20
(laughs) Enough about m- my night.
Michelle Obama· Host1:22
Uh-huh. Yeah.
Craig Robinson· Host1:23
Let's... We, we have a guest here.
Michelle Obama· Host1:25
Well, we do, but one of the things we said- Okay. ... we were, we wanted to do- Oh, yes, yes, yes. ... today