Hi, I'm Katie Miller. Welcome to my podcast. I'm joined here by the Vice President of United States, J.D. Vance.

Good to see you. Thanks for doing this. Of course. I'm excited.

One full circle moment here is being the communications director to a vice president, now sitting here interviewing the current vice president.

So you know what all these guys had to deal with earlier?

It is quite a time. It's been a busy day. Those who are watching at home will not realize that we were originally supposed to do this like hours ago at my house. We had to cancel that. I had a call with the president. Other things happened. And now here we are. But we did it. We actually made it and not that far off, right? Five hours later?

Really good.

Okay.

10 out of 10.

So we'll go back. So when you moved into the vice president's residence, had you seen it before?

No, I had never seen it before. And it was, there was a bit of a controversy. I don't remember exactly what had happened, but I think that normally it's customary for the outgoing vice president to show the incoming

vice president's family the house and we have three little kids so I guess at

the time our kids were like seven five and you know two I guess mirabell turned

three right before the inauguration and so you know now they're a little bit

older but you know, they

had, uh, they had never seen this house and Usha really wanted to show them. So what we actually

proposed is recognizing the weirdness of the politics, can Usha take the kids over and just

show them where they're going to be living for the next four years? And they were rebuffed. So we took

some like old diagrams and some old photos and tried to show the kids. Actually a friend of ours in Cincinnati had a book about the vice president's residence and so we would show the kids what it would look like but that's as close they ever got to it. But it's a really beautiful house. So President Trump always jokes with me that I actually have the nicest house because you you know, the White House is a bit of fishbowl, as you know very well. The VPR is this beautiful sort of 150-year-old mansion, but it's got 30 acres of private property, private space. So it actually feels like a real family home for us, which is really nice. Out of the public eye. Out of the public eye. That's right. Did she leave any furniture behind? A note? What was it like when you moved in? So she left a note, it's a very nice note actually, in the West Wing office that we use. And it was just, you have like boilerplate. There wasn't anything particularly profound, but it was just a very nice note that she was, you know, supporting us and hoping that everything went well and blah, blah, blah, that was very polite. But I guess there was some furniture left over, but so my wife has done most of the, like, furniture related stuff here, but I guess there's like a furniture archive for the vice president's residence where you can take stuff out of it.

And so we had some stuff, but then we've had to, you know, we've had to purchase a lot of stuff. We've had, you have people donate things. So it's been a weird combination of, you know, basically, I think the house is like 12,000 square feet, which is a very large house. And so we've had to do a combination of stuff

to actually furnish it.

But you should see it.

It actually feels like a real home now.

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