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Wiser Than Me with Julia Louis-Dreyfus

Julia Gets Wise with Nancy Pelosi

Wiser Than Me with Julia Louis-Dreyfus

Lemonada Media

Comedy

4.710.4K Ratings

🗓️ 18 December 2024

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

In the final episode of Season 3 of Wiser Than Me, Julia sits down with 84-year-old House Speaker Emerita and U.S. Representative Nancy Pelosi. Nancy shares her love for the Grateful Dead, discusses the power of public sentiment, and fields Julia’s offer to help with a Saturday Night Live audition. Julia also asks Nancy about her pioneering mom, the recent presidential election, and the roots of the current vitriol in politics. Plus, Julia's 90-year old mom Judith reflects on the myriad ways Nancy is inspiring future generations – including Judith’s granddaughter Fia – and gets an incredibly unhelpful suggestion from Siri.   Follow Wiser Than Me on Instagram and TikTok @wiserthanme and on Facebook at facebook.com/wiserthanmepodcast.   Keep up with Nancy Pelosi @speakerpelosi on Instagram.   Find out more about other shows on our network at @lemonadamedia on all social platforms.   Joining Lemonada Premium is a great way to support our show and get bonus content. Subscribe today at bit.ly/lemonadapremium.    Wiser Than Me is sponsored by ZOE. Visit ZOE.com to find out what ZOE Membership could do for you and use the exclusive code WISER10 to get 10% off membership.   For exclusive discount codes and more information about our sponsors, visit https://lemonadamedia.com/sponsors/.  For additional resources, information, and a transcript of the episode, visit lemonadamedia.com.   See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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0:00.0

Well, hi there. It's me, Julia Louis Dreyfus. We're back for season three of Wiser Than Me. We've got so much more wisdom to share from the magnificent old ladies featured this season. To celebrate the start of season three, we've added some groovy new items to our Wiser than Me merchandise collection. Head over to our merch shop to check out all of our great stuff, like a classic

0:21.9

Wiser Than Me Bagu tote bag, a kitchen tea towel with my Grandma Deity's delicious peanut butter cookie

0:28.8

recipe featured on it. And a brand new, gorgeous, hardcover Wiser Than Me notebook to capture

0:35.5

all of this season's bits of wisdom. Start shopping today by visiting Wiser Than Me Notebook to capture all of this season's bits of wisdom. Start shopping today by

0:39.6

visiting wiser than me shop.com. Lemmonada. It's hilarious to me how often a conversation with

0:53.0

somebody in their 50s or 60s or even 70s will start with the words.

0:57.8

Well, when I was in high school, we never get over high school, do we? Seriously. I mean, as my own kids get older, I see constant proof for good or ill that these high school years are critical and formative.

1:14.2

Our sons attended one school from kindergarten through high school graduation,

1:19.3

a very progressive co-ed school in Santa Monica, California that was so liberal

1:25.6

that my husband affectionately refers to it still as

1:30.0

Sandinista Tech.

1:32.5

My high school was so different, but just as foundational.

1:37.3

My high school and elementary school was a private all-girls school.

1:41.6

I went there for 10 years.

1:43.4

And then, my God, my father, I do not know why,

1:48.0

he wanted me to go to an all-girls college, which I definitely did not want to do. He absolutely

1:55.1

insisted that we go tour Wellesley College. So we did, and we ended up having this huge fight about the school

2:04.8

while walking across the quad. And all of a sudden, a bee flies up my skirt and

2:12.2

stings me on the ass. This is a true story, you guys. No kidding. And I started screaming in front of the whole

2:20.1

tour group, like a crazy person. The good news is I didn't have to go on the rest of the tour.

2:27.6

So that was excellent. But anyway, back to my all girls high school. My school has a roster of wildly successful female alums, and maybe that's because

2:38.8

at a school like mine, everyone who is the captain of a team or the star of a play or president

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