Julia Louis-Dreyfus

So truly lucky to work with on so many issues important to me and to her, and who is simply one of the smartest, wisest, most fascinating people we'll ever have the privilege of talking with on our show. My God, I am deeply honored to welcome a mother, a grandmother, a person of faith, the Speaker of the House Emerita, the voice of the Democratic Party, a real deadhead, and a woman who is...

completely and utterly wiser than me, Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi. Welcome, Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi.

Julia,

I want to just ask you some silly questions at the very top, if I may. Please. Are you comfortable if I ask you your real age?

Like young girls do, too. By the way, we have chocolate here for you because we heard you were a bit of a chocoholic.

We have that in common, by the way. What's the best part, do you think, about being your age? May I call you Nancy?

Yeah, I know. I don't feel that way. I know what you mean. Well, of course, you're so vibrant. You're doing everything all the time. So I can understand. You just have more experience under your belt, right?

Yeah.

What about, are you wearing heels right now?

Yeah. You know, it's funny, because when I was doing this show called Veep, in which I played the vice president and then the president, and I was always in heels like the heels that you often wear. Stilettos, mm-hmm. Yeah. And we made a whole thing of me taking off my shoes once I got back into my office and being barefoot. Do you take your shoes off when you're working? Not so much.

Not so much. My God, these heels don't bother your back?

What about food? I mean, I know you eat chocolate ice cream, but like when you're at work, do they have good food on Capitol Hill, like at the house there? Is there any good food?

I have to tell you, I was once in the—I had the great pleasure of having lunch with then-Vice President Biden in his office. Yes. And I was really nervous because I'd never been, you know, hanging out like that with a vice president before.

That's right. But when it came to the real thing, I was anxious. And we sat down to eat and... He starts to order, and I didn't have any appetite because I was so nervous. And I said, oh, I'll just have a salad. And he says, I'll have that salad. And he goes, oh, no, no, you should have the crab cakes. He goes, just bring the crab cakes, too.

And the next thing I know, I've got this huge plate of crab cakes and this massive salad, and I could barely eat a thing. I'm sure he—anyway, whatever. But I did have it by the crab cakes. They're pretty good. At least the White House crab cakes were good. Yeah, that's a different— Well, of course, you're near Maryland, and crab cakes are part of our staples. I know. Coming from Maryland.

Totally, totally. You graduated from the Institute of Notre Dame. It was an all-girls Catholic high school in Baltimore, right? Yes. By the way, I went to an all-girls school, too, in Bethesda, Maryland. And I have to say there was a huge benefit to going to an all-girls school. Did you like going to an all-girls school?

We had Rita Moreno on this podcast. She's wonderful. She's wonderful. Did you know that she dated Elvis Presley? And she said he was kind of boring.

I know, but I mean, I have to say that was a shock for me to hear that. I think that's amazing.

Oh, okay. Yeah.

Good for you, reaching across the aisle.