00:00No, I'd never seen it before, and there was a bit of a controversy.
00:03I 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.
00:12And we have three little kids, so I guess at the time our kids were like seven, five, and two, I guess Mirabelle turned three right before the inauguration.
00:21And so now they're a little bit older, but they had never seen this house, and Usha really wanted to show them.
00:28So 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.
00:38So we took some old diagrams and some old photos and tried to show the kids.
00:43Actually, 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 as they ever got to it.
00:51But it's a really beautiful house, so President Trump always jokes with me that I actually have the nicest house because the White House is a bit of a fishbowl, as you know very well.
00:59The VPR is this beautiful sort of 150-year-old mansion, but it's got 30 acres of private property, private space.
01:07So it actually feels like a real family home for us, which is really nice.
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