Katie Miller Podcast - Dinner Guest Q&A Compilation! | KMP Ep.20
Aired: 2025-12-30
Duration: 19:37


=== Dinner with Jesus and Grandma (14:51) ===

[00:00:09]  If you could have dinner with three people, living, dead, alive, what do you got?
[00:00:13]  Who are the three people you're inviting to dinner?
[00:00:16]  Okay.
[00:00:17]  Three people I'd invite to dinner.
[00:00:20]  Let's say Isaac Newton, Donald Trump, and Abraham Lincoln.
[00:00:26]  Who's monopolizing the conversation?
[00:00:29]  I'm not going to answer that.
[00:00:34]  Three people.
[00:00:35]  Who's coming to dinner?
[00:00:36]  Okay.
[00:00:37]  What kind of dinner party are we doing here?
[00:00:39]  Like, what are we thinking?
[00:00:41]  What's the vibe?
[00:00:41]  I mean, is it in your kitchen?
[00:00:42]  Right.
[00:00:43]  Is it in my kitchen?
[00:00:44]  We could do that.
[00:00:44]  We could do that.
[00:00:45]  We could do the dining room.
[00:00:46]  We could do outside on the patio.
[00:00:48]  Are your chickens coming?
[00:00:49]  My chickens are definitely going to make an appearance.
[00:00:51]  And my dog, by the way, which the dog we have put away for you, 154.
[00:00:57]  What kind of dog is it?
[00:00:58]  Newfoundland.
[00:00:59]  Three people.
[00:01:00]  I would say my great-grandmother, she went by Mimi.
[00:01:04]  She founded, was part of founding the church that I grew up in.
[00:01:09]  But my dad and my grandfather talked about her so often and how the way that she conducted herself and the standards that she set and the way she treated people set the baseline for Howell and what they taught us.
[00:01:23]  So I think that that would be fascinating, obviously, to be able to sit with her and learn those things firsthand.
[00:01:31]  And then you said, you said, it doesn't matter who they are.
[00:01:36]  I mean, I think you always have to go with Ronald Reagan because he's just such a fascinating figure when you look back in time and what he was able to accomplish and where he came from and also how he's perceived today.
[00:01:50]  And so I would love to like dig in and ask him some questions there.
[00:01:55]  And then third person, do you have any suggestions on anybody you feel like would pair well?
[00:02:00]  My three people are going to be wildly different.
[00:02:03]  Wildly different.
[00:02:04]  Wildly different.
[00:02:05]  Like I'm going Queen Victoria because she's like the grandmother of all of all Europe.
[00:02:10]  And so I'll be very fascinated by that term.
[00:02:12]  To be like, where did this come from?
[00:02:13]  Right?
[00:02:14]  Yeah.
[00:02:14]  We were going with the grandmother theme.
[00:02:16]  Yeah, I'm going to do that.
[00:02:17]  And then I think I would let I would rotate the third seat and let my children come in and out so they'd have the opportunity to experience and ask questions too.
[00:02:28]  That's lovely.
[00:02:29]  Yeah.
[00:02:31]  All right.
[00:02:33]  You know, I go with like Steve Jobs, Roosevelt, Charles Eames.
[00:02:43]  And I hope we're just enjoying like some good pepperoni pizza.
[00:02:50]  Is that because your mom never let you eat it?
[00:02:52]  Yes.
[00:02:55]  What's your favorite pizza?
[00:02:56]  I mean, that's it.
[00:02:57]  No, but like from where?
[00:02:59]  Are you like ordering from a specific place and you making it yourself?
[00:03:02]  Oh, there's a pizza place in Untville, California, in Napa Valley, that makes the greatest pizza.
[00:03:11]  Charlie Kirk.
[00:03:14]  And right now, since I'm sitting with you, you and Sergio Gore, I think, because Sergio, the last time I saw Charlie a couple weeks ago, he was with Sergio and they were so very close.
[00:03:28]  And I just think, you know, there are always things you want to say to people, obviously.
[00:03:35]  That's why call somebody, talk to somebody you haven't talked to in a while.
[00:03:39]  But I think Charlie would be eating whatever he wanted to eat.
[00:03:45]  I would want to sit there with Charlie and just know his vision for what he wanted to see.
[00:03:50]  That's right.
[00:03:51]  So we could all do it together.
[00:03:53]  And you know, he's looking down from heaven and he's watching it.
[00:03:56]  He's watching what Erica is about to do, a turning point.
[00:03:59]  and Benny Johnson and JD and all these incredible people who are going to take the torch and run with it.
[00:04:06]  If you could host a dinner party with three people, dead or alive, dead or alive, who's sitting at the table?
[00:04:10]  Okay, mom, what are you eating?
[00:04:12]  And what are you eating?
[00:04:13]  Oh, Maya Jlou, Einstein.
[00:04:18]  The third one, you know, it was always tough for me.
[00:04:20]  It's always rude.
[00:04:21]  Those are my two sort of regulars.
[00:04:23]  It depends on like the mood I'm in.
[00:04:25]  So now I would have to say Ozzy.
[00:04:27]  I'd like to see Ozzy again.
[00:04:29]  That bummed me out.
[00:04:30]  That was very sad, even though he did have a huge, incredible life.
[00:04:34]  I also think that would be so interesting to watch talk to Ozzy Osborne.
[00:04:39]  What were we eating?
[00:04:41]  Oh my God, whatever we want.
[00:04:42]  If I get to have those three guests, I'm sure that the calories don't count at this dinner, right?
[00:04:47]  No.
[00:04:47]  So for sure, french fries.
[00:04:50]  For sure, red wine.
[00:04:54]  For sure, peanut butter.
[00:04:57]  I love peanut butter.
[00:04:58]  Peanut butter, red wine, hot sauce is important.
[00:05:02]  As I mentioned, french fries, some sort of like ice cream situation.
[00:05:07]  And I think that's all we need.
[00:05:11]  Oh, what am I eating?
[00:05:12]  Okay, so I think if I were to pick three people, I tend to like trailblazers.
[00:05:18]  So one would definitely be Abraham Lincoln because I think he changed the country and he's a trailblazer for our country in many, multiple, many, many wonderful ways.
[00:05:27]  The second would actually be FDR.
[00:05:29]  I know that, you know, like he was a really long-standing president.
[00:05:32]  He also is a trailblazer from an economic perspective.
[00:05:35]  He took the country out of the Depression.
[00:05:37]  So I would definitely ask him how did he do that?
[00:05:38]  And how did he have the fortitude to make some big decisions?
[00:05:41]  And obviously he navigated us through World War II, which is a defining moment in our history.
[00:05:46]  And then honestly, the third person would be Sally Ride because she was the first female astronaut to go into space.
[00:05:53]  And when I was a kid, I remember her going to space and I thought she was the coolest woman ever.
[00:05:58]  And she was a trailblazer for sure for women.
[00:06:00]  So those would be the three very different conversations.
[00:06:02]  What we'd have for dinner though, honestly, I would basically make a Thanksgiving dinner because it's the one dinner where I make the entire dinner.
[00:06:09]  Thanksgiving is my day of cooking.
[00:06:11]  So I would make Thanksgiving dinner.
[00:06:12]  Are you Team Moon or Mars?
[00:06:14]  Should we go to first?
[00:06:15]  We have to go to the moon before we can go to Mars.
[00:06:17]  So I'd say the moon.
[00:06:18]  Let's go to the moon.
[00:06:20]  Okay.
[00:06:21]  So if I were to have a dinner party and I would host, gosh, oh my God.
[00:06:27]  I would love to have, and I know this is not the most profound answer, but my ancestors are absolutely incredible because the fight that they had in them.
[00:06:41]  And I even look at it with my father without the education and everything else.
[00:06:46]  So I would love to have my grandfather there.
[00:06:49]  I would love to have my grandmom there.
[00:06:51]  I would love to have my children listen to the wisdom.
[00:06:54]  We don't listen to the wisdom of our elders the way we, I mean, what's at their disposal is incredible.
[00:07:03]  And I also think what's happening in the world and all of the mechanics that are out there in the world, we have opportunity now that we never had before.
[00:07:13]  What an amazing time to be my kids' age.
[00:07:17]  What an amazing time.
[00:07:18]  So to have somebody that's really, to have my ancestors there, my great-grandfather, my great-grandmom, and to have somebody like Elon Musk or someone that's really high in tech, that would be the best dinner party ever.
[00:07:29]  It's a mind-blowing experience to say we have like a starship going to Mars and, you know, someone from the past.
[00:07:38]  Mind-blowing.
[00:07:39]  I mean, so to me, that old, new wisdom would be the best dinner party ever.
[00:07:46]  And I would have seven fishes.
[00:07:48]  I would have a really, you know, healthy pasta there.
[00:07:52]  I mean, it would be so joyous.
[00:07:55]  I mean, to me, dinner parties are my favorite way to spend time when it's not work.
[00:08:01]  And I have them often.
[00:08:02]  Oh, dead or alive?
[00:08:03]  Oh, Jesus, definitely.
[00:08:05]  I have questions, and he does too, of me.
[00:08:09]  Jesus Christ, my grandmother, Antoinette.
[00:08:13]  And I'll pick one.
[00:08:15]  What are we eating?
[00:08:16]  I would say for that, we would eat a whole array of things.
[00:08:22]  I would say the table would be filled.
[00:08:24]  It'd be more like a buffet.
[00:08:25]  It'd have to be more like a buffet.
[00:08:26]  I'm a condiment queen.
[00:08:27]  I love a lot of stuff on tomato sauce, probably.
[00:08:32]  I put it on everything, though.
[00:08:34]  I mean, I put it on everything.
[00:08:35]  I probably have like six, seven condiments on a thing.
[00:08:39]  So we call it gravy at home because we were Italian.
[00:08:42]  So yeah, that would be, I would really, I was very close to my grandmother's, but my maternal grandmother helped raise me in the house.
[00:08:50]  And it's when she died, I didn't even cry because we had that kind of relationship where we had said everything I wanted her to the very last moment.
[00:08:59]  Her kidneys were failing, and I called this guy who I'd gone out on a date with, and he was a nephrologist.
[00:09:04]  He was studying to be at the time, and I called him, and he said, oh, it's so great to hear from you.
[00:09:08]  I'm like, I'm sorry I never called you back.
[00:09:10]  Like last year, a year and a half ago, I said, but my grandma's kidneys are failing.
[00:09:13]  Can you help me?
[00:09:13]  And I was just, I wanted her to.
[00:09:15]  So I had nothing more to say or do then because we had such a beautiful, honest, loving relationship of 32 years.
[00:09:24]  But now that I've been a mom and now that I've been married and now that I'm in my late 50s, I would want to talk to her all over again and get her unbelievable advice.
[00:09:36]  So one of her daughters, my aunt Rita, is still with us.
[00:09:38]  And my cousins, like I said, her other grandchildren are with us.
[00:09:42]  And so, but that would be it.
[00:09:44]  And Jesus, I just, I feel very at peace with being a Roman Catholic, but I'm a flawed one, raising four flawed ones.
[00:09:52]  And I think I would actually want to hear directly from the source how we're, you know, if you had the founding fathers here today, you'd say, do you believe the way they're interpreting the Constitution or not?
[00:10:02]  I think I would do the same with Jesus about the Bible, and I would do the same about the modern Catholic religion.
[00:10:10]  Oh, God.
[00:10:11]  Of course, God.
[00:10:14]  I mean, I mean, come on.
[00:10:16]  He would say like, Jesus, of course.
[00:10:19]  I think my father, because he died when I was 11.
[00:10:23]  I'd love him to be there.
[00:10:25]  And my mom died recently.
[00:10:26]  I'd love to see my mom again.
[00:10:28]  So maybe my dad and my mom and Jesus.
[00:10:32]  That'd be a fun.
[00:10:33]  And we just drink wine and eat bread, olive oil.
[00:10:37]  I would just, I don't care about really the food as much as like picking up stuff.
[00:10:41]  So maybe some cheeses and some salami and some great dessert, you know, easy food.
[00:10:48]  I'd be all into the conversation.
[00:10:51]  Are you still close with all of your family?
[00:10:53]  Yeah, I'm very close.
[00:10:54]  I mean, unfortunately, we live all across America, but I love my brothers and sisters.
[00:10:58]  Unfortunately, two passed away, two of my brothers.
[00:11:01]  So we're getting smaller, but it's still very, my sisters are my best friends.
[00:11:07]  Family is the most important.
[00:11:08]  Yeah, for sure.
[00:11:10]  Yogurt?
[00:11:11]  No.
[00:11:13]  Okay, three people dead or alive.
[00:11:15]  Ooh, beef.
[00:11:16]  Obi-maybe Carol Burnett.
[00:11:23]  And Maya Angelou.
[00:11:29]  And do we need a guy?
[00:11:32]  No, it doesn't matter.
[00:11:33]  It's my fantasy.
[00:11:35]  And my grandmother, Ruth.
[00:11:37]  And what are you eating?
[00:11:39]  Hmm.
[00:11:41]  We are eating french fries with old base season.
[00:11:49]  We're eating.
[00:11:52]  I don't know.
[00:11:53]  I think like Italian pizza and having dirty martinis.
[00:12:06]  Okay, it'd be my mother-in-law, my dad, and my grandma.
[00:12:15]  And I would cook for them.
[00:12:16]  What would you cook?
[00:12:18]  Probably my butternut squash soup and homemade focaccia bread and like a roast chicken, French roast chicken or something.
[00:12:36]  And for dessert, we would have some kind of pound cake, because my dad loved pound cake.
[00:12:46]  Yeah, that's what we would do.
[00:12:48]  Who is at my table and what am I eating?
[00:12:50]  This sounds like a question that I would ask in an interview for our cheerleaders.
[00:12:55]  You've seen some of those too.
[00:12:56]  Well, I would say who would be there?
[00:13:01]  I would have Elvis Presley, definitely.
[00:13:05]  Charlton Heston, because everybody needs a little Moses at their table.
[00:13:10]  And then I'm going to put Taylor Swift in there.
[00:13:14]  I think she's like stunning and amazing and powerful and a great representation of what young women's dreams can look like when they work hard.
[00:13:23]  What are you eating?
[00:13:24]  And I am going to eat, I'm going to have to have it catered because I'm a terrible cook.
[00:13:34]  So, you know, maybe a little like breaded veal, you know, melanase, that direction, and a really good pasta.
[00:13:42]  I think that's, I'm going to go that direction.
[00:13:44]  Winston Churchill.
[00:13:47]  Abraham Lincoln.
[00:13:50]  Those are my two favorites.
[00:13:52]  And I'll put George Patton on the list.
[00:13:55]  And I'm eating whatever they want to eat.
[00:13:57]  I don't care about food.
[00:14:00]  Can we say Jesus?
[00:14:02]  Yes, you can.
[00:14:02]  Dead or alive.
[00:14:03]  But you both can answer separately.
[00:14:05]  Okay.
[00:14:05]  Well, obviously Jesus and George Washington and I guess Lincoln.
[00:14:15]  I'm very American-centric, aren't I?
[00:14:18]  That's okay.
[00:14:18]  Yeah.
[00:14:19]  Which is so crazy because you got two in mind.
[00:14:24]  Jesus, George Washington.
[00:14:27]  But my third.
[00:14:29]  Help me, who's my third?
[00:14:32]  Abigail Adams?
[00:14:34]  Yeah.
[00:14:36]  Yeah, I think it would be Abigail Adams.
[00:14:38]  And what are you eating?
[00:14:39]  And what are we eating?
[00:14:44]  Well, probably, well, I would say I would choose my favorite food, Mexican food.
[00:14:52]  It's my favorite.
[00:14:53]  So, yeah.
[00:14:55]  I'd have something healthy, fish-based, you know, Jesus and George Washington and such.

=== Tiny Cheeseburger on an Island (03:22) ===

[00:15:00]  I think that is enjoyable.
[00:15:01]  Salmon.
[00:15:02]  Probably salmon.
[00:15:03]  Well, at this point, I think it would be President Trump, Vladimir Putin, and Zielinski.
[00:15:08]  See what happens.
[00:15:09]  See what happens.
[00:15:11]  What are we eating?
[00:15:12]  What are we?
[00:15:14]  No comment on that.
[00:15:15]  Whatever, the steaks, you know, just whatever the president wants.
[00:15:18]  We'll see what happens.
[00:15:19]  That'd be a dinner for peace.
[00:15:20]  It'd be steaks well done.
[00:15:21]  French fries.
[00:15:22]  Done.
[00:15:23]  And Russian dressing.
[00:15:24]  Yes.
[00:15:25]  Or Thousand Island dressing on salad.
[00:15:27]  Yes.
[00:15:27]  Love it.
[00:15:28]  Which I didn't ever used to keep in my fridge, but since he's been in D.C., it's a staple.
[00:15:34]  He has so much at the White House because you have a lot of more of you.
[00:15:38]  Everyone, Thousand Island Dressing, I love it.
[00:15:40]  And now that's what I have.
[00:15:42]  So I'm a Thousand Island dressing person.
[00:15:43]  I've always been, so this is like, it's glorious.
[00:15:45]  It is.
[00:15:46]  It's the heyday.
[00:15:47]  All right.
[00:15:47]  And we close on this question every episode.
[00:15:49]  If you could host a dinner party with three people dead or alive, who's coming to dinner and what are you eating?
[00:15:57]  I mean, maybe Shakespeare, Ben Franklin, Nikola Tesla.
[00:16:03]  I mean, there's actually a lot of people I would have liked to have talked to.
[00:16:08]  And we'll eat, I guess, whatever they'd like.
[00:16:14]  I think if this is a once-in-a-lifetime thing, I think you'd want to have some epic, you know, 12-course meal or something like that.
[00:16:25]  Please.
[00:16:26]  Yeah.
[00:16:28]  Yeah.
[00:16:29]  Do you want to go all out for that dinner, I think?
[00:16:32]  You're probably not going to serve cheeseburgers.
[00:16:35]  Unless they want it.
[00:16:36]  Yeah.
[00:16:37]  Maybe one of the courses could be like a tiny cheeseburger.
[00:16:41]  Those don't taste as good as the big ones.
[00:16:42]  No, but they could.
[00:16:44]  It's just they don't try.
[00:16:46]  There's nothing wrong.
[00:16:46]  You could make a tiny cheeseburger taste just as good as a big cheeseburger.
[00:16:50]  If you try it.
[00:16:51]  Have you ever had a tiny cheeseburger that actually tastes good?
[00:16:54]  Rare, but yes.
[00:16:55]  Okay.
[00:16:56]  1% of the time.
[00:16:57]  Fair.
[00:16:57]  But usually it's too much bread and it's dry.
[00:16:59]  Correct.
[00:17:00]  Yeah.
[00:17:01]  And then there's not enough meat in proportion to the bread.
[00:17:03]  Yeah.
[00:17:04]  But could you make a tiny cheeseburger that's good?
[00:17:06]  Of course.
[00:17:07]  Like you're not breaking, you know, like you're going to need a Nobel Prize for this, yeah.
[00:17:13]  You can definitely make a tiny cheeseburger.
[00:17:15]  It's like physically possible, I'm saying.
[00:17:17]  It's just rare.
[00:17:20]  Okay.
[00:17:21]  I would pick Ronald Reagan.
[00:17:24]  My papa.
[00:17:25]  I know I'm not a celebrity, but my grandfather meant like the most in the world to me.
[00:17:31]  And he knows everything about history.
[00:17:32]  And he's the reason that I got into loving and appreciating history and veterans.
[00:17:39]  He was a veteran, all that stuff.
[00:17:41]  I could talk about my papa forever, so I will move on.
[00:17:43]  Third one is hard because that was kind of as far as I got in my head.
[00:17:50]  I don't know who my third would be, but we'd be eating my papa loves like very simple meals like roast chicken, mashed potatoes, and so we'd eat what he likes because he gets to pick over Ronald Reagan, sorry.
[00:18:04]  Well, I'm going to answer it, but it's going to break your rules.
[00:18:07]  You're just going to have to live with it.
[00:18:08]  Okay, fine.
[00:18:10]  The 1980 men's marijuana ice hockey team.
[00:18:13]  And we would be eating chicken parm heroes from my favorite deli on Long Island.
[00:18:18]  Is that like chicken parm and everything else?
[00:18:20]  Or is chicken parm heroes is just like a subs restaurant?

=== Chicken Parm Heroes for Papa (01:14) ===

[00:18:22]  It's a sandwich, yeah.
[00:18:24]  Okay.
[00:18:25]  Who would you have for dinner?
[00:18:27]  Oh gosh, I've never thought of this, and I've asked everybody.
[00:18:33]  I'd want to do like, right now, it'd probably be Julius Caesar, Cleopatra, and my grandpa.
[00:18:45]  Oh, I love that.
[00:18:46]  I miss my grandpa a lot.
[00:18:47]  He recently passed, and him and I were very, very close.
[00:18:51]  But right now I'm listening to an awesome series about Julius Caesar and Cleopatra.
[00:18:55]  And man, would I loved to have been alive then to hear, you know, their relationship and how Egypt and Rome worked together around that time and how leadership worked and how they were able to form these coalitions.
[00:19:07]  Because I think a lot of what happened during the Roman times is a lot of how society functions today.
[00:19:14]  I agree.
[00:19:14]  And there's so many lessons there.
[00:19:16]  Wow.
[00:19:16]  So that's who I'd have to do.
[00:19:18]  I like it now.
[00:19:19]  I like it a lot.
[00:19:20]  And I would say like, we should eat whatever they want to eat, but like, no, I'm a diehard pizza fanatic.
[00:19:26]  Right.
[00:19:26]  So probably a few different types of pizza.
[00:19:28]  Oh, I love that.
[00:19:28]  And they probably really enjoy that.
[00:19:30]  Because like, as much as I'd love to say I'm a carnivore, right now meat just totally makes me sick.
[00:19:34]  And so just stick with pizza.
[00:19:36]  There you go.