Marco Rubio opened up about UFOs, his neighbor’s cat, and his junk food habits on Katie Miller’s podcast.
Rubio, 53, who serves as both Secretary of State and national security adviser, sat down with Miller for a wide-ranging interview alongside his wife Jeanette. The conversation dropped in late June.
He addressed unidentified aerial phenomena with unusual candor for a cabinet secretary.
“I don’t know what it is, but there are things flying over our military installations and they’re not ours, and we should look into this, be serious about it,” he said on the podcast.
Rubio dismissed conspiracy theories while pressing for answers.
“We should know what’s flying over our airspace,” he added.
The Florida senator said President Trump would eagerly publicize any findings.
“He’d be showing the pictures and the videos,” Rubio continued. “But Stephen is on that case now, and I think he’s doing a great job with that.”
He referred to Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller, who has reportedly taken charge of the administration’s UFO investigation.
Katie Miller, Stephen’s wife, noted her husband keeps even her in the dark.
The information is “classified,” she revealed.
The Rubios also detailed their life as neighbors to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, 44, at Fort Lesley J. McNair in Washington.
Their two goldendoodles frequently escape toward the Hegseth residence.
“We have one that’s really smart,” Rubio shared. “Knows how to open the door.”
He described one intrusion in particular.
“So one day, I think Pete and his family were just sitting around watching television, and they keep their front door open because they have cats, which I never took Pete for a cat guy,” Rubio said.
The dog made a quick exit.
“My dog just walked into their living room and looked around, realized I’m in the wrong house, and turned around and walked out,” he added.
But one Hegseth cat has become a persistent presence on Rubio’s porch.
“I’ll get home at night and the cat is just sitting on my porch and just looks at me,” Rubio said.
He did not hold back his assessment.
“The cat is a very arrogant cat,” he added.
Rubio elaborated on the feline’s defiant posture.
“The cat just looks at you. It doesn’t even – usually a cat, you approach it and it takes off. This one does not take off running,” he noted.
The secretary of state also rejected the MAHA diet promoted by Vice President JD Vance, 40, and Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., 71.
“This is a crazy diet,” Rubio said. “This is not a sustainable thing.”
The regimen emphasizes meat and fermented foods like sauerkraut.
“I’m not going to travel the world with a cooler full of sauerkraut. It’s ridiculous. I can’t do it,” he added.
Jeanette Rubio identified the true obstacle: her husband’s devotion to Pop-Tarts.
“He eats all the things you should not be eating, every single thing,” she said.
Rubio mounted a spirited defense of the breakfast pastry.
“The Pop-Tart is one of the great American innovations in the history of the world, if you think about it. It comes in this beautiful foil package,” he said.
He cited nutritional necessity.
“You need carbohydrates to function,” he added.
His wife also outed his fast food consumption.
Rubio admitted to convenient eating but recalled a disastrous keto experiment.
“You just eat all this protein, and so you go through this massive withdrawal from sugar and carbohydrates for the first 72 hours. It was a near-psychotic event for me,” he said.
The interview also yielded a lighter moment from Rubio’s travels.
On a June return flight from China, a staffer slept so deeply on an Air Force One couch that colleagues feared the worst.
“For a significant period of this flight, it was debatable whether this person had passed away or not, depending on how they’re sleeping,” Rubio said.
The individual showed no response to engine noise or conversation.
“I couldn’t see chest movement,” he added. “I couldn’t establish a consistent breathing pattern in the individual, but I also didn’t want to wake them up on the one hand or discover a dead body on the other.”
The group deliberated for roughly 90 minutes.
“We spent a considerable – like 90 minutes sort of debating, should we make a move? Should I call the doc? Should we deal with this? Because it’s embarrassing if you wake him up – oh, I was just sleeping. But if they were dead, like, what do you do? You have a dead body on the plane,” Rubio said.
He admitted procedural uncertainty.
“I don’t know what the protocol is for it.”
The staffer eventually woke unharmed.
Rubio described his typical workday as shifting from State to the White House around noon, with multiple daily calls from Trump.
“He’ll start working the phones at or around 6:00 a.m.,” Rubio said of the president.
He praised Trump’s storytelling ability.
“He’s been a public figure for almost half a century,” Rubio added. “He knew everybody at some point or another. He had interacted with everybody. He’s just got great stories.”
Rubio did not address a reported security concern that forced a secret plane switch during a recent NATO trip.