How should we start?

Uh, I mean, we don't need to sing.

Michael, Peter, what do you know about the next Vice President of the United States?

Eh, I'm proud of his advancement.

Terrible.

Oh my God.

Ridiculous. So, we thought we would re-release our hillability allergy

episode now that the author, J.D. Vance, has been selected by Donald Trump as his running mate for a presidential election.

We have also been a little bit late with episodes lately because I got COVID and Peter got the Eldenring DLC.

So we're doing this to hold you over until we're back with Jonathan Heights anxious

generation.

So please stop emailing us asking us to do it because we're already doing.

That's right.

So I guess the only thing that I really have to say about this is that we did our episode and

one of the underlying themes of the episode was his cynicism.

The fact that this was this guy who was willing to traffic in this fake persona he created

and write a book that was sort of built a top caricatures and very nakedly meant to propel

his political career forward. That cynicism is I think why he was selected by Donald Trump right in 2016 he was saying he didn't like

Trump was a nightmare awful America's next Hitler and by 2020 he was like Mike Pence should have done the right thing you know he's

a man of pure naked ambition and that's why Trump understands him and relates to him and likes him.

The book also fits very nicely into this pattern because it was a book meant to capitalize on this

like centrist kind of unity wave that was going on of like we need to understand the people in

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