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Today on the program, JD Vance, he is the author of Hillbilly Elegy, a hugely popular

best-selling memoir about his life growing up in Ohio and before that in Kentucky.

And he's considered a whisperer of the white working class that helped propel Trump to the

presidency back in 2016.

Netflix is now out with a new movie based on his book and I've seen it, I laughed, I cried,

I felt all the feels.

And I have a history with JD Vance going back to 2017 when I interviewed him in an interview

that remains my very favorite interview I've ever done.

The 12 minutes or so of air that we produced and it's still available on YouTube just touched

me really deeply emotionally with his sister, with his honesty about his own life, a background

that included abuse, drug addiction by his mom, talking about how he had Pepsi in his baby

bottle, about how all the kids grown up in his area, didn't sleep in pajamas, they all

slept in jeans.

Sometimes there were serious questions about where the food was going to come from, not

as much in JD's house, but he had some of that.

And just sort of this resort to violence too often, to abuse too often.

And ultimately it winds up being a hopeful message because somehow this little boy with

really no advantages wound up getting up, getting out, getting himself into Yale law school

and has gone on to have a really prominent and important national voice.

So really happy to have him here with us today and we will get to him in just one second.

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