Coming up a wide-ranging conversation with J.D. Vance, the author of Hillbilly

Elegy, we're going to talk illegal immigration, cancel culture, and white

privilege. This is the Dinesh Tassuza podcast.

America needs this voice. The times are crazy. And the time of confusion,

division and lies, we need a brave voice of reason, understanding and

truth. This is the Dinesh Tassuza podcast.

In this special episode, we're going to be talking in depth with author

J.D. Vance, who wrote Hillbilly Elegy, a terrific book, which also became a Netflix

movie directed by Ron Howard. I want to talk about immigration. I want to talk

about cancel culture. I also want to talk about white privilege, the controversy

involving Asian Americans and hate crimes. A lot of good stuff. But I thought in

this opening monologue, I would talk about immigration on a practical level

because I went through it. Debbie, my wife and I are both immigrants. We've

sort of been through a process. We've grown up in other countries. And I want to

talk about how that works. Or in some cases, it doesn't work. Well, in my case,

it did work. I came to America as an exchange student, but I wasn't planning to

stay here. It's really in college that I fell in love with America and the

people of America and the ideas that built America. And I also saw that I could

do things with my life in America, like become a writer. Earlier, I had approached

my father about the idea of becoming a writer in India. And my dad goes, well,

yeah, you sort of can do that, but you're probably going to have to become a

chartered accountant or sell insurance. And then you can kind of write on the

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