Thanks, June at home for joining us this hour. Really, really happy to have you here. So there is good news and there is bad news today. Which do you want first? Let's do the bad news first. It was only about six months ago, feels like a lifetime. But it was only about six months ago that Donald Trump announced who he was going to run with for this past election. It was about six

months ago that we got J.D. Vance announced as Trump's vice presidential running mate. And the

choice was a little hard to parse. He was a good talker, like he's articulate in interviews,

but it immediately became clear that he's a bad campaigner. He had a way of inadvertently insulting people and kind of ruining their day with his presence.

Remember the poor donut shop workers in Georgia?

The polling for him was terrible.

The polling said he was the most unpopular vice presidential choice in generations.

His record as a public official or even just his record kind of as an adult was hard to explain.

For most of his adult life, he had been basically a protege, realistically more like an intern for years and years and years, for one very eccentric,

very right-wing, German-born tech billionaire. That particular eccentric billionaire had

basically adopted J.D. Vance, had set him up in a whole series of jobs, none of which he had very much success at.

But then the billionaire decided that the next job he wanted to put J.D. Vance into was the

United States Senate. And so he essentially bought a Senate campaign for him. He made the largest

single political donation ever made to a U.S. Senate candidate in American history.

And he effectively ran his campaign. And that is how J.D. Vance was effectively given the only job he ever had in politics

before he then immediately became vice president of the United States.

And, you know, at that point, when he was chosen to be Trump's running mate, you could basically not see him for all the red flags around him. You couldn't make him out amid all the red flags.

I mean, the billionaire who gave him all of his jobs and installed him in the U.S. Senate and who then

reportedly told Trump to put him on the ticket with him as his vice presidential running mate,

that billionaire himself is on the record saying he does not believe in democracy.

He does not believe that women should have the right to vote in America.

He once spent a small chunk of his

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