Hey, it's Wilcane. Thanks for spending your Christmas Eve with us. Today on Will Cain country, we put together a best of show. Conversations that stood out and defined the year for this program no wasted

time just the moments that mattered let's get started what is the prediction of the vice

president of the united states jd vans noted ohio state buckeye fan who dropped the national

championship trophy when they visited the White House.

I asked the vice president about that moment, his prediction for the game, and much, much more

when it comes to the issues facing the United States of America.

Yesterday I traveled to lacrosse, Wisconsin, Mid-City Steel, one of the beneficiaries of

the big, beautiful bill, to sit down with our Vice President, J.D. Vance. I hope you enjoy. Mr. Vice President, it's great to see you here. Good to see you, man. Mid-City Steel, lacrosse Wisconsin, the middle of America, to celebrate the Big Beautiful Bill. Of course, yeah, we're thrilled to be here. And this is of these these businesses steel manufacturer employs a lot of good people use a lot of technology so

people i think sometimes assume that manufacturing is sort of old dirty doesn't use technology

this is a good business that's an example of leaning into american investment american innovation

obviously the people here have great jobs.

And you know, you know my story will, but I grew up in a town where we were shedding manufacturing

jobs because politicians had made stupid decisions. We're now adding manufacturing jobs and

adding productivity in this economy thanks to the things that the president and the Republican

Congress have done. So we're here to talk about it, here to talk about the benefits of the working families tax cuts and obviously fire people up a little bit and just, you know, it's good. It's good to get out of Washington. I'm glad to be here. Glad to have you in Middle America. You bring up Middletown, Ohio. It's a lot like La Crosse, Wisconsin. It's not unlike my hometown of Sherman, Texas, all about 40,000 to 50,000 people manufacturing towns.

And there's a lot of excitement today, but it hasn't always been that way, to your point, whether or not it's been job loss, an opioid crisis, a cultural malaise and a sense of loss of purpose, I believe, is deeply rooted in what's happened to Middle America. What do you think that's done to America? Well, I think it was very bad for our country.

And all these problems are very connected, right?

You take a dad who's got a good middle class manufacturing job,

is able to support a family, a couple of kids, and then that job disappears.

Well, now the family is feeling financial stress that it wasn't 10 years ago,

it wasn't 20 years ago. So sometimes families dissolve in the wake of that. That stress affects

the kids. Some of those people turn to drugs and all this stuff is very connected. And if you look

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