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The Megyn Kelly Show

J.D. Vance on Trump, Addiction, and Family | November 2020 Re-Release

The Megyn Kelly Show

SiriusXM

Society & Culture, News, News Commentary

4.632.8K Ratings

🗓️ 21 July 2024

⏱️ 103 minutes

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Summary

Today we're re-releasing an episode from our archives, when J.D. Vance was a guest on the show in November 2020. In the years since the interview, Vance has gone on to become U.S. senator from Ohio, and this week, named former President Trump's VP nominee. In this episode, Vance and Megyn discuss Trump and the 2020 election, his family and their portrayal in the movie adaptation of "Hillbilly Elegy," addiction in America, the blindspots of the Democratic party, failure of the elites, and much more.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Megan Kelly Show, live on Serious XM Channel 111 every weekday at New East.

0:07.0

Hey everyone I'm Megan Kelly.

0:13.6

Welcome to the Megan Kelly show in this bonus weekend episode.

0:17.0

With Senator JD Vance being named former President Donald Trump's

0:20.1

vice presidential nominee, we wanted to look back at the time JD was on this show.

0:25.6

Back in episode 29, we were just little babies at the time.

0:29.9

We were only audio at the time as well. No video. It was November of 2020. We had

0:35.6

launched the show in September. It was a very different time in our country, quite

0:39.2

tumultuous as you may remember, just weeks after President Biden was elected, think of that.

0:44.8

And JD was just a mega best-selling author back then.

0:49.2

He hadn't even done anything in politics, certainly not a US senator or a vice presidential nominee.

0:55.0

We talked for two hours more about a wide range of topics from the 2020 election to his family, to our interview for NBC back in 2017 to some

1:05.9

blind spots that the Democratic Party has and yes whether he might get into

1:10.6

politics. It's a great window into who he is and super fun to listen to now that you know

1:16.1

where life took him over the next few years. Enjoy and I'll see you Monday.

1:27.0

Thank you so much for being here. Thanks for having me.

1:28.0

You're a good person to have on right now as we watch this election appear to come to its close. The Trump voters right now are angry.

1:36.5

They're ticked off. They do believe there was funny business in connection with this election and I was thinking

1:44.2

about you because Hellbilly Elegi tells us the code to follow when one feels

1:48.9

that one has been wronged and that code is to fight to fight. So how does that manifest now?

1:57.0

Yeah, I think there's there's first of all a lot of frustration over the perceived hypocrisy.

2:04.3

I think in fact the real hypocrisy,

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