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Folks, welcome to the Eric Mataxis show.

I'm going to be playing the role of Eric Mataxis,

I'm the best we could do on short notice.

Fortunately for you, we have, I think, an exciting guest.

His name is J.D. Vance, and he's sitting right here.

J.D., welcome.

Thanks for having me.

I never thought to ask you this.

I didn't plan to ask you this, but my first question is, what does J.D. stand for?

I could have looked it up, but I'd rather ask you., but my first question is, what does J.D. stand for? I could have looked it up,

but I'd rather ask you. Not Jack Daniels, James David. The joke is that it was Jack Daniels,

but just James David. Family name. When did you, well, I want to, let me introduce you semi-properper properly. You're known mostly for having written what

is nothing less than a spectacular book, a memoir called Hillbilly Elegie, which was then turned

into a movie. Yeah. So not many young people write books about their lives, and certainly not many young people have books

that they've written about their lives turned into movies on Netflix. So it's kind of an interesting

thing that your life is really public. Nonetheless, I'm sure tons of people in my audience

aren't familiar with it. So there's a reason it was a bestseller, and it's not just because you're a good writer.

It's because your story, which you did not plot or invent, is an amazing story. So for my audience,

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