Welcome to Inside the Hive. I'm your host Nick Bilton. So we're going to begin

this week's podcast with a very exciting pop quiz and the question that we're going to begin with is what is the

most pro Donald Trump county in the entire United States. All right I'm going to

give you a few seconds to think about this while I do the little traditional

tick-talk, tick-talk. Okay, for those of you that picked New York City, you are wrong.

For those of you that picked Washington, also wrong. Actually actually Washington is one of the most pro-Clinton places in the United States.

Maybe it is Aspen, Colorado.

Wrong. Dallas, Texas. Also wrong.

The most pro-donald Trump place in the United States is a little town

with 597 people who live there. It is only 1.2 square miles and it is in the county of Roberts, Texas.

So the way you spell this town, it's actually spelled M-I-M-A, just like Miami, Florida,

but it's actually Miami, Florida, but it's actually Miami, Texas. So my guest today is writing a book about

Miami, Texas in relation to the elites who live in the big cities across America and DC, New York, LA and so on.

And he's trying to figure out who has it right.

Do the folks over there in Texas have it right or to the folks over here on the coast

have it right? Do we all have it wrong? Who knows?

It's actually a fascinating, fascinating conversation. I read his book in the iteration that

he just turned into his publishers and was not only laughing out loud but was just fascinated by the difference in the way we live and the way they live but yet we all kind of have the same goals in mind.

So I'm very excited to welcome Joel Stein to the show.

Joel was a reporter for Time magazine for many many years. I'm sure you have read his

bylines numerous times. If you take the time to Google him and you end up on his Wikipedia page

you will see that his early life, his career and all those other things are way

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