Our Special Guest J.D. Vance

Common Sense Ohio

This is an interview we had with J.D. Vance during his run-up to winning the U.S. Senate seat, representing Ohio.

And now, he's Trump's running mate for the 2024 Presidential election for the G.O.P.

J.D. Vance is the author of Hillbilly Elegy. It's his memoir, written about his upbringing and his transition into adulthood and into Yale Law School, after a very difficult, very challenging upbringing and child in poverty.

With Appalachian, Scots-Irish culture, you say he grew up in anything but traditional. And that's true for professional class people. He's anything but traditional in that sense. There are so many people who are impoverished in West Virginia, in Appalachia, Ohio, and in Kentucky, that for them, it's a lifestyle that the rest of us are unaware of. And J.D'.s book really brings that to the forefront. It's a remarkable insight into that culture.

And then he attends Yale Law School, where he had to learn the whole new elite language. He has incorporated his background, his upbringing, and what he has seen in both worlds and come to a really solid foundational philosophy on government, on society, on America.

We know you'll learn more about J.D. in the short time we get to talk with him.

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Moments

00:00 Bilingual in language and social class integration.

05:34 State of the Union speech dismissed.

07:15 Acknowledgment of JD's experience in coal country.

11:14 Negative trend in American public life due to technology companies' political influence.

14:44 Common carrier regulations and antitrust laws explained.

16:15 J.D., fentanyl crisis, addiction, family impact, book.

19:26 "Prevent drugs, secure border, kids' well-being."

24:07 Contrast of two worlds from Hillbilly Elegy.

28:50 Reflecting on Cincinnati, leaders must serve purpose.

32:23 Concerns about division, race, gender, culture increasing.

36:06 Military urges arming countries for defense.

38:27 Russia's invasion concerns call for de-escalation.

Recorded at the 511 Studios, in the Brewery District in downtown Columbus, OH.

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