People have to be able to hold two thoughts in their head. At the same time, you can believe that people have very tough circumstances and that we as a society, have a responsibility to give opportunity and hope to people no matter the circumstances, from then. On the other hand, the people still have some responsibility in some personal agency. Despite rough personal circumstance, rights. For years ago, hillbilly elegy was well regarded memoir. Now, with its twenty twenty Netflix annotation work has become critically pen and the subject of endless controversy, critically pan a widely enjoyed by audiences books, author Jane Events, yesterday to answer the question: what had happened in his book gaiety? about his up, bringing in the Appalache in regions of Kentucky and there Bulgaria, Middleton Ohio, look into it. history and values. In this area, the country was recommended by mainstream outlets in cultural leaders in mass for insight into the play. A white working class people that impact in twenty sixteen election a prey.

We short lived, however, when they nearly unanimous Edith came down from the media at the trials of impoverished. What Americans were insignificant and should be ignored in our conversation? tells us why his story fell out of step with postal elites. In the Netflix, though meditation season directive on Howard tells Jenny story with much of the political sensibility and value of the original work, not in the annex. Just now political work, despite that nearly every major left wing journalist Alan Guardian Box, landing bolder observer New Yorker, if ripped the film apart, J D at I, analyze, Hollywood's and legacy media's frenzied relationship with Bilbil ideology. We look at the culture of poverty, gaiety, grew up in any your woven role, government plays in it and conservatives can connect with the Appalache and Andrew belt regions of the country moving forward

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no story- that the book really is a journey through your personal story, and then I want to get a sort of the Socio economic analysis that you do in the bucket. What's your personal story, he s the basic story, as I grew up and midwestern steel town like a lot of folks, a group that area very strong cultural connections, tab latch, because there was this massive migration of apple wash and people in the post, where, especially, into the town that I grew up in is very successful middle class town. The industrial decline hid it pretty hard jobs disappeared. Drugs moved in for a lot of the sociological things that we associate the modern Industrial Midwest, a start happened to my family in the story, is sort of how this combination of cultural, social, economic factors really influence Three generations of my family, my grandparents, my mom and her siblings, and then might my generation and kind eventually things what are worked out for me, I'm going to law school, I have a nice job. We now live in Cincinnati. We have

a sort of a normal, normal, happy family, and it's sort of what I try to do is sort of take us the lessons from my own wife and infer based sociological evidence as a broader narrative. What's going on and give people a real sense, not just statistically what's going on in these communities but via my own fate, way some insight into what that actually looks like what it feels like a really sort of immerse people in a broader story. So I want to jump into a run down of appalache and culture with you right now. Some of the positive from the negative first. Let's talk about how old family memories can be the perfect holiday gift? Okay, so out in my parents garage that bunch old film reels much VHF tapes and doing anything with them, we had them preserved digitized. This is what legacy box does very safe, affordable way to digitally preserve all those home movies photos that are currently traps undated formats, like the address or film with legs. You box, you can reclaim all the priceless footage. You haven't been able to see in years and the service can be simpler, used our kids to safely send the moment you want preserve their team, then created digital archive by

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interracial minority communities more broadly in the media. But you talk lengthened book about Appalache, culture. What are these positive aspects that lead culture and from the negative aspects it appalache and culture to come to the fore. You I mean one thing is: is that appalache and culture is is very influential in them in a broader country rights? Is this interesting book called the United States about the latch, and a lot of other folks have written about this that, because it's such a big region, the country, because it so to sort of important in critical american moments. You know John Brown Rate on Harper S, ferry civil war stories, theirs the way in which the art and culture and history of Appalachia has this were a broader sway across the country and em That's what I'm one of the things that I'm kind of teasing apart the book a little bit, but but like a high level, it is always the tough to generalise, but I'm trying to do so. You are, I think, one people are very patriotic there very proud of their country. They very proud of their home towns, the proud of where they came from a very resilient and very loyal, and so the sort of place where people don't take lightly to insult, especially insulted

family. You people like mouth wide well of you even written about that and that dynamic and obliging culture in its place. It's a really tat to the wind and the things that people have done on the land. So you people talk about coal mining, for example, is an economic force is something that people do. You provided good jobs and good wages for a lot of people, but if you actually talk to coal minors, there's a wheel pry in the sense that their jobs work just meaningful jobs, but they also power the American industrial revolution that they provided, that the disorder, the core raw material necessary for America to wage, and when we were to introduce this your combination of like pride, the land, but also real pride, for the way the people of used it manipulated and over time they get you get when you talk to people think into the flip side of it is that there are. You know like like a lot of places, their allotted downsides, you're, one of

things. That's always been true, as you hide had higher rates of addiction in Appalachia. That was true fifty years ago, and the drug of choice with alcohol and now, of course, is different or of choice, which has much more substantial downsides. Heroin, car fitness, others and sets, and let it go the words. There is definitely a sort of tradition, of course, not of everybody, but there's a lot of people who have experienced some significant element of family trauma or or childhood chaos nets. Of course, one of the significant parts of my story so new, depending on this, did you use thirty forty percent of children in that in the country will have experienced substantial elements of childhood trauma chaos by the time they grow up in this you sort of pride of place, I think, has a very positive aspect too. but also can mean that people are a little insular. They don't like when outsiders come in and try to investigate or even to help, it said there's this the combination of real self sufficiency, but also resistance to peoples

sitting in helping them, which has all of these sort of complicated factors right so that tomorrow, the world poverty which was in some way started in the midnight sixties and Appalache, at least as a marketing campaign in for both. On the one hand, you feel a certain attachment to certain programs that have helped them access, healthcare and so forth, but also a real resistance in almost a shame at having access those programs in the first place, and you have all these complicated dynamics going on at the same time, and I try to capture that a little bit. Yeah? How much does the religious observance play into appalache and culture because obvious TIM, carnies, written, yellow and alienated America about a sort of France is in areas of the country and a very similar populations acting differently based on religious observance, you're so interesting, because it's a very religious place right it- and I talked about this in the book that growing up my grandma was very religious woman. You with portraits a very strong christian faith with portraits of portraits of Christ, all over the house

the Bible, verses and bibles lying around. We talked a lot about God, the Bible. but in a waterways it was more de institutionalized than you might expect, given how a powerful and influential the faith is, and so it's a place where people profess the christian faith very strongly but we're church attendants rates are actually lower than you might expect. Given how many people in the area are Christians, as you have, combination of you a lot of obviously a lot of very power. not a very strong unimportant churches, but also a lot of people who have very strong christian faith but are sort of disconnected from any real faith community aid to get important part of understanding the region, because people are very religious at this. in time there may be more isolated from a traditional church than you might expect. Just if you ask you do a Gallup Poll ass people, how christian they are and compare that to religious, too read. It doesnt tell the whole story of how a lot of folks Tito weather

on tv. Radio very often get their faith more through that chain old, ensure an actual church. You speak in the book about how economics plays into all of this and how these transformation of the american economy from a very industrial based economy originally agricultural based economy to a service based economy. Really, these areas. The country hard have that impact the places where you grew up. One of the things that happened, of course, is that you, and I think this is a mistake. Folks, on the left often make right. They look at this and they say well people to have more money. If there is less poverty there more resources, everything will be fine, it of course an element of that. That's true. More resources certainly do help material. Poverty is, of course, very hard, but if you look at the Income numbers adjusted for government transfers like a lot of people are actually doing as well today, as they were thirty or forty years ago. What's really different is that the fabric of work and community provided by good work, a sort of disappeared right.

and so you know, when my grandparents generation fifties and Sixties Middletown Ohio most of the workers in that community is it. It just have a good job, but a good wage, which is obviously important, but they had to work. That was that was proud right. They they like doing what they did and they were proud of- and I remember talking to my grandfather here- we see an old car in an old knows, or a used car parking lot and he'd say an arm coal steel. He worked at arm Castillo, built that car, like I know that car he was proud of that fact, but it also provided a real sense of community right, I mean there were there were sort of we're unions and other institutions of work that existed stone exist in the modern service sector economy, and so, Sir, if I know the labour unions or are caught controversial in conservative circles items. To be more pro union? We can talk about that. We could not talk about that, but people, I think always miss? The thing about labour unions has not just

they were sort of economically important to a lot of people is that they were actually useful as a sense of community when you, when that, when that sense of community sort of started to disappear than you had a lot of people feeling more isolated, and that's when that as each collared culture, poverty starts to take over and really starts to influence and affect our people build their wives. let's talk about their cultural poverty because obviously remain particularly gets sucked into that. You talk about in the book the fact that she ends up being infected drugs and how this effect your childhood. So how does that transition happen from your mom a solid middle class industrial base to a more poverty stricken, largely won't know largely Middle EAST, more addicted population.

You know it happens and very subtle ways right and you're. One of the arguments that I made in the book is sort of the seeds, for this dysfunction are already there right. A lot of people had tough lies right. My grandparents came from very, very deep poverty of Southeast Kentucky Coal Country YO. Might my grandparents lives were in some ways much much more difficult than than my life, certainly in so you did in some ways people already. it came from pretty curtail circumstances. There was this way in which the community sort of worked in the fifties and sixtys my grandparents certainly had chaotic family life. It wasn't perfect, There are a lot of issues with it, but the can to be more or less held together and there's this way in which, when the good jobs disappear and people start going to church lesson, there was less of that community infrastructure that the seeds that existed started to take over right, and so you had people, maybe addiction was there, but it was suppressed. A little bit of somebody got addicted to alcohol. If somebody was a really mean drunk, then the queen

anyone enveloped them. They would help people get you get up, get off the ground They would some ways very should we help them get off the drink. I mean this wasn't always like over to come over your house and help you stop drinking and get you the treatment you need. Sometimes it was like a dad owing to the kid who married his his daughter, saying if you'll stop drinking on the future right it, but but those ways of community infrastructure actually did kind of help for whole things together what happened in the seventies and eighties as those good job started disappear. As some of these broader sociological trends started, this sort of become more overwhelming. Is that just stop happening when people were really miserable when they were really unhappy. There wasn't anything that kind of pick them up and help them and so you know you saw rising rates of addiction. He saw rising rates, a trial trauma and abuse and of course that becomes a multi generational thing, The things that I try to really get readers

Understand and hillbilly ology is, is the way in which family dysfunction is not just an immediate reaction to sort of economic circumstances or whatever else is happening. It can very often take on this multigenerational life, and so you have failures my grandparents generation. That sort of her Together when the community was working, but by the time that my came around. The community. Wasn't working you these sort of really traumatic moments from people's childhood. There are still very much with them and consequently, family life started to fall apart in a much more obvious and much more substantial way, since they can only get you deserve, debate on the rights that it then, I think, is really fasten between or the libertarian answer to this end, the anymore Egon ugly interventionist answer to this, which are then provided by by different sides of the of the debate that we had those conversations alive, on this programme with folks, ranging from oil and gas and to Tucker Karlsson, I've given Williamson on,

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I'd say you have sort of one CAS and maybe Tucker Karlsson Epilepsy. Said their bunch, people they're not going to move, they want who live and die in the town where the grandparents lived and died? The industry is gone essentially have to come up with some sort of subsidy in order to rebuild community economically outside in I took her fortune. All on this programme on Sunday Special suggested that we should ban for apple, automated trucking, I so as to preserve truck driver jobs. jobs have meaning it. We don't want, even if it lowers the price of a shipping and create new jobs in different sectors. We have to make sure the people who are capable of being truck drivers and still drive trucks, and then given the areas they want, eleven or in case of courses, egg has pushed him more interventionist view with regard to international trade is pushed tariff subsidies in certain areas and then on the other side. They are folks can Williams and all minarets and be much more on the side too, and that is ok. Well, if the areas, our hollowed out and politicians,

have a lot of ability making false promises about how they can bring jobs back to to these areas and to make these areas flourish again, but politicians the very poor history of being able to do that, bringing jobs back to impoverished areas simply through the force of redistribution is in government or subsidies. I answered, maybe the solution, is that you actually have to pick up and move, but that cuts again, some of the cultural influences you're talking about Appalachia, particularly so Where is there a happy medium there? Where do you come down in that debate? Well, I mean I guess. If, if we're drawing the distinction, I tend to be more on the warrant and Tucker Cross inside of that debate. I do think that its important a sort of remind people that these problems are all economic right, and he knows it So, if I can, I can sort of give a little bit of credit to two if you, if you're casting a lot outside to your side of this debate, but I do think that we often forget that there's this really complicated interaction between economics and society right, and so you can't forgive

People say that if the goal was to eliminate childhood trauma and rebuild stable families that we just need to provide the job that he has a really important piece of the equation. That's that's not all of it. A lot of times I talk about in the book you're talking about like the the the effects in the symptoms of multi generational poverty, of dysfunction of chaos that are showing up in these communities and if you think you could sort of wave the magic, economic one and fix that, I don't think you can add. That said, I do think the economic piece of it is important to say so if we understand that the economy is not just the way the people provide for themselves materially, but they also sort of need that community. That comes along with a stable job and good work, and I also think it a fundamental level. We have that people where they are right to it. It's one thing to say to people: well, you ve gotta go get. You Oh you ve gotta moved where the economic opportunities are. That's fine for some sub category people.

Some people are gonna, wanna move but is in reality a lot of people don't want to leave their homes. I need the more they are. Maybe they're willing to move a few hours away. Maybe they're moving willing to do forty five miles up the road, but they're not willing to sort of drop everything and move from West Virginia to San Francisco. I think we just have to accept that's how p

or even if general lives and may not like it. That's how people are. That is a fact of life, and so we also have to if we care about people, I think all of us do. We have to accept that we have to try to rebuild some sort of some sort of real economic and manufacturing base all over the country at Edison, a broader level of kind of cut away from the geography of it. I tend to think that, on the economics of this a little water libertarians under appreciate how important a manufacturing base is completely independent of whether you're trying to help people whether try to rebuild communities or some of these other you're, more social consequences that we're talking about so so that the Eu S trade, representative, Bob Lighthouses or I think, has written and spoken about this and very interesting way

in one of the arguments that he makes, is that we have this economic supposition that we could disconnect the making of things from the designing of things right that we could design all the things in Amerika. We could make all the things in China or Malaysia Mexico, whatever the case may be, and that sort of the natural evolution of the economy Amerika would be the more advanced economy where we make. We designed the iphones. China would be the less advanced economy where they manufacture the eye. Phones usually we reach a new phase of development or China was designing those things. We were designing something new and I do think there was sort of a fundamental conceit there, because, if you're not actually making things, if you're not actually working on a logistical processes, the supply chain intervene. friends and innovations. Then you start to lose and atrophy your ability to make things too, and so there this way in which the view that there is a sort of air

about how we could disconnect the manufacturing side of our economy from everything else that I think is important for us to just sort of recapture some capacity in manufacturing and designing. We had a while solemn and, of course we have definitely been more de industrialized than I think pretty much every other. Western economy, except for maybe the UK we have lost all. We still do have a pretty powerful manufacturing base that we can build on. I think in the process you're going to be able to provide more good jobs to people it and, if I could say one filing at it with a through a lot at your their habit, it took to sort it go down any direction, but I do think you know there's this weird conceit. That's on the left- and I haven't seen it on the right. So much even the libertarian, right, which I appreciate that you can just sort of easily Rees skill people into new jobs very quickly right, and so he saw

The Roma manual made a comment about this and some national network a few weeks ago that what we have to do just go into here. Suburban rural Ohio GO into West Virginia and teach all these people to code, and you know what I think. That's pretty bizarre view of human nature that you can just what it easily do. That's that's not an easy thing to do to transition people from one skill set to the other, but I also think it sort of mistakes that that one of the reasons we had a very viable middle class in this country for so long is that we did have a real manufacturing base right. If people can't just learned a code, if they're not just gonna pick up a new to San Francisco, you might be able to save. small town, but I do think that if you have a more stable manufacturing base, you're gonna be able to have a more viable middle class economy, which I think it just really important. For political stability for economic stability, efforts for growth and innovation downstream, it's just really important that we not give up

on the idea that we can have manufacturing jobs. There's been a lot of talk about this from obviously Trump and in the trunk, illustration I would regard intervention in the economy, Portugal, in these areas, he he's just use gonna bring back lot manufacturing jobs that there have been some anymore during jobs that have been added, although not not a huge number and not in specific places, an and that's where I started to I sort of start yet dicey on the proposition that the government the capacity or or should be engaging in a sort of redistribution ism from consumers. Two particular points users in certain areas and die in yes, my biggest question when it comes to this sort of stuff is whether these are promised they can even be fulfil, meaning that if you look at the history of american economics, mean that, though the fact is that you manufacture is driven by the United States, people in fifties and Sixtys was almost directly as a result of the fact that the rest of the world was rubble. Made after world war, do we were the only untouched major industrial nation on planet earth? I then we proceeded to blow out our budgets

on massive union contracts that would eventually bankrupt. Most of the audio met, auto manufacturers in the seventies and eighties Magnus. Nearly competitive on the world stage before regulatory caught him before de unionization and all alike the things we love about. Fifty cent sixties and we suggest are a product of the american system, actually maybe products of the fact that no other industrialized she was capable of producing at that point and we got loaded and inefficient, and then we are forced back into more efficiency that required. Israel scale back in the seventies and eighties, yet it there's a fair critique here that that all all sort of agree with and then and then try to maybe encourage you in and in the listeners think about this a slightly different way. So, on the one hand, you're actually write the fifties and sixtys are probably never coming back. They were the consequence of a very particular moment in history and its it's hard to imagine that level of manufacturing power relative to the rest of the world so that fair,

On the other hand, I think the story of american economic Development has now been primarily one of you know that the sort of the market, seeing and turning these things on in it way. In other words, one way of understanding, fifties and sixtys- is just like a miracle was the only place to do business and therefore that was the place to do business. But I think, if you take a sort of a longer view of american history, are. We always had a very strong developmental list mindset. It wasn't ante mortem it sort of what's interesting as it is, is almost in some ways: hyper commercial. If you talk about Alexander Hamilton or Henry play Ray Barham, Lincoln Abuse for all people who did not necessarily just want to protect the oldest trees, and I I sort of imagined you feel like this- I certainly think is some of the industries are just going.

I await right. Some of them are likely to be economically viable. You can't save every manufacturing job it's out there, but we also have this very discreet idea that, while the government shouldn't be control allowing the american economy. We should have as a policy consensus of you about what we want the economy to be What we want the market to be able to produce and to put a little bit of a thumb on the scale to make that possible,

oh, you know in the in the early twentieth century, that was a manufacturing thing in the late nineteenth century. That was primarily infrastructure. Development thing would certainly the steam engine was a very important piece of this. In the last fifty or sixty years we have had specifically and american economic policy around two core industries and not only to harness treatment, but to horns. Your stand out. One is information. Technology exclude grass of government policy to try to make us the information technology leader of the world and to around biopharmaceutical development, which has been a little bit more implicit because the american economy is based are the only place where you can get a monopoly rents for developing new drugs

this is why so much of the by pharmaceutical innovation happens here, and I think that what, when I think about economic development in the context of the work in history, that sort of more where I wish we would go call it export promotion more than import substitution. I think that you have to do some import substitution asset of the Chinese. Don't just sort of under cut all of your manufacturing workforce with slave wages among the wiggers, but you we would. I really would love us to do is have a theory as a society like where do we want the economy to go? Ok, we have a view about information technology. We have a view about biopharmaceutical and you're, not gonna have the Creating these industries, you know who had the government, I think intervene, intervening a ton of these industries, but that we should have a discreet you about what it wants to promote, where it's gonna spend research and development dollars, how it's going to sort of maybe protect its nascent industries from foreign competition, and that's just what we ve sort of law. Since it's an interesting historical question about why we lost it into go back to your point about the fifties

sixty, which I think is largely correct, there's a way in which we lost it, because we were so powerful right in the fifties and sixtys. We didn't have to think about a national public policy in any way we just did everything, because we are the best workforce. We had the only economy that had been destroyed. They only advanced to call you been destroyed, and I would love to actually have us get back to world where we recognised, like like Hamilton, like lay like Lincoln, were the national and international economic competition with other countries. We can't just ignore that fact and we need to act pursue the industries of the future that we think are viable. I think that she has been missing, because american policymakers didn't have to think about it for fish your sixty years so to take- and I ask you how we draw the line between that and how we prevent that from sliding into sort of the government the economy. The government picks winners and losers, mentality that we see on the other side of the political I'll I'll get to that in just one. Second, first,

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Picking winners and losers. The government decides which industries ought to thrive and which industries ought not to have had we had. We distinguish between those two proposals because, as EL, the Democratic Party, for example. Right now, I is pushing pretty hard in the direction of we're gonna, spend every available dollar in dollars that are not available on development of what green technologies, for which there is no actual record of success at this point How do we prevent the laundering of the american economy along these lines? Well, you're one thing also about Tucker in order in particular, because I think I think they're they're very aggressive on this point isn't there. There's this weird met a narrative within the american right that I think they're very explicitly trying to push on and to try to rip the bandit off a little bit. So I dont think that Tuckers economic views or this Aim is Bernie Sanders. Maybe I'm wrong on that, but I do think what he is trying to get close to. Think about is, let's, like let's start with that part of our brain says, were not allowed to go there because we're conservatives, let's actually like figure out what's in the best interests of the american nation, a mirror

worker, and let's just figure that out from There- and so I sort see his his ambition. They are not so much as having the same economic policies is Bernie Sanders, but more- saying we need to stop with that part of our conservative brain than me we react to everything that reeks of government, as this is bad because its government in it- and I think that the item gets a useful corrective is, I think You know, I think basically, what's happened. Is that a lot of you? No wisdom from the sea the seventies and eighties is ossified into a little bit of a dogma and to the extent that people are pushing back on that. I actually think that's useful. I think it's your ear, your specific question I mean I tend to think that we're part probably going down this road or have gone down this road already into the extent. Conservatives evacuated feel more just giving this up to the latin and what I mean is we have. whether we like it or not, an american economic policy? We had one of the fifties. We had won the sixties

We ve had one every single year this this republic has been in existence even when the scope of the government was much more limited, as it was, of course, in the late eighteenth in early nineteenth century You know I mentioned earlier. We have an approach. I t pro software pro hardware economic policy in this country. Right now we have an economic policy, has been very beneficial, of course, to the technology giants in Silicon Valley has been very protective of their particular ways of regulating content and that didn't exist in a vacuum. Of course, that's not the free market. That's really just a specific policy choice that we made and I haven't. I think it was maybe defensible thirty years ago, ten years, go even its less defensible today, and so I think that what we have to recognise is that at some level the american government is gonna, be doing something in the american economy and we,

have a discreet view about what we want that to be, and we should be pushing back against the excesses of the left, which is hard to do. If your view is well the direction Doing anything visa be the economy which are not thing, of course, is your view idle and one caricature at about it, but I recalling. Actually, I don't think you're characterising well very well, but what about it? But I think I think that, basically we know the government's sets laws right. It says, contract laws, it sets capital markets, laws right, every single public companies. Will it be a public company that shielded from liability, which is, of course I think you can make it? That argument is not a free market intervention into into our corporate law they are able to access incredibly liquid capital markets because of policy choices that we have made. the american economy that we want them to be shorter, liability, but also have access to easy credit, easy debt and also easy equity financing, so I guess my view on. This is what we have an economic policy,

whether we like it or not doing what that economic policy to pursue broad based price prospect? before the American Middle Class in the American Working Class is. Do we want it to be able to make the types of thing that allow that we stay ahead of our economic competitors, especially in Asia, or are just got a sort of say. We know what the government to do that, even though the government is already doing that effectively seeding the ground to the left. I think that we have to accept that there is a role to play here for us even if we don't think there should be a mean. The reality of politics is that there is an item of the conservatives to ban in the field. So will it funny that this conversation is research. In this conversation I'm libertarian end, and you are the more interventionist I if you, Look at the reviews of hillbilly energy, the book, and now the movie, precisely the opposite to the critique of the movie and out of the book from the left is of course, that it is a libertarian fable, because Europe in Austria to get back to that is growing up in he's, a somewhat impoverished circumcision.

says, although your grandparents weren't weren't poverty stricken, but your mom draw obviously was an jam and then moving from now to Yale LAW School by essentially making them local decisions on a personal level too, to break with the past, He can talk a little bit about that, yet it's always funny. You know cause you ve. If Europe is a much bigger pull, or public figure than I am ban and have been writing other stuff for much longer than I have and to the extent that I've been the public eye at all, if you go back to national review, articles that I wrote in two thousand forty doesn't fifteen you. My politics have always been a little bit on this side of the conservative divide right, I'm a social conservative I am certainly not what I would call an interventionist but enough if we're sort of putting the the rotarian verses intervention side. I mourn the intervention side on some of these big questions in it's funny that the reaction to the book is. The treated a sort of some libertarian manifesto from the left saw movie review which is hilarious. That's it

It was a libertarian like a libertarian work of art or something like that it and they meant that critically, with which I find so so bizarre because to me, your people have to be able to hold two thoughts in their head. At the same time, you can believe that people have very tough circumstance this is and that we as a society, have a responsibility to give aperture opportunity and hope to people no matter the circumstances, came from and then on the other hand, the people still have some responsibility in some personal agency. Despite rough personal circumstances, right, I always felons I probably one of the reasons psychologically I started identify with the right from a very early age. Is it even if I did necessarily agree with the rights proscriptions on everything I have least felt like conservatives treated people like me as if we were actual people, we were just hopeless victims and I was he did how you, the wealth, brought all the sympathy right for people like me. They want

help us with this programme. That is, of course, a lot of the programmes that are out there haven't done. The job of the left hope that they would do. But just a more fundamental emotional, psychological level. The lesson that the left and a half for people like well you're a hopeless victim, the only. you're ever gonna have any any good opportunities is for us to sort of common like Savior and fix your lives and content. Will you say this explicitly was implicit. You should just give up by yourself right if you're a hopeless agent our hope was not age in and you have no real opportunity the. Why worker? Why try to build a good family for yourself wider? Why try to go and find a good job? Why give back to your community if your community is just this deficit will place? It has no hope I always I always resisted that and I resisted in the book I certainly resistant and in the way that I talk about these things now a consequently, I think people are like I am earlier. If some people on the left assume that I will libertarian. But you know, I'm

I am not, and I really am frustrated by the fact that people on the left hand believe both the p have agency and also the people have disadvantage. Both things can be true. At the same time, You, like my grandma, like a lot of people who grew up in a tough circumstances, and if you look at the statistics, most people who were in poverty, don't don't vote released. I should say most but a lot of people who were in poverty, don't vote. My grandma, I dont think ever voted for president her entire life, but she was like a class Blue Dog Union Democrat her husband, voted for Democrats. She was sort of on the side of the Democrats and, if I had to guess, my Graham all, would have voted for Bernie Sanders in two thousand steam. Maybe she would have voted for Trop in the general election year. Again she did vote so it's always hearted tell but the way that mammal talked about. Some people in our community would have other people calling her a hyper libertarian right. Look it's it's a fact of working class life is a well observed phenomenon.

The people have sympathy with a lot of their neighbors. They recognise that a lot of them have tough circumstances, but they also get pissed off at the people who are making good decision right and it's amazing that, like your average working class Democrat can hold both, frustration at some of their neighbors sympathy with other of their neighbours in their head. At the same time, I wish same was true of our elite media environment, but unfortunately not so. Let's talk about Billy media, environment and criminal box. It becomes out into doesn't sixteen itself like hotcakes, I began. for oils, or the decoder ring for for everybody early in the media to from country. The idea is that this is, sort of if you dont, understand anybody who benefit from the middle of the country, because you literally have only flown over that part of the country, then this book is to help you understand those folks. I end, then, almost just as quickly by twenty seventeen. There is a turn in the media where this book becomes almost a terrible.

All of a sudden. There is did this kind of revisionist history where the book becomes bad in that cannot brief span. Where was the toes the town and this ban were became Bernal. There was this means where Hollywood is like. You know, this thing is old: three million copies polish make a movie out of it, but I want to talk- in just one second, with you about that turn from the book, everybody should read the book. Nobody should read we'll get to that in just one second, first, let's talk about the importance of life insurance. It is your responsibility to take care of your family, and what this means is that you have to have a life insurance if you have dependence dive. Someone should happen you, you need to make sure that your family doesn't lose all their financial support and this holiday and you already spending too much money. So why not get life insurance and not Bundy fortune? Try policy genius policy genius combines a cutting edge insurance market place with help from licensed experts to save your time and saving money.

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Say that you should read the book on the left and it becomes sort of how many area of agreement that, if you understand what exactly happened from country, you have to read the book. so number one. I want to ask you about whether that is an accurate take like whether this Is it whether it was really about from countries? You mention the politics in this area are not quite clear, cut and on those ones. I want to ask you also about whether just the appeal of Trump in General- and you think, was economic wasn't more cultural inside you get the feeling that a lot of trouble is basically just a giant finger to all of the people on the coast who look at people in the middle of the country as well can't handle their own they're alive, and then I want to get too. You know that shift that happen and why you think that happened. Why went from the book? Everybody should reach the book that everybody should burn yet. So so, first on the trunk, everything and I always felt a little bit weird, because people would ask me about these trump voters. That? I imagine and this, of course, my friends and family?

in a way that I imagine it of people ass like Jane Goodall, about like the great apes right it was like. You know. You actually seen these people you ve seen them like picked bugs out of each other's here. What are they like? What are they talk about two? There was this sort of weird truck country Safari element to it, which, on the one hand you have sort of everything I said it is, of course, sort of an implicit criticism of it all The one positive thing I'll say about it is the least people were asking questions right at call a lot of people off guard. They work appreciative of Trump and his appeal in so I at least appreciate the people were sort of trying to read books like mine to understand from voters better. I forgets that sort of good when you live in a country with which of people with different political views. You know that the thing that, of course, is ridiculous about. It is like trumps voting base. Many got where what seventy five eighty million, both in the last election and he got a lot of votes and two thousand sixteen This is a very complicated group. People who get just read one book to understand them. Other, though, certainly it is true that Trump,

accelerated a trend that had been true where the white Working class became more and more conservative, more and more republican, and so to the extent that people are sort of trying to project a white working class. Hillbilly ology something is going on in a broader american politics. I don't think it's totally off base because, of course, that was happening. People were becoming more sympathetic to the rubble to party people. Like my grandma, you know, or people like my grandma, I should say who were classic glued on democratic started, evolve their politics. You know that that that somebody s it was all happened out, my grandma because she was dead before it well before trope came on the scene, but certainly with people like that who were really in a really attracted to tromp into his message, but was the second element of this, which is the question of why it shifted to a very popular book to very unpopular book in the mainstream media, something that you have. I thought a lot about it, I think,

Part of what happened is that people recognised like my own politics, rightly cannot shy away from it, and yet there are ways in which I sort of fit comfortably within the conservatory. Should in ways in which I dont, like I'm very clearly army. American right? And so I think that there is a little bit of just here were giving this conservative too much air time, and so what's? Let's change that. I think more fundamental thing is that for a few weeks, maybe a few and there was this sort of empathetic moment in America right Trump had the election, I'm arouse, invited you right on the New York Times. Basically about what sort of you know. The coastal America had missed about trump voters and people publish the columns that I rode in Israel. interesting moment of empathy, and then two things happened right first, the Russia thing happened right. It was like the real in Trump one went from because there are a lot of really pissed off white working class voters to because of a stolen by Russia, rightly because of that people are just much less interested in the types of people.

Writing about the book, and the second thing that happened in this was an initially led by the academy, but it became mainstream is that truck voters are not economically despair, dispossessed they're, not culturally affected, except for the fact, but the racists and the reason I voted for tromp was because of racism right in you know. I ve spent a lot of time trying to understand this academic literature of untypical. What happens as they call me. For using some sort of opinion polling and no rank them according to their racial resentment, score no compare. How likely are the people who are most racially resentful, the vote for Donald Trump up but, of course, the way they measure. Racial sentiment is by things like you to ask the question what previous generations of

Europeans, like irish, italian Americans, were able to assimilate and join the american family, lived, the american dream, other generate mix, skins or black Americans, or whoever it take your pick up, a whatever I didn't. He grew. They should be able to do the same thing, in course, what's crazy about those poor responses. Is that if you ask Latinos and black people, they often score higher on those metrics than white people do, So to the extent that white people are like racially resentful, then the same is true of like every other groups in the country, and so there was this weird way where we created this bizarre way of measuring racism and then painted with his very broad brush, where now all voters or racist right and one of the things it bothers me so much about this is that you see that in the reaction to hillbilly energy, the balkan hillbilly Ology, the movie- it's like- why are we talking about these

white people. The reason they voted for tromp is because the racist, because they're down because their bad, we don't want to hear any more about them, and I again, I think, that's just a terrible way to think about these issues is a terrible way to think about your fellow countrymen and women. You know the the other thing that all save they think is going on both in the appeal to Trump and also the sort of the reaction to hillbilly. Would you the white working class? More broadly, is it there's this bizarre thing, that's going on with american language. I know you ve sort of talk about this written about this and thought about this, but whether it's that the with tanks or latin next thing, whether it sort of describing people who talk about the american dream in a favourable way as racist there's, this really strong divergence between the way that college educated Americans talk about public life in the way that everybody else talks about public life? In that diversions? I think drives a lot of what attracts me

to trouble. I do think that economic and we can sort again in that if you'd like a bright, I think a lot of it is that Donald Trump doesn't sound like a totally disconnected college professor, when he talks about issues of immigration or race or economics like whatever the case may be, he doesn't sound like a pointy headed weirdo. I just can't believe I made thicket I think this is like two thousand thirteen that there was such a disconnect between the way that human beings talk on each side of our educational and class divide. But now it's just bizarre. Its turned up to eleven, and I think you know what the left once a bit of of maybe unwelcome advice. If you actually want to win Non College, educated white voters in the heartland, the main thing: it's not policy its, not any particular issue, its stop, sounding like everything as an academic, sociology seminar, because people listen to that and they give this.

is weird. I don't want any part of it and I think that there is also an element there of certain sneering it attaches in, and I think that that became king with Trump otherwise, even with with Mitt Romney, it's you give me a lot of the transport is driven in a certain way in direct opposition to the sort of coalition. Politics the Brok album was building. There is a lot of talk in the early. Thousands and then through the Obama coalition, critical in twenty twelve the building of a new political coalition that can be majority minority with sympathetic, white voters? is going to overwhelm the historically white and racist american system. I am I I think a lot of white voters went home, but that does not mean you're talking about me in a wide awake and react to that end. Such a reaction that, because the way that you talk about from is the way you talk about me, you ve got Rami like he was a disconnected ceo who like to fire people, Why'd, you get cancer and whether or not that's true I mean he is Theo type. Write me he's, president bitterness and illegal movie right minutes. That's that's what he is, but Donald from is is a these docendum type in terms of how he speaks in the way these things.

Him is exactly the way you speak about me. Are you call an idiot. You call him a bore. You suggest that he's vulgarian. Are you suggesting the con man in a drifter and that his sort of got level. What do you think a trumpet ease, does have got level love for the country and love flag regard was what he thinks of those things on a philosophical level. I think a lot of people reacted to try. I really think that from major appeal more than anything else is what is something that he has said many times, which is then, hey you because they hate me. They hate me because the hit you and I think that's right for for so many Americans die. That's that's very smart and its. It extends like further. It's not just about criticism of them personally, which I do think a lot of people feel to their current is also about the things that they hold dear right, that this wasn't true when Bill Clinton was running from

who office and it wasn't true by the way the Brok Obama was running for political office of actually either. I sort of one of my favorite like wines to given speeches is that I give a paraphrase line from of Iraq Obama speech in two thousand. Seventy thousand eight when he was running for president, where it's basically the quote, goes something like you know. I really don't like it when people not american flags to protest in America Y see a guy waving a mexican flag in american protest. I get a flash of resentment in getting you get that speech to college educated audiences and two thousand seventeen two thousand a tiny see people shift in their chairs like all, whereas this goal in the skies

so uncomfortable enemies. They will. Brok Obama said that likes you eight years ago, ten years ago and are like oh wow. That's that's surprising. It just goes to show how different it is. The people are talking about these issues, but it to go back to this sort of people feel insulted personally, but they also feel insulted, I think about core parts of their identity, so my grandparents again classic blue dog Democrats but like when you talk to them about World WAR two, Kids, and what would you like me? Like my book, my grandma was over siblings and her father worked when the Navy, my grandfather didn't find the way just missed the sort of age poverty of sixteen. When the war ended, they dig it they would get like terrier writing. It was this incredibly proud moment of american history, and that moment was important to them. As people write their identity as Americans, who felt that their country was good, was really important to them and, of course, there are

of things that America has done wrong. You sort of have to issue that caviar, but people like you know they recognise that there are a lot of things wrong. With their family, they still love their family. They still think things are good that the mere a nation is in a lot of sense- a sort of extended family for a lot of people who care about its history. There, proud of its history in if you're operating assumption as a potential leader of american politics is not that America's made some mistakes, but America's fundamentally terrible. then a lot of people are gonna feel personally insulted because America's something they actually care about its, not just fake, and actually think that this is a sort of feels the cynicism of a lot of our sort of leadership class in the country. Is, I dont think that they were when they were caught off guard by the reaction that a lot of people had to this, because they really dont think that patriotism is something that folks actually feel right. They think it's all manufacture, they think it's all. Like you know, Coke

errors or somebody else's propaganda to make people feel feel good about America. But a lot of people actually just feel good about America because they care about it in its theirs and they love it. And if that feeling is genuine, it's very automatic WAR into a lot of folks in America's leadership, it is pretty incredible. Aus rereading Barack Obama speech at the two thousand for Dnc, and it is unrecognisable when you get it Brok, oxytocin twelve. It is just not recognisable his two thousand for speech. He talks about how, energetic inner city communities, kids need to be taught that getting it education is not acting white, which is something he would you know he he's really It may be twice since then in every time into major headline. Two thousand where you go back and Howard was talking about how we want to be a candidate for people with pick up with that confederate flat in the back there, a pickup truck and everybody was just like. Ok, well, mixed answer me no one people by death, and if you even mention the confederate flag, is because your vicious racist wants to bring back slavery. You I mean how our deal would be not just banished from the Democratic Party but from polite society, if he, if he uttered that same

and in two thousand twenty and again yeah yeah yeah you're right it. It shows just a fundamental disconnected there. There is something you know, there's something weird here going on about the class dynamics that I haven't quite tease depart, and this is a little bit of a detour. Maybe you'll forgive me, but you I remember when Kevin Heart was basically kicked out of hosting the Ox Oscars, which of course, I'm sure the big career moment would have brought in a lot of a lot of additional wealth and in money, so it real economic effect on his life in basic. We in that it was for the sin of tweeting is some things I forget exactly even what he had tweedie. As into that, I would like to add something of illicit joke about how you don't want to Sunday in two thousand and eight ok yeah, and I remember like the reaction to that

reveal the way in which your sort of penalized again for not adopting the vocabulary of like modern twenty twenty professionally educated America sit sit. So you know, like people joke about things in all kinds of ways, there very often politically incorrect people say Paypal. I can imagine that God, Facebook didn't exist. While I was sixteen years old unsure that I set a ton of stupid and hateful things When I was sixteen years old- but you know, we don't want to live in a society where being not professionally educated and not worrying about every word comes out. Your mouse mouth is effectively a barrier to economic and social advance in nets

the society that we live in, and I do think that a lot of of working class voters, not just white voters is of course a lot of what he knows and and even black working vice voters migrated Republicans in the last election. I think that they sort of there's something they recognise that this way of talking, if it becomes a barrier to achievement, is just going to be really bad for them in the right. We'll get some more of this in just one taken first shot by the fact that America is always under constant threat is nation, when confronted with unprecedented perils, Edmund Burke, set it I'll take for evil to prevail for good people to do nothing. But if you want to preserve America, we so can't it's time to join a MAC. That's thesis Asian a mature american citizens, its the fastest growing conservative group in the country joining aim at will access to money, saving benefit, cutting edge news and a great by monthly magazine. More importantly, a MAC fights for you. There is a socialist swarm, Bruin here about our future. The wagon you need to joint aim at today. Over two million conservatives, like you like me of all,

he joined, aim at stay with us by joining right now, just go to aim ACT out: U S, Slash Shapiro! That's a m ac dot! U S! Side, should bear the bit of advice that membership on great the cause is even more important joint today at a MAC dot. U S, Slash Shapiro, the country is always under threat. Can fight back joining aim at em, ac dot. U S! Slash Shapiro again at em aid, why don't you ask Slash Bureau, I think the dead, the backlash that started materialise in front we're not gonna with front. I mean it when you, when you see how corporate Amerika has militarized mean really militarized. On behalf of our woke agenda, the NASDAQ announced this there are going to be only list, companies that, in that increased adversity and on their boards have ended in the detail. Of corporate Amerika. They didn t establishment, media, the social media companies that will now quash free speech that mainstream stuff great example. This week was some There are things actively disconnects most Americans? be Hollywood. Star, Ellen page announced TAT. She was friend

and will not be known as Elliot page in every single headline was Elliot, page Juno, STAR announces. She is transgender if you had no prick knowledge of what was going on, you have no idea that had my means, Elliot page emerged today: you mean, like you literally, have not you never heard of Elliot Page before the Eurostar Ellen Page and was a woman. What and when you're talking about. But if you went on Twitter and you said Ellen Pages, a woman, you would be hit across the across the face with this, with this bizarre notion that you are a bad person while acknowledging the fact that happens, we biologically true and also even according to Elliot Page, was true seven minutes, but it's not just the. We have devised the laws biology, we also have to abide by the laws of physics and rhetoric and wrecked on this, so that actually is Our of Juno was eight Gender man named Elliot pay. All of this, I think, created disconnect in the minds of Americans with real consequences because the elite, the elite us, in the society do have consequences right for people who refuse to abide by these dictates the other three

it was the very real, and this is by the way you're. One of one of the pictures I make two more to more. Libertarian minor concerns like like yourself, been four for why we need to be a little bit. Wary about the commercial or the alliance that existed between the right and commercial actors in our society is that you know for a loan. I am basically the dynamic and american politics was the left on the culture. There He owned the money in the commercial and corporate power and a battled over political power in one of the things that happened is. The right has now lost one of those two spheres right. We can still win elections, but the both the culture and the but leadership is now firmly behind a firm behind the left. I saw this statistic recently that in the nineteen I think in eighteen. Ninety, the fortune ten companies were all led by Republicans in Ecstasy- is we're all Republicans or maybe not as an end, in two thousand and twenty the fortune. Ten seo.

are all Democrats in, so I do think that one of them Orton realisation that has to happen for concern, as is like we do on the market anymore, we dont only actors in the market anymore. They have sort of gone over to the other side, and our politics has to adjust to that fact about that. That's really the consequence. You you point, you asked about consequences those the consequences that matter right new year get a beat up on social media, specialist, you're, more of a public figure for saying you voted for Trump or saying you voted for it. Whatever republican candidate of the day of the day is, but the thing that really bothers you, a lot of friends to your. Maybe they voted for travelling to tell people what they try not to be open about it. What they were worried about was not criticise from their peers and their neighbours. It was what that what they were worried as they might get fired, and we are now in that environment, where people on the right really have to worry about what their thing, especially if the working for the most elite cut companies in the country are you have to worry about this less,

You work at a small manufacture in southern Ohio than you do. If you work a google of course, we work. Google, you ve, really got to worry about what you say or you might who's your job, and you that that strikes me as a pretty unhealthy? Absolute and you were here. I know that if I were only the small company in South Eastern Ohio, if you go on Twitter, facebook- and you say something- there is a high level- Did somebody's gonna pick them up and then call your boss. I ended your boss, that's right, inundated or that Yelp will suddenly review use racist business in your body can be forced to fire. You mean it The sort of censorship regime from the top is is really provide. So then, I think the people on the left are underestimating what the backlash is going to be. No, the question I think, for when the two of us is actually not really about that. I think, is really about. What's the method of fighting it, I tend to think that there has to be fought more and cultural level as opposed to but what can even be done in the political sphere? I am not sure what can be done in the political sphere to reverse that. I think that in the end. What what may have to happen is that

Fortunately, we may break into a country that basically has a republican credit card company, a democratic credit card company in the republic and bang an undemocratic bag. I worry about that, especially in those, as you know, I spent most of my day investing in and technology companies and use certainly, you talked to companies that have more of a right of centre bent and sometimes He'll say that there may be a little bit worried that, for example, Amazon web services are sort of critical infrastructure component, whether they're gonna be able to continue to host a website. if this thing gets any worse, I may I agree with you that we certainly have to exercise cultural power, but I also think that there are some basic policies. Chickens in the american regime. That corporations are gonna, be fundamentally neutral, look, maybe the ceos Gus they would see. Who's gonna say, may be able to be some political donations, but I there is an assumption neutrality like. Why do we offer all of these protection to our companies, if not to sort of assume or or they're not going to assume some posture of neutrality, and so I do think that if, if we continue to go down this

ass. Why they're gonna have, like you said a left wing, economy and rightly economy? We're we're gonna have to start actually tell her are corporation, like look. If you will benefit of american women, Eliab liability, yet sure some neutrality right you wanna continued access capital markets? You can't just fire republicans for saying things that Republicans believe in and so I am willing to use not just the cultural power, but eventually but the legal and political power. If we have to use it ain't, a man finally come to that, especially if what you're talking about that migrate. Fear of doing that, of course, is that any song It is wielded by the government can be wielded by either side already seeing it will against religious people, particularly of you maintain neutrality in business, and then you have religious business owner who wants to actually you? No actual just lay in their business are becoming Are you coming after those folks? Maybe the eventuality has already come and what sort of in the power and there is, there is no neutral principle to be upheld at this point and not just the sort of Hobson of all against all in which either we we established a strict, neutral principle for every company in America, including religious.

By an including people who are on the far left, because the left is simply Can we leave it alone at every possibility here there, There is a scary way, sometimes in which the slippery slopes we seem to be already on them, or even at the bottom of it. Through then I think our are like ice like I met with Tucker, letting our policy aperture has to widen a little, but so let's talk about the movies opposite we're talking today, because the movie? Finally, his don't you does in twenty two production process and the length of it These things do not benefit the critics because it movie had come out in two thousand? Sixteen immediately upon the success of the book, I would been ninety nine percent Enron. Tomatoes are right now. Currently ranks now. Twenty seven presents on rotten tomatoes, and I'm sure after they had now announce the run tomatoes they're going to be having a top critics feature as well, so presumably among the top critics? It is it currently negative? Thirty. ten percent, but it need the public approval of the film

instead, they kind of Van rating to film. I is up in the eighties there's this huge sixty point gap between what the critics thank your public things in terms of approving the film said as have as somebody who has seen the film in the film is quite good. I can say this is really a bullet. All the politics that we have discussed this entire? This entire episode do not come up virtually at. All in the film was eventually I mean. I don't even think virtually like at all in a vote is an extraordinarily apolitical. Film is personalized run. Howard, I think, actually stripped as much politics is, could be stripped out of the story out of the story and tried to four his in specifically on the family story and young people. Sighted to read the politics in their aim or what to make of the critical response. Why devilish shows a real disconnect

and I worry about that because you know you don't want to have a media that so separate from the rest of the country right what we actually want to share a country to get a trolls Murray's written about this very, very effectively that if you have a group of people who set the tone of conversation who are so disconnected from the people who are actually view films. Viewing tv shows, then it's just another wedge that sort of exists between the broad population, the codes and everybody else. That's just not not a good thing. I do think its political, I think, I like the movie, I'm happy with what wrong did it? Obviously, our politics are the same, but I think he just wanted to make an emphatic and we drama about problems, addiction, family chaos, trauma other, and fourthly, all too common in the country, especially in the part of the country, that I call him That's why I think you did a good job with an I, and I hope people will give it give it give it give it a chance, give the politics of it

just bizarre United mentioned somebody called a libertarian fantasy or something not not the book. The movie said to me: there are two even play the bleak political things in it higher movie, so one of them is that the book sort of highlights that M all when she was raising me didn't have a lot of money, and this is true to the actual real life characters. I was struggling to pay for summer healthcare. Right now, you could take a number of different policy outcomes from that Really, that's not like a libertarian fantasy this or talk about the fact that people have trouble paying for their health care. You know, I think it includes four again going to a different direction with that. But that's that's not, I think, a fair characterization. Libertarian fantasy and in the other thing is this he does emphasise a couple of times with me personally and other characters in the movie. My mammal emphasizes look this is not easy, but you ve got to do the right thing anyway. You gotta try to make the right decisions, even if our lives have been totally easy and again. I think that that message,

of empowerment. I understand now the people believe that political, but I think it's depressing because I know a lot of people who come from very rough circumstances, your Democrats and they think a message and empowerment is actually valuable. Certain fortunate that the that the left wing critics have an agreed in just second, only ask gaiety vans a few final. starting with places The movie is different from his life. If you like to hear Jane events answers you have to be a daily where member had in our daily work com click join. You can hear the rest of our conversation over there. Lady vans really appreciate time. Every should go check out. Gaieties bustling book first Billy, Elgin and watch the brand new film adaptation, Netflix Jedi really appreciate the time thanks man good software This episode of the Sunday Special was our last for twenty twenty. We will have new episodes coming out in twenty twenty one, but we are trying to format episodes

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