Venture capitalist and author J.D. Vance tells ‘Fox & Friends’ about his book being turned into a Netflix movie called ‘Hillbilly Elegy’.
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Ainsley weve been telling you
Ainsley weve, been telling you
about a Michigan restaurant
owner speaking up after he went
viral interrupting a local
reporter making case against
state lockdowns and devastating
impact on american small
businesses. Watch
our so called leaders using
tax money to pay themselves to
ruin. Businesses and our lives
does not make much sense to me.
You can only be backed in a
corner for so long
im frustrated with the way
things are handled.
Suffering of the people has to
be told,
Steve somebody who knows something about fighting best,
something about fighting best
selling author of hillbilly
elegy, Jd Vance
Good Morning
Steve. They are not getting any
help. The only person they can
rely on are themselves. What do
you make of what we are seeing
right now in the face of all
these lockdowns and
restrictions?
Yeah, I think there are a
couple of things going on.
First is just the fundamental
unfairness of it right. You
have politicians who are are
instituting lockdown orders
where they are not following
themselves.
One thing Americans are told to
follow rules and the people who
are creating the rules arent
following them themselves.
The other thing I take from
listening to guy from Michigan.
We have done a lot as a society
to shut down the businesses to
make them harder to operate, and
we havent actually provided
relief to the business owners or
the workers who rely on those
things.
This is something that, of
course, the president hammered
on about the last couple months
of the campaign.
We have to provide relief to the
american working and middle
class.
I have no idea what our
politicians are actually doing,
but you cant help but hurt for
that guy who is having
livelihood destroyed and nobody
is really helping them and
thats. What depresses me?
Nobody is helping this guy,
despite causing real damage to
him.
Ainsley well lets talk about
the movie.
We loved your book.
We had you on a few times to
talk about, and you have the
movie on Netflix and Steve, and I
both watched it, and we have been
talking about it all morning.
Folks at home dont know the
stories all the struggles of
growing up in the Appalachian
Hills and the struggles of your
mother loved you, God bless her,
but she was addicted to heroin
and how you say she got cleaned,
but your grandmother, she
protected you and you came from
this- really messed up family and
you joined the Marines. You go
to Ohio State and you go to Yale
LAW School and you wrote the
book and youre so loyal to your
family.
How did this become a movie?
Are you shocked when I
watched this im like this is
amazing that you came from that
and you have made so much of
your life.
Well, I appreciate that and
it became a movie because
obviously a lot of people
identified the story. I didnt
initially want to make it into a
movie, but I became persuaded
that it turned into a movie. The
story would go to more people
and consequently, it might have a
bigger impact and so its pretty
surreal to see your family turn
into a movie, especially as you
mentioned, Ainsley my Mama
grandmother, its really the
most important and powerful
person in my life
she passed away over a decade
ago, but to see her sort of
brought to life on the big
screen is really almost
impossible to describe first
time my aunt, my mom, my uncle
saw as Mamma incredible
emotional moment for the family,
its been a pretty positive
experience.
I know some folks dont like it
when their book is turned into a
movie
for us its weird from time to
time, but certainly been overall,
pretty fun and pretty positive
Steve. Well, it is a powerful
movie and your grandma is played
by Glenn close
shes dead on
Ainsley nailed. It
Steve here is a clip of Glenn
close playing your grandma in
hillbilly elegy.
You have to go to school to
have a chance
whats the point
im talking about a chance.
You might not make it, but you
sure hell wont if you dont
try.
You have to decide if you want
to be somebody or not
Steve, she told you advice like
that, and you never forgot it.
She did obviously its
emotional even just to listen to
those clips.
You know what what Mamma
really embodies and what I hope
folks see when they see the
movie is incredible: resilience
that existed in our family.
We had real problems.
There was addiction, there was
family trauma instability, but
there was a lot of resilience
and strength there.
I think Mamma made sure that we
got through it and no matter
what we went through. She got
through it.
Mamma died after I joined the
marine corps in two thousand and five, and she
just we wanted to get me out of the house. She wanted to make
the house she wanted to make
sure I had a chance and then she
sort
she gave you a push,
and you did the rest
Ainsley where we come from is
who we are, but we choose every
day who we become. My family is
not perfect, but they gave me who
I am and they gave me chances.
They never had.
My future is our shared legacy,
youre, so sweet to your mom and
family and im glad shes doing
well. Now,
God bless you
thanks guys good talking to.
Transcript generated on 2020-12-04.