Speaker
JD Vance
Appearances over time
7 episodes
Episodes
7
#2526 - JD Vance
Trump Throws Vance Under the Bus as End Is Near
Trump Surfaces and Crashes Out at Presser
Jane Coaston: POTUS's Racism Notches Another Win
JD Vance’s Warning to Israel, the Last Desperate Move of Israel-Firsters & Iran’s Growing Strength
500 - Iran’s Baddie Era & The Data Center Destiny
Vice President JD Vance: No One Saw This Coming, The Ceasefire Is Real!
Podcasts
Quotes & moments
Child psychologists have found that kids from traumatic backgrounds who succeed almost always have one anchor figure — a teacher, grandparent, or social worker.
JD Vance's mother, who battled prescription drug and heroin addiction for most of his childhood, has now been clean and sober for eleven years.
A poll Vance recalls found roughly 70% of young Americans said they would die for their country, versus only 20–35% in other Western nations.
The Strait of Hormuz accounts for approximately 25% of the world's energy supply, making its closure a potential global energy crisis.
Vance believes the percentage of young Americans willing to die for their country is significantly lower in 2026 than it was in 2003, largely due to the Iraq War eroding trust.
The Iran-US term sheet includes the Strait of Hormuz opening effectively immediately, naval blockade lifted, and demining of the waterway.
On Mike Rowe's podcast, JD Vance claimed most people with four-year college degrees have 'effectively fake jobs.'
Within the first week after the US-Iran MOU was signed, 20 million barrels per day of oil began flowing through the Strait of Hormuz — matching pre-war levels.
Inflation under the Biden administration peaked at 9%, while the Trump administration has not come close to that figure even in its worst month.
JD Vance claimed he has seen no evidence or data that AI will lead to mass unemployment, despite warnings from AI creators themselves.
Vice President JD Vance told the Nixon Foundation that if Watergate happened today it would be a 12-hour news cycle, not enough to bring down a presidency.
The stack of US sanctions on Iran is approximately 60 pages long, described by Vance as deliberately destructive to the Iranian economy.
JD Vance admitted on podcast that he no longer goes to the grocery store, cooks his own meals, or stands in TSA lines — all done for him.
While dismissing mass unemployment fears, JD Vance conceded AI might produce mass inequality — which he described as a different problem.
Vance recounted Elon Musk riding in his motorcade and commenting that he could buy almost anything but not the kind of power and security that Vance's position commands.
JD Vance once wrote that Trump was 'cultural heroin' and told a roommate he was 'either a cynical asshole or America's Hitler.' He now says he was wrong about Trump, wrong about American institutions, and wrong about the military experts he trusted.
Iran agreed to open the Strait of Hormuz, hand over its enriched nuclear material, and accept long-term inspections — in exchange for lifting 60 pages of US sanctions and economic reintegration. Vance calls it a genuine term sheet, not another false alarm.
Growing up with a revolving door of father figures and an addicted mother, Vance developed what he now recognises as avoidant attachment — always assuming people would leave, threatening to break up in arguments, and assuming the world was about to fall apart. He says it took years of marriage to overcome.
Every AI CEO talks about job apocalypse because dystopia is viral marketing. The real danger is what happened in the industrial revolution: rich people got dramatically richer, and that triggered fascism and communism across Europe. Vance says the US and UK were the only Western nations to escape that — and there's no guarantee they will again.
When 12-year-old JD started hanging out with a kid heading toward drugs and jail, his grandmother told him she'd run the boy over with her car — and that no one would ever find out. He stopped hanging out with the kid immediately. That toughness, Vance says, was what kept him alive.
Iran's power structure has three poles: the political (foreign minister, president, parliament), the clerical (supreme leader and clerics), and the military (especially the IRGC). Two months ago, no one knew who held the upper hand. Now Vance says they do — and the system has coalesced around wanting a deal.
Seventy percent of young Americans once said they'd die for their country — far more than any European nation. Bush tapped that patriotic reservoir for a war built on false premises. Vance says that trust is almost certainly much lower now, and calls it a profound and lasting betrayal.
Vance had just landed in Milwaukee for the RNC when Trump called — and he didn't pick up. He got a text from the future White House Chief of Staff saying he'd missed a very important call. He rang Trump back, and the rest was history. This happened hours after Trump was shot.
Vance won every competition life offered — Yale Law, good girlfriend, rising career — and realised he wasn't happy or good. Looking around at who was most virtuous, he kept finding Christians. Not because they were chasing achievement, but because they were obsessed with treating people well. That realisation led to his baptism.
Vance reframes the immigration debate: division isn't politicians exploiting people's fears — it's communities reacting naturally to change happening too fast. Integration requires slowness, economic opportunity, and a shared language. The problem isn't newcomers; it's the pace.
His eldest son didn't sign up for Secret Service escorts and people treating him like he was special. Vance wrote in his new book: 'Sometimes I feel like I've ruined his life without even asking him.' That guilt, he says, forced him to build a better life around his kids.
The entire American media convinced Vance in 2016 that Trump was not smart. Inside the Oval Office, Vance found the opposite: a wide reader, an instinctual genius with people, and someone who likely has one of the highest IQs of any US president. He now calls his earlier belief 'so, so dumb.'
Vance doesn't want a social credit system where a tech CEO's AI algorithm determines whether you can buy a beer. A friend once told him AI is 'fundamentally a communist technology' because of its surveillance power. Vance says this is the AI threat that actually keeps him up at night.
Trump likes the idea of a US sovereign wealth fund taking equity stakes in major AI companies. Vance endorses the underlying logic: redistribution — taxing the rich and giving to the poor — never created a stable society. You have to give workers a seat at the table before the wealth is made, not after.
Children from traumatic backgrounds who succeed almost always have one stabilising anchor — a teacher, grandparent, or social worker. For JD Vance, that person was his grandmother Mamaw. Without her, he says, he genuinely doesn't know if he'd be alive.
Analysis
What they talk about
- Society & Culture 42%
- Government 25%
- Technology 14%
- News 8%
- Religion & Spirituality 5%
- Education 3%
- True Crime 3%
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