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He's a freshman senator, just like our own Katie Britt, for him to come on this fast and this quick. I watched Hillbilly Elegy last night on Netflix, his memoirs turned into a movie and made really good by Ron Howard, and it's about his upbringing, Appalachia, and then moving to Ohio, his family, who was rough for him is, you know, time at Yale, and then also, you know, is a little bit of what he did in the in the Marines. But I thought, you know what, this guy comes up from Ohio, some time in Kentucky as well. He represents middle America. He's 39 years old. He's got military background. I mean, yeah, you're right. There's a lot of excitement around him and also the excitement around the convention this year. I mean, the Republican party right now is on fire like we haven't seen in a while. Everybody used to talk about, oh, they're divided. They're not going to be together. They need to unify. They need to come together and support Trump. There's too much discussion about find somebody else. But I'll tell you, the last three days has been since the assassination attempt and, you know, JD Vance's pick and the last couple of nights at the convention. Yeah, I'm with you. The excitement and energy right now is something that I haven't seen in a long time. A long time. And here's the thing. If you look at JD Vance, yes, I actually read his his memoir when it first came out. I'm a huge memoir fan. I read very little fiction. And I remember being like, wow, yeah, this is powerful. This is good. And it's speaking to a group of people that is often just forgotten about and it was wonderful. But long story short, JD Vance is actually supported by some in Silicon Valley because let's let's be clear. Silicon Valley is a liberal bastion in California. It is a democratic stronghold. It is deeply progressive in San Francisco. But, but there is this Republican contingent within tech that has become increasingly more visible. They have libertarian leanings and a lot of libertarian views, aligned with small government with free markets, all of that. And you have major players like Elon Musk, like Saks, like Sean Maguire, Sequoia Capital, I'm naming billionaires here, all throwing their endorsement and their donation to Trump in his bid for White House. And actually, if you look at Vance himself, after graduating from Yale, he became a principal at the Thrill Capital Management. That is a firm backed by billionaire Peter Thiel. Then he moved down to a Steve Case back firm in DC revolution and then moved back to Ohio and formed another VC firm called Naria Capital. He did that with money from Peter Thiel, money from Eric Schmidt and Mark Andries. And these have all backed him. And really, what he's done is that he's broken with his party lines, Republicans on some issues, things like access to broadband internet for millions of people. This was a Biden supported program. He understands fundamentally what rural America, what the Rust Belt, what what White folks in poverty need most to pull themselves out of it and access to broadband is one of them. And he really didn't seem to care if his party was voting on that. He knew the importance that he went with his gut. He obviously grew up in a white family. But the point about the poverty situation is I think it crosses all sectors of nationality, whether you're white, black or Hispanic, whatever, he understands people that struggle and came through not only being poor, but being raised by his grandmother, for the most part, because mom was an addict. I mean, there's that angle of his life. Then there's the angle that you just described his financial background and how smart he is there. Then you've got the military where you throw that in a Yale law graduate as well. And I think the culmination of all of that, he speaks to America. And your point about all the money and the fact that Silicon Valley leans left in Democrat beyond that, follow the money, the these people, let's call it, they want to make money out there in Silicon Valley. And he understands that. And they get the fact that, look, this guy gets us too. And the wave right now is Trump. So the big support is coming that direction. And it doesn't hurt that Elon Musk is now moving all of his company to Texas and getting out of California. There's a sense around this country that enough is enough on the way things have been over the last three years, even with the perception of Silicon Valley being left and liberal and independent and best. It all comes down to who's going to do a better job with money. Right now we got two financial guys coming in Trump and JD vans. And it looks like they're putting their money on those horses. Thank you, Aaron. I appreciate you this morning. 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