Michelle Cottle
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2,005 appearances
16 recordings
1 series
first heard Nov 2025
last heard 19 Sep
Michelle Cottle’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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He was working for venture capitalist Peter Thiel.
And the book, which told the story of his extremely rocky upbringing, was welcomed as something of like the Rosetta Stone for explaining to blue state Americans in particular the class dynamics of the emerging Trump era.
So I want from each of you to just kind of give me your thumbnail impression of Vance at that time based on that book.
Oh, definitely.
It has a cobbled together feel.
But, Carlos, how do you think this new book kind of fits into or builds on the story he's been telling about himself?
Yeah, I think if we're looking for consistency or hypocrisy or, you know, there's a lot to get into there.
But as far as both of you have mentioned that he spent a lot of time in hillbilly elegy, disparaging his background, his family, the culture he was raised in.
And this is a much more conciliatory, almost apologetic tone.
Yeah.
What is your read on that?
Is this some epiphany he's had?
Is this more cynical kind of... Carlos, you first.
Oh, I'd be there for that, you know, the lapsed Southern Baptist.
I mean, Communion does read to me like a book by a man who is a deeply anxious personality, carries serious, real scars from his childhood, and who doesn't
really know who he is even now, and certainly doesn't know what he wants people to think about him.
I mean, as you note, he denounces striverly elites, but he quotes them endlessly in this book, and he surrounds himself with them in his life.
He decries materialism, but he's a former venture capitalist.
His mentor is Peter Thiel.
And it's very hard to even get
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