Joe Manchin on the Fight for America's Future: Term Limits, Bipartisanship & the 2028 Election
episodePreviously titled “Joe Manchin on the Fight for America’s Future: Term Limits, Bipartisanship & the 2028 Election” — renamed by the publisher on Aug 6, 2026
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All right, everybody, welcome back to the All In podcast. We are super pleased to have with us today, Senator Joe Manchin is joining us today here on the All In interview and Chamath and I We'll be interviewing him on his new book, Dead Center in Defense of Common Sense. A great book. Welcome to the program, Joe Manchin. I know you like to be called Joe. So Joe, welcome to the program.
Jason, thank you. And it's great to be with you and Shamath. And I've followed you all and you've been unbelievable what you've put out and some of the people you've had on have been very entertaining, very interesting and very thoughtful. So anxious to be here. Thanks.
And we have a tradition here. I don't know how often you watch the interview show, but we always try to get a personalized gift for each of our guests. And so in the book, you talked about your first car, your 1964.
If you could find that, if you could find that thing for me, it was a bullet back. I can't find the car. Well, there it is with the white interior.
Oh, my God. Can we buy it? No, no, you got it. It's in your driveway right now. When you get out of your office there, it'll be waiting for you by your yacht. Let me tell you that. Oh, by my yacht. Yeah, I got a bet. It's a $200,000 trawler. It's a fishing trawler, correct? It's a trawler.
Listen, Joe, what Jason has just proved is he has not read the book, but he looked at the pictures in the middle. That's all he's done. No, I didn't.
He's riffing off the pictures. No, I don't have the physical book. I did the audio book. But Joe, you did the right thing. Oh, you did the right thing. You read it yourself. I did. Which a lot of authors, you know, they try to talk them out of doing it, but it makes it so much more personal.
Hey, Jason, I didn't know I was supposed to do that. And all of a sudden, my daughter Heather says, Dad, you got to show up at the studio and start reading your book. I said, why do I have to do that? She says, it's in the contract. I said, I didn't see that. She said, I didn't show it to you. It's a part of the contract.
It's like six or seven hours of reading. It took 20 hours.
20 hours. So three days, three, four days. Four days. And let me tell you what's the best thing I've ever done that made me reminisce everything we put in the book.
It's just, Chamath, you haven't done this yet because you haven't written a book.
I'm not really into audio books. I read the book. Look, I have it. I like to have the physical pages. I mark them. Okay.
I'm old school. Yeah. I mean, sometimes I do both. But, you know, when you're in the session... I'm sure you had this where the producers got the button and then you're like, and then I got my Maserati and I came out of the garage and they're like, a garage? You're like, yeah, I came out of the garage. Because you have to do every word perfectly to sync it on Amazon, right? So they have to correct you over and over again if you just miss one word.
The most unbelievable thing is the first day I start doing it and I'm sitting there and all of a sudden, I'm just talking and reading the book and I crossed my legs. They said, stop, cross your legs. I said, what? They said, we heard you cross your legs. I said, my God, I'm in trouble.
You're basically in like a Faraday cage. Like if you literally, you know, hit anything. Yeah. Oh, the book's fantastic. Everybody go pause the podcast here. And I just absolutely go buy it because it's so important. And yeah, know i mentioned um when we were just on the pre-show irish catholic boy scout and you start the book out with an irish catholic boy scout getting in a brouhaha donnybrook with an italian Irish Boy Scout. You were an Eagle Scout. No, I wasn't. Former president. Wait, you were an Eagle Scout. That's what the internet said. Where'd you get to? First class?
No, no. I got up to life. Oh. And what happened, I was right next to it. Let me tell you what happened. 1959, never forget it. The coal mines got automated in West Virginia. I lived in a little coal mining community, 400 people, and there was three of the largest coal mines you've ever seen.
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