Hillbilly Elegy
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Oct 14, 2026
Kevin JacobsenHOST
[laughs] It's, it's fine.
Jay LedbetterGUEST
There's an argument that maybe Glenn Close's character in this, it's the action comedy prequel to Hillbilly Elegy.
Jay LedbetterGUEST
Perhaps, you know, Maw Maw's-
Kevin JacobsenHOST
Okay.
Keith MalleyHOST
It was all engagement.
Keith MalleyHOST
But I do wonder how Ron Howard feels making the movie Hillbilly Elegy.
Keith MalleyHOST
You know of this movie, right? I
LauraGUEST
know of it.
Steve ProkopyGUEST
And it just...
Steve ProkopyGUEST
It's kind of incredible, and I think both of the men, Gabriel Basso, who sadly – I feel bad that his breakthrough role was playing J.D. Vance in that American – what is it called? American Elegy? Hillbilly Elegy.
Steve ProkopyGUEST
Hillbilly Elegy.
Steve ProkopyGUEST
Yeah, yeah.
Erik ChildressGUEST
Anyway.
Kevin JacobsenHOST
[laughs]
Cody DericksGUEST
That performance weirdly, Hillbilly Elegy, her performance is more over-cranked-
Kevin JacobsenHOST
Yeah
Cody DericksGUEST
... than this performance, and yet I feel like it is also more effective.
Jamie DuncanHOST
We forgot he's a writer.
Jamie DuncanHOST
Yeah, he wrote Hillbilly Elegy.
Jamie DuncanHOST
Hillbilly Elegy, which was like a very popular book for a very long time.
Jamie DuncanHOST
Never read that book.
Jamie DuncanHOST
Never
Dalton McGeeHOST
Here is your one key Oscars question.
Dalton McGeeHOST
The current record for the most acting nominations without a win is eight, held by Peter O'Toole and which actress, who last received a nomination for Best Supporting Actress in 2020 for Hillbilly Elegy?
Arthur CarlsonGUEST
Oh, um, um, uh, Glenn Close.
Dalton McGeeHOST
Glenn Close is correct, yes.
Greg OrmeHOST
he would never lie about his entire life or his name or whether or not he has had intercourse with popular home furnishings
Steve SkinnerHOST
that That was a deleted scene from Hillbilly Elegy, the movie.
Steve SkinnerHOST
I don't know.
Steve SkinnerHOST
I don't know if either of you saw that movie, but it's...
KenHOST
Inspired by a true story three generations in the making, an urgent phone call pulls a Yale law student back to his Ohio...
KenHOST
Oh, shit, that's Hillbilly Elegy, another piece of fascist propaganda written by J.D. Vance, who, along with Ron Howard, ruined my Hollywood girlfriend Amy Adams forever.
KenHOST
Fuck all of you guys.
ThomasHOST
Okay, The Iron Lady, 2011, directed by Phyllida Lloyd,
Jon KimballHOST
I'm
David ReesHOST
not sure if I agree with that, but because I never read Hillbilly Elegy and because I never saw Ron Howard's wonderful movie adaptation of Hillbilly Elegy, I don't really have privy to J.D. Vance's origin story.
David ReesHOST
I know he had a meemaw who loved to shoot guns and drink beer and that I think there was some substance abuse issues in this family and that he certainly didn't have such an easy time of it.
David ReesHOST
Yeah.