Middletown
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Oct 31, 2026
Noda WolfGUEST
Yeah.
Noda WolfGUEST
There's actually one in Middletown, Ohio, which isn't too far.
Noda WolfGUEST
It might be like a 30-minute drive from Mainville.
Noda WolfGUEST
30, 40-minute drive.
Jane CoastonGUEST
He didn't grow up there.
Jane CoastonGUEST
He grew up in Middletown, Ohio, a place full of normal, boring people.
Jane CoastonGUEST
He spent summers with relatives in Appalachia.
Jane CoastonGUEST
He wrote a whole book about how people there had given into resentment.
Rory StewartHOST
I'm speaking to you 20 miles from J.D. Vance's hometown in Middletown, Ohio, and I'm right in the heart of the midterms.
Rory StewartHOST
And with the trip team, I'm traveling through southern Ohio, down into Appalachia and West Virginia, trying to understand Trump voters, swing voters and what might happen in the midterms.
Rory StewartHOST
And I'm really looking forward to discussing with Alistair both the big questions around US policy and the real perplexity of trying to understand individual motivation on the ground.
6 MINS LATER
Rory StewartHOST
So all those elements.
Rory StewartHOST
And I don't know, I mean, let me maybe just start with this.
Rory StewartHOST
It's a sort of A weird question to ask you, Alistair, but how well do you know Ohio, places like Middletown and Dayton and Cincinnati? Is that kind of part of the states you know particularly, or is it other bits you know?
Alastair CampbellHOST
No.
Alastair CampbellHOST
Where do I know? I know Maine very well.
Alexis KnightHOST
Hello and welcome to your True Crime Podcast.
Alexis KnightHOST
In September 2022, Jeffrey Feldman was shot in a garage in Middletown, Ohio.
Alexis KnightHOST
His wife, Bonnie Vaughn, later spoke with detectives in a police interview about the shooting and what happened afterward.
Bonnie VaughnSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
I don't think you are.
J.D. VanceSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
And I saw that even though I grew up far away from Texas.
J.D. VanceSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
I grew up in a little town called Middletown, Ohio.
J.D. VanceSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
But what I saw in Middletown is I know what Texans saw for very long.
J.D. VanceSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Washington D.C. had left our communities behind.
J.D. VanceSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
They had left behind the people who grow our food.
Ben MeiselasHOST
And as you travel to these various cities, what are you hearing over and over and over again right now?
Kristina KnickerbockerGUEST
So Ohio 10 is made up of Greene County, Montgomery County, and Middletown, which is where JD Vance grew up.
Kristina KnickerbockerGUEST
And the Dayton area is one of the bigger metro areas between Columbus and Cincinnati.
Kristina KnickerbockerGUEST
It's also home to Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, where I served as an Air Force officer for a decade.
Andrew McLainHOST
So let's see what J.D. Vance is saying before I get into that.
J.D. VanceSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
state Ohio and Michigan successful but made our country successful we ignored and we left behind we allowed the people who made decisions we called them the elites who are running this country in this great country that we love prosperity bred complacency and complacency bred indifference to the fate of communities like my hometown in Middletown, Ohio, and the towns all across the state of Michigan that built this country.
J.D. VanceSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
And over the years, I suspect that people in places like Howell came to harbor many of the same doubts about our country's failed leadership that I did growing up.
J.D. VanceSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Now I remember very distinctly driving around my hometown with my grandfather who was a union welder at the Middletown Works of Armco Steel.
J.D. VanceSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
And I remember how he could identify the cars that were made with American steel and he would beam with pride when he did it.
J.D. VanceSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
You know, I remember playing peewee football in leagues where the kids of working-class black families joined together with the kids of working-class white families, never worrying about the color of our skin or our privilege.
J.D. VanceSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
And much of what made our state, Ohio and Michigan successful, what made our country successful, we ignored and we left behind.
J.D. VanceSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
We allowed the people who made decisions, we called them the elites who were running this country, In this great country that we love, prosperity bred complacency, and complacency bred indifference to the fate of communities like my hometown in Middletown, Ohio, and the towns all across the state of Michigan that built this country.
J.D. VanceSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
And over the years, I suspect that people in places like Howell came to harbor many of the same doubts about our country's failed leadership that I did growing up.
J.D. VanceSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Now, I remember very distinctly driving around my hometown with my grandfather, who was a union welder at the Middletown Works of Armco Steel.
J.D. VanceSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
And I remember how he could identify the cars that were made with American steel, and he would beam with pride when he did it.
Tony KatzHOST
This is the long part of a J.D. Vance philosophy.
J.D. VanceSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
And much of what made our state, Ohio and Michigan successful, what made our country successful, we ignored and we left behind.
J.D. VanceSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
We allowed the people who made decisions, we called them the elites who were running this country, In this great country that we love, prosperity bred complacency, and complacency bred indifference to the fate of communities like my hometown in Middletown, Ohio, and the towns all across the state of Michigan that built this country.
J.D. VanceSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
And over the years, I suspect that people in places like Howell came to harbor many of the same doubts about our country's failed leadership that I did growing up.
J.D. VanceSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Now I remember very distinctly driving around my hometown with my grandfather who was a union welder at the Middletown Works of Armco Steel.
J.D. VanceSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
And I remember how he could identify the cars that were made with American steel and he would beam with pride when he did it.
Tony KatzHOST
This is the long part of a J.D. Vance philosophy.
J.D. VanceSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
But to remember, I shouldn't be here, ladies and gentlemen.
J.D. VanceSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
I am the grandson of a steel worker from Middletown, Ohio, and I stand here today as the Vice President of the United States of America.
J.D. VanceSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
I stand here because generations of Americans who came before me made sacrifices that gave a kid like me a chance.
J.D. VanceSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
It wasn't fate and it wasn't luck.
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