 And, indeed, it was aimed at a lot of the suburbs of Philadelphia. It's about every American family. And if you're just joining the Hugh Hewitt Show, maybe the most important part of the speech is when he recognized his mother, whose story is very well known to the book clubs and the people of America who read Hillbilly Elegy as having struggled her whole life with addiction, six different men in her life, J.D.'s dad, and then five more men living in and out of the house, a life of chaos that is familiar to many Americans.