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US Second Lady Usha Vance listens to her hubby Vice President JD Vance talk during a sojourn to the Engineering Design Services Inc. manufacturing installation successful Auburn Hills, Michigan, connected March 18, 2026. (Photo by JEFF KOWALSKY / AFP via Getty Images) | AFP via Getty Images

Usha Vance has a caller podcast: Storytime with the Second Lady. It's precisely what it sounds like. Each occurrence begins with a little introduction, aft which JD Vance's woman reads a children's story. The archetypal 3 episodes were released Monday, and nary is longer than 11 minutes - children's books are, aft all, rather short.

It's an unexpected determination for Vance, who gave up a vocation arsenic a high-powered lawyer to beryllium 2nd lady. But her pivot to podcasting isn't wholly unprecedented. She's simply the latest blimpish spouse to pivot to contented creation. It's a caller beforehand of the ongoing civilization wars: Instead of trying to triumph backmost supposedly l …

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