Welcome to the rush hour. Your daily dose of pop culture for your rush hour ride. Buckle up and

enjoy the drive with your host, stand-up comedian Dave Neal. All right, ladies and gentlemen,

on the rush hour podcast, we are chatting today with a legend in the world of podcast. He's the

creator of the Game of Roses podcast and the viral hit The Necessary

Conversations podcast along with the cult classic movie. He wrote the incredible Bert Wonderstone.

It's Chad Colchin. How are you? Doing good, man. How are you doing? You know, I was just getting

barbecue with a magician friend of mine. And I had to tell him, you know, my wife was in Bert Wanderstone, and the guy I'm interviewing wrote Bert Wunderstone, the cult classic movie. And he was, I mean, I felt like I was famous that I knew. Well, you're the only person in the world who feel that way or feels that way. Yeah, my buddy was like, so was Chad, is he like a magician?

Is that why he wrote it? I was like, honestly, I wouldn't be surprised, but I don't think so. I, you know, I dabble in cardistry, but I'm not a magician. No, I'm just fascinated by it. It's one of the only art forms, I mean, maybe the only one, right, that's based on like complete deception and the audience

is aware of that and paying to be deceived. It's fascinating to me. It's actually interesting

to see your curiosity in a playoff in different ways because you've got this curiosity,

obviously with The Bachelor and the theater, the theater arts that goes along with it, the sort of standards

of what the show is and how it's kind of existed throughout, you know, culture in the last 20 or so

years. And also your curiosity as you interview your parents from a different political

ideology. And I want you to know, I told you this literally when I watched your first

episode. I was like, this show is amazing. And now the internet agrees. You've got hundreds and

hundreds of thousands of followers on social media. So what's the sort of reaction been this year

for the necessary conversation to explode in the way that it has? It's been interesting.

You know, I, we've been doing that show for three years now. And my mom, I gave her complete control of all the social media for the first like two and a half years. And then I was doing another podcast called Dudesy. That ended last year. And I was like, let me take the effort that I was putting into that and put it into necessary conversation and take over the social media and start cutting the clips and posting the clips. And I did that in March. And the first week that I did it, we had a couple of videos hit a million views on TikTok and Instagram reels and stuff. So it was pretty quick after I took it over. And it's been like a, you know, slowly building since then.

But it's interesting to see my mom has been like recognized in the bank and stuff like that,

you know, and she, you know, fains that she doesn't like it, but I know she does.

So that's been kind of fun.

And you don't think about that side of things where there is, I mean, have you ever done anything that has had this amount of traction before?

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