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🗓️ 12 October 2025

⏱️ 69 minutes

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This week on The Necessary Conversation, it’s just Chad, Haley and Mary Lou. Bob's resting. But we break down another wild week in America under Trump’s second term. 🏛 Shutdown Day 12 The U.S. government shutdown hits day 12 with nearly 1.6 million federal workers either furloughed or working without pay. Trump is using the shutdown to push through Project 2025, firing thousands of government employees and dismantling departments like the CDC, Department of Education, and Cybersecurity and In...

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0:00.0	In the aftermath of the 2024 election, America is even more divided than before.
0:07.0	Half the country fears the end of democracy and the other half welcomes it.
0:13.0	As America inches toward the brink of authoritarian rule, now more than ever, we must force ourselves to have the necessary conversation.
0:23.9	Welcome to The Necessary Conversation podcast.
0:26.7	Joining me today is only two other people.
0:30.2	My sister Haley Pope, a fellow lefty living in the deep red state of Texas.
0:36.9	And my mom wearing her best Trump hat, her most beautiful Trump hat,
0:41.2	absent is my father. He's resting, stewing in anger, eating a banana. What's he doing?
0:48.3	He is eating a banana. He just woke up. He is. He has anemia and it's making him very, very tired.
0:57.9	We're trying to figure that out along with his diabetes.
1:00.4	So we will, we were referred to a specialist.
1:07.3	They said January they could get him in.
1:10.2	I said, oh, no.
1:11.5	So I'm working on getting him in sooner.
1:14.5	All right.
1:15.3	Well, Godspeed to you, Dad.
1:17.2	I hope you feel better soon.
1:19.2	Welcome to necessary conversations.
1:20.5	Let's do this mom.
1:21.2	You got any ditties?
1:23.3	Just Patriot of the week, year, and century.
1:27.0	Who could that be?
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