America is deeply divided.

There are only two sides to every issue,

and there is no interest in finding common ground,

not even with members of your own family.

But as the 2024 presidential election looms on the horizon,

there has never been a more important time to have

the necessary conversation.

Welcome to The Necessary Conversation. I'm Chad Colchin. This is my sister, Haley Pope and my parents, Bob

and Mary Lou Colchin. We are, of course, politically divided as a family, but we've only got what?

Four or five weeks?

Four, yeah, I think so.

Four weeks until the election of our lifetime, the most important election in American history.

That's what we've been told about every election thus far.

It can't always be true.

We've got some big stuff to talk about this week.

Haley, you've gone viral for some political activist activity that you're doing. We're going to talk about that. We're going to talk about who won the vice presidential debate last week. We're going to talk about Melania Trump pro choice. We're going to talk about Trump's butler rally.

He returned to the scene of the crime.

Before we get to any of that, we do have a question from a listener.

Are you ready?

Hello.

Yes.

Are you alive?

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