Is Trump Really Going To Pardon Ghislaine Maxwell?

The Necessary Conversation

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🗓️ 3 August 2025

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This week on The Necessary Conversation, it’s just Mary Lou and Chad behind the mic—no Bob, no Haley—as we mark (almost!) three years of raw, honest political dialogue. We reflect on the very first episode of the show from August 17, 2022 and ask: has this podcast changed us? Has it brought us closer—or just made things even weirder? 📼 Then we dive into the biggest headlines of the week: Trump’s Name Redacted from the Epstein Files? Bloomberg reports the FBI removed Trump’s name from public ...

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0:00.0	In the aftermath of the 2024 election, America is even more divided than before.
0:07.2	Half the country fears the end of democracy and the other half welcomes it.
0:12.2	As America inches toward the brink of authoritarian rule, now more than ever, we must force ourselves to have the necessary conversation.
0:22.7	Welcome to the necessary conversation. I'm Chad Kulchon with me. Today is a singular person.
0:29.1	Yo, yo. My mom. Everybody else has abandoned us, Mom. How does it make you feel?
0:34.3	Let's start this right. I have been on every podcast except one that I was really, really ill.
0:41.6	Yeah.
0:42.0	I am the only one that's only missed one.
0:45.2	I think your sister has probably missed.
0:48.3	The most.
0:49.6	The most.
0:50.7	But we'll just be clear about that.
0:53.0	And your father is missing a few now just due to his new hip, but we'll call him in in a second.
1:00.1	So you all know he's still in the podcast.
1:02.7	He loves the podcast.
1:04.5	He's just got some healing to do.
1:08.4	But he'll be in to say hi in a minute because he, yeah, okay.
1:12.8	Well, it is an interesting opportunity, Mom, because this podcast started.
1:17.7	Do you know the date that it started?
1:19.4	I mean, you do because I put it in this document, but.
1:21.8	No, I didn't look.
1:23.3	August 17th, 2020. We are fast approaching our three-year anniversary, and we started this podcast
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