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 with me, is my mom, Mary Lou, my dad, Bob.

Not my sister Haley. She is gone again this week. This time, it's due to some kind of scheduling snafu on her end. She thought

it was at a different time, and she scheduled a dentist appointment. Mom and dad, first question

to you, is Haley quiet quitting the show? She better not, or I'll go kick her ass. I got it.

No, but she needs to get her life in order, that's for sure.

Uh-huh.

Okay.

I think it was just a scheduling mistake.

But today we have a very special program for everyone.

If you are a long-time listener, you know what the context of this show is.

My parents are deep red state, MAa, Q&ON, lost in the

newsmax and Fox world. My sister and I are very left-leaning, very liberal, and so we have

conversations about politics. And over the course of the past few months, we've started taking

some questions. And because this week is a pretty slow news past few months, we've started taking some questions.

And because this week is a pretty slow news week politically, all we've really got is a mass shooting here in California going on.

And there was also an attempted mass shooting or something.

We will get into that in one of these questions that has some political ramifications.

But I thought today we would just listen or we would answer a bunch of listener questions.

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