In the aftermath of the 2024 election, America is even more divided than before.

Half the country fears the end of democracy and the other half welcomes it.

As America inches toward the brink of authoritarian rule, now more than ever, we must force ourselves to have the necessary conversation.

Welcome to the necessary conversation. I'm Chad Colchin.

With me this week is the whole family. Both of my parents, my mom, and her best American flag hat.

They are, of course, big-time Trump supporters. He can do no wrong. And my sister, Haley Pope,

the exact opposite. Big-time Trump detractor. He can do no right. And I fall in that camp as well.

Mom, do you have ditties today? You told me not to prepare that you had something.

I do. So last week, or over the past couple of weeks, actually,

I've been talking about how I'm trying to use certain experimental human consciousness

techniques to get our dead ancestors to visit Dad in his dreams.

Dad, hi.

How you doing? Okay, cool, cool. And I didn't know, like, I'm just

fucking around with these weird deep meditations. I don't know if this shit's real. I have no idea,

right? So one of the main techniques that I've been using, because dad, I never met your biological

parents. So I have no personal relationship with them. So I've been going into that generation

with people that I do have personal relationships with. That's our grandparents, Haley,

nanny specifically, who I feel like is the grandparent that I was the closest to, I've been trying

to reach out and contact her in the astral plane or whatever you want to call it to try and get

her to find dad's mom and bring her to dad in his dreams.

So I explain that as my mother, Georgia.

Your mom, right?

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