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 as always is my fellow

lefty, Haley, my sister. How are you doing today? Doing well. And my mom, a deep Q&on conspiracy, newsmax only purist Trump supporter.

Mom, hello, how you doing?

Yo, yo, 2024, Trump.

And my dad, is he here?

He's here.

Somewhere he's here. He's here. Somewhere he's here.

He's here in spirit, I guess.

He also is a massive Trump supporter, believes that anyone other than Trump is out to destroy the country.

And we're going to have a conversation for one hour about the top four political stories of the week.

This is what we do.

We haven't talked to each other

prior to this podcast for about six years. Now we force ourselves to sit down for an hour a week,

talk about politics, and try to repair the relationship to have, as the title says, the necessary

conversation. So we're going to start out with a little prediction tracking. Mom and

Dad, you make predictions on this podcast all the time. One of Dad's predictions has come and gone

this week. And so we're going to get into it real quick on January 26th. Dad, I don't know if

you're still there or you're not there. I don't know. I can't see you. It's right here. Okay,

Dad, you said a nuclear

weapon would be used in Ukraine within 30 to 40 days. You said that on January 29th, today is 42

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