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.

This is a podcast in which myself and my sister talk to our parents about political issues.

My name is Chad Colchin.

My sister's name is Haley Colchin, Haley Pope now.

She's not with us here today. She has some

important business, but we are left leaning. Our parents, Bob and Mary Lou, are right leaning,

Q&A supporters. And we force ourselves to have a one-hour conversation about politics every week

so that we don't lapse back into a situation where we are not talking to each other for multiple years.

We begin.

What do you roll your eyes at?

It wasn't years.

It was maybe a few months after Trump won that election.

Have we ever had a period in our adult lives where we're talking to each other for an hour a week like this?

No. I rest my case, your honor. Let me just get into some details on January 29th that you said a nuclear weapon would be used in Ukraine within 30 to 40 days. We are 134 days past that prediction. No nuclear

weapon. Is your prediction wrong? Has it failed? No. All right. Now, I was informed earlier today that,

dad, you wanted to start today's episode with a rant. Yeah. Let's hear it. Okay. First of all, you are going to start admitting anytime soon

that the Chinese are about to take so over. And it's all set up by Barack Obama, whose puppet is in

office called Dirty Crooked Joe Biden,

who has sold out our country.

Bribery allegations.

For $10 million or $20 million, whatever it goes.

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