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 Kulchan with me as my sister from Parts Unknown

and my parents who are both deep in the mag. Oh, you can see my mom is wearing a Trump hat today.

Hello, Mom. Nice hat. Thank you. We're going to be talking about all the biggest political issues of this week,

but before we do that, I wanted to say, I get a lot of questions about what was my mom and dad like

before Trump? What are their political backgrounds? Where did they grow up? I want to point everybody

listening to this right now or watching this right now, you can go back and listen to our first three episodes, which are primarily all about that. They're individual interviews with me and

my mom, me and my dad, me and my sister about our political histories, what it was like growing up,

et cetera, et cetera. Those are only on audio podcasts. We didn't start doing video for this show

until about halfway through it. But you can go back

anywhere you listen to podcasts, listen to those first three episodes. I think that will answer a lot of

those kind of preliminary questions about who we are as people, what our family dynamic is like,

etc. Mom, your ditty this week involves a place called Little Mike's Ham Beer Gears. Yes?

Yes, I have two ditties before that.

Is that okay?

Oh, Jesus.

Sure.

They're quick.

Let's go.

Number one, we have a very important guest coming in like maybe toward the end of the podcast,

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