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 sister,

fellow leftist, Haley Pope, and my parents, Bob and Mary Lou Colchin, who are deep in the Trump supporter camp, deep in the

Q&ON America conspiracy theory camp. And we are going to talk about politics today. After taking

what was roughly an eight-year hiatus from talking to each other at all, we are now forcing

ourselves to have conversations for one hour every week about

American politics and how it's affected our family. So we're going to start today's show,

as I think we're going to start pretty much every show, with a question sent in by a listener.

Are you ready for this? Oh, yeah.

Okay.

This question comes to us from Kayla Brown.

Hey, Coulchin family.

I'm a Canadian pit dweller.

That's a reference to another podcast I do called Game of Roses.

I'm a Canadian pit dweller who has really enjoyed listening to your discourse.

We're starting to notice American-style fundamental political disagreements here, and I think the state of news and social media has a lot

to do with this. My question for anyone and all of you, how do you define propaganda, and how do

you decide if a piece of media is propaganda versus fact thanks so much

caleb brown no mention of what college she went to but canadian i assume you don't like

her dad i mean correct okay so the question is let's go to Haley first.

How do you differentiate between propaganda and fact with the news that you get?

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