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, are my mom and dad,

who are staunch Maga Republicans deep in the Q&on conspiracy theories and my sister, a fellow lefty,

uh, we're already starting off on a crazy note. My sister was four minutes late to this recording.

Five minutes late. Five minutes late to this recording and already my dad is furious. Are you okay,

dad? Yeah.

Okay.

And why was she late?

We won't get into that. I guess not. It was a bathroom problem.

That's an emergency. Welcome again to the necessary conversation. Let's just dive in here. I need to say,

there's no emergency. I just had to take a shit. Okay, good. I'm glad you squeeze that one out.

All right. Okay. I must say this might be a wild one because your father has been podcasting alone with me for 35 minutes.

He took 15 minutes out to eat some beef stew I just made.

And then podcasted more on me. And I said, just save it, just save it, just save it.

Dad, when mom says you're doing podcasts on her, are you like rehearsing how you're going to answer these questions? No, I just

telling her what I'm thinking. Okay, but you know what the questions are. Do you read the

document that I send you guys or not? No. No, I have to. I never know what the subjects are.

I tell him, kind of. You do though, Haley. You look at him? Yes, of course. I i just curious i mean it takes me like two hours to put this fucking document together

and i it's great that you just fucking do not read it at all all right here we go i read it all

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