This week on Who Dem?, Rep. Gil Cisneros (D-CA 31) and Damian Galvan sit down with Chad Kultgen, novelist, screenwriter, and host of The Necessary Conversation: a podcast where he debates politics weekly with his far-right parents.

We dive into why masculinity content is dominating online spaces, how Gen Z is inheriting a broken political system, and why podcasting might be the last line of defense against American families falling apart.

Chad also walks through his experience making controversial art, turning street graffiti into gallery gold, and infiltrating reality TV (and The Bachelor) with game theory.

Chapters:

0:00 – Intro

1:10 – Who is Chad Kultgen?

3:30 – Writing The Average American Male

6:20 – Art vs. misogyny

9:00 – Being an artist = being a hustler

11:15 – Street art & “None of this is real”

14:10 – Selling art, selling scripts

16:00 – The magician movie

18:30 – Why is Gen Z so lonely?

23:00 – Social media is engineered to divide us

25:00 – Manosphere, Rogan, & online masculinity

27:15 – Is cancel culture even real?

30:00 – How Logan Paul made a comeback

32:10 – The real power of podcasting

35:00 – Arguing with your MAGA parents

37:30 – Podcasting as family therapy

40:00 – “Chad or Dad?” Quote game

44:00 – Fear, aging & conservatism

46:20 – Longing for the past

49:00 – AI, truth, and misinformation

52:30 – Deepfakes, lawsuits & confusion

55:10 – Ideology as a product

57:40 – Will AI destroy democracy?

1:00:00 – Can Big Tech silence creators?

1:03:30 – Gen Z’s political baseline is chaos

1:06:15 – From “binders full of women” to insurrections

1:09:00 – Politics is just content now

1:11:10 – Vidal vs. Buckley: the origin of political TV

1:13:00 – Gen Z, Trump, & the new normal

1:15:10 – Reality TV is realer than news

1:18:00 – Final thoughts

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