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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