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Sume, it's great to have you back here in the AmeriCast Studios.

It's great to be back Anthony, thanks for having me.

So let's see, when did we have you on last?

It was May, right?

Not a whole lot has happened since then?

It feels like my head has been on a swivel.

Anybody who works in this town since May, I mean, if you just go back to what has happened in the last few weeks

alone it feels a little bit like talking about Olympics running the 100-yard

dash over and over again. There's so much that has happened that has required so much attention and energy

from anyone covering, you know, Washington on the news here that it's been fun but

certainly quite a ride. Yeah, you know, I do a lot of writing and radio and some TV,

but you're sitting there in the presenter's chair

when these news stories break

and you have to kind of adjust on the fly.

I mean, is it exhausting?

You turn, when the lights go off and you take the earpiece out,

do you just take a big exhale?

You do, I think, and something that a lot of people who work in journalism will be familiar with is

there's a lot of adrenaline that you don't kind of lose that energy immediately after you take the

earpiece out and you step out of the studio. It takes a good hour or two to come down again,

perhaps a glass of wine or two as well at the end of the evening, but yeah, you're worked up and

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