Hello, many consumers! Brian Curtis and David Schumaker of The Ring are here. This is

our second special episode of the press box, and David we're doing something a little different

today.

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I don't know if you guys listening to this have been watching as much MSNBC and CNN and

Fox as you did in the days leading up to the election or at any point over the last two

years. Brian and I still do, if I can speak for you, Brian, as it's a regular journey.

It's not a regular day, I guess, if we don't get our several hours of reps of cable news

in. But if you have been watching, you probably noticed that the cameras are spending a lot

more time in the halls of Congress and outside Senate chambers. And less time with just

like graphics of Donald Trump tweets on the screen, certainly the mechanics of the way

that we're being governed right now is much more Senate-centric than it was in the not

too distant past. Absolutely. And then part of that is of course that it's a 50-50 Senate.

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