Hello, media consumers. Brian Curtis and David Shoemaker here. This is an emergency edition

of the press box. At this point, David, maybe we can save time by just labeling the non-emergency

editions of the press box. Like, hey, guys, this is one of those slow ones where we talk

about like sports announcers or something. Yeah, this is the regular press box. We

should we should have a different name for it. We can do about how about press box premium

because is the non-politics ones the ones that people won't listen to? The news, David,

of course, is that Donald Trump, the president of the United States has been impeached for

the second time. The final tally of the House of Representatives vote, which was just completed,

is 232 to 197 with 10 Republicans joining the Democrats and the I column. David, your

first reaction to this afternoon's news. Well, I'm impressed that they moved so quickly.

You know, I mean, it's that was. That seems like a sort of boring way to address this.

But it's still remarkable, isn't it? Because it's remarkable. I see. I see a week or

one week from the attack on the Capitol. Yeah. And it's and it's, um, listen, it's

important. I said this over and over again to not to let yourself go into the abstract

to let this feel like a thing from the past, even though it's only a week ago, to let

it feel like part of another political argument. This is much more significant than that.

But that said, Trump is going to be at office in a week. And as much as this is a concrete

thing that he did and that the terrorists that attacked the Capitol did and they should

all face the judgment for that. Um, that all that being said, a lot of what's happening

today does have a symbolic component to it. And so it's important that this be treated

with urgency. Um, and, and I'm glad to see that it kind of is, is getting done.

I think what took us out of both politics and symbolism, at least for a little while today,

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