Hello media consumers, Brian Curtis and David Shoemaker here.

This is the special inauguration edition of the press box and David Joseph R. Biden

Jr.

Today is the only day we get to use his full name was just sworn in as the 46th president

of the United States.

Amen to that and not just rhetorically because that the last hour of my life was felt

like the most profound church service I've ever been to and it was one I think this country

needed.

Okay, so on that note in normal times I think you and I would be doing this podcast and

having a jolly time with the platitudes that the news anchors use today peaceful transfer

of power the rituals of American democracy, et cetera, et cetera.

I have never rooted harder for platitudes.

Then I did today.

How good did those sound coming out of the mouth of Brian Williams and everybody else?

It sounded fantastic.

The normalcy of the event and listen there was a lot of severe glaring abnormalities

compared to previous inaugurations but the overall normalcy of it I think was incredibly

powerful but the admission that things weren't normal I think was even more powerful.

To hear everybody who was given time with a microphone sort of referred to peaceful transit

transfers of power and everything else felt incredibly it did.

It felt good.

It felt good.

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