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GARRY TRUDEAU: But, nonetheless, we tried to capture the spirit and feel, look and feel of a certain culture.

Some years back, about -- in the previous election cycle, in 2008, I saw a piece about these four senators who shared a house up on Capitol Hill. And that seemed like a wonderful premise for a TV show. And so I wrote a pilot.

Schumer said -- I think it was Senator Schumer who was one of the four -- or maybe it was Senator Durbin -- who said, well, people have always said they're going to make a TV show about us. But then they remember that it's about four middle-aged men with no sex and violence, so they would lose interest.

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GARRY TRUDEAU: So, we got around that problem by adding sex and adding violence. And that...

JEFFREY BROWN: And making them Republicans.

GARRY TRUDEAU: And making them Republicans.

JEFFREY BROWN: OK. So let me ask you about that, because the original -- in reality, the four were Democrats.

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