and let the great debate begin welcome back to mass av we have a few changes this week the first and foremost

being tommy binion is here joining as co-host kind of taken over from from brad bishop you may know

tommy he's joined us before from heritage on the hill to give us a scoop on what's going on on

Capitol Hill well thanks Emily I'm I'm really Hill to give us a scoop on what's going on Capitol Hill.

Well, thanks, Emily. I'm really glad to be here. Hello, audience. I'm Tommy Binion. I'm Director of Congressional and Executive Branch Relations here at Heritage. I'm really excited

about the podcast in general. I'm excited about Mass Ave. I've got to commute to and from work

every day, and I listen to podcast. So I'm really excited about Mass Ave. I've got a commute to and from work every day,

and I listen to podcast. So I'm really excited about this format. I'm really excited about how

it's going to apply to heritage. I've got to say, you know, I've got the privilege of having

these conversations with the 100 researchers that work here every day over lunch and in the

hallways. And they're just some of the

most interesting people with decades or even centuries collectively of experience. And I'm

really excited about fleshing out what's interesting in their work and bringing it to you all

in this format. Sad to see Brad go. Obviously, we didn't kick him out of the podcast. He

actually, he moved on to the administration. And that's a really great gig for him and a really

great scoop for the administration. But we sure miss Brad. Yes, we do miss Brad. But happy to have

Tommy here. Yeah, kind of looking at the Heritage podcast, like you said,

Heritage is such a great resource. We have so many interesting people working here.

And I know even when we kicked this off a few weeks ago, you know, a lot of researchers would come up and say,

I had no idea you guys were doing a podcast, but I'm so excited because this is just something

that's so great for what we do here as an organization.

Well, you can watch the news. You can watch cable news. You can read the Drudge Report. You can

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