Hi, I'm Kylie. It was the first person here way, way, way early and the setup crew was playing Beyonce, so that was really cool

I'm Lucy and I'm steel and we're here to see the NPR politics podcast

Hi, I'm Linda and I'm Wayne and we're from Ship Bottom, New Jersey and we came here all the way to Philadelphia's

National Constitution Center to see the live taping of NPR politics podcast

This podcast was recorded at this podcast was recorded at this podcast was recorded at on

Friday April 26th things may have changed by the time you hear this okay, here's the show

Hey there. It's the NPR politics podcast live from Philadelphia

I'm Scott Detro I cover politics on Susan Davis I cover Congress I'm I Sharasco I cover the White House and I'm Ron Elving

Editor correspondent all right so we're here in Philadelphia at the National Constitution Center everybody say hi

We are partnering with WHYY for this latest live show huge thanks to them for helping set this up and for everything

They do covering the news day in day out before we get started with the full show

I just want to show you something about the NPR politics podcast community

I'm going to say it

My ties to Pennsylvania and Philly do not extend to rooting for the sports teams just that's a true fact

But there is one part of the Philadelphia sports community. We have come to love

Over the course of the summer and fall in winter we had John McCain dying

Then we went right into the Brett Kavanaugh hearings then we went right into the election

And then we went right into into a government shutdown and Kelsey Stnell and I who were covering Congress had no moments of free time

And we're losing our minds and we resorted to once gritty came on the scene

And in that initial wave you remember that initial wave of gritty excitement

We just with text pictures of gritty back and forth to each other gifts of gritty gritty falling on the ice

And we talked about it on the podcast one day

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