You're listening to Civics 101. I'm Nick Capadiche. I'm Hannah McCarthy.

And if you hear like birds twittering and leaves rustling, it's because we are outside in the, what is it, the lower Senate Park? That's right, are outside in the what is it the lower Senate Park that's right. We're in the lower Senate Park which is by like the Senate staff office building or something like that. We're pretty sure we saw a staffer. Yeah, we saw a staffer all right.

And when I say Stafford, I'm sure that was a lobbyist,

actually that had to be a lobbyist.

What do you think?

Lobbyist or Stafford.

He had a haircut like Tucker Carlson.

It's not my job as a journalist to speculate.

This week our team has hit the road to where else?

Our nation's capital, Washington, D.C.

While we're here, we will be conducting interviews and gathering tape for future

episodes but we're also doing something else. We are doing what a lot of Americans

do. I did it in eighth grade and what some actually never get the chance to do which is we are

immersing ourselves in the sights and sounds at the seat of our federal government.

That's right it's a Civics 101 reporting trip, but it is also a field trip.

And you can follow along on Instagram at Civics 101 pod and on our brand new

Tic-Toc channel Civics 101 pod.

We are also going to be sitting down a couple of times to talk about

our experiences here in DC and sharing those conversations with you in little many

episodes that we're going to drop in our feed over the next few days.

Yesterday was our first full day exploring the that we're going to drop in our feed over the next few days.

Yesterday was our first full day exploring the city in service of and in between our work

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