The Constitution is not vegan! (D.C. field trip dispatch)

Civics 101

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History, Government, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 24 April 2024

⏱️ 19 minutes

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This week our team has hit the road to - where else - our nation’s capital, Washington D.C. While we’re here, we’ll be conducting interviews and gathering tape for future episodes, but we’re also doing something else: immersing ourselves in the sights and sounds of the seat of our federal government. That’s right, it’s a Civics 101 field trip! You can follow along on Instagram and on our brand-new TikTok channel. In this episode, listen to what it was like as we explored the city during our first full day in D.C. - where we walked, what we saw, and what made us curious. And one of those facts...yeah, it was about the Constitution. BUCKLE UP. CLICK HERE: Visit our website to see all of our episodes, donate to the podcast, sign up for our newsletter, get free educational materials, and more! To see Civics 101 in book form, check out A User's Guide to Democracy: How America Works by Hannah McCarthy and Nick Capodice, featuring illustrations by Tom Toro. Check out our other weekly NHPR podcast, Outside/In - we think you'll love it! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You're listening to Civics 101. I'm Nick Capadiche. I'm Hannah McCarthy.
0:07.6	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.
0:24.0	And when I say Stafford, I'm sure that was a lobbyist,
0:26.3	actually that had to be a lobbyist.
0:27.9	What do you think?
0:28.7	Lobbyist or Stafford.
0:29.5	He had a haircut like Tucker Carlson.
0:31.4	It's not my job as a journalist to speculate.
0:35.0	This week our team has hit the road to where else?
0:38.1	Our nation's capital, Washington, D.C.
0:41.1	While we're here, we will be conducting interviews and gathering tape for future
0:44.4	episodes but we're also doing something else. We are doing what a lot of Americans
0:49.8	do. I did it in eighth grade and what some actually never get the chance to do which is we are
0:54.6	immersing ourselves in the sights and sounds at the seat of our federal government.
0:59.7	That's right it's a Civics 101 reporting trip, but it is also a field trip.
1:04.1	And you can follow along on Instagram at Civics 101 pod and on our brand new
1:08.7	Tic-Toc channel Civics 101 pod.
1:11.1	We are also going to be sitting down a couple of times to talk about
1:14.4	our experiences here in DC and sharing those conversations with you in little many
1:19.6	episodes that we're going to drop in our feed over the next few days.
1:22.1	Yesterday was our first full day exploring the that we're going to drop in our feed over the next few days.
1:22.6	Yesterday was our first full day exploring the city in service of and in between our work
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