here are the cohosts and producers, hannah mccarthy and nick capodice.hank you for joining us today. hannah: it's a pleasure to be here today, thank you. nick: thank you, jessie, it's a delight. host: let's get into the origins of the civics 10 one podcast. how did this first start? hannah: yeah, i can lay that on you. shortly after the 2016 election, we were working for new hampshire public radio and our station, as i'm sure stations across the country were, were flooded with questions from regular news listeners who were paying a little more attention. there were democratic norms people believed were being skirted or broken, and people wanted to know -- i know we have a secretary of state, but i don't know what that secretary of state does. or how does a bill become a law? or what is a rioter? one of our producers wrote at the time on a post-it note -- i call this the west wing moment, writing on a napkin. but someone wrote on a post-it note -- pardon me -- "schoolhouse rock for adults." so many of us don't remember what we were taught back in grade sc

here are the cohosts and producers, hannah mccarthy and nick capodice. r joining us today. hannah: it's a pleasure to be here today, thank you. nick: thank you, jessie, it's a delight. host: let's get into the origins of the civics 10 one podcast. how did this first start? hannah: yeah, i can lay that on you. shortly after the 2016 election, we were working for new hampshire public radio and our station, as i'm sure stations across the country were, were flooded with questions from regular news listeners who were paying a little more attention. there were democratic norms people believed were being skirted or broken, and people wanted to know -- i know we have a secretary of state, but i don't know what that secretary of state does. or how does a bill become a law? or what is a rioter? one of our producers wrote at the time on a post-it note -- i call this the west wing moment, writing on a napkin. but someone wrote on a post-it note -- pardon me -- "schoolhouse rock for adults." so many of us don't remember what we were taught back in grade school or we

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