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Retropod

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History, Kids & Family, Education For Kids

4.5 • 670 Ratings

🗓️ 7 September 2018

⏱️ 7 minutes

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This episode is co-hosted by Madeline Daly, who won Retropod trivia last Saturday at the National Book Festival in Washington, D.C.

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0:00.0	Retropod is sponsored by TiroPrice.
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0:11.8	Find it wherever you get your podcasts.
0:14.4	Hey, history lovers.
0:15.9	I'm Mike Rosenwald with Retropod.
0:18.3	A show about the past, rediscovered.
0:24.0	With the holiday season upon us, we're taking a little break.
0:28.7	So for the next few days, we're replaying some of our favorite episodes from 2018.
0:34.9	We'll be back after the new year with more fascinating and fun discoveries from the past.
0:41.3	Happy holidays.
0:43.0	Now on with the show.
0:49.7	Today's episode is a special one.
0:52.5	That's because we are recording this at the National Book Festival in Washington, D.C.,
0:57.7	where I just hosted a trivia hour for kids.
1:01.6	The winner got a very cool prize.
1:05.3	She gets to be the co-host of this episode.
1:08.6	So let me introduce you to our winner. Hi, I'm Maddie. And Maddie,
1:13.7	what grade are you in? I'm in third grade. And let's give a shout out to your school. What school
1:18.7	do you go to? I go to Oni Elementary. Okay. Since we're at the National Book Festival, one of the
1:24.7	biggest celebrations of books in the world, and I have Maddie with me,
1:29.0	I thought it would be cool if we look back at the book librarians and teachers regularly rank
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