June 15, 2026

SS26 - Maryland

SS26 - Maryland
SS26 - Maryland
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SS26 - Maryland
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The Ultimate Trivia Podcast is hitting the road this summer — sort of. 🚗🧠🇺🇸

Maryland may be small, but it packs more personality per square mile than states twice its size. From blue crabs and the Chesapeake Bay to Baltimore history, naval traditions, and a state flag that looks like it was designed during a caffeine binge, Maryland brings a little bit of everything to the trivia table. 🦀⛵🏛️

In honor of America’s 250th birthday, The Crew is celebrating the only way we know how: with snack-sized trivia episodes for all 50 states. 🎆🗽 Each mini-episode is short, sharp, and packed with state facts, weird history, geography, pop culture, local legends, and just enough nonsense to remind you that yes, this is still us. 🍿😂

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[SPEAKER_00]: Welcome back to our state series celebrating the 250th birthday of the U.S.A.

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[SPEAKER_00]: This time we're in Maryland.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yes, headed to that Northeast.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Absolutely.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, so Scott, what is the capital of the state?

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[SPEAKER_04]: I believe it is Annapolis.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It is one of the most historical capital towns in the U.S. Well, I guess that wouldn't have either.

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[SPEAKER_02]: No, it was more.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But I don't know.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I've got to get a capital.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Navy town.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Baltimore.

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[SPEAKER_02]: That's the only one I've got to adopt up my hand.

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[SPEAKER_02]: The biggest one.

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[SPEAKER_02]: It's always supposed to be the biggest one.

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[SPEAKER_02]: It should be.

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[SPEAKER_00]: St. Louis isn't the capital.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Springfield.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Either a Chicago for that.

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[SPEAKER_00]: That's right.

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[SPEAKER_00]: OK, Kelly, in Annapolis, what U.S. Service Academy trains officers for the Navy and Marine Corps.

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[SPEAKER_03]: I wanted to say that the US Naval Academy.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It is.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm sorry, Nick.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I'm going to get you.

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[SPEAKER_04]: He's so angry.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I know.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I feel that.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I don't know about angry.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Laser dark.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Not happy about it.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Yes.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Okay.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Brian.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Maryland's biggest city has a world famous aquarium on the inner harbor.

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[SPEAKER_00]: What is it called?

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[SPEAKER_01]: Not a clue.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Andy just said it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I know it's in Baltimore, but I don't know the name of it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Don't worry.

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[SPEAKER_03]: He was asking you for the name of the city.

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[SPEAKER_04]: I thought it was a name of the aquarium.

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[SPEAKER_04]: It is a name of the aquarium.

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[SPEAKER_04]: Yes.

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[SPEAKER_04]: The Baltimore Aquarium aquarium?

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[SPEAKER_00]: No, it's a national aquarium.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, there you go.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But it is in Baltimore.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Okay.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Number.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, paying attention to my question.

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[SPEAKER_02]: But I know we're on February, so.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I was way, I was messing with the video.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I was in the record.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, Andy's next.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Which Baltimore based NFL teens nickname is a nod to a famous Edgar Allan Poe, poem.

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[SPEAKER_02]: That is the Baltimore Ravens.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yes, it is.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Very good.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yes.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Clot.

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[SPEAKER_02]: That's right.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, Nick.

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[SPEAKER_02]: National Park.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, yes.

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[SPEAKER_00]: What National Park Service C-shore shared with Virginia is famous for the wild horses that roam its Maryland side.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Oh.

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[SPEAKER_04]: Wow.

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[SPEAKER_04]: I think something with blue crabs in it.

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[SPEAKER_02]: So they do the horses.

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[SPEAKER_04]: nothing.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Wait, what's this?

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[SPEAKER_02]: We're in Maryland.

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[SPEAKER_00]: In Maryland.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, the horse is I'm thinking over in Georgia.

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[SPEAKER_02]: That's a different, different, different.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Some kind of estuary park.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't sound, Kelly, you don't know this one.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I thought for sure you would actually.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Doesn't ring a bell.

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[SPEAKER_04]: It's not national park, right?

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[SPEAKER_04]: It's a national sea show.

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[SPEAKER_04]: It is.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It is a national, it's a service by the national park service.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Okay.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yes.

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[SPEAKER_02]: It's still not me.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, um, it's actually it's ascetic island national sea shore and I'm pretty sure I'm pronouncing that right, but they'll forgive me.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Oh listeners roaster to death.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Well, this is like and it's like, and I want to say it's part of the outer banks and they have huge packs of wild horses that just run all over.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, outer banks isn't North Carolina.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, so that's not it.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Well, there's probably, it worked up the coast I got to believe.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, they're barrier islands.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, there you go.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Okay.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Okay.

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[SPEAKER_00]: That's definitely one on my bucket list.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Good there.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Next up is Scott.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Marilyn made a certain crustacean.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It's official state crustacean.

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[SPEAKER_00]: What animal is it?

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[SPEAKER_02]: Crab.

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[SPEAKER_02]: He said it.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, but a king crab.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I imagine the blue crab.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Blue crab is there.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yes, he just did somebody did.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I'm Kakes and football.

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[SPEAKER_01]: That's what Marilyn does.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He made a do.

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[SPEAKER_00]: They know how to do that.

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[SPEAKER_00]: What do they?

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[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, Kelly.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Sure.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Marilyn's caliber cliffs are famous for fossils.

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[SPEAKER_00]: What massive extinct prehistoric shark is the most iconic find there.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Megaladana.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Yes.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Nice.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Well done.

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[SPEAKER_01]: That's a

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[SPEAKER_02]: That's a big old jaw.

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[SPEAKER_02]: If you ever seen one of those, I want to find one of their teeth.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, they're black.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I'm like, cool, really?

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[SPEAKER_02]: I got to be the size of a saucer, right?

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[SPEAKER_02]: I like the size of your hand.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, that's fine.

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[SPEAKER_00]: That'd be cool.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_00]: OK, next is Brian, which abolitionist an underground railroad conductor was born into slavery on Maryland's Eastern Shore.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You know this name.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Frederick Douglas.

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[SPEAKER_00]: That's a good guy.

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[SPEAKER_01]: No, it's a female lady.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Oh I get all those ladies like know the name night and Gayle in a second 1000 one heart and One first letter her ball Very stubborn Yes, they're all important.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I got the names in there, but I get them crossed up on what they did well.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I was long time of them

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[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, Andy.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yes, which HBO crime drama is famously said in Baltimore and ran from 2002 to 2008.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, this is often cited as the greatest show of all time and I think it's season three or four three that is often cited as the greatest season of any show ever.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And this is the wire.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Yes.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You are correct.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Brian, you should go that question.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm sorry.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm sorry.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm not even more fair.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I have done her to the show.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I didn't know.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Great show.

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[SPEAKER_03]: It's really good.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Saying talks about it in session.

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[SPEAKER_03]: It has for years.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Absolutely.

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[SPEAKER_02]: The reason why I watch it.

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[SPEAKER_02]: If you watch it, I would highly recommend it.

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[SPEAKER_02]: But season one in season two feel completely disconnected.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And then three comes back to season one.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And it just kind of.

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[SPEAKER_02]: It's just intriguing how your brain has to kind of adapt to all of that.

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[SPEAKER_00]: All right, but hang in there, situation.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So Michael, be Jordan, the first time I remember seeing him in that show.

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[SPEAKER_02]: So yeah, my introduction to Idris Elba.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, that's it.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, good call.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Good call.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_00]: All right, Nick.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Marilyn was the first state to nickname a medieval activity.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It's official individual state sport.

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[SPEAKER_00]: What is it?

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[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, and meat, evil activity, Charleston, Charleston.

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[SPEAKER_00]: She also thinks it's a right answer.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I don't know if I could think of it.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Now that one besides Charleston, I mean, that's a classic medieval competition.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yes, Marilyn made it official in 1962.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So that's weird.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Very late.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, that is kind of late.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Honor that.

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[SPEAKER_02]: You know, what do they do to celebrate that?

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[SPEAKER_02]: Do they have a big red and sansfare?

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[SPEAKER_01]: They might use those horses out of the beat.

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[SPEAKER_00]: There you go.

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[SPEAKER_00]: There you go.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Let the horses.

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[SPEAKER_00]: OK. Well,

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[SPEAKER_00]: That's it for our trip around Maryland.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Thank you for coming with us in our state series, celebrating the 250th birthday of the U.S.A.