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Phone Tap PODCAST: Hooked on Books · Brooke and Jeffrey: Phone Taps

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  Speaker 1: on the twenties. I'm moving public library. This is Tabitha.
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  Speaker 1: How can I help you? Yeah, hey, Tabitha, I have
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  Speaker 1: I have a complaint and I'd like to speak to
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  Speaker 1: somebody in charge. Well, you can't speak to me about it, okay,
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  Speaker 1: So this is the library? Correct? Correct? Right? And I
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  Speaker 1: was in there earlier this morning and I could not
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  Speaker 1: believe my eyes. What did you see? Well? I saw
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  Speaker 1: signs and posters with your new slogan hooked on books. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: that's um a funny slogan. We have to get kids
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  Speaker 1: and to the engaged in reading. Interesting, interesting choice of words.
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  Speaker 1: You think hooked on books is a funny slogan. Huh yeah,
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  Speaker 1: yeah I do. I'll tell you who it's not funny too,
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  Speaker 1: people like me, a recovering book addict hooked on books.
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  Speaker 1: I'm sorry, I don't know why you're laughing at this. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: I guess I've just never heard of the term recovering
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  Speaker 1: book at it. Really, you work at the library and
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  Speaker 1: I've never heard that term. No, I haven't. Well, it
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  Speaker 1: was about six years ago when I first got hooked
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  Speaker 1: on books. I started reading Great Gatsby and then The
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  Speaker 1: Adventures The Fuck Fan, and the next thing you know,
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  Speaker 1: I wasn't coming home at night, didn't see my family
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  Speaker 1: for weeks because I just had to read everything. If
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  Speaker 1: you say so, well, I do say so. And you
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  Speaker 1: want to know why that was my life for so long.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know why, sir, because I was hooked on books. Well,
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  Speaker 1: do you had an unhealthy relationship with reading? I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: Oh that's an understatement. Unhealthy isn't even the word was worse.
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  Speaker 1: I dove into the cooking section like I was a
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  Speaker 1: hungry little caterpillar. I mean, I wasn't even interested in
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  Speaker 1: making those meals. I just read the recipes. That's how
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  Speaker 1: bad it got. There are worse addictions than the romance novels.
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  Speaker 1: That was when I really started to hit bottom. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: that's not a bad thing to really love reading. Too
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  Speaker 1: many times my family had to put out a missing
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  Speaker 1: person's report because I was at a grocery store in
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  Speaker 1: the book section for days. That's where they have all
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  Speaker 1: the good romance novels. Well, now we know, and yet,
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  Speaker 1: now you know your family loves you. No, no, I
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  Speaker 1: don't know them anymore. They don't talk to me anymore.
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  Speaker 1: Because I was hooked on books, I started holding books
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  Speaker 1: in the corner of the library and making my own sections.
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  Speaker 1: I collected two hundred and twenty four books of animals
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  Speaker 1: that I'd like to wrestle. Does that sound normal to you? This,
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  Speaker 1: the whole conversation doesn't sound normal to me exactly, because
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  Speaker 1: I was like, you guys are promoting hooked on books.
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  Speaker 1: It's just the term. It's not a lifestyle. Oh sure, okay,
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  Speaker 1: And I'm sure they say that to heroin addicts too.
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  Speaker 1: I hardly think you could compare reading books to heroin, sir,
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  Speaker 1: Books are healthy for you. Okay, Well, you can't say
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  Speaker 1: books are healthy for you until you've been like me.
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  Speaker 1: You read one book, then you read another, and the
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  Speaker 1: next thing you know, you're begging a stranger on the
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  Speaker 1: street to take off his shirt so you can read
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  Speaker 1: the tag and all kinds of bargaining happens at that point. Well, sir,
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  Speaker 1: it sounds like your issue is booked and knowing that
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  Speaker 1: you should pop out to just stay away from the library.
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  Speaker 1: My issue is what I said, book. Oh, I've got
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  Speaker 1: the itch. I suggest that you see someone for professional help.
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  Speaker 1: Hear what you're saying. So you're saying I should come
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  Speaker 1: down there and give you twenty bucks and you'll let
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  Speaker 1: me read a book. No, fifty bucks. I'll take all
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  Speaker 1: the money out of my life saves if you just
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  Speaker 1: give me one book. No, I'll just need a book.
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  Speaker 1: So I really have to go. This is getting uncomfortable.
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  Speaker 1: I do whatever I have to do. If I could
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  Speaker 1: just get a book from you, I got the shakes, Okay, okay,
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  Speaker 1: well i'll let you know it's a prank phone call
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  Speaker 1: then okay, but oh your co worker James set you up.
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  Speaker 1: Oh it's a joke. Oh my god, I am going
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  Speaker 1: to kill them. He's dead. Oh my god. I didn't
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  Speaker 1: believe it. You guys work at the library. If you don't,
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  Speaker 1: If you don't kill James, the books will. I did
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  Speaker 1: not get off the bone with you. Oh so uncomfortable,
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  Speaker 1: got off the phone. If you're just giving me a book,
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  Speaker 1: one book,