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The Prologue · On the Same Page: A KCPL Podcast

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Good morning, good evening, good afternoon, good wherever you are.
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Uh, welcome to our very first episode of our podcast on the same page, a KCPL podcast.
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I'm Evan.
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And I'm Tanya.
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And we are your co-hosts for this brand new adventure.
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Uh, it doesn't seem real.
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We've been working a long time on this, haven't we?
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Yeah.
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I can't believe we're recording the first episode already.
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Yeah.
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It's, it's kind of, it's kind of strange.
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I look forward to maybe, you know, a year or two from now, coming back
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and listening to this and being like, wow, this was so different.
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So I look forward to seeing what this becomes.
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Uh, but today we're going to get started by introducing us and who we
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are, why we're here and what are we doing?
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That's kind of the plan for today.
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Let's start with the introduction of this podcast itself.
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This podcast was created to be a place for people who love to read.
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It was created for a place for Kanawha County Public Library patrons to have
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a connection to staff, to celebrate reading, celebrate all the things that
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libraries do, and we also hope maybe we'll get some listeners outside of
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Kanawha County, that's, that's kind of what we're hoping for.
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Yeah.
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Kind of grow our library community and have a space where people can know
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what's going on with library and sort of hang out with us here on the podcast.
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Absolutely.
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So why don't we talk about our like library origin story?
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So what, what is your, been your experience with libraries, work outside
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of work, kind of both of those things together?
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So when I was a kid, probably it was the time I went to the
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library the most before working here.
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I grew up in Barbersville, so I went to the Barbersville library and
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we would go every single Friday.
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It was my favorite day of the week.
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And I would check out Goosebump Books pretty, pretty much every single Friday.
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And I think I read all of them that the library had, and I checked them out so
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regularly and so consistently that when it came time for them to weed out the
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collection, one of the librarians sent me a whole stack of Goosebump Books that
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I got to take with me when I left fifth grade and went to middle school.
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So that's like, that's my soft spot for libraries story that I have.
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You know, I remember, so like, I see a lot of kids come in now who like
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come when they're little, little.
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I didn't come to the library when I was, you know, super small.
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I actually remember what brought me to the library and that was Arthur.
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I remember watching an episode of Arthur and he goes to the library and there's
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just all these books and I remember telling my grandmother like, I want to go, let's go.
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So that's what led me to go to a library.
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I had always loved stories and we had books at home.
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Like I didn't, you know, realize there was this place with all these other books.
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And so Arthur was kind of my entryway into visiting the library.
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And that was probably shortly before kindergarten.
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I mean, just a little bit before kindergarten, I think when that happened.
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So I grew up going to libraries all the time.
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My family would go to all the programs that libraries had.
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We were, we were program hoppers.
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So like, you know how libraries will have the same program at multiple locations?
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We would go to those same programs at multiple locations.
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So we could, you know, do the crafts and do the things more than one time because
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that's how much we loved being at the library.
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And so we traveled, we kind of had a home location that was our, like we went to most
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often, but we were at all kinds of different libraries for all different things.
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Was the St.
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Albans library your original library too?
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It was.
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That's so cool.
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Yeah, it was.
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And so that's now where I work.
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So that's kind of, kind of cool that it was like my, my home spot is the patron
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and now as, as working for KCPL, St.
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Albans is that spot for me.
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So that's kind of like a full circle.
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I even volunteered here in the summer for the volunteer program.
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So, you know, I've, I have quite a bit of library experience as a patron, and then
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I've been with the library for almost 12 years.
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So.
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Your 12 year anniversary is coming up soon, isn't it?
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Yes.
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June and June, June the 4th.
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So yeah, it's coming up.
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It is coming up.
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Kind of crazy to believe it's been that long, but I've loved every minute of it.
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So it all started from Arthur.
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It all started from Arthur.
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That's right.
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And so, you know, a couple of years ago when Mark Brown came to the book
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festival, I loved that because he was the, you know, writer of Arthur and he
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worked with the TV show as well.
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So I love that.
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And now this year with R.L.
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Stein and your goosebumps entry to the library world.
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So, you know, it's kind of funny that we both got to, well, not yet, but we both
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will have an opportunity to experience meeting those people who kind of
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brought us into library world.
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So that's kind of, that's kind of really cool.
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That is so cool.
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I'm so excited that he's coming to the book festival, honestly.
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It should be a good time.
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Yeah.
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He was here.
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He was here.
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I don't know how many years ago, but when he was here, it was a big deal.
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And I think it's a big deal this time.
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So that'll be good.
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Yeah.
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I can't wait.
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Okay.
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So now let's talk about what we currently do at the library.
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What does our current roles look like?
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Do you want to go first?
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Sure.
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I'll go first.
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I am currently the media coordinator for the library.
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I obviously work on this podcast and have helped you get, get
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your idea off the ground.
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And I also put out the patron newsletter every month and I update the community
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boards and things downstairs at the library involved with promoting things
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on Facebook and promoting the book festival when that happens and also
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summer library club, which I think we'll talk about here in a little while.
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Oh, we absolutely will.
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Yeah.
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Uh, and so my role, I am what is called a branch administrative specialist,
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which means I work right underneath the, uh, manager and, uh, help with
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scheduling, ordering supplies, doing some like onsite training with staff.
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And I'm kind of like the, just basically the second in command.
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So anytime the manager's out, you know, I kinda can fill some parts of that
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role and I also spend time working on the front desk with patrons.
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So that's kind of a natural evolved.
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Cause I started out just as a library assistant too, at part time.
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And then I moved up to full time and then I moved into
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the branch admin specialist.
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So I kinda had like a stepping stone to get where, where I'm at now.
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So you've done a lot of things at your branch and have been in a lot of
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different roles over there at the library.
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I have, you know, back in the day, LA twos or library assistant twos,
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as we call them, did not do a whole lot of programming, but I was
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doing programming from the start.
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When I was in college, I did some programming at the university library.
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And after I got through my first year, my branch manager at the time, let me do
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programs and host events as a library assistant too, who was part time at that
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point.
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So I've been doing that all along.
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I do quite a few different things.
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I've got a lot of, quite a few different roles that I play.
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And you do your programming now.
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I know you do the true crime club.
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Yes, I do a true crime club once a month on the last Tuesday of the month.
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And we'll talk about different cases, different themes, different
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things relating to true crime.
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Coming up this summer, we're going to do some true crime games we're going to play.
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And so, yeah, I do that on the last Tuesday.
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And then I also have a book club that I run.
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Those are my two main programs that I do right now.
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And it's also possible that the summer I might be throwing in an extra thing
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for the summer library club, but I won't talk about that till the next podcast.
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So there's a little, there's a little teaser of something that's coming up
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this summer that I'll, I'll talk about next time.
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Well, if you're in charge of it, I know it's going to be fun.
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Oh, well, thank you.
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I try, I try.
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That's what we do here.
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And we also, as Tanya said, we do the podcast, uh, cause
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you're listening to us right now.
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So let's let the audience get to know us a little bit better.
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So we're going to throw out some random questions, uh, random
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conversation topics, sort of.
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And we'll talk about those just so you guys can get a feel of who we are.
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So, uh, this one I'm going to do first.
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I'd actually don't see it on the list of topics, but I think it's a good one.
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Let's talk about what kind of reader are you?
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What do you enjoy reading?
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So do you mean like genre?
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Yeah.
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Genre.
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Yeah.
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Or how do you, do you prefer audio?
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Do you prefer like reading physical?
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Like what, what kind of reader are you?
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I gotcha.
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So I love the horror genre in general, like movies, books, everything.
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So I really like to read horror.
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Um, I often do audio books because I like to take walks outside.
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So that makes it a lot easier back in the day.
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I used to like read and walk with a book at the same, I was that person.
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So audio books just make that a lot easier to be able to do the last
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couple of books I've read were, I read Kathleen Hannah's, uh, autobiography,
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which was the rebel girl book, um, about how she started bikini kill.
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And I really loved that.
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Very inspiring.
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And I also reread Carrie, the Stephen King book, because there was like a new
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50th anniversary edition that came out, um, that Margaret Atwood did the intro
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for, and it had just been a long time since I read it.
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So reread that one and they're making a mini series for it this, this fall.
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So,
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Oh, wow.
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That'll be cool.
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That'll be cool.
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Uh, a mini series for, for Carrie sounds, sounds very interesting.
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Yeah.
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And it's kind of funny that you said, like, you like reading horror.
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You started out with goosebumps.
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It seems like that's the natural progression there into.
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Yeah.
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I've always loved creepy, creepy stuff.
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So, and I imagine audio books that are creepy sometimes that adds like a whole
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new level and layer with the way that someone performs that and reads it and,
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you know, makes it that much more, you know, scary.
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So I imagine that that adds another special layer to that.
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Yeah.
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So for me, uh, I read, I read all kinds of stuff.
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I'm all over the place.
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Uh, typically what I do is I've become one of those people that I
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have multiple books going at once.
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Now I'm not too crazy with it.
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I know some people that have three or four.
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I can't do that.
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I have two, two is my max.
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And typically what that looks like is one actual book and one audio book.
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That's typically how I, I have it going there.
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And I prefer reading, reading like fantasy, fiction, romance, like
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anything that's in that fiction world.
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I prefer reading it myself.
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And then for audio, I do a lot of like nonfiction and memoirs.
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Uh, I love listening to memoirs on audio because usually it's
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the author that's reading it.
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And I feel like, I feel like I'm sitting down with them and they're
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telling me their life story.
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That's how, uh, Kathleen Hannah's was.
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I checked that one out on Hoopla and she did her own audio book.
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It was really cool.
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Oh, I absolutely love when someone, now there's been a few exceptions
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where I've listened to memoirs where it wasn't read by the actual person.
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However, uh, both of those were done by an actor who was reading it.
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So like they had this level of making it sound like it was their real story.
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So, uh, that would be the Britney Spears, the woman in me, uh,
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Michelle Williams did that one.
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And then me by Elton John was read by Taron Egerton who played him in the movie.
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So like, you know, it was, it was a cool performance.
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So that's, that's what I listened to mostly.
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And I read, uh, fiction, so that's, that's who I am as a reader.
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I could, I could go more into, which I'm sure at some point I will cover this
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about why I prefer to read fiction and why I listened to nonfiction.
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I have like a theory about why I do that, but you know, that's just,
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that's just how I prefer to do things.
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So how about you throw the next one at me?
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Okay.
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So another one that we had talked about before is our favorite
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comfort movie or comfort show.
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Yeah.
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Okay.
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So for me, my favorite comfort show is actually a series of shows.
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I couldn't just pick one, uh, unless I absolutely have to, but I really
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like shows that are by Michael Schur.
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Uh, he is the guy who is behind The Office, Parks and Rec, and Brooklyn
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Nine-Nine are three that I adamantly watch by him.
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I can just throw those on and it just feels good.
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I know the story.
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I know like everything gets resolved in one episode.
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They're hilarious.
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Uh, and they're just, just feel good.
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Even though Parks and Rec, I will say I do have a small, small grudge with
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Parks and Rec and how they portray libraries and how, I know it's humorous.
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I know it's funny.
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The parks department versus the library.
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I know it's funny, but yeah, that's the one I'm like, come on.
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Is that where Tammy too works or one of the Tammys?
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That is where Tammy works.
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Yes.
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She works at the library.
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Yes.
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And it's not, it's not a very good portrayal of, uh, what a librarian should
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be, but you know, it's all in good fun.
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Amy Poehler has, uh, worked with several people and talked about libraries.
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So she is a fan of libraries.
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It's just, you know, for the show.
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So I will forgive her and my goal for that.
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Forgiven.
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They are forgiven.
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Uh, and I'm sure they'll want to know that.
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I'm sure there'll be listening to this podcast.
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So, you know, I bet they will.
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Hey, what's Amy Poehler's called?
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Good, good hang or something.
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Good hang.
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Yep.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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She'll definitely be, she'll definitely be listening to this.
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I'll have to submit a clip.
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I'll maybe send him an email and submit a clip of that.
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That she's been forgiven.
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What about you?
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What, what are, what are your comfort movies and shows?
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And, um, at this stage, one of my comfort shows is friends.
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Cause I'm really basic.
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I don't know.
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I just love the, I think it's the color palette of the late
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nineties and early two thousands that I like, like Monica's
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apartment is really colorful.
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I don't know.
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It's just kind of funny.
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That's kind of like my passive background sort of show.
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And I do like that.
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They're 20 minutes, like you said, and just watch one.
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It resolves.
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Oh yeah.
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Yeah.
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I think that's a good key to a comfort show.
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I mean, I know everyone has different reasons for comfort
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shows, but for me, it is a, it's resolved in one I can, you know,
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don't have to watch another one, but I'm probably going to,
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I don't feel compelled to.
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So that's, that's what I think a good comfort show is, but, and
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friends, friends is a good option.
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I mean, I, my question to you now that you brought up friends
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is were, were they on a break?
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That's the question.
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Were they on a break?
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Uh, I think that's done so well because you can kind of
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see, see both sides of it.
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Yeah.
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But I don't know.
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I'm not a, I'm not a Ross hater.
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Neither am I.
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That's, that's my hot take.
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Cause I don't think a lot of people hate Ross, but I, I
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just don't think he's bad.
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No, I, I don't, I don't hate Ross either.
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Uh, I think Ross would really like our summer library club
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theme that we'll talk about later.
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Oh, yes.
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I think he would really love summer library club this year.
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Uh, he'd be wanting to visit the libraries and so he would love it.
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Okay.
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So now I'll throw this one out at you.
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Coffee, tea, or chaos?
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Um, today kind of started with chaos, so I'm going to say not chaos.
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Uh, I'm a coffee fiend.
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I can drink coffee anytime.
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Love it.
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See, for me, I, I default, I have to choose chaos because I don't drink
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caffeine several years ago, I gave up caffeine and haven't went back.
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So I do not drink caffeine.
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So I cannot have, I mean, I know there's decaf coffee, but what's the point?
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Uh, cause when I did drink coffee, I was the kind of person who liked
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my coffee to not taste like coffee.
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It's like, would you like some coffee to go with your cream and your sugar and
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your, uh, flavors and all that fun stuff?
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So, you know, if I'm not drinking it for the caffeine, I just
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might as well not drink it.
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So, uh, I have to choose chaos because I live without caffeine.
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That's what has to get you up and going.
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Cause chaos, I guess that's the only answer when it comes to that question.
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Uh, I, I can't do, I can't do caffeine.
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So I've learned to manage, I've adapted and I'm still here every
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morning, fine, ready to go for the day.
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So I don't know how I do it either.
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People ask me and I don't really have an answer.
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I just do, I just, now we know it's the chaos.
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Yes, exactly.
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Exactly.
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Let's see what's next.
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So this is a controversial topic.
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We talked about, you know, Ross hating and is Ross hated.
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And so that was, you know, something in the nineties that was
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controversial, were they on a break?
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But there's another late nineties, early two thousands controversy
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that we can, uh, talk about.
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And that would be team NSYNC or team Backstreet Boys.
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Oh, which one are you?
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This is serious.
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This is very serious.
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Uh, because I am a, I have strong opinions about one of them.
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And so, yeah, it is, this is a very controversial topic here.
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And since our episode does come out on May the 1st, it's going to be May.
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It's very appropriate for us to talk about this.
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What's your, what's your answer?
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Um, I gotta be team Backstreet Boys.
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Yeah, because I honestly, as you know, now I loved anything creepy
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and anything scary when I was a kid.
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And when I saw the everybody backstreets back video where they're like in the
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house where the, the Casper movie happened and they're all dressed up
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like different horror characters.
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I was obsessed with that.
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So that, that just kind of put me on their team, I think.
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Okay.
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Okay.
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That, that is absolutely fair.
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So my answer is in line with the title of the podcast, we are on the same page.
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I am team Backstreet Boys.
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And I'm probably shocking Tanya right now, because during the planning of this,
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we talked about maybe doing this and I kept saying NSYNC over and over again,
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dropping clues, but that was a misnomer.
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That was me throwing you off.
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I am team Backstreet Boys, 100%.
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And I mean, so many of their songs, I just absolutely love.
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I think about this past year's Superbowl and that moment with everybody, there
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was a commercial that used the Backstreet Boys song, everybody and the whole world.
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I saw all these TikToks, all these things about how upset they were.
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They changed the words to something and it wasn't an NSYNC song.
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It was a Backstreet Boys song.
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So was this the karaoke commercial that they did or was this a different one?
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Okay.
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I remember this.
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Yeah.
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Yes.
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It was the Backstreet Boys commercial that they did at the Superbowl and
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everybody got upset about it for some reason.
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Yeah.
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Coinbase, Coinbase was the one that people were really upset about because
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they changed something about it and everyone was singing along.
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That was, that was the crypto ad.
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So I'm, I'm team, I'm team Backstreet Boys.
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You mentioned that you had a karaoke go-to song.
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Is it, is it a Backstreet Boys song?
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I mean, I do have a, a song for Backstreet Boys that I do, I do perform.
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Yeah.
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Which one is it?
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It's the one we've been talking about.
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Everybody.
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Oh, okay.
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It's everybody.
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And you might say that everybody is a tough song to do at karaoke because it is
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a, I mean, it is a boy band, there's multiple singers, but what I've discovered
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doing this is I usually have people in the audience singing along with me.
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So I do have multiple singers.
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It's just, you know, I focus on one part and then just let the rest happen.
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So everyone seems to know that song and love that song.
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So that's, that's my go-to Backstreet Boys song.
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Yeah.
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During karaoke.
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You do that song at karaoke and then all the Backstreet Boys
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just start singing around you.
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You, all the parts get filled in.
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Yeah.
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I've got my, I got my audience to help with that.
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So yeah, I'm, I'm team Backstreet Boys and I mean, I know I'm not, we're
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not throwing shade to NSYNC, you know, but I will say over the past couple of
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years, Lance Bass has been making me appreciate NSYNC and he's like, cause
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he does TikToks and all these different things, he's hilarious.
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And I'm like, I'm over here now.
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I'm like, okay, now NSYNC, calm down.
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I haven't seen any of that.
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Oh, I have to send you some of those.
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Those are, those are pretty fun.
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The Lance, Lance is, Lance is pretty funny.
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So I'm team Backstreet.
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But everyone's an NSYNC fan the last two weeks of April
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and on the first day of May.
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So.
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I mean, that is fair.
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That is fair.
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They do, they do get fans during this time of year.
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Yeah.
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I will say that.
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I've already listened to the song like several times in the last couple of weeks.
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Just cause you start thinking about how it's going to, it's going to be May.
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You got to get ready.
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You got to prep, you got to prepare.
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So you're, you're going to listen to that song.
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So we've mentioned a little bit that we're going to talk about the
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summer and things going on in the summer.
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So let's talk about, we're thinking about reading this summer.
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What are we thinking we want to, to happen outside of work this summer?
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Any, any cool plans?
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Any things like that?
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Well, in terms of what we're going to read, I know theme for summer library club.
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Yes, we can talk about that is unearth a story, right?
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Lots of dinosaurs, dinosaurs.
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That's what we handed to earlier about Ross would really love this summer library
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club theme is cause he's a paleontologist.
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Yes, he would.
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Yeah.
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This was actually your idea, but I'm a huge fan of Jurassic
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park and I've never read the book.
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I've seen the movie so many times and the sequels quite a few times, but
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I've never, never read the original book.
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So I definitely want to read that this summer.
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Yeah.
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And I'm, I'm going to read it.
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I'm going to read it as well.
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And we're going to talk about it on, I think it's in July.
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So that'll be a future episode that we'll talk about Jurassic park.
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But for me, I didn't watch Jurassic park growing up.
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Some people will probably want to shame me, but I did not see Jurassic
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park until maybe about three years ago.
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Oh, wow.
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I had never watched it.
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No, I'd never watched any of them.
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Didn't, I mean, I just didn't when I was growing up.
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So I watched them all a couple of years ago and you know, I like them and they're
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good, but I'm not like a diehard fan or I didn't grow up with them.
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So, you know, it's, I don't have the nostalgia for it.
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No, no, I don't.
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That'll be kind of interesting.
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Cause you do have nostalgia for it and you're going to be reading the book and
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I'm just reading it as someone who, you know, is just a very casual fan of them.
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I think that will be, I think that'll be good.
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And as far as anything else I'm reading this summer, you know, my goal this year,
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I had a reading goal and I did one that wasn't number based.
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I want to read more popular authors.
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A lot of things I read aren't necessarily like the, on the bestseller list, but I
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want to kind of read a couple of those guys.
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So I'm going to try this summer to read some, some more like heavy hitters.
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Like, you know, you're Michael Conley, you're, you know, Patterson, things like
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that, Colleen Hoover, I might pick up one of those, uh, you know, I've heard of her.
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Yeah.
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And so we'll see, but I'm kind of thinking about doing some popular stuff outside of
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our Jurassic Park summer library club theme.
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Right.
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I feel that because I recently just read the house made book just because of all
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the stuff that came out recently with like Frieda McFadden and her identity reveal.
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And so, and I saw the movie and they, they nailed the tone of the movie.
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So I was like, you know, I'm going to check out the book, see what it's about.
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Yeah.
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Um, I mean, that makes sense.
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I have not read any Frieda McFadden.
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So she's on the list too.
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I need to read one of hers this summer.
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I don't, I don't know which one, so I'll have to pick one of them.
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From what I understand, once you pick one, people seem to really be into
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like reading everything she's written.
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So, uh, it might be a rabbit hole that I end up down.
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We'll see.
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It kind of feels like watching reality TV a little bit when I read it.
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Okay.
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If that makes sense.
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So, yeah.
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So we shall see.
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And I'm reading the Odyssey because I've never read it.
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And the movie is coming out this summer.
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Yes.
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That's right.
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That's on my list too.
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I forgot about that.
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I don't think I've actually read the Odyssey.
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I've read, uh, things that are kind of like inspired by, or, you know,
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retelling, like kind of has the same beats as the Odyssey, but I don't think
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I've actually read the Odyssey in its entirety, so that'll, that, that should
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be fun.
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I mean, I, I, I really love Greek mythology, so I don't know why I haven't.
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Do I do think that'd be pretty cool.
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Yeah.
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So now that we've talked about some of our episodes that are coming up in this
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summer, let's talk a little bit, let's do a little community spotlight and talk
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about things going on at the library this summer.
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We hope to have some people on later on that are involved with some
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summer library club stuff.
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But for now, we'll just kind of talk about the kickoffs because we have a lot
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of kickoff events in the system where, you know, a lot of different locations
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and they're all, I mean, some of them are similar, but some of them are not.
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So it's kind of interesting to see like, uh, all these kickoffs.
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And I know when I was growing up, I probably would have went to a couple
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of these, uh, just cause they're different.
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So yeah, there's lots of things to do at each one.
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So, so let's see, what's the first one here.
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All right.
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So the first one I see on the list is, uh, on May the 30th, that is going to be at
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your main library in downtown Charleston.
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It's going to be outside on the plaza facing Capitol street.
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And there's going to be like some lawn games.
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There's going to be dinosaur sand art.
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There will be a used book sale and there'll be some art up on the fourth
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floor because that is the same weekend or timeframe around festival.
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Yeah.
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It's part of festival.
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I think they're involved in getting the art installation.
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Yes.
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Up there too.
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So, yes.
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And it's happening that same weekend when there'll be other stuff going on downtown.
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So, uh, the, on the 30th, that's when we'll have the kickoff at, at Maine.
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There's also going to be quite a few kickoffs on June 1st.
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One of them is going to be at the Dunbar branch and it looks like they're going to
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have adopt a dino event that you can do some dinosaur scratch art and a
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temporary dinosaur tattoos.
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So all very unearthed the story dinosaur themed over at Dunbar.
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Oh yeah.
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And, uh, temporary tattoos, man, you talk about nineties.
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That's, that's very nineties coded.
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Uh, I think I would love to have some temporary tattoos.
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You'd leave Dunbar with a full dino sleeve.
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Dino sleeve.
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Yeah.
30:38
That sounds awesome.
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I hope somebody does that.
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I hope somebody can do that.
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That'd be awesome.
30:46
It looks like Elk Valley's is the same day on June 1st.
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It looks like there starts later in the afternoon around 4 PM and they're going
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to have the bright star theater.
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They're doing a dino Academy performance.
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Ooh, that sounds fun.
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I've, I've seen the bright star theater before.
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Uh, they're, they're, they're pretty cool.
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They're a pretty cool group.
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They're usually at the book festival, I think.
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Yes.
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They're usually at the book festival and they've done some summer
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stuff for us in the past.
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And, uh, they, they usually get a pretty good turnout.
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So it's something you definitely want to check out.
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Yeah.
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So they'll have that.
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And also other dino themed activities there as well.
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Well, and then I see, I see the next one is at the St.
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Albans branch.
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That's going to be on the first as well at four o'clock.
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Uh, there's going to be craft store prizes and we even have some free meal
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coupons that were donated to the library.
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And so while supplies last, we will have those to give away.
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So that should be fun.
31:45
That's really awesome.
31:46
Yeah.
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Uh, we, we reached out to a local place here and they sent us some
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so we can give out to people.
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So we're going to do that one.
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And I think that's the last one or the first.
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So, I mean, that's, that's quite a few in one day.
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Yeah.
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You can have a full day on June 1st doing library events.
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You could, you absolutely could.
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And then let's see the next day on the second, we have free that day.
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First is we have a Riverside from 1030 to one, and they are also going to have
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the Dino Academy Great Star Theater performance.
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They will have that there.
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Uh, it looks like it's just from 11 to 12.
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And then the rest of that time there'll be other dino related things and stuff
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for people to do and get signed up for summer reading all of these events.
32:33
We didn't mention that all of these events will have signups for summer
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reading, so you can get signed up, get registered and participate in that.
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And that's for all ages.
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We do summer reading for all ages.
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So, and that'll be at all of the events.
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And then also on the second at two o'clock, there is the kickoff
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event at the Crosslanes Library.
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And they are going to have Indy, the dog who never gave up, be there.
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And I was not here when Indy came to St.
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Albans, but I have heard about it.
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Uh, Indy is a precious little dog who has had a difficult, difficult life, but has
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survived and is just a marvelous, sweet creature.
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I've seen pictures of Indy and Indy is adorable.
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Indy is adorable, very brave, has an overcoming spirit, and still, despite
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all the challenges, has a joy for life.
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Indy is a dog that I think everyone should want to meet.
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Unless you don't like dogs, then well, maybe not.
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But if you, if you do like dogs, I think you should meet Indy.
33:39
And then the last one that day is at Sissonville at 6 p.m.
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There will be snacks, crafts, activities, and all those
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things will be dinosaur themed.
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And so that's the last one for the second.
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Then the third, we don't have anything.
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Well, we have events, but no kickoffs on the third.
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That's the recovery day.
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That's the recovery day.
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And then we have one more.
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So Glasgow on the fourth, they will have their kickoff and it
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looks like it will start at 3.30.
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There will be games, door prizes, and there will be someone there doing a STEM
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demo, science, technology, engineering, and math, be doing a demo for kids.
34:20
And there will be free popsicles.
34:23
So free popsicles sounds good to me, especially June.
34:26
We're talking June the fourth.
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That's, that's the perfect popsicle weather or well, popsicle time.
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Cause it's usually pretty hot in the summer.
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I will definitely take a popsicle.
34:34
Got to have popsicles in the summer.
34:36
Absolutely.
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And so that's our kickoffs.
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And we have all sorts of fun things planned for the summer.
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And, uh, we hope to talk about more of them on our June episode, which
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hopefully should be out around the same time as these kickoffs are happening.
34:51
No, the main one will have already passed, but some of these others, they
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should be happening when we go live with the podcast episode, we'll be talking
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about more things we'll be doing this summer on that episode.
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Look forward to that.
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We always have a good time during the summer.
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It's busy, it's hectic, but summers at libraries are the place to be.
35:11
We're the place to be in the summer.
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And I came in, I started last year after summer library club
35:16
was kind of already wrapping up.
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So I'm excited to get to get to be a part of it this year.
35:21
Oh yeah.
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Yeah.
35:22
It's, it's fun.
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It's a fun time.
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And it's, it's fun seeing the kids and getting to find that love of reading
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through the summer and through all the events and things that we do.
35:31
It's, it's a really special time.
35:33
We hope, we hope all of our listeners will come out and check out some of these.
35:37
If you're not local to the Kanawha County area, I encourage you to check out
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your summer library club at your library.
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I'm, I'm sure they've got good things going on.
35:47
Libraries always try to have fun things.
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So check, check out your local library, no matter where you are.
35:53
Yes.
35:54
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You might've found us on social media.
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Don't know how you got here, but we do want to say that we will have this
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36:09
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36:14
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36:15
We hope to have it there.
36:17
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36:21
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36:24
So you can subscribe and tune into our podcast, which I mean, I guess
36:28
we've alluded to this whole time.
36:30
We haven't really said for sure, but we hope to have these as
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a monthly episode once a month.
36:35
It's really easy to stay caught up.
36:37
Yes.
36:37
So we can make this a part of the library community and talk about
36:41
what's going on here every month.
36:44
Yeah.
36:44
And we, we hope you have enjoyed listening and we hope that you
36:47
will come back and check us out.
36:50
And, you know, we hope to have this thing evolve and we want this to be a
36:55
podcast that is for the people in the making of this podcast, we kind of
36:59
really worked with our staff and we did like surveys and get feedback and we
37:04
want it to reflect the library as a whole, but we also want, you know, patrons to
37:08
be able to, to feel like they can contribute.
37:11
So we have, do you want to talk about how they can get ahold of us?
37:16
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37:16
So like you said, we just want to create a community here where people can feel
37:21
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37:22
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37:28
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37:51
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37:56
So that's, that's where you'll, you'll be able to get ahold of us.
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And once again, that's podcast at kcpls.org.
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And that's how you will find us.
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That's how you'll find on the same page, KCPL podcast.
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I can't believe this is the first episode.
38:16
It is, it is the first episode and we only hope to go up from here.
38:22
And once again, want to thank you for listening in.
38:26
Yeah.
38:26
Shout out to anyone who's listening to the very first episode of
38:30
this, as we get it started.
38:32
Yeah, definitely.
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Uh, you, you, hopefully someday you will be able to say that
38:37
you were here at the beginning.
38:39
And I will say I was talking to someone about the podcast and they said, Oh, what
38:45
if you want to, uh, heart radio award and stop, stop, stop, we're not, but guess
38:51
what, if we do, you listeners will be able to say you were here for the very beginning.
38:57
I mean, you just won an award a week ago, so I mean, I wouldn't put it past you.
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It would be us.
39:04
We would be winning the heart radio award.
39:06
So, you know, we can dream.
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We can dream.
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We'll break the heart in half.
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That's right.
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All right.
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Tune in next month for more library of it.
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This is on the same page, a KCPL podcast.
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I'm Evan.
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And I'm Tanya.
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Thanks for listening.
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Bye.