Latest / The Cubby and Christine Morning Show / Book Crawl In NYC (2 Pretty Cool Things)
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- 0:01Speaker 1: Okay, I need to tell you two things.
- 0:04Speaker 2: Christine's two pretty cool things. Yo Knicks Game two of
- 0:09Speaker 2: the NBA Finals, Nicks up won nothing. What is a nick?
- 0:14Speaker 1: I was wondering, does anybody know what a nick is?
- 0:16Speaker 3: One of those basketball players?
- 0:19Speaker 1: We're done?
- 0:19Speaker 3: Okay, welcome.
- 0:21Speaker 2: That's why I'm the answer. Well, a lot of people
- 0:22Speaker 2: already know it's short for knickerbockers. But why knickerbockers. Well,
- 0:26Speaker 2: when the team was founded in nineteen forty six, a
- 0:29Speaker 2: contest was held to choose a nickname. The winning entry
- 0:32Speaker 2: was New York Knickerbockers, a reference to the old Dutch
- 0:35Speaker 2: settlers of New York and the baggy knee length pants
- 0:38Speaker 2: they were often depicted wearing, and people didn't feel.
- 0:41Speaker 1: Like saying the whole name.
- 0:42Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, so they're just calling them nicks and they're okay.
- 0:45Speaker 1: That, my friends. It's the story, shortcated. What's your cool thing, Christine?
- 0:51Speaker 3: This is so cool for people who love books, and
- 0:54Speaker 3: there's a lot of us out there right It's the
- 0:56Speaker 3: second annual New Jersey bookstore Crawl this weekend. Yep seventy
- 1:01Speaker 3: four independent bookstores Friday through Sunday are involved in this.
- 1:06Speaker 3: The businesses are taking part. It's a crawl through all
- 1:10Speaker 3: the bookstores. If you love them, if you love to
- 1:12Speaker 3: search for special ones or early editions, whatever it is.
- 1:17Speaker 3: You can take part by registering on their website. NJ
- 1:21Speaker 3: Bookstore krawl dot com has a map of all the
- 1:24Speaker 3: participants and last year it was fifty stores, over four
- 1:29Speaker 3: thousand visits, one thousand shoppers on their very first day.
- 1:33Speaker 3: So this is great for the bookstores and for people
- 1:36Speaker 3: who love them.
- 1:36Speaker 2: All the Shantacon people are tuned in, going bunch of nerds.
- 1:40Speaker 3: What do you guys doing looking at books and having coffee.
- 1:42Speaker 3: That's not how you do a crawl.