Hello and welcome to the library in the New York Public Libraries podcast about books, culture, and what to root next.

I'm Frank. And I'm Crystal.

And I have an announcement to make. I'm sure everyone listening will be thrilled to hear that Crystal has told me she is no longer going to do ASMR by the end of the year. So in the new year,

she said she will find new ways to torment me.

But I think we can all agree that we're thrilled pieces,

but the ASMR portion of this podcast is almost over.

Wait, I want to explain.

Wow, all right.

I want to explain why.

And I think some of this because now that I'm working this office environment, I'm really running out of things.

And they're mostly, the stuff that I have here are mostly just stationary.

And I feel like the branch that I was working at Woodstock Library prior, we had like so many more fun objects, right?

Especially with the things I would make

with the kids and the teens. And now I'm just like, stationary. Can I rattle some paperclubs? I don't

know. I mean, it's all like one object against another. At the end of the day. Your complaint was

really it's just fingernails tapping is all the sounds, which is,

you know, one way to think about it for sure.

But this time I have an object at the end where I will not be using any fingernails to do any tapping.

So I heard your critique.

I took it in.

I've internalized it.

Wow.

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