Hi, everyone. Welcome to the librarian is in the New York Public Library's podcast about books, culture, and what to read next. I'm Gwen. And I'm Little Frankie. Hey, Little Frankie.

That's really creepy. Is it? Kind of. Well, my father's name is Frank, so I used to be Little Frankie for years. Wow. But I'm not little anymore, baby. Who called you Little Frankie? Everybody. Are you serious? Little Frankie. Oh, my gosh. Like when my father was Frank, so it would be like, you know, who, who?

Little Frankie or Big Frank. Mm-hmm. But now I'm Big Frank. Ooh, yeah. Hot and big. Yikes. Okay. That was a detour. How are you? I'm good. It's Halloween. When people are listening to this,

it will be Halloween. Darn it. Spooky. So much for preparing. I didn't read anything horrifying.

Neither did I. Although my book is... Except my future. Except the tea leaves telling me my future.

Your tarot cards. Have you ever gotten your tarot read? Yes. At a bar. Did you like it? Really? Did it seem

correct? No. No. It's like horoscopes. It seems, it seems when you're in that moment when someone's telling you

your fortune or you're reading a fortune, I think your brain works very hard to make sense of it.

And so, you know, you sort of glom on things that might be meaningful to you, which I think your brain works very hard to make sense of it. And so, you know, you sort of glom on things that might be meaningful to you, which I think is actually great because any kind of data is sort of, could be useful data in terms of your own life and your future and stuff. So I don't disparage it by any means. I think it's actually quite fun. Yeah. Yeah, me too. I think the cards are

really beautiful, too. They are. Yeah. And they're so interesting. Mm-hmm. So, anyway,

it's a spectacular Halloween event that we are not participating in. You're so salty about this.

Speaking of which, oh, we shouldn't bring it out.

No, and actually, I think by the time you're listening to this,

it will already be over anyway,

so maybe we shouldn't even talk about it.

Just lots of events that NYPL is doing related to Halloween.

Yeah, anyway.

Anyway, we hope you're having fun celebrating Halloween or recently having celebrated it in the past.

I'm really excited because since we've moved to my new town, we apparently live in a place where Halloween is, like, gigantic and there's going to be six million kids.

And I can't wait.

I love Halloween.

I love Halloween.

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