Hello, hello, and welcome to the librarian is in the New York Public Library's podcast about books, culture, and what to read next.

I'm Frank.

And I'm Crystal.

And we have another, we have a guest.

Can you hear it?

I hear it.

Have you named them?

Well, I'm asking you, have I named them?

If anyone can hear that it's a cricket outside, I open the window because it's warm,

and we have crickets outside the library.

And I can hear it. It's a great metaphor for the podcast, Crystal.

Hi, everybody, where the librarian is in, crickets.

Oh, that's terrible.

It can't possibly be so.

We're so popular around the world.

Yeah, but if it gets on your nerves, I'll close the window.

No, that's fine. My uncle had a pet cricket.

Really? I think in China, they keep them in these little boxes as pets. It's kind of odd.

Carry it around with him? I don't know. It was when I visited like years and years ago and he showed it to me and I was just like, oh, okay. And then I did the whole like art project around it.

In school?

Yeah, when I went to, when I did my thesis, I constructed all of these like little wooden containers that had these brass crickets in it and the inside of

the containers were like printed with like kind of like furniture or something and they had the

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