Hello and welcome to the librarian of Dan.

The New York Public Libraries podcast about books, culture, and what to read next.

I'm still Frank.

And I am still Rhonda. You are. You are. Howdy. Howdy? Howdy.

So here we are. Here we are again in a new year, in a new era almost. Well, when when this airs there'll be a lot of a year yeah a new era i guess

it's always a new era change change happens change is part of life. It is.

And I know we talk about culture.

Do you watch like the Marvel movies, like Captain America and those type of things?

No.

Well.

But I've been intrigued by the Wanda Vision show.

That's what I was going to mention.

I started watching that past week.

And I thought, and it reminded me of, I think, a lot of the stories we're going to talk about today. Because it's a parody of those kind of 1950 TV shows like, you know, Dick Van Dyke show and like Donna

Reed show where the wife is at home and, you know, the caretaker and the husband goes off

to work every day. And I don't know.

It kind of fit in to some of the stories that I read that I think we're going to discuss.

Well, I know there's superhero aspects to it, which I'm not really aware that much.

But what intrigued me about the show was precisely that they seem to go back in time or something where they get

caught in these classic American sitcom scenarios, which appeal to me in a nostalgic and

I don't know, interesting way. So yeah, I had a feeling you were going to say that somehow.

Did you really? That's different. I yeah, I had a feeling you were going to say that somehow. Did you really?

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