Welcome everybody to The Librarian is in the New York Public Libraries podcast about, I don't know, books, culture, what to read next.

I'm Frank.

And I'm Crystal.

You're a Crittal.

Or Crittal, as I wrote into my camera. C-R-Y-T-A-L. C-R-Y-T-A-L. C-R-Y-T-A-L. C-R-Y-L. The C-E-L and Frank Show. So, how are you, hon? I'm all right. I definitely need another cup of coffee, but other than that, I'm fine.

Well, I'm all right. I definitely need another cup of coffee, but other than that, I'm fine.

Well, I'm sure coffee can be arranged. You should have planned ahead. But like I told

Chrissy, I don't know how to work the coffee maker in the branch. That's why I'm just

sipping my hot water. You don't know how to work the coffee maker.

That's not a good thing.

It's usually the first thing I learn.

If I ever go, it's funny, have I ever travel or go to a friend's or whatever, the first

thing I think about is, what's the coffee situation going to be like in the morning?

So I can know if I have to go out

I'll do it if I have to make it I'll do it so I mean I'm generally a tea drinker so I feel like

it's a lot easier you just plop the bag in and you're good true actually a friend of mine once

said years ago that a genius,

a genius invention would be coffee bags.

And I thought that was true.

But now it suddenly occurs to me.

That's basically instant coffee.

You just put a teaspoon of coffee in hot water.

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