Hi, everybody. 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 Frank. And this is a very special episode because we are joined here in our studio with the host of overdue, Andrew and Craig. They came the whole way from Philadelphia. Hi, guys. Hey. Thanks for having us. We should probably assign names to our voices. I'm Craig. I'm Craig. No. Don't. Why would you do that? People are going to get so confused. I am Andrew. He Andrew. He is Craig. Why don't we adopt voices? Like I'll be like, I'm Frank. I thought loaded the flash voice. And then you could, them will know because otherwise this is going to be like, who's talking? Oh, that's Gwen. Who else is talking? Oh, sure. I'm Craig talking about the book. Yes, that's me.

The mom from Bobby's world?

That's the only voice I had today. Oh, boy. I don't even know where I'm going to. You can all just be one big soup of toxic masculinity. Oh, I will be the only voice that you can recognize. So there we go. Perfect. I've made that recipe a bunch of times. You know what? Our personality is going to emerge very quickly and clearly, just like in Lord of the Flies.

I'm sure that's true. Well, I'm, as I've said on this podcast, many times, I'm a big overdue fan, and it's actually really kind of cool to see your voices coming out of your actual faces. Yeah. There's something really neat about that. People tell me that all the time. I love seeing the sound waves emerge from your skull. Yeah. No, and it's weird because we're, we don't often record in the same room. We were talking about this before we started. So it's our energy is going to be like up also. Nice. I don't know what that means. We'll find out. I can't wait. Four chatter boxes. So maybe we should say before we start. So we're each going to release this. So the librarian isn't in. We already said we're the New York Public Library's podcast. Why don't you tell us what you guys are? Oh, sure. You want to go? Yeah, we're overdue a podcast about the books that you've been meaning to read. My name is Craig. My name is Andrew.

Every week one of us reads a book that we've never read before and we describe it to the other person.

Yeah, and we do like some author research, which we figured out a couple episodes in.

And as we were saying, our goal every week is, you know, A, if you were at a cocktail

party and someone said like, hey, have you ever heard Lord of the Flies? And you like needed to

pretend that you had? Like maybe we could help you. And or we're also trying to ask the question

of like, why is, why would anybody find this book important whatever

book we're reading um so it's stuff from the can and it's stuff that's contemporary but people are

really responding to it and we take listener recommendations and all that kind of stuff yeah there you go

i think it's brilliant i mean we do a book discussion at jefferson market which is the branch i work in

and one book out of the year usually at least least one, is something just like you just said. And that way, I never read Fahrenheit 451. Well, I did read Catcherler, R. 15, or To Killamockenberg as a child. I read them as adults because of this. So I think it's a great, great, great idea. Yeah. And I'm a new fan, because I'd never heard of you before Gwen mentioned it.

I was like, oh, all right, I'll listen to it.

Oh, Andrew.

Wow.

All right.

Never check them best of iTunes charts, huh?

You know why?

Because my phone is so old, I can't even access it. It's a four. I'm only four. I know I'm a moron. I'm sorry, but now I'm a fan. Well, and a lot of these books that we've covered, and it sounds like you're talking about, are those ones that you were supposed to read at some point. High school reading list, right? For sure. Frankenstein was one of them. And the book that we were talking about today, it's funny that you mentioned Lord of the Flies because it was Lord of the Flies. Whoa. And I was really excited to pick this book because I don't think I ever read this book. I think it exactly falls under the premise. Like I don't think I ever, I was supposed to have read this book.

I don't recall ever reading it.

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