Nancy Books
The Librarian Is In
The New York Public Library
4.7 • 595 Ratings
🗓️ 29 June 2017
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
The hosts of WNYC's Nancy podcast join Gwen and Frank for a conversation about queer books, making podcasts, and Xena Warrior Princess... and they Skyped in from their vacation, no less!
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(This episode has some less than perfect audio, which is particularly embarrassing given our super professional radio guests. We promise it's still a great episode, and we're sorry!)
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| 0:00.0 | 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. I'm Frank. |
| 0:12.0 | And today we are super excited to be joined by Kathy Two and Tobin Lowe of the Nancy podcast on WNYC. Thanks for coming, guys. |
| 0:20.0 | Hi. Hello, thanks for having us. So I want to really quickly read the the Nancy podcast on WNYC. Thanks for coming, guys. |
| 0:21.2 | Hi. |
| 0:22.8 | Hello, thanks for having us. |
| 0:26.9 | So I want to really quickly read the description of your podcast in case there's anybody out there who isn't familiar because I think it's a really cute description |
| 0:29.7 | and because I want Frank to be my BFF and I want to shame him into not being. |
| 0:36.6 | So it is Role models. |
| 0:39.0 | BFS, Kathy 2 and Tovin Lowe are super queer, super fun, and ready to take over your podcast feed. |
| 0:44.4 | Join them for provocative stories and frank conversations about the LGBTQ experience today |
| 0:49.2 | because everyone's a little bit gay. |
| 0:51.3 | Oh, I love it. |
| 0:52.6 | Frank Conversation. |
| 0:54.1 | Frank Conversations. So whenever I hear that, I always think of myself. So could you just tell us a little bit more about your show and sort of the way that you approach your guests and the way that you approach the theme generally? Okay, wait, actually, can I, I'm going to interrupt my own question and ask you another question. Where did you guys become friends? Because as a listener, |
| 1:19.1 | I've always just been really curious about that. Ah, so we met about three years ago when we were both blowing up our lives. She was in law school at the time. Graduated from law school. |
| 1:24.6 | And I was a professional cellist, and we both decided that we were changing |
| 1:30.6 | careers for radio to become radio producers. We'd both sort of fallen in love with the profession |
| 1:36.4 | and the idea of making radio stories. So we met at this radio boot camp called the Transom Story Workshop. |
| 1:43.8 | It's like seven weeks where you go and live, you go and live |
| 1:49.9 | in Cape Cod like off-season, so it's like abandoned. You basically just like learn how to make |
| 1:55.7 | radio in seven weeks. And it was this thing where we like met and immediately were like you. |
| 2:04.6 | Yeah, we just have, we have very similar sensibilities and we work in a sort of a similar way. |
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