Parker, Postman, and Pooh
The Librarian Is In
The New York Public Library
4.7 • 595 Ratings
🗓️ 9 August 2017
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
A 30-year-old book remains intensely relevant for today's world, Gwen rediscovers Dorothy Parker AND reading Pooh to her pre-schooler and Frank raps!...(sort of).
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| 0:00.0 | All right. |
| 0:09.5 | All right. |
| 0:11.4 | All right. |
| 0:12.1 | Hi, everybody. |
| 0:13.2 | Welcome to the librarian is in the New York Public Library's podcast about books, culture, and what to read next. |
| 0:18.9 | I'm Gwen. |
| 0:19.7 | We should say we are guank. We are quank. We are quank. I know it's controversial to you, and what to read next. I'm Gwen. We should say, we are guank. |
| 0:21.3 | We are quank. |
| 0:22.1 | We are quank. |
| 0:22.9 | I know it's controversial to you, and maybe I shouldn't say this, and the producer could cut it out, but I think guank is cute, and some people thought it was cute, too, like Gwen, Frank, Gwank. I know it's very trendy to, like, combine names and initials and stuff. But Gwen, of course, being the librarian, |
| 0:18.6 | she has looked it up and found it has some meanings |
| 0:20.8 | that are not the most thrilling to her. and initials and stuff. But Gwen, of course, being the librarian, she has looked it up and found |
| 0:37.9 | it has some meanings that are not the most thrilling to her, apparently, which I won't say, |
| 0:43.3 | because you all have access to information, I hope, I think, or you can go to your library. |
| 0:47.1 | Please don't Google it. Just enjoy it for what it is. Basically just say, Guank is us. Right. |
| 0:52.9 | Maybe Urban Dictionary someday will have us as the number one definition instead of what it currently is. I just thought it was cute that people thought it was cute. So I wanted to bring it back even though I know you were on the fence, as they say. Do you know what else? I thought was really cute. I know I've talked about the Another Round podcast here before with Heaven and Tracy. But they did. The other day when they were doing their introductions, one of them said, she was like, I'm Heaven. And then usually she would say, I'm Tracy. And instead she said, I'm Maya Angelou. And I was like, oh, that's a good one. I want to use that someday. She just said it because she's a fan or she just... I think just |
| 1:27.7 | because she's a fan. The same way that we say that we're Beyonce or Bet Midler or whatever. |
| 1:32.2 | Yeah. I just thought my Angelou was a really good choice, especially for a library podcast. |
| 1:37.5 | It is cool, actually. It is fun to pull out unexpected names. Yeah. We should do that more often. |
| 1:42.8 | Yeah. All right. |
| 1:45.4 | Should we get down to biz? |
| 1:46.5 | Yes. |
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