I was going to be da-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-da-da-da.

Yeah.

Hey! I was going to say you've reached, the librarian is in, like an answering machine.

So you have reached. The librarian is in. The New York Public Library's podcast about books, culture, and what to read next.

I'm Frank. And I'm Crystal.

And please leave a message of the tone.

There we go.

Complicated start to a very simple homie podcast, right?

Cozy.

It's rainy out.

We have our virtual backgrounds up matching ones so it feels like we're in

the same rainy cafe yeah talking about books culture and what to read next i know it is rainy but

warmer it's been very cold yeah definitely which it is winter so

what do you expect kids I know and then didn't you see that that groundhog died before he was going

to tell us if winter was ending so it's just like winter forever the grandaddad was just like, you're on your own kids.

I don't even want to play anymore. Because we cannot plan for the future. I think we've learned

that over the last two years. Planning for the future is a fool's game. I found a something my calendar I scheduled to like look up plane tickets to like a tropical

island and I was like,

oh,

this was from before Omicron.

I must delete this now because it's not happening.

That's the thing.

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