Terror! Horror! Revulsion!
The Librarian Is In
The New York Public Library
4.7 • 595 Ratings
🗓️ 26 October 2017
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Happy Halloween! Attended by demonic shrieking, adult services librarian Isaiah Pittman horrifies Gwen and Frank with scary book and film recommendations!
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, everybody. Welcome to The Librarian is in the New York Public Libraries podcast about books, culture, and what should read next. This is a spooky episode today. I'm Goulish Gwen. Oh, God. I'm frightening, Frank. And we are joined today by someone we are really excited to have |
| 0:23.3 | our pre-Hallowing guest star, Isaiah Pittman, who is a horror expert. So thanks for joining us, Isaiah. |
| 0:29.5 | I'm very excited to be here. And tonight, it's insane, Isaiah. |
| 0:34.2 | Oh, insane, Isaiah. You know what I think, though, I have to say, and you have to know this, Isaiah, |
| 0:38.5 | is that your name, when I first heard it, like, and then I heard it in conjunction with horror, |
| 0:42.1 | it sounds like a character from like a Salem Witch movie, like, |
| 0:45.5 | Isaiah Pittman, dost thou have evil in thee? |
| 0:49.4 | It's such a... |
| 0:50.3 | Goody Proctor. |
| 0:51.5 | Yeah, exactly. |
| 0:52.4 | You haven't even heard what my middle name is. |
| 0:54.6 | What's your middle name? |
| 0:55.5 | Badger. |
| 0:56.3 | Badger. That's crazy. Isaiah Badger Pittman. Oh my gosh. Goody Badger. That's awesome. Isaiah Badger Pittman. Very cool. Fabulous. I love it. Do you feel like badgers are like your spirit animal now? I do, which also makes me a hufflepuff. |
| 0:53.3 | I'm not quite sure how I feel about that. |
| 0:55.0 | Yay! |
| 0:55.9 | I feel good. Badgers are like your spirit animal now? I do, which also makes me a hufflepuff. |
| 1:11.9 | I'm not quite sure how I feel about that. |
| 1:07.1 | Yay! I feel great about that. It's funny, when you first said badger, the first thing I thought was someone who badgers someone. Well, I also do that a lot too. You're a badgerer? It's fitting. That's a great name, though. It really is. to your parents. Good job your parents. |
| 1:07.9 | I wish. |
| 1:09.5 | So you are an adult specialist at Inwood, right? |
| 1:13.2 | I wish. |
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