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and what to read next. I'm anxious and neurotic. That's true. Actually, see if you can guess

who I am. Okay. What would you think I am if I say I'm Anne Margrock? A frugal. Anne Margrock. First of all, do you know who Anne Margaret is? Oh, forget it. Sort of, kind of. Wait, should I know that? She's a performer, singer, actress in the 60s and stuff. And do you remember the Flintstones? Yes. Whenever the Flintstones, the cartoon animated series that took place in prehistoric times,

whenever they had a celebrity guest, they would like Flintstone eyes their names.

Oh, yeah, yeah.

Like in the movie, the Flintstones, they had a character named Sharon Stone.

I mean, because it's all about rock stones and sort of prehist, I guess that's prehistoric stuff, like Flintstones, they had a character named Sharon Stone. I mean, because it's all

about rock stones and sort of pre-ist, I guess that's prehistoric stuff, like Flintstones. So Anne Margaret was on famously, the Flintstones, and they made her name Anne Mark Rock. Just like Tony Curtis was on, and it was Stony Curtis. Stony Curtis. This is so old. There's a reboot. You have to be a very old person to get those.

It's interesting that you say that because there's a reboot of the Flintstones in a graphic novel format that came out last year. And we had a lot of very spirited debates on the YA committee about whether teens would care about it or not. That's perfect. Yeah. But it's still doing all those same things. there's tons of like puns and like dad jokes and funny wordplay in it yeah there are a lot of

prehistoric puns like, like, dad jokes and funny wordplay in it.

There are a lot of prehistoric puns.

Like, the, you know, record player was a bird with a beak.

Yes.

And their dishwasher is, like, a dinosaur that, like, licks all the plates. Right. Yeah. Right. It was, you know, like the opposite of the Jetsons, which is like the space age version.

But it was always so hilarious as a kid, like Anne Margaret was Anne Mark Rock.

I like that space age version. But it was always so hilarious as a kid like Anne Margaret was Anne Margrock. I like that you remember that one. Anne Margrock. Margrac. It was very famous actually for a certain generation of children. Even though I wasn't around when it first went out, I saw it in reruns like so many people did. When did the Flintstone start? Like the 60s. I saw it in the 70s. Yeah. So. You should check out the graphic novel actually. It's really cool. It brings up a lot of really heavy, like serious stuff about. Flintstones? Yeah, because they were, Fred and Barney were in, I don't remember which armed conflict. Maybe it was, it was like Desert Storm together. Really? And they have PTSD and like there's, it's like serious. Even though it's prehistoric, they had that war. Yeah, they, they do a lot of like interesting time bendy kind of things. And they have, yeah, it has some very adult themes in it. You should check it out. Do you remember the kids' names? Pebbles and Bam Bam Bam, bam. Pebbles and bam bam, bam. She had a bone through her hair. A little bone, I know. And Wilma had just black eyes. Did she? She just had black dots. Like soul was dead? No, she was the housewife.

Who was Barney's wife?

Betty.

Betty. Betty Rubble. Betty Rubble. Betty Rubble. Oh, Rubble. I never thought about that. Rubble. Where did they work? Oh, this is the quarry. They worked at a quarry. They worked at a quarry. Mr. Oh man.

What was their boss's name?

All right, now it's going to bother me.

Okay.

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