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Hi, everybody. This is Gwen. I just wanted to come to you before you start listening today

and let you know that later in this episode, I'm going to tell you something completely untrue and totally wrong about

Harry Potter. I said that there were four new houses of Hogwarts and that is wrong. There are four new

schools. They are international schools. You'll see why this is ironic as you're listening. I was so

busy shrieking at Frank about something that I got it wrong.

And I would really love to blame him for this, but actually it's totally my fault. So I'm very

sorry, go to our show page, the blog post, and read the real story. Don't listen to me about this

or maybe anything ever again. So thank you and enjoy the episode.

Thank you. ever again. So thank you and enjoy the episode. Hi.

All right.

Hi.

Welcome to the Librarian is in the New York Public Library's podcast about books, culture, and what to read next.

I'm Gwen Glazer. And I'm Frank Kilarious. And later, we will be joined by Wayne Roylands,

who is a special secret agent at our book ops unit. And he's going to talk about how the library

decides which books to buy, and then he's going to tell us all his secrets about finding new

cool books. Okay. It's going to be us all his secrets about finding new cool books.

Okay. It's going to be amazing, right? Good. Yes. I can't believe that the library's book ops unit, which is like the processing and ordering and everything, is called book ops. When someone told me that when I first started working here, I thought they were joking. Sounds like a kind of James Bond. Exactly. Book ops I also want to mention, you said the word amazing that Gwen and I had breakfast this morning right before here, and I want to let everybody know that we solved almost all the problems in the world. We talked about. Very heavy subjects that, I don't know, may or may not come in, but it was an interesting conversation that we had. And I'm sort of like coming off that to start talking here. But hey, it's seamless. There's no

that or this. Exactly. It's all one. It's just the happens to me a mic here.

There's also the thing that I can't get out of my head that I'm just going to have to say is that several of my favorite podcasts recently have gotten this new sponsor that is this bra company.

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