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The Librarian Is In

Trying To Figure Out How We Got Here

The Librarian Is In

The New York Public Library

Arts, Tv & Film, Books

4.7595 Ratings

🗓️ 18 June 2020

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Rhonda and Frank discuss their personal reading picks for the week and announce next month's book club pick. 

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hi, and welcome to the librarians in the New York Public Libraries podcast about books, culture, and what to read next.

0:19.7

I am Frank. And I'm Rhonda. Yes, you are. You are

0:24.2

Rhonda. Rhonda. Yes. Do you have other people in your family named Rhonda? I do not, actually.

0:34.5

I am the only Rhonda that I know of. It's such a, I don't know what I think of

0:39.2

when I think of Rhonda. I think of like a tough girl. A tough girl? I think of maybe 1950s.

0:45.2

Yeah. I feel like this is not, this isn't currently like a very popular name or maybe it's just me.

0:50.4

I feel like more people were named Rhonda a while back. Well, we both have that same thing.

0:56.1

I mean, like, Frank, I think I said this before, and I always say that. It sounds like we should go bowling

1:02.0

together. In that bowling shirt. 62, you know? Yes. Ron and Frank, we're like drinking beer and smoking

1:10.4

cool cigarettes

1:11.9

with our own personal bowling shoes

1:14.7

and...

1:15.4

It's sort of like

1:16.2

Rhonda and Frank are very throwback.

1:18.6

Very much so.

1:19.7

TBT.

1:21.7

That's so funny.

1:23.1

I know.

1:24.0

So we're made for each other.

1:26.7

Sounds like it. Yeah.

1:28.8

Yeah.

1:29.5

So what's in the world of Rhonda these days?

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