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Simon McNaughton and the Librarian (Bren Binmore) - Ep 37

·26 min

Friend of a Friend City's episode with Simon and the Librarian opens with a borrowed ice cube tray and a terrible plan involving super glue. Heather asks the obvious follow-up questions, and Simon explains that he tried to freeze the glue into door stops. It did not go well. The conversation then shifts into the arrival of the Librarian, later identified as Congress Dewey. They speak with total confidence about how long librarians live, even though the limits are still unclear. They say librarians have been known to live for at least a hundred years. They also admit that none of them have died yet, so the upper limit is still just a guess. That uncertainty does not slow the joke down. Instead, it becomes part of it. Heather keeps asking practical questions, and the Librarian keeps answering them as if they are describing a normal profession with normal maintenance rules. The logic stays firm even when the premise gets impossible. The show leans into the idea that books are spores. The Librarian says books can be planted. They have watched libraries and librarians sprout. That leads to the suggestion that other librarians have been grown on streets where no library existed. The world expands without ever losing its deadpan tone. The hats matter too. The Librarian explains that librarians communicate via their hats. Every library they walk into knows what the visitor has found, and also what the librarians themselves have done. The information lands like a confession delivered a little too late. Heather reacts with growing amazement as the conversation keeps drifting deeper into library mythology. Simon gets pulled along with it, and the questions become more personal. The Librarian asks whether he knows where he comes from. He does not. That uncertainty becomes another doorway for the comedy. The episode keeps layering in details instead of changing gears. Strange planets and technical manuals come up. So does the possibility that Simon may need to go home and think about a few things. The pace stays quick and conversational throughout. By the end, the show has turned a simple guest spot into a surreal civic legend. The Librarian talks about technical manuals on human reproduction and notes that this was never part of the plan. Heather tries to keep the interview moving while the premise gets even stranger. The closing stretch brings one more round of questions about a name, a resemblance, and the library world's sense of lineage. The guest identifies as Congress Dewey and says the resemblance to Dewey from the decimal system is only something they have been told. They also say they came out of the ground, which makes the family connection seem unlikely. The show ends on the same calm, slightly bewildered footing it started with.

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Dry improv that keeps escalating into strange library lore.

Friend of a Friend's City turns a casual catch-up into stranger and stranger library lore. Heather and Simon begin with a borrowed ice cube tray and a bad glue experiment, then the bit keeps widening into librarians with hats, spores, books that need restoring, and a hidden…

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