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Speaker 1: Yes, yes, how are you doing today?

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Speaker 2: I'm good? How are you?

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Speaker 1: Absolutely fantastic? I mean, here we are. This has become

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such an annual event for so many generations, the next

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Speaker 2: You know, it is a tradition, I think for a

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lot of people. The World Almanac has been published since

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eighteen sixty eight, and some people have been buying it

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or receiving it as a gift for really their entire lives.

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It's always an up to date resource to have for

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any upcoming year, no matter what you're getting your World Almanac.

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Speaker 1: One of the things that I always love about the

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World Almanac is the fact that the choice of colors

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on the front cover. And that's not to judge a

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book by its cover, but I notice it's red this year,

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and I feel a tremendous amount of energy. Was there

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anything in the marketing when it comes to the color red?

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Speaker 2: You know, we haven't actually done any you know, specific

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scientific research as far as that goes. We do change

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the color every year, and generally in elections those tend

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to be either red, white, or blue. Just because you know,

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people are in a patriotic space, or at least they

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have patriotics on their minds, so that tends to happen

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in election years. I definitely think this cover is a

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great one. It does show a lot of different things

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that happened in twenty twenty four, not just the election.

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We also have Ariana Grande, who of course starting Wicked

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this year. We've got simone files. You know, a lot

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of great events of twenty twenty four are represented on

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this year's cover.

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Speaker 1: One of my favorite things in the book is just

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the information. I'm not sitting there on a computer, I'm

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not sitting there on some other digital device. I get

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to patiently take my time to go through these pages.

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I mean, and it doesn't mean that I'm an old guy.

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It's just that you have so much valuable information here.

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Speaker 2: You know, that's the goal with the World Almanac, And

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we know that most people don't actually sit down and

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read it cover to cover as though it's a novel.

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But we do think that people will pick it up

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randomly over the course of day, a week, a year,

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flipped to any page in particular, and find something there

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that they wouldn't have thought to look up online, or

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that they wouldn't have come across in their day to

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day without picking up the World DOMINAC and I hope

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that's still, you know, a fun thing for people to do,

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because I think that most people are curious and want

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to know more about the world. We're trying to provide

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a tool with the World Amanac that can make that

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a lot easier on you.

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Speaker 1: I would love to see the research on how people

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react when they go into the year in pictures, because

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even to see King Charles, not Prince Charles, wod King

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Charles and his new painting, I mean, I look at

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that and it takes me right back to the moment

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where it was introduced to the world.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, twenty twenty four was a really eventful year.

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Not just the election, you know that may have dominated

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most news broadcasts in twenty twenty four. It was a

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busy year. We had a lot of events that stole

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our attention, everything from the Olympics to the really fat,

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fabulous solar eclipse that everyone was excited about earlier this year.

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There are a lot of events to think about going

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back in twenty twenty four and to re remembered as

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we put this book together. That was one of our

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goals to make sure that it was a really great

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representation of everything that happened in twenty twenty four, and

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also you know, your tool for anything that you might

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have questions about in twenty twenty five.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, That's one thing I like about it is

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the fact that it's not necessarily a time capsule. It's

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almost like saying, okay, to get where we are right

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now on the Google calendar, this stuff happened. Therefore we

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can still look forward to growing.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely, you know, the World Omanac is a fantastic resource

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to get to all of those events, as I said,

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but also, you know, just for anything you might have

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questions about. For example, in every World Almanac, even though

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they're updated every year, you're always going to find things

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like an article about every nation in the world. You're

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always going to find an article about every state in

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the Union. You're always going to find a copy of

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the periodic table if that's what you have questions about.

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You really do have all of these things right at

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your fingertips, and that can you know, really introduce new

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ways to learn, new ways to grow. Every single day.

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Speaker 1: How many Swifties are going to be calling you guys

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up saying hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, what about that

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Eras tour?

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Speaker 2: You know, what. I think that they'll be happy to

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see Taylor Swift both in the year. In pictures, We've

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got a great photo from one of her eras tour shows.

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We also have you know, statistics on the highest grossing

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concert tours, and guess what, she's already among them. She's

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already right there at the top. So definitely something that

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we were keeping eye on, just as we keep an

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eye on everything that's going on, not just in the news,

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but pop culture, in sports. We want the World Almenac

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to represent all of these things.

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Speaker 1: Well, I love the weird stories that you put in

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here because I give you like a child. I mean,

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march me Aunis. How would have ever known that there

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was such a thing without the World Almanac.

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Speaker 2: March Mianis was a very fun story. Public Library decided

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to really extend an olive branch to their borrowers and

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anyone who had you know, overdue book finds or maybe

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lost something during the pandemic, they could get amnesty in

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exchange for any cat photo, you know, a picture, you

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drew a picture on your phone. They were pretty open

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to anything there. So I think Marchionis is maybe something

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that could sweep the Public Library World by Storm. I

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think they had a lot of fun with it.

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Speaker 1: You know, listeners need to understand that the live I

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was at the library yesterday for the first time and

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I don't know how long, that it is not the

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same library that we used to go to as younger people.

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That there really is technology involved the people I mean,

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and that's why I mean, if people can't go out

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and get the book, this book will be at a

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public library.

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Speaker 2: Oh absolutely, And we love public libraries here at the

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World Omenax. Fantastic resource. And you're absolutely right. It's not

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just you know, shelves of books arranged according to the

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Dewey decimal system and that you have to look in

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a card catalog anymore. You definitely have access to a

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ton of technology. Some libraries even have you know, tool

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lending libraries and things like that. They really are a

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public service for so many different things in our communities.

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Speaker 1: Are you shocked at how science has become so huge

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in our life these days?

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Speaker 2: You know, it's never surprising to me what people are

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curious about and want to talk about. I think that,

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you know, just people are curious creatures in general, and

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they always have new questions that they want answers to.

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So I think it's it's pretty much to be expected

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that science plays a huge role. That science news stories

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and the developments and AI are things that people have

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questions about, want to talk about, want to know what's

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going to happen with and that's something that we're alway

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is keeping an eye on.

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Speaker 1: At the World DOMINAC, with so much going on in

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the world, how did you even come up with the

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top ten stories of the year, Because, I mean there's

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just so much always going on.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, it really is a year long process

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to track everything that's going on over the course of

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the year. It helps that the World DOMANAC also has

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a month by month news chronology, which really just gives

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them news topics for every single month of the past year.

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So once we take that, we look at all of

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these stories that sort of form these common threads across

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the entire year. Obviously, in a presidential election year, that'll

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be up there in your top ten. But in twenty

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twenty four, we also had big stories in Gaza and

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the Ukraine ongoing conflicts. We also had three different major

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hurricanes hit the US in twenty twenty four, so lots

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of big news stories really jumped out right from the beginning.

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Speaker 1: Wow, where can people go to find out more about

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you and the World Omanac for twenty twenty five.

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Speaker 2: Well, you can go to Worldomanac dot com and then

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I'll take you to places that you can buy the

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book online. You can also just go to your local bookstore,

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go to your local library. You can find the World

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Almanac and Book of Facts for twenty twenty five. There

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in three different formats. We've got the paperback, which most

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people are probably familiar with. We've also got a larger

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hardcover for that's especially for those who have trouble with

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the smaller type face that the paperback uses. And then

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we also have an e book edition so you can

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download it to your device, take it on the go

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with you. It's slightly more portable than that one thousand

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and eight page volume.

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Speaker 1: Yeah one in the digital you know, if it's right

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there in my pocket on my smartphone, I dig that.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely absolutely take it with you everywhere you go.

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Speaker 1: Please come back to the show anytime in the future.

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The door is always going to be open for you.

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Speaker 2: All right, Thank you so much. I appreciate that, and

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I'll look forward to it. You'd be brilliant Okay, thank

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you so much,