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The Popmatic Podcast is where you can find reviews and recommendations of the best books, movies and music available for check out and download from Nashville Public Library.

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    Popmatic Podcast June 18th, 2014: Heavy Lifting

    June 21st is the summer solstice – the longest day ...

    June 21st is the summer solstice – the longest day of the year – so this week we are going to talk about long books, movies, and music. It’s Summer Challenge! Do you have what it takes? Can you carry the weight? Don’t wimp out beca

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    Popmatic Podcast June 11th, 2014: Nashville PRIDE

    Nashville PRIDE Festival and Concert is this weekend. We celebrate ...

    Nashville PRIDE Festival and Concert is this weekend. We celebrate diversity in Middle Tennessee and tell you about our favorite books, movies and music by or about LGBTQ folks. For Summer Challenge we recorded inside a duffel bag! You’ll hear the r

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    Popmatic Podcast June 4th, 2014: Summer Challenge

    Summer Challenge? How about a weekly podcast! We’ll give you ...

    Summer Challenge? How about a weekly podcast! We’ll give you the skinny on the library’s most popular system wide program. And what is tickling our fancy this week – hint! SUMMER CHALLENGE The Art of Fermention by Sandor Katz Wild Fermen

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    Popmatic Podcast May 2014: A Renaissance (of Sorts)

    May marks the joyful return of the Tennessee Renaissance Festival. ...

    May marks the joyful return of the Tennessee Renaissance Festival. We hark back to the Renaissance, the Dark Ages, and Season 5 of Gilmore Girls. Merriment is had by all. RENAISSANCE Tournaments and Jousts: Training for War in Medieval Times by Andrea Hop

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    Popmatic Podcast April 2014: Cherry Blossom Festival and All Things Japan

    In honor of Cherry Blossom Festival, we celebrate all things ...

    In honor of Cherry Blossom Festival, we celebrate all things Japan. Greg has been there. If you are Japanese, please to go to town in the comments. And what is tickling our fancy. JAPAN The guy that married a pillow could be considered an extreme example

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    Popmatic Podcast December 2012: The Year’s Most Awesome

    Best of the year show! Ours’ is superior in that ...

    Best of the year show! Ours’ is superior in that you get our favorites from the library. Because we are human, we mention some things we absorbed in 2012 but were not necessarily released in 2012. We end with a teary-eyed look back at the year that

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    Popmatic Podcast November 2012: Turkeys

    Somehow discussions of T-Day’s favorite roasted bird ended up being ...

    Somehow discussions of T-Day’s favorite roasted bird ended up being about the best audio books to listen to in your car when traveling this holiday season. You’ll learn what a poult is. We end with what is tickling our fancy and what we really

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    Popmatic Podcast October 2012: Banned Books

    The first week of October is Banned Books Week. We ...

    The first week of October is Banned Books Week. We celebrate the freedom to read by telling you about our favorite banned books. The Popmatic crew is low on numbers but we have picks from all over NPL. We finish with what is tickling our fancy this Octobe

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    Popmatic Podcast September 2012: Guilty Pleasures

    Rather than lament having to go back to school, we ...

    Rather than lament having to go back to school, we celebrate the guilty pleasures we didn’t get to read in school. But you can check out from the library! September is library card sign up month too, so what better excuse to get a library card and c

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    Popmatic Podcast August 2012: The Bob Costas Episode

    We all know the real star of the Olympics is ...

    We all know the real star of the Olympics is Bob Costas. Unless they are using an android instead of the real Bob Costas. We’ll figure it out. Also, we celebrate the birth of Alfred Hitchcock and the mourn the death of Ernest Borgnine. Olympics: Tri

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