Peter Sagal

It's very exciting.

This must have been a thrill for you to get this job.

Did you grow up on Reading Rainbow like so many did?

He has that effect on people.

How was the torch passed?

Did LeVar Burton knight you with a bookmark or hand over the animated butterfly to you?

How did it work?

So it is genuine.

I think nobody doubts that.

You've talked a lot how the library was your sort of safe space as a kid.

And did you have a favorite book when you were a kid?

Well, how old were you when you got your first book tattooed?

And what was the first book you had tattooed?

Wow, wow.

And when you walked into the tattoo parlor at the age of 24 and you said, I would like this library card with Arthur the Aardvark, Arthur Reed, did the guy just look at you and say, oh, what a cliche?

Whatever works.

You spent so much time at your hometown library, eventually you went back and got a job there, and you eventually became head librarian, right?

I did, yes.

Wow, and once you acquired that immense power, what is the first thing you did with it?

We have covered on this show the fact that many libraries report that very weird things show up in books being returned that have been used as bookmarks.