🎬 CUTTING ROOM FLOOR: Denmark Has Libraries Where You Can Borrow A PERSON! (Podcast Exclusive)

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Speaker 1 (00:10):
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Speaker 2 (00:14):
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Speaker 3 (00:17):
App on the category floor today.

Speaker 2 (00:30):
What have we got?

Speaker 4 (00:31):
Have you ever been to Denmark?

Speaker 2 (00:33):
No? I would love to go to Denmark.

Speaker 1 (00:34):
The world's most beautiful women and men seem to live
in Denmark.

Speaker 2 (00:38):
Yeah, that's well, I don't want to go there just
for that. I want to go and check.

Speaker 4 (00:41):
Out this is Mary, good friend of yours.

Speaker 3 (00:43):
And I would like to eat some Hagen Das ice cream,
and I would like.

Speaker 4 (00:49):
To see some Danish pastries, see some windmills.

Speaker 1 (00:53):
Tell you what you can do. Denmark apparently has the libraries. Well,
we've all got libraries, but guess what.

Speaker 4 (00:59):
You can borrow?

Speaker 2 (00:59):
What?

Speaker 4 (01:00):
People?

Speaker 2 (01:01):
People?

Speaker 4 (01:02):
People? I don't have Sidney Swingez on the list.

Speaker 1 (01:04):
Let's read through and see if she'd be available for
you to take out for overnight consumption.

Speaker 4 (01:09):
Don't tell me how it ends.

Speaker 2 (01:10):
I don't need it for overnight.

Speaker 1 (01:14):
Denmark has an unusual and powerful initiative known as the
Human Library, a program with visitors can borrow a person
instead of a book.

Speaker 4 (01:22):
You get a little stamp on them.

Speaker 1 (01:23):
Maybe yep found it in Copenhagen. It invites individuals from
misunderstood or marginalized groups to volunteer as human books, offering
their life stories for open conversation. So you could say
you could take home a homeless person and say what's
life like for you?

Speaker 3 (01:42):
Well, yeah, I'm pretty much aware of what homeless people
go through largely.

Speaker 2 (01:47):
But let's talk.

Speaker 1 (01:48):
Say you wanted to take home a left handed person and.

Speaker 2 (01:50):
Say what's like I work with a left handed and
you've never you're strung.

Speaker 1 (01:54):
You've never bothered to understand when I have to use scissors.

Speaker 3 (01:57):
I know exactly what it's like because I watch you
cutting's huff. But you mentioned the aforementioned Sydney Sweet, so
she is much maligned.

Speaker 2 (02:07):
She has been a controvert character.

Speaker 4 (02:10):
How would you ask her? Say you, let's set it up.
Let's role play. You're at the library, anyone's going sh.

Speaker 1 (02:18):
And you say if you've got Sydney's swing and shays,
I'll see if she's been brought back in.

Speaker 2 (02:24):
She's in the night deposits.

Speaker 1 (02:26):
Well, let's see to make sure someone returned her. They
were supposed to return her. Yes, yes, in fact, she
has been returned. But let's just check what before you're
allowed to take before you're allowed to take her home.
I'm sure the librarian would say, what sort of things
would you like to ask?

Speaker 2 (02:43):
There's a lot of questions I'd ask her, you know
just about it?

Speaker 4 (02:47):
Please help us?

Speaker 2 (02:48):
What are they be a controversial character?

Speaker 4 (02:50):
What questions that? Do you be a controversial character?

Speaker 2 (02:53):
What's it like to be a controversial character? What else?

Speaker 4 (02:56):
How else would you feel the time.

Speaker 3 (02:57):
You always wanted to be an actor and you actually
campaigned to be an actor with your own mother. You said,
I want to be an actor. I don't want to
do anything else. I want to be an actor. And
your mother's support ordered you through that journey.

Speaker 4 (03:10):
What a conversation you're having and what else?

Speaker 2 (03:13):
Also? Which jet ski does she prefer? Are you a
Yamaha girl or do you like the sea? Do the
sea do for?

Speaker 3 (03:20):
Mine has big a horse power, but Yamaha really, they've
they've stepped up their horsepower game.

Speaker 4 (03:25):
You know what's.

Speaker 1 (03:26):
Interesting, Brandon, You have convinced me that you actually are
doing this for all the right motives. Yes, and so
I can take her now, you can have her for
a week. Okay, okay, I can have her for a week,
but you have to return her and just leave it
in the overnight book.

Speaker 2 (03:42):
Is it okay? If I take the dust jacket.

Speaker 4 (03:44):
Off, don't break his spine.

Speaker 2 (03:48):
Hey, hey, hey, okay