This month, Anthony and Cece recorded remotely from their homes to discuss social distancing and its impact on booksellers. The hosts talk to the owners of Baltimore’s Charm City Books, Daven Ralston and Joseph Carlson (4:00) about opening a store just months before the pandemic, and the many new ways to sell books they’ve had to develop (11:00). Cece and Anthony then talk to Danny Caine, owner of The Raven Bookstore in Lawrence, KS (20:30). Danny discussed the adaptation and logistics the pandemic has made necessary (24:00), and the problematic nature of Amazon in the bookselling industry (27:45). In the Pop! section (32:15) Anthony and Cece discuss the WWE and their dealing during coronavirus, and Saturday Night Live’s from-home episode (41:45). Finally, in the Bang! (46:15) section, Cece and Anyhony share the thing they’re most looking forward to doing in a post-social-distancing world.
Links
Charm City Books: https://www.charmcitybooks.com/
CCB on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/charmcitybooks/?hl=en
CCB on YouTube (with Once Upon a Time: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCL_5sDm4f2-aWz8vFZPXwMg/featured
Raven Bookstore : https://www.ravenbookstore.com/
Danny Caine: https://www.dannycaine.com/about.html
Continental Breakfast: http://masonjarpress.com/chapbooks-1/continental-breakfast
El Dorado Freddy’s: https://beltpublishing.com/products/el-dorado-freddys?variant=12944098164834
Book Benefactors https://www.bookbenefactors.com/
Amazon fires whistleblowing employees: https://www.theverge.com/2020/4/14/21220353/amazon-covid-19-criticism-protest-fired-employees-cunningham-costa-climate-change
Vince McMahon Advising Trump: https://www.sbnation.com/wrestling/2020/4/15/21222367/vince-mcmahon-donald-trump-advising-economy-reopening-xfl-bankruptcy
WWE as essential business: https://www.espn.com/wwe/story/_/id/29031903/wwe-deemed-essential-business-florida-mayor-says
WWE cutting on-screen talent: https://www.insider.com/wwe-fires-wrestlers-essential-business-vince-mcmahon-rusev-zack-ryder-2020-4
Hulk Hogan sucks: https://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/jul/26/hulk-hogan-wrestling-racism-gawker
Ultimate Warrior sucks: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/59y3nb/wwe-is-whitewashing-the-ultimate-warriors-bigoted-past
Sami Zayn does not suck
(Correction: Syria, not Palestine): https://bleacherreport.com/articles/2751247-sami-zayn-the-heel-and-humanitarian-of-wwe-smackdown-live
SNL at home: https://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/tom-hanks-athome-monologue/4149394
Ottobar: http://www.theottobar.com/
Grand Central: https://www.grandcentralclub.com/