When Ariel and I were kicking around ideas for topics to interview people about for Season 2, the role of libraries in their communities came right up. And I knew just the librarian to interview—because Don is not only one of the best human beings ever made, he had literally just retired from his post as a librarian with the Salinas Public Libraries. As you can hear in the interview, Don's got lots of thoughts about libraries serving as the beating hearts and blood vessels of communities. Like any librarian worth their library card, he's super enthusiastic about the subject.