Bobby Rio Interview -- Video Recording

Hi. So, can you tell me your name? My name is Bobby. Rio. Ok. And how long have you been a patron at the Freeman Library? I've been coming here off and on about five years. Ok. And what makes you keep coming back? Well, it's the people,

you know, uh, people are very friendly, they assist you with computers, they assist you with finding books and, uh, they have other, they have a lot of things here. They have, uh, movies for seniors, uh, movie for kids, uh, laid back areas where you can just

relax or read the newspaper and just feel at home. You know, the people welcome you here with great arms and very nice. So, uh, how often do you come to the library? I come here every other day to, uh, I also promote music through the computers

here. Uh, music, uh, that I've sang and, and, and, uh, I've written and it goes all over the world, you know, and Freeman Library has helped me do that. So I'm very grateful for that. And so can you elaborate on how we've helped you, um, promote

your music? Well, I, I send my, uh music, uh, to different countries like, uh, 67 countries in the world. And, uh, when I run into a roadblock somewhere, I ask the, uh, people that work here to give me a hand because they know more about computers

than I do. So, I'm very grateful for them how they help people, you know, not only me but other people they help. So I'm very grateful. Um, so tell us your typical day at the library when you come to the library, what is it that you

do? The first thing I check is, uh, to, uh, to see there's any new books, you know, that's, uh, that are for sale or, or just, uh, on the shelves and I checked that and then I come up to, uh, the computer area and then get

online and promote some music and then, uh, if they're having a movie that afternoon, I like to go in there and watch the movie. Uh, didn't cost nothing to give you popcorn too. So I'm very grateful for the movie and the popcorn. So, uh, but they're

very friendly here at, uh, Freeman. Uh, we did a concert for them, uh, not too long ago and, and, uh, I've had a lot of people there to come by and, and, uh, spend an afternoon hearing good country music, blues, uh, Motown music and rock and

roll. So, do you, um, remember what program that was? Uh, tell us a little more about that program, the program we had, we had, uh, it was a jam session and we were inviting different musicians to come out and we had some of the best musicians.

Uh, Texas has, uh, we have a gentleman, uh, uh Mike Simon that came out, uh, we have, uh, uh, myself, Bobby Rio came out and, uh, just people that were there, you know, people that are surrounded in this area with music. So, um, is there any

other programmings besides the ones you mentioned that you enjoy coming to at the library? Anything sticks out? I'm, uh, very grateful that they, uh, they, they also help, uh, with, uh, the computer labs that, uh, help handicapped people. I, I saw that the other day and

I was very amazed and, uh, I think it's called, uh, what is it called? The lab where they make arms in the Innovation Lab. Yeah, they made a, a new arm for a young lady and, and I was very grateful to see that, you know, the

kids here have a great, great time that they're running all over the place and just having one great, great time. And it's good to see that, uh, to see kids doing that. Um, have you always been a Libra patient growing up or more as an adult?

Now, more as an adult, uh, here is an experience when I was growing up. It's, it was nothing like this. Uh, here is just like a family atmosphere, they treat you with the utmost respect and always trying to help you trying to see what they can

do to better your time here at the library. So, very grateful for that. Uh, besides the, I guess the customer service that you've gotten, um, have you noticed any changes in library in general growing up to now? Um, that maybe you might want to point out

or you thought it would be worth sharing. It's more modernized today than it was when I was growing up back then. They didn't have too many books and not too many people working, you know, there at the library that I attended, but here it's like a

totally different situation. Uh uh You have a lot of people trying to help you, you know, succeed in your afternoon. Here at the library, Freeman is a uh Freeman library is a very great place to come to, to seek the information that you need. And also

uh you have some help that will help you. And that's the great part about it. Don't really have any other prepared uh questions. But uh is there anything else you might just wanna talk about in general or? Oh, yes, I, I uh wanna say the library

staff has helped me, I promote my music all over the world and, and uh and each day I promote to over a million people. And uh and the libraries is uh has helped me tremendously and I could never repay them because they just, they just help

people all the time. They've helped me tremendously. So that's all I want to share. That's it. And that's a cut. Ok.