Mary Roach

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1,088 appearances 3 recordings 3 series first heard Sep 2025 last heard 26 Mar

Mary Roach’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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a period of random flailing.

I was just like, what about this?

I don't know.

I think this might work.

Nope, that's not going to work.

And then I move on to something else.

But what normally happens is I stumble onto something that I think is kind of cool and interesting.

It would be a good scene and a place to go.

And then I kind of build, I think, well, what would be the book that goes around this nugget?

Or sometimes there's two nuggets.

Like for Packing for Mars,

I had years and years ago for Vogue magazine of all places, because look at me, I was disturbed that I wrote for Vogue magazine.

I was a contributing editor at Vogue magazine.

It was hilarious.

I would hide when I went to meet my editors.

I was like, don't let me run into Anna Wintour.

She'll ban me.

So anyway, I was doing this story about osteoporosis.

You know, I was like, this isn't all that interesting.

What should I do to kind of punch it up?

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