Mary Roach

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

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Ologies with Alie Ward · Human Technomorphology (SWAPPING OUT BODY PARTS) with Mary Roach · 17 Sep 2025 podcast

Anyway, weird place.

So now I have two chunks, two chunks, nuggets.

And I'm like, what's the book that goes around this?

So that's how Packing for Mars, because I sort of realized that what happens here on Earth in terms of NASA is kind of more interesting than what happens up in space.

But that's usually how it happens.

It's rare that I have a desire to write a book about a certain topic.

There used to be these ads for Kohler Faucets.

It's this faucet company.

There's this ad where this couple comes into an architect's office with a Kohler faucet and they put it on the architect's desk.

So...

And they go, design a house around this.

Around this.

I was like, what assholes?

But anyway, like, the...

Toilet was my Kohler faucet.

It was the seed.

Build a book around this.

What was the seed, the germ of Replaceable You?

The Kohler faucet, yes.

Yeah, the Kohler faucet for this one.

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