Mary Roach

Yeah.

How are you recalling all of it?

Well, I am always doing a, what is it the Brits say?

Belts and braces, right?

So yeah, like a belt and suspenders.

I have a notebook and I'm writing down the things that I see and

and what's going on.

But if it's a situation where interesting things are coming my way verbally, quickly, I turn on a tape recorder.

And if things kind of wander off in a direction that isn't interesting, I sort of subtly

turn it off because I don't want to transcribe that shit.

I still transcribe stuff.

It's a weird thing.

I still want to hear, I mean, I know you can do it with transcription stuff, but it's still documents too long.

I edit as I go.

And anyway, so I I'm recording, I'm turning it off and on pausing on pausing.

I tend to forget to take photographs, but I've gotten better about that just so I can remember what somebody looks like, but I'm not, you know, shooting the whole room or anything.

No, I don't.

If people have said, you know, well, what, why don't you do, you know, you could be shooting video as you go and there could be a TV show.

And I'm like, that's,

No, I don't want to be the person going, let me stop you there.