Ike, You're an Incredible Companion

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Ike: The more awkward, the worse things go. Although they're not necessarily fun to live through, i know in that moment they'll be really fun to write up. So i'm simultaneously in like, oh, puck. And yes, like the nassa,. You know, those guys literally running down the steps and into this other little side room to call public affairs. I don't care if i get to see the kadaver test, because you just handed me a really fun scene. That's how i did it. Everybody else seems to have it wrong.

Mary Roach is the author of seven nonfiction books, including her latest, Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law.

"In these realms of the taboo, there's a tremendous amount of material that is really interesting, but that people have stayed away from. ... I'm kind of a bottom feeder. It's down there on the bottom where people don't want to go. But if that's what it takes to find interesting, new material, I'm fine with it. I don't care. I'm not easily grossed out. I don't feel that there's any reason why we shouldn't look at this. And over time, I started to feel that ... the taboo was preventing people from having conversations that it would be healthy to have."

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