#108: Talking S#!t with Author Mary Roach
Another Mother Runner
Sarah Bowen Shea
4.8 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 4 May 2014
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
The mother runners were thrilled to welcome Mary Roach, best-selling author of clever non-fiction like Stiff: The Curious Life of Human Cadavers and Gulp: Adventures in the Alimentary Canal. Like food through the digestive track, the conversation moves from top to bottom, but it fairly quickly centers on poop. But not before talking flatus (that’s fancy-talk for “fart,” […]
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| 0:36.6 | Dimmity in Denver and we've got a great guest coming on but I think we got |
| 0:41.1 | to kind of warm them up, Sarah, for it. |
| 0:43.0 | And the way that we can do that is to talk about what I've been obsessed with over the past couple of weeks, |
| 0:50.0 | which is Mira Lax and pooping and constipation and bedwetting and how they all fit together. |
| 0:57.6 | And they're not related to you particularly. |
| 1:00.4 | Well, you know, I sometimes have to wear my pull-ups. |
| 1:03.0 | No, it's related to, and this is actually really interesting. |
| 1:06.6 | So a friend of yours wrote a book, |
| 1:08.8 | Suzanne Schlossburg wrote a book called It's No Accident, |
| 1:11.7 | which is about wedding the bed and mostly little girls getting |
| 1:16.7 | UTIs a lot and some other kind of, you know, toilet related issues. |
| 1:22.1 | And can I just also say, I think there's one or two |
| 1:24.2 | anecdotes in there drawn from my family's life including when we had to |
| 1:29.0 | dig a super hard poop out of John's butt using a spoon. |
| 1:33.4 | Oh, no way! |
| 1:34.9 | Oh my God, Sarah. |
| 1:36.2 | The end of a, which end of the spoon? |
| 1:38.8 | Do we still have the spoon? |
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